7 Color management
HP SmartStream provides many advanced color management features with a very simple user interface. ICC V4
and V2 color proles are fully supported for all supported le types, plus black point compensation, PDF output
intent, HP Professional PANTONE emulation, and Crystal Preview soft-proong (see Crystal Preview on page 42).
HP Professional PANTONE Emulation (HP PPE) is a technology that replaces PANTONE color names with RGB or
CMYK colors calculated specically for your printer and paper at print time, in the same way that professional
graphic artists and prepress professionals prepare PANTONE emulations by hand. The results are professional-
quality emulations of PANTONE colors that look as similar to the originals as possible with a given combination of
printer and paper.
Crystal Preview soft-proong uses the Adobe Libraries to emulate on your screen what your print will look like on
paper, using color proles provided with your printer to take account of the characteristics of paper, ink, and
printing mode.
Supported color spaces
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PDF: Any color space supported by PDF 1.7
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JPEG: Gray, RGB, CMYK, and ITU/Fax CIE L
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TIFF: Monochrome, indexed, gray, RGB, CMYK, and CIE L
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HPGL2: Adobe RGB, sRGB, and Device RGB
Color options
Color management is automatically applied by HP SmartStream to provide optimal color output. However, you
can choose between two color management options in the Preferences window (see Printer-specic preferences
on page 14):
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Relative colorimetric: This is the default option. It favors more saturated colors and modern CMYK
standards. It uses relative colorimetric rendering intent and black point compensation, sRGB IEC 61966-2.1
as the default RGB color space, and ISO Coated v2 as the default CMYK color space.
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Perceptual: This option provides color consistency with a printer using a PostScript driver. It uses perceptual
rendering intent, sRGB IEC 61966-2.1 as the default RGB color space, and SWOP as the default CMYK color
space.
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