Kodak 8660 - COLOR CONNECTOR GUIDE User manual

CONTENTS

INDEX

HELP

Operator’s Guide

Printing Guide

Color Management

Calibration

Color Management

Options

Using Color

Connector

Menus and Dialog

Boxes

Network

Interface Guide

Color Management Options

The Kodak Professional 8660 thermal printer (8660 printer) produces

accurate and consistent color. Since the 8660 printer produces such

accurate and consistent color, you may not need to use the printer’s color

management feature. However, if you wish to use color management, the

CD that is shipped with the printer includes Kodak Professional Colorﬂow

ICC color connector software (color connector) that you can install on

your host computer.

Color Connector

When you use Adobe Photoshop, the colors you see on your monitor may

appear differently from the colors in the output from your printer. In

addition, both may appear differently from your original image. White

clouds in a scanned photograph may appear yellow on your computer

monitor and change to a greenish tint on your printed copy.

This inconsistency occurs because the methods used to reproduce color

vary signiﬁcantly. Monitors and scanners represent colors as a

combination of red, green, and blue (RGB), while printers produce color

by using various combinations of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black

(CMYK). Input and output devices are also limited by the range of colors

they can produce.

CONTENTS

INDEX

HELP

Operator’s Guide

Printing Guide

Color Management

Calibration

Color Management

Options

Using Color

Connector

Menus and Dialog

Boxes

Network

Interface Guide

Color connector is a stand-alone application that allows you to make

prints that match the colors produced by an input device such as a

scanner or monitor. It also allows you to simulate a job as if it were

printed on a commercial printing press.

You do this by combining transforms to create documents which contain

color management information speciﬁc to the input device you are using

such as a scanner, digital camera, or your monitor, and your output device

such as the 8660 printer.

Creating Color Connector Files

You create color connector ﬁles by extracting source transforms,

simulation transforms, and destination transforms from ICC proﬁles.

These transforms are represented as “puzzle pieces.” Drag each selected

puzzle piece to an empty socket in the color connector template for your

job. Each type of transform is represented by a particular shape. Match

the shape of the transform with the shape of the socket in the template.

With color connector you can color manage multiple source images on a

single page.The template contains six sockets to allow separate color

management for the six different kinds of source images.

The color connector ﬁle you create can be applied to your print job or

stored in the printer as a default.

Refer to Using Color Connector for complete instructions on how to use

this color management software.

CONTENTS

INDEX

HELP

Operator’s Guide

Printing Guide

Color Management

Calibration

Color Management

Options

Using Color

Connector

Menus and Dialog

Boxes

Network

Interface Guide

Using Color Connector

This section describes how to use the Kodak Professional Colorﬂow ICC

color connector (color connector) as an assembly tool to create color

connector ﬁles.

IMPORTANT: The dialog boxes in this section show color connector

software used with other Kodak Professional thermal

printers that use different ribbon and media combinations.

The dialog boxes for color connector software used with the

8660 printer look similar and have identical functionality.

System Requirements

Listed below are the hardware and software necessary to run color

connector.

Macintosh Systems

•

60 MHz PowerPC or higher processor with a minimum of 16 MB of

memory. (A 150 MHz PowerPC 604e processor with 32 MB of memory

is recommended.)

•

Macintosh operating system 7.6.1 or higher operating system.

(Macintosh operating system 8.0 is recommended.)

•

a monitor with a minimum spatial resolution of 640 x 480 pixels.

•

a video system with a minimum resolution of 256 colors.

CONTENTS

INDEX

HELP

Operator’s Guide

Printing Guide

Color Management

Calibration

Color Management

Options

Using Color

Connector

Menus and Dialog

Boxes

Network

Interface Guide

Windows Systems

•

60 MHz Pentium processor with a minimum of 16 MB of memory. (A 100

MHz Pentium processor with 32 MB of memory is recommended.)

•

Windows 95/98, Windows NT 4.0/5.0

•

a monitor with a minimum spatial resolution of 640 x 480 pixels

standard VGA).

•

a video system with a minimum color resolution of 256 colors.

ICC Proﬁles

The color management information you need to create color connector

ﬁles is contained in the ICC Proﬁles.The proﬁles, an industry standard

format for color management, are deﬁned by the International Color

Consortium. They contain multiple pieces of color information for input,

output, and display devices.This information is individually extracted from

the proﬁles and appears as puzzle pieces in the Transforms list box in the

color connector window.

