Calibrating the Splash

You need to calibrate the Splash color printer from time to time to ensure color accuracy. Once a week is not too often. Once a month is not often enough. Try and do it weekly.

Instructions below are for the Mac. The PC should be similar.

You will need administrator rights to do this.

From the Mac:

Select the Splash printer as your default printer. Do this by selecting your desktop Splash printer icon and typing Command-L or go to the Printing menu and select Set as Default. It will have a darker outline when it is the default printer.

Now open up the Splash M Series Viewer.

If you do not have this utility, you can find it on the server in Mac OS. SF/SF02/Apps/Mac OS/Printer Stuff. Download it to your hard drive and install it.

From the Administration menu, select Log on.

Log on as the Administrator.

Now go to the Adminstration menu and select ColorCal and then Print Printer Target.

Print it.

Go and get the print out. If it looks okay (no obvious lines or whatever), tell the app it printed okay.

There will be instructions on the bottom of this print out.

Now take the Kodak gray scale strip and place it and the ColorCal printout on the Splash copying surface.

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Go to Administration and select ColorCal and Calibrate Printer.

Calibrate it.

If you put the paper the wrong way, Calibration will fail and it will print out All corner registration marks could not be located.

If you forgot the Kodak gray scale strip, Calibration will fail and it will print out No Kodak gray test strip was found.

If everything goes right, it will print out Calibration Successful.

You are done. Log off and quit the Splash viewer utility.