5 Color management
Color calibration
Color calibration enables your printer to produce consistent colors with the
particular printheads, inks and paper type that you are using, and under your
particular environmental conditions. After color calibration, you can expect to get
identical prints from any two different printers situated in different geographical
locations.
Calibration should be done in any of the following circumstances:
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Whenever a printhead is replaced
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Whenever a new paper type is introduced that has not yet been calibrated with
the current set of printheads
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Whenever a certain amount of printing has been done since the last calibration
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Whenever the printer has been turned off for a long period of time
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Whenever the environmental conditions (temperature and humidity) change
significantly
The printer driver usually reminds you with an alert whenever you need to perform
color calibration, unless you have disabled the alerts. However, there will be no
alert if the environmental conditions change.
You should calibrate a paper type before creating its color profile; however, you can
later recalibrate without needing to recreate the color profile.
You can turn off color calibration from the front panel: select the Image Quality
Maintenance menu icon
, then set Enable color calibration to OFF. In this
case, the printer will use a default calibration set in the factory for all paper types.
If you later turn color calibration back on, it will still remember any calibrations that
you performed earlier.
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