User's Guide
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Print Emulation
The Print Emulation page is shown if a Custom Picture Mode is selected on the rst wizard page, and Print Emulation
(Print Preview) is chosen as the custom type.
A list of printer ICC/ColorSync proles installed on the system is shown. The date and copyright information about the
currently selected prole in the list is shown on the page.
Select the desired prole from the list, or click Add from other location... to read a prole from a location other than
the default system prole locations.
MultiProler will read the color characteristics from the ICC/ColorSync prole and create a 3D LUT in the monitor which
will be used to transform the colorspace of the monitor to emulate that of the printer.
The View 3D LUT selection will open a separate window to show the 3D LUT created by MultiProler using the current
settings. This is useful to visualize how the color gamut of the monitor is altered to emulate that of the printer.
About 3D Look-Up-Tables (LUTs)
The SpectraView Engine inside the display allows complex color gamuts such as those of color
printers to be emulated on the monitor directly. This allows print previews to be performed with
applications that do not support this feature directly.
The 3D LUT is a three-dimensional table that maps colors into a dierent colorspace. The Multi-
Proler application creates 3D LUTs that emulate a printer, based on the ICC/ColorSync prole of
the printer. The software will use the Color Management System on the host system, combined
with the printer ICC/ColorSync prole, and the current color settings and characteristics of the
display to generate the 3D LUT.