You can print a selected spot color and a number of neighboring colors with hues that vary slightly from the original spot color. You can choose a spot color variation that better matches the desired visual appearance of the spot color to replace the original spot color in your jobs.

It is useful to print spot color variations because a recipe predicted based on the calibration and selected output profile resulting in a minimum ∆E match does not always result in a perfect visual match due to the printer having deviated from its current calibration and selected output profile or inherent limitations of the output profile. A spot color that looks color accurate on one media will sometimes yield a visibly incorrect color result on a different media.

When you create spot color variations, Spot Pro displays an octagon of the original spot color with color arrows you can click to adjust the original spot color in the hue directions of cyan, green, yellow, orange, red, magenta, violet, and blue and black and white arrows you can click to adjust the lightness of the original spot color.