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User’s Guide

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Contents

Preface

Welcome to the desktop color concepts and issues and describes how to maintain and calibrate the printer. I t explains how to conﬁgur e and print from various platforms—P ostScript printing from the Macintosh and P ostScript and PCL printing from Windo ws 95/ 98 and Windows NT 4.0.

The audience for this manual is anyone who needs to maintain color consistency and print to the printer at your site.

The following major topics are included:

• Color printing

• Printing from Macintosh and PC-compatible computers

• Printing from popular applications

• Using Fiery WebTools to manage print jobs

• Fonts and additional font utilities

User’s Guide

for the Fiery 500. This manual gives an overview of

Conventions

Indicates functionality for which a hard disk drive is required.

1-1 The properties of color

Chapter 1: Working with Color

This chapter introduces concepts that are basic to color theory . You will encounter some of these concepts (such as hue, saturation, and brightness) when you work with color in applications; others provide useful background information.

a complex topic, so consider this a starting point for experimentation and further research.

Color is

The properties of color

What we call “color” is really a perceptual ability unique to humans and a small number of animal species. Color theory is an attempt to systematize the properties of color perception, which by nature is relative and changeable. A color appears different depending on the other colors around it, and individuals vary in their abilities to perceive color.

The physics of color

The human eye can see electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths between 400 nanometers (purplish blue) and 700 nanometers (red). This range is called the visible spectrum of light. We see pure colors. Sunlight at midday, which we perceive as white or neutral light, is composed of light from across the visible spectrum in more or less equal proportions. Shining sunlight through a prism separates it into its spectral components, resulting in the familiar rainbow of colors.

spectral light

as intensely saturated or pure

Like the sun, most light sources we encounter in our daily environment emit a mixture of many light wavelengths, although the particular distribution of wavelengths can vary considerably. Light from a tungsten light bulb, for example, contains much less blue light than sunlight. Tungsten light appears white to the human eye which, up to a point, can adjust to the different light sources. However, color objects appear different under tungsten light than they do under sunlight because of the different spectral makeup of the two light sources.

The mixture of light wavelengths emitted by a light source is reﬂected selectively by different objects. Different mixtures of reﬂected light appear as differ ent colors. Some of these mixtures appear as relatively saturated colors, but most appear to us as grays or impure hues of a color.

1-2 Working with Color

CIE color model

In the 1930s, the Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage (CIE) deﬁned a standard the communication of color information. This color space is based on research on the nature of color perception.

By mixing any two spectral colors in different proportions, we can create all the colors found between them. For example, it is possible to create the same gray by mixing blue-green and red light or by mixing yellow-green and blue-violet light. This is possible because of a phenomenon peculiar to color vision called

metamerism

Therefore, different combinations of spectral light can produce the same perceived color.

Hue, saturation, and brightness

A color can be described in terms of three varying characteristics:

color space

. The eye does not distinguish individual wavelengths of light.

, a way of deﬁning colors in mathematical terms, to help in

• Hue, or tint (the qualitative aspect of a color—red, green, or orange)

• Saturation, or the purity of the color

• Brightness, or relative position between white and black.

Many computer applications include dialog boxes in which you choose colors by manipulating hue, saturation, and brightness. For example, Photoshop uses a square Color Picker which can be reconﬁgured according to your preference.

Additive and subtractive color systems

Color devices used in desktop publishing and printing colors using a set of primary colors that are combined to create other colors. There are two methods of creating a range of colors from a set of primary colors. Computer monitors and scanners use the technologies, including Fiery 500 print devices and offset presses, use the

subtractive color model

additive color model

simulate

the range of visible

. Printing

1-3 The properties of color

Additive (RGB) color

Color devices that use the additive color model make a range of colors by combining varying amounts of red, green, and blue light. These colors are called the

additive primaries

green, and blue light available. Black occurs wherever all three colors are absent. Grays are created by adding varying amounts of all three colors together. Combining varying amounts of any two of the additive primaries creates a third, saturated hue.

A familiar device that uses this color model is the computer monitor. Monitors have red, green, and blue a given color. Scanners create digital representations of colors by measuring their red, green, and blue components through colored ﬁlters.

Subtractive (CMY and CMYK) color

The subtractive color model is used in color printing, and in color photographic prints and transparencies. While the additive color model simulates the visible spectrum of color by adding light of three primary hues, the subtractive color model uses a “white ” or neutral light source containing light of many wavelengths. Inks, toners, or other wavelengths of light that otherwise would be reﬂected or transmitted by the media in question.

. White is created by adding the maximum amount of red,

phosphors

colorants

that emit varying amounts of light to display

are used to selectively absorb (subtract) certain

The

subtractive primaries

and blue light, respectively. Combining any two subtractive primaries creates a new color that is relatively pure or saturated. For example, you can make red by combining magenta and yellow, which absorb green and blue light, respectively. White occurs when no colorant is applied. Combining all three subtractive primaries in theory yields black, but due to deﬁciencies of cyan, magenta, and yellow colorants, combining these three primaries actually yields a muddy brown. Black colorant is added to compensate for the deﬁciencies of cyan, magenta, and yellow colorants, and consequently color printing uses four

agenta, Yellow, and blacK (CMYK). The use of black ink helps in producing

rich solid blacks and also allows for improved rendition of black text.

are cyan, magenta, and yellow; they absorb red, green,

process colors: C

yan,

Color transparency ﬁlm

RGB monitor

1-4 Working with Color

Print device gamut

Different color reproduction techniques have different color capabilities, or gamuts. Color transparency ﬁlms have comparatively large gamuts, as do color monitors. The color gamut that can be produced using CMYK toners on paper is smaller. This is why some colors that can be displayed on a color monitor, especially bright saturated colors, cannot be reproduced exactly by your Fiery 500 print device—nor, for that matter, can they be reproduced on press using process colors. Moreover, different print devices have different gamuts—some colors that your print device can produce cannot be reproduced on an offset press, and vice versa. The following illustration provides a graphical representation of this concept.

Offset press (white)

Other print device

You need to account for the gamut of your print device when designing on a color monitor. When printed, colors that fall outside the print device’s gamut are “mapped” to printable colors. This process, referred to as place when color data is converted or adjusted to meet the color space and gamut requirements of a print device.

The Fiery 500 is specially designed to perform gamut mapping at high speed with high quality results. It provides these color management features automatically, using either built-in default settings or settings that you specify for a particular print job. For added ﬂexibility, the Fiery 500 color management system can also be used in combination with color management systems on Macintosh and Windows computers See “Rendering styles” on page 1-18.

gamut mapping

, takes

1-5 Controlling printed color

Controlling printed color

When working with color materials, whether they be presentations, illustrations, or complicated page designs, you make aesthetic decisions about the colors you use. Once you have decided on your goal, you then need to realize it in print. Your color printing system becomes an ally in this creative process to the extent that you can get results that are

• If you have designed a brochure to print on the F iery 500, you want the printed colors to match the design speciﬁcation.

• If you are printing presentations on the Fiery 500, you want to preserve the vivid colors in the monitor display.

• If you are working with color that will print on press, you want the Fiery 500 output to match prepress proofs.

The type of print job and the ﬁnal print device either the Fiery 500 printer or an offset press, determine the methodology you use to achieve optimal results.

predictable

No matter what your goals are, two hardware factors always impact color print output: print device consistency and the range of colors the print device can print, known as its successful color documents and presentations also requires an understanding of color management software as it is implemented by the Fiery 500 and on your desktop computer. Most of this chapter is devoted to discussing the various elements of color management that contribute to predictable color results.

Maintaining print device consistency

The factors described below affect print device consistency, as well as color ﬁdelity and overall output quality.

Paper stock and toner

The paper and toner used by the print device can greatly affect printed color. For best results, use the consumables recommended by the manufacturer of your printer.

gamut

. These factors are covered brieﬂy in this chapter. Creating

1-6 Working with Color

Maintenance

Problems such as streaking and insufﬁcient or excessive amounts of one or more toners arise when a print device does not receive periodic maintenance. In addition to having it serviced regularly, monitor the color production of your printer by making standard test prints at regular intervals. You can do this easily by printing the Fiery 500 Test Page from the operation panel. Save the prints and show them to your system or site administrator if recalibration becomes necessary.

Calibrating the printer

VisualCal calibration

VisualCal is a calibration method that allows you to recalibrate your printer to an ideal color output standard deﬁned by the printer’s manufacturer. The calibration calculations performed by the controller software are based on a series of values entered on the operation panel. The values used in the calculations ar e determined by evaluating toner densities and color combinations produced on two specially designed calibration pages printed from the operation panel.

For information on how to use the operation panel, see

Limits and 30% Match

The ﬁrst VisualCal page, “Limits and 30% Match,” provides the basis for calculating the most acceptable luminosity (brightness) of the toners. This page consists of rows of CMYK dots in a graduated range of toner densities.

The variables needed to recalculate the determined by identifying the leftmost dots that can be fully distinguished against their ﬁelds in each row, and sequentially entering their corresponding numeric values on the operation panel. The variable needed to r ecalculate the the toners is determined in a slightly different way—you identify the black dot which best matches a 30% dot gain ﬁeld. When all values have been entered, the printer’s toner density and luminosity settings are recalculated.

density

of the colored toners are

Getting Started.

luminosity

1-7 Calibrating the printer

Gray Balance

The second VisualCal page, “Gray Balance,” provides the basis for calculating a “neutral gray balance,” that is, a CMY gray that as closely as possible matches a pure K (BlacK) gray produced by the printer’s engine. This page consists of rows of CMY gray patches on a ﬁeld of gray produced solely from black.The variables needed to calculate the printer’s most neutral gray balance are determined by identifying the CMY patch that best matches this ﬁeld, and entering its row and column location on the operation panel. When the values have been entered, the printer’s gray balance is recalculated.

PERFORM VISUALCAL CALIBRATION

1. From the READY screen, press the Menu k e y and then the up arr o w k e y to adv ance to the VISUALCAL screen.

OTE

If the printer is in

up before you can perform calibration.

ENERGY SAVE MODE

, you must wait for the printer to warm

2. Press Enter to advance to the PRINT LIMITS screen. To print the Limits and 30% Match page, use the up and down arro w keys to select YES. Press Enter to print the page.

To reset the printer’ s toner density and luminosity settings, follo w the instructions provided on the Limits and 30% Match page.When you have ﬁnished entering all values, the

OTE

for any of the colors, the resulting calibration will be inaccurate. If the entered value for any color is 9, the Limits and 30% Match page is reprinted automatically. Re-enter values for all color rows starting with Black Start.

3. To print the Gray Balance page, use the up and down arrow keys to select YES. Press Enter to print the page.

To reset the printer’s gray balance, follow the instructions provided on the Gray Balance page. When you have ﬁnished entering all values, the PRINT COLOR TEST screen appears.

NOTE: If the Gray Balance page is printed after the Limits calculations have been

made, the gray ﬁeld on which the CMY patches appear on the Limits page will use the new density and luminosity calibration settings.

PRINT GRAYS

Zero (0) and 9 are unacceptable values for color calibration. If you select 0

screen appears.

1-8 Working with Color

4. To print a Color test that uses the original values (CURR ENT COLOR T EST P AGE) and

5. If you are satisﬁed with the printer’s calibration based on the new values, select

a Color test that uses the new values (NEW COLOR TEST PAGE), use up and down arrows to select YES, and press Enter to print the pages.

