Alps Electric MD-1300 To Print in Colors Similar to Those in a Photograph, Printing Operations

Printing Operations

Note

∙Color printing can be provided even if the multicolor and black ink cartridges are installed in the ink cartridge holders.

∙For information on installation of the ink cartridges, see “In- stalling the Ink Cartridges” in this manual.

∙When print data is received in the following cases, the error light starts to flash.

a)The four ink cartridges (yellow, magenta, cyan, and black) are not installed.

b)The multicolor and black ink cartridges are not installed. In these cases, install the required ink cartridges.

∙The multicolor ink cartridge is usually used to insert a colored illustration into monochrome printing, or used with a metallic ink cartridge to provide metallic color printing. Using multicolor ink cartridges for regular color printing will be more costly than using regular ink cartridges.

To Print in Colors Similar to Those in a Photograph

The MD series printers enable photographic data to be printed so that its quality is close to that of a real photograph.

The MD series printers have the following color-matching functions:

1.Micro DryTM Driver mode

This mode provides Micro DryTM-unique color matching. It is an initial mode available during color printing.

2.ColorSyncTM mode

When ColorSyncTM is selected, color management using ColorSyncTM, which is one of the basic Macintosh systems, is executed.

Note

The monitor outputs light to express colors, while the printer mixes ink to reproduce colors. Since the same colors thus can- not be reproduced in a strict sense, the printer expresses colors similar to the light from the monitor.

3.No color matching

The color information for print data is directly output to the printer.

■To use ColorSyncTM, provide the following settings.

Step 1¨Open the ColorSyncTM System Characteristic Document

Open ColorSyncTM System Profile in the Apple Control Panels.

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