Alps Electric MD-1300 manual Single Spot Color Printing, ¨ Create Data for Spot Color Printing

Chapter 2 - Various Printing Operations

Single Spot Color Printing

Single spot color printing uses just one color. Only the color to be used is in- stalled 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 color 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)

∙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 / 106085-00- EU) and Greeting 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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