DataCard SD260, Installation And User Manual

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Color print ribbon is available in full panel or short
panel. The color area for short panel ribbon is 1.57
inches (40mm). The YMC panels of short panel ribbon
are approximately half the length of a full card.
When printing with short panel print ribbon, the location of the color area is
defined in the card design. Color printing begins when the driver detects a color
pixel and continues for the length of the ymc panels.
For more information on print ribbon, see “Supplies and Parts” .
Managing Color
Many people think that a color on the monitor and the printed color “should be
the same.” Color management is the technical process of making color in two
different places (such as on the PC monitor and printed on the card) as similar as
possible. A widely used color standard is sRGB color, and the card printer also
uses sRGB color. (sRGB is the name for the standard Red, Green, and Blue color
space.)
Other color characteristics include brightness and contrast. The Windows driver
includes settings to fine-tune the brightness and contrast for the card. See
“Settings” for more information. In a non-Windows environment, color
management or graphics software can be used to manage images.
Printing Text
The printer can print text in any color. Small characters are likely to be more
readable if they are formatted as black and printed with the black (K) panel. The
printer supports 6 point or larger text. with a sans-serif font such as Arial.
Printing Graphics
The printer produces full-color images from most
types of graphics. It can use BMP, JPEG, TIFF,
and PNG file formats for photos and logos.
Vector graphics, such as WMF and SVG files,
have components such as shapes with lines and
fills. The XPS Card Printer Driver separates each
component. Components defined as black in the
file are likely to print with the K panel.
For the best appearance of graphics, use a color
that appears black but is not, so all parts of a graphic print with YMC panels. In
the RGB color space, 0, 0, 0 is black (and prints with the K panel), but 0, 0, 5 is not
black (and prints with the YMC panels).