Line Thinning; Halftone Screen - Kyocera TASKalfa 2551ci Driver Manual

Line Thinning

Halftone Screen

Printer Driver
In Imaging > Graphics, select a Pattern scaling setting.
Auto (default setting)
This setting prints patterns and fills to match the on-screen appearance.
Coarse
This setting prints patterns and fills with the fewest number of lines, patterns,
or dots. Coarse is the same as Auto if PCL XL or PCL 5c is selected in the
PDL Settings dialog box.
Medium
This setting prints patterns and fills with a greater number of lines, patterns
or dots than the Coarse setting. Medium is the same as Auto if KPDL is
selected in the PDL Settings dialog box.
Fine
This setting prints patterns and fills with the greatest number of lines,
patterns, or dots. Printed patterns and fills may appear more dense than the
on-screen appearance.
Line thinning reduces the pen width of lines used for barcodes and line
drawings. Drawing values controlled by an application are not changed.
Line thinning is available when PCL XL is selected in the PDL Settings dialog
box. When GDI compatible mode is selected in the PDL Settings dialog box,
Line thinning is not available.
In Imaging > Graphics, select a Line thinning setting.
Off (default setting)
Line thinning is not applied.
Barcodes
This setting reduces the pen width value for vertical and horizontal lines. It
improves the readability of barcodes.
Fine lines
This setting reduces the pen width value for vertical, horizontal, and diagonal
lines.
All
This setting reduces the pen width by a value of 1 for vertical, horizontal, and
diagonal line used in barcodes or line drawings.
Halftone screen improves the appearance of the output of a printing system.
After you specify the Halftone screen setting in the driver and send the print job
to the printing system, the printing system prints the optimized output based on
the driver setting.
Halftone screen is unavailable if PDF is selected in the PDL Settings dialog
box.
In Imaging > Graphics, select a Halftone screen setting.
Normal (default setting)
This is the setting for printing typical office documents.
Graduation priority
This setting smooths the appearance of gradations.
Imaging
8-5