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AVALON and AVALON DUO Printer USER MANUAL
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Black Resin Options
:
Halftoning (Monochrome Only):
If printing with
Monochrome
dye-film ribbon, you first
must
select the
Monochrome (K Only)
option in the
Card Front/Card Back
tab; this
enables these
Halftoning
options.
There are two
Halftoning
options available – they determine how the
printer driver translates
colour images into black and white
. Select
the option that works best with your card design, if your card design
has two colours only (black and white only) then changing the
Halftoning options will not have an effect. Error diffusion is the
default
and
recommended
option as it produces the best results.
All Black in image is printed with:
This option enables the user to select which of the
black
parts of the
image should be printed with the
resin black panel
. They should be
experimented
with, as both the
definition
and
intensity
of the
black
can be
varied
.
By default
all black objects will be printed in
Resin Black
except
areas of black in
pictures
.
It is
not recommended
disabling the ‘Pictures use YMC only’ option
if your card design has
photographs
on it.
It is
possible to configure
whether objects such as
barcodes and text
are printed
using Resin Black or Composite
Black,
to do this, select
YMC
in the ‘
All Black in image is printed with:
’ drop down list.
Three options will be enabled:
Mono bitmaps use K-Resin:
Mono (monochrome) bitmaps are pictures formatted to contain only
black (RGB value of
0,0,0
) and white (RGB value of
255,255,255
).
Many ID badging applications generate barcodes as monochrome
bitmaps, so when enabled, barcodes will be printed in resin black.
This
improves clarity
and makes barcodes
easier to read
with
conventional barcode scanners.
Black Text uses K-Resin:
When enabled, all black (RGB value of
0,0,0
)
text
in your card design
will be
printed
in
Resin
Black
. This
improves
clarity
and is
highly
recommended
if your card design uses black text or ‘
True
Type’
Barcodes
. This option is enabled by default.
Black Polygons use K-Resin:
When enabled, all black (RGB value of
0,0,0
)
Polygons
(simple
shapes such as
squares
,
triangles
and
rectangles
) in your card
design will be printed in
Resin
Black.
This
improves
clarity and
contrast
of the polygons. This option is enabled by default.
