HP (Hewlett-Packard) 4550 Series Printer User Manual


 
114 Using color EN
Some of the PANTONE
®
* colors will not match exactly. There are
over 945 PANTONE
®
* colors in the PANTONE
®
* Matching System.
These colors were created using sixteen inks on a lithographic
printing press. Not all of these colors are reproducible by a laser color
printer because they are out of a laser printer's 4-color range (gamut).
PAN TO NE
®
* calibrates HP printers to provide the closest match for
all the colors we can reproduce and provide the colors closest to
those we cannot reproduce.
Note This feature requires the use of the PostScript 3 Emulation printer
driver. It utilizes a function in the PostScript language for describing
custom colors like PANTONE
®
* that is unique to PostScript and not
present in the PCL data stream. PANTONE
®
* colors are used mostly
in publishing environments by applications such as QuarkXpress and
Adobe InDesign that tend to use PostScript only.