Alps Electric MD-5000P manual Printing in Spot Color, ∙ Single Ink, ∙ Multiple Inks

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Various Printing Operations

Printing in Spot Color

Spot color printing is a unique feature of the MD-Series printers. Although most applica- tions are not designed to handle spot color printing, the MD-5000 printer driver allows you to select specific colors or color components that will be replaced by spot colors such as metallic and white inks when printing. You can print with up to five spot colors (or five spot colors plus black) from most applications that allow color specification.

Moreover, because metallic inks are opaque, metallic printing is unaffected by the color of the underlying paper. As a result, you can print not only on colored paper but also on black glossy surfaces or brightly colored surfaces (like those found in greeting cards).

When a white ink is used as undercoat, colored paper can be subjected to full color printing. To provide a white undercoat, see "Undercoating with the White Ink Cartridge".

Types of Spot Color Printing

The following types of spot color printing are possible depending on the types of ink cartridges used.

∙Single Ink

Spot color printing using a single color.

∙Multiple Inks

Spot color printing using 2 or more colors. Up to 3 spot colors plus black can be used.

∙Metallic & CMYK Inks

Full color printing and spot color printing can be combined in two ways, by printing in Overlay mode or by printing all colors in one sequence.

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Contents Online User’s Guide for Windows 3.1, 95/98 Table of Contents Printer Driver Various Printing Operations Photographic-Quality Color Printing ∙ Ink cartridges∙ Media ¨ Install the Photographic-Quality Ink Cartridges Paper feed switch a¨ Prepare the Image to be Printed Guide sheetVarious Printing Operations ¨ Set Up the Printer Driver for Printing Click Properties¨ Print Printing on Photographic-Quality Paper 4 x ¨ Load the Photographic-Quality Paper 4x 6 in Your Printer Guide sheet ¨ Set Up the Printer Driver for Printing Various Printing Operations Click OK in the Print dialog box and printing will start Printing on Photographic-Quality Labels ¨ Create Data for Printing on Photographic-Quality La- bels Stickers¨ Load the Photographic-Quality Labels in Your Printer ¨ Set Up the Printer Driver for Printing Click Properties ¨ Print ¨ Install the Ink Cartridges VPhoto Color Printing on VPhoto Print Film¨ Load the VPhoto Print Film 8.5 x 11 in Your Printer Click OK in the Print dialog box to start printing VPhoto Color Printing on VPhoto Paper Requirement¨ Load the VPhoto Paper 4x6 Plus in Your Printer ¨ Print VPhoto Color Printing on Plain Paper ¨ Load the Paper in Your Printer Set Print Mode to VPhoto Color VPhoto Color Printing on Photo Realistic Labels Select Photo Realistic Label from the Media Type setting ¨ Print Full Color & Photo Realistic Finishing Glossy Finish ∙ Ink cartridgeVarious Printing Operations Printing in Spot Color ∙ Single Ink∙ Multiple Inks ∙ Metallic & Cmyk InksSingle Ink Printing ¨ Create Data for Spot Color Printing¨ Install the Ink Cartridge ¨ Load PaperManual feeding ¨ Set Up the Printer Driver for Printing ¨ Print Multiple Inks Printing ¨ Create Data for Spot Color Printing Various Printing Operations Tables of color composition settings for spot color printing Colors and color compositions used to indicate spot colors¨ Install the Spot Ink Cartridges ¨ Load Paper in Your Printer¨ Set Up the Printer Driver for Printing Various Printing Operations ¨ Print Simultaneous Metallics & Cmyk Inks Printing ¨ Create the Full Color + Spot Color Print Image Create the full color and spot color data to be printed∙ Color compositions using RGB settings n/255 ∙ Color compositions using RGB settings n/100%∙ Color compositions using Cmyk settings n/100% Color composition for indicating spot colors¨ Install the Ink Cartridges ¨ Set Up the Printer Driver for Printing Various Printing Operations ¨ Print Printing in Foil Color ∙ Single foil color printing without halftone∙ Multi foil color printing ∙ Full color + foil color printingSingle Foil Color Printing For manual feed mode, set the paper feed switch to posi Various Printing Operations ¨ Print Multi Foil Color Printing ¨ Prepare the Image to Be Printed Colors and color components used to indicate foil colors Foil colorApplication color used to indicate the foil color ¨ Install the Ink Cartridges Various Printing Operations ¨ Print Simultaneous Full Color + Foil Color Printing Application color used to ¨ Install the Ink Cartridges Various Printing Operations ¨ Print Printing Greeting Cards Install the ink cartridges into the ink cartridge holders ¨Load the Greeting Card into the PrinterSet the Media Type to Cardboard Thick paper Click OK in the Print dialog box. Printing will beginPrinting on Back Print Film ∙ Paper to transfer the image to∙ Iron Back Print Film Normally, use Photographs ¨ Transfer the Image to Paper using an Iron ¨ Curl Correction Plain paper Paper for copiers¨ Obtain a Matte Finish Leave them rolled up for five minutesUnroll them, and the curl should be corrected Apply the ironExamples Making Iron-on Transfers ∙ Cloth to transfer the image to T-shirt, handkerchief, etc¨ Prepare the Image to Be Printed Set the Media Type to Iron-on Transfer Sheet ¨ Transfer the Iron-On to Cloth Various Printing Operations Transfer Procedure Iron-on transfers can be used not only onto fabric itemsMaterial Selection Printing on Overhead Transparencies ¨ Set up the Transparency Separators Separator Outer box To be aligned the edge Inner boxPaper output slot Separator¨ Install the Ink Cartridges and Overhead Transparen- cies Adjust the paper feed guide to the paper sizeClick OK in the Print dialog box. Printing will start Undercoating with a VPhoto Primer Ink Cartridge ¨ Prepare the Image to Be Printed As UndercoatWhite portions of data R=G=B=100% are not undercoated ¨ Set Up the Printer Driver for Printing Various Printing Operations ¨ Print on Undercoat Printer Driver Printer Driver Setup Dialog Box How to Open the Printer Driver Setup Dialog BoxDefault button Cancel buttonTabs Radio buttonsSettings in Each Tab Document TypeMedia Type Print Settings Print Mode Printer Effects Method to ApplyPrinter Effects Preview Show Details dialog box Paper SizeStatus Display Refresh buttonLayout Pages Per SheetPrint Borders check box Scaling check boxColor Balance Photo EnhancementImage Color Match