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With fewer steps than other digital software applications and an integrated color management system, users can edit colors in Fiery Spot-
On without having to switch back and forth from one tool to another or re-enter information to set up color profiles for repeatable results.
Built-In Spot and Substitute-Color Capabilities
Fiery Spot-On offers a number of sophisticated capabilities for spot-color matching, including the following:
• Enables the user to edit spot-color conversions in order to adjust colors to better match a customer’s preference.
• Allows users to create and manage new color libraries.
• Captures spot colors using an ES-2000 spectrophotometer if the color the user wants to reproduce is not included in any color-
matching system.
• Supplies tools to visually select a better combination to match the desired spot color.
• Permits custom spot-color libraries to be exported as named color ICC profiles for use elsewhere in the workflow.
In addition, the substitute color feature allows users to do the following:
• Achieve spot-color consistency across documents to maintain brand colors.
• Establish company-wide RGB color palettes for applications such as Microsoft
Office that don’t define named colors.
Taken together, Spot-On features allow users to establish an enterprise-wide color management structure that is faster to implement and
easier to maintain, requiring less user training while still providing the consistent, accurate color that print providers want and need.
For more information about Fiery Spot On, refer to the white paper, “
Fiery Servers: The Easiest Way to Get the Right Color Every Time.”
Spot Color Management
Fiery Spot-On allows editing of CMYK values associated with named colors so users can reach better perceptual color matches when the
default calculated CMYK value produces unsatisfactory results. Fiery Spot-On provides a graphical user interface to help the user zero in
on the CMYK toner equivalents needed to create a desired spot color for a given print condition.
Custom Spot Color Creation
Fiery Spot-On also enables users to create custom spot colors with specific names and CMYK values. This helps users to conceptualize
and communicate custom colors with ease. For instance, they can quickly associate a color with the name Fiery Red instead of Pantone
032 CVC. Fiery Spot-On allows users to create a customized color group (exportable as a named color profile), which enables them to
manage custom colors in an organized fashion. Commonly used customized color names can be grouped under a specific list name.
To further simplify operation, Fiery offers two ways to find the right spot color:
• Spot Color Search provides an intuitive graphical user interface for creating and editing named colors directly.
• The ES-2000 spectrophotometer is supported for measuring samples or swatches of new spot colors and adding them to a Spot-On
library.
In Command WorkStation 5, the Spot-On tool is under Device Center > Resources > Spot Colors. The availability and functionality of this
spot color management tool is determined by the configuration of the connected Fiery server. In particular, only a Fiery server offers the
ability to select Job Properties for printing from Spot-On and for specifying the output profile associated with the spot colors.
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