Color quality guide
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Color quality guide
This Color Quality guide is intended to help users understand how operations available on the printer can be used to adjust and customize color output. A brief description of the purpose and operation of the functions available that affect color output is provided. Additionally, some helpful suggestions are provided on how to use these functions to produce desirable color output and to solve certain color related problems commonly experienced by users.
Color Menu
Selections available in the Color Menu provide the user with multiple options that can adjust color characteristics of the printer.
Note: Values marked by an asterisk (*) are the factory default settings. Values selected in the printer PostScript or PCL drivers for Windows will override printer settings.
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| Print Mode | To determine whether files are | Color* |
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| Color | To adjust the printed color to better | Auto* | Applies different color conversion tables to each | |
| Correction | match the colors of other output |
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| type of object and how the color for each object | |
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| Off | No color correction is implemented. | |
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| Manual | Lets you customize the color conversion tables | |
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| color for each object is specified. Customization | |
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| To define the number of dots printed | 4800 CQ* | Default setting. | ||
| Resolution | per inch (dpi). |
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1200 dpi | Provides the highest resolution output which | ||||
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| increased gloss. | |
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| Toner | To lighten or darken printed output, or | 5 | If Print Mode is Black & White, a setting of 5 | |
| Darkness | conserve toner. |
| increases toner density and darkness to all print | |
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| jobs (PCL or PostScript). If Print Mode is Color, | |
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| when using the PostScript driver. | 4* | Default toner darkness setting. | |
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| 3 | Reduction in toner consumption. | |
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| 2 | Further reduction in toner consumption. | |
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| 1 | Maximum reduction in toner consumption. | |
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