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Kodak 8660 - COLOR CONNECTOR GUIDE Interface Manual

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Color Management Options
The Kodak Professional 8660 thermal printer (8660 printer) produces
accurate and consistent color. Since the 8660 printer produces such
accurate and consistent color, you may not need to use the printer's color
management feature. However, if you wish to use color management, the
CD that is shipped with the printer includes Kodak Professional Colorflow
ICC color connector software (color connector) that you can install on
your host computer.
Color Connector
When you use Adobe Photoshop, the colors you see on your monitor may
appear differently from the colors in the output from your printer. In
addition, both may appear differently from your original image. White
clouds in a scanned photograph may appear yellow on your computer
monitor and change to a greenish tint on your printed copy.
This inconsistency occurs because the methods used to reproduce color
vary significantly. Monitors and scanners represent colors as a
combination of red, green, and blue (RGB), while printers produce color
by using various combinations of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black
(CMYK). Input and output devices are also limited by the range of colors
they can produce.
CONTENTS
INDEX
SEARCH
Operator's Guide
Printing Guide
Color Management
Calibration
Network
Interface Guide
Color Management
Options
Using Color
Connector
Menus and Dialog
Boxes
HELP

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  • Page 1 The Kodak Professional 8660 thermal printer (8660 printer) produces Printing Guide accurate and consistent color. Since the 8660 printer produces such accurate and consistent color, you may not need to use the printer’s color management feature. However, if you wish to use color management, the Color Management CD that is shipped with the printer includes Kodak Professional Colorflow...
  • Page 2 Color connector is a stand-alone application that allows you to make Operator’s Guide prints that match the colors produced by an input device such as a scanner or monitor. It also allows you to simulate a job as if it were Printing Guide printed on a commercial printing press.

  • Page 3: System Requirements

    Options Using Color Macintosh Systems Connector • 60 MHz PowerPC or higher processor with a minimum of 16 MB of Menus and Dialog Boxes memory. (A 150 MHz PowerPC 604e processor with 32 MB of memory is recommended.) •...

