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The Offset wheel control underneath the Offset sliders lets you adjust all three sliders at once, performing a master or setup adjustment. The Offset sliders, Printer Point buttons, and Offset wheel can be adjusted using keyboard shortcuts, or using the DaVinci control panel.
Adjusting Printer Points Via Keyboard Shortcuts
One of the best ways of using printer points if you don’t have a color control panel that supports them is to enable the numeric keypad to use dedicated keyboard shortcuts just for printer points.
— Choose Color > Printer Light Hotkeys, or press Option-Command-Grave Accent (`)
When you enable Printer Light Hotkeys, there are two sets of shortcuts you can use to manipulate printer points. First, if you want to directly manipulate RGB in whole increments, there’s one
set for that.
Red | Green | Blue |
7 - Plus Red | 8 - Plus Green | 9 - Plus Blue |
4 - Minus Red | 5 - Minus Green | 6 - Minus Blue |
However, if you want to work in the classic way by manipulating cyan, magenta, and yellow in whole increments, there’s another set of shortcuts for that, using the remaining keys on the numeric keypad.
Cyan | Magenta | Yellow |
1 - Plus Cyan | 2 - Plus Magenta | 3 - Plus Yellow |
Minus (–) - Minus Cyan | 0 - Minus Magenta | Period (.) - Minus Yellow |
There are also a pair of keyboard modifiers that gives you finer control over printer points adjustments made with these special keyboard shortcuts, while retaining the coarser default adjustments that let you make bigger changes more quickly:
— Hold down Command while using these key shortcuts to adjust printer points in quarter-increments.
— You can use half-increments as well, but you will need to assign the keyboard shortcuts for these manually.