Xerox CX User Manual
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Managing color
Color tools overview
The CX print server provides you with a number of tools and
options that enable you to adjust and improve the color quality in
your jobs.
options that enable you to adjust and improve the color quality in
your jobs.
The following tools are available:
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Profile Manager
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Spot Color Editor
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Gradation Tool
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Calibration table manager
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Media and Color Manager
Managing color and profiles
A profile is a file that describes how a particular device reproduces
color. It represents the colorimetric behavior of a given device for
known media and imaging parameters (such as substrate/paper
stock, resolution, and inks). Profiles are used to reproduce color
from one device’s color space to another device's color space in a
consistent manner. They provide the necessary information to
convert color data between device-dependent color spaces and
device-independent color spaces. You use profiles to color manage
your system.
color. It represents the colorimetric behavior of a given device for
known media and imaging parameters (such as substrate/paper
stock, resolution, and inks). Profiles are used to reproduce color
from one device’s color space to another device's color space in a
consistent manner. They provide the necessary information to
convert color data between device-dependent color spaces and
device-independent color spaces. You use profiles to color manage
your system.
Color management is a series of steps taken to ensure that colors
are accurate and repeatable when transferred from one device to
another. Color management helps us reproduce the color
conceived by a graphic artist or photographer as closely as
possible on a monitor, a proof, or a press sheet. Color
management enables accurate and repeatable color reproduction,
within each device’s color capability, throughout the entire workflow.
are accurate and repeatable when transferred from one device to
another. Color management helps us reproduce the color
conceived by a graphic artist or photographer as closely as
possible on a monitor, a proof, or a press sheet. Color
management enables accurate and repeatable color reproduction,
within each device’s color capability, throughout the entire workflow.
Before you can print a color document, the color data in it must be
converted to the gamut of the printer. Whether performed by the
CX print server or a host-based CMS, the process of converting
color data for a printer is the same: the CMS interprets RGB object
data according to a specified source profile and adjusts both RGB
and CMYK data according to a specified output profile, also called
a destination profile by some color management systems.
converted to the gamut of the printer. Whether performed by the
CX print server or a host-based CMS, the process of converting
color data for a printer is the same: the CMS interprets RGB object
data according to a specified source profile and adjusts both RGB
and CMYK data according to a specified output profile, also called
a destination profile by some color management systems.