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Making the Color and Halftoning settings
The following settings control color quality and the halftone
pattern.
Ink
Select
Color
if your printout includes color. Select
Black
if you
are printing black text only, a draft, or if you want colors to
print as varying shades of gray.
Halftoning
This setting lets you select one of four options:
No Halftoning
,
Error Diffusion
,
Coarse Dithering
, or
Fine Dithering
.
❑
Select
No Halftoning
when printing text only. Although
this setting provides faster printing, it should never be used
with color.
❑
Select
Error Diffusion
when printing photographic images
to make edges and colors softer. Error diffusion blends
every colored dot in your image with the surrounding
colored dots.
❑
Dithering arranges dots in orderly patterns and is best
suited for printing charts, graphs, and other images that
require precise, solid areas of bright colors. Select
Coarse
Dithering
for images with limited detail and shading. Select
Fine Dithering
for images with significant detail but
limited shading.
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Loire2 Ref. Guide
Rev.c
A5 size Chapter 6
96/11/11 DR, pass 0
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Using the Printer Software for Macintosh