Oki C3530 User Manual

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C3530 MFP User’s GuideColor Printing > 130COLOR PRINTINGThe printer drivers supplied with your MFP 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 these mayoverride the settings in the printer driver. Please refer to thedocumentation for your software application for details on howthat particular program’s 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 colorsa monitor or printer can reproduce> Neither a printer nor a monitor is capable of reproducingthe full range of colors visible to the human eye. Eachdevice is restricted to a certain range of colors. In additionto this, a printer cannot reproduce all of the colorsdisplayed on a monitor, and vice versa.> Both devices use very different technologies to representcolor. A monitor uses Red, Green and Blue (RGB)phosphors (or LCDs), a printer uses Cyan, Magenta,Yellow and Black (CMYK) toner or ink.> A monitor can display very vivid colors such as intensereds and blues and these cannot be easily produced onany printer using toner or ink. Similarly, there are certaincolors, (some yellows for example), that can be printed,but cannot be displayed accurately on a monitor. Thisdisparity between monitors and printers is often the mainreason that printed colors do not match the colorsdisplayed on screen.Viewing conditionsA print can look very different under different lighting conditions.For example, the colors in a print may look different when viewed