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The following sections describe the options available from the 

 

management system and explains how to customize the color settings for your 
particular needs. They provide descriptions of the preset ColorWise default settings 
and cover additional options for users who need to customize ColorWise.

For information about 

 

 Level 2 or 3 printer drivers, see 

The section also contains information about the capabilities of printer drivers and 
instructions for setting color options with the PostScript drivers for Windows and 
Mac OS computers.

 

Many of the color management options described in this chapter are only 

available with the PostScript driver, not the PCL driver.

 

To modify Fiery X3e printing behavior, do any of the following:

• Select ColorWise options for an individual print job using menus that appear in the 

printer driver.

• Select most ColorWise options as server defaults from the Color Setup application 

in ColorWise Pro Tools (see 

). Defaults can also be set from Fiery X3e 

Setup, as described in the 

 

. These defaults will apply to all 

subsequent print jobs unless you override them.

• Select some ColorWise options, particularly default 

 

calibration options, from ColorWise Pro Tools. These options include default 
Simulation Profile (see 

), CMYK Simulation Method (see 

Appear in Driver as (see 

), default Source Profile (see 

), RGB 

Separation (see 

 

Applications can generate color data for the Fiery X3e in many different 

 

The most common type of color data produced from 

 

 is RGB, 

while prepress applications generally produce 

 

 data. Desktop applications can 

also generate 

 

, such as PANTONE colors. To complicate matters, a single 

page may contain a mix of RGB, CMYK, and spot colors. The Fiery X3e allows users 
to control the printing of these mixed-color documents with features that apply 
specifically to RGB, CMYK, or spot color data. Fiery X3e color management generates 
CMYK data to be sent to the copier/printer.

The following diagram illustrates the print options in the Fiery X3e color management 
process that affect color data conversions. You can access these print options when you 
send a print job to the Fiery X3e. Most of these options and settings are described in 
subsequent sections of this chapter.

RGB 

 

 is the only color option that applies strictly to RGB color data. 

The other options that affect RGB color also affect the more rarely used Lab, XYZ, and 
other calibrated color spaces.

For users who are familiar with PostScript 3 color, RGB Source Profile affects all 

CIEBasedABC color spaces (if the source space is RGB). If you send CMYK data to 
the Fiery X3e in CIEBasedDEFG format, for example, by choosing PostScript Color 
Management in Adobe Photoshop, the Fiery X3e Rendering Style selection—which 
normally affects only RGB data—will also affect this CMYK data.

You can specify settings for the following options by selecting print options when you 
send a job to the Fiery X3e. Some can also be set as defaults by the administrator 
during Fiery X3e Setup or using ColorWise Pro Tools. Settings specified using print 
options override the defaults.

85% Lightest to 115% Darkest

Performs a color adjustment on all 

 to make the printed output 

lighter or darker.

CMYK/Grayscale
or

Standard Color/Expert Color/Grayscale
or

CMYK/Grayscale

Specifies the output color space of the job. Select CMYK, Standard Color, or 
Expert Color for a full-color document.

 

Photographic/Presentation/Relative 
Colorimetric/Absolute Colorimetric
(Default set at Setup or with ColorWise Pro 
Tools)

Applies a Fiery X3e 

color rendering dictionary

RGB

 data (see 

), or to any incoming data with a PostScript 

 

definition, including CMYK. The rendering styles associated with the PCL 
driver do not match those associated with the PostScript driver.

On/Off 
(Default set at Setup or with ColorWise Pro 
Tools)

The On setting optimizes the quality of black text and line art output (see 

). This option is only available with the PostScript driver.

Off/Text/Text & Graphics
(Default set at Setup or with ColorWise Pro 
Tools)

Specifies whether to overprint black text or black text and graphics placed on 
colored backgrounds. Overprinting colored backgrounds eliminates white gaps 
and reduces halo effects or misregistration of colors (see 

). This option 

is only available with the PostScript driver.

On/Off 
(Default set at Setup or with ColorWise Pro 
Tools)

The On setting enables Fiery X3e-defined matching of spot colors to their best 
CMYK equivalents. With Spot-On, you can manage and edit these spot color 
matches (see 

). Off instructs the Fiery X3e to match color output to a 

CMYK combination specified by the source application for the document (see 

). This option is only available with the PostScript driver.

EFIRGB/sRGB (PC)
/Apple Standard/Other/
Source 1-10/None
(Default set at Setup or with ColorWise Pro 
Tools)

Applies an RGB source space definition to RGB data (see 

). If you 

choose the Other setting, you must also specify particular settings for Gamma, 
Phosphors, and White Point. See the corresponding options in this table. This 
option, along with Gamma, Phosphors, and White Point, only affects 
DeviceRGB or calibrated RGB color spaces. This option is only available with 
the PostScript driver.

1.0/1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0/2.2/2.4/2.6/2.8/3.0
(Default set at Setup or with ColorWise Pro 
Tools)

Applies the specified 

 value to the RGB source space definition (see 

). To use this print option, you must choose Other as the RGB 

Source Profile setting. This option is only available with the PostScript driver.

5000 K (D50)/5500 K/6500 K (D65)/
7500 K/9300 K
(Default set at Setup or with ColorWise Pro 
Tools)

Applies the specified 

 value to the RGB source color space 

definition (see 

). To use this print option, you must choose Other as 

the RGB Source Profile setting. This option is only available with the 
PostScript driver.

Hitachi EBU/Hitachi-Ikegami/NTSC/
Radius Pivot/SMPTE/Trinitron
(Default set at Setup or with ColorWise Pro 
Tools)

Applies the specified 

 (monitor type) information to the RGB source 

). To use this print option, you must choose 

Other as the RGB Source Profile setting. This option is only available with the 
PostScript driver.