Specifications

device. ICC profiles help you reproduce colors accurately across different platforms, devices and
ICC-compliant software programs.
Suppose you use a digital camera to take pictures. If you want to make sure that the colors in these
pictures are displayed consistently on a specific monitor, you can tag the images with an ICC profile
of your digital camera. The images then get a detailed mathematical description of how your digital
camera “saw” the colors at the moment when you took the pictures. A color management system
can use this description to convert the colors to the color space of another output device, such as
a monitor. In that case, the colors seen through the lens of your digital camera and the colors
displayed by your monitor will look (almost) identical.
Using ICC profiles in Enfocus PitStop Server
Enfocus PitStop Server can be set to use the same profiles for all objects, or to use specific profiles
for images. In the first case, there will only be one tab, to define color management for all objects.
In the latter case, there will be a tab to define color management for images, and one for other
objects.
Enfocus PitStop Server enables you to specify source and target ICC profiles for the following color
models:
• Gray
• RGB
• CMYK
• Lab
The ICC profiles will be used when color conversions have to be done from one color model to
another, for example, when RGB colors are converted to CMYK colors.
When necessary, the target profiles can be set different than the source profiles, by selecting the
“use other ICC profile than source” option, and defining the target profiles.
You can define ICC profiles at different levels:
• Default ICC profiles apply to all hot folders. You specify these profiles in the Enfocus PitStop
Server preferences.
• Specific ICC profiles apply to a particular hot folder. You may want to use these profiles to
process PDF documents in which color conversions have to be performed from a given color
model to a device-specific color.
• Specific ICC profiles defined in a Preflight Profile or in an Action List
To use default ICC profiles for all hot folders:
1. Choose Window > Preferences .
2. Click the Color Management category.
3. Click the Enable color management check box.
4. Define if you want the same profiles for all objects, or if you want to define profiles for images
and for other objects
5. Select source and target ICC profiles for the color models of your choice.
6. Click OK button.
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