Xerox VersaLink C8000W Essential Guide to Successful Printing

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C8000W Color Printer Essential Guide to Successful Printing

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Table of Contents

1 General Overview......................................................................................................................5

Purpose of this Essential Guide.... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..................... ..... ..... 6

Principles of Printing in White plus CMY ... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... .......... ........... ..... ..... ..... ............. 7

Driver and Firmware Updates.. ..... ................ ..... ..... ..... ..... ................ ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ... 7

Methods of Printing .. ..... ..... ..................... ..... ..... ..... ........... .......... ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... .. 7

Color Media Options ... ..... ..... ................ ..... ..... ..... ..... ................ ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... 9

General Design Considerations..... ..................... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..... ................ ..... .. 11

General Printing Tips.... ..................... ..... ..... ..... ..... ...... ..... ..... ..... ..... .......... ........... ..... ..... .. 11

Guidelines for Printing on Clear Media ...... .......... ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... ............... 11

Setting Up a Document to Print in White plus CMY on Color Media ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ......... 11

Calibration................. ..... ..... ..... ........... .......... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..................... ..... 13

White Density Calibration ...... .......... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..................... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... .. 13

Transfer Voltage .... ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..... ................ ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ... 13

2 Printing with Microsoft Applications...................................................................................15

Printing RGB Composite Files with Microsoft Applications ........... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... .. 16

Reducing the Visibility of Margins in Microsoft Reducing the Visibility of Margins in Microsoft

Reducing the Visibility of Margins in Microsoft

White Star on Blue Paper with an RGB File ......... ..... ..... ..... ..... ................ ..... ..... ..... ..... ............ 21

Green Star on White Paper with an RGB File.... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..................... ..... ..... ..... ........... .... 22

Green and Yellow Star on Blue Paper with an RGB File.. ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..... ............ 23

White and CMY Toners on Clear Media .... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..................... ..... ..... ..... ........... 24

Word Documents ... ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... . 16

PowerPoint®... ..... ..... ..... ..................... .... 17

Publisher ................ ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... . 19

3 Printing with Adobe®Applications......................................................................................25

Guidelines for Printing with Adobe Applications . ..... ..... ..................... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... . 26

White Only on Blue Paper with a CMYK File.... ..... ..... ................ ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... 28

Green Box on White Paper with a CMYK File .... ..... ..................... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... ... 30

Green and Yellow Box on Blue Paper with a CMYK File .... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..... .......... ...... ... 32

Green and Yellow Box on Blue Paper with an RGB File ... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... 34

White and CMY Toners on Clear Media Using RGB Files ..... ..... ..... ..... ................ ..... ..... ..... ..... . 36

General Tips for Using Adobe Design Products ..... ..... ..................... ..... ..... ..... ..................... .... 37

A Xerox Reference Media..........................................................................................................39

No-Toner Values for Xerox Reference Media .............. ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... .......... ..... 40

B Automatic Background Feature...........................................................................................41

Known Issues with the Automatic Background Feature........ ..... ..... ..... ..................... ..... ..... ..... 42

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Essential Guide to Successful Printing

Table of Contents

Xerox®VersaLink®C8000W Color Printer Essential Guide to Successful Printing

General Overview

This chapter contains:

• Purpose of this Essential Guide. ..... ..... ..... ..................... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..... ................ .. 6

• Principles of Printing in White plus CMY ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... .......... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... ..... 7

• General Design Considerations.. ..... ..... ..... ..................... ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... .......... ..... 11

• Calibration... ..... ..... ................ ..... ..... ..... ..... ................ ..... ..... ..... ..... ........... ..... ..... ..... .......... ........ 13

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Purpose of this Essential Guide

The Xerox®VersaLink®C8000W Color Printer is not a traditional CMYK printer and uses white toner in place of black. It is important to read this document to learn how to design successfully with this printer to achieve your required output.

For more information on how to best use your Xerox

xerox.com/versalinkwhite.

Note: The guidelines in this document are for A4 and Letter media. Adjustments are required

for other media sizes.

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Principles of Printing in White plus CMY

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Xerox is dedicated to providing you with the best possible performance and reliability. To stay current, download and install updates to the device firmware and client print drivers from www.xerox.com/

office/VLC8000Wsupport.

