Specify profile settings in Device Linker

When you create a device link profile using Device Linker, you set rendering intent and separation options that affect how Device Linker maps color values from source to destination. Device Linker saves these settings in the device link profile.

Separation options affect how Device Linker determines the output’s C, M, Y, and K components. Some of these options affect color accuracy and are therefore not available when color matching is the goal.

Black point compensation - Scales the lightness of all input colors to fit the range of lightness in the output profile, rather than clipping them. This preserves black gradients, such as shadows. Black point compensation applies to all rendering intents except the Absolute Colorimetric rendering intent.
Preserve gray - Preserves RGB gray (R=G=B) or CMYK gray (CMY=0, K not zero) on the input and does not convert to black-only. This option does not apply if you are creating a device link profile to match two printers or to match to a standard.
Preserve clean CMY primaries - Prints pure cyan, magenta, or yellow input colors as pure cyan, magenta, or yellow. This option applies only if source and destination profiles are both CMYK and you are not creating a device link profile to match two printers or to match to a standard.
Black Separation - Black separationn applies only if source and destination profiles are both CMYK and you are not creating a device link profile to match two printers or to match to a standard.

If you select Preserve from document (Source GCR) when the total ink limit of the source profile is higher than the total ink limit of the destination profile, the ink limit of the device link profile will be higher than the original ink limit of the destination profile. If you want the ink limit of the device link profile to match the ink limit of the destination profile, select Same as destination profile (Output GCR) instead. It is not necessary to match the ink limit of the destination profile when printing to most types of Fiery Server for laser printers.

Note: When you match to a standard, Device Linker automatically sets the options that affect color accuracy.

In the Rendering Intent pane, click the rendering intent to use with the each link’s destination profile.
Set the separation options as they apply to your device link profile:
- For Black point compensation - Click Auto-detect to apply black point compensation only when the input black point is lower (darker) than the output black point. Click Always to always apply black point compensation.
- For Black Separation - Click Same as destination profile (Output GCR) to re-separate input colors using the black channel of the destination profile. Click Preserve from document (Source GCR) to preserve the black channel of the source profile.