Selecting The Printing Method - Microtek ScanMaker IIG User Manual

Selecting the printing method

Scanned images can be printed on a variety of devices. Here are
some of the most common ones:
• Black and white printers (laser, ink jet, dot matrix) are
suitable for producing text and line art, but they are not as
good for printing grayscale images. You can use these printers
to reproduce photographs for FPO (For Position Only)
purposes, as when you need to show a draft of how a docu-
ment is laid out.
• Ink jet and desk jet color printers can produce color or
grayscale images that may range in quality from coarse to
medium. Such printers work well for small quantities of color
images or for proofs of images that will be printed later on a
printing press. These printers usually print 256 colors or 256
shades of gray but do not register colors as well. Images
usually end up slightly coarse or washed out.
• Dye-sublimation color printers print images in photo-realistic
color. Use these printers to print color images with continuous
tone for small print jobs or for proofs of large print jobs that
will be done later on an imagesetter.
• Printing presses can produce work of high quality. For these
types of printers, you can scan your images and then send the
files to a service bureau or printing company, which typically
uses a high-resolution imagesetter and can print high-quality
text and grayscale images. If you are producing full-color
images, scan them in color, then use your image-editing
software to create the color separation files needed to print
color on a printing press.
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