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Choosing colors, prepress proofs

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USING COLOR MANAGEMENT WORKFLOWS 15 Choosing colors When working with color materials, whether they are presentations, illustrations, or complicated page designs, you make aesthetic decisions about the colors you use. After you set a goal, you must make the best use of the capabilities of your Color Server to realize your design in print. Your color printing system becomes an ally in this creative process to the extent that results are predictable: • If you designed a poster to print on the Color Server, you want the printed colors to match the design specification. • If you are printing presentations on the Color Server, you want to preserve the vivid colors that you see on the monitor. • If you are working with color that is to be printed on an offset press, you want the Color Server output to match other prepress proofs or PANTONE color swatch books. The colors that you define when creating a file in an application, and the color management tools within the application that you use, impact how the file is processed (workflow) and the final output that you can expect. Use color management to control color output by performing the following tasks: • Select a color model: Different types of applications use different color models. The color model you select, and whether or when data is converted from one color model to another, influences the final color output. • Optimize for output type: The type of final output influences your color and application choices. • Use color matching tools: The Color Server provides several tools to preview colors available on a device and define them within an application.

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U
SING
C
OLOR
M
ANAGEMENT
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ORKFLOWS
15
Choosing colors
When working with color materials, whether they are presentations, illustrations,
or complicated page designs, you make aesthetic decisions about the colors you use. After you
set a goal, you must make the best use of the capabilities of your Color Server to realize your
design in print. Your color printing system becomes an ally in this creative process to the
extent that results are predictable:
•
If you designed a poster to print on the Color Server, you want the printed colors to match
the design specification.
•
If you are printing presentations on the Color Server, you want to preserve the vivid colors
that you see on the monitor.
•
If you are working with color that is to be printed on an offset press, you want
the Color Server output to match other
prepress proofs
or PANTONE color swatch
books.
The colors that you define when creating a file in an application, and the color management
tools within the application that you use, impact how the file is processed (workflow) and the
final output that you can expect.
Use color management to control color output by performing the following tasks:
•
Select a color model: Different types of applications use different color models. The color
model you select, and whether or when data is converted from one color model to another,
influences the final color output.
•
Optimize for output type: The type of final output influences your color and application
choices.
•
Use color matching tools: The Color Server provides several tools to preview colors
available on a device and define them within an application.