  • Page 4: Icc Profiles

    The profiles for the 8660 printer for each media combination are installed automatically with the color connector application. Other common ICC profiles are also included on the CD. Copy the profiles you wish to use to the folder containing the profiles that were installed with the color connector application.
  • Page 5 Operator’s Guide Steps to Create Color Connector Files Printing Guide Run color connector Step 1 application Color Management Select and Calibration drag Step 2 transforms to template Network Interface Guide Select desired Step 3 Color Management color connector Options options...
  • Page 6 When you access the color connector application, the color connector Printing Guide window appears. From this window you can create your color connector files. For descriptions of the menu items and dialog boxes used in the color connector application, refer to “Menus and Dialog Boxes.”...
  • Page 7 – if you are using ColorSync 2.5, System Folder:ColorSync Profiles. NOTE: Before you use color connector for the first time, you may wish to complete the tutorial that is included on the CD. Start the color connector application. CONTENTS INDEX...
  • Page 8 The color connector window appears. Operator’s Guide Printing Guide Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Color Management Options Using Color Connector Menus and Dialog Boxes CONTENTS INDEX SEARCH HELP...
  • Page 9 For descriptions of the options in the Default settings for new Connector connector files box, refer to “Menus and Dialog Boxes.” Menus and Dialog Follow the procedures on the following screens to build your own color Boxes connector files. CONTENTS INDEX...
  • Page 10 Boxes • RGB, CMY, and grayscale pixel images such as TIFF files or scanned photographs. • RGB, CMY, and grayscale graphic images such as EPS files or text. ® IMPORTANT: If your file contains a source that uses PANTONE Color, leave the socket empty for that color space.
  • Page 11 NOTE: If you wish to change the transform you placed in the socket: Options • select a new transform; and drag it to the socket. It replaces the Using Color previously-selected transform. Connector To delete a transform from a color connector socket:...
  • Page 12 Scroll through the list of Operator’s Guide transforms, and select a destination transform that Printing Guide matches your output device. Drag the green puzzle piece for the destination transform to Color Management the Destination Transform socket in the color connector Calibration template.
  • Page 13 file you created in the Connector file Using Color Connector description box. Entering a description will help you to Menus and Dialog identify the file when printing. Boxes Pull down the File menu, and select “Save”. CONTENTS INDEX SEARCH HELP...
  • Page 14 Operator’s Guide Matching Your Monitor to Your Printer’s Output The following steps describe how to build a connector file so that the Printing Guide colors in your computer monitor match the output from your printer. NOTE: Monitors vary with model, age, and manufacturer. For optimum Color Management results, make sure that the ICC Profile for your specific monitor...
  • Page 15 From the Transforms list, select Operator’s Guide a pink triangle puzzle piece that matches the name of your Printing Guide monitor. Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Drag and drop the pink triangle puzzle piece to Color Management the appropriate Source Options Transforms socket.
  • Page 16 NOTE: If you wish to add a simulation transform to the template so that Operator’s Guide the job matches the output from another printing system, refer to “Simulating Another Output Device.” Printing Guide From the Transforms list, select a green puzzle piece...
  • Page 17 Use the Printer model pull-down list to select the model of the Network printer you are using. Click on OK . Interface Guide A dialog box similar to the one below appears that allows you to Color Management select the media for the printer. Options...
  • Page 18 Interface Guide Pull down the File menu, and select “Save”. Color Management To send the connector file to the printer to save as a default, refer to Options “Exporting a Color Connector to the Printer as a Default.” Using Color...
  • Page 19 Operator’s Guide Color Managing Multiple Sources The following steps describe how to build a connector file that applies Printing Guide color management to multiple sources in one PostScript job. NOTE: You can apply color management to up to six different types of...
  • Page 20 Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide NOTE: Make sure that the images or objects you select have not had any Color Management previous color management applied to them. Options ® If your file contains a source that uses PANTONE...
  • Page 21 Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide NOTE: If you wish to add a simulation transform to the template so that Color Management the job matches the output from another printing system, refer to Options “Simulating Another Output Device.” Using Color...
  • Page 22 Drag and drop the puzzle Operator’s Guide piece to the Destination Transform socket in the Printing Guide template. Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Color Management Options Using Color Connector Menus and Dialog Boxes CONTENTS INDEX SEARCH HELP...
  • Page 23 NOTE: If you selected a destination transform that was extracted from an Operator’s Guide ICC Profile other than one that came with the 8660 printer, click on Select in the Printer setup portion of the color connector Printing Guide window.
  • Page 24 file when printing. Network Pull down the File menu, and select “Save”. Interface Guide To send your connector file to the printer to save as a default, refer to Color Management “Exporting a Color Connector to the Printer as a Default.”.
  • Page 25 Operator’s Guide Simulating Another Output Device The following steps describe how to build a color connector file to produce Printing Guide colors that simulate the look of other printing systems such as SWOP or Euroscale. In the Connector file options Color Management box, select “Use simulation”.
  • Page 26 From the Transforms list, select Operator’s Guide a yellow puzzle piece that matches the name of the output Printing Guide device you wish to simulate. Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Drag and drop the puzzle piece in the Simulation Transform Color Management socket of the template.
  • Page 27 When you select one of the gamut alarm modes, any areas of your image Color Management that are out of gamut are printed in black. All other areas are printed in white. Calibration...
  • Page 28 Interface Guide Pull down the Gamut alarm list, and select either: Color Management Options • “Simulation” to determine if the colors of the source transform are out of the gamut of the simulation device Using Color Connector Menus and Dialog •...
  • Page 29 Network Interface Guide Automatic Rendering You can let color connector set Rendering for you by selecting one of the Color Management automatic settings from the Rendering drop-down list box. The automatic Options settings set rendering intents for the individual transforms by comparing Using Color their color gamuts.
  • Page 30 Setting Automatic Rendering Operator’s Guide To set automatic rendering intents: Printing Guide Pull down the Rendering drop-down list, and select either: • “Auto—Photographic” for scanned photographs. Color Color Management connector attempts to maintain the correct hue by adjusting the color saturation...
  • Page 31 Operator’s Guide Do the following steps to set custom rendering. Printing Guide NOTE: If you wish to set custom rendering for more than one puzzle piece in the template, you need to repeat this procedure for each piece. Color Management...
  • Page 32 Using Color Connector Menus and Dialog Boxes A Recommendation box gives you two recommended settings based on a comparison of gamuts. If you select a different rendering intent, the Effect box changes to describe the expected results. CONTENTS INDEX SEARCH...
  • Page 33 Pull down the Rendering intent list box, and select a rendering intent Operator’s Guide from the following options: • Perceptual—compresses the gamut of the image while maximizing Printing Guide the color. Use this rendering intent for photographic images. • Saturation—compresses the gamut of the image while maximizing Color Management the color saturation.
  • Page 34 These memory locations store color management information, and are defined by a media combination for ribbon and paper. Calibration For example, if a printer has two ribbon types and one paper type, the printer might have two memory locations: Network •...
  • Page 35 Exporting a Color Connector File to be a Printer Default Operator’s Guide After you create your connector file, do the following steps to send it to the printer as a default: Printing Guide Make sure that you save the file.
  • Page 36 Connector Select a Kodak Menus and Dialog Professional 8660 Boxes thermal printer dialog box. • has a SCSI connection to your computer, click on the radio button for the correct 8660 printer. CONTENTS INDEX SEARCH HELP...
  • Page 37 Connector Select a Printer dialog box. Menus and Dialog • has a parallel connection, click on the radio button for either LPT1 or Boxes LPT2 to select the printer. NOTE: If your host computer has more than one SCSI host adapter installed, pull down the SCSI Host Adapter list.
  • Page 38 Boxes Printer default connector files window. If the connector file does not appear, click on Update . If your printer has a parallel connection, this information does not appear in the Printer default connector files window. CONTENTS INDEX SEARCH HELP...
  • Page 39 You are prompted if the connector file you are sending to the Operator’s Guide printer as a default has the same media combination as another default connector file. If you wish to send a connector file to the Printing Guide printer as a default for a media combination that already exists, delete all the default connector files before you send the new...
  • Page 40 Deleting Color Connector Files Operator’s Guide Clicking on Delete All in the Printer Default Connector Printing Guide Files dialog box deletes all the default color connector files stored in the 8660 Color Management printer. Calibration Network Interface Guide Color Management...
  • Page 41 Exporting a Color Connector File as an ICC DeviceLink Operator’s Guide Profile You can export a color connector file as a DeviceLink profile so that it can Printing Guide be used with other color management applications. NOTE: The color connector file that you export as a DeviceLink profile Color Management can contain only one source transform.

