You can now perform color management when you submit a digital job to your digital device, by selecting the appropriate profile in the Source or DeviceLink Profile setting in the Substrate tab of the Digital Job Ticket Editor.
Important: Before you select a profile in the Job Ticket Editor, you must enable color management by selecting On in the Color Management option in the Substrate tab of the Digital Job Ticket Editor.
To use this setting, you must first perform the following two required setup steps:
- Load valid ICC and Device link profiles into the correct location on the Prinergy server. Add your source ICC profiles to
C:\Prinergy\CreoAraxi\Data\ICC-Profiles\Printer\Digital Output\Source Profilesand your DeviceLink profiles toC:\Prinergy\CreoAraxi\Data\ICC-Profiles\Printer\Digital Output\DeviceLink Profiles. In each of these two folders, you can create subfolders to organize your profiles in logical groups (such as, device type or name). The Source or DeviceLink Profile list, displayed on the Substrate tab of the Job Ticket Editor, will reflect this hierarchy. In each subfolder, the profiles are displayed in an alphanumeric order. It is your responsibility to ensure that only valid profiles are placed in these two folders. - If desired, load any Color Libraries (color databases) into the PublishFile ColorMgmt On process template, so that they can be used if spot colors need to be converted to process during output.
The color management of pages occurs in two stages. Stage one, which corresponds to the Refine process in Prinergy, takes all L*a*b, RGB, and tagged CMYK objects and converts them to a standard CMYK space known as the Primary Color Output (PCO). Stage two, which occurs after the job has been submitted from the Digital Job Ticket Editor, takes the CMYK PDF from stage one and converts it according to the selected profile in the Source or DeviceLink Profile setting in the Substrate tab of the Digital Job Ticket Editor.
Notes:
- The selection of the ICC profile is not available in Device Track.
- The selection of the ICC profile cannot be controlled through RBA.
- The ICC profile selected in the Substrates tab in the Job Ticket Editor is applied to the entire job, not to individual substrates. Jobs requiring multiple ICC profiles, need to be submitted as multiple jobs.
- If a DeviceLink profile is used during the refine process, the PCO must still be set in the Refine profile, so color management can be used in the Job Ticket Editor.
- In the event that spot colors are converted to process after processing through the Digital Job Ticket Editor, the Perceptual rendering intent will be used.