• Installing the files

• Important preparations

• Printing the color charts

1. Follow the instructions in PC/Windows software to install the printer's software. Select Easy Install to automatically install the software, or select the Samplers item in the Custom Install: Utilities 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: Utilities 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 subdirectory, inside the PHSRTOOL directory 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 (VIVDCOLR.PS) 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 (VIVDCOLR.PS) utility file downloaded to the printer.

2. Print from an application with either the Vivid Color front panel selection, or the Vivid Color (VIVDCOLR.PS) 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	PC utility file name	Printer's front panel selection (TekColor Corrections menu)
Simulate Display	DISPLAY.PS	Display
Vivid Color	VIVDCOLR.PS	Vivid Color
Use Printer Setting	(any color correction utility file)*	(any front panel color setting)*
Commercial Press Euroscale Press SWOP Press SNAP Press	COMRCIAL.PS EUROSCAL.PS SWOPRESS.PS SNAPRESS.PS	Commercial Euroscale SWOP SNAP
None	NOCORECT.PS	None

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

Printing the color charts

1. See Installing the files to locate the color sampler charts.

2. See Setting up the printer to load media.

3. 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

   • PC users: Use the DOS COPY command to send the file to the printer. (Windows 3.1 users can also use the Copy command in the File Manager.)

   • Workstation users: Send a color correction file to the printer as you would any PostScript file.

4. Print a color sampler chart using one of the following methods:
   • PC users: Use the DOS COPY command to send the file to the printer. (Windows 3.1 users can also use the Copy command in the File Manager.)

   • Workstation users: Send the file to the printer as you would any PostScript file.

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

6. 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 (in Windows 95 or Windows 3.1) with the same color correction option selected in the driver that you used with a downloaded utility file or on the 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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