Xerox 300x User Guide

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For advanced pre-press color proofing, your printer has several standard 
printing press profiles available in the Tektronix drivers:

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Commercial Press  (Commercial pre-press proofs)

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Euroscale Press  (European printing press standard)

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SNAP Press  (Specifications for Non-Heat Advertising Printing)

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SWOP Press  (Specification for Web Offset Publications)

These profiles allow the printer’s colors to emulate the color behavior of a 

particular printing press.  Editing these standard profiles lets you adjust for 
variations between your printer’s colors and a specific printing press you 
want to emulate.  A profile you have edited can be saved for use with a 
Tektronix printer driver.

You can also specify a color for the paper or background of a profile.  Then, 
when you print, the page is filled with the desired background color to 
simulate the look of the paper you are specifying for the final printing press 
job.  The other colors in an image are also adjusted to print appropriately on 
the specified paper color.  This function is designed for white and off-white papers 
only, and is not intended to simulate brightly colored paper stocks.   

For profiles to be effective, the printer and the currently installed transfer roll 
must be properly calibrated.  See page 3-1 for calibration information.