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Kodak 8670 PS - CALIBRATION GUIDE Getting Started Manual

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Getting Started
The Kodak Digital Science calibration utility (calibration utility) allows
your printer to produce the best possible color response. In simplest
terms, printer calibration adjusts the response of the printer so that a
specific data input value yields a specific color density output. When a
printer is properly calibrated, it generates the correct density for each
given data value. Calibration considers only a single primary color at a
time and measures the density for the primary color.
Density is one color aspect that can be easily and reliably measured, so
calibrating the Kodak Professional 8670 PS printer(8670 printer) is easy
and straightforward.
The calibration utility lets you select either a visual calibration process or
a more accurate densitometer calibration.
System Requirements
To use the calibration utility, your system must have the following
hardware and software:
Macintosh Systems
Recommended System Configuration
•
a 68040 or PowerPC processor
•
Apple Operating System 7.5 or higher software
CONTENTS
INDEX
SEARCH
Operator's Guide
Printing
Guide
Color Management
Calibration
Network
Interface Guide
Getting Started
Easy Cal
Setting Preferences
and Using
Calibration Tables
Visual Gray Balance
Visual Linearity
Densitometer
Calibration
HELP

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  • Page 1 Calibration considers only a single primary color at a time and measures the density for the primary color. Calibration Density is one color aspect that can be easily and reliably measured, so calibrating the Kodak Professional 8670 PS printer(8670 printer) is easy Network and straightforward.
  • Page 2 Calibration • Apple Operating System 7.1 • 8 MB of RAM Network • standard color or black and white monitor (minimum resolution 640 x Interface Guide 400 pixels Getting Started • export module for the 8670 printer Easy Cal •...
  • Page 3 Installing the Software for the Calibration Utility Calibration The software for the calibration utility and the export module are included on the CD that came with your printer. Install the CD in the CD-ROM drive, and use the browser to locate and install the software. CONTENTS...