ICC proﬁles are included on the software CD that came with your printer.

The proﬁles for the 8660 printer for each media combination are installed

automatically with the color connector application. Other common ICC

proﬁles are also included on the CD. Copy the proﬁles you wish to use to

the folder containing the proﬁles that were installed with the color

connector application. See the readme ﬁle for color connector for a listing

of the ICC Proﬁles included on the CD.

CONTENTS

INDEX

HELP

Operator’s Guide

Printing Guide

Color Management

Calibration

Color Management

Options

Using Color

Connector

Menus and Dialog

Boxes

Network

Interface Guide

Steps to Create Color Connector Files

Run color

connector

application

Select and

drag

transforms to

template

Select desired

color connector

options

Save the color

connector file

Send color

connector file

to printer as

a default

Print using color

connector file

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

CONTENTS

INDEX

HELP

Operator’s Guide

Printing Guide

Color Management

Calibration

Color Management

Options

Using Color

Connector

Menus and Dialog

Boxes

Network

Interface Guide

Color Connector Window

When you access the color connector application, the color connector

window appears. From this window you can create your color connector

ﬁles. For descriptions of the menu items and dialog boxes used in the

color connector application, refer to “Menus and Dialog Boxes.”

Options

Transforms List

Template

Sockets

CONTENTS

INDEX

HELP

Operator’s Guide

Printing Guide

Color Management

Calibration

Color Management

Options

Using Color

Connector

Menus and Dialog

Boxes

Network

Interface Guide

Getting Ready to Use Color Connector

The following steps describe how to get started with color connector.

NOTE: The illustrations in this section show Windows dialog boxes.The

dialog boxes for Macintosh are similar and have identical

functionality.

Install the software for color connector and the printing software

including the export module. The software is included on the CD that

came with your printer.

Put any additional ICC Proﬁles in the folder containing your ICC

Proﬁles that were shipped with the printer. The default folder for the

ICC Proﬁles is:

•

for Windows systems, Windows\System\Color.

•

for Macintosh systems:

–

if you are using ColorSync

2.1, System

Folder:Preferences:ColorSync

Proﬁles.

–

if you are using ColorSync

2.5, System Folder:ColorSync

Proﬁles.

NOTE: Before you use color connector for the ﬁrst time, you may wish to

complete the tutorial that is included on the CD.

Start the color connector application.

CONTENTS

INDEX

HELP

Operator’s Guide

Printing Guide

Color Management

Calibration

Color Management

Options

Using Color

Connector

Menus and Dialog

Boxes

Network

Interface Guide

The color connector window appears.

CONTENTS

INDEX

HELP

Operator’s Guide

Printing Guide

Color Management

Calibration

Color Management

Options

Using Color

Connector

Menus and Dialog

Boxes

Network

Interface Guide

Pull down the File menu, and select “Preferences”.

Click on

Browse (Select

Macintosh

)

in the Printer

export modules folder

portion of the Preferences

dialog box.A ﬁle selection

dialog box appears.

Locate the Plug-ins

(Printing) folder, and

select the export module

for the 8660 printer.

NOTE: For descriptions of the options in the Default settings for new

connector ﬁles box, refer to “Menus and Dialog Boxes.”

Follow the procedures on the following screens to build your own color

connector ﬁles.

CONTENTS

INDEX

HELP

Operator’s Guide

Printing Guide

Color Management

Calibration

Color Management

Options

Using Color

Connector

Menus and Dialog

Boxes

Network

Interface Guide

Creating a Color Connector File

Select puzzle pieces from the

list of transforms (on the left

side of the color connector

window) that represent the

sources of color data.

The puzzle pieces are extracted

from the ICC Proﬁles. Drag the

pieces to the appropriate

Source Transforms sockets in

the template on the right side of

the color connector window.

The template has six sockets for source transforms.You can apply

independent color management to up to six different kinds of sources

in one job:

•

RGB, CMY, and grayscale pixel images such as TIFF ﬁles or

scanned photographs.

•

RGB, CMY, and grayscale graphic images such as EPS ﬁles or text.

IMPORTANT: If your ﬁle contains a source that uses PANTONE

Color,

leave the socket empty for that color space.

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