Choosing Colors In Office Applications; Resident Calibration - Xerox DocuColor 40 Reference Manual

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3-3 Office applications
When working with color in office applications, keep in mind that:
• The range of colors that can be displayed in RGB on your monitor is much larger
than the range of colors that can be printed on your print device (see page 2-3).
When you print the document, out-of-gamut RGB colors are mapped to colors your
print device can produce.
• These applications send only RGB data to the DocuColor 40 CP. You control the
rendering intent of the color conversion with your selection of a CRD.
Each CRD uses a different color rendering style, and therefore has a different way of
mapping unprintable colors to your print device's color gamut. DocuColor 40 CP
color rendering styles are described on page 2-9.
Choosing colors in office applications
Two RGB color reference pages, a Microsoft Word file and a Microsoft PowerPoint file,
are provided with your DocuColor 40 CP user software. Print these files using
different CRDs to see how the colors appear when printed to the DocuColor 40 CP.
For best results, print the color reference page using the same media and CRD you
plan to use for your final document. Select the colors you want to use from the printed
version of the RGB color reference page and then use those colors in your document.

Resident calibration

The resident calibration on the DocuColor 40 CP is applied to all data in the print
job, so make sure the resident calibration is the right one for your job. The
DocuColor 40 CP includes a calibration target designed for your particular print
device; by default, this target is the resident calibration.
In certain cases you may wish to create and use a custom calibration target to achieve
particular color effects (see the manual in your documentation set that describes
DocuColor 40 CP calibration). If a custom target is resident on the
DocuColor 40 CP, the custom calibration is applied to all data except CMYK data to
which a CMYK Simulation is applied.