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- IMPORTANT INFORMATION
- for
- Colorific v95.33 Users
-
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- Colorific v95.33 Release Notes May 22, 1997
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-
- READ THIS FILE COMPLETELY BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO USE THIS
- PRODUCT!
-
- IMPORTANT! THIS PRODUCT IS NOT DESIGNED FOR USE IN LIFE
- SUPPORT DEVICES AND SONNETECH MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS
- TO THE CONTRARY. LIFE SUPPORT DEVICES ARE THOSE DEVICES
- WHICH ARE USED TO MEASURE, DIAGNOSE, OR EVALUATE THE
- TISSUE, SYSTEMS OR FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY; OR
- OTHER DEVICES EMPLOYED TO SUPPORT OR SUSTAIN LIFE OR
- GOOD HEALTH.
-
- Sonnetech, Ltd.
- 350 Townsend Street, Suite 409
- San Francisco, CA 94107-1699
-
- Customer Support
- via INTERNET:..................http://www.colorific.com
- Customer Support (Faxback and Voice).... (415) 957-9941
- Voice Only ............................. (415) 957-0152
- Customer Support FAX ................... (415) 957-9942
-
- America Online .............................. colorific
- Internet E-mail address.............. colorific@aol.com
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-
- Table of Contents
-
- 1.0 Introduction: New Features
- 1.1 Windows 95
- 1.2 Windows NT
- 2.0 FOR BEST RESULTS:
- 2.1 Obtain updated printer drivers and profiles
- 2.2 Avoid double color correction when using
- some graphics programs
- 2.3 No color matching in CMYK Mode
- 2.4 Use special glossy paper for ink jet printers
- 3.0 Optimizing Your Display's Color Balance
- 4.0 Loading "Monitor.inf" File during Colorific Setup
- (**This new feature is not documented in the
- Colorific User's Guide!**)
- 5.0 Colorific and Adobe Photoshop
- 6.0 Colorific and Kodak Precision-Enabled Applications
- 7.0 Colorific and Other Graphics Applications
- 8.0 Uninstalling Colorific
- 8.1 Uninstall Colorific v1.x BEFORE
- installing Windows 95!
- 8.2 Uninstalling Colorific v95
- 9.0 Reporting Problems
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- 1.0 Introduction
-
- 1.1 This section contains a list of features in the
- current Windows 95 version of Colorific.
-
- * Optimizes color matching by updating the Windows 95
- internal registry with the unique characteristics of
- your monitor. Without Colorific, color matching
- suffers because Windows 95 assumes generic values for
- gamma, phosphor chromaticity, and white point.
-
- * Works with Windows 95's Image Color Matching ("ICM")
- module, so you can get great color matching results
- with any Windows 95-compatible color printer driver.
-
- * Provides TRUE INTERENT COLOR(tm) by creating an ICC
- (International Color Consortium) format profile needed
- for "tagging" Web pages to enable them to display with
- accurate color
-
- * Provides TRUE INTERENT COLOR(tm) by creating an ICC
- (International Color Consortium) format profile needed
- for internet "plug-in's" from SGI, Adobe, Pantone,
- Microsoft,and other systems offering internet
- color correction to your display (see: www.colorific.com)
-
- * Creates monitor profiles in the Kodak Precision
- format used by PageMaker 6.0, PhotoStyler, Picture
- Publisher, and other programs, in addition to the
- ICC-format profile needed by ICM and other Windows 95
- programs. (See sections 2.0 and 6.0 below)
-
- * Reports white point, chromaticity, and gamma for each
- gun (red, green, and blue) via the Colorific Control
- Panel. On certain graphics cards, there is the ability
- to adjust the color balance of your screen to optimize
- it for Desktop Publishing, Multimedia/Video, or
- Daylight color balance (see section 3.0 below).
-
- * Automatically prompts you to recalibrate your monitor
- when you change color depths, change monitors, or make
- other adjustments affecting on-screen color.
-
- * Offers a shortcut to calibration: just click on the
- Colorific icon in the Windows 95 taskbar, then click on
- the "Recalibrate" button in the Control Panel that
- appears.
