Fiery Color Profiler Suite Help

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Print patch pages for profiling

To create a profile in Fiery Printer Profiler, you must specify print options and other settings for sending the patch pages to the printer.

If you plan to print multiple sets of patch pages and average the measurements, you can specify the number of sets. (You can use the average of the measurements to create the profile.)

Note: Before you print the pages, you can specify other print settings, such as media and halftone. Do not change any color management settings.
  1. In the Print Settings window, select the measurement instrument in the Instrument list.
  2. (Optional) If you want to make specific settings for the measurement instrument, click Settings.
  3. (Optional) If you want to make specific settings for the patch layout page when using large patches, click Patch settings.

    The patch layout can be changed for a Fiery XF server version 7.0 or later when using the inline calender attachment. Use of the inline calender can cause outgassing that affects the original color patch pages used for calibration. Color patch pages with increased spacing between the rows are substituted for the original color patch pages.

    You can change the patch layout settings when connected to the following measurements intruments only:
    • EFI ES-2000
    • Fiery ES-3000
    • Fiery ES-6000 (Ethernet)
    • X-Rite i1Pro 2
    • X-Rite i1Pro3
    • X-Rite i1Pro 3 Plus
    • X-Rite i1iO3
    • X-Rite i1iO3+
    • Barbieri Spectro LFP
    • Barbieri Spectro LFP qb
    • Konica Minolta MYIRO-1
    • Konica Minolta MYIRO-9
    • Ricoh Auto Color Adjuster
  4. Choose a patch layout in the Patch Layout list.

    ICC standard targets are the basis for some of the common patch layouts:

    • Recommended

      • A recommended Fiery Edge patch layout chart is listed. When listing the recommended patch layout chart, Fiery Color Profiler Suite considers your measurement instrument, sheet size, and calibration set. The number of patches and expected pages will be displayed.

    • Fiery Edge alternatives

      • Dynamically generated patch layout charts are listed in order of the number of patches. You can choose from four patch layouts.

    • Industry Standard
      • IT8.7/5 (1617 patches) - The 1617 target is a CMYK printer characterization target combining the unique patch values in the standard IT8.7/4 target with all the patch values in columns 4 and 5 of the P2P51 target.
      • IT8.7/4 (1617 patches) or IT8.7/4 (1617 sorted layout) - Are similar to the 928-patch layouts but provide more data. The sorted layout helps to reduce potential bias caused by color variation across the page.
    Note: To use a patch layout that is not available in Printer Profiler, you can print and measure patch pages with Verifier and then import the measurements in Printer Profiler.
  5. Select a media size in the Paper size or Chart size list, or click Custom to set a custom size.

    In Fiery XF, the media size is set up for the printer in System Manager.

  6. To print multiple sets of patch pages and measure them, specify Number of sets.
  7. Click Next and save the ID for the measurement pages.
Parent topic: Fiery Printer Profiler