In Prinergy, you can reduce the number of spot colors in the input files to the number of colors to be output by mapping the excess colors to other spot or process colors.

Color Editor and color libraries

Use the Color Editor to manage color libraries and color definitions. You can open Color Editor in two ways:

• From the Tools menu of Prinergy Workshop (Job Finder or Job Manager)—this window displays color information and provides editing functions.
• From the Color Mappings dialog box of the second refine process template —you can edit a selected color definition of the current job.

The Color Editor uses the following types of color libraries:

• Factory libraries—are populated from named spot color systems—for example, PANTONE or TOYO. Factory libraries are preloaded into Prinergy, and are available to all jobs.
• User libraries—are libraries that you populate
  • Global tab—contains color definitions that are available to all jobs in the system.
  • Job tab—contains color definitions that are available only to the job for which they are defined. Job-specific color definitions override global color definitions of the same name.

Important: When you remove a user library, all color definitions in its global and job-specific libraries will be deleted. You will be prompted to confirm. Within a user library, you can copy colors between the Global tab and the Job tab. By copying a color to the Global tab, you make the color available to all jobs. By copying a color to the Job tab, you can customize the color definition for the job without affecting the color definition for other jobs