User manual RICOH PRINTING GUIDELINE FOR RICOH COLOR PRODUCTS 2.01

[. . . ] Printing Guideline Using ICC Profiles with Ricoh Color Products Version 2. 01 Printing Guideline for Ricoh Color Products 2. 01 Contents 1 2 Page Introduction. 5 ICC ProÞles Provided by Ricoh Europe . 2. 1. 1 Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. 2 ReadMe File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] CS E-170. Reß. Agfa. v01. ICC) to your scanned document. · Choose Edit > Assign ProÞle. Don´t Color Manage This Document: This option deletes a tagged proÞle from a document. Working <color model: working space>: This option tags the current working space proÞle to the document. ProÞle: Lets you choose which of the installed proÞles on your computer shall be tagged to the document. 6. 8. 3 · · Showing Document ProÞle Information Click on the triangle located in the status bar. Choose Document Color ProÞle. The proÞle information of the selected document is shown in the status bar. 42 Printing Guideline for Ricoh Color Products 2. 01 6. 8. 4 · · · · Printing Choose File > Print. Print Space: Choose your printer´s ICC proÞle and the rendering intent. Click OK. 43 Printing Guideline for Ricoh Color Products 2. 01 6. 8. 5 · Importing Images Choose File > Place. . . In case the image to be imported has a different color proÞle than your working space, the dialogue Paste ProÞle Mismatch is displayed. must be checked in the Color Settings dialogue. If you have your Ricoh scanner proÞle tagged to the image, choose option Don´t Convert. . . . Note: With a color management system properly working, there are two incidents common which were unknown to most software users in the pre-color management era: 1. At Þrst, this may seem paradox and even more when making practical experience. Just remember that RGB is NOT a color space, but only a way of generating and encoding colors, a color system. Therefore an RGB value has no Þxed color values associated with such as an L a b value for instance. The Paste ProÞle Mismatch dialog refers to the above mentionted incidents: Convert (Preserve color appearance) means that the look of a color remains the same before and after converting, even though the so called color numbers (= RGB pixel values) change. Option Don´t Convert (Preserve color numbers) will keep the tagged color proÞles of the images. That means that the RGB pixel values will be left unchanged, with the effect that the look of a color will change. If you are planning to print out the document on a Ricoh color managed printer and want a close match to the scanned document, the different look of a color on a monitor does not need to disturb you. The color management system will use the image´s embedded proÞles and the proÞle of the printer to render the color as close as possible to the original. Unlike Illustrator 7. 0, different CMM are selectable in Illustrator 8. 0 and it supports embedded 44 Printing Guideline for Ricoh Color Products 2. 01 proÞles. Applying a proÞle to an imported image is only possible, if the proÞle is embedded. If you want to apply a proÞle, which is not embedded, to an image, use Illustrator 7. 0 or embed the proÞle in another application like Adobe Photoshop 5. 0. 6. 9 Illustrator 10. 0 for Windows and Macintosh Refer to Illustrator 9. 0. 6. 10 PageMaker 6. 01 (or 6. 5) for Macintosh On Macintosh platforms, PageMaker 6. 01 or later supports color management using ICC proÞles directly. The advantage is that in a Color Management System (CMS) setup menu the general settings for the source and the destination proÞle can be made, but nevertheless the settings for the image source can be changed for every single image within the document. The workßow for the user is very handy and will therefore be described in this section brießy. For detailed information, see the Adobe PageMaker 6. 0. 1 User's Guide. · · · · · · · · Open the document in which you want to insert images. [. . . ] Adding 100% of each primary color produces white, while black is the absense of light (0% of red, green and blue). RGB is the color model used by input devices and monitors. Saturation This rendering intent preserves the vividness of colors and preserves saturation rather than hue. It is commonly used for business graphics, where bright, saturated colors are more important than relation between colors. [. . . ]