Kodak 8670 PS User Manual

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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.

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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

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a 68040 or PowerPC processor

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Apple Operating System 7.5 or higher software

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16 MB of RAM

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color monitor

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export module for the 8670 printer

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densitometer if you will be doing the densitometer calibration procedure

Minimum System Conﬁguration

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68030 processor

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Apple Operating System 7.1

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8 MB of RAM

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standard color or black and white monitor (minimum resolution 640 x 400 pixels

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export module for the 8670 printer

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densitometer if you will be doing the densitometer calibration

NOTE: The export module software for Macintosh systems is included on

the software CD that came with your printer. Windows Systems

Recommended System Conﬁguration

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486 or Pentium processor

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MS-DOS version 6.22 or later

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Microsoft Windows for workgroups 3.11 or Windows 95 software

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16 MB of RAM

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4 MB of hard disk space

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color monitor

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export module for the 8670 printer

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densitometer if you will be doing the densitometer calibration

Minimum System Conﬁguration

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386 processor

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MS-DOS version 5.0 or later

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Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows for workgroups 3.11, or Windows 95 software

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8 MB of RAM

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4 MB or hard disk space

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standard color or black and white monitor (standard VGA; minimum resolution 640 x 480 pixels)

NOTE: The export module software for Windows systems is included on

the software CD that came with your printer.

Installing the Software for the Calibration Utility

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.

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Getting Started with the Calibration Utility

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Before you use the calibration utility, you should be thoroughly familiar with how to operate the printer. If you plan to use the densitometer calibration, you should be familiar with densitometr y and how to operate and calibrate your densitometer.

How Often To Calibrate

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 been serviced. Be sure that you calibrate for the correct media installed. Calibrating your printer means calibrating the printing system—printer and media.

Calibration Methods

The visual calibration components of the calibration utility include Easy Cal, Visual Gray Balance, and Visual Linearity. While these methods do not yield as accurate a result as a densitometer calibration, they can make signiﬁcant improvements in the consistency of results.

Easy Cal

Visual Gray Balance calibration. Ref running an Easy Cal calibration.

—a ﬁve-step process to quickly calibrate your printer using the

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Visual Gray Balance

neutral gray. Visual Gray Balance calibration ensures that the correct percentages of cyan, magenta, and yellow dye are printed over the entire tonal range to produce a neutral gray. Use the Visual Gray Balance calibration if the color balance of your prints is not correct. Ref

“Visual Gray Balance” for instructions on running a Visual Gray Balance

calibration.

—calibrates your printer so that it produces a

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Visual Linearity

darkness. Visual Linearity ensures that your printer produces an accurate representation of the requested density values over the entire tonal range. Use the Visual Linearity calibration if the color balance is correct, but the density is too dark or light. Ref instructions on running a Visual Linearity calibration.

—calibrates your printer for the correct lightness/

er to “Visual Linearity” for

Densitometer Calibration

A densitometer calibration calibrates your printer’s response based on the densitometer reading for selected patches on a test print. Calibrating your printer with a densitometer yields the most accurate calibration results for color balance and density. Ref instructions on running a Densitometer calibration.

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Starting the Calibration Utility

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The following steps describe how to start the calibration utility:

NOTE: The illustrations in this chapter show Macintosh system dialog

boxes. The dialog boxes for Windows are similar and have identical functionality.

Double-click on the icon for the calibration utility. The calibration utility selection box opens.

Do one of the following:

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Click on

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Click on procedures.

Begin Easy Cal

Launch Normal Utility

to launch Easy Cal,

to use the other calibration

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For infor mation about the Normal Utility, ref

Utility to Calibrate Your Printer.” For more infor mation on the

calibration utility selection box, ref

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er to “Option Descriptions.”

er to “Using the Normal

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Using the Normal Utility to Calibrate Your Printer

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The Normal Utility allows you to create a new calibration document or start from a previously-saved calibration document.

When you click on selection box, the 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

are no printers on the Select Printer menu, or the Preferences ﬁles have been deleted, you must select and open the export module.

For infor mation about creating a new calibration table, ref

“Creating a New Calibration Document.” For information about

opening an existing calibration document, ref

Calibration Table as the Star ting Point.”

Launch Normal Utility

in the Calibration Utility

er to

er to “Using an Existing

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Easy Cal

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Easy Cal provides you with the steps to guide you through the process of calibrating your printer based on a Visual Gray Balance calibration.

NOTE: You cannot use Easy Cal to calibrate a printer with a black-only

ribbon.

For a description of the dialog boxes used in Easy Cal, ref

Descriptions.”

When you click on dialog box, the Easy Cal calibration procedure starts up.

The Easy Cal dialog box appears.

