Spot color management
Learn about spot colors
[402] Spot color definitions
Spot colors realize a consistent color and are often used in logos and house style colors. The
printer provides a spot color editor and a set of pre-defined spot color libraries, such as
PANTONE libraries and HKS libraries. The library of custom spot colors contains spot colors that
users have created in the Settings Editor or on the control panel. (
Create a spot color in Settings
Editor
on page 313
Create a spot color from the control panel
on page 309)
If a source document contains a spot color definition, the printer needs to know how to print that
particular color. A spot color is the combination of a spot color name, the color value, and a tint
value. The device-independent spot color definition uses a CIELAB value (Lab value). When you
create a spot color for a specific media family you use a CMYK value.
You can add more CMYK color values to a spot color definition, for other media families that print
the spot color.
When you want to add a spot color that has the exact color value of a sample, for example in an
offset print, you measure the spot color with the i1 spectrophotometer. (
Measure charts with the
i1 spectrophotometer
on page 236) The measured Lab values define the new spot color.
When you add or edit a spot color definition, you can print a patch chart to check how the set
CMYK values and small variations on these values appear on media. The printed colors and the
CMYK values of the patches give the best visual match to fine-tune the spot color for the given
media family.
Spot color library
The printer provides pre-defined spot color libraries, such as PANTONE libraries and HKS
libraries. (
Learn about spot colors
on page 307)
[403] Custom spot color library
The Settings Editor can store three types of spot color libraries:
Spot color management
Chapter 11 - Manage color definitions
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