Spot Color Matching - EFI DocuColor 8000AP Supplementary Manual

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Spot Color Matching

The Spot Color Matching option provides automatic matching of spot colors with their best
CMYK equivalents.
• The Fiery EX8000AP uses a built-in table to generate the closest CMYK matches of
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spot colors your digital press can produce. (New tables are generated when you add new
output profiles.)
With Spot-On, the Fiery EX8000AP uses the CMYK matches determined through Spot-
On (see page 48).
• The Fiery EX8000AP processes the spot color as CMYK data and uses CMYK
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equivalents defined by the spot color manufacturer, such as PANTONE. These are the
same CMYK equivalents used by applications that include spot color libraries.
Spot colors that are not included in the built-in table are treated as CMYK.
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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 page
For a PDF job that includes spot colors that are not included in the built-in table, setting Spot
Color Matching to On retains the original spot colors. The Fiery EX8000AP references the
built-in table to generate the closest CMYK matches of the original spot color.
Use Spot Color Matching only when printing composites, not when printing
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separations.
Spot Color Matching and the PANTONE Coated Color Reference
The PANTONE Coated Color Reference prints differently depending on the Spot Color
Matching setting (see Fiery Color
• The Fiery EX8000AP uses a built-in table or, with Spot-On, the Spot-On color
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dictionaries to generate the best matches for the PANTONE colors that your digital press
can produce. The PANTONE number is displayed below each swatch.
For more information about Spot-On, see
• The Fiery EX8000AP prints swatches using the CMYK values recommended by
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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,
are printed below each swatch. These CMYK values are printed through the selected
CMYK Simulation and Output Profile settings.
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