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The printer interprets all colors as a variation of grays.
See page 190
Mac ColorSynch
This is the color matching system built into the Mac OS
See page 212.  
Automatic 
Your printer automatically uses the best method to match 
color, depending on the type of document you are 
printing.
Windows
Individual Print Jobs
1.Open the file you want to print.
2.Click File → Print.
3.Click on the Color tab.
4.At Automatic, make your selection.
If the box has a check mark, the feature is ON.
If the box is empty, the feature is OFF.
5.Click OK until you return to the Print dialog box.
6.Print the document.
Windows
All Print Jobs (Default)
1.Click Start → Settings →  Printers [Printers and Faxes 
in Windows XP/Server 2003].
2.Right-click the printer name.
Select Properties.  Click Printing Preferences.
3.Click on the Color tab.
4.At Automatic make your selection.  
If the box has a check mark, the feature is ON.
If the box is empty, the feature is OFF.
5.Click OK until you return to the Print dialog box.
6.Print the document.
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Macintosh
OS 10.2 and 10.3
1.Open the file you want to print.
2.Click File → Print.
3.Open the drop-down list below Presets. Select Color.
4.Below Color Mode, at Auto Color, make your selection.
If the box has a check mark, the feature is ON.
If the box is empty, the feature is OFF.
5.Click Print.
6.The document prints.
Office Color
Overview
from C9600 Print Guide
This is a simple color management system designed for ease 
of use. Office Color is recommended for users who are not 
experts in color but want good results when printing from 
programs such as Microsoft Office.
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There are two different sets of options in Office Color:
   
     
Although the Office Color options contain controls for CMYK 
data, it is strongly recommended that you use the Graphic Pro 
options instead. If you are printing CMYK data, the Graphic Pro 
options provide more power and flexibility.
RGB Options
Office Color provides a collection of several different color 
matching presets for RGB data.  
These presets each change the color of your print in a slightly 
different way.
RGB OptionsCMYK Options
(PostScript only)
Monitor (6500K) – Auto SWOP
Monitor (6500K) – Perceptual Euroscale
Monitor (6500K) – Vivid Japan Color
Monitor (9300K)
Digital Camera
sRGB
Important!
The options for CMYK data are not present in the 
Windows PCL printer drivers. These printer 
drivers only support RGB color data.
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These RGB color matching options are available in all printer 
drivers.
    
Windows
This information applies to the Windows PCL and PostScript 
drivers.
1.On the printer driver [Color] tab, select [Office Color] (1) 
and click the [Options] button.    
2.Select a preset from [Color matching options] (2).
Mac OS 9
1.Choose [File] → [Print].  
2.From the [Printer] menu, select your printer model.
3.Select [Color Options].
4.From the [Color Mode] menu, select [Office Color].
5.Select [Color - Office Color].
6.Select the Office Color Preset you wish to use.
PresetExplanation
Monitor (6500K) – 
AutoThe best color match preset will be selected based on 
the type of document.
6500K - Perceptual will be selected if printing 
photographs. 
6500K - Vivid will be selected if printing graphics and 
text.
Monitor (6500K) – 
PerceptualOptimized for printing photographs. Colors are printed 
with emphasis on saturation.
Monitor (6500K) – 
VividOptimized for printing photographs and for office 
graphics. The printer uses even more saturation than 
the Monitor (6500k) Perceptual setting.
Monitor (9300K) Colors are printed with emphasis on Lightness.
Use this setting if you are having problems achieving 
the correct color when printing from Microsoft Office 
applications.
Digital Camera Optimized for printing photos taken with a digital 
camera. Your results will vary depending on the 
subject and the conditions under which the 
photograph was taken.
sRGB The printer will try to reproduce the sRGB color space. 
This may be useful if color matching from an sRGB 
input device such as a scanner or digital camera.
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Mac OS X
1.In your application program, choose [File] → [Print].    
2.From the [Printer] menu, select your printer model.
3.Select [Printer Features].
4.From the [Feature Sets] menu, select [Color Options].
5.From the [Color Mode] menu, select [Office Color].
6.From the [Feature Sets] menu, select [Color – Office 
Color]. 
7.Select the [Office Color] Preset  you wish to use.
Customising RGB Office Color with the Color Correct 
Utility (Windows)
If the Office Color presets are not sufficient for your needs, the 
color Correct utility provides a means of further adjustment. 
The Color Correct utility provides two methods for adjusting 
the Office Color settings:  
1.You can adjust the overall appearance of the print by 
modifying Hue, Saturation and Gamma.
2.You can adjust the specific palette colors used in 
Microsoft Office applications. These adjustments only 
affect one specific palette color at a time.
Important!
When printing from some applications on Mac 
OS X, these RGB color match options may not 
affect the color of your print. If you discover that 
the color of your print has not changed after 
applying one of the Office color Match presets, 
then the application is incompatible with this 
type of printer color matching.
As an alternative, Mac OS X 10.3.x users may 
be able to adjust the color of their document 
using ColorSync Quartz filters.
NOTE
The Color Correct Utility is available for Windows 
only.
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For more details, see page 274.
Graphic Pro
Overview
This section describes the color matching options available for 
Graphic Pro.  
The Graphic Pro color matching system is based around ICC 
profiles. These profiles are downloaded to the printer using the 
Profile Assistant utility and then selected in the printer driver. 
When a job is sent to the printer, the ICC profiles are applied 
to the print job on the printer.
   
