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Configure color presets

The purpose of a color preset is to tune the printer to specific color preferences in your print environment. Color-related job settings are complex for most operators. Color presets help operators and prepress staff to understand and select the correct color settings. The same set of color presets is available in PRISMAprepare, automated workflows, PRISMAsync Remote Manager, the Settings Editor, and the control panel.

The two factory-defined color presets are:

  • Office documents

    This color preset is optimal for color reproduction of text and graphical lines in office documents. PRISMAsync Print Server converts the colors to more saturated colors in the prints.

  • Photographic content

    This default color preset is optimal for the reproduction of photographs and images.

In the Settings Editor you configure color presets at system level.

Color Presets

Configure color presets

When you want to

Solution

Go to the color presets

  1. Open the Settings Editor and go to: [Color]  → [Color presets].

Add a color preset

  1. Click [Add].

  2. Define the attributes of the color preset.

  3. Use the table below for information on the options.

  4. Click [OK].

Edit a color preset

  1. Select a color preset.

  2. Click [Edit].

  3. Define the required attributes of the color preset.

  4. Use the table below for information on the options.

  5. Click [OK].

Delete a color preset

  1. Select the color preset.

  2. Click [Delete].

Define the default color preset for PRISMAprepare

  1. Open the Settings Editor and go to: [Color]  → [Color defaults]  → [Default color preset].

  2. Click [Default color preset for Océ PRISMAprepare®].

  3. Select one of the available color presets in the [Default color preset for Océ PRISMAprepare®] list box.

  4. Click [OK].

Attributes of a color preset

Color preset attribute

Description

[Name]

Name of the color preset.

[Description]

Description of the color preset.

[DeviceRGB input profile]

The Device RGB input profile which defines a reference color workspace for the RGB data of the objects in the print job.

[DeviceRGB rendering intent]

The Device RGB rendering intent which defines the color conversion strategy for out-of-gamut colors.

[Overruling for RGB]

Setting to overrule RGB embedded profiles and rendering intents.

[DeviceCMYK input profile]

The Device CMYK input profile which defines a reference color workspace for the CMYK data of the objects in the print job.

[DeviceCMYK rendering intent]

The Device CMYK rendering intent which defines the color conversion strategy for out-of-gamut colors.

[Overruling for CMYK]

Setting to overrule the CMYK embedded profiles and rendering intents.

[Standard rules CMYK saturation intent]

Setting to indicate how the CMYK saturation intent must be handled. By default, the color management system preserves pure process colors. However, it can be required that the conversion must comply with standard color management rules. Then, color rendering occurs without pure process color preservation.

[Spot color matching]

Setting to indicate if the color preset includes the use of the spot color table with standard and customer created spot colors and their respective Lab and CMYK values.

[Color mapping group]

The color mapping group for the color preset, if spot color matching is enabled.

[Halftone for text]

The halftone for text/lines.

[Halftone for images]

The halftone for images

[Halftone for graphics]

The halftone for graphics.

[Print in black and white]

The setting to if all colors are printed using the black color channel only.

[PDF overprint simulation]

Setting to indicate if simulation of overprinting of all colors including spot colors must be applied. If this setting is disabled, the colors on top will knock out all underlying colors.

[PDF/X output intent]

Indication to print according to the embedded PDF/X output intent. Then, the Device CMYK definitions are ignored. PDF/X specifies the print conditions for which the PDF/X file was created. These print conditions are called 'output intent'.

[Overprinting black]

Indication to force black text and graphics to print over the background color. This option is used by the native PDF RIP to prevent registration artifacts when black objects are printed on a colored background.

[Preserve pure black]

Setting to apply pure black preservation when possible. Pure black preservation means that the color black is composed of 100% K ink or toner. When pure black preservation is not possible or disabled, the color black is composed of a mixture of C, M, Y, and K inks.

[Black Point Compensation (BPC)]

Setting for the relative colorimetric rendering intent. Black Point Compensation scales input colors relative to the output black in order to preserve details in dark areas. When the output black is rather light, [Enhanced BPC] is preferred over [Adobe BPC] because it has a better performance.