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SD260L/SD360/SD460 Installation and Administrator’s GuideSD160/SD260 Installation and

Split-Ribbon Color Printing

Split‐ribboncolorprintingletsyouuselessribbontoprintcardsincolor.Itisavailableonlywith

theCardPrinterDriver.Refertoyourprinter ’sDriverGuideforinformationabouthowtospecify

split‐ribboncolorprintingandthesplitribbonoptionsavailable.

Split‐ribboncolorprintingusesa

singleribbonpanelsetfromafull‐colorribbontoprintboth

sidesofacard,ratherthantwoorthreepanelsets.Theribboncanbeafull‐panelorshort‐panel

colorri bbon.Theorderinwhichthecolor,black,andtopcoatsectionsofthepanelsetareused

to

printthecarddependsonthetypeofribboninstalledintheprinterandthesplit‐ribbonoption

selectedontheprinter’sPrintingPreferenceswindow.

Manage Color

ColormanagementistheprocessofmakingcoloronthePCmonitorandprintedcardappearas

similaraspossible.Forcolormanagement,thecardprinterusesthesRGBcolorstandard

(standardRed,Green,andBluecolorspace).YouspecifythecolormanagementsysteminPrinter

Manager.Referto“Print”on

page 44formoreinformation.

Print Text in Color

Theprintercanprintte xtinanycolor.Smallcharactersarelikelytobemorereadableiftheyarea

sans‐seriffontformattedasblackandprintedwiththeblack(K)panel.Referto“PrintTextin

Monochrome”onpage 19.Theprintersupports6‐pointorlargertext.

Print Graphics in Color

Theprinterproducesfull‐colorimagesfrommosttypesofgraphics.ItcanuseBMP,JPEG,TIFF,

andPNGfileformatsforphotosandlogos.

Vectorgraphics,suchasWMFandSVGfiles,havecomponentssuchasshapeswithlinesandfills.

ComponentsdefinedasblacknormallyprintwiththeK

panel.

Becausetheprinterusestheprintribbonpanelsinsequence(YMCfirst,thenK),blackimagescan

printovercolorgraphics.Forthebestappearanceofcolorgraphics,ortopreventbackgrounds

thatareblackfromprintingovercoloredimages,useacolorthatappearsblackbutisnot,

sothat

allpartsofanimageprintwiththeYMCpanels.Forexample,intheRGBcolorspace,0, 0,0is

black(andprintswiththeKpanel),but0,0,5isnotblack(andprintswiththeYMCpanels).

Mosttypesofcards,includingcardswithmagneticstripesandsmartcards,canbe

printedusingsplit‐ribbonprinting.Optionsforcolor,monochrome,andtopcoat

areavailablewhenyouusesplit‐ribbonprinting.

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