What can you do with Graphic Pro?
The Graphic Pro color matching system is both powerful and 
flexible. Here are some examples of how the Graphic Pro color 
matching system can be used:
Matching printer color to an RGB input device
By using the ICC profiles of a scanner, digital camera or 
monitor, the printers color can be matched to the input 
device.
Important!
Some features of Graphic Pro color matching 
can only be used if your printer is fitted with a 
hard disk. The printer hard disk is required if 
you wish to download and use your own ICC 
profiles to the printer.
If your printer does not have a hard disk fitted, 
you will only be able to select the factory default 
profiles that are built-in to the printer.
NOTE
The printer’s internal hard disk is an optional 
accessory.
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Printer simulation
Your printer can be used to simulate the color output of 
another printer, even when printing RGB documents. For 
best results, use CMYK documents when simulating the 
color output of other printers.
CMYK ink simulation
Your printer can be used to simulate the color output of a 
commercial printing press (SWOP, Euroscale or Japan 
Color inks).
More accurate printer color
If you have created your own profiles with third-party ICC 
profile creation software, these can be downloaded to the 
printer and used when printing.
Types of ICC profile supported
There are four classes of ICC profile supported by the 
Graphic Pro color matching system:  
 
Graphic Pro Workflow – overview
There are three steps to using the Graphic Pro color 
matching system:  
Profile typeDescription
RGB Source
(RGB Input)These profiles describe the device that was used to capture 
RGB data (e.g. scanner or digital camera).
The RGB Input Profile may also be your monitor profile if 
you are trying to match to your screen.
CMYK 
Simulation
(CMYK input)These profiles describe the CMYK device whose colors you 
are trying to simulate. Typically this would be another 
manufacturers printer or an offset printing press.
Profiles are already built-in to the printer for commercial 
printing press inks such as SWOP or Euroscale.
Printer
(CMYK Output)This profile describes the color characteristics of your own 
printer.
The printer already has factory default profiles built-in, but 
you can replace these profiles with your own if required.
Link Profile This is a special type of ICC profile that converts directly 
from CMYK to CMYK.
For example, a link profile could convert directly from the 
CMYK space of another printer to the CMYK space of your 
printer.
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1.Gather or create ICC profiles (see below)
2.Download ICC profiles to the printer hard disk 
(page 198)
3.Select the ICC profiles in the printer driver when printing 
(page 199)
Step 1 - Gather or create the ICC profiles
Where can I get the profiles I need?  
     
