Samsung ML-5050G Series User Manual

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17Operating Your PrinterDither Line : Most output devices rely on dithering to achieve shades ofgray. With the Dither Lines option on (the default), your ML-5050G Seriesprinter gives you accurate grays even if it has to dither them. You get exactlywhat you ask for. However, fine dithered lines appear dashed instead of solid.With the Dither Lines option off, your ML-5050G Series printer maps textand lines to the nearest gray. For black & white output, grays that are darkerthan about 50% map to black; lighter grays map to white. For color, colorsmap to the nearest gray.Dither Text : Most output devices rely on dithering to achieve shades ofgray. With the Dither Text option on (the default), your ML-5050G Seriesprinter gives you accurate grays even if it has to dither them. You get exactlywhat you ask for. However, small dithered text is difficult to read. With theDither Text option off, your ML-5050G Series printer maps text and linesto the nearest gray. For black & white output, grays that are darker thanabout 50% map to black; lighter grays map to white. For color, colors map tothe nearest gray.Accept Larger Bitmap Pattern : When an application sends a bitmap fillpattern (also called a “pattern brush”) to the printer, the expected, standardsize is 8 pixels square. Some applications are able to send larger patterns. IfAccept Larger Bitmap Pattern is on, and you encounter output where yourbitmap fills have repeating pattern anomalies in them, try turning it off.Bitmap fill patterns can be used for any repeated design, or even to simulategrayscale dithering. Some applications send box tints as bitmap patterns.One problem that arises with this is that some programs don’t makeallowances for the difference between screen resolution and printerresolution. (Another problem is that some do!) The typical result is thatpatterns printed to a laser printer get very small, and tints get too dark.Scale : Your ML-5050G Series has a process that automatically enlarges thebitmap fill patterns so that the output more closely matches the screen. Forexample, with the default, “automatic” setting of Scale: 0, patterns that comefrom a VGA system (96x96 logical pixels per inch) are enlargedthree times to (almost) match the 300x300 dpi of a laser printer. If you setScale to 1, your printer can handle the brush patterns exactly as they comefrom the application-no scaling. You can alsoforce your printer to scale by 2, 3, 4, or more times by entering largernumbers.