Epson C850071 User Guide - Page 60

Page 60 Rendering styles The Rendering Style option is used to specify a CRD for color conversions. The following table describes the various color rendering styles (CRDs) provided with RIP Station software and provides guidelines on when to use each one. Each color rendering style uses a different gamut mapping method designed for a particular kind of color usage. RIP Station rendering style: Best used for: Equivalent ICC rendering style: 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-ofgamut RGB colors than Solid Color rendering does. Continuous tone photographs, including scans and images from stock photography CDs Image and Contrast and Perceptual 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. Artwork and graphs in presentations and continuous tone photographs Saturation and Graphics Color Proofing (Photo)- Provides a close match to the CMYK device being simulated, regardless of the media being used. Prepress proofing when a background Relative Colorimetric color is not desired. Color Proofing (Solid)- Provides the closest match to the CMYK device being simulated, including rendering the paper color as the background. The most accurate prepress proofing. Absolute Colorimetric CMYK Simulation The CMYK Simulation print option allows you to print press proofs or simulations. This option affects CMYK data only. The CMYK Simulation setting specifies the offset press standard or other color gamut that you want to simulate. You can also create up to ten custom simulations using ColorWise Pro Tools (see "Using ColorWise Pro Tools" on page 29). 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 DIC, choose DIC as the CMYK Simulation setting. 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. The CMYK Simulation setting also determines whether or not CMYK data is affected by the Rendering Style setting (see page 60). • With a CMYK Simulation other than None, choose one of the Color Proofing Rendering Styles. • With None as the CMYK Simulation, the CMYK data is converted to device-ready color data using a default PostScript conversion scheme.