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Phaser 780


Printing the Color Sampler Charts

Overview

Color sampler charts are colored rectangles with each color's component values; they help you select colors in an application that can be reproduced on your printer.

Component values are percentages of each color -- CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black), RGB (Red, Green, Blue), or HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) -- that combine to make a particular color.

Color charts

  • Which color chart you print and use depends on how your application selects color. For information on color selection, refer to the application's documentation, then print one or more of the color sampler charts.
  • Each color sampler chart is several pages long; print them in panels and connect them to form a wall chart or place in a binder for easy reference.

    • Color sampler chart descriptions
    Color sampler chart
    Number of pages
    Utility file
    Front panel selection

    CMYK Sampler

    Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black color model

    18

    X

    X

    RGB Sampler

    Red, green, and blue color model

    12

    X

    X

    HSB Sampler

    Hue, saturation, and brightness color model

    12

    X

     
    NOTE
    To print the PANTONE Color sampler charts, see Printing the PANTONE® Color charts.

Printing samplers from a Macintosh

NOTE
Use the same color correction to print the chart and to print from your application. Any other color correction selection in the driver causes colors to print differently than expected.

Installing color correction files

  1. From the printer's CD-ROM, run the Installer application. Select Custom Install.
  2. In the dialog box, select Printer Utilities and Samplers; click Install. Go to the next topic, Downloading a color correction file.

Selecting a color correction file

Select a color correction file in one of three ways: the front panel, PhaserLink Software, or download a PostScript utility file. The color correction files are as follows:

    • Automatic
    • Commercial Press
    • DIC
    • Euroscale Press
    • FujiProof
    • No Color Correction
    • SNAP Press
    • sRGB Display
    • SWOP Press
    • Toyo
    • Vivid Color

Downloading a color correction file

NOTE
You can achieve the same result by setting the color correction at the front panel.
  1. From your computer's hard disk, open the PhaserTools folder.
  2. Double-click Apple Printer Utility; a Printer Selector dialog box appears:
    1. Under AppleTalk Zones, select your printer's zone.
    2. Under Printers, select your printer.
    3. Click Open Printer.
  3. From the File menu, select Send PostScript File.
  4. Open the Printer Utilities folder and select a color correction file.
  5. Click Add.
  6. Click Send.

Printing a color sampler chart

  1. From your computer's hard disk, open the PhaserTools folder.
  2. Double-click Apple Printer Utility; a Printer Selector dialog box appears:
    1. Under AppleTalk Zones, select your printer's zone.
    2. Under Printers, select your printer.
    3. Click Open Printer.
  3. From the File menu, select Send PostScript File.
  4. Open the PhaserTools folder. Open the Samplers folder; select a color sampler chart; click Add.
  5. Click Send.
  6. For future reference, write the name of the color correction that you used on the first page of the chart.

Printing the desired color from an application

  1. Using the color sampler chart that you printed earlier, select the desired colors.
  2. From your application, apply the desired colors in your document.
  3. To print your document: In the driver, select the color correction that is the same as the file you downloaded to print the color sample chart; or select the same color correction from the front panel and then select Use Printer Settings in the driver.

Printing samplers from a PC

NOTE
Use the same color correction to print the chart and to print from your application. Any other color correction selection in the driver causes colors to print differently than expected.

Installing color correction files

  1. From the printer's CD-ROM, run setup.exe. Select Custom Install.
  2. In the dialog box, select Printer Utilities, select a printer driver, select the Samplers subdirectory; click Install. Go to the next topic, Downloading a color correction file.

Downloading a color correction file

NOTE
You can make the same color correction settings at the printer's front panel.
  1. From the computer's hard disk, open the Phsrtool directory. Open the Phsr780 subdirectory; select a color correction file:
    • Automatc.ps
    • Comrcial.ps
    • Dic.ps
    • Euroscal.ps
    • Fujiprof.ps
    • Nocorect.ps
    • Snapress.ps
    • Srgbdspl.ps
    • Swopress.ps
    • Toyo.ps
    • Vivdcolr.ps
  2. Send to the printer the desired color correction file:
    • PC users: Use the DOS COPY command.
    • Workstation users: Send a color correction file to the printer as you would any PostScript file.

Printing a color sampler chart

  1. Open the Phsrtool directory. Open the Samplers subdirectory.
  2. Send to the printer the desired color sampler chart:
    • PC users: Use the DOS COPY command.
    • Workstation users: Send the file to the printer as you would any PostScript file.
  3. For future reference, write the name of the color correction that you used on the first page of the chart.

Selecting a color correction in an application

  1. Using the color sampler chart that you printed earlier, select the desired colors.
  2. From your application, apply the desired colors in your document.
  3. To print your document: In the driver, select the color correction that is the same as the file you downloaded to print the color sample chart; or select the same color correction from the front panel and then select Use Printer Settings in the driver.

Printing a color sampler chart from the front panel

NOTE
The HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) color sampler chart and the PANTONE Color sampler chart cannot be printed from the front panel. To print a PANTONE Color chart, see Printing the PANTONE® Color charts.
  1. Decide which color correction to use; refer to Color corrections.
  2. When the Ready/Printer Menu message appears in the printer's front panel, press Select; this message appears:
    3. Printer Menu
    Help Pages Menu
  3. Press Menu; the following message appears:
    4. Help Pages
    Consumables Page Print
  4. Press the right arrow button to scroll to RGB Sampler Print or CMYK Sampler Print.
  5. Press Print.
  6. For future reference, write the name of the color correction that you used on the first page of the chart.

Selecting a color correction in an application

  1. In an application  -- using the colors on the sampler chart -- select the desired colors; apply the colors in your document.
  2. To print your document: In the driver, select the color correction that is the same as the file you downloaded to print the color sample chart; or select the same color correction from the front panel and then select Use Printer Settings in the driver.

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