Chapter 3: Using the Printer Driver
2. Main Tab Settings
2. Main Tab Settings
❏ Autopalette
Several of the most typical print mode settings are already defined as defaults in the Autopalette box.
This means you can obtain optimal print quality by simply choosing from among the icons according to your data and media type.
If you are running Windows NT, open the Document Properties dialog box, and select the Autopalette tab, to get access to this option.
On Windows 98/95 computers On Windows NT computers
The icon indicating the current autopalette is shown here.
If you have modified the properties of a autopalette, its icon name will be "User Modi-fied" thereafter.
The description of the current autopalette is shown here.
You can modify the parameters that define each autopalette to accommodate various print purposes.
When you have modified the parameters of an autopalette, you can also save them as a new autopalette, by assigning it to whichever icon you like.
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❏ Number of Copies
Specify the desired number in the Copies box when you want to make more than one copy.
This option is found in the Main tab on Window 98/95 computers. If you are running Windows NT, open the Document Properties dialog box, select the Page Setup tab, click Paper and then Copies. Specify any number from 1 to 9999.
On Windows 98/95 computers On Windows NT computers
Although some applications may also offer you a Copies option in their own Print dia-log boxes, note that some options may reduce the print speed.
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❏ Autopalette Properties
If you want to check or modify the settings of a autopalette, select the corresponding icon, and open the Properties of the desired autopalette. In order to open the autopalette Properties dialog box, click the About Autopalette button on Windows 98/95, or click the Edit button on Windows NT.
On Windows 98/95 computers On Windows NT computers
The Properties window consists of the following tabs:
Quality: Specifies the total print quality (➔ page 36).
Special effects: Specifies the balance between print speed and print quality. Also provides you with the one color printing option (➔ page 36).
Color Setup: Specifies color balance and intensity (➔ page 37).
Customize: Saves the new settings after the parameters have been modified (➔ page 39).
If you are running Windows NT, open the printer Properties dialog box, select the Autopalette tab, and click the Edit button. The autopalette Properties dialog box will ap-pear as shown below.
The Customize tab allows you to save the new settings for a print mode.
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● Quality tab
• Media: This option allows you to specify the type of the media you are using. Choose from among Matte Coated Paper, Glossy Paper, Light Coated Paper, White Polyester, or En-velope.
• Dithering setup: This printer reproduces the whole range of colors by arraying the dots of the basic col-ors (that is, YMCK and RGB, the latter being produced by combinations of the former) in such a way as to create the semblance of varying shades of colors. The Dithering tab offers you the option to use this method of reproduction.
Pattern: A processing method most suitable for documents which contain text, images and pho-tographs in a mixed form.
Error diffusion: A method which reproduces middle tones with a many-leveled gradation sequence, and prints out the varying color gradations in smooth transitional patterns. While it is apt to reduce the print speed, natural images such as photographs come out beautifully.
• Head Shading print:
This feature ensures the printouts with less mottling, by referring to the Head Shading data (the data for print adjustment specific to the head of your particular printer unit), which has been downloaded from the printer to the computer.
Use the Utility tab to download the Head Shading data (see page 59).
• Defaults: This button cancels the modifications you have made to the parameters and restores the former Autopalette settings.
If you are using media other than the manufacturer-supplied media for COLOR CARD PRINTING MACHINE, the printer may fail to print with a satisfactory print quality, re-gardless of the print modes. Or again, printing on the uncoated media may come out with mottlings and blurrings in the printed images.
● Special effects tab
• Print Mode: If you want to have the paper feed intervals regulated automatically, click the check box to enable the Auto Mode. This feature ensures a smooth printing job according to the data type and the performance of the computer. When the Overlay Print is on, however, it will cause the print speed to change, and the printer will stop and go into the pause state before it restarts.
If you want to regulate the paper feed intervals manually, click again and remove the checkmark. You can adjust the intervals on a scale of six levels, by moving the slider control.
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• Special Effect Print:
Full Color: Images can be printed either in full color or in effective one color tone.
To print in one color tone, checkmark and enable the Image Effects, and then specify the desired color from the pulldown menu that appears to the right.
Red, Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, and Sepia colors are available.
One Color: Images can be printed in one color, using only one ink color.
To print in one color, specify the desired ink color from the pulldown menu that appears to the right.
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black inks are available.
