Image Quality April 2009Xerox WorkCentre 4260 XFwww.BERTL.comCopyright © 2009 BERTL Inc. April 2009All Rights Reserved. The license under which this document is made available and applicable law prohibit any reproduction or further transmission of any portion of this document. Thisdocument may only be viewed electronically through the www.BERTL.com Web site and may not be stored in electronic or hard copy format. Any reproduction of trademarks is strictlyprohibited. BERTL accepts no responsibility for any inaccuracies or omissions contained in this document.Page 23IMAGE QUALITYBERTL evaluates the output of several “test targets” inorder to determine image quality. Following aredescriptions of key elements of image quality. Note thenumbered examples on each of the test targets shown inthe right column.Office Color Image Quality1. Density of Solid Areas - Better contrast; more vivid overall images2. Line Work - Better production of lines and text3. Halftones - Better production of photographic and screened images4. Negative/Positive - Better production of fine detailPhotographic Color Image Quality5. Flesh tones - Better production of portraits6. Banding - Better solid and dithered fill7. Low Contrast - Better production of dark images8. Saturation - Better production of bright colors9. Caste – Better color fidelity10. Fine Detail – Better reproduction of fine detailsDensity of Solid Areas*Copy Density Print DensityBlack 1.40 1.43*Density is on a scale of 0 to 2.5, with 2.5 being the best possible.Copy & Print Resolution*Copy Resolution Print ResolutionVertical Horizontal Vertical HorizontalBlack 4.0 4.5 2.0 2.0*Line Pairs per Millimeter. For copy resolution, higher is better (range,2.0-8.0); for printer resolution, lower is better (range, 1.0-5.0).Print HalftonesMin. Gradation* Max. Gradation**Black 10 100*Minimum gradation is on a scale of 10 – 100 percent in 10 percentincrements. The best possible minimum gradation is 10 percent.**Maximum gradation is on a scale of 10 – 100 percent in 10 percentincrements. The best possible maximum gradation is 100 percent.Copy HalftonesMin. Gradation* Max. Gradation**Black 10 80*Minimum gradation is on a scale of 10 – 100 percent in 10 percentincrements. The best possible minimum gradation is 10 percent.**Maximum gradation is on a scale of 10 – 100 percent in 10 percentincrements. The best possible maximum gradation is 100 percent.BERTL uses ImageExpert printer test targets for the evaluation of printedimage quality. BERTL technicians’ measure image density and evaluatethe device’s ability to produce a full range of halftones and various sizesof negative/positive text, dots and lines in each primary printing color(CYMK).BERTL uses synthetic (photographic) test images obtained from ISOInternational Standard 12640--Graphic Technology—Prepress digitaldata exchange—CYMK Standard Color Image Data (CYMK/SCID) inorder to evaluate the ability to print photographic images.1 11 1234555567891010101010108