Oki C3400n User Manual

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C3400n Userís Guide54Color PrintingThe printer drivers supplied with your printer provide severalcontrols for changing the color output. For general use theautomatic settings will suffice, providing reasonable defaultsettings that will produce good results for most documents.Many applications have their own color settings, and thesemay override the settings in the printer driver. Please refer tothe documentation for your software application for details onhow that particular programís color management functions.Factors that affect the appearance of printsIf you wish to manually adjust the color settings in your printerdriver, please be aware that color reproduction is a complextopic, and there are many factors to take into consideration.Some of the most important factors are listed below.Differences between the range of colors a monitor orprinter can reproduce> Neither a printer nor a monitor is capable of reproducing the fullrange of colors visible to the human eye. Each device is restrictedto a certain range of colors. In addition to this, a printer cannotreproduce all of the colors displayed on a monitor, and vice versa.> Both devices use very different technologies to represent color. Amonitor uses Red, Green and Blue (RGB) phosphors (or LCDs), aprinter uses Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK) toner orink.> A monitor can display very vivid colors such as intense reds andblues and these cannot be easily produced on any printer usingtoner or ink. Similarly, there are certain colors, (some yellows forexample), that can be printed, but cannot be displayedaccurately on a monitor. This disparity between monitors andprinters is often the main reason that printed colors do not matchthe colors displayed on screen.