Canon BJC-8500 User Manual

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n Eight basic colours: red, green, blue, cyan, yellow, magenta, black, white.n Some basic colours, but with a limited number of shades of those colourscreated by adding white or using different patterns.n Some basic colours, plus custom colours like mixing yellow and blue forgreen. Your software application may offer a number of colour controlfunctions like dithering, intensity, or hue.n Dithering. Creates colours with patterns of alternating dots. For example,an alternating red and white dither pattern can create pink. Many dither-ing methods are available. For details, see your software application doc-umentation.n Intensity (saturation). Allows you to adjust the depth of a colour if theprintout appears lighter or darker than the image on the monitor. Fordetails, see your software application documentation.n Hue. Allows you to change the gradation in the colour spectrum andchange colour results. For example, you can adjust the hue of red to makeit more purple. For details, see your software application documentation.Your computer monitor and colourDetermine what type of monitor and display board you are using. Theseitems are classified by their resolution and the number of different coloursthat they can display. As a general rule, the higher the resolution of a moni-tor, the more colours it can display.The following factors may affect how well the colour on your printed pagematches the colour image on the monitor:n Monochrome monitors can display no colours. Older CGA colour moni-tors can produce only a small number of colours at low resolution.Newer colour monitors with high resolution can display more colours.n For colour display, monitors create colours by combining red, green, andblue at different intensities. For colour printing, printers combine cyan,yellow and magenta by overlaying dots in a variety of combinations withvarying amounts of ink to create virtually any colour. Because monitorsand printers use very different methods to create colour, achieving andimage and the image on the monitor may be difficult in some cases.n We have optimized the operation of your printer to achieve the bestmatch of printed output with popular monitors. Yet you may still findcertain colours difficult to match exactly.n To maximize the colour matching capabilities of your printer, you shoulduse a monitor with a 24-bit colour monitor display board. For detailsabout your monitor’s ability to display colour, refer to the documentationthat came with your monitor.110 Canon BJC-8500 User’s Manual