The Color Test pages are in the same format as the Test page which you can print from the PRINT PAGES FROM LIST menu.

Before applying the calibration changes compare the Color test that uses the original calibration values against the Color test that uses the new values.

YES from the APPLY CHANGES screen that appears, and press Enter to recalibrate the printer based on the previously entered values.

Adjusting VisualCal values

Consider the following suggestions for adjusting VisualCal for your speciﬁc preferences:

• If your print seem to be color balanced but too dark, enter a lower value for the

30% Match entry on the Limits and 30% Match page, last row.

• If your print seems too light, enter a higher value.

• If light areas on your prints have a color cast, enter a lower value in the S tart row

for that toner.

• If dark areas on your prints have a color cast, enter a higher value in the End

row for that toner.

Color adjustment

The printer’s color adjustment feature provides additional creative control over printer’s color production. The color adjustment screens, accessible via the operation panel, allow you to override the printer’s current toner density and brightness settings.

Using the color adjustment controls, you can also increase or decrease the brightness of an image, or you can increase or decrease the density of each the following colors: red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta. For example, you may choose to emphasize the bright, blue sky in an image by increasing the density of the blue and the cyan in the image, and increasing the brightness setting.

1-9 Calibrating the printer

TO PERFORM COLOR ADJUSTMENT:

1. From the READY screen, press the Menu ke y and then the up arr o w k e y to adv ance to the COLOR ADJUSTMENT screen. Press Enter.

OTE: If the printer is in ENERGY SAVE MODE, you must wait for the printer to warm

up before you can perform color adjustment.

2. Use the up and down arrow keys to specify an increase or decrease in the overall brightness of printed documents. Press Enter.

Negative values are darker, positive values are lighter.

3. Use the up and down arrow keys to select a color to be adjusted, and press Enter.

4. Use the up and down arrow keys to increase or decrease the density of the selected color. Press Enter.

Negative values are lighter, positive values are darker.

5. To print a Color test that uses the original values (CURR ENT COLOR T EST P AGE) and a Color test that uses the new values (NEW COLOR TEST PAGE), use up and down arrows to select YES. Press Enter to print the pages.

The Color Test pages are in the same format as the Test page which you can print from the PRINT PAGES FROM LIST menu.

6. To apply the new color and brightness values, use the up and down arrow keys to select YES.

OTE: Changes made using Color Adjustment are retained until the printer is

recalibrated. You can reset the adjusted colors to the last calibration made using the RESET ALL TO 0 option in the Adjust Color screen; recalibrate the printer using VisualCal, or reset the printer’s color production to factory defaults using the operation panel’s

RESETS>RESET COLOR option.

1-10 Working with Color

Using color effectively

The ability to print in color can greatly increase the effectiveness of your message, whether you are printing a presentation or a newsletter , or pr ooﬁng an ad concept that will later be printed on press. Some potential beneﬁts of using color include:

• Conveying information rapidly by using color cues

• Making use of the emotive aspects of different colors

• Increasing impact and message retention

Color can also be a source of distraction and discord if it is used poorly. This section outlines some tips and concepts that will prove useful as you approach designing color materials.

A few rules of thumb

Try some of the following strategies for creating successful color materials:

• Rather than applying colors indiscriminately, use color to aid comprehension.

In presentations, graphs, and charts, use color to highlight patterns and emphasize differences.

• In general, fewer colors work better than many colors.

• Use red as an accent color. Red is particularly effective when used in otherwise

monochromatic materials.

• Consider the tastes of your target audience when choosing colors.

• Keep a ﬁle of printed color pieces that appeal to you or strike you as effective.

Refer to it for ideas when designing your own documents.

1-11 Calibrating the printer

Color wheel

A color wheel is a helpful tool for understanding the interrelation of colors. The colors on one side of the color wheel, from magenta to yellow, appear to most people to be warm colors, while those on the other side, from green to blue, appear to be cool. The distance between two colors on the color wheel can help predict how they will appear when seen side by side. Colors opposite one another on the wheel are called complements, and create a striking contrast side by side. This can be the basis for a bold graphical design, but it is an effect you should use with discretion since it can be visually fatiguing. Other bold combinations to consider are split complements (a color and the two colors adjacent to its complement) and triads (three colors evenly spaced on the color wheel). Colors adjacent to one another on the color wheel result in subtle harmonies.

The color wheel simpliﬁes color relationships for the purpose of clarity, showing only saturated or pure colors. Adding the myriad variations of each hue to the palette (more or less saturated, darker or lighter) creates a wealth of possibilities. Taking a pair of complements from the color wheel and varying the saturation and brightness of one or both colors produces a very different result from the pure complements. Combining a light tint of a warm color with a darker shade of its cooler complement often gives pleasing results. Combining a darker shade of a warm color with a light tint of its cooler complement produces an unusual effect you may like.

Once you have mastered the concept of the color wheel, you have a good framework for experimenting with color combinations. Many books targeted at graphic designers show groups of preselected color combinations. Some are organized by themes or moods, and some are based on a custom color system such as PANTONE. The more you develop a critical facility for judging color combinations, the more you will be able to trust your own eye for color.

Color and text

It is not a coincidence that the overwhelming majority of text you see is printed in black toner on white paper. Text in black on white is highly legible and is not fatiguing to read for extended periods. For many color materials, using black text on a white background and conﬁning color to graphic elements and headings is a good choice.

1-12 Working with Color

Color text can add ﬂair to documents printed on paper when used skillfully , and is widely used in presentations. When using color text, avoid dazzling text and background combinations created from primary complements, especially red and cyan or red and blue; they are visually fatiguing and hard to read. Color text is more legible when distinguished from its background by a difference in lightness—for example, dark blue text on a light beige background. In addition, using many different colors in a string of text makes for a confused appearance and is hard to read. However, using a single highlight color is an effective way to draw the reader’s eye to selected words.

When using color text, keep in mind that small font sizes typically do not print in color with the same sharpness as in black. In most applications, black text prints exclusively in black toner while color text usually prints with two or more toners. Any misregistration between the different toners on paper causes color text to lose deﬁnition. You can make test prints to ﬁnd the smallest point size at which color text prints clearly. When using high-end graphics applications that allow you to specify color as percentages of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, you can create pure cyan or pure magenta text that prints with the same sharpness as black text. (Pure yellow text is extremely hard to read on anything but a dark or complementary background.)

Raster images and vector images

Two broad categories of artwork can be printed from a personal computer to a color printer: raster and vector images.

A raster image, also referred to as a bitmap, is composed of a grid of pixels, each assigned a particular color value. The grid, when sufﬁciently enlarged, resembles a mosaic made from square tiles. Examples of raster images include scans and images created in painting or pixel-editing applications, such as Photoshop and Painter.

The amount of information found in a raster depends on its resolution and bit depth. The resolution of a raster describes the density of the pix els and is speciﬁed in pixels per inch (ppi). The bit depth is the number of bits of information assigned to each pixel. Black and white rasters require only one bit of information

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per pixel. For photographic quality color, 24 bits of RGB color information are required per pixel, yielding 256 separate levels of red, green, and blue. For CMYK images, 32 bits per pixel are required.

When printing raster artwork, the quality of the output depends on the resolution of the raster. If the raster ’s resolution is too low , individual pix els become visible in the printed output as small squares. This effect is sometimes called “pixelation.”

In vector images, picture elements are deﬁned mathematically as lines or curves between points—hence the term “vector.” Picture elements can have solid, gradient, or patterned color ﬁlls. Vector artwork is created in illustration and drawing applications such as Illustrator and CorelDRAW . P age layout applications such as QuarkXPress also allow you to create simple vector artwork with their drawing tools. PostScript fonts are vector-based as well.

Vector artwork is resolution-independent; it can be scaled to any size without danger of pixels becoming visible in printed output.

Optimizing ﬁles for processing and printing

The following sections provide tips on how to create image ﬁles that produce the highest possible print quality while minimizing the processing time and disk space they require.

Resolution of raster images

While a 72 ppi raster image appears sharp on a monitor, the same image would likely appear pixelated when printed to the Fiery 500. Color print devices are capable of much greater detail than monitors, and require correspondingly higher resolution image ﬁles. However, high-resolution ﬁles can be large, and therefore cumbersome to transmit over a network, process for printing, store on disk, and edit.

Beyond a certain threshold, a higher image resolution greatly increases ﬁle size while having a minimal effect on output quality. The optimal image resolution depends on the resolution of the ﬁnal print device. Aim for the resolution that optimizes both ﬁle size and output quality.

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The resolution of a raster, along with its bit depth and physical dimensions, determine its ﬁle size. The following table sho ws the ﬁle sizes of color raster images at different dimensions and resolutions.

File size at:

Image size 100 ppi 150 ppi 200 ppi 400 ppi

RGB/CMYK RGB/CMYK RGB/CMYK RGB/CMYK

3" x 4" 0.4/0.5 MB 0.8/1.0 MB 5" x 7" 1.0/1.3 MB 2.3/3.0 MB

8.5" x 11" 2.7/3.6 MB 6.0/8.0 MB

In this table, the shaded areas indicate that 200 ppi is typically the best trade-off between image quality and ﬁle size. However, higher resolutions (e.g., 250 to 300 ppi) may be needed for offset printing, when quality is of the utmost importance, or for images containing sharp diagonal lines.

To ﬁnd the best image resolution for your purposes, make test prints of some raster artwork at different resolutions. Start with a high-resolution image (400 ppi) and save versions at progressively lower resolutions, down to 100 ppi, using a pixel-editing application such as Photoshop. Always save a copy of the original high-resolution version in case you need to revert to it. The highresolution data cannot be recreated from a lower resolution version.

1.4/1.8 MB 5.5/7.3 MB

4.0/5.3 MB 16.0/21.4 MB

10.7/14.3 MB 42.8/57.1 MB

Image quality

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Print the ﬁles and examine the output. You will likely begin to see a marked deterioration in output quality at resolutions below 200 ppi, while above 200 ppi the improvement may be very subtle.

100 ppi 200 ppi 300 ppi 400 ppi

Image resolution

Raster images prepared for offset printing may need to be at higher resolutions than needed for prooﬁng on your Fiery 500.

Scaling

Ideally, each raster image should be saved at the actual size it will be placed into the document and at the optimal resolution for the print device. If the image resolution is correct for the print device, there is no quality advantage to be gained by scaling an image down to a percentage of its actual size. If you scale a large image down to a percentage of its actual size, you incur unnecessary ﬁle transfer time because the image data for the entire large image is sent to the printer. If an image is placed multiple times at a markedly different sizes in a document, save a separate version of the image at the correct size for each placement.

If you need to place an image at greater than 100% in a document, remember that the output image resolution is affected. For example, if you scale a 200 ppi image to 200%, the image is printed at 100 ppi.

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Color management on the Fiery 500

The Fiery 500 uses a simple and ﬂexible color architecture that produces excellent color results with default settings. It also allows you to customize your color r esults using various color controls.

Settings for the following Fiery 500 options can be speciﬁed using print dialog box options when you send a job. Some can also be set as defaults during Fiery 500 Setup on the operation panel. Settings speciﬁed in the print dialog box override equivalent settings in the printer setup on the operation panel.

