Specifications

Working with Printer Options 117
ID Works Basic Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
First select the printer you will use. Then move the slider and click
OK. Because contrast conversions are done at print time, the
Designer card design and Production Card preview windows cannot
show the results of changing the contrast setting. Print a test card and
adjust your settings if necessary. See the online help topic,
“Configure K-panel printing” for step-by-step instructions. You must
make this contrast adjustment on each ID Works computer and for
each printer used by the computer. The contrast setting will be used
for all grayscale images in all projects for the selected printer.
Override Field-level Settings
You can have ID Works software ignore the Print Options settings for
photo, static graphic, and variable graphic fields and instead convert
them to grayscale for printing with the K-panel (black) of your card
printer ribbon. You do this with the Configure K-Panel Printing utility in
the ID Works Administrator application. You specify K-panel printing
for the front of the card, the back of the card, or both.
Because card side grayscale conversions are done at print time, the
Designer card design and Production Card preview windows always
display graphics in color. You must print a card to see the results of
the settings.
If you uninstall ID Works software and later reinstall it, you must
recreate the K-panel configuration settings. Also, you must set up K-
panel configurations on each ID Works computer and for each printer
used by the computer.
See the Administrator online help topic “Configure K-panel printing”
for step-by-step instructions.
Printing Order
Selecting Grayscale and Use K-panel if available does not change
the stacking order of fields in the Designer application but it does
have that effect when printing. (See “Arranging Fields” on page 9 for
more information about the stacking order.) For example, assume a
card design has a photo field with Grayscale and Use K-panel if
available selected and a text field that specifies blue text in front of
the photo field. When the card is printed, the photo field is printed
last—on top of the blue text field—because the black panel of the
printer ribbon is the last panel in the YMCK sequence.