Xerox DocuPrint 180, Solution Manual

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DOCUPRINT IPS SOLUTIONS GUIDE 5-1
5. 5 Incorporating Xerox
value-added features
The DocuPrint IPS series allows you to take advantage of many
Xerox value-added features. These features include highlight color,
paper handling and paper tray selection, enhanced resource
resolution, and guaranteed MICR printing.
This chapter provides instructions for incorporating the Xerox value-
added features into your existing documents.
Adding color
AFP supports almost all of the functionality of a Xerox high-end
printer, including highlight color. You may add color to lines of data,
fields within lines of data, overlays, and page segments within your
document using any variety of programs.
Adding color to your documents can dramatically change its effect on
customers. The DocuPrint 4850, 4890, and 92C IPS printers print
black plus one of ten solid highlight colors: cyan, magenta, cardinal,
violet, brown, ruby, royal, green, blue, and red. They can also print a
variety of shades or tints of any of these color.
This section describes the steps required for adding color to your
document, either for the text, page segments, or overlays.
Color mapping
Before printing your AFP document, you specify which color to use
as the highlight color using the Extraction Color menu option on the
IPS user interface. For example, if you wish to print your document
using blue as the primary highlight color, you would select Blue on
the Extraction Color menu. Then, when the document is printed,
highlight color references will print in blue; any other colors
referenced in the data stream will print as a shade of blue.
Color mapping is also important when using an ink color that is not
defined by IBM (for example, cardinal), or when using an IBM color
call for which Xerox does not have an ink (for example, yellow).
Note, however, that the color housing you have installed in the printer
will determine which color palette actually is used. The color
extraction tables will be based on this color. For example, if you
specify blue as your Extraction Color but have installed the red color
housing in the printer, all references to blue in the data stream will
print as solid red. Other colors will print as shades of red.