  • Page 4: Calibration Methods

    Calibration Calibrate your printer whenever the density or color balance of the prints do not look correct. You may also want to calibrate your printer after it has Network been serviced. Be sure that you calibrate for the correct media installed.
  • Page 5 Visual Gray Balance—calibrates your printer so that it produces a neutral gray. Visual Gray Balance calibration ensures that the correct percentages of cyan, magenta, and yellow dye are printed over the entire Printing tonal range to produce a neutral gray. Use the Visual Gray Balance Guide calibration if the color balance of your prints is not correct.
  • Page 6 Operator’s Guide Starting the Calibration Utility The following steps describe how to start the calibration utility: Printing Guide NOTE: The illustrations in this chapter show Macintosh system dialog boxes. The dialog boxes for Windows are similar and have Color Management identical functionality.
  • Page 7 Normal Utility calibration procedure starts up; and the Printer Calibration Utility window opens. NOTE: If this is the first time you have run the calibration utility, or there Calibration are no printers on the Select Printer menu, or the Preferences files have been deleted, you must select and open the export...
  • Page 8 Operator’s Guide Easy Cal Easy Cal provides you with the steps to guide you through the process of Printing calibrating your printer based on a Visual Gray Balance calibration. Guide NOTE: You cannot use Easy Cal to calibrate a printer with a black-only Color Management ribbon.
  • Page 9 Operator’s Guide Easy Cal Step 1 The Easy Cal Step1of 5 dialog box appears. This dialog box allows Printing you to select the printer model you wish to calibrate and locate the Guide folder containing the export module. Color Management...
  • Page 10 If you want to calibrate a different printer than the one that appears in Calibration the Printer box, go to Step 2 in this procedure. If you do not need to select a new printer, click on Next to go to Easy Cal Step 3 of 5.
  • Page 11 Operator’s Guide A dialog box appears that allows you to select the printer you wish to calibrate. Macintosh systems Printing Guide If the 8670 printer: V1.0 Color Management • has a network connection, click on Network in the Select a Kodak...
  • Page 12 If your computer has more than one SCSI host adapter, pull down the SCSI Host Adapter list. Select the port address for the SCSI host adapter for the selected 8670 printer. Click on Next in the Easy Cal Step 2 of 5 dialog box. CONTENTS INDEX...
  • Page 13 Calibration Tables Make sure that the ribbon and paper type information is correct. Visual Gray Balance Visual Linearity NOTE: If you do not need to change the setup, click on Next . Densitometer Click on Change Setup . Calibration CONTENTS...
  • Page 14 Using Calibration Tables Make the necessary changes in the Printer Setup dialog box. Visual Gray Balance Click on OK . Visual Linearity Click on Next in the Easy Cal Step 3 of 5 dialog box. Densitometer Calibration CONTENTS INDEX SEARCH...
  • Page 15 Interface Guide Getting Started Easy Cal Setting Preferences and Using Calibration Tables Make sure that the Printer and Printer Setup information are correct. Visual Gray Balance Visual Linearity IMPORTANT: Clicking on Next sends the default calibration table to the Densitometer printer and overwrites the previous table.
  • Page 16 Operator’s Guide Click on Next . The default table is sent to the printer, and the previous table is overwritten. The Send and Print dialog box appears. Printing Guide Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Getting Started Easy Cal Setting Preferences...
  • Page 17 Using Calibration Tables Visual Gray Balance Use the test print to calibrate your printer in the Easy Cal Step 5 of 5 Visual Linearity dialog box. Look at the test print, and decide which grayscale cluster appears the most neutral gray.
  • Page 18 Setting Preferences and Using Calibration Tables NOTE: If you want to print an updated test print, you can click on Back to return to the Easy Cal Step 4 of 5 dialog box. Visual Gray Balance Visual Linearity If cluster number 225 on the updated test print is the most neutral Densitometer gray, then the calibration is successful.
  • Page 19 Operator’s Guide The printer calibration begins. When calibration completes, the Easy Cal dialog box appears. Printing Guide Color Management Calibration Click on Quit . Network Interface Guide Getting Started Easy Cal Setting Preferences and Using Calibration Tables Visual Gray Balance...
  • Page 20 Setting Preferences and Using Calibration Tables Visual Gray Balance Visual Linearity Click on Select , and use the file selection box that appears to locate the folders containing the export module and the import module. Densitometer Calibration Your selections are saved.
  • Page 21 Click on OK to return Visual Gray Balance to the Select a Kodak Visual Linearity Professional 8670 Densitometer thermal printer dialog Calibration box. • has a SCSI connection, click on the radio button for the correct 8670 printer. CONTENTS INDEX SEARCH HELP...
  • Page 22 Setting Preferences Browse for Printer and Using dialog box that Calibration Tables opens. Click on OK in the Network Printer dialog box to return to the Visual Gray Balance Select a Printer dialog box.Click on OK again. Visual Linearity •...
  • Page 23 Easy Cal Setting Preferences and Using Calibration Tables NOTE: The configuration of the Printer Setup dialog box may be different Visual Gray Balance depending on the selected printer. Visual Linearity Select the ribbon and paper type for which you are calibrating.
  • Page 24 Operator’s Guide Creating a New Calibration Document The following steps describe how to create a new calibration document to Printing use as a starting point for your calibration: Guide Pull down the File menu, and select New . Color Management The Calibration Table dialog box appears.
  • Page 25 • Copy Table from File —uses a previously-created and saved Calibration calibration table. Click on Select File , and a file selection dialog box appears which allows you to find and open the folder that contains Network the calibration table you want to use as the starting point.
  • Page 26 Getting Started Easy Cal Setting Preferences and Using Make sure that the information in the Printer Setup Information box is Calibration Tables correct and that you are creating a calibration table for the correct Visual Gray Balance ribbon and paper.
  • Page 27 Operator’s Guide NOTE: If you are using a black ribbon, you cannot use the Visual Gray Balance calibration procedure. Go directly to the Visual Linearity calibration procedure. Printing Guide Using an Existing Calibration Table as the Starting Color Management Point Follow the steps below only if you have previously created and saved a calibration table.
  • Page 28 Calibration Network Interface Guide NOTE: The data in the document selected as a starting point is specific to the ribbon and paper selected when the document was Getting Started created. Easy Cal Click on Open.
  • Page 29 Operator’s Guide The file selection dialog box closes. The selected calibration document appears after the Copy Table from File radio button. Printing Guide Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Getting Started Easy Cal Setting Preferences and Using Calibration Tables Click on OK .
  • Page 30 Visual Gray Balance Visual Linearity Pull down the File menu, and select “Open”. Densitometer Find and open the folder that contains the calibration table you want Calibration to use in the file selection box that appears. Click on Open .
  • Page 31 Calibration Tables Visual Gray Balance Make sure that the information in the Printer Setup Information box is Visual Linearity correct and that you are creating a calibration table for the ribbon and Densitometer paper you want to use. Calibration Enter the information for the printer you are calibrating in the Printer Description text box.

