Chapter 1: Fiery Color Management; Managing Color On The Fiery - Xerox DocuColor 3535 Color Manual

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1-1 Managing color on the Fiery

Chapter 1:
Fiery Color
Management
The following sections describe the options available from the
color management system and explain how to customize the color settings for your
particular needs. They provide descriptions of the preset ColorWise default settings
and cover additional options for users who need to customize ColorWise.
For information on PostScript
also contains information on the capabilities of printer drivers and instructions for
setting color options with the PostScript drivers for Windows and Mac OS computers.
Managing color on the Fiery
To modify Fiery printing behavior, do any of the following:
• Select ColorWise options for an individual print job using menus that appear in the
printer driver.
• Select most ColorWise options as server defaults from the Color Setup application
in ColorWise Pro Tools (see
described in the Configuration
print jobs unless you override them.
• Select some ColorWise options, particularly default
calibration options, from ColorWise Pro Tools. These options include default
Simulation Profile (see page
Driver as (see page 3-7), default Source Profile (see
(see page 1-8), and associated calibration set (see
Applications can generate color data for the Fiery in many different
The most common type of color data produced from
while prepress applications generally produce
also generate spot colors, such as PANTONE colors. To complicate matters, a single
page may contain a mix of RGB, CMYK, and spot colors. The Fiery allows users to
control the printing of these mixed-color documents with features that apply
specifically to RGB, CMYK, or spot color data.
Level 2 or 3 printer drivers, see
page 3-22). Defaults can also be set from Fiery Setup, as
Guide. These defaults will apply to all subsequent
ICC profile
1-9), Simulation Method (see
page
page 2-4).
office applications
CMYK data. Desktop applications can
ColorWise
page 1-14. The section
settings and
page 1-10), Appear in
1-7), RGB Separation
color spaces.
is RGB,