Sharp AR-C360P Color Manual page 24

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1-24 Fiery Color Management
Reference
• —The Fiery uses a built-in table to generate the closest CMYK
On
matches of spot colors your printer can produce. (New tables
are generated when you add new output profiles.) With Spot-
On, the Fiery uses the CMYK matches determined through Spot-
On (see page 3-81).
• —The Fiery uses CMYK equivalents defined by the spot color
Off
manufacturer, such as PANTONE. These are the same CMYK
equivalents used by applications that include spot color libraries.
For jobs that include spot colors, set Spot Color Matching to On
unless you are printing press simulations. In that case, set Spot
Color Matching to Off and choose the appropriate CMYK
Simulation setting (see
For PDF jobs that include spot colors and where the spot colors
are not included in the built-in table, setting Spot Color Matching
to On retains the spot color originally specified. The Fiery
references the built-in table to generate the closest CMYK
matches of the original spot color.
Use the Spot Color Matching option only when printing
Note:
composites, not when printing separations.
Spot Color Matching and the PANTONE Coated Color
The PANTONE Coated Color Reference (described in the
Color Reference Chapter 4) prints differently depending on the
Spot Color Matching setting.
• —The Fiery uses a built-in table or, with Spot-On, the Spot-On
On
color dictionaries (see
of the PANTONE colors that your Sharp AR-C360P can produce.
The PANTONE number is printed below each swatch.
• —The Fiery prints swatches using the CMYK values
Off
recommended by Pantone Inc. (and used by applications that
provide PANTONE color libraries). The CMYK values used to
generate the color, as well as the PANTONE number of the color,
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page 3-81) to generate the best matches
Fiery