Canon BJC 70 Product Setup, User Guides & Manuals - Page 72

Special Options The BJC-70 printer driver for Windows provides several special options. From the Canon BJC-70 Setup dialog box, click on the Options button. You see this screen: These options allow you to select the halftone method you want to use to combine ink colors, identify the monitor you are using for the best color matching, and increase or decrease the intensity of the printed images. Halftone Your printer contains four colors of ink: cyan, yellow, magenta, and black. Your software creates intermediate colors by mixing combinations of these basic inks. For example, mixing yellow with cyan creates green, yellow with magenta produces red, and cyan plus magenta equals blue. To print the entire spectrum of colors, the BJC-70 printer driver for Windows applies special halftone methods. Using these methods, different colored dots of ink are placed closely together to create the illusion of other colors. Newspapers and magazines use this same technique. N The Halftone options have no effect when Print Color is set to Black and White. When you click on the arrow next to the Halftone setting, you can select the following options: 62 Using the Printer With Your Software Chapter 4