Xerox DocuColor 12 Printer with Splash G630 User Guide

Splash Extra Options Settings

Splash G630 User Guide

                                                                  

Page layout applications such as PageMaker and 
Quark XPress can print pages with a single color 
isolated from the whole image. These are copied on 
film image setters so each page is converted to one or 
more (usually four) output grayscale “pages.” 
Separations printed on a printer that does not have a 
special separation feature will produce one grayscale 
page per color on the original page.

The Splash server can re-composite these individual 
pages back into multi-color pages to produce a proof 
equivalent to the proof produced from the films by 
conventional means. The primary benefit of 
separation is to show overprinted objects with proper 
colors and to make trapping visible.

The Splash Separation print option prints a 
composite page from applications that support 
separation printing.

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Select Automatic to apply the Splash Separation 
feature to all your separation print jobs. This 
default option supports CMYK plates plus any 
number of plates in PANTONE, Toyo, HKS, or 
DIC if these press colors are supported by your 
separation application. This option supports 
separation generated by any application. With 
this option selected, the Splash server supports 
the full range of PANTONE, Toyo, HKS, or DIC 
colors and tints.

Single Page AutoSeps processes any separation job 
as a single page job. All color plates will be combined 
together, including spot color. This allows printing 
spot color separations from Macromedia Freehand 
and Deneba Canvas. If a multi-page separation job is 
sent with this option selected, the pages will overlay, 
resulting in bad output.

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Print Progressives prints up to four separate 

sheets for a print job. This allows you to examine the 
result of each color pass for a four-color document.

 Configure this print option at the Splash server to 
specify which color passes print on each sheet. This 
allows examining the result of each color pass for a 
four-color document.

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Select None to disable the Splash separation 

feature.

The remaining separation options, Quark XPress 3.0 
Style, Quark XPress 4.0 Style, PageMaker Style, 
FreeHand Style, and Canvas Style use a separation 
technique from an earlier version of the Splash server 
software. These options require that the separation job 
be made up of exactly four process-color plates. 
These options do not support additional spot color 
plates. If problems occur in the output when printing 
separations with Automatic selected, convert the 
colors in the document to four process plates, then 
select the separation option that matches your 
application.

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The Splash Separation print feature supports 
printing high-resolution DCS (Desktop Color 
Separation) files. To print a high-resolution proof 
of a DCS file, activate the separation feature in 
your application and in the Splash driver print 
options dialog box.

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Do not choose the Cover Page option in your 
application’s print dialog box when printing a 
separation job to the Splash server. The cover 
page is interpreted as a color plate, which causes 
unexpected results in the separation job. This 
problem does not occur when the Print Cover 
Page option is active for the Splash server 
application.

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For best results, do not use the separation options 
to print files with spot colors. Always choose 
Automatic.

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If a separation document contains one or more 
spot colors, any spot colors not known by the 
system will be printed as black, or as grayscale 
for tints. The job will neither fail nor produce an 
error message. If the spool file “print and save”