Color print option: What it does:

RGB Source EFIRGB/sRGB (PC)/ Apple Standard/Off (Default value is sRGB)

Color Rendering Dictionary Photographic/Presentation/ Transparency (OHP)

Brightness 85% to 115% (Default value is 100%)

CMYK Simulation SWOP-Coated/DIC/Euroscale/ None (Default value is None)

Explanations of how these settings affect your print jobs are provided in the following sections.

Applies an RGB source space deﬁnition to R GB data (see page 1-17).

NOTE: RGB Source is available only with the

PostScript printer driver. Applies a Fiery 500 color rendering dictionary

(CRD) to objects (text, photographs and illustrations) in a RGB data ﬁle (see page 1-18).

Performs a color adjustment on all color channels to make the printed output lighter or darker.

Adjusts CMYK color data to simulate an offset press standard or a custom color gamut deﬁned at your site. Choosing None bypasses simulation.

NOTE: CMYK Simulation is available only with the

PostScript printer driver.

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RGB Source and Rendering Style

The RGB Source option is used to provide a source color space deﬁnition for RGB data in your document. The setting y ou specify for this option ov errides any source color space proﬁles you may have speciﬁed using other color management systems. For example, if you speciﬁed a ColorSync System Proﬁle on the Macintosh computer, the RGB Source setting speciﬁed in the Print dialog box overrides it. In cases where you don’t want this setting to override another speciﬁed source color space, choose Off.

RGB Source: Description:

EFIRGB The source color space deﬁned by this setting is optimal for

color conversions that will be sent to a Fiery 500 print device. It also allows for consistent output across different operating systems.

sRGB (PC) The sRGB (PC) setting speciﬁes the source space of a generic

Windows computer monitor.

Apple Standard The Apple Standard setting speciﬁes the source space of all

standard Macintosh computer monitors.

PostScript RGB data is converted to CMYK data using the CRD speciﬁed by the Rendering Style option (see page 1-18). This type of RGB data contains its own source color space information which is used as a reference point for the conversion.

NonPostScript RGB data does not contain source color space information and so cannot be converted using a CRD. NonPostScript RGB data is converted using a general under-color-removal conversion method.

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Rendering styles

The Color CRD options are used to specify a CRD for color conversions. The following table describes the color rendering styles (CRDs) for Fiery 500 software and provides guidelines on when to use each one. Each color rendering style uses a different gamut mapping method, such as Photographic or Presentation, designed for a particular kind of color usage.

Rendering style: Best used for:

Photographic—Preserves tonal relationships in images

rather than exact colors. This rendering style maps out-ofgamut RGB colors to printable colors in a way that retains differences in lightness. Color accuracy is sacriﬁced slightly in favor of presenting color relationships in the way the human eye perceives them. Photographic rendering typically gives less saturated output when printing out-of-gamut RGB colors than Presentation Color rendering does.

Presentation—Creates bright saturated colors. This rendering style does not try to match printed colors precisely to displayed colors but instead provides vibrant, dense colors. Photographic images, however, are treated the same way as by the Photographic rendering style.

Transparency (OHP)—Improves the correspondence between monitor colors and printed color on transparency paper.

NOTE: The rendering styles in the table cannot be used when specifying a target

device proﬁle with a color management system such as ColorSync or ICM.

Continuous tone photographs, including scans and images from stock photography CDs

Artwork and graphs in presentations and continuous tone photographs

Artwork and graphs printed on transparency paper

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CMYK Simulation

If you are using the Fiery 500 to print proofs for an offset press job or to simulate another print device, choose the appropriate CMYK Simulation setting. The CMYK Simulation setting speciﬁes the offset press standard or other color gamut that you want to simulate.

The CMYK Simulation setting you should specify depends on the press standard for which the CMYK data was separated. For example, for images that were separated for SWOP-Coated paper, choose SWOP-Coated as the CMYK Simulation setting. Select SWOP-Coated to simulate printing to a standard American offset press; Euroscale to simulate a European offset press, or DIC to simulate a standard Japanese offset press. For images that were separated using a custom separation (such as a device-speciﬁc separation or a separation produced with an ICC-proﬁle), choose None as the CMYK Simulation setting.

2-1 General steps for installing Macintosh software

Chapter 2: Printing from Macintosh Computers

This chapter describes installing software and setting up printing from a Macintosh computer.

Serial port printing from Macintosh computers is not supported by the Fiery 500. For instructions on how to connect your printer to a network, see G etting Started.

General steps for installing Macintosh software

The general steps for installing the Fiery 500 software from the CD and setting up printing from a Macintosh computer are:

• Enable Ethernet and AppleTalk from the printer’s operation panel.

• Enable AppleTalk in the Chooser on the Macintosh.

• Install the Adobe PostScript Printer Driver.

• Set up the Fiery 500 in the Chooser.

• Copy additional color reference ﬁles, sample ﬁles and font ﬁles from the User

Software CD as needed.

See Getting Started for details on installing Macintosh software.

Printing from a Macintosh application

On the Macintosh, custom print options are speciﬁed in the P age Setup and Print dialog boxes.

TO PRINT FROM A MACINTOSH APPLICATION:

1. Make sure that any printer description ﬁles needed by the application are installed on your Macintosh.

See Getting Started for instructions.

2. Open the ﬁle you want to print from within the application.

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3. Choose Page Setup from your application’s File menu.

4. Select the Fiery 500 from the Format for: pop-up menu.

5. Select the print options you want from the dialog box.

6. Choose Print from the application’s File menu.

PostScript and Page attribute options can be speciﬁed from this dialog box.

Choose the number of copies you would like to print, the range of pages to print, and the paper source (tray) to print from.

7. Choose additional Printer Speciﬁc Options from the Print dialog’s pop-up menus.

Each printer speciﬁc print option is described in the following section. Options selected from the Print dialog override any duplicate settings speciﬁed in

the Printer Setup on the printer.

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Macintosh print options

The PostScript drivers that come with your printer have been customized to provide additional print options speciﬁc to your Fiery 500 printer. These options have been transparently integrated into the PostScript driver interface.

Fiery 500 PostScript print options are described in the following table.

Printer Speciﬁc Option: Description:

Brightness 85% to 115% (Default value is 100%)

Check and Print (Default is No)

CMYK Simulation SWOP-Coated/DIC/ Euroscale/None (Default value is None)

Adjust the color production on all color channels to make the printed output lighter or darker.

This option is only available if your printer has an optional hard disk drive installed. Check and Print allows you to print a single copy of a multiple copy job that can be visually checked before printing additional copies. When the Check and Print copy has been printed, you can specify the number of additional copies of the job to print using the Check and Print screens at the printer’s operation panel. You can also use the Fiery WebSpooler to print remaining copies of spooled check and print jobs. This option is effective when the number of copies speciﬁed is greater than one.

NOTE:This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk

drive installed.

NOTE: F or Check and P rint to take effect, the copy count must be gr eater than 1 and

the Collate option for the application print dialog box should be turned Off. CMYK simulation settings can be used to simulate popular offset printing press

standards. Select SWOP to simulate printing to a standard American offset press; Euroscale to simulate a European offset press, or DIC to simulate a standard Japanese offset press. For more information see “CMYK Simulation” on page 1-19

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Printer Speciﬁc Option: Description:

Color CRD Text Color CRD Graphics Color CRD Images None/Photographic/ Presentation/ Transparency (OHP)

Default values: Text: Presentation Graphics: Presentation Images: Photographic

Color Mode CMYK/Grayscale (Default value is CMYK)

Color Matching ColorSync Color Matching PostScript Color Matching Black and White Color/Grayscale

Electronic Collation (Default value is No)

Before an RGB image can be printed, the ﬁle’s color data must be converted to the printer’s CMYK color space. Color rendering dictionaries apply optimal gamut mapping methods to documents that contain text, photographs and illustrations. The Photographic CRD optimizes the range of colors on the printer to produce the best results for photographic or bitmapped images. The Presentation CRD optimizes the output of pure, saturated colors such as those used in business presentations. The Transparency (OHP) CRD improves the correspondence between monitor colors and printed color on transparency paper. For additional information regarding Color Rendering D ictionaries, see “Rendering styles” on page 1-18.

NOTE: Color rendering dictionaries cannot be used with CMYK ﬁles.

By default your printer is set to print documents in color (CMYK). Select Grayscale to optionally print documents in grayscale.

The Adobe PostScript 8.5.1 driver can convert RGB colors of a ﬁle to a speciﬁed CMYK device target using ICC technology . Choose this option to specify the use of an ICC device proﬁle installed on your computer. For more information on rending styles, see “Color management on the Fiery 500” on page 1-16. For information on how to install and use the Fiery 500 ICC printer proﬁle, see Getting Started.

This option is only available if your printer has an optional hard disk drive installed. Electronic Collation allows the pages of each copy of a print job to be printed in sequence. If this option is off, multiple copies of each page of a print job are printed in sequence. To avoid unexpected results, always select collation in the print driver and turn off any collation option that may exist in your application.

NOTE:This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk

drive installed.

NOTE: The Collate option in the application print dialog box must be turned Off

when selecting the Electronic Collation option from the printer driver.

Halftone Text Halftone Graphics Halftone Images (Default is Detail for Text and Smooth for Graphics and Images)

This option determines which type of halftone screening is used for various elements in your print job. Use the Detail setting for printing of ﬁne lines and details that are sometimes fuzzy or unclear. Use the Smooth setting for gradients or tones which blend together.

NOTE: When printing graphics with thin or ﬁne lines, such as CAD data, you should

select the Detail setting for Halftone Graphics.

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Printer Speciﬁc Option: Description:

Media Type (Default value is Plain Paper)

Paper Paper and envelope sizes supported by the printer can be speciﬁed by name. Paper

Paper Source (Default value is Auto Select)

RGB Source EFIRGB/sRGB (PC)/ Apple Standard/Off (Default value is sRGB)

Paper types supported by the printer can be speciﬁed by name: Plain Paper, Transparency, and Thick Paper. application of toner.

options are located in the Page Setup dialog box. Paper trays can be speciﬁed by name. Options include: Auto Select, Bypass Tray,

Tray 1, Tray 2 and Tray 3. Y ou can select Tray 2 or Tray 3 only if they are installed on your printer. Paper source options are located under the General menu of the Print dialog box.

RGB source proﬁles allow you to deﬁne the color space characteristics (such as the white point, gamma and type of phosphors) of the image’s source. When a source is speciﬁed, the image’s RGB data can be optimally converted to the color space and gamut of the Fiery 500 printer. The EFIRGB setting is optimal for color conversions that will be sent to the Fiery 500 printer. The sRGB (PC) setting speciﬁes the source space of a generic Windows computer monitor. The Apple Standard setting speciﬁes the source space of all standard Macintosh monitors.

NOTE: The R GB source setting o verrides any source color space proﬁle you may hav e

speciﬁed using other color management systems. In cases where you don’t want this setting to override another speciﬁed source color space, choose Off. For additional information regarding source proﬁles, see “RGB Source and Rendering Style” on page 1-17.

Choosing the correct media optimizes the fuser’s

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Chapter 3: PostScript Printing from PC-Compatible Computers

The following chapter describes where to set print options available using the PostScript printer driver if you are running Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0 operating systems.

