Optimize a device link (iterative match to a standard)

To match your Fiery-driven printer to an industry standard, create a device link profile that simulates the standard as its source profile. Device Linker can optimize the device link profile to target the color values that the standard specifies.

Be sure that a CMYK source profile that simulates the target standard is installed on the Fiery Server. Use Printer Profiler to calibrate and profile the Fiery Server before you create the device link profile.

Device Linker creates a device link profile and lets you further optimize for your printer by measuring a patch page to determine the current state of your printer and incorporating the measurements into the device link conversion. You can repeat the printing and measuring of the patch page to progressively fine-tune the optimization with each iteration.

If iterative optimization does not result in printed colors that more closely match the standard, it might be for one of the following reasons:

The printer is not performing up to its capabilities (not reaching the maximum toner or ink densities).
The printer is not capable of printing to the target standard even performing at its best. The colors in the standard are out of the gamut of the printer.

In Color Profiler Suite, start Device Linker.
Click Optimize a device link (Iterative match to a standard) and click Next.
Select the Fiery Server.
Click Create a new device link profile, select a source profile that is associated with the target standard (for example, ISO Coated), select the new output profile that you created in Printer Profiler, and click Next.
Click Next to accept the default settings.
Follow the on-screen instructions to print and measure a patch page using the spectrophotometer.
When you print the page, do not change any color settings.
When the measurement results are displayed, click Iterate to further optimize the profile.
With each iteration, you print a patch page using the optimization from the previous iteration and measure the page to determine how closely the colors match the standard.
Continue to print and measure patch pages until the measured delta E values are within your desired tolerances.
If an iteration results in higher delta E values, delete the iteration and proceed with saving the profile.
Click Next to name the new profile, and then click Next to install the profile on the Fiery Server with the associated profile settings.
Click Done to close Device Linker.

If you decide that you would like to further optimize this device link profile, you can perform this procedure again, selecting the same profile to edit rather than creating a new one.