Printed colors are not what you expected
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In general
- Select another Color Correction option in a supported driver and print your image again; refer to Color corrections for more information on color correction.
- If you are not using a supported driver and are sharing the printer with other users on a network, another user may have changed the printer's color adjustment setting. Refer to Sharing the printer on a network for more information on sharing a network printer.
- If you use the driver's Use Printer Setting option and printed colors are not what you expected, check the following:
Printing PANTONE Colors
If Phaser 600 printer-specific PANTONE Colors are not printing as expected, Make sure that you are printing without any color corrections selected. Refer to Using PANTONE® Color Files for more information.
If you have questions about PANTONE Color Matching, refer to the HAL article on PANTONE Colors. Refer to Using the automated fax systems for information on using the HAL and EuroHAL fax systems.
There are many variables in process reproduction of colors generated by the Phaser 600 printer, any one of which may affect the quality of the PANTONE Color simulation, including:
- Type of ink used
- Type of media used
- Effective final resolution
- Dot structure/halftones
- Fusing mode
Blue colors look too purple
If printed blue colors look too purple, print your document with the Vivid Color color correction. Refer to Color corrections and Deciding which color correction to use for instructions and more information.
Using the Xerox halftone screens
Xerox halftone screens are designed for Xerox printers, and improve print quality over application-set halftone screens. The Setscreen Off (SCRENOFF.PS) utility file redefines some PostScript operators, such as the setscreen, setcolorscreen and sethalftone. When downloaded to the printer, this file prevents applications from overriding the Xerox proprietary halftone screens.
Click on the following topics for more information:
Using the Macintosh Setscreen utility file
Note: If you are using QuickDraw GX and System Software 7.5, you can download printer
utilities from the Xerox Phaser 600 GX printer driver; refer to Downloading printer
utilities or the World Wide Web for instructions.
- Follow the instructions in Macintosh software to install the utility files from either the Phaser 600 CD-ROM or the Printer Software for Macintosh diskette.
- Select the appropriate printer in the Chooser.
- Locate the LaserWriter Utility in the PhaserTools folder on your hard disk, and double-click its icon to start the application.
- Choose Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu.
- Select one of the following files from the list, then click Open. (These files were installed in the Phaser 600 Utilities folder, inside the PhaserTools folder.)
- Select Setscreen On to enable setscreen operations.
- Select Setscreen Off to disable setscreen operations.
- 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.
- If no output is returned by the printer, the LaserWriter Utility displays a dialog box; click OK to continue.
Using the PC/workstation Setscreen utility file
- Follow the instructions in PC/Windows software to install the utility files from either the Phaser 600 CD-ROM or the Printer Software for Windows diskette.
- Locate the installed files in the PHSR600 subdirectory, inside the PHSRTOOL directory on your hard disk.
- Use one of the following files:
- Select SCREENON.PS to enable setscreen operations.
- Select SCRENOFF.PS to disable setscreen operations.
- Use one of the following methods to send a file to the printer:
- PC users: Use the DOS COPY command, or the Copy command in Windows 3.1 File Manager, to send the file to the printer.
- Workstation users: Send the file to the printer as you would any PostScript file.
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