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Printing Guideline for Ricoh Color Products 2.01

6.3.7 Importing and Pasting Images

• Choose File > Place...

In case the image to be imported has a different color proÞ le than your working

space, the dialogue Paste ProÞ le Mismatch is displayed.

Note: Option Ask when pasting... must be checked in the Color Settings dialogue.

If you have your Ricoh scanner proÞ le tagged to the image, choose option Don´t

Convert....

Note: With a color management system properly working, there are two

incidents common which were unknown to most software users

in the pre-color management era:

1. Color can change without RGB change.

2. RGB can change without color change.

At Þ rst, this may seem paradox and even more when making practical

experience. Just remember that RGB is NOT a color space, but only a way

of generating and encoding colors, a color system. Therefore an RGB value

has no Þ xed color values associated with such as an L a b value for instance.

The Paste ProÞ le Mismatch dialog refers to the above mentionted incidents:

Convert (Preserve color appearance) means that the look of a

color remains the same before and after converting, even though

the so called color numbers (= RGB pixel values) change.

Option Don´t Convert (Preserve color numbers) will keep the tagged color

proÞ les of the images. That means that the RGB pixel values will be left

unchanged, with the effect that the look of a color will change. If you are

planning to print out the document on a Ricoh color managed printer and

want a close match to the scanned document, the different look of a color on

a monitor does not need to disturb you. The color management system will

use the image´s embedded proÞ les and the proÞ le of the printer to render the

color as close as possible to the original.