-
- * Many Colorific versions distributed by monitor makers
- provide an updated "monitor.inf" file that optimizes
- Windows 95 for your new monitor. (See section 3.0 below.)
-
-
- 1.2 This section contains a list of features in the
- current Windows NT version of Colorific.
-
- * Performs a subset of Windows 95 functionality until
- Windows NT supports the Windows 95-equivalent Image
- Color Matching ("ICM") module.
-
- * Creates monitor profiles in the Kodak Precision
- format used by PageMaker 6.0, PhotoStyler, Picture
- Publisher, and other programs, in addition to the
- ICC-format profile needed by ICM and other Windows 95
- programs. (See sections 2.0 and 6.0 below)
-
- * Provides TRUE INTERENT COLOR(tm) by creating an ICC
- (International Color Consortium) format profile needed
- for "tagging" Web pages to enable them to display with
- accurate color
-
- * Provides TRUE INTERENT COLOR(tm) by creating an ICC
- (International Color Consortium) format profile needed
- for internet "plug-in's" from SGI, Adobe, Pantone,
- Microsoft,and other systems offering internet color
- correction to your display (see: www.colorific.com)
-
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- 2.0 FOR BEST RESULTS, YOU MUST READ THIS
-
- 2.1 OBTAIN UPDATED WINDOWS 95 PRINTER DRIVER AND PROFILE
-
- Many printer drivers originally shipped for Windows 95 do
- not yet support all the color matching options available in
- Windows 95. These options are:
-
- 1. Saturation Matching (best for business graphics)
- 2. Photographic matching (best for photographs and
- complex images)
- 3. Colorimetric matching (best for matching a precise
- color, as in logos)
-
- Many early printer drivers for Windows 95 offer only
- Photographic matching. Even if 3 matching options are listed
- in the printer driver, not all will necessarily be
- available. (Try printing the same image using each of the 3
- options. If the 3 prints look the same, you need an updated
- printer driver.) Colorific alerts you at Windows boot up if
- your printer driver should be upgraded to a newer version
- supporting all 3 color matching options. Contact your
- printer manufacturer to obtain the latest driver, or look
- for the driver in the manufacturer's CompuServe forum. (At
- the time of this writing, many drivers still offered only
- "Photographic" matching.)
-
- 2.2 AVOID DOUBLE CORRECTION WITH HIGH-END PROGRAMS
-
- Many applications originally intended for Windows 3.1 from
- Adobe (Aldus), Micrografx, Corel, and others have
- some type of color management built in. Applications of this
- type include Photoshop, PageMaker 6, Picture Publisher,
- PhotoStyler, Corel 5, 6, 7 and others.
-
- Colorific makes sure that Windows 95's ICM feature gives you
- excellent color matching. However, if your application
- simultaneously performs its own color matching, DOUBLE
- CORRECTION will result. The resulting prints will be
- overcorrected and color matching will be poor.
-
- Contact Adobe, Micrografx, Corel, or the appropriate
- application vendor for details on how to use ICM with your
- color-managed application. If you configure your application
- properly for ICM, you AUTOMATICALLY configure it properly
- for Colorific. If your application uses the Kodak Precision
- (tm) CMS, see section 6.0 below.
-
- 2.3 NO ICM COLOR MATCHING IN CMYK MODE
-
- Colorific complements and completes the image color matching
- ("ICM") technology in Windows 95. ICM only performs color
- matching for applications in RGB mode. If you use a high-end
- graphics application that enables you to work in CMYK mode,
- be aware that Colorific and Windows 95's ICM will NOT
- perform color matching at print time unless the image
- on-screen is viewed in RGB (not CMYK) mode. Contact your
- application vendor for more instructions about using your
- application with Windows 95 and ICM.
-
- 2.4 INK JET PRINTERS NEED SPECIAL PAPER
-
- Unless you use special glossy ink jet paper, the colors from
- your ink jet printer will be dull and will not be a good
- match to the colors on your monitor.