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You can select from three different methods of printing on your printer using the Toner Adjustment options defined in the PostScript print driver as shown.

• None: When you select this option, the printer uses the color tables provided in the device with no

adjustment for media color or white toner. The printer replaces black toner areas with white toner.

• Use White Toner Only: When you select this option, the printer prints white toner only, in reverse

grayscale. The printer replaces black areas of your document with white toner. White areas of your document print with no toner, as shown in the following image.

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• Adjust for … Paper, where … refers to the paper color: These options use color tables designed

for the Xerox recommended media in these colors. Colors are produced using a blend of white and CMY on top of a base layer of white toner. Adjust for Gray Paper is the default option and produces acceptable output on most media types. The following image shows an example of the output when Adjust for Gray Paper is selected.

The Background Fill feature defines how to treat the background where there are no design elements. You can select from two options:

• Automatic Background: This option creates a no-toner value background automatically that

corresponds to the paper color that you selected. Where there are no design elements and a transparent background, the paper is unmarked. This option is selected by default.

Note: For more details about the Automatic Background feature, refer to Known

Issues with the Automatic Background Feature

• No Background Fill: This option disables the Automatic Background feature, allowing advanced

users more freedom of design.

To have more precise control of the design, you can add a no-toner value background manually, as shown in the following example.

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General Overview

The Xerox®VersaLink®C8000W Color Printer has internal color tables that, when used with the PostScript print driver, allow for printing in vivid color on different color papers. The following image shows samples of the paper colors, with their associated Toner Adjustment settings in the print driver.

The following table shows the list of paper colors that these color tables were designed for. For best results, use this color paper or a similar color. For specific colorimetric values of the reference paper colors, refer to No-Toner Values for Xerox Reference Media. If you are unsure of the paper color that you plan to use, it is recommended that you select Adjust for Gray Paper, and use the corresponding

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no-toner values. If you try to print on a paper color that does not match closely the recommended color, to produce the required output, you can try different color table options. The table lists a CMYK and RGB value for each color table. These values are the no-toner point for each color table. Where any vector image is assigned that value in your design, no toner is applied.

Note: To avoid discontinuities in the image where toner is not applied between pixels, bitmap

objects, such as photos, do not have any associated no-toner values.

Vector objects are made up of points, lines, and curves that are based on mathematical equations. If vector objects contain areas that correspond to the no-toner values for the color table for the media you are using, there can be areas that do not have toner added to the paper.

Raster objects, such as .jpeg, .png, or.tiff files, are composed of pixels. All parts of these objects are covered with toner, so if areas have a no-toner value, there are no discontinuities in the image.

Note: The no-toner values in the table can change with each new software release. Ensure that

you are using the latest table for your software release, which you can find at www.xerox.com/

office/VLC8000Wsupport

Toner Adjustment Setting

No-Toner Values

RGB (0–255) CMYK (%)

Adjust for Black Paper 64, 64, 64 0, 0, 0, 100

Adjust for White Paper 255, 255, 255 0, 0, 0, 0

Adjust for Blue Paper 16, 32, 64 70, 50, 5, 70

Adjust for Yellow Paper 255, 255, 128 0, 0, 50, 0

Adjust for Green Paper 16, 48, 32 85, 50, 70, 50

Adjust for Pink Paper 255, 64, 255 0, 50, 0, 0

Adjust for Gray Paper 191, 191, 191 11, 11, 11, 11

Adjust for Red Paper 255, 32, 48* 0, 100, 85, 20*

Adjust for Orange Paper 255, 160, 96 0, 35, 85, 0

Adjust for Purple Paper 79, 63, 79 85, 85, 70, 5

Adjust for Brown Paper 80, 64, 64 50, 50, 50, 35

Adjust for Cyan Paper 86, 255, 255 85, 20, 0, 0

* Use this value for software versions for this printer later than 72.64.01. For software version

72.64.01, use RGB [240,80,112] or CMYK [10,85,50,10].

For more details about media colors and no-toner values, refer to No-Toner Values for Xerox Reference

Media.

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General Design Considerations

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• Ensure that the output document size matches the paper size that you are printing on. Any space on the output document that is not covered in the design can print as white margin space, which uses a significant amount of white toner.

• When you load media into the trays, ensure that you enter the correct size, color, and weight. This makes it easier to select media in the print driver.