  • Page 42: Menus And Dialog Boxes

    Menus and Dialog Boxes Operator’s Guide This section describes the menus and dialog box options used in the Printing Guide Kodak Professional Colorflow ICC color connector (color connector). The Windows menus and dialog boxes that are shown are similar to the Macintosh screens and have identical functionality.
  • Page 43 file. Color Management Export As ICC DeviceLink Profile—saves the transforms in a connector file as a DeviceLink profile so that they can be used with other color management applications. Calibration Preferences—accesses a dialog box that allows you to mute the sound,...

  • Page 44: Transform Menu

    Operator’s Guide Edit Menu The Edit menu is enabled when the Connector file description dialog box Printing Guide contains editable text. Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Color Management Transform Menu Options Using Color The Transform menu is enabled when a color connector window is open.
  • Page 45 Show by Profile File Name—Displays the transforms in the Transform list Menus and Dialog Boxes and the color connector template by the ICC Profile that the transform was extracted from. Show by Profile Description—Displays the transforms in the Transform list and the color connector template by their description.
  • Page 46 Operator’s Guide Colorflow Color Connector Window Use the Colorflow color connector window to create new and edit existing Printing Guide connector files. Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Color Management Options Using Color Connector Menus and Dialog Boxes CONTENTS INDEX...
  • Page 47 Access a new connector file by pulling down the File menu and selecting Operator’s Guide “New”. Open an existing color connector file by selecting “Open” from the File menu and then locating the file from the file selection box that opens. Printing Guide Transforms...
  • Page 48 Profiles Folder Operator’s Guide Clicking on Browse ( Select in Macintosh) accesses a file selection box which allows you to select the folder containing the ICC Profiles you wish Printing Guide to display in the Transforms list. Color Management Calibration...
  • Page 49 Gamut alarm causes any prints made with a color connector file to print Boxes only the portions of the image that are out of the gamut of the selected source or destination transform. The choices are “Off ”, “Simulation”, and “Destination”.
  • Page 50 Connector File Description Operator’s Guide Allows you to enter a description of your connector file to help you identify the file when printing. Printing Guide Color Management Calibration Rendering Rendering is the approach color connector uses to translate the colors of Network the image to the color gamut of a destination or simulation transform.
  • Page 51 Perceptual Connector • Saturation Menus and Dialog Boxes • Relative Colorimetric • Absolute Colorimetric Clicking on OK sets the rendering intent you selected. Clicking on Cancel cancels your selections and closes the Transform Information dialog box. CONTENTS INDEX SEARCH HELP...
  • Page 52 Connector File Operator’s Guide The Connector file window contains the template. Drag the puzzle pieces Printing Guide selected in the Transforms list to the sockets in the template. Color Management Source Transforms The Source Transforms sockets of the template only accepts...
  • Page 53 Printing Guide If the destination transform is from a profile that was not included on the CD, the Printer model and Media fields are empty, and the Select button is enabled. Clicking on Select opens the Select Printer Model dialog box.

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