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Phaser 740


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 chart, refer to Printing the PANTONE® Color Chart.

Printing s amp lers 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. Color correction files include:

    • Automatic
    • Simulate Display
    • Vivid Color
    • Commercial Press
    • Euroscale Press
    • SWOP Press
    • No Color Correction
    • DIC
    • Toyo

Downloading a color correction file

  1. From your computer's hard disk, open the PhaserTools folder.
  2. Double-click Apple Printer Utility; a Printer Selector dialog box appears:
    • Under AppleTalk Zones, select your printer's zone.
    • Under Printers, select your printer.
    • 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:
    • Under AppleTalk Zones, select your printer's zone.
    • Under Printers, select your printer.
    • Click Open Printer.
  3. From the Utilities 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. Print your document; select the same color correction that you used to print the color sampler chart.

Prin ting 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 Samplers; click Install. Go to the next topic, Downloading a color correction file.

Downloading a color correction file

  1. From the computer's hard disk, open the PHSRTOOL directory. Open the PHSR740 subdirectory; select a color correction file:
    • AUTOMATC.PS
    • DISPLAY.PS
    • VIVDCOLR.PS
    • COMRCIAL.PS
    • EUROSCAL.PS
    • SWOPRESS.PS
    • NOCORECT.PS
    • DIC.PS
    • TOYO.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. Print your document; select the same color correction that you used to print the color sampler chart.

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, refer to Printing the PANTONE® Color Chart.

  1. Decide which color correction to use; refer to the topic, Color corrections.
  2. When the Ready message appears in the printer's front panel, press Menu; this message appears:
  3. Help Pages
    <---- ----> Menu
  4. Press <---- or ---->; scroll to the following message:
  5. TekColor Correction
    <---- ----> Menu
  6. Press Menu; this message appears:
  7. TekColor:None *
    <---- ----> OK

    The asterisk ( * ) indicates the current selection.

  8. Scroll to the desired color correction, then press OK.
  9. Press
  10. until Ready appears.
  11. Press Menu twice; this message appears:
  12. Menu Map
    <---- ----> Print
  13. Scroll to RGB Color Sampler or CMYK Color Sampler.
  14. Press Print.
  15. 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. Print your document; select the same color correction that you used to print the color sampler chart.


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