You need to follow a few simple steps in order to get the correct results when printing TRUMATCH colors from within Microsoft Windows applications:

(A) If you are using a PostScript compatible color printer...

...and if your software application accepts CMYK color percentages:

The leading graphic design and illustration software programs are capable of sending TRUMATCH CMYK values directly to your PostScript compatible color printer.  Select CMYK mode and enter TRUMATCH colors using the TRUMATCH 4-color palette already integrated in leading graphics software.

If your application does not include the TRUMATCH 4-color palette, enter the CMYK percentages that can be found in the printed TRUMATCH Colorfinder (fanbook) for the color you want to select.

(B) If you are using a PostScript compatible color printer...

...and if your software application accepts only RGB color notations:

You will need to print the TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Reference Guide with the RGB notations under each swatch. Then enter the RGB notations for the colors you select in the Reference Guide using the RGB color specification dialog of your graphics application.  Enter the values, either as percentages (0-100) or as 8-bit color (0-255) depending upon which one your graphics application requires.

If you are using a non-PostScript printer:

Applications are only capable of sending RGB notations to your color printer, which converts them to CMYK (or CMY) colors. You will need to print the TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Reference Guide with the RGB notations under each swatch. Then enter the RGB notations for the colors you select in the Reference Guide using the RGB color specification dialog of your graphics application. Enter the values either as percentages (0-100) or as 8-bit color (0-255), depending upon which one your graphics application requires.

If your application is one of the few that only accepts values in the 0-65535 range, select the "8-bit color (0-255)" mode, and multiply each R, G and B value by 256. This will scale the number into the correct proportions for your graphics software.

Make sure to check the enclosed insert, Applications Information for special instructions on using TRUMATCH colors with your applications!


ABOUT TRUMATCH SWATCHPRINTER SOFTWARE

TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Software for Windows gives you complete predictability for printing documents on a Windows or PostScript compatible 4-color printer or copier.  This software utility automatically prints a Reference Guide to the colors that your own digital color printer or copier can deliver.  So you will not have to guess at matching colors from your computer screen, which is a different color space (RGB).

The TRUMATCH Reference Guide you print takes away this guesswork, and ends frustrating "monitor mismatch."  It becomes the "WYSIWYG" guide to achieving your printer's colors...right from the start.  Simply select your color from the Reference Guide, and enter it with a mouse-click within the 4-color palette of your design and illustration software.  (Click the "Help" button on the main screen if you need guidance.)

The Reference Guide colors are organized and numbered in the same straightforward, logical way as they are in the "TRUMATCH 4-Color Palette" that is found in the "Process Colors" or "CMYK" mode of the leading design and illustration software.  Using your SwatchPrinter Reference Guide to select color will give you the exact colors you assign to text, borders, backgrounds and other design elements for your:

- Presentation and report graphics

- Design comps

- Short-run digital printing

The patented TRUMATCH System organizes the 4-color spectrum into 50 hue families, with 40 tints and shades of each hue plus 4-color greys -- over 2,000 colors in all.  The entire System is logically and conveniently arranged according to the familiar Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Blue-Indigo-Violet spectrum.

For Presentations, Reports and Digital Printing:  The SwatchPrinter Reference Guide gives you absolute "WYSIWYG" color selection using swatches from your own printer or copier.  This means the colors you see in the Reference Guide and choose for headlines, backgrounds, illustrations and charts on-screen will be exactly what you expected.  The colors may look different on-screen, but they will be right when you print -- where it really counts.

For More Accurate Design Comps:  Compare the Reference Guide output from your printer with a TRUMATCH Colorfinder (accurate for a 4-color press).  If necessary, just switch to a closer color for the comp.

ABOUT THE PATENTED TRUMATCH SYSTEM

The TRUMATCH System is the standard for 4-color selection.  Its unique, smooth transitions of color let you easily find tints and shades within color families, without shifting color cast.  This patented, digital System displays accurate, balanced proportions of process color -- logically organized according to the familiar R-O-Y-G-B-I-V spectrum.  There are 50 hue families with 40 perfectly proportioned tints and shades of each hue, plus a section of 4-color greys.  Over 2,000 colors to choose!

