Configure substitute colors
A substitute color resides in a special type of spot color group called a substitute group. For a substitute color, you specify the CMYK value of the original color and the CMYK value of the color that substitutes for the original color.
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Open Device Center in one
of the following ways:
- Click the More icon (three vertical dots) next to the server name in the Servers pane.
- Double-click the server name in the Servers pane.
- Click Server > Device Center.
- Right-click the server name and select Device Center.
- Click Spot Colors under Resources.
- If a substitute group already exists, select the substitute group and skip to 6. Otherwise, to create a substitute group, select the location in the color group list where you want to place the new substitute group.
- Click New and select Substitute Group.
- Type a name for the group and click OK.
- Select the location in the color list where you want to place the new substitute color.
- Click New and select Substitute Color.
- Select a color mode for specifying the original color value.
- Type the values for the original color. Use the Tab key to move from one field to the next.
- Under Converted, click Edit.
- Type the values for the converted color and click OK.
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Select a tolerance degree for the
original color.
Tolerance determines how close a particular color must be to the original color to match. Small and Large are defined as follows:
Color mode
Small tolerance range
Large tolerance range
CMYK (0-100%)
+/- 0.25%
+/- 0.5%
RGB (Device Code 0-255)
+/- 0.25
+/- 1
RGB (0-100%)
+/- 0.25%
+/- 0.5%
Note: Tolerance does not affect the substituted color. - Click OK.
Parent topic: Substitute
colors