• In the PostScript print driver, you can select the paper that is loaded in the device. In Acrobat the advanced sizing option in the PostScript print driver allows you to adjust the size of the output paper. If you choose this option, ensure that you change the document size in the original file.

• If the output paper size on the printer does not match the size in the application, adjust the paper size on the printer.

• If possible, use RGB for better overall color reproduction.

• You can assign no-toner areas to vector objects only. Raster objects do not have areas without toner.

• Do not use spot or Pantone colors. Use the RGB or CMYK equivalents.

• Design with the expectation of some color shift. White toner is not the same as using white paper.

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• When you print on clear media, follow the guidelines for printing on black media. For information on printing on black media, refer to the Xerox available from www.xerox.com/office/VLC8000Wdocs.

• It is recommended that you print on black paper first to check how your design output appears.

• To obtain the best results, in the print driver, for Toner Adjustments, select Adjust for Black Paper.

• When you are designing your document, try setting the background layer to match the final location of the output. This option helps you to obtain the most vivid output for your object. Ensure that you set the background to black again before you print your document.

• When you load clear polyester film into the paper trays, for the best fusing performance, in the print driver, select Heavyweight Cardstock.

• Be aware of which side of the media you want to print on.

• For more information on clear media, refer to the Xerox

Customer Expectations and Installation Guide provided by your Xerox representative.

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If you want to use the paper as your background, ensure that the Automatic Background setting is enabled, or add a no-toner value background manually. To add a no-toner value background manually, set the background color to match the no-toner value for that paper color. When you select a paper color, set the background of the design to match the no-toner value for the paper color that

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you are using. You can create background no-toner areas in the design and lock these areas to prevent inadvertent editing or selection.

Note: Paper colors can vary, and the no-toner values provided are for the Xerox recommended

paper. If your paper is not the Xerox recommended paper, still use the Xerox no-toner color

values, so that no toner is applied to the background area.

When you design your document, if you want to blend colors from colored areas to no-toner areas, artifacts can appear in the transition from the toner areas to the no-toner areas.

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Calibration

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You can adjust the color density to either decrease or increase the amount of toner on your prints. Increasing the density can result in brighter colors, particularly white. If you notice that your white prints start to look gray, run the color density adjustment routine. To access this routine, log in to the printer control panel as an administrator.

Use color calibration to maintain consistent colors. You can adjust the color density, gray balance, or both. For the best results, adjust the color density, then adjust the gray balance. Because the printer does not have a black toner cartridge, a pure neutral black cannot be printed. Only composite black can be printed. For this reason, the gray balance adjustment is not as useful as the white color calibration adjustment. For example, when your white prints look grayer than required, use the white color calibration to increase your white toner density. For instructions on using the gray balance calibration routine, refer to the Xerox

com/office/VLC8000Wdocs.

At the start of each color calibration procedure, three pages are printed:

• An instruction sheet that explains the calibration and evaluation procedures that are used for both color density calibration pages and the gray balance calibration pages.

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• An initial Color Reference Page that has color density patches that range from 5 percent to 100 percent. Mark this initial page to identify it from the final Color Reference Page, which is printed automatically at the completion of your adjustments.

• A calibration page that changes, based on the adjustment procedure. The calibration page is your primary tool for evaluating when an adjustment is required. To allow you to repeat an adjustment until the calibration is complete, this page reprints each time you make an adjustment. All colors on a calibration page reflect the previous adjustments. An adjustment is complete when the center, or zero, position shows the best available color setting.

With one exception, print color calibration pages on white paper. The white toner adjustment requires black paper.

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Use the transfer voltage calibration routine if mottle or other inconsistencies in the white toner areas are visible in the printed output, or there are other signs of toner adhesion issues. There is an internal transfer voltage routine that you can access when you are logged in as an administrator. The transfer voltage routine allows users to adjust the transfer voltage for different media weights.

Use Transfer Voltage Adjustment to specify the bias transfer roller voltage for printing on the selected paper type. If the printed image is too light, increase the voltage for the paper that you are using. If the printed image looks mottled or blotchy, decrease the voltage for the paper that you are using.

For more details, refer to the Xerox

office/VLC8000Wdocs.

VersaLink®C8000W Color Printer User Guide at www.xerox.com/

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