PostScript printing

Custom print options available from the PostScript printer driver are described in “Windows print options” on page 3-8. For additional information on using Fiery 500 color management options, see Chapter 1.

For information on installing the appropriate driver for your system and setting up the environment for parallel printing with the Fiery 500, see Getting Started. This manual also describes how to connect to the printer over the network, how to set up networking for all supported network types, and how to install additional Fiery 500 user software.

For information about achieving the best printing results from speciﬁc applications, see Chapter 5, “Application Notes.”

Conﬁguring PostScript printing options with Windows 95/98

This section describes conﬁguring printing options for Windows 95/98 using the Adobe PostScript printer driver provided on the User Software CD.

Print options are speciﬁed from the Printer properties dialog box. This dialog box can be accessed using the steps described below, or by selecting File>Print from within your application and clicking the Properties button to display the Printer Properties dialog box.

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TO CONFIGURE POSTSCRIPT PRINTING OPTIONS:

1. From the Windows Start menu, choose Settings>Printers.

2. Click the Fiery 500-PS icon to select it and choose Properties from the File menu.

The Printer Properties dialog box appears, with the General tab displayed. Set PostScript printing options from tabs in this dialog box.

3. Choose the Paper tab.

Specify print job options.

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4. Click the More Options button in the Paper tab.

5. Choose the Device Options tab and the Output tab.

Specify the type of media and page border setting for your print job.

Specify the use of features related to optional devices installed on your printer.

6. Choose the Options tab in the Device Options tab.

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7. To add an option, select a device option in the Available options list, and click

Specify optional print devices installed on your printer.

Add. To remove an option, select a device option from the Installed options list and click Remove. Click OK.

OTE: Features related to optional devices, such as a paper tray or hard disk drive,

are enabled in Windows printer drivers only when you have speciﬁed installed options in this tab.

8. Choose the Halftone tab in the Device Options tab.

Specify halftone settings for text, graphics, and images.

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9. Choose the ColorWise tab.

Specify color control settings for your print job. For example, choose ColorWise Business Color to apply the default Color Rendering Dictionaries (CRDs) to Photos, Text, and Illustration objects in a document.

Choose ColorWise Expert Mode to enable the application of Color Rendering Dictionaries (CRDs) of your choice to Photographic, Text, and Illustration objects in a document.

You can also choose ICM Proﬁle to assign a speciﬁc proﬁle to this print job or choose Grayscale to print this job in black and white.

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10. Choose the Watermarks tab.

Use options in this tab to print a watermark on the copies of a print job. S upplied watermarks can also be edited from this tab.

Conﬁguring PostScript printing options with Windows NT

This section describes conﬁguring printing options for Windows NT 4.0 systems. On Windows NT 4.0, PostScript printing options are set from the Printer Properties dialog box and the Default Document Properties dialog box.

TO CONFIGURE POSTSCRIPT PRINTING OPTIONS:

1. From the Windows NT 4.0 taskbar, click on Start, choose Settings, and then Printer. Right-click the Fiery 500-PS icon and choose Properties from the pull down menu.

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2. Click the Device Settings tab.

All print options, including custom print options, can be set from tabs and scroll lists in this dialog.

NOTE: You can also set custom print options from the Default Document

Properties dialog box.

3. Right-click the Fiery 500 PostScript printer icon and choose Document Defaults from the pull down menu.

The Document Defaults dialog appears. Note that when printing from applications this dialog appears when you choose Print, and click the Properties button in Print dialog box.

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4. To view options, double click an item. To change a setting, select an option, choose a setting from the submenu and click OK.

Windows print options

The printer drivers that come with your printer have been customized to provide additional print options speciﬁc to your Fiery 500 printer. These options have been integrated into the driver interface. Although the PCL and PostScript printer driver interfaces vary between Windows 98, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0 operating systems, the printing features available from each driver, on each platform are the virtually the same.

3-9 Windows print options

The following table describes custom print options available using the PostScript printer driver using Windows 95/98.

Print option: Description:

Brightness 85% to 115% (Default value is 100%)

Check and Print (Default is No)

ColorWise Business Color (Default values: Text: Presentation Graphics: Photographic Images: Presentation)

Adjust the color production on all color channels to make the printed output lighter or darker.

This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk drive installed. Check and Print allows you to print a single copy of a multiple copy job that can be visually checked before printing additional copies. When the Check and Print copy has been printed, you can specify the number of additional copies of the job to print using the Check and Print screens at the printer’s operation panel. This option is effective when the number of copies speciﬁed is greater than one.

NOTE:This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk

drive installed.

NOTE: For Check and Print to take effect, the copy count must be greater than 1 and

the Collate option for the application print dialog box should be turned Off. Before an RGB image can be printed, the ﬁle’s color data must be converted to the

printer’s CMYK color space. Color rendering dictionaries allow you to apply optimal gamut mapping methods for text, photographs and illustrations. ColorWise Business Color speciﬁes the application of the Photographic color rendering dictionary to photographic objects, and the Presentation color rendering dictionary to illustration and text objects in a document. Use this option if you are printing documents created in ofﬁce applications that include color charts or mixed graphic and text elements. For additional information on Color Rendering Dictionaries, see “Rendering styles” on page 1-18.

NOTE: When ColorWise Business Color is selected CRD settings are disabled. Color

rendering dictionaries cannot be used with CMYK ﬁles.

ColorWise Expert Mode ColorWise Expert Mode enables CRD settings.You may select any combination of

these settings to customize the printing of text graphic and illustration objects in your documents. Use this option if you are printing documents with a natural range of colors as in a continuous tone photograph. For additional information on Color Rendering Dictionaries, see “Rendering styles” on page 1-18.

Device Options Optional printer accessories installed on your printer must be speciﬁed from the

printer driver to enable their related features. Options include: Tray2, Tray 3, Disk.

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Print option: Description:

Electronic Collation (Default is No)

Grayscale By default your printer is set to print documents in color (CMYK). Select Grayscale

Halftone Text Halftone Graphics Halftone Images (Default value is Detail for Text, Smooth for Graphics and Images)

Paper Size Paper and envelope sizes supported by the printer can be speciﬁed by name. Paper Source Paper trays can be speciﬁed by name. Options include: Auto Select, Bypass Tray,

This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk drive installed. Electronic Collation allows the pages of each copy of a print job to be printed in sequence. If this option is off, multiple copies of each page of a print job are printed in sequence.To avoid unexpected results, always select collation in the print driver and turn off any collation option that may exist in your application.

NOTE:This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk

drive installed.

NOTE: The Collate option in the application print dialog box must be turned Off

when selecting the Electronic Collation option from the printer driver.

to print documents in grayscale. Note many applications offer black and white or grayscale printing options. Use the application’s grayscale option, if available, for more efﬁcient processing time.

NOTE: When printing graphics with thin or ﬁne lines, such as CAD data, you should

select the Detail setting for Halftone Graphics.

Tray 1, Tray 2, and Tray 3. on your printer. (See ‘Device Options’.)

Tray 2 and Tray 3 can be speciﬁed only if they are installed

Paper Type Media types supported by the printer can be speciﬁed by name. Options include:

Plain Paper , Transparency, and Thick Paper . fuser’s application of toner.

Choosing the correct media optimizes the

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Print option: Description:

RGB Source EFIRGB/sRGB (PC)/ Apple Standard/Off (Default value is sRGB)

Simulation SWOP-Coated/DIC/ Euroscale/None (Default value is None)

W atermarks This option is available from the Windows 95/98 driver only. A watermark is message

RGB source proﬁles allow you to deﬁne the color space characteristics (such as the white point, gamma and type of phosphors) of the image’s source. When a source is speciﬁed, the image’s RGB data can be optimally converted to the color space and gamut of the Fiery 500 printer. The EFIRGB setting is optimal for color conversions that will be sent to the F iery 500 printer. The sRGB setting speciﬁes the source space of a generic Windows computer monitor. The Apple Standard setting speciﬁes the source space of all standard Macintosh monitors.

NOTE:

• The RGB source setting overrides any source color space proﬁle you may have speciﬁed using other color management systems. In cases where you don’t want this setting to override another speciﬁed source color space, select Off. For additional information on source proﬁles, see “RGB Source and Rendering Style” on page 1-17.

• This option is visible only if you have selected ColorWise Expert Color.

CMYK simulation settings adjust CMYK color data to simulate printing to an offset press standard. Select SWOP-Coated to simulate printing to a standard American offset press; Euroscale to simulate a European offset press, or DIC to simulate a standard Japanese offset press. For more information see “CMYK Simulation” on page 1-19.

NOTE: This option is visible only if you have selected ColorWise Expert Color.

that can be printed on the pages of a document to convey additional information to the reader about its content. You can print a water mark on the ﬁrst page of the print job, or all pages of the print job. The supplied watermarks can be edited, or you can create new watermarks for your documents.

The following table describes the custom print options available using the PostScript printer driver and Windows NT 4.0.

Print option: Description:

Brightness 85% to 115% (Default value is 100%)

Adjust the color production on all color channels to make the printed output lighter or darker.

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Print option: Description:

Check and Print (Default is No)

CMYK Simulation SWOP-Coated/DIC/ Euroscale/None (Default value is None)

Collate (Default is No)

NOTE:This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk

drive installed.

NOTE: For Check and Print to take effect, the copy count must be greater than 1 and

the Collate option for the application print dialog box should be turned Off. CMYK simulation settings adjust CMYK color data to simulate printing to an offset

press standard. Select SWOP-Coated to simulate printing to a standard American offset press; Euroscale to simulate a European offset press, or DIC to simulate a standard Japanese offset press. For more information see “CMYK Simulation” on page 1-19.

This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk drive installed. Collate allows the pages of each copy of a print job to be printed in sequence. If this option is off, multiple copies of each page of a print job are printed in sequence.To avoid unexpected results, always select collation in the print driver and turn off any collation option that may exist in your application.

NOTE:This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk

drive installed.

NOTE: The Collate option in the application print dialog box must be turned Off

when selecting the Collate option from the printer driver.

ColorCRD Text/Graphics/ Images (Default values: Text: Presentation Graphics: Presentation Images: Photographic)

Before an RGB image can be printed, the ﬁle’s color data must be converted to the printer’s CMYK color space. Color rendering dictionaries allow you to apply optimal gamut mapping methods for text, photographs and illustrations. ColorCRD Images speciﬁes the application of a color rendering dictionary to photographic objects. ColorCRD Graphics and ColorCRD Text specify the use of color rendering dictionaries with illustration and text objects in a document. Use the default settings if you are printing documents created in ofﬁce applications that include color charts or mixed graphic and text elements. For additional information on Color Rendering Dictionaries, see “Rendering styles” on page 1-18.

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Print option: Description:

Color Mode By default your printer is set to print documents in color (CMYK). Select Grayscale

Halftone Text Halftone Graphics Halftone Images (Default value is Detail for Text, Smooth for Graphics and Images)

Installable Options Optional printer accessories installed on your printer must be speciﬁed from the

Media (Default value is Plain Paper)

Paper Size Paper and envelope sizes supported by the printer can be speciﬁed by name. Paper Source Paper trays can be speciﬁed by name. Options include: Auto Select, Bypass Tray,

RGB Source EFIRGB/sRGB (PC)/ Apple Standard/Off (Default value is sRGB)

NOTE: When printing graphics with thin or ﬁne lines, such as CAD data, you should

select the Detail setting for Halftone Graphics.

printer driver to enable their related features. Options include: Tray2, Tray 3, Disk. Media types supported by the printer can be speciﬁed by name. Options include:

Plain Paper , Transparency, and Thick Paper . fuser’s application of toner.

