Specialty color mixing and output profiles
Editing with specialty color is offered for all the spot color groups (custom and factory), it is not limited to just one group. It is not supported for substitute color groups.
Keep in mind the following when using specialty color values per output profile:
- The specialty color values will stay with the specific output profile. For example, when the user edits a spot color with silver, and changes the output profile, the silver will not be retained for that profile. Specialty color information is output profile specific. If the user changes the output profile, the specialty color information changes.
- The specialty color information is retained on the Fiery server for each output profile and is retrieved when the corresponding output profile is selected.
- Specialty color printing is supported only for swatch book and is not available for variation print.
Limitations
- Variations for spot colors with a specialty color component will not reproduce the specialty color component.
- Optimization of spot colors with a specialty color component will not reproduce the specialty color component, due to the limitations of measurement devices not returning reliable measurements. Spot colors will be optimized to reproduce as accurately possible to the original without a specialty color component in it.
- For installed specialty colors, if more than one specialty toner slot is enabled and if the toner slots are configured with the same specialty toner, then Spot Pro will display only one specialty toner in the user interface.
- For licensed specialty colors, if two specialty toner slots are enabled and if
the toner slots have any common specialty colors, then only the unique specialty
colors in slot 2 will be listed.
For example, if two slots, then S1 and S2 are enabled, and
- If S1 and S2 have the same list of specialty colors, then only one slot will be displayed in Spot Pro.
- If S1 and S2 contain common specialty colors configured as below:
- S1 - White, Gold, Silver
- S2 - White, Silver, Pink, Clear
then Spot Pro will display S1 slot with White, Gold and Silver colors, whereas S2 slot will only contain the unique colors - Pink and Clear.
- If both S1 and S2 contain different specialty colors with no items common between them, then both the slots are displayed with all the configured color.