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All Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.) work in the RGB
colour space. The RGB gamut is much broader than the gamut of a process colour
printer or press. Consequently, many colours available in Microsoft Office applications
cannot be reproduced on a process colour device.
A common area of discontent with customers who use Microsoft Office applications is
the issue of colours looking different on their display and on the printed page, ie, the
conversion from RGB colours to CMYK colours. They usually do not understand colour
and how it is produced and/or reproduced.. A typical complaint is: "My PowerPoint
background is blue – why is it printing as purple?"
Microsoft Office applications utilise a common colour palette across all applications. It
consists of a basic standard palette of 40 colours and an extended standard palette of
143 colours (including a range of greys). Custom colours are also available (use the
charts in Appendix 2 – RGB colour charts – for examples of the custom colours
available).
These palettes are shown below and can be used as a guide to how the Microsoft Office
colours are reproduced on the DocuColor 2060. Due to differences between RIPs and
their colour conversion algorithms, individual DocuColor 2060 digital colour presses,
machine set-up (eg screening), RIP options, calibration used, environment, and papers
used and their condition, these charts should be used as a guide only. The following
charts may differ somewhat from the printed results you get on your DocuColor 2060.
Therefore it’s important that you make sure you print these charts on your DocuColor
2060, utilising your RIP, settings, calibration and paper to give to clients for colour
selection and matching.
Encourage your customers to have a copy of these charts near their computer so that
they can see how the colours they select in their application will be reproduced on the
DocuColor 2060.
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APPENDIX 1:
Microsoft Office colour charts