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Xerox 7700 User Manual
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Version 4.0 and user guide phasermatch phasercal c o l o r l a s e r p r i n t e r www.Xerox.Com/office/support phaser ® 7700/7750/7760
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Copyright © 2006, 2004 xerox corporation. All rights reserved. Unpublished rights reserved under the copyright laws of the united states. Contents of this publication may not be reproduced in any form without permission of xerox corporation. Copyright protection claimed includes all forms of matters...
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Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide i contents 1 introduction phasermatch software, version 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 phasercal software, version 4.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Contents phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide ii managing tekcolor corrections on a phaser 7760 or phaser 7750 printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1 managing tekcolor corrections on a phaser 7700 printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1 macintosh system requirements . . . ....
Page 5: Introduction
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 1-1 phasermatch software, version 4.0 phasermatch 4.0 is a color management application for the phaser 7760, 7750, and 7700 printers. The phasermatch software includes both color management and color calibration functionality. This application creates, edits,...
Page 6: Requirements
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 1-2 requirements phasermatch 4.0 and phasercal 4.0 software is available for computers running: ■ apple macintosh os x, version 10.2 and later operating systems (for detailed system requirements, see macintosh system requirements on page 7-1.) ■ microsoft win...
Page 7: Next Recommended Reading
Typical uses of phasermatch software phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 1-3 installing on windows systems 1. Insert the phasermatch or phasercal cd-rom into your computer's cd-rom drive. The cd-rom automatically runs the installer. 2. Read the license agreement and click accept to continue. No...
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Typical uses of phasermatch software phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 1-4 creating custom tekcolor corrections your phaser printer has a number of tekcolor corrections built into the printer. Try these color corrections before using phasermatch. Using the existing color corrections saves you...
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Typical uses of phasermatch software phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 1-5 the following diagram shows the color matching elements of the software and the flow of the software. Creating new device link profiles in order to obtain the best results from phasermatch custom color corrections, a p...
Page 10: Creating Icc Profiles
Typical uses of phasermatch software phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 1-6 creating icc profiles you can use the target device profiles supplied with the printer. To create a new icc profile, you will need a third-party profile creation tool. Create new profiles when one of the following cond...
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Typical uses of phasermatch software phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 1-7 ■ printing using a custom tekcolor correction, go to printing to a phaser 7760 or phaser 7750 printer on page 4-1 or printing to a phaser 7700 printer on page 4-3. ■ managing tekcolor corrections, go to managing tekcol...
Page 12: Printer Calibration
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 2-1 . Spectrophotometer-based calibration there are two methods provided for entering the calibration data values measured by a spectrophotometer. The first method allows you to use phasermatch or phasercal software to control and communicate with a spectroph...
Page 13: Visual Color Calibration
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 2-2 6. Measure the color swatches. Note: the instructions explaining how to manually measure the calibration data and create the needed data file are in section spectrophotometer calibration data file on page 7-1. 7. View the measurement data. 8. Send the cal...
Page 14: Creating Custom
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 3-1 the phaser printer should have been calibrated using one of the methods mentioned previously in this document before creating new tekcolor corrections. When the printer has been color calibrated you can create and use custom tekcolor corrections. To creat...
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Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 3-2 device link profiles are used by phasermatch to create tekcolor corrections. The tekcolor corrections can be sent to a phaser printer or saved in the driver for the phaser printer. Note: when creating phaser printer profiles using a third party icc profil...
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Creating custom tekcolor corrections phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 3-3 device link profile options screen the device link profile options screen has two check boxes. The check boxes are: ■ pure black enhancement ■ preserve paper color checking pure black enhancement prevents colors specif...
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Creating custom tekcolor corrections phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 3-4 the custom tekcolor corrections selection shows the 10 custom tekcolor correction slots that can be used to store the color corrections. When the printer selected is connected to the computer using tcp/ip, phasermatch ...
Page 18: Macintosh Os X
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 4-1 printing to a phaser 7760 or phaser 7750 printer macintosh os x the tekcolor corrections created by phasermatch work with applications that generate cmyk or rgb color values when printing. Computers with tcp/ip connections to the printer when using a comp...
