Xerox 5252 manual Trapping

About color printing

Trapping

Trapping compensates for misregistration by slightly overprinting adjacent colors.

No Trap Trap

Halo

Haloes are light areas around an object that occur when printing a darker color dry ink/toner on a lighter color dry ink/toner background. Printing on pastel or gray paper eliminates this problem.

Halo No Halo

Opacity

Opacity is a measure of how much light can pass through paper. When producing 2-sided output, choose a paper with high opacity so the print from side 1 does not show through on side 2.

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DocuColor 5252 Operator Manual 2-15