  • Page 32: Calibrating Your Printer

    If you run the Densitometer Calibration procedure, you do not have to do Visual Gray Balance and Visual Linearity calibrations. Network If you do not have a densitometer, you can calibrate your printer by Interface Guide running the Visual Gray Balance or Visual Linearity Calibration procedures.
  • Page 33 Calibration Network Interface Guide Getting Started The clusters on the three prints include a range of colors. Clusters in the Easy Cal upper left corner have a green hue. Clusters in the lower right corner have Setting Preferences a magenta hue. Three different calibration prints allow you to choose the and Using degree of color shift.
  • Page 34 Printing Guide For example, you printed a normal print and find that the most neutral- looking clusters are next to each other, but one still looks slightly green Color Management while the other still looks slightly magenta. You can print a fine calibration print to get more choices within a smaller range of colors.
  • Page 35 Interface Guide Getting Started Easy Cal Setting Preferences NOTE: For a description of the dialog boxes used in the Visual Gray and Using Balance Calibration, refer to “Option Descriptions.” Calibration Tables Select the amount of correction. Click on OK .
  • Page 36 Operator’s Guide You return to the Calibration Document window. Printing Guide Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Getting Started Easy Cal Setting Preferences and Using Click on Send & Print . Calibration Tables Visual Gray Balance Visual Linearity Densitometer Calibration...
  • Page 37 Guide Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Getting Started NOTE: The Send and Print dialog box may be different depending on Easy Cal your printer’s export module. Setting Preferences and Using Click on Print . Calibration Tables You return to the Calibration Document window. The calibration test Visual Gray Balance print is printed on the specified printer.
  • Page 38 Operator’s Guide If the number of the cluster that appears to be the most neutral ends in 25, the printer is already calibrated. Do a Visual Linearity calibration. If the number of the most neutral cluster does not end in Printing 25, recalibrate your printer to the most neutral cluster number.
  • Page 39 Color Management Click on Send in the Calibration Table window if you are satisfied with the neutral in the cluster you selected, and you do not want to look at another calibration print. Calibration A confirmation box appears.
  • Page 40 Operator’s Guide The recomputed table is sent to the printer, and the following message appears. Printing Guide Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Click on OK . The calibration table is computed using the specified values, and you Getting Started return to the Calibration Document window.
  • Page 41 Use the Kodak Digital Science Calibration Utility Guide Reference Card (reference card) included with the calibration utility to select a cluster for each of the six density ranges. Visual Linearity Color Management calibration prints look similar to the following examples.
  • Page 42 Guide describe how to use the reference card: Color Management Lay the reference card with the name at the top on the first row of the calibration test print. Slide the reference card across each path in the row, Calibration...
  • Page 43 Operator’s Guide Running a Visual Linearity Calibration After you have run a Visual Gray Balance calibration, run the Visual Printing Linearity calibration to recompute the current calibration table using Guide values from the test print. Color Management Pull down the Calibration menu, and select “Visual Linearity”.
  • Page 44 Your Send and Print dialog box may be different depending on Setting Preferences your printer’s export module. and Using For a description of the dialog boxes used in the Visual Linearity Calibration Tables Calibration, refer to “Option Descriptions.” Visual Gray Balance Click on Print .
  • Page 45 Use the calibration utility reference card to select a box number. Visual Gray Balance If all of the Visual Linearity numbers on the test print are box number Visual Linearity 5, the printer is already calibrated. If the Visual Linearity numbers on...
  • Page 46 Operator’s Guide The calibration table is computed using the specified values, and the Calibration window appears. Click on Send to send the table to the printer. Printing Guide Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Getting Started Easy Cal Setting Preferences...
  • Page 47 You then enter the density results for each of the patches in the Densitometer Input Test Print Values dialog box. Network The printer can print either a 15 or a 38-step test print. Using the 38-step Interface Guide target yields the best calibration results; however, calibration time is increased if you use a manual densitometer.
  • Page 48 Visual Linearity Select a densitometer status in the Densitometer box. Densitometer Pull down the Number of Squares menu in the test Print box, and Calibration select the number of squares you want in your test print. Click on OK .
  • Page 49 The Calibration Document window appears. Printing Guide Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Getting Started Easy Cal Setting Preferences and Using Click on Send & Print . Calibration Tables Visual Gray Balance Visual Linearity Densitometer Calibration CONTENTS INDEX SEARCH HELP...
  • Page 50 Interface Guide Getting Started Easy Cal Setting Preferences and Using NOTE: Your Send and Print dialog box may be different depending on Calibration Tables your printer’s export module. Visual Gray Balance Click on Print . Visual Linearity You return to the Calibration Document window. The specified printer Densitometer prints the test print.
  • Page 51 For manual densitometers only, valid characters in this dialog box Visual Linearity include numbers from 0 to 9 and decimal points. The valid range is 0 Densitometer to 3.000. Move from cell to cell using the arrow keys. You can copy Calibration and paste any group of contiguous fields in a rectangular pattern.
  • Page 52 If your densitometer has an associated import module, the densitometer readings are imported directly into the Printing dialog box. If your densitometer does not have an import module, Guide refer to “Using the Kodak Digital Science File Reader.”...

