Selecting print features: Phaser 300X

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Phaser 300X

Selecting print features

Print modes

The printer has three print-quality modes. In addition to the print-quality modes, you can customize your prints using the TekColor color corrections and Finepoint Sharpening. Refer to the Phaser 300X Drivers and Utilities Printing Reference for details on selecting the print quality modes and color correction.

Print-quality modes

Standard The default setting. This is the fastest mode for full color printing. This selection takes about 1 minute to print on A- or A4-size paper (American Letter or Metric Letter), depending on the size and complexity of the image.

Enhanced This mode takes about 2 minutes to print on A-size paper and smoothes banding in solid colors.

Premium This mode produces the smoothest solid color shades. It takes about 4 minutes to print on A-size paper.

Finepoint Sharpening

Finepoint Sharpening, available with 14 Mbytes of memory, uses a special halftoning technique to produce sharper images with crisp edges and smooth color detail. It provides sharpening and higher detail rendering for non-rotated, rectangular scanned image or bitmapped data only.

There are two ways of selecting Finepoint Sharpening:

Through a printer driver - check the Finepoint Sharpening box on.
By downloading the PostScript utility file. Refer to the Phaser 300X Drivers and Utilities Printing Reference for details on downloading utility files.

Color correction

The printer provides TekColor Dynamic Correction, which consists of these color correction modes (Vivid Color, Simulate Display, SWOP, Euroscale, Commercial, SNAP, and Use Printer Settings). You can select these modes in one of these ways:

Using a printer driver or a utility file.

: For details on making color corrections through a printer
driver or a utility file, refer to the Phaser 300X Drivers and Utilities Printing Reference.

Using the PhaserMatch application (requires Extended Features option).

: If you have created custom profiles with the PhaserMatch application, selecting PhaserMatch from the list of color corrections generates a list of the custom profiles from which to choose. Refer to the PhaserMatch User Manual for details.

Using the color correction switches on the printer's rear panel.

: The Phaser 300X allows you to make color corrections with rear panel Switches 8 and 9. Make sure that you have selected Use Printer Setting in the driver. The combinations of these two switches have the following effect:

Switch 8 Switch 9 Color correction mode

Down Down No color correction

Down Up SWOP Press
(closely matches a web offset press)

Up Down Vivid Color

Up Up Use NVRAM setting (default setting is Euroscale Press)

Note:If your printer is on a network and you have changed rear panel Switches 8 or 9, make sure you tell other users on the network since the switches affect all prints made with the Use Printer Setting option in the drivers. The NVRAM setting can be changed when both switches are up, by sending one of the utility files from the CD-ROM.

: Using the rear panel switches for color correction is only necessary if you are not set up to use the Phaser 300X drivers. If you are using TekColor Dynamic Correction in the Phaser 300X drivers, the settings you choose in the driver override the rear panel switches for prints you make from the driver.
: For complete information on color correction, refer to the Phaser 300X Drivers and Utilities Printing Reference.

Using color sampler charts provided on the Phaser 300X CD-ROM and diskettes.

: The Phaser 300X CD-ROM and diskettes contain color sampler charts for CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), RGB (red, green, and blue), HSB (hue, saturation, and brightness), and PANTONE Colors. The charts consist of colored rectangles and coordinate values. Print out the appropriate chart for your application, and use the coordinate values to select colors within an application. For example, your printer can produce PANTONE-approved process color simulations. Use the PANTONE Color sampler chart to select the process color values within software applications that best simulate PANTONE Colors on the Phaser 300X.
: For details on printing the charts, refer to the Phaser 300X Drivers and Utilities Printing Reference.

Color Control Strip feature

The printer software also includes the Color Control Strip feature, which allows you to check the consistency of printed colors between prints made on the same printer, as well as between prints made on more than one of the same type or model of printer. When this option is selected in the printer driver, the printed page includes a band of colors along the bottom edge; the colors in this band reflect the currently selected color correction. For more information, refer to the Phaser 300X Drivers and Utilities Printing Reference.

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