Chapter 2 - Canon imagePRESS C800 Series Operation Manual

Media Families
A media family is a set of media that has comparable specifications, such as surface, color and
substrate type. A media family defines the color output profiles for the media. Each media family
has three different output profiles, for the halftone screens Normal, Fine, and Error-diffusion.
When you have more than one halftone screen in a single job or page, PRISMAsync automatically
applies the related output profiles for optimal color management in the job.
When you add new media to the media catalog, you specify the media family.
Advanced color management
The Advanced color management license offers the following color features:
• Device simulation, to simulate or proof other print engines or offset presses with your print
system.
• Device Link support, to import Device Link profiles for special CMYK conversions.
• Named color profile import and export, to extend the functionality of spot color libraries.
• Information bars, to print extra metadata on printed output. There is one default information
bar, but you can compose other information bars. Information bar selection is possible in the
printer driver, PRISMAprepare, and via automated workflows or hotfolders.
• Color control bars, to print extra color patches for control of color output via FOGRA
verification. Using a color bar you can check the ink density, dot grain and contrast. Use default
or compose custom color bars. The color bar selection is available in the printer driver,
PRISMAprepare, and via automated workflows or hotfolders.
• Color mappings, to convert RGB, CMYK to a specific color, for example, your corporate color.
Color mappings are useful to map colors in the input file to a fixed color of a spot color library.
• Leave out separations, to exclude specific spot colors from printing. You can exclude layers for
printing when you map the colors of these layers to a spot color with the value "None".
For more PRISMAsync color information, see
Calibration
Daily printer calibration is very important to maintain high quality color reproduction. Media
family calibration is important to maintain consistent color reproduction levels for all the media
you use. The control panel indicates when printer calibration is needed. (See
page 160)
imagePRESS C800 Series
More PRISMAsync color information on page
Chapter 2 - Explore the print system
Color reproduction for your output
About calibration on
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