Paper Characteristics; Afp Color Management; Color Management Resources - Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP Manual

Paper characteristics

The paper that you use has a significant impact on the colors that you see. Even if
you use the same ICC profile and the same printer, printing on a different paper
can result in a very different color appearance.
Colors can change from paper to paper, particularly if you change from coated to
uncoated paper or from sheet-fed to continuous forms paper. The changes can be
so noticeable that printer manufacturers generally test and certify papers with
certain characteristics for use with their printers. They also create different ICC
profiles for their printers based on paper characteristics. Some ICC profiles can be
used for groups of papers that have similar characteristics.
When you load paper, you set certain paper characteristics on the printer. When
the printer chooses the correct device-specific output profile to use, it takes the
characteristics into consideration. The paper characteristics are:
v Media brightness
v Media color
v Media finish
v Media weight

AFP color management

You can use various ways to print color data with Advanced Function Presentation
(AFP). However, to implement an AFP color printing solution with full color
management, you must use color management resources (CMRs). We also
recommend that you install all of your color images as data objects and associate
CMRs with them.

Color management resources

Color management resources (CMRs) are the foundation of color management in AFP
print systems. They are AFP resources that provide all the color management
information, such as ICC profiles and halftones, that an AFP system needs to
process a print job and maintain consistent color from one device to another.
CMRs share some characteristics with other AFP resources, but are different in
some important ways.
CMRs are similar to other AFP resources in these ways:
v CMRs can be associated with elements of a print job at various levels of the
v CMRs can be included in a print job in an inline resource group and referenced
The percentage of light that the paper reflects
The color of the paper
The characteristics of the surface of the paper, such as: glossy, satin, matte
The basic weight of the paper
hierarchy.
Typical hierarchy rules apply, so CMRs specified at lower levels override those
at the higher level. For example, a CMR set on a data object overrides a default
CMR set on a print file.
in a form definition, page environment, object environment, or an include Object
(IOB) structured field.
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