Toshiba GA-1121 User Manual

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Managing color on the GA-1121
The following sections describe the options available from the 
 color 
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 on 
 Level 2 or 3 printer drivers, see 
. The section 
also contains information on the capabilities of printer drivers and instructions for 
setting color options with the PostScript drivers for Windows and Mac OS computers.
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Many of the color management options described in this chapter are only 
available with the PostScript driver, not the PCL driver.
Managing color on the GA-1121
To modify GA-1121 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 GA-1121 
Setup, as described in th
. These defaults will apply to all 
subsequent print jobs unless you override them.
• Select some ColorWise options, particularly default 
 settings and 
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 
), and associated calibration set (see 
Applications can generate color data for the GA-1121 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 GA-1121 allows users to 
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GA-1121 Color 
Management