Tray 1, Tray 2, and Tray 3. on your printer. (See ‘Device Options’.)

RGB source proﬁles allow you to deﬁne the color space characteristics (such as the white point, gamma and type of phosphors) of the image’s source. When a source is speciﬁed, the image’s RGB data can be optimally converted to the color space and gamut of the Fiery 500 printer. The EFIRGB setting is optimal for color conversions that will be sent to the F iery 500 printer. The sRGB setting speciﬁes the source space of a generic Windows computer monitor. The Apple Standard setting speciﬁes the source space of all standard Macintosh monitors.

NOTE: The RGB source setting overrides any source color space proﬁle you may have

speciﬁed using other color management systems. In cases where you don’t want this setting to override another speciﬁed source color space, select Off. For additional information on source proﬁles, see “R GB S ource and R endering S tyle” on page 1-17.

Tray 2 and Tray 3 can be speciﬁed only if they are installed

Choosing the correct media optimizes the

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Chapter 4: PCL Printing from PC-Compatible Computers

The following chapter describes where to set print options available using the PCL printer driver if you are running Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0 operating systems.

PCL printing

Custom print options available from the PCL and PostScript printer drivers are described in “Windows print options” on page 4-10.

For information on installing the appropriate driver for your system and setting up the environment for parallel printing with the Fiery 500 PCL, see Getting Started. This manual also describes how to connect to the printer over the network, how to set up networking for all supported network types and how to install additional Fiery 500 user software.

For information about achieving the best printing results from speciﬁc applications, see Chapter 5, “Application Notes.”

Conﬁguring PCL printing options for Windows 95/98

This section describes conﬁguring printing options for Windows 95/98 using the PCL printer driver. You can also specify custom print options for your print job by choosing File>Print from within an application. In the dialog box that appears, click Properties to display the Printer Properties dialog box.

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TO CONFIGURE PRINTING OPTIONS FOR WINDOWS 95/98:

1. From the Windows Start menu, choose Settings>Printers.

2. Click the Fiery 500 PCL icon to select it and choose Properties from the File menu.

The Printer Properties dialog box appears, with the General tab displayed. Set PCL printing options from tabs in this dialog box.

3. Choose the Setup tab.

Specify print job options.

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4. Choose the Device Options tab and the Output tab.

Specify the type of media and use of features related to optional devices installed on your printer.

5. Choose the Options tab.

Specify optional print devices installed on your printer.

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6. To add an option, select a device option in the Available options list, and click

7. Choose the ColorWise tab.

Add. To remove an option, select a device option from the Installed options list and click Remove. Click OK.

OTE: Features related to optional devices, such as a paper tray or hard disk drive,

are enabled in Windows printer drivers only when you have speciﬁed installed options in this tab.

For more information about the Fiery 500 PCL printer driver, click the Help button.

Choose ColorWise Expert Mode to enable the application of Color Rendering Dictionaries (CRDs) of your choice to Photographic, Text, and Illustration objects in a document.

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8. Choose the Watermarks tab.

Use options in this tab to print a watermark on the copies of a print job. S upplied watermarks can also be edited from this tab.

NOTE: You cannot use a comma (,) in any watermark text.

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Conﬁguring PCL printing options with Windows NT

This section describes conﬁguring printing options for Windows NT 4.0 systems using the PCL printer driver provided on the User software CD. On Windows NT 4.0, PCL printing options are set from the Printer Properties dialog box and the Default Document Properties dialog box.

TO CONFIGURE PCL PRINTING OPTIONS FOR WINDOWS NT:

1. From the Windows NT 4.0 taskbar, choose Settings and then Printers. Right-click the Fiery 500 PCL icon and choose Properties from the File menu.

The printer properties dialog appears. All print options, including custom print options, can be set from tabs in this dialog box.

Custom print options can also be set from the Default Document Properties dialog box, which includes options speciﬁc to the Fiery 500 printer.

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2. Right-click the Fiery 500 PCL printer icon, and choose Document Defaults from the File menu.

The Document Defaults dialog box appears. When printing from applications, this dialog box appears when you click the Properties button in the Print dialog box.

3. Choose the Device Options tab and the Output tab.

Specify the type of media and use of features related to optional devices installed on your printer.

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4. Choose the Options tab.

5. To add an option, select a device option in the Available options list, and click

Specify optional print devices installed on your printer.

Add. To remove an option, select a device option from the Installed options list and click Remove. Click OK.

OTE: Features related to optional devices, such as a paper tray or hard disk drive,

are enabled in Windows printer drivers only when you have speciﬁed installed options in this tab.

For more information about the Fiery 500 PCL printer driver, click the Help button.

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6. Choose the ColorWise tab.

Choose ColorWise Expert Mode to enable the application of Color Rendering Dictionaries (CRDs) of your choice to Photographic, Text, and Illustration objects in a document.

7. Choose the Watermarks tab.

Use options in this tab to print a watermark on the copies of a print job. S upplied watermarks can also be edited from this tab.

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NOTE: You cannot use a comma (,) in any watermark text.

Windows print options

The following table describes custom print options available using the PCL printer driver using Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0.

Print option: Description:

Brightness 85% to 115% (Default is 100%)

Check and Print (Default is No)

Adjust the color production on all color channels to make the printed output lighter or darker.

NOTE:This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk

drive installed.

NOTE: For Check and Print to take effect, the copy count must be greater than 1 and

the Collate option for the application print dialog box should be turned Off.

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Print option: Description:

ColorWise Business Color (Default values: Text: Presentation Graphics: Photographic Images: Presentation)

ColorWise Expert Mode ColorWise Expert Mode enables CRD settings.You may select any combination of

Device Options Optional printer accessories installed on your printer must be speciﬁed from the

Electronic Collation (Default is No)

Before an RGB image can be printed, the ﬁle’s color data must be converted to the printer’s CMYK color space. Color rendering dictionaries allow you to apply optimal gamut mapping methods for text, photographs and illustrations. ColorWise Business Color speciﬁes the application of the Photographic color rendering dictionary to photographic objects, and the Presentation color rendering dictionary to illustration and text objects in a document. Use this option if you are printing documents created in ofﬁce applications that include color charts or mixed graphic and text elements. For additional information on Color Rendering Dictionaries, see “Rendering styles” on page 1-18.

NOTE: When ColorWise Business Color is selected CRD settings are disabled. Color

rendering dictionaries cannot be used with CMYK ﬁles. This option is available only if your printer has a hard disk drive installed.

printer driver to enable their related features. Options include: Tray 2, Tray 3, Disk. This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk drive installed.

Electronic Collation allows the pages of each copy of a print job to be printed in sequence. If this option is off, multiple copies of each page of a print job are printed in sequence. To avoid unexpected results, always select collation in the print driver and turn off any collation option that may exist in your application.

NOTE:This option is available only if your printer has an optional hard disk

drive installed.

NOTE: The Collate option in the application print dialog box must be turned Off

when selecting the Electronic Collation option from the printer driver.

Grayscale By default your printer is set to print documents in color (CMYK). Select Grayscale

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Print option: Description:

Media T ype (Default value is Plain Paper)

Paper Size Paper and envelope sizes supported by the printer can be speciﬁed by name. Paper Tray Paper trays can be speciﬁed by name. Options include: Auto Select, Bypass Tray,

Watermarks A watermark is message that can be printed on the pages of a document to convey

Paper types supported by the printer can be speciﬁed by name: Plain Paper, Transparency, and Thick Paper. application of toner.

Tray 1, Tray 2, and Tray 3 on your printer. (See ‘Devices Options’.)

additional information to the reader about its content. You can print a water mark on the ﬁrst page of the print job, or all pages of the print job. The supplied watermarks can be edited, or you can create new watermarks for your documents.

Choosing the correct media optimizes the fuser’s

. Tray 2 and Tray 3 can be speciﬁed only if they are installed

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Chapter 5: Application Notes

This chapter provides instructions for printing color documents from QuickDraw and GDI applications such as presentation, spreadsheet, and word processing applications and from PostScript applications such as illustration and page layout applications.

NOTE: These notes are applicable if you are printing using PostScript or PCL

printer drivers.

Working with ofﬁce applications

The Fiery 500 color management system provides complete color management for jobs printed from ofﬁce applications. Before printing from these applications, make sure the appropriate printer driver is installed on your computer as described in Getting Started.

Ofﬁce applications

Printers such as the Fiery 500 must receive P ostScript or PCL instructions to print an image or a document. Many applications do not create these instructions by themselves, and instead rely on the printer driver to create them. Included in this category are most word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation packages. These applications use Apple QuickDraw to display and print when running on Macintosh computers; they use the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) to display and print when running under Windows. We refer to these QuickDraw and GDI applications as “ofﬁce applications.”

All ofﬁce applications handle color similarly, using the same RGB color model used for the color monitor display. Most ofﬁce applications allow you to choose colors from a palette of preselected colors; some allow you to add new colors to the palette using a color picker. Although some applications allow you to specify color using the CMY , HSL, and HSB color models, these applications always send RGB color data to the F iery 500. (An exception to this is a CMYK EPS ﬁle placed in the document, which is sent as CMYK data.)

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When working with color in ofﬁce applications, keep in mind that:

• The range of colors that can be displayed in RGB on your monitor is much

larger than the range of colors that can be printed on your print device. When you print the document, out-of-gamut RGB colors are mapped to colors your print device can produce.

• These applications send only RGB data to the Fiery 500. You control the

rendering intent of the color conversion with your selection of a CRD.

Each CRD uses a different color rendering style, and therefore has a different way of mapping unprintable colors to your print device’s color gamut. Fiery 500 color rendering styles are described on page 1-18.

Working with imported ﬁles

Use EPS format ﬁles for all raster images you import into ofﬁce applications. They print at their full resolution on the Fiery 500 (not at the low resolution used for the screen preview).

Although your application may allow you to import a variety of ﬁle formats, EPS format ﬁles are recommended for all raster images you want to import; some applications have printing problems when using ﬁle formats such as TIFF and PICT. For more information regarding raster images see “Raster images and vector images” on page 1-12.

All RGB images placed in your document are affected by your RGB Source and Rendering Style settings.

Tip for advanced users

If you place multiple RGB images, some non-photographic and some photographic, a single CRD may not be suitable for all the images. In this case you may want the photographic images to bypass the CRD altogether. To accomplish this, separate the image to CMYK data with a pixel-editing application such as Photoshop and perform color correction on it. Then save it as an EPS ﬁle and import it into the document. When specifying print option settings, set the CMYK Simulation option to None so that the Rendering Style setting will not be applied to CMYK data (see “Rendering styles” on page 1-18).

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Selecting options when printing

There are few differences between ofﬁce applications with regard to Fiery 500 printing. The instructions in this chapter apply to all ofﬁce applications. Use the instructions in “Color management on the Fiery 500” on page 1-16 to specify print options and color management settings. To specify these options, you must use a Fiery 500 PostScript or PCL printer driver.

