Create a common calibration and output profile

For printers of the same model, Fiery Print Matcher uses color measurements from all of the printers to create a common calibration goal and output profile. For a new common calibration, you measure calibration pages and profiling pages, then create a common calibration goal, and then print and measure profiling pages for each Fiery server in the list.

A calibration goal specifies the target density values for a Fiery server. The calibration goal specifies the maximum densities of C, M, Y, and K that all of the printers can print.
The output profile represents the common color space between the printers. In other words, the output profile specifies only the colors that all of the printers can print.

You specify which printers to match by adding to the Fiery server list during a session and giving the session a name. You use the session name if you update the calibration later. (If you update an existing calibration, you cannot change the list or the session name.)

You can specify just one printer if you want to create a new calibration using a measurement instrument that Print Matcher supports instead of matching printers.

Print Matcher installs the resulting calibration goal and output profile on each Fiery server.

Note: You can exclude the measurements of one or more printers when calculating the calibration goal. Excluded printers are not profiled. If you exclude a printer from the common calibration, you can include it when you update the common calibration.

In the course of the common calibration workflow, a CMYK source profile is also specified. At the conclusion of the common calibration workflow, a server preset is created on each Fiery server. The server preset can be selected to print with the common calibration, output profile, source profile, and all print settings used to create the output profile.

Create a new common calibration

Creating a new calibration starts with naming the session, choosing each Fiery server, and printing a page that you can use to measure the printer’s current color output (the maximum densities of C, M, Y, and K).

Click Printer Match in the Fiery Color Profiler Suite window.
Click New common calibration, and then click Next.
Type a name for this session.
Click the plus sign (+) to add each Fiery server for each printer that you want to match.
If you wish to conduct G7 calibration, select the check box.
The G7 gray balance calibration target check box is not selected by default.
Select a CMYK source profile from the list and click Next.
CMYK source profile will be used to create server preset and to print profile test page.
In the Calibration print settings window, specify the calibration chart you wish to use, page size, and measurement instrument, and click Next.
Specify settings for printing the calibration job and click Print.
Retrieve the printed calibration page and follow the on-screen instructions to measure the page.
Note: You can save the measurements, quit Print Matcher, and then resume this procedure later. Use Resume measuring session when you restart Print Matcher.
Print and measure a calibration page for each additional Fiery server that you are matching.

Review calibration results

After you review calibration measurements, you can repeat measurements or exclude measurements from the calibration calculations.

Print Matcher does not install the common calibration goal and common output profile on an excluded Fiery server. If you exclude a printer from the common calibration, you can include it when you update the common calibration at a later time.

Review the calibration results, and click Next.
If any results are questionable, click Reprint next to the results to reprint and remeasure a calibration page for the specific Fiery server.
If desired, adjust the control for Enhance common calibration stability.
This control will reduce the target densities by up to 5% so that if you are matching new printers you can add a small gamut reduction to make sure the printers continue to match as they age. The recommended stabilization setting is 2%.
(Optional) If any results are out of the expected range after you repeat the measurement, exclude the Fiery server by clearing the Include check box next to the results.

Create a common output profile

After creating the common calibration and reviewing the results, continue to create the common output profile.

If any results are questionable after you review the results, you can reprint the pages and measure again.

After you save the profile, Fiery Print Matcher installs it on each Fiery server.

Specify settings for the profiling pages, and then click Next. Profiling pages are printed with the common calibration applied.
After the profiling job is printed, click OK.
Retrieve the profiling pages from the printer and follow the on-screen instructions to measure the pages.
Note: You can save the measurements, quit Fiery Print Matcher, and then resume this procedure later. Use Resume measuring session when you restart Fiery Print Matcher.
Print and measure profiling pages for each additional Fiery server that you are matching.
Review the profiling results, and then click Next.
Profiling pages include multiple patches of the same color. The dE average and dE maximum values (Delta E) summarize the variation in measurements of the same color.

You can click Inspect measurements to look at the measurement data in Profile Inspector.
In the Apply Settings window, import settings from an existing profile, and then click Next. For more information about importing settings, see Load settings.
In the Save Profile window, specify the profile description, media, and any comments desired. Click Next.
By default, the profile description is the name of the printer matching session.
To check your printer matching results, click Test Print to print a color test page to each Fiery server.