Pitney Bowes DA900 manual Printheads and Bands Color Unprintable Areas

B Appendix B—Application Notes

Printheads and Bands (continued)

Color

Unprintable Areas

graphic or text message. Be aware that dragging bands on the envelope layout and placing them next to each other does not result in larger print areas. You must enter the Fixed Head tab and select Attach to expand the printable area.

While color is supported in the DA900, note that its use is different than with other Pitney Bowes AddressRight shuttle-head printers. The DA900 em- ploys “spot color,” meaning that each of the six print heads uses a single-color ink cartridge. Thus, if a red ink cartridge is placed in head 1, everything in that band will print in red.

By overlaying bands 1 and 2 (head 6 with heads 5-4) or band 3 with 4 (heads 3-2 with head 1), you can de- sign a layout with up to two colors on a single line of text. For example, by placing the first half of a text message on head 6 with a red ink cartridge, and the second half on head 5 with a blue ink cartridge, you can set up your layout such that the text message has the first part of the text in red and the rest in blue. Graphics, however, will always be of one color.

One important physical limitation that is not repre- sented in Envelope Designer™ Plus is the unprintable area that exists when you try to place heads 1 and 6 next to each other.

If you place heads 1 and 6 next to each other on the printer, there will be approximately 1.7 inches of un- printable space between them due to the ink storage portion of each ink cartridge. Thus, while it may ap- pear in your Envelope Designer layout that you can place these two bands next to each other, you must remember that it may not physically possible to set the bands in these positions. The same limitation applies to heads 5-4 and 3-2.

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