QuickLabel Vivo! Touch - Manual (Page 20)

Introduction
6 Vivo! Touch User Guide
available for the Vivo! Touch, and QuickLabel Systems can create dies for almost
any shape you can imagine.
• Materials - The Vivo! Touch can print on a wide variety of materials, for a wide
variety of applications. QuickLabel Systems has created color profiles for all
materials qualified for the Vivo! Touch to ensure accurate printing.
Color Basics
Color in design and printing is a sophisticated topic. At QuickLabel Systems, we have
worked to make using the Vivo! Touch digital color label printer as easy as possible.
We understand that your goal is to design and print colorful, effective labels with
consistency.
Color and Computers
While colors seem straightforward, describing colors using computers is not so simple.
Different monitor technologies can cause the same file to look different, and sometimes
different graphics programs or operating systems can display colors differently.
With printers there is frequently a difference between what is shown on a computer
screen and what comes out of the printer. The same file printed on printers using
different technologies may look very different as well.
Color Profiling
These technical differences are universal, and as a result of them, software developers,
monitor manufacturers, and printer manufacturers have worked together to develop a
way to successfully describe and use color taking into consideration the different
technologies involved. This is called color profiling.
Color profiles have been developed to coordinate how each device displays or prints
that color. When using the proper profiles, color can be relatively consistent across
devices.
Color cannot be perfectly consistent because the human eye can see more colors than
computer monitors can display or printers can print. What’s more, the ranges of colors
available to monitors and printers don’t completely overlap.