Step 2 - Downloading ICC profiles to the printer hard 
disk
You can download profiles to the printer hard disk using the 
Profile Assistant utility.  
Using Profile Assistant
1.Launch Profile Assistant  
2.Select a printer
If this is the first time you have used Profile Assistant, you 
should allow the utility to search for compatible printers. 
Select the connection types that you wish to search – 
Parallel, USB or Network (TCP/IP), and click [Start].
If you know the Printer’s IP address, you can enter it 
manually.
3.The main screen of Profile Assistant displays the profiles 
resident on the selected printer’s hard disk. To download 
a new profile to the printer:
Profile typeWhere to get profiles
RGB Source
(RGB Input)Obtain your RGB source profiles from your scanner, 
camera or monitor manufacturer.
CMYK 
Simulation
(CMYK input)Obtain the simulation profile from the manufacturer of the 
printer you wish to simulate.
Printer
(CMYK Output)The factory default profiles for your printer are built-in. If 
you need greater accuracy, you should create your own 
printer profile using third-party ICC profile creation 
software.
Link Profile You can create Link profiles using third-party ICC profile 
creation software.
Note that not all ICC profile creation software can create 
Link profiles.
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a. Click [Add].
b. Select an ICC profile from your computers hard disk.
c. Once you have selected a profile, you can add it to the printer as 
one of the 4 profile types - RGB Source, CMYK Simulation, Printer 
or Linked.
The options available will depend on which ICC profile 
you have selected. For example, if you have selected 
a CMYK profile, you may only be able to add this to the 
printer as a CMYK Simulation or Printer output profile.
d. Select a number from 1 to 12. This number is used to identify the 
profile in the printer driver.  
e. Click [OK] to download the ICC profile to the printer.
Step 3 - Select ICC profiles in the printer driver
What you select in the printer driver depends on the color 
matching task that you wish to perform.
Examples of selecting ICC profiles for different color matching 
tasks are shown in the next sections of this guide.
Matching the color of a monitor, scanner or camera
The Graphic Pro color matching system can be used to match 
the printer color to an RGB input device such as a monitor, 
scanner or digital camera.
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To match an RGB input device, first download the RGB source 
profile and printer profile (optional) to the printer hard disk 
1. RGB data 2. Printed document
3. RGB source profile 4. Scanner, monitor, camera, etc.
5. Printer output profile 6. Leave on Auto or select your custom profile.
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using Profile Assistant. See “Using Profile Assistant” on 
page 198.
Once the profile(s) have been downloaded, make the 
appropriate selections in the printer driver. These are 
described in the next section (Windows page 200, Mac OS 9 
page 200. Mac OS X page 201).
Windows
This information applies to the Windows PCL and PostScript 
drivers.  
1.To match the color of an input RGB device such as a 
monitor, scanner or digital camera, make the following 
selections in the printer driver:
2.On the printer driver [Color] tab, select [Graphic Pro]  
and click [Options].    
3.Select [ICC Profile color Matching].
4.Select the ICC profile that corresponds to the device you 
are trying to match such as your monitor, scanner or 
digital camera.
Remember that the names “RGB Source 1”, “RGB 
Source  2” and so on relate to the number assigned to the 
profile using Profile Assistant. See “Using Profile 
Assistant” on page 198.
5.Select a Printer Output Profile.
If [Auto] is selected, the factory default profiles that are 
embedded in the printer will be used. If you have created 
a printer profile yourself using profile creation software, 
select it here.
Tip—If you have selected your own printer output profile, 
you will also be able to adjust the rendering intent.
Mac OS 9
1.In your application program, choose [File] → [Print].   
2.From the [Printer] menu, select your printer model.
3.Select [Color Options].
4.From the [Color Mode] menu, select [Graphic Pro].
5.Select [Color – Graphic Pro 1].  
6.From the [color Matching Task] menu, select [ICC Profile 
color Matching].
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