Color Settings

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In Location of Color Engine Database, choose where your color management database is located. Choose one of the following:

Obtain from Esko server: Select this option if your database is located on an Esko server. Enter the server's name and click the Check button. The application will attempt to retrieve the CMS share location from the Esko server. If it fails, an error message appears. If it succeeds, you can view the path details below.
On remote computer: Select this option if your database is located on a different computer than the one you are using. Enter the name of this remote computer, which must be accessible through the network. If you select this option, the application will then look for resources on this computer.
On local computer: Select this option if your color database is located on the computer running your Color Engine Pilot application.

You will see the location of the color settings you defined in Path details.

Attention: You must restart your Color Engine Pilot application after changing the color settings location.

Default

Default Illuminant

The Color Engine Pilot offers a number of dialog boxes where you can specify the illuminant under which the color match is done, for example in the Compare tool, Gamut View, Device Links and Color Strategies.

If the illuminant under which you are matching colors is different from D50 (for example D65), you can specify this here and all dialog boxes use this illuminant as default.

Note: You can only match under an illuminant different from ‘CIE Illuminant D50’ if you use profiles with spectral data. This is not the case for ICC profiles.

Tip: Click the

button to view the Illuminant information.

Default Delta E Formula

The Delta E is a number indicating the accuracy of a color match. The lower the Delta E, the closer the two colors are to each other.

Select the formula to calculate Delta E when comparing colors (this default formula is used in the Compare Tool, Gamut Check, and Color Strategies...):

CIELab Delta E (classic)
Delta E 94
Delta E 2000
CMC (1:1)
CMC (2:1)

If your company is already using one of those formulas, we recommend that you use the same one.

If not, you should use the most recent one, Delta E 2000, which is the best reflection of the visual difference between colors.

Default Density Standard: If you are using a densitometer, select the density standard set on it.

Preferred Ink Book: When typing an ink name (for example in a Color Strategy's Exceptions list), the Color Engine Pilot will first look for that ink in the ink book you select here. By default this is set to the designer ink book.

Monitor Profile: You can choose a monitor profile from the Color Engine Pilot database to improve color display. However, you should never judge color accuracy on a monitor as this will not reflect your final output.

Refine Inks

The Refine Inks preferences are used by the Refine Inks wizard. We recommend you define a company policy for these and set them in the Preferences, rather than having to set them every time you run the wizard.

Consider ink out of gamut when Delta E is greater than:

When selecting inks to refine, inks that are outside the destination profile's gamut by more than this value are considered out of gamut (this means that there is this amount of Delta E between the ink and the closest color in the profile). The default value is 2.0 Delta E.

Consider ink on target when Delta E is greater than:

After a refinement cycle, the wizard will list which inks are still out of gamut and which are on target. Inks are considered on target when they can be printed with a Delta E smaller than the one you set here. The default value is 1.0 Delta E.