Datasheet

Installation and Setup
Changing the Printing Preferences
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Elements Selection - Depending on the program used to create the card layout, elements of
the design may be identified in different ways to the printer driver. This printer driver
recognizes five types of elements:
• Text is text which is sent explicitly as such to the printer driver.
• Lines and pixels are lines and dots (pixels) sent as such to the printer driver.
• Area fills are color-filled geometric shapes.
• Monochrome bitmaps are 1-bit bitmaps (every pixel either black or white).
• Color bitmaps (black portions only) are full color un-compressed pixel maps.
The above elements may not always be sent to the driver as expected. For example, a bar code
may be sent as text, a series of area fills, or a monochrome bitmap. Results will vary by
application used to create the card design.
Any of the above five elements may be selected for black extraction when the ribbon is set up
to apply YMC (color) and K (black) to the same surface of the card. In this condition, the
driver generates an extracted K image by looking for “true-black” features in the selected
element types, that is, instances where all three YMC values are at the maximum (full
intensity). Each such true-black instance generates a corresponding cluster of black pixels in
the extracted image, which will be printed with the K (black) panel either on top of the YMC
image, or replacing it entirely – your choice.