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Click on

Proceed

Begin Easy Cal

in the Calibration Utility selection

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NOTE: Clicking on

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accesses the Normal Utility.

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Easy Cal Step 1

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The Easy Cal Step1of 5 dialog box appears. This dialog box allows you to select the printer model you wish to calibrate and locate the folder containing the expor t module.

Select the printer from the Printer Model drop-down list.

NOTE: If the printer you want to calibrate does not appear on the menu,

you must locate and select the expor t module for that printer.

Click on

In the ﬁle selection box that appears, locate and open the folder that contains the export module:

Locate Export Modules Folder

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On Macintosh systems, use the path System Folder:Applications Support:Kodak:Plug-ins (Printing).

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On Windows systems, use the path C:\Windows\Kodak\Plugins (Printing).

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Select the export module, and click on Easy Cal Step 1 of 5 dialog box.

Click on

Next.

Open

. You are returned to the

Easy Cal Step 2

The Easy Cal Step 2 of 5 dialog box appears.

If you want to calibrate a different printer than the one that appears in the Printer box, go to Step 2 in this procedure. If you do not need to

select a new printer, click on

to go to Easy Cal Step 3 of 5.

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A dialog box appears that allows you to select the printer you wish to calibrate.

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Macintosh systems

If the 8670 printer:

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has a network connection, click on

Network

in the Select a Kodak Professional 8670 thermal printer dialog box.

In the selection box that opens, choose the correct 8670

printer. Click on to return to the Select a Kodak Professional 8670 thermal printer dialog box.

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has a SCSI connection, click on the radio button for the correct 8670 printer.

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For Windows systems

If the 8670 printer:

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has a SCSI connection, click on the radio button for the correct 8670 printer.

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has a network connection, click on

Network Browse

correct printer in the Browse for Printer dialog box that opens.

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has a parallel connection, click on the radio button for either LPT1 or LPT2 to select the printer.

Click on

NOTE: If your computer has more than one SCSI host adapter, pull down

.Click on

. Locate the

in the Select a Printer dialog box.

the SCSI Host Adapter list. Select the por t address for the SCSI host adapter for the selected 8670 printer.

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Click on Next in the Easy Cal Step 2 of 5 dialog box.

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Easy Cal Step 3

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The Easy Cal Step 3 of 5 dialog box appears.

Make sure that the ribbon and paper type information is correct.

NOTE: If you do not need to change the setup, click on

Click on

Change Setup

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The Printer Setup for Calibration dialog box appears.

NOTE: Your Printer Setup dialog box may be different depending on your

printer export module.

3. Make the necessary changes in the Printer Setup dialog box.

4. Click on

5. Click on

in the Easy Cal Step 3 of 5 dialog box.

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The Easy Cal Step 4of 5 dialog box appears.

1. Make sure that the Printer and Printer Setup information are correct.

IMPORTANT: Clicking on Next sends the default calibration table to the

printer and overwrites the previous table.

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2. Click on

table is overwritten. The Send and Print dialog box appears.

NOTE: The Send and Print dialog box may be different depending on

3. Click on

The calibration test print is printed on the speciﬁed printer.

. The default table is sent to the printer, and the previous

your printer’s export module.

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The Easy Cal Step 5 of 5 dialog box appears.

1. Use the test print to calibrate your printer in the Easy Cal Step 5 of 5

dialog box. Look at the test print, and decide which grayscale cluster appears the most neutral gray.

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2. Enter the number of the most neutral grayscale cluster in the Cluster

Number text box.

NOTE: If you want to print an updated test print, you can click on

return to the Easy Cal Step 4 of 5 dialog box.

If cluster number 225 on the updated test print is the most neutral gray, then the calibration is successful. Type 225 in the Cluster Number text box, and go to Step 3 of this procedure.

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3. Click on

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Done

The printer calibration begins. When calibration completes, the Easy Cal dialog box appears.

Quit

4. Click on

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Setting Preferences and Using Calibration

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Using the Preferences Dialog Box

You can specify the folders that contain the export and import modules (used for densitometer settings) in the Preferences dialog box.

1. Pull down the File menu, and select “Preferences”.

The Preferences dialog box appears.

2. Click on

the folders containing the expor t module and the impor t module. Your selections are saved.

Select

, and use the ﬁle selection box that appears to locate

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Selecting and Setting Up a Printer

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1. Pull down the Printer menu, and highlight “Select Printer”.

2. Select “8670 Thermal Printer”

Macintosh systems

If the 8670 printer:

• has a network

connection, click on

Network

a Kodak Professional 8670 thermal printer dialog box.

In the selection box that opens, chose the correct 8670 printer. Click on to the Select a Kodak Professional 8670 thermal printer dialog box.

in the Select

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• has a SCSI connection, click on the radio button for the correct 8670

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