■Eight basic colours: red, green, blue, cyan, yellow, magenta, black, white.
■Some basic colours, but with a limited number of shades of those colours created by adding white or using different patterns.
■Some basic colours, plus custom colours like mixing yellow and blue for green. Your software application may offer a number of colour control functions like dithering, intensity, or hue.
■Dithering. Creates colours with patterns of alternating dots. For example, an alternating red and white dither pattern can create pink. Many dither- ing methods are available. For details, see your software application doc- umentation.
■Intensity (saturation). Allows you to adjust the depth of a colour if the printout appears lighter or darker than the image on the monitor. For details, see your software application documentation.
■Hue. Allows you to change the gradation in the colour spectrum and change colour results. For example, you can adjust the hue of red to make it more purple. For details, see your software application documentation.
Your computer monitor and colour
Determine what type of monitor and display board you are using. These items are classified by their resolution and the number of different colours that they can display. As a general rule, the higher the resolution of a moni- tor, the more colours it can display.
The following factors may affect how well the colour on your printed page matches the colour image on the monitor:
■Monochrome monitors can display no colours. Older CGA colour moni- tors can produce only a small number of colours at low resolution. Newer colour monitors with high resolution can display more colours.
■For colour display, monitors create colours by combining red, green, and blue at different intensities. For colour printing, printers combine cyan, yellow and magenta by overlaying dots in a variety of combinations with varying amounts of ink to create virtually any colour. Because monitors and printers use very different methods to create colour, achieving and image and the image on the monitor may be difficult in some cases.
■We have optimized the operation of your printer to achieve the best match of printed output with popular monitors. Yet you may still find certain colours difficult to match exactly.
■To maximize the colour matching capabilities of your printer, you should use a monitor with a
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