Xerox 721P88200 manual Incorporating Xerox value-addedfeatures, Adding color, Color mapping

5.Incorporating Xerox value-added features

The DocuPrint IPS series allows you to take advantage of many Xerox value-added features. These features include highlight color, paper handling and paper tray selection, enhanced resource resolution, and guaranteed MICR printing.

This chapter provides instructions for incorporating the Xerox value- added features into your existing documents.

Adding color

AFP supports almost all of the functionality of a Xerox high-end printer, including highlight color. You may add color to lines of data, fields within lines of data, overlays, and page segments within your document using any variety of programs.

Adding color to your documents can dramatically change its effect on customers. The DocuPrint 4850, 4890, and 92C IPS printers print black plus one of ten solid highlight colors: cyan, magenta, cardinal, violet, brown, ruby, royal, green, blue, and red. They can also print a variety of shades or tints of any of these color.

This section describes the steps required for adding color to your document, either for the text, page segments, or overlays.

Color mapping

Before printing your AFP document, you specify which color to use as the highlight color using the Extraction Color menu option on the IPS user interface. For example, if you wish to print your document using blue as the primary highlight color, you would select Blue on the Extraction Color menu. Then, when the document is printed, highlight color references will print in blue; any other colors referenced in the data stream will print as a shade of blue.

Color mapping is also important when using an ink color that is not defined by IBM (for example, cardinal), or when using an IBM color call for which Xerox does not have an ink (for example, yellow).

Note, however, that the color housing you have installed in the printer will determine which color palette actually is used. The color extraction tables will be based on this color. For example, if you specify blue as your Extraction Color but have installed the red color housing in the printer, all references to blue in the data stream will print as solid red. Other colors will print as shades of red.

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