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Red Green Blue
7 - Plus Red 8 - Plus Green 9 - Plus Blue
4 - Minus Red 5 - Minus Green 6 - Minus Blue
However, if you want to work in the classic way by manipulating cyan, magenta, and yellow in
whole increments, there’s another set of shortcuts for that, using the remaining keys on the
numeric keypad.
Cyan Magenta Yellow
1 - Plus Cyan 2 - Plus Magenta 3 - Plus Yellow
Minus (–) - Minus Cyan 0 - Minus Magenta Period (.) - Minus Yellow
The increments used by the Printer Point buttons are defined by the Printer Light Step
Calibration parameters, found in the Color panel of the User Preferences. The default settings
are designed to emulate traditional film printer adjustments, but these settings can be
customized to align DaVinci Resolve’s printer points adjustments with those of a particular film
lab’s equipment. However, if you’re not working with a lab, you can change the Step and
Density settings to alter how much of an adjustment each printer point makes. For more
information, see Chapter 3, “System and User Preferences.”
Controls in the Color panel of the User Preferences to adjust Printer Point functionality
There are also a pair of keyboard modifiers that gives you finer control over printer points
adjustments made with these special keyboard shortcuts, while retaining the coarser default
adjustments that let you make bigger changes more quickly:
 Hold down Command while using these key shortcuts to adjust printer points in
quarter-increments.
 You can use half-increments as well, but you will need to assign the keyboard shortcuts
for these manually.
TIP: If you’re feeling left out because all the cool kids are using printer points and
you’re unfamiliar with them, making the Parade scope visible is a great way to learn
how these adjustments work while seeing their specific effects on the red, green, and
blue channels of the video signal.
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