Lexmark OptraImage Color 1200r User's Guide - Page 76

Print Quality, Color Correction continued, Using color

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Color Correction (continued) What Black & White Display Why To print color images in a monochrome gray scale. To print colors that approximate the colors on a standard computer screen. When • You want to print a draft of a color document in shades of black and white. • You're printing a color document for photocopying. • You want to preserve your color toner and thereby reduce printing expenses. • You want your printed colors to look similar to your computer screen. • Your application does not do its own color correction and defines colors as RGB (red, green, blue), HLS (hue, lightness, saturation), or HSB (hue, saturation, brightness). Print Quality What Graphics Images 1200 Image Quality Why When Optimal for most business printing, providing the fastest speed, lowest memory usage, and optimal print quality for documents containing text and graphics. • You want high quality output for text and business graphics. • You want to print complex jobs fast. • You need to collate large jobs. To print enhanced images without significantly affecting the memory requirements or print speed for a particular job. You're printing documents that contain image data and: - You need the best combination of speed, memory usage, and image quality. - You don't have sufficient memory installed to print the job using the 1200 Image Quality setting. - You want the printer to choose which images are enhanced. Optimizes the print quality of images on the page. This setting provides outstanding text and graphics quality, while enhancing fine detail in all image data. You're printing documents that contain image data and: - You want the best print quality possible for a job that incorporates image data. - You want sharp edges on small graphic objects. - Quality output is more important than printing speed. - You have sufficient memory installed in your printer to print your jobs with 1200 Image Quality selected. 62 Chapter 3: Using color

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Chapter 3: Using color
Black & White
To print color images in a monochrome
gray scale.
You want to print a draft of a color
document in shades of black and white.
You’re printing a color document for
photocopying.
You want to preserve your color toner
and thereby reduce printing expenses.
Display
To print colors that approximate the colors
on a standard computer screen.
You want your printed colors to look
similar to your computer screen.
Your application does not do its own
color correction and defines colors as
RGB (red, green, blue), HLS (hue,
lightness, saturation), or HSB (hue,
saturation, brightness).
Print Quality
What
Why
When
Graphics
Optimal for most business printing,
providing the fastest speed, lowest memory
usage, and optimal print quality for
documents containing text and graphics.
You want high quality output for text and
business graphics.
You want to print complex jobs fast.
You need to collate large jobs.
Images
To print enhanced images without signifi-
cantly affecting the memory requirements
or print speed for a particular job.
You’re printing documents that contain
image data and:
You need the best combination of
speed, memory usage, and image
quality.
You don’t have sufficient memory
installed to print the job using the
1200 Image Quality setting.
You want the printer to choose which
images are enhanced.
1200 Image Quality
Optimizes the print quality of images on the
page. This setting provides outstanding text
and graphics quality, while enhancing fine
detail in all image data.
You’re printing documents that contain
image data and:
You want the best print quality
possible for a job that incorporates
image data.
You want sharp edges on small
graphic objects.
Quality output is more important than
printing speed.
You have sufficient memory installed
in your printer to print your jobs with
1200 Image Quality selected.
Color Correction (continued)
What
Why
When