2013

Color Handling 177
Viewing print colors on screen
There is a huge difference between screen and printed colors. Computer monitor
screens can reproduce a much wider, much brighter range of colors. Printers use
CMYK inks instead of RGB colors, and so the method of reproducing color is entirely
different. As an example, pure bright RGB green on screen is completely impossible
to reproduce on any printer.
Technically speaking the screen color gamut is much larger than available on printers.
MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 provides a simple way to simulate the printer
colors, which adjusts all on-screen colors to more closely match that of a typical
printer. Select
WINDOW -> SHOW PRINTER COLORS -> SIMULATE PRINT COLORS to adjust
the screen colors.
Note: This does not alter the actual RGB or CMYK color values, it just adjusts the
screen color gamut to more closely match that of your printer.
Note: Some Adobe software, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, handles printer
colors very differently. They only support one color model at a one time and will
convert all colors to the current color model. e.g. when operating in CMYK mode, all
RGB colors are converted to CMYK colors. They also show all CMYK colors as
"printer simulated". MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013, on the other hand,
supports mixed color models (you can use CMYK and RGB color in the same
document) and does not alter the actual color value.