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Some advice about colour printing
The BJC-8500 printer is a powerful colour printer. If this is your first colour
printer, read this section for some tips on using colour effectively.
With colour you can strengthen the visual impact of your reports, memos
and presentations. Colour captures your readers’ attention, holds their inter-
est, and increases their understanding of your message. To use colour effec-
tively, you do not have to be a professional artist or graphic designer. But
you do need a software application that supports colour printing, and you
have to spend a little time planning your layout and thinking about how to
use colour to highlight important information. Without careful planning,
you might overuse colour and actually detract from the content of your doc-
ument.
Selecting paper or other print media
The print media that you select is important. Here are some recommenda-
tions to help you with print media selection.
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For superior quality in printing photographic images, especially images
that require fine colour gradation, install the Color BJ Cartridge BC-82
Photo and use High Gloss Photo Film HG-201 or High Resolution Paper
HR-101.
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Plain copier paper also works well with colour printing. The Black BJ
Cartridge BC-80 contains the newly developed Ink Optimizer BCI-8WF
which contains ink that the extremely water-resistant and produces
robust colour, even on Plain Paper.
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For OHP presentations, use only Canon Transparency CF-102 or similar
Transparencies designed for ink jet printing. Do not use normal copier
Transparencies because they do not absorb ink well and this causes the
ink to run.
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For printing envelopes, use only U.S. No. 10 (9.5 x 4”) or European DL
(220 x 110 mm).
Understanding your software application's capabilities
Know how your software application operates and be sure you understand
its capabilities and limitations. On the hardware side, the ability of your
monitor to display colour is limited by the number of colours that your soft-
ware application can supply.
You cannot display or print a colour that your software application
does not supply.
Your printer can produce up to 16.7 million different colours, but the actual
number of colours that you can print is determined by your software appli-
cation. The software application may be restricted to:
Some advice about
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