To create these unique, smooth saturation steps, the TRUMATCH System uses the ability of digital devices -- from electronic color printers, to laser imagesetters and digital printing presses -- to target tint screen percentages to 1% accuracy ... thus maintaining its smooth proportions of yellow, magenta, cyan plus black.

THE PROFESSIONALS' CHOICE

The TRUMATCH System is the winner of a prestigious GATF InterTech Award for Innovative Excellence for the breakthrough concept of applying the logic and organization of Hue/Saturation/Brightness (HSB) to process color.  The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation reserves this award for those products expected to have significant impact in the graphic arts industry.  The TRUMATCH System is endorsed by leaders in the graphic arts, including Scitex, Linotype-Hell and DuPont.

There are four key products in the TRUMATCH System:

The TRUMATCH Colorfinder, a printed reference fanguide, available in both coated and uncoated paper editions, for selecting accurate color matches to a commercial 4-color printing press;

TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Software for Windows, for achieving perfect "WYSIWYG" 4-color matching from Windows and PostScript compatible printers, copiers and short-run digital printing presses, as well as RGB indexed TRUMATCH colors for use with presentation graphics software;

The TRUMATCH 4-Color Palette, which is integrated into the "Process Colors" or "CMYK" mode of  the leading graphic design and illustration software;

TRUMATCH ColorPrinter Software for Macintosh, for achieving perfect "WYSIWYG" 4-color 	matching from PostScript compatible printers, copiers and short-run digital printing presses, including color management support through Apples ColorSync 2.0 color management system.

SOFTWARE LICENSE RESTRICTIONS

(1) This software is the property of TRUMATCH, Inc.  TRUMATCH retains all title to the software and intellectual property rights therein;

(2) Each copy of TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Software is licensed for use only on a single computer;

(3) This license does not extend to any right to copy the software, except for  one (1) copy for backup or archival purposes only and only as necessary to use the software on a computer, as appropriate, and all such copies shall contain all copyright and other proprietary notices or legends of TRUMATCH, Inc. on the original copy of the software;

(4) This license does not extend to any right to modify the software or to reverse assemble, disassemble, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the software;

(5) This software is copyrighted and contains proprietary and confidential information of TRUMATCH, Inc.;

(6) The TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Reference Guide is copyrighted; the right is hereby granted -- only to the purchaser of TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Software -- to produce TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Reference Guides on the purchasers own electronic color printers and copiers;

(7) Limitations on right to reproduce TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Reference Guides:  No right is granted for reproduction or distribution of "TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Reference Guides," whether for sale or not for sale, except for internal use by purchaser.   Written permission for reproduction and/or distribution for other than internal use must first be obtained from TRUMATCH, Inc. (Written permission will be granted by TRUMATCH, Inc. only to official Service Bureau distributors of TRUMATCH Colorfinders.)  It is expressly forbidden to reproduce TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Reference Guides on any commercial printing press;

(8) TRUMATCH, Inc. shall not be liable to the user for any special, indirect, consequential or incidental damages arising out of the license of the software;

(9) The user's rights with respect to the software shall automatically terminate immediately upon violation of any of the terms or conditions of the license agreement.

PATENT, TRADEMARK AND COPYRIGHT NOTICES

TRUMATCH and The Digital Difference are registered trademarks of TRUMATCH , Inc.  The TRUMATCH System is patented by TRUMATCH, Inc.; New York, NY.  The TRUMATCH 3-D Model of 4-Color Space and the "TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Reference Guide" are copyrighted by TRUMATCH, Inc.  Tel: (212) 302-9100; Fax: (212) 302-0890; CompuServe DTPBVEN Forum: 71333,3620, or via the Internet at info@trumatch.com.

Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.  PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

TRUMATCH Color Reference Guide Software, both PC/Windows and Macintosh versions, were developed by John Lara, Tim Rodgers and Dan Allen at Lara Consulting Group for TRUMATCH, Inc.  Lara Consulting can be reached at:  Tel.: (617) 248-6999; Fax: (617) 258-6898; or via Internet e-mail at info@lara.com.


TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Software for Windows lets you automatically print out an entire Reference Guide to the more than 2,000 colors in the TRUMATCH System - or print individual TRUMATCH color hue and/or grey reference pages to Windows or PostScript compatible color printers/copiers (selected in the Windows Control Panel).

The introductory TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Software screen you used to access this Help information shows the following choices:

The "TRUMATCH Info" button provides information about the TRUMATCH System, and patent, trademark and copyright notices.

The "Print a Hue or Greys" button shows the menu you use to choose the TRUMATCH colors you want your printer to output.  You can specify a single hue or a range of hues according to the way color is numbered in the TRUMATCH System.

IMPORTANT:  You must select a color printer driver in order to print SwatchPrinter pages. You can check and change your currently selected printer, if needed, by clicking Print Setup button.

Clicking "Select all" writes all the TRUMATCH color hues and greys, generating over 2,000 colors from 50 hue families, with 40 tints and shades of each hue - on 25 pages, plus 13 sets of greys on 2 pages.  (On tabloid, or even larger output devices, the Software will automatically arrange the best multi-up layout to use the minimum consumables.)

To select a range of hues, click and drag through the range represented in the color picker. Individual hues can be selected by pressing the CTRL key and clicking on the desired hues. Ranges of hues may be selected by clicking on the first hue and dragging down the list through the last hue desired. Then click Ok to print the selected hues.

The arrangement in the TRUMATCH System is:

50 Primary Hues Page 	Prints the 50 primary hues on one page

Hues 1 through 6	Red Families

Hues 7 through 8	Oranges

Hues 9 through 17	Yellows through Yellow-Greens

Hues 18 through 25	Greens through Blue-Greens

Hues 26 through 36	Blues

Hues 37 through 38	Indigos

Hues 39 through 44	Violets through Reddish-Violets

Hues 49 through 50 	Brown Families

Greys	Two pages of Greys from 13 hue families

In addition, you will find two major selection buttons. They are RGB Mode and CMYK Mode:

Select RGB Mode when your graphics software uses RGB data to specify color. In addition, there are two ways to express the RGB values - 0 to 255 (8 bit color), or as a percentage (0 to 100 percent). You may select the way we express these values on your printouts by selecting one of these two options.

Select CMYK Mode when your graphics software uses CMYK data to specify color. In addition, you may only select CMYK Mode when printing the hues to a color PostScript compatible printer.

The "Print Colorfinder Order Form" button prints a form you can use to mail or fax your order for a TRUMATCH Colorfinder fanguide.  The Colorfinder, available in coated and uncoated paper editions, is your guide to accurate colors on-press, and shows the percentages of CMYK for every swatch.

"Help" displays this help text window.

"Exit" closes the SwatchPrinter program.

If your printer fails to print all the pages requested, print the desired pages in groups of 4 to 8 hues at a time.  Usually this error is caused by lack of memory in the printer. Also, be sure the printer is powered ON.  A printer that is OFF can cause your computer  to appear to hang.

If you wish to see what your colors will look like on a commercial 4-color press, or if you are using a graphics software application that does not include the "TRUMATCH 4-Color Palette," you will need a TRUMATCH Colorfinder.  With this printed fanguide, you can specify TRUMATCH colors by the percentages of yellow, magenta, cyan and black (noted on every color swatch) in the "Process" or "CMYK" (4-color) mode of your application software. (See "Print Colorfinder Order Form," below.)

TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Software will also write pages that are automatically color-managed through PostScript Level 2, if your printer is PostScript Level 2 compatible.  By writing managed colors, the output of any Level 2 printer more closely matches the on-press color displayed in the TRUMATCH Colorfinder which is accurate for a 4-color press.

If you have additional questions regarding the installation or use of the TRUMATCH SwatchPrinter Software, please contact TRUMATCH for assistance at: Tel (toll-free): 1-800-TRU-9100 (in U.S. outside metro N.Y. ) or (212) 302-9100; Fax: (212) 302-0890; CompuServe DTPBVEN Forum: 71333,3620, or via Internet E-mail at info@trumatch.com.