Spot Pro is a comprehensive program for creating, managing, and editing spot colors. Spot Pro allows you to edit spot color definitions on the Fiery server and create custom spot color definitions. Spot colors are a part of the Spot Pro feature. If Spot Pro is available for your Fiery server and is enabled, you can adjust and manage lists of spot colors and their CMYK equivalents.

Command WorkStation has an internal spot color library which automatically manages the spot colors of all major spot color manufacturers. If you load a job that contains a spot color that is not known to Command WorkStation, you must define it before you can print the job correctly.

Spot Pro pre-loads the Fiery server libraries of named colors such as those from PANTONE, HKS, TOYO, and DIC. The spot color libraries store the original colors with their device-independent definitions (L*a*b* values). For each output profile on the Fiery server, Spot Pro computes the best available CMYK reproduction of each spot color. Each time a new profile is generated or updated, Spot Pro automatically recalculates the best CMYK equivalents and converted L*a*b* values.

You can create a list of “substitute” colors. These are colors that, when called for in a document by their RGB or CMYK values, are substituted with a different color having the CMYK values from the Spot Pro color definition. This permits exact color control and overrides individual RGB and CMYK colors.