QuickLabel Vivo! Touch - Manual (Page 21)

Introduction
Vivo! Touch User Guide 7
Profiles help out when these ranges don’t match; they help translate the differences to
create the widest and most accurate range of colors a device can display.
Monitor Profiling
There are devices that can help you develop profiles for your monitor to ensure that
what you see is close to what you are getting. Using Vivo! Touch profiles will help with
consistency in printing, while using both Vivo! Touch and monitor profiles will help
with the full design and printing process.
If color matching is important to you, you may consider profiling your computer
monitor.
QuickLabel Vivo! Touch Color Profiles
When printing, even the type of material printed on can change the way colors appear.
QuickLabel Systems has created color profiles for the materials you will be using in
order to offer you the most accurate color reproduction possible.
Designing With Color
When designing in color, ensure you use colors that are within the printing gamut. The
software you are using will typically indicate when an out-of-gamut color is selected.
For example, in Adobe Photoshop, out-of-gamut colors are indicated by an
exclamation point icon in the Color palette.
Out-of-gamut colors cannot be accurately printed. There are often colors that can be
found to replace out-of-gamut colors.
A Profile for Each Device
The more of your devices that have profiles, the better. Since color is based on
technology, software, and the laws of physics, each device works with color
differently.
In addition to your graphics program and the Vivo! Touch, you may be able to add
profiles for your monitor, your digital camera, and your scanner. This will help all of
these devices use color in a coordinated way. At minimum, to use color profiling, you
need to use a color profile for the Vivo! Touch.