Highlight Color; Uses For Highlight Color In Your Documents; How Highlight Color Is Created - Xerox 4890 Product Reference

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Highlight color

Uses for highlight color in your documents

How highlight color is created

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The 4890 is a HighLight Color Laser Printing System. Highlight
color is the use of one primary color and black in their pure
forms (solid color or solid black) or mixed to create tones, which
are a mixture of color with black or white.
While there are several primary colors available such as red,
green and blue, only one color at a time can be installed in the
printer. Black is installed permanently in the printer and may not
be removed.
In highlight color printing, colors are simulated; that is, there is
no physical mixing of different color pigments to achieve the
desired color. Color is created by printing very small dots of
black dry ink and highlight color dry ink very close to each other
to produce the illusion of a color. When the human eye views a
patch of color printed in this manner, it perceives a color
different than either black or the highlight primary color.
Highlight color is a design element, similar to others you are
already using in your reports and documents. Like fonts, lines,
boxes, and other graphic tools, highlight color can emphasize
the message and improve the readability of the printed page, or
visually support the organization of the document.
Some examples of these uses are:
In forms, use color to separate required versus optional entry
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boxes.
In statements or invoices, use color to highlight the most
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important information, such as a balance due.
In longer documents, use color in organizational elements,
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such as lines, or edge markers to make information easier to
find.
In graphics, use color to emphasize items like bar charts, or
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specific parts.
These are only a few ways to use highlight color to improve the
quality of your printed communications.
Highlight color is created by printing a matrix of pixels in
combinations of black, the highlight color, and white (not
printing anything and assuming you are using white paper). The
arrangement and the relative density of these pixels produces an
illusion of color.
XEROX 4890 HIGHLIGHT COLOR LPS PRODUCT REFERENCE