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What is colour feel?

Definition

With the [Colour feel] setting you can fine-tune the look and feel of the printed output.

The [Colour feel] setting defines the colour space conversion method.

[Colour feel]

Description

[CAD colours]

Use this setting to get a print with bright, saturated colours.

Advised for vector drawings (like HP-GL).

All primary and secondary colours are clean, because they are printed with pure inks. This is clearly visible if you look at the colour yellow that is printed with yellow ink only.

An increase in coverage results in (almost) the same increase in ink.

The blue colour is not purplish but nice blue.

This mode is preferred for CAD drawings created with applications like AutoCAD or ArcView.

Photos printed in this mode will look dull and greyish.

[Graphics colours]

Use this setting to get a print with photo-realistic colours.

Advised for photos or graphic art presentations.

If you select [Graphics colours] you can also adjust the advanced Colour Management settings.

  • [Graphics colours: RGB input colour profile]

  • [Graphics colours: CMYK input colour profile] (only for TIFF and JPEG files or for PostScript and PDF files)

  • [Graphics colours: Greyscale input colour profile] (only for PostScript and PDF files)

  • [Graphics colours: rendering intent]

[None, managed by application]

Use this setting if your colour management is completely done by the application that generated the print file.

If the colour management is not handled correctly by the application, possible problems are:

  • - blue will be purplish (like in most inkjet printers)

  • - raster-file information (like photos) will look dull and dark.