SelectingPrintQuality
Trapping
Fonts
Imaging
IntheImagingtab,selectaPrintqualityfromthelist.Thenumberof
selectionsinPrintqualitydependsonthenumberofresolutionssupportedby
theprintingsystem.
Highquality
Selectthissettingtoprintatthehighestprintingsystemresolution.
Custom
CustomletsyouchooseasettingforEcoPrint.SelectingCustomwithout
EcoPrintresultsinadefaultsettingtothehighestprintingsystemresolution.
Incolorprinting,colorinksortonersareappliedseparatelytoapage.Acolor
imagehasitscomponentcolorsappliedincolorseparationsofcyan,magenta,
yellowandblack.Thesecolorseparationsmustbealigned(registered)
preciselytoproduceaqualityfullcolorimage.Duringprinting,thepaperor
mediatypemayshiftslightly.Whiletheshiftmightbeverysmall,thegaps
betweenthecolorsintheimagecanbenoticeable.Colortrappingcorrectsitby
overlappingcolorsslightlysothatminoralignmentissuesarecorrected.
Tousetrappinginadocument,selectavaluefortheprintoverlappixelwidth:
Light,0.5pixeltrapping;Medium,1pixeltrapping;Heavy,1.5pixelstrapping;
VeryHeavy,2pixelstrapping.
Iftrappingdoesnotcorrectthemisalignmentissue,contactyourlocalKyocera
servicedealer.
Note:TrappingisnotavailablewhenthePDLissettoPCL5corPDF.
Acomputerfontisadatafilecontainingasetofglyphs(visualrepresentations
oftextualelements),characters,orsymbols.Commontermsforfontsare:
Bitmapfontsdefineeachcharacterasapatternofpixels(thesmallest
resolvablerectangularareasofanimage).Suchfontsarenoteasilyscalable
anddistortwhenreducedorenlarged.
Outlinefonts,incontrasttobitmapfonts,aredefinedasasetof
mathematicallinesandcurves.Anoutlinefontismoreeasilyscalable
(designedtodisplayandprintclearlyatanypointsize)thanabitmapfont.
Nativefontsarethebasicororiginalfontsinstalledwiththecomputer
operatingsystem.TrueTypefontsarethenativefontsusedbyMicrosoft
Windows.
TrueTypefontsareatypeofscalableoutlinefonts.TrueTypehaslongbeen
themostcommonformatforfontsonMicrosoftWindows.
Systemfontsaretheprimaryfontsusedbytheoperatingsystem.Theyare
typicallyaccessedthroughanapplicationinterfaceorthroughacommonfont
dialogbox.
Devicefontsarestoredeitherpermanentlyortemporarilyintheprinting
systemmemory.
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