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ES 1220n Macintosh OS 9.x Operation • 26
Macintosh OS 9.x Operation
The printer driver supplied provides several controls for altering the
color output of your printer. For general use, the Auto settings will
suffice, providing reasonable default settings that will produce good
results for most documents.
Many applications have their own color settings and these may
override the settings in the printer driver. Please refer to the
documentation for your software application for details on how that
particular program’s color management functions.
This section will only detail options as they apply to the LaserWriter
8 driver. Refer to manufacturer’s guidelines regarding other driver
operations, for example the AdobePS driver.
Color Print Matching
Factors That Affect the Appearance of Printed Documents
If you wish to manually adjust the color settings in your printer driver,
please be aware that color reproduction is a complex topic, and there
are many factors to take into consideration. Some of the most
important factors are listed below.
Differences between the Range of Colors a Monitor or
Printer Can Reproduce
• Neither a printer nor a monitor is capable of reproducing the full
range of colors visible to the human eye. Each device is restricted
to a certain range of colors. In addition to this, a printer cannot
reproduce all of the colors displayed on a monitor, and vice versa.
• Both devices use very different technologies to represent color. A
monitor uses Red, Green and Blue (RGB) phosphors (or LCDs),
a printer uses Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK) toner or
ink.