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SD Series Installation and Administrator’s Guide 15

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.

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ribbon. 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ri bbon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simi lar 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 46

formoreinformation.

Print Text in Color

Theprintercanprinttext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pa ge17.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fi le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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