Because these applications send RGB data to the Fiery 500, your choices of RGB Source and Rendering Style settings are important. Be sure to specify the appropriate CRD for the color effect you want (see “Rendering styles” on page 1-18).

Microsoft Ofﬁce 97

Before printing from Microsoft Ofﬁce 97 on Windows 95/98, make sure the Fiery 500 ICM proﬁle is not installed in the Windows\System\Color folder. If the ICM proﬁle is installed, JPEG, BMP, and TIFF images print incorrectly from Microsoft Ofﬁce 97.

Browse to the Windows\System\Color folder and locate the Fiery 500 ICM proﬁle. If the icon is white, the proﬁle is installed; if it is gray, it is not installed. If the proﬁle is installed, select the proﬁle and choose the right-mouse Uninstall command.

NOTE: The standard format for digital color management systems developed by

the Image Color Consortium (ICC) is implemented in Image Color Matching (ICM) on Windows 95/98 computers and in ColorSync on Mac OS computers. The term “ICM proﬁle” is used to refer to the ICC-standard device proﬁle provided for Windows 95/98 computers.

Working with Photoshop 5.0

This following sections cover features of Photoshop version 5.0 for M acintosh and Windows. The illustrations show only Macintosh-version dialog boxes, but the information and instructions apply equally to the Windows version of Photoshop.

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Before you begin

Because Photoshop 5.0 uses a sophisticated color management system, there are several setup steps you should take before you begin working. These steps include calibrating your monitor, adjusting Photoshop 5.0 color settings, and setting ColorSync defaults (Mac OS only).

For information on monitor calibration, see your Adobe Photoshop 5.0 documentation.

Photoshop 5.0 settings

Photoshop 5.0 has three setup dialogs which control how color is managed when opening and saving RGB and CMYK images. Proﬁle Setup, RGB Setup, and CMYK Setup should all be completed before you begin working in Photoshop.

Proﬁle Setup

From the Photoshop 5.0 File menu, select Color Settings>Proﬁle Setup.

In the Embed Proﬁles area, check all boxes. This will embed the appropriate proﬁle when saving a ﬁle. Photoshop will then know for which speciﬁc device the ﬁle has been designed, tagging your ﬁle as device speciﬁc.

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In the Assumed Proﬁles area, select Ask When Opening for RGB and CMYK. When opening ﬁles that do not contain an ICC proﬁle, you will have the choice to convert the ﬁle to your current Photoshop working space setting or leave the ﬁle unconverted. The latter is usually preferred, but y ou should make sure that the current Photoshop working space setting matches the intended color space of the image.

In the Proﬁle Mismatch Handling area, select Ask When Opening for RGB and CMYK. When opening a ﬁle that contains an ICC proﬁle that does not match your current Photoshop working space setting, you will have the choice to convert from the embedded proﬁle or not convert. If you want to preserve the full gamut of the image source, choose not to convert. If your working space is set to your output device, you may want to convert.

RGB Setup

Photoshop 5.0 allows you to simultaneously use two RGB spaces, one for the monitor and one for the Photoshop RGB working space. The monitor RGB space setting does not affect the image data in the ﬁle; it only affects the way the image is displayed on the monitor. Even if an RGB image has been prepared with different monitor settings, it will still be correctly displayed on your monitor, without changes to the original values in the ﬁle.

From the Photoshop 5.0 File menu, select Color Settings>RGB Setup.

From the RGB pop-up menu, select your current Photoshop RGB color space. This should reﬂect the color space of the RGB ﬁles you will be opening. If you create new RGB ﬁles, or if you want to standardize your RGB ﬁles, select

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EFIRGB. Click Load if the ﬁle is not visible in the RGB pop-up menu. You can load the Calibrated RGB setup ﬁle, EFIRGB ICC ColorSync ﬁle, or the EFIRGB.ICM ﬁle. All describe the same RGB space and automatically set the Gamma, White Point, and Primaries. sRGB may be considered if you are using non-professional color software on a PC and you rely on a Windows operating system to manage the color of your monitor. You will then get more consistent results as long as you also print with the RGB Source option set to sRGB.

The Monitor area shows the currently selected proﬁle in the ColorSync Control Panel. Turn on the Display Using Monitor Compensation and Preview options.

CMYK Setup

From the Photoshop 5.0 File menu, select Color Settings>CMYK Setup.

For CMYK Model, select ICC. Previous versions of Photoshop used Photoshop Separation Tables, and these can be loaded for Photoshop 5.0. However, you will get better results using ICC proﬁles and the built-in color management system.

In the ICC Options area, select Proﬁle, Engine, and Intent settings. For Proﬁle, select your ﬁnal output printer ICC proﬁle. Pre-press users will select an ICC describing their target press (i.e. SWOP). A variety of press ICC proﬁles are available at http://www.colorsync.com. Ofﬁce users should select the ICC proﬁle describing the copier connected to the Fiery 500. In this case, you should avoid converting RGB to CMYK in Photoshop. I nstead, leave images in R GB and allow the Fiery 500 to convert them to CMYK.

For Engine, select Built-in. This indicates that the Photoshop engine will be used which is highly recommended for normal Photoshop usage.

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For Intent, select Perceptual (Images). This is appropriate for photographs which are normally edited in Photoshop. If you are creating synthetic colors, you may want to use Colormetric or Saturation.

Black Point Compensation should be unchecked for richer, denser CMY blacks. Preview should be checked.

ColorSync defaults

You should have ColorSync 2.5 installed on your Mac OS computer. The ICC proﬁles used by ColorSync are saved in System Folder:ColorSync Proﬁles. Under the Apple menu, select Control Panel>ColorSync. Use the following settings:

• System Proﬁle—select the customized ICC proﬁle for your monitor

• RGB default—select the same RBG working color space that you set in

Photoshop 5.0

• CMYK default—select the same CMYK working color space that you set in

Photoshop 5.0

• Preferred CMM—select LinoColor CMM (both ColorSync 2.0 and Microsoft

ICM 2.0 are based on this color management module)

Deﬁning colors

You can choose colors in Photoshop with various color models including HSB, Lab, RGB, and CMYK. You can also choose named colors from the PANTONE

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Coated color library in Photoshop. For best results, use the color deﬁnition methods described in Chapter 1.

Saving ﬁles for importing into other documents

Before saving any ﬁle, perform any rotating, cropping, and resizing needed. This speeds processing when printing from the application in which the image is placed.

It is recommended that you use the EPS or TIFF ﬁle formats to save RGB images that will be imported into other documents and printed to the Fiery 500. EPS and TIFF ﬁles can be imported into virtually all page layout applications.

Choose Photoshop EPS or TIFF

In the EPS Format dialog box, choose binary encoding and do not include transfer functions, halftone screens, or PostScript Color Management. A TIFF preview is compatible with both Mac OS and Windows computers.

If you experience problems printing the document in which you place the image, substitute an ASCII-encoded version of the same image, and print the document again. Binary encoding is much more compact than ASCII encoding, but occasionally causes printing problems with some system conﬁgurations.

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NOTE: If you choose to try JPEG encoding, keep a backup of the original image

saved with binary encoding until you have seen the printed results of the JPEGencoded ﬁle. The compression used for JPEG encoding may produce unwanted artifacts in the ﬁle. If you see unexpected results in the printed output of a JPEGencoded ﬁle, use a binary-encoded version instead.

Selecting options when printing

You can print RGB or CMYK images from Photoshop.

• When you print RGB images, you can choose whether the conversion to

CMYK data is performed by the Fiery 500 (using a CRD) or by Photoshop (using PostScript Color Management).

• When you print CMYK images, you can print composites or color

separations.

Printing RGB images

Use the following instructions to print RGB images.

Click to print using the PostScript color management system

Choose a color space and whether to use PostScript Color Management. (With the AdobePS 8.5.1 printer driver for Mac OS, these options appear in the Adobe Photoshop pane of the Print dialog box.)

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NOTE: Only PostScript Level 3 printers support PostScript Color Management. If

you select this option, the PostScript Color M anagement system will perform any color space conversion speciﬁed in the Space option before the image is sent to the Fiery 500.

If you select an RGB color space, Photoshop sends R GB data to the F iery 500 and a CRD is used to perform color conversion. Choose the appropriate print option settings for RGB data. (F or information on print options, see Chapter 2 if you use a Macintosh; Chapters 3 and 4 if you use a PC.)

If you select a CMYK color space, Photoshop performs a color conversion and sends CMYK data to the Fiery 500. With this setting, RGB Source and R endering Style settings have no effect.

• If Photoshop is conﬁgured for separating to an offset press standard, apply the

corresponding CMYK Simulation setting. For example, if Photoshop is conﬁgured for separating to SWOP, choose SWOP-Coated as the CMYK setting.

• If Photoshop is conﬁgured for a custom separation (not a press standard),

choose None as the CMYK Simulation setting or choose the corresponding custom simulation target if one has been created.

For fastest print times, select JPEG encoding. You should, however, check the printed output carefully for unwanted artifacts that can appear as a result of JPEG compression. If you see unexpected results in the printed output when printing with JPEG encoding, print the job again using Binary encoding.

Choose any other print options you want to use. (For information on print options, see Chapter 2 if you use a Macintosh; Chapters 3 and 4 if you use a PC.)

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Printing CMYK images

Use the following instructions to print CMYK images.

Choose an encoding method. (With the AdobePS 8.5.1 printer driver for Mac OS, these options appear in the Adobe Photoshop pane of the Print dialog box.) For fastest print times, select JPEG encoding. You should, however, check the printed output carefully for unwanted artifacts that can appear as a result of JPEG compression. If you see unexpected results in the printed output when printing with JPEG encoding, print the job again using Binary encoding.

Choose a color space and whether to use PostScript Color Management.

Choose any other print options you want to use. RGB Source and Rendering Style settings have no effect on CMYK images. (For information on print options, see Chapter 2 if you use a Macintosh; Chapters 3 and 4 if you use a PC.)

• If the image was separated for an offset press standard, apply the corresponding

CMYK Simulation setting. For example, if the image is separated for SWOP, choose SWOP-Coated as the CMYK Simulation setting.

• If the image was separated using a custom separation (not a press standard),

choose None as the CMYK Simulation setting or choose the corresponding custom simulation target if one has been created.

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Working with page layout applications

This section provides instructions for printing color documents from Adobe PageMaker 6.5 and QuarkXPress 3.32.

Before printing from these applications, make sure the appropriate printer driver and the Fiery 500 PPD are installed on your computer as described in Getting Started.

Deﬁning colors

Page layout applications generally use the CMYK color model. Some allo w you to deﬁne colors with other color models and may be able to send that data to the Fiery 500 in those other color models. For predictable results, use the CMYK Color Reference page when deﬁning colors in page layout applications. See “Using the CMYK color reference page” on page 5-30.

Importing images

EPS and TIFF are the recommended formats for images imported into page layout documents. Support for importing other ﬁle formats may be provided by individual applications.

All RGB images placed in your document are affected by the RGB Source and Rendering Style settings. The Fiery 500 color management system applies the speciﬁed RGB Source setting to all RGB data and then uses the speciﬁed Rendering Style (CRD) to perform a color conversion. An exception to this occurs if you assign ICC proﬁles to RGB images using the application’s color management tools (see “Tips for advanced users” on page 5-12). In this case, the application performs the color conversion of the image and sends CMYK data to the Fiery 500.

