Specifications

3-3 Printing Using Gloss Ink

Chapter 3 Printing

Printing Using Only Gloss Ink

Gloss nish, matte nish, and embossed nish can also all be printed using only gloss ink.

Procedure



Make sure that you’ve nished making the preparations for VersaWorks and getting the

printer ready ( page 9, “Chapter 2 Getting Ready”).



Prepare the printing data.

Using a program such as Adobe Illustrator, create the data for printing gloss only. When creating the data, remember

to specify "RDG_GLOSS" as the color.

 P. 12, "Creating Data for Printing"



Make the settings in the “Queue A Properties” window.

Double-click , the “Queue A Properties” window that appears, make the basic settings for printing as shown fol-

lowing.

Icon Setting item Setting

Media Type Special Eects

Mode

GlossVarnish (v) + PASS

MatteVarnish (v) + PASS

Embossing (v) + PASS

Embossed

nish only

Use Custom Settings On

Overprint 1 to 7 times*

Operation Mode Print Only

Return to Origin After Print O

* The specied number of overprinting passes

You can select a value from 1 to 7 for the number of overprint passes for an embossed nish. The actual number of

printing passes is the specied value plus one. (For reference, see the chart on page 32.)

After making the settings, click [OK] to close the “Queue A Properties” window.



Go to the job list and click the “Queue A” tab, and then drag the gloss-only print job to the

queue A job list.



Carry out printing of gloss data only.

Click the print job in the Job list on the Queue A tab to select it, then click .