Quick start Guide

PrinTao 8 Effortless Professional Printing

The perceptual rendering intent, also referred to as pho-

tographic rendering intent, compresses a larger source

color space into the printer’s color space. Relative

color dierences are preserved with this compression,

resulting in an image impression, which is appealing to

the human eye. This rendering intent is well suited for

photographic printing.

For printing charts or images with a very limited color

palette, the saturation preserving rendering intent is

particularly suitable. Colors are rich and bright, but color

delity is not necessarily given.

A relative colorimetric rendering intent is correcting the

output data to the eect that all colors of the source

material, which can be represented by the combination

of printer and paper, will be colorimetrically correct.

Colors, which are outside the paper’s color space, will

be moved to its border (clipping, burning). This will be

no problem for oset color proofs printed on an inkjet

printer, because the inkjet printer’s color space is much

larger, so there will be nothing lost. Due to the fact that

the oset paper’s white tone will not be simulated, the

same oset paper should be used for the proof, a paper

with a very similar white tone at least. On many proof

systems, the relative colorimetric rendering intent is the

default preset. It is perfect for photographic printing,

when the color space of the output data lies completely

within the color space of the printer and paper. In this

case the output data can be reproduced completely

and the print is colorimetrically correct.

The absolute colorimetric rendering intent is also often

used for digital proofs. If the paper, used for the proof

print, is brighter than the paper, which will be used for

the later oset print, this rendering intent simulates the

oset paper’s white tone. Thus, the oset paper is not

necessarily required for proof printing.

Additional options set in the Print palette are crop

marks (4), which can be added to the images, and a

restriction of the pages to print (5) to a certain range.

A click on the print button (6) nally starts the actual

printing.