HP CP1520 Use the HP EasyColor option for Windows, Setting description Setting options Halftone

Table 8-1Manual color options (continued)

Setting description	Setting options
Halftone	●	Smooth provides better results for large, solid-filled print areas
Halftone options affect color output clarity and		and enhances photographs by smoothing color gradations. Select
		this option when uniform and smooth area fills are important.
resolution.	●	Detail is useful for text and graphics that require sharp distinctions
		among lines or colors, or images that contain a pattern or a high
		level of detail. Select this option when sharp edges and small
		details are important.

Neutral Grays

The Neutral Grays setting determines the method for creating gray colors used in text, graphics, and photographs.

●Black Only generates neutral colors (grays and black) by using only black toner. This guarantees neutral colors without a color cast. This setting is best for documents and grayscale viewgraphs.

●4-Colorgenerates neutral colors (grays and black) by combining all four toner colors. This method produces smoother gradients and transitions to other colors, and it produces the darkest black.

Use the HP EasyColor option for Windows

If you are using the HP PCL 6 printer driver for Windows, the HP EasyColor technology automatically improves mixed-content documents that are printed from Microsoft Office programs. This technology scans documents and automatically adjusts photographic images in .JPEG or .PNG format.

HP EasyColor technology enhances the entire image at one time, rather than dividing it into several pieces, which results in improved color consistency, sharper details, and faster printing.

In the following example, the images on the left were created without using the HP EasyColor option. The images on the right show the enhancements that result from using the HP EasyColor option.

The HP EasyColor option is enabled by default in the HP PCL 6 printer driver, so you do not need to make manual color adjustments. To disable the option so you can manually adjust the color settings, open the Color tab, and click the HP EasyColor check box to clear it.

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