About Spot Color
You can use Color Centro to create and edit spot colors.
Meaning and Purpose of Spot Colors
Spot colors specified by the application are replaced by and printed in CMYK colors according to the spot color table.
Tips
The image controller is provided with a spot color table for printing DIC, CF, HKS, and PANTONE spot colors in CMYK colors.
Using Color Centro, you can create, register and edit new spot colors and spot color tables. This function allows you to add custom spot colors that are not registered in the machine's spot color table, and adjust and replace colors that are not reproduced as desired.
When to perform
[Registering a New Spot Color]
When you want to use custom spot colors for printing
When you want to use spot colors that are not registered in the table
[Editing Spot Colors]
When a spot color is not reproduced as desired
When you want to adjust the coloration of a spot color
When you want to replace a spot color with another color
Intended Environment
Operating system | Windows 7 |
Application | Color Centro 2.1, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC |
Image Controller | Image Controller IC-605 |
Printer driver | PS Plug-in driver |
* The sample screen may be different from the actual display depending on your system environment and application version/revision.
Workflow
Create and save a new custom spot color that is not registered in the machine's spot color table.
As an example, register a spot color called Sample Color and print out the original image with its red color replaced with C100%.
Tips
To clearly show the replacement of color, the CMYK color red is replaced by blue in this example. In actual use, you can use this function to define and replace subtly different colors.
If the spot color is not printed as desired or if you want to replace the spot color with another color, you can edit the spot color to adjust the output CMYK color.
As an example, replace the blue color in Pantone 300C with M100% for printing.
Tips
To clearly show the replacement of color, the blue color is replaced by red in this example. In actual use, you can use this function to adjust and replace subtly different colors.
Apply and print the registered/edited spot color.
Precautions
To reproduce stable colors, in addition to regular calibration, make other pre-output image quality adjustments as necessary, such as when changing screens or papers or when hue is important. For details, refer to Adjustment Flow when changing the screen, Regular adjustment flow: Normal and Regular adjustment flow: High Precision.