Use the "Filter" dialog to select which filter is applied when previewing and printing the job. Click the [Filter] button to open the dialog. In the "Filter" dialog (Figure 2), you can set the following options.

• Job Settings - This option lets you determine which filter is used when printing a job. Check the [Apply Filter when Printing Job] check-box to apply a Color Correction Filter to the job. Select the filter you want to use from the pull-down menu.
• Display - This option determines which Color Correction Filter is used when previewing an image in Job Editor.

 

To start the Filter Manager, click [Manager].

The [Tools] option changes the primary tool used in the [Color Correction] Tab (Figure 3). You can choose any of the following tools:

• Primary Color Levels - This option allows you to modify the amount of saturation for each primary color channel. Click [Primary Color Curves] button for modification.
• Color/Gray Levels - This option allows you to adjust the color composition of an image by altering the contrast, brightness, and saturation of your colors and the highlights, mid-tones, and shadows of your grays.
• White/Black Limits - This option cleans up your image without introducing contrast.
• Color Replacement - This option allows you to replace one color with another.

• Named Color Replacements – This option allows you to replace one named color such as "PANTONE 3935 C" and "Spot 1" that you created with Device values. You can add other named colors clicking [Insert] button.

• Spot Layer Tool - This option is generally used to print with White Inks.
• Sample Point - This option allows you to determine any CMYK value in your image by hovering your cursor over a point on your image. The Before and After values represent the difference in color after a Color Correction Filter has been applied.

 

NOTE: For the [Spot Layer Tool] to work, you must have both a printer and a media that support Spot Colors.

The [Filter] options allow you to quickly control your current filter settings.

• Set Filter as Current - Sets your current settings as the filter for your job.
• Reset Filter - Removes all of your settings and restores the default settings.