Color Adjustment
- Overview of Color Adjustment
Color Matching: Matching the Target Colors
- About Color Matching
- Executing Color Matching
Color Management: Stabilizing Color Reproducibility
- About Color Management
- Color Management Adjustment Flow
- Performing Quality Adjustment
- Image Quality Adjustment Using Color Centro
Adjusting the Image Quality
- Controller Calibration
- Executing Advanced Controller Calibration (Exact Color)
- Executing Advanced Controller Calibration (G7)
- Registering the Output Profile (Printer Profile)
- Color Validation
- Spot Color: Printing in Special Colors
- Registering Alternative Colors (Changing RGB colors to CMYK colors)
- Registering Alternative Colors (Changing CMYK Colors to Different CMYK Colors)
- Tone Curve: Adjusting the Brightness and Contrast
- Color Default Settings
- Register a Color Configuration
- Changing the Screen
- Auto Image Adjustment Function

Tone curve setting from printer driver

Assumed environment and workflow
Setting printer driver

Assumed environment and workflow

Select a tone curve in the printer driver, and then print.

Function Introduced in This Section

Tone Curve is a function to adjust brightness and contrast by controlling the input-output density curve for each of CMYK colors.

Once tone curves adjusted in various conditions are registered in the image controller, those registered tone curves can be called and applied at the time of printing.

Reference

Using Color Centro allows tone curve adjustment and registration to the image controller. (Refer to Adjusting Tone Curves.)

Intended Environment

Operating system	Windows 7
Application	Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
Printer driver	PS Plug-in Driver
Image Controller	Image Controller IC-605

* The sample screen may be different from the actual display depending on your system environment and application version/revision.

Workflow

Setting printer driver

Related Section

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.

Setting printer driver

Call a tone curve registered to the image controller and then set it for the printer.

Open the original data with the application, and then click Print on the File menu.
Select the printer to use for printing and click Properties.
Click the Management tab, and then click Acquire Color Management Data.
When the color management data is acquired, a green checkmark is displayed.
- supplementary explanationIf the Management tab is not displayed, click to switch the tab display.
- supplementary explanationIf the color management data could not be acquired, a red x mark is displayed.
Click Manual Settings, and then click Optional Settings.
- supplementary explanationIf Use Default Setting of Selected Color Configuration under Optional Settings is checked, remove the check. If this is checked, tone curve cannot be selected.
Under Tone Curve, select the tone curve you wish to apply and click OK.
You can set a tone curve for Image and Text/Graphics separately.
On the Print screen, enter the Copies and click Print.
The document is printed based on the called tone curve.