Halftone Features - NEC 1260 - SuperScript - Printer User Manual

Note: Not all image files will print
correctly in all modes. For best results, try
each of the three manual modes. Also, try
printing your image with Color smoothing
(described in "Halftone Features") turned
off.
Automatically select best imaging
mode
Choose this option to have the driver select the
imaging mode based on the program that is print-
ing the document. This option will print most
print jobs correctly.
Manually select imaging mode
• Choose Optimize for text & spreadsheets to
ensure that print speed is fastest when print-
ing documents that contain lots of horizontal
and vertical lines, such as spreadsheets or
tables and text.
• Choose Optimize for graphics and photos to
ensure that documents with graphic images
print at their best quality. In this mode, every-
thing except for fonts is sent as graphic data.
This reduces the amount of data sent to the
printer for complex pages, and may produce
better output in some instances.
• Choose Image entire page as graphic to ensure
the best possible match between what you see
Image Control Tab
on the screen and what is printed. When this
option is selected, the entire page, including
fonts, is sent as a single graphic image to the
printer. This is slower, but in some cases may
produce more accurate matching between
printed output and the screen than the other
modes.

Halftone Features

The SuperScript 1260 Windows Printer Driver lets
you fine-tune the way colors in graphics images
are converted to gray dot patterns.
Choosing Optimize for laser print output improves
the quality of graphics printing by using spe-
cially-optimized grayscale patterns to print
graphics. Choosing this option gives you two fur-
ther choices:
• Fine which provides smoother grays and fills.
• Standard, faster output may result in coarser
grays, but faster printing.
Choosing Optimize for photocopy reproduction uses
a circular half-tone dot method for reproducing
grays. This produces better final results if you will
be photocopying your printed pages.
The Color smoothing option speeds up printing by
substituting an appropriate gray for colors which
are represented on-screen by a mix of two
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