• Installing the files

• Important preparations

• Printing the color charts

1. Follow the instructions in Macintosh software to install the printer's software. Select Easy Install to automatically install the software, or select a printer driver, such as the Adobe PSPrinter driver, and the Samplers item in the Custom Install window.

   You can select color corrections from the printer's front panel. However, if you need to select color corrections with downloadable utility files, also install the Printer Utilities item in the Custom Install window. (You may need to use utility files if the printer is some distance away from you, or if you are not using one of the provided drivers.)

2. Locate the files in the Samplers folder, inside the PhaserTools folder created on your hard disk by the installer application.

Printing from a supported driver

1. Print a color chart with either the Vivid Color front panel selection, or the Vivid Color utility file downloaded to the printer.

2. Print from an application with the driver's Vivid Color option selected.

1. Print a color chart with either the Vivid Color front panel selection, or the Vivid Color utility file downloaded to the printer.

2. Print from an application with either the Vivid Color front panel selection, or the Vivid Color utility file downloaded to the printer.

If you plan to print colors from an application with this color correction selected in a driver	Then print the chart with the corresponding color correction set either with a utility file downloaded to the printer, or selected from the printer's front panel
Driver Color Correction selection	Macintosh utility file name	Printer's front panel selection (TekColor Corrections menu)
Simulate Display	Simulate Display	Display
Vivid Color	Vivid Color	Vivid Color
Use Printer Setting	(any color correction utility file)*	(any front panel color setting)*
Commercial Press Euroscale Press SWOP Press SNAP Press	Commercial Press Euroscale Press SWOP Press SNAP Press	Commercial Euroscale SWOP SNAP
None	No Color Correction	None

* Use the same color correction to print the chart and later to print the colors from an application.

Printing the color charts

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Note: If you are using QuickDraw GX, you can print the color charts from the Xerox Phaser 600 GX printer driver; see Downloading printer utilities for instructions.

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1. See Installing the files to install the samplers and utility files from the Phaser 600 printer's CD-ROM.

2. Select the appropriate printer in the Chooser.

3. See Setting up the printer to load media.

4. Decide which color correction you need to use; see Important preparations for details.

   If you are selecting a color correction from the printer's front panel

   Use the TekColor Corrections menu.

   If you need to download a utility file

   1. Locate the LaserWriter Utility in the PhaserTools folder on your hard disk, and double-click its icon to start the application.

   2. Choose Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu.

   3. Select a color correction file from the list, then click Open. (These files were installed in the Printer Utilities folder, inside the PhaserTools folder.)

   4. At the prompt Save PostScript output as: you are asked for a file name for saving printer output. Use either the default name given in the edit box or type a new name.
      Click Save to send the file to the printer.

   5. If no output is returned by the printer, the LaserWriter Utility displays a dialog box; click OK to continue.

5. To print a color sampler chart, do the following:
   1. Locate the LaserWriter Utility in the PhaserTools folder on your hard disk and double-click its icon to start the application.

   2. Choose Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu.

   3. Select the color sampler chart file from the list, then click Open. (The color sampler chart files were installed in the Samplers folder, inside the PhaserTools folder.)

   4. At the prompt Save PostScript output as: you are asked for a file name for saving printer output. Use either the default name given in the edit box or type a new name.
      Click Save to send the file to the printer.

   5. If no output is returned by the printer, the LaserWriter Utility displays a dialog box; click OK to continue.

6. Select colors within an application using the colors on the chart.

7. Print your document using one of the following methods:
   • If you are printing from a supported driver: Print your document using a supported printer driver (such as the Phaser 600 GX or LaserWriter 8.x) with the same color correction option selected in the driver that you used with a downloaded utility file or on the printer's front panel to print the chart. Any other color correction selection in the driver can cause the colors to print differently.

   • If you are not using a supported driver: Print your document with the same downloaded utility file or front panel color correction you used to print the chart. Any other color correction selection can cause the colors to print differently.

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