Canon BJC-8500 User Manual

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Some advice about colour printing 109Some advice about colour printingThe BJC-8500 printer is a powerful colour printer. If this is your first colourprinter, read this section for some tips on using colour effectively.With colour you can strengthen the visual impact of your reports, memosand 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. Butyou do need a software application that supports colour printing, and youhave to spend a little time planning your layout and thinking about how touse 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 mediaThe print media that you select is important. Here are some recommenda-tions to help you with print media selection.n For superior quality in printing photographic images, especially imagesthat require fine colour gradation, install the Color BJ Cartridge BC-82Photo and use High Gloss Photo Film HG-201 or High Resolution PaperHR-101.n Plain copier paper also works well with colour printing. The Black BJCartridge BC-80 contains the newly developed Ink Optimizer BCI-8WFwhich contains ink that the extremely water-resistant and producesrobust colour, even on Plain Paper.n For OHP presentations, use only Canon Transparency CF-102 or similarTransparencies designed for ink jet printing. Do not use normal copierTransparencies because they do not absorb ink well and this causes theink to run.n 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 capabilitiesKnow how your software application operates and be sure you understandits capabilities and limitations. On the hardware side, the ability of yourmonitor 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 applicationdoes not supply.Your printer can produce up to 16.7 million different colours, but the actualnumber of colours that you can print is determined by your software appli-cation. The software application may be restricted to:Some advice aboutcolour printing