-
- There are several makers for this type of paper. We recommend
- Colorific-approved inkjet paper from IJ Technologies. As a gift
- for reading this readme file, call 1-800-356-6962 to request a
- FREE 5-sheet sampler pack.
-
- IJ Technologies: Colorific-approved and recommended:
-
- Ultragraphix I Presentation Glossy Paper
- Ultragraphix I Presentation Matte Paper
- Ultragraphix I Photographic Matte Paper
- Ultragraphix I Photographic Glossy Paper
-
-
- IJ Technologies, Inc.
- St. Charles, MO 63303-5157 USA
- Tel. 800-356-6962
-
- This paper is nice in that both matte and
- glossy finishes are available. And it works well
- with most color inkjet printers, including those
- from Canon and HP.
-
-
- Other good souces for special glossy ink jet paper include:
-
- Hewlett-Packard: HP 51636H LX Series Glossy Paper
- (8.5 x 11 inches)
- HP 51636H LX Series Glossy Paper
- (210 x 297 mm)
-
- Contact HP in the US at 800-538-8787.
- Outside the US, contact HP in your
- country.
-
- This paper is available worldwide in
- computer stores. It works well with
- most color ink jet printers, including
- those from Canon.
-
- Rexham Graphics: RIJ4WHP Paper for HP Color Ink
- Jet Printers, 8.5 x 11, 50 sheets
- RIJ4WC Paper for Canon Color Ink
- Jet Printers, 8.5 x 11, 50 sheets
-
- Contact Rexham for European sizes and
- part numbers.
-
- Rexham Graphics, 28 Gaylord Street,
- South Hadley, MA
- USA 01075-2894
- Tel. 413-536-7800
- FAX 413-536-4414
- Technical Support: 800-831-9551
-
- Not only does Rexham make a white bright
- specialty paper that works in virtually
- all ink jet color printers including
- HP, Canon, and Apple, but they also offer
- a high quality white film (glossy) and
- overhead transparency film. Rexham media
- has a unique surface coating that controls
- absorption and keeps ink from bleeding
- or dulling, effectively allowing
- Colorific to match your screen colors
- to your printed output. Rexham also
- offers an entire line of wax thermal
- transfer media for most thermal
- transfer printers, and is constantly
- introducing new and innovative products.
-
- For transparencies, please be aware that color matching
- may not be perfect. This is because the bulbs that light
- overhead projectors are missing much of the red spectrum
- to avoid creating heat, which can burn or melt the
- transparency material. So the color you see when you
- print on transparency material may not be the color you
- are able to project onto a screen.
-
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- 3.0 Optimizing Your Display's Color Balance
-
- With certain video cards and video card drivers, Colorific
- can adjust your display to optimize it for desktop
- publishing, video/multimedia, or daylight. If your card
- and driver support this feature, choose your preferred
- color balance in the Colorific Control Panel. If you do
- not see any options in the Colorific Control Panel,
- either your card, driver, or current video settings do
- not support this feature. This feature is not available
- in 16 or 256-color modes. Try changing to a higher color
- mode to see in the options become available. If not, ask
- your video card maker if they have a Windows 95 driver
- that supports Windows 95's "DDIGammaRamp" function (also
- known as "Downloadable Gamma Tables").
-
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- 4.0 Loading "Monitor.inf" File during Colorific Setup
- (Windows 95-only)
-
- If you received Colorific from your monitor maker, you might
- be given the option to install an updated "monitor.inf" file
- during Colorific installation. This file is used by Windows
- 95 to determine the optimal refresh rates and other settings
- for your display. If you are not given the option to install
- a new monitor.inf file, then the monitor.inf file included
- with Windows 95 is the current file used by your monitor
- maker.
-
- To install the new monitor.inf file, Colorific brings up
- Windows 95's Display Control Properties control panel. If
- this control panel blocks the instruction window displayed
- by Colorific, simply move the Display Properties control
- panel to one side.
