2E. ADVANCED PRINTER SETTINGS
Advanced Printer Settings can be accesed from the Add Print File Step in either PTPublisher for Mac or PC.
All available settings are displayed in the Printer Settings area on this screen.
Below is a description of each.
Print Quality
This setting affects the quality and speed of the print. Ink consumption is only slightly increased as you increase the quality. The default setting of medium is sufficient for most images. If you are printing large areas of solid color you may find that you must increase the quality to reduce banding.
Saturation
This option controls the ink saturation of the printed image. When printing onto the printer manufacturer's TuffCoat media, this option can be left at its default setting of 100%. When printing onto other brands of printable media, you may need to adjust this control in order to optimize the ink saturation for the printable surface of your specific media. Click on the up and down arrows to change the ink saturation setting. Lower numbers reduce the overall ink saturation, while higher numbers increase it. If discs do not seem to be drying completely it may be necessary to reduce this value.
Outer Margin
Adjust this value to print all the way to the outer edge of a disc. This is useful if you are printing full coverage images. The lower you set this value the farther to the outer edge of the disc you will print. Please note that with most media the printable surface does not extend all the way to the edge of the disc. Because of this you will not normally set this value to zero. You may also want to adjust the inner diameter setting. To use the preset outer diameter setting for Primera media, select the media type from the drop down box at the top of the printer settings area.
Inner Diameter
This value changes the size of the non-printed center. Larger numbers cause the non-printed center to be larger and smaller numbers make the non-printed center smaller. This number is incremented by 0.1mm so a change of 10 for inner diameter changes the diameter by 1mm. Set the diameter to 230 for Primera TuffCoat media. To use the preset outer diameter setting for Primera media select the media type from the drop down box at the top of the printer settings area.
Color Mode
Best for Graphics mode is best used for graphical images where accurate color reproduction is not as essential. Images printed in this mode will look more vibrant because more ink is being used to produce them. However, printing images of people may produce skin tones that have a reddish tint.
Best for Photos mode is best used for photographic images where accurate color reproduction is very essential. Images printed in this mode will look lighter than those printed in Photo mode. Skin tones especially will look more natural in this mode.
NOTE: Exact color matching of the printed discs to the screen may never be possible since there are factors that affect this out of the drivers control. The surface of the disc reacts with the ink in the cartridge to produce the color. For this reason, when printing the same image to different types of discs with different surfaces the printed output can look entirely different.
Printer Tools
Click this button to open the cost estimator, and printer utilities window (Section 2F).