  • Page 53: Option Descriptions

    New—accesses the Calibration Document window so that you can select and Using options for the current printer setup. Calibration Tables Open—accesses a file open dialog box so you can select an existing Visual Gray Balance calibration table from which to start. Visual Linearity Close—closes the current calibration document.
  • Page 54 Saving a document in this way allows Printing you to select it later to use as a starting point for a new calibration Guide document.
  • Page 55 Operator’s Guide Use the following default paths for locating the folder containing the export module: • On Macintosh systems—System Folder:Applications Printing Guide Support:Kodak:Plug-ins (Printing). • On Windows systems— C:\Windows\Kodak\Plug-ins (Printing) Color Management Use the following default paths for locating the folder containing the...

  • Page 56: Calibration Menu

    Easy Cal The Calibration menu is enabled when the Calibration Table window is Setting Preferences open. You can choose to calibrate based on your input to the Visual Gray and Using Balance, Visual Linearity, and Densitometer dialog boxes. Calibration Tables...
  • Page 57 Fine—the calibration print offers the least degree of difference in neutrals Calibration Tables between the cluster in the upper left corner and the cluster in the lower Visual Gray Balance right corner. The cluster in the upper left corner is only slightly green and Visual Linearity the cluster in the lower right corner is only slightly magenta.
  • Page 58 Operator’s Guide Normal—the calibration print offers a moderate degree of difference in neutrals between the cluster in the upper left corner and the cluster in the lower right corner. The cluster in the upper left corner is somewhat green Printing and the cluster in the lower right corner is somewhat magenta.
  • Page 59 Calibration Tables Test Print — Number of Squares Visual Gray Balance The Number of Squares menu in the Test Print box allows you to specify Visual Linearity the number of squares (15 or 38) in your test print. Densitometer...
  • Page 60 Operator’s Guide Printer Menu The Printer menu allows you to select a printer or set up the printer from Printing the menu bar. Guide Color Management Select Printer—a menu with the printer types that you can select from Calibration appears. Selecting a printer type opens a dialog box that allows you to choose the specific printer you wish to calibrate.
  • Page 61 Guide Color Management Calibration Network You can click on Begin Easy Cal to start up Easy Cal, or you can click on Interface Guide Launch Normal Utility to go to the Visual Gray Balance, Visual Linearity, or Densitometer calibration procedures.
  • Page 62 Operator’s Guide Calibration Table Dialog Box Pull down the File menu and select ”New” to access a dialog box that Printing allows you to create a new calibration table. Guide Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide Getting Started Easy Cal...
  • Page 63 Interface Guide Getting Started Easy Cal Change Setup—accesses the Printer Setup for Calibration dialog box so Setting Preferences that you can select options that match the paper in the printer you are and Using calibrating. Calibration Tables Visual Gray Balance...
  • Page 64 Operator’s Guide Starting Point The Starting Point box allows you to select the data that will act as a base for the new calibration table. Printing Guide Color Management Calibration Network Read Current Table From Printer—allows you to retrieve and begin with Interface Guide the table currently in the printer.
  • Page 65 Operator’s Guide Select File—opens a file open box so you can choose an existing calibration document from which to start. Printing Guide Color Management Calibration Network Interface Guide The OK button closes the dialog box and opens the Calibration Table window.
  • Page 66 The Printer Description text box allows you to enter information that Calibration describes the printer you are calibrating. The text you enter is used to describe the specifics of a particular calibration table. This text is not printed on the test print. An entry is optional.
  • Page 67 Printing Guide used. The text you enter is used to help describe the specifics of a particular calibration table. This text is not printed on the test print. An Color Management entry is optional.
  • Page 68 Using the Kodak Digital Science File Reader The calibration utility includes the Kodak Digital Science file reader so Printing that you can import data into the Input Test Print Values screen from a Guide densitometer. To use the file reader, you need the following software: Color Management •...
  • Page 69 “LF” (line feed), and “Semi-colon.” Setting Preferences and Using Click on Open . Locate the document you wish to use to capture the Calibration Tables data from your densitometer. When the file opens, the data will be Visual Gray Balance imported into the Input Test Print Values window.

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