Managing Color; Printing Text; Printing Graphics - Polaroid 539957-020 Rev. A User Manual

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

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"
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).
Backgrounds that are black might print over colored images or text. Use a color
that appears black for the background to prevent overprinting, or use white text
for more information. In a non-Windows environment, color
"Supplies and Parts".
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