Spot Color Matching - EFI KM-C1530 Color Manual

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1-14 Fiery X3e Color Management
• With Black Overprint Off, the border of the text is on an edge that has cyan and
magenta toners on one side (outside the text) and black toner on the other side
(inside the text). This transition may cause visible artifacts because of the practical
limitations of the copier.
If you set Black Overprint Style to Text/Graphics, setting Black Overprint to On
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allows black text or graphics to overprint colored backgrounds (see
This feature is not available with the PCL driver.
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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 X3e uses a built-in table to generate the closest CMYK matches of
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spot colors your copier can produce. (New tables are generated when you add new
output profiles.)
Spot colors not included in the built-in table are treated as CMYK.
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• —The Fiery X3e uses CMYK equivalents defined by the spot color
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manufacturer, such as PANTONE. These are the same CMYK equivalents used by
applications that include spot color libraries.
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
For PDF jobs that include spot colors and if spot colors are not included in the built-in
table, setting Spot Color Matching to On retains the spot color originally specified.
The Fiery X3e makes reference to the built-in table to generate the closest CMYK
matches of the original spot color.
Use the Spot Color Matching option only when printing composites, not when
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printing separations.
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