Tips for advanced users

If you place multiple RGB images, some non-photographic and some photographic, a single CRD may not be suitable for all the images. In this case you may want the photographic images to bypass the CRD altogether. To accomplish this, separate the image to CMYK data with a pixel-editing application such as Photoshop and perform color correction on it. Then save it as an EPS or TIFF ﬁle and import it into the document. When specifying print

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option settings, set the CMYK Simulation option to None so that the Rendering Style setting will not be applied to CMYK data (see “CMYK Simulation setting” on page 5-30).

Alternatively, you can save the RGB image in TIFF format and assign it an ICC proﬁle and rendering intent when you import it into the document, if your application supports this feature.

CMYK Simulation

You can specify a press simulation target for the job with a print option (see “CMYK Simulation setting” on page 5-30). The CMYK Simulation setting affects all CMYK color data sent by the page layout application.

• If the document contains CMYK images that were separated for an offset press

standard, apply the corresponding CMYK Simulation setting. For example, for images separated for SWOP-Coated, choose SWOP-Coated as the CMYK Simulation setting.

• If the document contains CMYK images that were separated for a custom

separation (not a press standard), choose None as the CMYK Simulation setting.

Adobe PageMaker 6.5 for Macintosh and Windows

The Windows and Macintosh versions of PageMaker 6.5 are similar. The illustrations in this section show only the Windows version, with the ex ception of instances where differences exist between the two versions.

PostScript Level 2 interface

PostScript Level 2 features, including color management, are incorporated into the PageMaker 6.5 application interface. When you print from PageMaker 6.5, you specify print options and color settings using PageMaker print dialog boxes. However, you must use a PostScript Level 2 (or higher) printer driver to access Fiery 500 print options when printing from PageMaker.

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Windows version requirement

For the Windows version of PageMaker 6.5, make sure a copy of the Fiery 500 PPD ﬁle is in both of the following folders:

PM65\RSRC\USENGLSH\PPD4 Windows\System

Importing images

All RGB images placed in your document are affected by your RGB Source and Rendering Style settings. For best results with placed images, use the instructions in “Importing images” on page 5-12 and “CMYK Simulation” on page 5-13.

Advanced users can use PageMaker’s color management tools for added ﬂexibility with placed RGB images (see “Assigning ICC proﬁles to RGB images” on page 5-16).

Selecting options when printing

All print settings are speciﬁed from the various Print dialog boxes in PageMaker 6.5. The printer driver interface is not used.

Fiery 500 appears here

Choose the Fiery 500 PPD

Click Options

In the Print Document dialog box, select the Fiery 500 PPD from the PPD menu.

Choose Normal

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Click Features

In the Print Options dialog box, choose N ormal (not the Optimiz ed Subsampling default) from the Send image data menu. This setting ensures that TIFF images print at their full resolution.

If your document contains RGB placed images or colors deﬁned in RGB that will not be separated to process colors, choose RGB Source and Rendering Style settings in the Print Features dialog box. Choose any other Fiery 500 print options you wish.

When you click Print from any of the PageMaker 6.5 dialog boxes the job is sent to the Fiery 500.

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Assigning ICC proﬁles to RGB images

When you place a non-EPS RGB image (such as a TIFF, JPEG, or GIF image), you can specify an ICC target proﬁle and a rendering intent for the image. You can assign a unique rendering intent to each image you import.

When you use this feature, PageMaker controls the color conversion of the RGB images (using the speciﬁed ICC proﬁles) and sends CMYK data to the Fiery 500. The CMYK data produced by these conversions is not separated for offset press standards; therefore you should set the CMYK Simulation print option to None (see “CMYK Simulation” on page 5-13). The RGB Source and Rendering Style settings have no effect on these images (unless you specify a CMYK Simulation setting other than None).

After selecting an image to import with the Place command, the CMS Source button becomes active in the Place dialog box.

Click to select an ICC proﬁle

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Click CMS Source and choose settings in the CMS Source Proﬁle dialog box.

Windows

Choose Kodak ICC

Choose ColorSync

Choose a source proﬁle

Choose a rendering intent

Macintosh

Choose a source proﬁle

Choose a rendering intent

With the Macintosh version of P ageM aker, choose ColorSync from the This Item Uses menu; with the Windows version, choose Kodak ICC.

The rendering intents correspond to Fiery 500 CRDs as follows:

•

Image—similar to the Photographic CRD.

• Graphics—similar to the Presentation CRD.

• Colormetric—no corresponding CRD in the printer driver; best used for spot

colors such as PANTONE colors.

The Default setting uses the proﬁle’s rendering intent.

5-18 Application Notes

You can also display this dialog box by selecting the image and choosing Image>CMS Source from the Element menu.

QuarkXPress 3.32 for Macintosh and Windows

Before starting QuarkXPress, make sure the EﬁColor XTension is not loaded in the XTensions folder. EFICOLOR proﬁles are not currently provided with Fiery 500 printers. Without the correct EFICOLOR proﬁle, the EﬁColor XTension does not perform color conversions on placed images.

Windows version requirement

For the Windo ws version of QuarkXP r ess, make sure a copy of the F iery 500 PPD ﬁle is in the XPRESS\PDF folder.

Importing images

All RGB images placed in your document are affected by your RGB Source and Rendering Style settings. For best results with placed images, see “Rendering styles” on page 1-18.

Choose the Fiery 500 PPD

Choose an output paper size

Choose Binary

Selecting options when printing

You must select the Fiery 500 PPD from the Printer Type menu in the Page Setup (Macintosh) or Printer Setup (Windows) dialog box.

Macintosh

Choose Fiery 500 PPD

Choose Binary

5-19 Working with illustration applications

Windows

Choose an output

paper size

If your document contains RGB placed images or colors deﬁned in RGB that will not be separated to process colors, choose RGB Source and Rendering Style settings. Choose any other Fiery 500 print options you wish.

Working with illustration applications

This section provides instructions for using Illustrator 7.0 for Macintosh and Windows, FreeHand 7.0 for Macintosh and Windows, and CorelDRAW 7.0 for Windows.

Before printing from these applications, make sure the PostScript and/or PCL printer driver is installed on your computer as described in Getting Started.

You can print directly from an illustration application or use it to create and save ﬁles that will be imported into a page layout document.

NOTE: These application notes provide instructions for printing composites only.

For instructions on printing color separations, refer to the documentation for your application.

5-20 Application Notes

As a general rule, use the EPS ﬁle format when saving ﬁles from an illustration application.

Deﬁning colors

All illustration applications use the CMYK color model. While some also allow you to deﬁne colors using other color models, they all send CMYK data to the Fiery 500. For predictable results, use the CMYK Color Reference page when deﬁning colors. See “Choosing colors in PostScript applications” on page 5-29.

Importing images

In general, all images placed into illustration application documents should be in EPS format.

All RGB images placed in your document are affected by the RGB Source and Rendering Style settings. The Fiery 500 color management system applies the speciﬁed RGB Source setting to all RGB data and then uses the speciﬁed Rendering Style (CRD) to perform a color conversion. An exception to this occurs if you assign ICC proﬁles to RGB images using the application’s color management tools (see “Tips for advanced users”). In this case, the application performs the color conversion of the image and sends CMYK data to the Fiery 500.

If you apply any CMYK Simulation setting other than None to the job, CMYK data is also affected by the speciﬁed Rendering Style setting (“Rendering styles ” on page 1-18).

Tips for advanced users

If you place multiple RGB images, some non-photographic and some photographic, a single CRD may not be suitable for all the images. In this case you may want the photographic images to bypass the CRD altogether. To accomplish this, separate the image to CMYK data with a pixel-editing application such as Photoshop and perform color correction on it. Then save it as an EPS or TIFF ﬁle and import it into the document. When specifying print option settings, set the CMYK Simulation option to None so that the Rendering Style setting will not be applied to CMYK data.

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Alternatively, you can save the RGB image in TIFF format and assign it an ICC proﬁle and rendering intent when you import it into the document (see the individual application notes in this chapter).

CMYK Simulation

You can specify a press simulation target for the job with the print option: “CMYK Simulation ”. The CMYK Simulation setting affects all CMYK color data sent by the illustration application. For information on CMYK Simulation settings, see “CMYK Simulation setting” on page 5-30.

• If the document contains CMYK images that were separated for an offset press

standard, apply the corresponding CMYK Simulation setting. For example, for images separated for SWOP-Coated, choose SWOP-Coated as the CMYK Simulation setting.

• If the document contains CMYK images that were separated for a custom

separation (not a press standard), choose None as the CMYK Simulation setting.

CorelDRAW 7.0 for Windows

Deﬁning colors

Any colors deﬁned in CorelDRAW are sent to the printer in CMYK—even those deﬁned using other color models. For best results, use the color deﬁnition methods described in “Choosing colors in PostScript applications” on page 5-29.

You can control the conversion of RGB colors deﬁned in CorelDRAW by specifying settings with the Color Manager (page 5-23).

Importing images

All RGB images placed in your document are affected by your RGB Source and Rendering Style settings. For best results with placed images, use the instructions on page 5-20.

Advanced users can use CorelDRAW’s color management tools for added ﬂexibility with placed RGB images (see page 5-23).

5-22 Application Notes

Selecting options when printing

In the Print dialog box, make sure the correct printer and PPD are selected.

To use Fiery 500 color management, make sure the “Use color proﬁle” option is not turned on. If this option is turned on, CorelDRAW’s color management settings are used to convert RGB colors and images to CMYK (see page 5-23).

Click Properties to specify Fiery 500 print options.

Printer name appears here

Printer driver/PPD name appears here

Turn off to use Fiery 500 color management

Click to access

Fiery 500 prin

options

Saving ﬁles for importing into other documents

When saving ﬁles in CorelDRAW for importing into other types of documents, use the EPS ﬁle format.

CorelDRAW saves all color information in CMYK, so CRDs have no effect on color output of artwork saved with CorelDRAW and imported into other kinds of documents. In the case of CorelDRAW ﬁles imported into Photoshop, however, vector data from the CorelDRAW ﬁle is rasterized into bitmaps in Photoshop, and the ﬁnal color space of the bitmap data is determined by the color mode you set in Photoshop.

5-23 Working with illustration applications

For advanced users—CorelDRAW color management

If the document contains RGB images or colors deﬁned in RGB, you can use the CorelDRAW Color Manager to specify ICC proﬁles.

Choose a source

proﬁle

Choose a printe

In the Color Manager dialog box, select ICC proﬁles from the four menus. Refer to your CorelDRAW 7.0 documentation for instructions on setting the options in this dialog box. These settings affect only RGB images and colors deﬁned in RGB—they have no effect on RGB EPS images.

proﬁl

urn on to use CorelDRAW’s color management

5-24 Application Notes

In the Print dialog box, turn on the “U se color proﬁle” option. The printer proﬁle you selected appears to the right of this checkbox.

Adobe Illustrator 7.0 for Macintosh and Windows

The Windows and Macintosh versions of Illustrator 7.0 are similar. The illustrations in this section show only the Macintosh version, with the exception of instances where differences exist between the two versions.

Deﬁning colors

Any colors deﬁned in Illustrator are sent to the printer in CMYK—even those deﬁned using other color models. For best results, use the color deﬁnition methods described on “Choosing colors in PostScript applications” on page 5-29.

