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208 Color Handling

Viewing print colors on screen
There is a huge difference between screen and printed colors. Computer monitor
screens can reproduce a much wider, much brighter range of colors. Printers use CMYK
inks instead of RGB colors, and so the method of reproducing color is entirely different.
As an example, pure bright RGB green on screen is completely impossible to reproduce
on any printer.

Technically speaking the screen color gamut is much larger than available on printers.
Xara Designer Pro X provides a simple way to simulate the printer colors, which adjusts
all on-screen colors to more closely match that of a typical printer. Select WINDOW ->
SHOW PRINTER COLORS -> SIMULATE PRINT COLORS to adjust the screen colors.

Note: This does not alter the actual RGB or CMYK color values, it just adjusts the screen
color gamut to more closely match that of your printer.

Note: Some Adobe software, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, handles printer colors
very differently. They only support one color model at a one time and will convert all
colors to the current color model. e.g. when operating in CMYK mode, all RGB colors are
converted to CMYK colors. They also show all CMYK colors as "printer simulated". Xara
Designer Pro X, on the other hand, supports mixed color models (you can use CMYK
and RGB color in the same document) and does not alter the actual color value.