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Managing color on the GA-1121
see the application notes. Also, black text and line art defined as RGB = 0, 0, 0 in office applications (such as Microsoft Word) are converted to
NOTE: This feature is not available with the PCL driver.
Black Overprint
The Black Overprint option allows you to specify whether or not black text or
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NOTE: PostScript applications may perform their own black overprint conversions before sending the print job to the
One example of how you might use this setting is with a page that contains black text on a light blue background. The background blue color is CMYK = 40%, 30%, 0%, 0% and the black text is CMYK = 0%, 0%, 0%, 100%.
•With Black Overprint set to Text or Text & Graphics, the final text or text/graphic portions of the page are overprinted, or combined with the underlying colors. Black colors generated by applications (for example, RGB = 0%, 0%, 0%; CMYK = 0%, 0%, 0%, 100%) are printed using the maximum amount of black toner allowed by the calibration curve. This means that black text and line art will not exhibit halftone artifacts (as long as the copier/printer is calibrated correctly). There is no transition in the cyan and magenta toners, and the quality of the output is improved since it will not show artifacts near the edges of the text or text/graphics. The option also works with text defined in the RGB color space, that is RGB = 0, 0, 0.