Panasonic KX-P8420 Manual

Color rendering dictionaries (CRDs) are used to perform color conversions 
on RGB data. The following table describes the CRDs for KX-P8420 
software and provides guidelines on when to use each one. Each color 
rendering style uses a different gamut mapping method, such as 
Photographic or Presentation, designed for a particular kind of color usage. 

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The rendering styles referred to in the table cannot be used when 
specifying a target device profile with a color management system such 
as ColorSync or ICM.

Photographic—Preserves tonal relationships in 
images rather than exact colors. This rendering 
style maps out-of-gamut RGB colors to printable 
colors in a way that retains differences in 
lightness. Color accuracy is sacrificed slightly in 
favor of presenting color relationships in the way 
the human eye perceives them. Photographic 
rendering typically gives less saturated output 
when printing out-of-gamut RGB colors than 
Presentation Color rendering does.

Continuous tone 
photographs, 
including scans and 
images from stock 
photography CDs

Presentation—Creates bright saturated colors. 
This rendering style does not try to match printed 
colors precisely to displayed colors but instead 
provides vibrant, dense colors. Photographic 
images, however, are treated the same way as by 
the Photographic rendering style. 

Artwork and graphs 
in presentations 
and continuous 
tone photographs

Transparency— Improves the correspondence 
between monitor colors and printed color on 
transparency paper. 

Artwork and graphs 
printed on 
transparency paper