Installation Guide
COLORWISE PRINT OPTIONS
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Managing color on the Fiery EXP8000/50
To modify Fiery EXP8000/50 printing behavior, do any of the following:
•Specify ColorWise options for an individual print job using the menus that appear in the
printer driver.
•Specify most ColorWise options as server defaults from Color Setup in ColorWise Pro
Tools (see page 29). You can also set default values from Fiery EXP8000/50 Setup, as
described in Configuration and Setup. The defaults apply to all subsequent print jobs unless
you override them.
•Specify ColorWise options, particularly default ICC profile settings and calibration
options, from ColorWise Pro Tools. These options include default Simulation Profile (see
page 76), Simulation Method (see page 77), default Source Profile (see page 81), RGB
Separation (see page 81), and associated calibration set (see page 33).
Applications allow you to generate color data for the Fiery EXP8000/50 in many different
color spaces. The most common type of color data produced from office applications is
RGB, while prepress applications generally produce CMYK data. Desktop applications also
generate spot colors, such as PANTONE colors. To complicate matters, a single page may
contain a mix of RGB, CMYK, and spot colors. The Fiery EXP8000/50 allows you to control
the printing of mixed-color documents with features that apply specifically to RGB, CMYK,
or spot color data.
The following diagram illustrates the print options in the Fiery EXP8000/50 color
management process that affect color data conversions. You can access these print options
when you send a print job to the Fiery EXP8000/50. Most of these options and settings are
described in subsequent sections of this chapter.
RGB Source Profile is the only color option that applies strictly to RGB color data. The other
options that affect RGB color also affect the more rarely used Lab, XYZ, and other calibrated
color spaces.
RGB Source Profile
Print Gray using Black Only
(RGB)
Rendering Style (CRD)
Brightness
Black Text/Graphics
RGB Separation
Output Profile
Color data sent
to digital press
Fiery EXP8000/
50
color processor
RGB data
CMYK data
Spot color data Spot Color Matching
CMYK Simulation Profile
CMYK Simulation Method
Print Gray using Black Only
(CMYK)
Brightness
Black Text/Graphics
Combine Separations
Output Profile