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- 5.0 Adobe Photoshop Current Color Space (Windows 95-only)
-
- Colorific provides you with information about your monitor
- that can be used to update the Adobe Current Color Space
- data structure. Updating the Current Color Space fine-tunes
- Photoshop's internal color management.
-
- To update Photoshop's color space, go to the Colorific Control
- Panel and click on the More Info... button. Record the
- values in the Chromaticities and Gamma sections.
-
- In Photoshop, choose Preferences/Monitor Setup from the File
- menu. A dialog box will appear listing information that
- Photoshop currently assumes about your monitor. In the White
- Point list box, choose Custom. In the dialog box that
- appears, enter the X and Y values for white point provided
- by the Colorific Control Panel, then click OK. In the
- Phosphors list box, also choose Custom. Another dialog box
- will appear. Here, enter the X and Y values for red, green,
- and blue phosphors from the Colorific Control Panel.
- Photoshop Monitor Setup can only accept a single gamma
- value, so you should average the red, green, and blue gammas
- reported by Colorific and enter that value in the Gamma
- field. Choose OK to save this new information.
-
- See items #2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 above for other important
- information about how to configure your application for use
- with Windows 95 and its ICM (image color matching) feature.
-
- Detailed information about using Colorific with particular
- graphics applications is available from the Sonnetech
- WEB PAGE: WWW.COLORIFIC.COM. It is also available by our
- faxback system. Call (415) 957-9941 from a fax machine phone
- to request a catalog of documents.
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- 6.0 Applications using the Kodak Precision CMS
-
- Colorific creates a Kodak Precision (tm) monitor profile in
- your Precision database. This profile can be accessed by
- Kodak Precision-enabled applications such as PageMaker 6,
- PhotoStyler, Corel Draw 7, Adobe Photoshop, and Picture Publisher.
- Open the Kodak CMS from within your application,
- then choose the profile named for your monitor model.
-
- If you use the Kodak Precision CMS for color-correcting your
- print jobs, your should NOT enable ICM in your printer
- driver. Use either method of color-matching, but not both.
- If you use ICM rather than Kodak Precision for color
- matching, see items #2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 above for
- other important information about how to configure your
- application for use with Windows 95 and its ICM (image color
- matching) feature.
-
- Detailed information about using Colorific with particular
- graphics applications is available from the Sonnetech
- WEB PAGE: WWW.COLORIFIC.COM. It is also available by our
- faxback system. Call (415) 957-9941 from a fax machine phone
- to request a catalog of documents.
-
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- 7.0 Other Applications
-
- For other applications that let you customize monitor
- information, use the data listed in the Colorific Control
- Panel to update your application with the accurate monitor
- profile data. It is important to update these settings to
- achieve optimal color matching with your application.
-
- See items #2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 above for other important
- information about how to configure your application for use
- with Windows 95 and its ICM (image color matching) feature.
-
- Detailed information about using Colorific with particular
- graphics applications is available from the Sonnetech
- WEB PAGE: WWW.COLORIFIC.COM. It is also available by our
- faxback system. Call (415) 957-9941 from a fax machine phone
- to request a catalog of documents.
-
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-
- 8.0 Uninstalling Colorific
-
- 8.1 Uninstalling Colorific 1.x
-
- Colorific 1.x (for Windows 3.1) does not work with Windows
- 95, and can cause Windows 95 to boot only in Safe mode, so
- unless you plan on using Windows 3.1x as well as Windows 95,
- you should remove Colorific 1.x from your system.
-
- If you've already installed Colorific 1.x into Windows 95,
- you should uninstall it using the instructions below.
-
- To uninstall Colorific 1.x automatically, insert the
- Colorific 1.x installation disk in a floppy disk drive
- and choose Run from the Start menu. Type a:\setup (or
- b:\setup), just as you did when installing Colorific. At
- the second dialog box, you will given the option to
- uninstall, reinstall, or exit -- choose Uninstall. The
- uninstall procedure will remove most Colorific files and
- will also edit Windows' SYSTEM.INI file so that Windows
- 95 can boot normally. To complete the uninstallation,
- delete files remaining in the Colorific folder (usually
- C:\HGC), if any.