Page 19: Windows 2000 And Windows Xp
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 4-2 windows 2000 and windows xp the tekcolor corrections created by phasermatch work with applications that generate cmyk or rgb color values when printing. Computers with tcp/ip connections to the printer when using a computer with a tcp/ip connection to the...
Page 20: Macintosh Os X
Printing to a phaser 7700 printer phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 4-3 7. Ensure the paper in the printer matches the profile you selected. 8. Click ok. Note: usb, netware, and netbeui are not tcp/ip connections. Computers without tcp/ip connections to the printer when using a computer witho...
Page 21: Windows 2000 And Windows Xp
Printing to a phaser 7700 printer phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 4-4 the printer driver supplied for this os lists the custom tekcolor correction selections using the short name of the correction. To select a custom tekcolor correction: 1. In the print screen box, from the copies & pages m...
Page 22: Editing Hints
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 5-1 editing custom tekcolor corrections overview use edit profile to make minor color changes in a phasermatch custom device link profile. The edited version of the device link profile will become a custom tekcolor correction once it is downloaded to the prin...
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Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 5-2 the phasermatch editor provides buttons to edit the device link profile. The buttons are shown in the following figure. Use the output gamma curves editing tool to make changes in the output lookup tables. The changes you make when using this tool are sho...
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Editing custom tekcolor corrections overview phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 5-3 use the fine tune tool to make small changes to a specific color or range of colors. When you use this tool, you edit the device color space so you may be editing cmyk or rgb color spaces. To create a new color...
Page 25: Or Phaser 7750 Printer
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 6-1 use download profile to manage the custom color corrections associated with a phaser 7760, phaser 7750, or phaser 7700 printer. Managing tekcolor corrections on a phaser 7760 or phaser 7750 printer when using a phaser 7760 or 7750 printer, the download pr...
Page 26: Windows System Requirements
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 7-1 macintosh system requirements ■ apple power macintosh computer ■ macintosh os x, version 10.2 (version 10.2.3 recommended) operating system ■ 128 mb ram required, 256 mb ram recommended ■ 600 x 800 dpi resolution color monitor with the ability to display ...
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Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 7-2 once the instrument is set up correctly, measure the set of printed color swatches in sequence from top to bottom, reading down each column before moving to the next column on the right. When you complete the measurements, save the measured data as a "spa...
Page 28: Additional Information
Additional information phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide 7-3 additional information resource link for automated printer diagnostics and troubleshooting using your web browser, go to the phasersmart website: www.Phasersmart.Com for general support, go to the xerox support website: www.Xerox.Co...
Page 29: Glossary
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide a-1 glossary calibration the checking, adjusting or standardizing of a device. See also printer color calibration. Cie the commission internationale de l'eclairage. The main international organization concerned with color appearance and color measurement. Cie...
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Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide a-2 colorsync profiles see icc profiles. Densitometer a device that measures the density of colors or images. Phasermatch does not support any densitometer. Device link profiles icc profiles that describe the color behavior of two cmyk devices: your xerox pha...
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Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide a-3 lookup table icc profiles contain an input lookup table and an output lookup table. These tables are used to implement color transformations per the icc profile specification for look up tables. Lut this is an abbreviation for lookup table. Patches see pr...
Page 32: Introduction to Color
Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide b-1 color management is based on color spaces. The range of colors, or gamut, perceived by the human eye, captured on film, displayed on a computer monitor, and rendered by a printer vary significantly. Each has its own color space, a mathematical means of de...
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Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide b-2 heidelberg. These other vendors can use different algorithms to perform its color conversions. Image color management system (icm), a color management system for the windows operating system, also supports color engines from other vendors. When using phas...
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Phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide index-1 index a ascii text file, 7-2 c calibrating overview, 1-3 using a spectrophotometer, 2-1 visually calibrating, 2-2 color calibration, 1-3, 2-1, 2-2 color calibration data file, 7-2 color management, a-1, b-1 creating custom, 1-4, 1-5 custom tekcolor co...
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Index phasermatch and phasercal 4.0 user guide index-2 m macintosh installing, 1-2 system requirements, 7-2 macintosh os x printing to a phaser 7760 and 7750 printer, 4-1 microsoft windows system requirements, 7-2 o output gamma curves using the editing tool, 5-2 p phaser 7760 and 7750 printer print...