• Defaults: This button cancels the modifications you have made to the parameters and restores the former Autopalette settings.
● Color Setup tab
• Color print using Image Color Matching:
If you want to have the color adjustment regulated automatically through the Windows Image Color Matching capability, click to turn on this option. So long as the Image Color Matching feature is on, no other parameters under the Color tab are available.
Note that this feature requires that the application supports the Image Color Matching.
Adding the ICC Profile:
Set the supplied “Printer Driver/User’s Guide” CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.
Click [Add] on the [Color Management] tab. Specify the CD-ROM drive as the file location and open the Win95-98 folder.
Select the ICC profile [CAI6xOC.ICC], click [Add], then click [OK].
• Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black:
Adjust the intensity of each ink color by moving the slide control. The range of adjust-ment is from -50 to +50.
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• Matching Method:
The pulldown menu allows you to specify your preference in color correction.
Photograph: Select this item to reproduce the delicate shades of intermediate colors such as flesh color, sky blue, green and so on, which are characteristic of photographs in general.
Graphics: Select this item to reproduce the vividness of the primary colors such as red, blue and yellow.
None: This option performs no color correction and output the print data as it is.
• Profile: The pulldown menu allows you to apply a color correction method that can most effec-tively improve printing quality of the data obtained by a device. Select the device type which was used for creating the original data.
CG: This option reproduces the color information in the print data accurately on the print-outs. Select this option when printing data in which colors are indicated by YMCK percentages or by reference to a color chart. It also reproduces the vividness of the pri-mary colors such as red, blue and yellow.
Scanner: This option reproduces the colors in scanned images in close resemblance to those in the originals.
Video: Select this option to reproduce the colors in video camera pictures so as to closely re-semble the actual colors of the objects, and to reproduce the colors in close to what you see on the monitor screen.
Digital Camera:
Select this option to reproduce the colors in digital camera pictures so as to closely re-semble the actual colors of the objects.
• Gamma: Specify the gamma of the monitor which is being used in color adjustment.
Valid values are 1.0, 1.4, 1.8, or 2.2.
• Intensity: This option adjusts the image intensity from –50 to +50 via slide controls.
• Defaults: This button cancels the modifications you have made to the parameters and restores the former Autopalette settings.
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❏Saving Autopalette
When you have modified the parameters of an existing Autopalette, you can save them as a new Autopalette.
When you are running Windows 98/95, click the Customize tab to save a Autopalette.
When you are running Windows NT, open the printer Properties dialog box, select the Saved Settings, and click the Customize button. When the Autopalette Properties dialog box is opened, select the Cus-tomize tab.
On Windows 98/95 computers On Windows NT computers
• Saved Settings: When you are running Windows 98/95, you can select where to save the new settings, by choosing an icon from the Saved Settings list. Note, however, that you can not over-write the default icons.
• Title: Type a name for the new autopalette in the text box.
Type an unused name, since you cannot overwrite the default titles.
(You can enter up to 31 characters.)
• Icon Selection: Select the icon you would like to allocate to the autopalette.
• Description: Type the description of the settings of the autopalette.
(You can enter up to 255 characters.)
● If you want to change the order of the icons within the list box, simply drag them wher-ever you would like to place them.
● A new print mode is saved only for the one particular computer on which it is created.
The settings are not saved in other computers. If you have more than one printer driver for P-660 installed in your computer, the new print modes will not be available for those other drivers.
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● Saving/Deleting Autopalette on Windows 98/95 Computers
• Save: Save the current settings as a new autopalette, by clicking this button.
If you save them under the same title as any of the previously saved autopalette, the older settings for that title will be replaced by the new ones.
• Delete: Select an icon in the Saved Settings list box, and delete that autopalette, by clicking this button.
• Save as: Select an icon in the Saved Settings list box, and click this button to save the setting in-formation about that autopalette as a file. Save it in any folder you like.
You cannot save the information about the default autopalettes.
• Open: Click this button to open any of the previously saved information files.
● Saving/Deleting Autopalette on Windows NT Computers
• Defaults: This button cancels the modifications you have made to the parameters and restores the former Autopalette settings.
• OK: Save the current settings as a new autopalette, by clicking this button.
If you save them with the same title name as a previously saved autopalette, the older settings with that name will be replaced by the new ones.
Open the printer Properties and select the Saved Setting tab, to delete autopalette, to save information files, or to open the information files.
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