-
- If for some reason you can not uninstall Colorific 1.x
- automatically, you can edit your SYSTEM.INI file
- manually to recover full use of Windows. Open your
- SYSTEM.INI file using a text editor such as DOS Edit
- or Windows' Notepad. (If you can run Windows, you can
- open SYSTEM.INI for editing simply by double-clicking
- on the file's icon in File Manager or Explorer.) Edit
- the file as follows:
-
- a. If you do NOT have Adobe Type Manager installed,
- find the lines in the [boot] section that begin
- with system.drv and hgc.system.drv. Most likely
- they will be:
-
- system.drv=C:\HGC\hgcsys.drv
- hgc.system.drv=system.drv
-
- Replace these lines with one line reading:
-
- system.drv=system.drv
-
- b. If you have Adobe Type Manager installed, you
- will find these lines in the [boot] section:
-
- system.drv=atmsys.drv
- atm.system.drv=C:\HGC\hgcsys.drv
- hgc.system.drv=system.drv
-
- Remove references to hgcsys.drv, making the lines
- read:
-
- system.drv=atmsys.drv
- atm.system.drv=system.drv
-
- After making the above changes to SYSTEM.INI, save the
- file. You will then be able to run Windows 95 in normal
- mode if you previously could not. Then, delete the
- C:\HGC directory and remove Colorific 1.x from your
- Programs menu, if necessary.
-
- 8.2 Uninstalling Colorific v95
-
- If you ever need to uninstall Colorific v95, first use
- the right mouse button to click on the Colorific icon
- in the right corner of the Windows 95 taskbar. (The
- Colorific icon is a monitor displaying a blue, red, and
- green design.) Choose Exit from the menu that appears.
- (If you haven't run Colorific, you will not have a
- Colorific icon and can skip this step.) Then use the
- left mouse button to click the Windows' Start button
- and choose Settings/Control Panel. When the Control
- Panel window opens, double-click on Add/Remove Programs.
- Highlight Colorific for Windows 95 in the list of
- programs, then click the Add/Remove button.
-
- (If you forget to choose Exit from the Colorific taskbar
- icon before removing the program, some files will not be
- deleted because they will be in use by Windows. You can
- delete these remaining files the next time you restart
- Windows. To do so, use Windows Explorer to delete the
- Sonnetech folder from the Program Files directory,
- usually C:\Program Files\Sonnetech).
-
- To undo the changes Colorific made to ICM, use Explorer
- to open your Windows 95 directory, then open the
- System\Color subdirectory. Delete all files whose names
- contain "Colorific" (eg. "Colorific1_2.icm").
-
- If for some reason you can't run Windows 95, uninstall
- Colorific by deleting the directory "C:\Program Files\Sonnetech".
- (This will not update the Windows registry
- and is not the recommended way to uninstall, but it could be
- useful in the event of a software conflict.)
-
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- 9.0 Reporting Problems
-
- If you experience any problems, please report them to
- Colorific Customer Support by fax (using the attached form)
- or via Internet e-mail or America Online.
-
- Make multiple photocopies of the form and use a separate
- form for each problem being reported. Please mail or fax
- your completed forms to us as soon as possible.
-
- PROBLEM REPORT FORM
-
- Sonnetech, Ltd.
- 350 Townsend Street, Suite 409
- San Francisco, CA 94107-1699
-
- Customer Support FAX ..................(415) 957-9942
- E-mail address .................... colorific@aol.com
-
- Product name: Colorific for (Windows 3.1/Windows 95
- Windows NT/Mac OS System ___)
- Version: _____
- Customer name:
- Internet e-mail address:
- Fax number:
- Address:
-
- My hardware is configured as follows:
- CPU/Speed:
- Memory:
- Video card (make and model):
-
- Bug occurs in the following video mode:
-
- 1) Resolution running when bug encountered
- 2) Color depth (e.g., 16/256/32K/65K/16M colors)
-
- Software running when problem occurred:
-
-
- Other system/software information:
-
-
-
- Problem description:
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