Alps Electric MD-5000P manual Single Ink Printing, ¨ Create Data for Spot Color Printing

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Various Printing Operations

Single Ink Printing

Single Ink printing uses just one color. Only the color to be used is installed in the printer. This method is used when an entire image or document is going to be printed in a single color.

This method of printing can be used even when the application you are using does not allow designation of color compositions. Using this method, even full color or grayscale images can be printed in spot color.

Requirements

For single spot color printing you will need the following.

∙Ink cartridges

For spot ink printing at least one ink cartridge is required. Metallic gold ink cartridge (Part No. 106030-00)

Metallic silver ink cartridge (Part No. 106045-00) Metallic magenta ink cartridge (Part No. 106035-00) Metallic cyan ink cartridge (Part No. 106040-00) White ink cartridge (Part No. 106050-00)

Cyan ink cartridge (Part No. 106020-00) Magenta ink cartridge (Part No.106015-00) Yellow ink cartridge (Part No.106010-00) Black ink cartridge (Part No. 106005-00)

∙Media

Plain or smooth paper can be used just as with normal color printing.

Since metallic ink is not transparent, printing on colored paper also works well. We suggest using High Grade Paper (Part No. 106085-00) and Greet- ing Cards (Part No. 106090-00).

White ink can be printed on iron-on transfer sheets, overhead projector trans- parencies, or back print films.

Step 1¨ Create Data for Spot Color Printing

Use any application to create the image or document you want to print, and prepare it just as you would for normal printing.

Note

It is not necessary to select a color in the application that matches the color of the ink cartridge in the printer. Leaving the charac- ters and images in black is fine. Color and shaded areas will be printed in varying gradations as dot matrices under the Grayscale setting.

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Contents Online User’s Guide for Windows 3.1, 95/98 Table of Contents Printer Driver Various Printing Operations ∙ Ink cartridges Photographic-Quality Color Printing∙ Media Paper feed switch a ¨ Install the Photographic-Quality Ink Cartridges¨ Prepare the Image to be Printed Guide sheetVarious Printing Operations Click Properties ¨ Set Up the Printer Driver for Printing¨ 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 Stickers ¨ Create Data for Printing on Photographic-Quality La- bels¨ Load the Photographic-Quality Labels in Your Printer ¨ Set Up the Printer Driver for Printing Click Properties ¨ Print VPhoto Color Printing on VPhoto Print Film ¨ Install the Ink Cartridges¨ Load the VPhoto Print Film 8.5 x 11 in Your Printer Click OK in the Print dialog box to start printing Requirement VPhoto Color Printing on VPhoto Paper¨ 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 ∙ Ink cartridge Full Color & Photo Realistic Finishing Glossy FinishVarious Printing Operations ∙ Single Ink Printing in Spot Color∙ Multiple Inks ∙ Metallic & Cmyk Inks¨ Create Data for Spot Color Printing Single Ink Printing¨ Load Paper ¨ Install the Ink CartridgeManual feeding ¨ Set Up the Printer Driver for Printing ¨ Print Multiple Inks Printing ¨ Create Data for Spot Color Printing Various Printing Operations Colors and color compositions used to indicate spot colors Tables of color composition settings for spot color printing¨ Load Paper in Your Printer ¨ Install the Spot Ink Cartridges¨ Set Up the Printer Driver for Printing Various Printing Operations ¨ Print Simultaneous Metallics & Cmyk Inks Printing Create the full color and spot color data to be printed ¨ Create the Full Color + Spot Color Print Image∙ Color compositions using RGB settings n/100% ∙ Color compositions using RGB settings n/255∙ 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 ∙ Single foil color printing without halftone Printing in Foil Color∙ 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 Foil color Colors and color components used to indicate foil colorsApplication 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 ¨Load the Greeting Card into the Printer Install the ink cartridges into the ink cartridge holdersClick OK in the Print dialog box. Printing will begin Set the Media Type to Cardboard Thick paper∙ Paper to transfer the image to Printing on Back Print Film∙ Iron Back Print Film Normally, use Photographs ¨ Transfer the Image to Paper using an Iron Plain paper Paper for copiers ¨ Curl CorrectionLeave them rolled up for five minutes ¨ Obtain a Matte FinishUnroll them, and the curl should be corrected Apply the ironExamples ∙ Cloth to transfer the image to T-shirt, handkerchief, etc Making Iron-on Transfers¨ Prepare the Image to Be Printed Set the Media Type to Iron-on Transfer Sheet ¨ Transfer the Iron-On to Cloth Various Printing Operations Iron-on transfers can be used not only onto fabric items Transfer ProcedureMaterial Selection Printing on Overhead Transparencies Separator Outer box To be aligned the edge Inner box ¨ Set up the Transparency SeparatorsPaper output slot SeparatorAdjust the paper feed guide to the paper size ¨ Install the Ink Cartridges and Overhead Transparen- ciesClick OK in the Print dialog box. Printing will start ¨ Prepare the Image to Be Printed As Undercoat Undercoating with a VPhoto Primer Ink CartridgeWhite 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 How to Open the Printer Driver Setup Dialog Box Printer Driver Setup Dialog BoxCancel button Default buttonTabs Radio buttonsDocument Type Settings in Each TabMedia Type Print Settings Print Mode Method to Apply Printer EffectsPrinter Effects Preview Paper Size Show Details dialog boxStatus Display Refresh buttonPages Per Sheet LayoutPrint Borders check box Scaling check boxPhoto Enhancement Color BalanceImage Color Match