If the Control Bar feature is supported by your Fiery Server, you can add a static color bar and dynamic job information to each printed page at the user-defined location.

This is useful for proofing and checking the color accuracy of a job. You can set the feature as a server default or override specific settings on a per‑job basis.

The default Control Bar fits the Fiery Server default paper size, Letter/A4, or larger. You can create Control Bars for other paper sizes. Many jobs print satisfactorily with the default Control Bar, but if you require your own color bars, create them by defining a custom Control Bar.

Duplicating a Control Bar displays all the values of the original Control Bar. You can edit and save the duplicate as a custom Control Bar. Every page produced by the Fiery Server has a System Page Size. No two Control Bars can use the same System Page Size values. These two numbers represent the width and height of the page, in points, as processed by the system. If you edit and save a Control Bar as a custom Control Bar without changing these values, a warning message is displayed.

A Control Bar is not a part of a job, so a document can be printed with one Control Bar and then with another one if the Control Bar definition has changed. To keep the Control Bar and reuse it later, you must save the changes as a custom Control Bar.

You can use the Control Bar, in conjunction with analytical tools such as Fiery Color Profiler Suite, to evaluate color quality.