With Spot-Color Resin Ribbons - Primera Pictura 310s User Manual

E. Printing a
Multi-Spot-
Color Image
with Spot-Color
Resin Ribbons
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the on-line button to begin printing. Do not open
the cover of the printer before the cancel and on-
line lights begin flashing or after they have
stopped! This will cancel your print job. While
printing, you can only open the printerÕs cover or
change ribbons when the cancel and on-line lights
are alternately flashing.
9.
After your single-color image has printed, the
print media will again be retracted back into the
printer. The reason for this is explained in Part E of
this section. To eject your finished single-color sign
from the printer, press the printerÕs cancel button.
In addition to printing process color or one color
signage, the Color Sign Printer is also able to print
several separate spot colors onto a single sheet
using any combination or number of resin ribbon
colors. To do this, you simply place each color of
your digital image on a separate ÒlayerÓ within
your design and send each layer to the printer as a
separate print job. To separate and print your
image by layers, please refer to your specific
graphics application program documentation. To
operate your Color Sign Printer during this print
process, please refer to the following steps.
1.
Load the appropriate spot color ribbon into the
printer.
2.
Select Print Setup or Page Setup from the File
menu of your program.
3.
Select Monochrome Resin from the Ribbon
Type options. While in the Print Setup window,
also check that all of the other appropriate printer
driver options are selected. Once all appropriate
options are selected, exit the setup window.
4.
Send the first layer of your image to the printer
by selecting Print from your programÕs File menu.
Depending upon your application program, you
may need to change the color of that layer to black
in order to achieve an entirely solid color when
printed. The reason for this is that if you were to
send a color other than black (blue or red for
example), a gray scale interpretation of that color
could be sent to the printer giving your output a
grainy or ÒditheredÓ quality instead of a solid,
saturated quality.
5.
The Color Sign PrinterÕs RIP (raster image
processing) begins. Depending upon the
complexity of the image and the processing speed
of you computer, it will take from several seconds
to several minutes for printing to begin. Generally,