User`s manual
Chapter 10 - Output Settings
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FastRIP 10.0 User’s Manual
Output Adjustments
e following section will guide you through the process of adjusting the output, whether it is a
density, highlight, ink or profile adjustments. You should use the “Printing a Test Page” feature to
test your results. Refer to Printing a Test Page, later in this chapter.
se P a R a t I o n cu R v e s
Queue Pull-down Menu>>Properties>>Separation Curves tab
Some printers are capable of printing a wider range of color hues for cyan, magenta and black, by
mixing inks of the same hue together. For example, a printer might use two inks, cyan and light
cyan, or three inks, light, medium, and dark cyan. By using two or three different inks of cyan,
and mixing them together, the color is adjusted to give the maximum range of color density. For
these printers, the color calibration is adjusted automatically so that the correct amount of ink is
used for each color plane, for example cyan and light cyan.
For this example, the default print mode
settings are shown for the selected
printer. e straight line on the graph
represents cyan, while the curved line
represents light cyan. e percentages of
cyan ink are shown in the Curve data
section.
e x axis (horizontal line) `
represents the percentage of ink
input into the curve data (for
example, to get 50% cyan).
e y axis (vertical line) repre- `
sents the percentage of ink out-
put from the particular printer
in order to get the ink density requested through the curve data input.
e top right corner of the graph represents 0, 0 where no ink has been `
input or output.
e bottom left corner of the graph represents 100,100 where maximum `
ink has been output.
NOTE: Changing the separation curves will invalidate the color adjustment settings for the corresponding
curves. e color adjustment settings will likely require adjusting following any changes to the separation curves.