DataCard SD260 Installation And Administration Manual

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SD Series Installation and Administrator’s Guide 15Split-Ribbon Color PrintingSplit‐ribbon color printing lets you use less ribbon to print cards in color. It isavailable only with the Card Printer Driver. Refer to your printer’s Driver Guide forinformation about how to specify split‐ribbon color printing.Split‐ribbon color printing uses a single ribbon panel set from a full‐color ribbonto print both sides of a card, rather than two or three panel sets. The ribbon canbe a full‐panel or short‐panel color ribbon. The order in which the color, black,and topcoat sections of the panel set are used to print the card depends on thetype of ribbon installed in the printer and the split‐ribbon option selected on theprinter’s Printing Preferences window.Manage ColorColor management is the process of making color on the PC monitor and printedcard appear as similar as possible. For color management, the card printer usesthe sRGB color standard (standard Red, Green, and Blue color space). You specifythe color management system in Printer Manager. Refer to “Print” on page 46for more information.Print Text in ColorThe printer can print text in any color. Small characters are likely to be morereadable if they are a sans‐serif font formatted as black and printed with theblack (K) panel. Refer to “Print Text in Monochrome” on page 17. The printersupports 6‐point or larger text.Print Graphics in ColorThe printer produces full‐color images from most types of graphics. It can useBMP, JPEG, TIFF, and PNG file formats for photos and logos.Vector graphics, such as WMF and SVG files, have components such as shapeswith lines and fills. Components defined as black normally print with the K panel.Because the printer uses the print ribbon panels in sequence (YMC first, then K),black images can print over color graphics. For the best appearance of colorgraphics, or to prevent backgrounds that are black from printing over coloredimages, use a color that appears black but is not, so that all parts of an imageprint with the YMC panels. For example, in the RGB color space, 0, 0, 0 is black(and prints with the K panel), but 0, 0, 5 is not black (and prints with the YMCpanels).Most types of cards, including cards with magnetic stripes and smart cards,can be printed using split‐ribbon printing. Options for color, monochrome,and topcoat are available when you use split‐ribbon printing.