Color Settings

You can control the conversion of RGB colors deﬁned in Illustrator by specifying settings in the Color Settings dialog box.

With Macintosh computers, you can specify the EFIRGB ICC proﬁle as the Monitor proﬁle. This deﬁnes the same source color space for RGB data deﬁned in Illustrator as is deﬁned by the Fiery 500 RGB Source setting of EFIRGB (see page 1-17).

For placed RGB TIFF images

5-25 Working with illustration applications

If the “Use ICC proﬁles with TIFF” option is checked, you can specify an ICC proﬁle and a rendering intent for each RGB TIFF image you place in the document (see “For advanced users—Illustrator color management” on page 5-28).

Macintosh

Choose an ICC proﬁle

Choose a printer proﬁle

Choose a rendering intent

Importing images

Advanced users can use Illustrator’s color management tools for added ﬂexibility with placed RGB images (see “For advanced users—Illustrator color management” on page 5-28).

5-26 Application Notes

Selecting options when printing

Choose Composite output and, if you are using the PostScript printer driver, PostScript Level 2.

Macintosh

Choose Composite Choose PostScript

Windows

Choose Composite

Level 2

Choose PostScript Level 2

5-27 Working with illustration applications

If your document contains placed RGB images, choose RGB Source and Rendering Style settings. With the ex ception of placed R GB images, these settings have no effect on colors printed with Illustrator 7.0 (unless you specify a CMYK Simulation setting other than None).

The PostScript Color Matching setting (made fr om the M acintosh printer driver) has no effect on colors printed from Illustrator 7.0. The effect of CRDs on placed RGB images is independent of this setting.

For information on print options, see Chapter 2 if you use a Macintosh; Chapters 3 and 4 if you use a PC.

Saving ﬁles for importing into other documents

When saving ﬁles in Illustrator 7.0 for importing into other types of documents, use the EPS ﬁle format.

Illustrator saves all color information in CMYK, so RGB Source and Rendering Style settings have no effect on color output of artwork saved with Illustrator and imported into other kinds of documents. (An exception occurs if you apply a CMYK Simulation setting other than None to the CMYK data; see “F or advanced users—Illustrator color management” on page 5-28.) In the case of Illustrator ﬁles imported into Photoshop, however, vector data from the Illustrator ﬁle is rasterized into bitmaps in Photoshop, and the ﬁnal color space of the bitmap data is determined by the color mode you set in Photoshop.

Choose an ICC proﬁle Choose a rendering intent

5-28 Application Notes

For advanced users—Illustrator color management

When you place an RGB TIFF image, you can specify an ICC proﬁle and a rendering intent for the image. You can assign a unique rendering intent to each image you import. To use this feature, make sure the “Use ICC proﬁles with TIFF” option is checked in the Color Settings dialog box. (See page 5-24)

Macintosh

Choose an ICC proﬁle Choose a rendering intent

Windows

5-29 Choosing colors in PostScript applications

The rendering intents correspond to Fiery 500 CRDs as follows:

• Image—similar to the Photographic CRD.

• Graphics—similar to the Presentation CRD.

• Colorimetric—no corresponding CRD in the printer driver; best used for spot colors such as PANTONE colors.

The Default setting uses the proﬁle’s rendering intent.

For more information on Illustrator’s color management features, see your Illustrator documentation.

Choosing colors in PostScript applications

With PostScript applications, you can create colors using any of the color models supported by the application. All PostScript applications support the CMYK model; some also support the RGB model and other color models based on monitor display values. PostScript applications also allow you to choose named colors using one or more color libraries, such as PANTONE.

The important thing to remember when creating or choosing colors is that the displayed versions of those colors may not match Fiery 500 output or the output of identically deﬁned colors from other color print devices. For this reason, you should use color matching to ensure predictable color printing results with the Fiery 500.

Color Reference ﬁles

Two color reference ﬁles have been included on the User Software CD, a CMYK and a PANONE color reference ﬁle.

Insert the User Software CD into your CD-ROM drive and use the installer’s Custom option to select the reference ﬁles to copy to disk. You can also navigate to the Color Reference (Macintosh) or Clrﬁles (Windows) directory, and manually copy the ﬁles to your hard disk.

5-30 Application Notes

Using the CMYK color reference page

The CMYK color reference pages let you see how various cyan, magenta, yellow, and black combinations look when printed on your particular printer. The CMYK color reference ﬁle is an 11-page, letter- or A4-size PostScript ﬁle.

To print the CMYK pages, download the ﬁle using WebDownloader (Windows) or Adobe Downloader (Macintosh). (For instructions on using WebDownloader, see Chapter 7.) The printed pages display groups of color patches in graduated combinations of yellow, magenta, and cyan, and smaller patches that include 25, 50, and 75% black. Refer to these pages to pick colors and specify process color values in your application.

Using the PANTONE color reference pages

The PANTONE color reference pages let you see how the PANTONE named color patches look when printed on your particular printer. The PANTONE color reference ﬁle is a 19-page, letter- or A4-size PostScript ﬁle.

To print the PANTONE pages, download the ﬁle using WebDownloader (Windows) or Adobe Downloader (Macintosh). (For instructions on using WebDownloader, see Chapter 7.)

CMYK Simulation setting

The CMYK Simulation setting you should specify depends on the press standard for which the CMYK data was separated. For example, for images that were separated for SWOP-Coated paper, choose SWOP-Coated as the CMYK Simulation setting. Select SWOP-Coated to simulate printing to a standard American offset press, Euroscale to simulate a European offset press, or DIC to simulate a standard Japanese offset press. For images that were separated using a custom separation (such as a device-speciﬁc separation or a separation produced with an ICC-proﬁle), choose None as the CMYK Simulation setting.

5-31 Choosing colors in PostScript applications

6-1 About Fiery WebTools

Chapter 6: Managing Print Jobs

Fiery WebTools allow you to manage your printer from the Internet or your company’s intranet. The Fiery 500 has its own home page, from which you can select a variety of tools.

About Fiery WebTools

You can access the Fiery WebTools over the network from a variety of platforms. The Fiery 500 functions as an Internet or intranet server, and has a home page that lets remote users view server functions and manipulate jobs. The client computer requires an Internet browser that supports Java. The recommended browser versions are:

• For Macintosh computers, Netscape Navigator 4.06 and later,

• For Windo ws computers, Netscape Communicator 4.06 and later or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x and later.

Netscape and Microsoft continue to release fr equent updates to their bro wsers. As support cannot be guaranteed for all versions, use the versions speciﬁed above for best results.

NOTE: Windows NT 4.0 users must download the Windows NT 4.0 Service

Pack 3 or later , to run Fiery WebDownloader with Netscape Communicator 4.06. Fiery WebDownloader is available only for Windows computers.

For information about preparing the Fiery 500 for Fiery WebTools access, see Getting Started.

6-2 Managing Print Jobs

You can access Fiery WebTools from the Fiery 500 home page.

WebTool: Description:

Status Shows you the jobs currently processing and printing. WebSpooler Allows you to view, manipulate, reorder, reprint, and delete jobs

currently spooling, processing, or printing on the Fiery 500. Allows you to print the remainder of spooled Check and Print jobs and to view, print, and delete the Job Log.

NOTE:WebSpooler is available only if your printer has an

optional hard disk drive installed.

WebLink Provides a link to another web page, provided you have a valid

Internet connection. You can set the WebLink destination.

WebDownloader Allows you to download a PostScript or PCL ﬁle or PostScript

Type 1 font ﬁle directly to the printer, without ﬁrst opening the ﬁle in an application.

NOTE: WebDownloader is available only for Windows

computers.

WebSetup Allows you to view and change printer setup options, including:

Accessing Fiery WebTools

To use the Fiery WebTools via the Internet or your site’s intranet, you need an Internet browser and the IP address or DNS name of the Fiery 500.

TO ACCESS THE FIERY WEBTOOLS:

1. Start up your Internet browser application.

2. Enter the IP address or the DNS name of the Fiery 500 in the URL line of your browser.

System Setup, Network Setup, and Printer Setup.

6-3 Using Fiery WebSpooler

Get the IP address or DNS name from your network administrator.

3. The Fiery WebTools home page appears.

The individual Fiery W ebTools are listed on the left. To display information about a particular tool, click the question mark next to its name. To launch one of the Fiery WebTools, click its name.

Using Fiery WebSpooler

If your printer has an optional hard disk drive installed, Fiery WebSpooler lets you monitor and manipulate print jobs sent to the Fiery 500. All jobs sent to the printer appear in the Fiery WebSpooler window. You can view information about jobs, or copy, delete, or move jobs between queues.

NOTE: Fiery WebTools for M acintosh and Windo ws computers ar e fundamentally

the same; differences are noted in this chapter.

6-4 Managing Print Jobs

Print jobs can be in one of the following queues:

Print Normal print jobs sent to the Fiery 500 appear in the Print

queue. You can move and manipulate these jobs as described below.

Hold Jobs sent to the Hold queue remain in the Hold queue until

they are moved to the Print queue or deleted. If you need to print the same document frequently, you can send it to the Hold queue and move a copy of the job to the Print queue every time you need to print it. You can also print large jobs to the Hold queue and then move them to the P rint queue when other users are not printing.

Printed The jobs most recently sent to the Fiery 500 are saved in the

Printed queue. You can drag these jobs back to the Print queue to print additional copies. By default the maximum number of jobs that can be saved in the Printed queue is 10. This number can be changed using the printer’s operation panel.

Check and Print

Jobs speciﬁed from the printer driver as Check and Print also appear in the WebSpooler window. These jobs can be moved to the Print queue.

NOTE: You can set the number of copies using the Override

Print Settings option in the Edit menu.

NOTE: Job spooling requires a printer with an optional hard disk driv e. All jobs are

stored on the Fiery 500 hard disk until sent to the Print queue.

Ricoh ap305 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS f500ug

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Preface

Related documentation

Conventions

Chapter 1: Working with Color

The properties of color

The physics of color

CIE color model

Hue, saturation, and brightness

Additive and subtractive color systems

Print device gamut

Controlling printed color

Maintaining print device consistency

Paper stock and toner

Maintenance

Calibrating the printer

VisualCal calibration

Color adjustment

Using color effectively

A few rules of thumb

Color wheel

Color and text

Raster images and vector images

Resolution of raster images

Scaling

RGB Source and Rendering Style

Rendering styles

CMYK Simulation

Chapter 2: Printing from Macintosh Computers

General steps for installing Macintosh software

Printing from a Macintosh application

Macintosh print options

Chapter 3: PostScript Printing from PC-Compatible Computers

PostScript printing

Windows print options

PCL printing

Windows print options

Chapter 5: Application Notes

Selecting options when printing

Working with Photoshop 5.0

Before you begin

Photoshop 5.0 settings

ColorSync defaults

Selecting options when printing

Working with page layout applications

Importing images

CMYK Simulation

Adobe PageMaker 6.5 for Macintosh and Windows

QuarkXPress 3.32 for Macintosh and Windows

Working with illustration applications

Importing images

CMYK Simulation

CorelDRAW 7.0 for Windows

Adobe Illustrator 7.0 for Macintosh and Windows

Choosing colors in PostScript applications

CMYK Simulation setting

Chapter 6: Managing Print Jobs