Zebra Technologies 8 user manual Summary, Send as grayscale

4:Printer Settings and Adjustments Printing Preferences

•Send as grayscale

This mode can be used when you have black anti-aliased text. Black anti-aliased text is typically black in the center; but on the edges, it has shades of gray that get lighter as you move out form the center of the text. This anti-aliased text will have a softer looking edge that is less sharp than non anti-aliased text.

For electronic displays and printers that print continuous tones, anti-aliased text looks and prints better. For K-printing, the

driver usually performs monochrome conversion to convert the image to binary; but then the printer has to convert it back to gray so it can be run through the imaging path.

With the “send as grayscale” mode enabled, converting the K-panel to binary is skipped so the extra information contained with anti-aliased text is retained; and it prints K with a slightly smoother edge. If the input K text is not anti-aliased, the text will look the same with this mode as it would with the dither pure black and white mode.

SUMMARY

Error diffusion/halftoning: Use on pictures. Image content dictates if error diffusion or halftoning would look best. For the majority of time, error diffusion is better.

Dither pure black and white: Use on text, barcodes, line art, and simple graphics.

Send as grayscale: Use with black anti-alised text.

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