Quick start Guide

PrinTao 8 Effortless Professional Printing

The background colors of the slider control indicate

whether the resolution is set optimally. Regularly, the

best print results can be achieved between 200 dpi and

400 dpi (green area). At lower resolutions (red area, im-

age is too large), individual pixels may become visible

and higher resolutions (yellow area, image is too small)

can lead to artifacts due to scaling.

Cell properties

Similar to the image properties, this palette dialog

enables to view and modify the properties of an image

cell – not of the image itself. In addition to cell coordi-

nates and cell size (1), also the angle of cell rotation

(2) can be adjusted. This angle is based on the orienta-

tion of the original image. The button next to the cell

angle parameter rotates a selected cell at 90° clockwise

around the center point of the cell. The drop-down

menu oers some standard cell sizes (3) to select.

The Print palette combines all settings relevant for

the actual print. The options regarding printer (1) and

paper (2) are set as these options have been set when

creating the document (see above at “Creating a new

Document”). All settings can be reviewed here and

adjusted again if necessary. The Finest Details option

improves the print impression of very ne, straight lines.

The drop-down menu for the rendering intent (3) of-

fers a set of four rendering intents, which have been de-

ned by the International Color Consortium (ICC): percep-

tually oriented, absolute colorimetric, relative colorimetric

and saturation preserving. Dierent color spaces of input

and output devices aord a color space conversion of

the print data to the printer’s color space. Depending

on the image content and the purpose – the rendering

intent – to be followed with the print, a dierent con-

version algorithm will be used.