You can print a selected spot color and a number of neighboring colors that have slightly different hues and saturation or brightness levels from the original spot color. You can choose a spot color variation to replace the original spot color in your jobs.

It is useful to print spot color variations because a perfect ∆E match does not always result in a perfect visual match, due to the non-uniformity of the L*a*b* color space. A spot color that looks color accurate on one media may yield a visibly incorrect color result on a different media.

When you create spot color variations with Spot Pro, you can choose to display 21 variations or 70 variations, including the original spot color. Choosing 21 variations creates three groups of seven color patches in a honeycomb pattern. The center patch of the middle group is the original spot color. Each of the surrounding six color patches is a variation of the original spot color in the hue directions of cyan, green, yellow, red, magenta, and blue respectively.

The two outer groups of color patches represent an increase and decrease either in saturation or in brightness, whichever you select.

When you choose to display 70 variations, Spot Pro creates a 5 x 14 rectangular pattern. The center patch in the rectangular pattern is the original spot color.