Chapter 25. Color And Grayscale Printing Using Afp; Infoprint Afp Color And Grayscale Solutions - Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP Manual

Chapter 25. Color and grayscale printing using AFP

Printing documents in full color or with very high-quality black and white
(grayscale) images is more complex than printing black and white or spot-color
documents. Understanding some of the principles of color and grayscale printing
and how various InfoPrint products can fit into color and grayscale solutions can
help you integrate color and grayscale printing with your current operations or
expand to implement new color workflows.

InfoPrint AFP color and grayscale solutions

You can assemble printing products from InfoPrint Solutions Company and other
companies in different configurations to support Advanced Function Presentation
(AFP) color and grayscale printing, including configurations that use the AFP
Color Management Object Content Architecture
performance and color accuracy in high-speed color printing.
Color printing without explicit color management
You can include color images or specify colors for AFP objects in your print jobs
and send them to an AFP color printer. The color images and objects print in color,
based on the default settings in your print server and printer.
If you like the colors that the default color management settings provide, or if it is
not essential that you print in exactly the right colors, you probably do not need to
implement a full color management solution. However, if you want better control
over the consistency and accuracy of your colors for devices, you might consider
color management at some point in the future.
To understand some of the basic concepts about color printing, see:
v "Color printing concepts" on page 224
v "Grayscale printing concepts" on page 228
Resources that document composition software includes inline
Most often, print bureaus use document composition software to generate highly
customized and personalized color output. AFP color management is largely built
into the document composition tools that support their processes. The software
puts all the resources that the printer needs into the print job and sends it to an
InfoPrint print server. The print server sends the print job to the printer, and the
printer uses the resources as appropriate.
By using this method, you know that the required resources, including the
resources required for color management, are available for any print job that is sent
to the printer. However, including all the resources can make the print job very
large, and moving large print jobs through your system might slow down system
performance. Also, you might not be able to save resources that are downloaded
with a print job on the printer so they can be reused without being downloaded
later.
For more information about color printing, see:
v General information about color printing and color management:
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