FARGO electronic Pro-L Controls, Disable Printing, Dither Mode, Dye-Sub Intensity, FargoColor

Pro-L Card Printer User’s Manual

automatically adjusts the color of your image according to preconfigured printer profiles and default system profiles. This results in a very precise color match compliant with ICC standards. Please note that since the FargoColor option is intended to match photographic color hues as closely as possible, you may notice that some colors may appear slightly muted when printing simple spot colors.

Controls

See Picture Controls.

Disable Printing

Selecting this option disables the printing capabilities of the printer, yet still allows the printer to laminate and/or encode cards. This option is useful if you would like to encode, re-encode or laminate preprinted cards without wasting additional time, effort, or printing supplies. When printing with this option selected, all print data will not be sent to the printer, while all encoding or laminating instructions will be sent according to how they are configure within the printer driver.

Dither Mode

This option only effects objects printed with a monochrome resin ribbon type or those objects printed on the back side of a card with the monochrome resin panel of a full-color ribbon. Click on the Dither Mode down arrow and select the appropriate dither method according to the type of image you are printing.

Dye-Sub Intensity

See Picture Controls.

FargoColor

See Color Matching.

Image Placement

See Calibrate.

K Panel Graphics

In most application programs, when printing with a Full-Color YMCKO ribbon, the printer driver prints all bitmap images with the ribbon’s yellow, magenta, and cyan color panels (YMC). Any black contained in these bitmap images is printed by combining equal amounts of yellow, magenta, and cyan. This type of black is called a “composite” black. The resin black (K) panel of the ribbon is only used when printing TrueType black text and TrueType bar codes.

Section 6: Using Your Card Printer

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