AA-14 Desktop Color PrimerWhen using color text, keep in mind that small font sizes typically do not print incolor with the same sharpness as in black. In most applications, black text printsexclusively in black toner, while color text usually prints with two or more toners.Any misregistration between the different toners on paper causes color text to losedefinition. You can make test prints to find the smallest point size at which color textprints clearly. When using high-end graphics applications that allow you to specifycolor as percentages of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, you can create pure cyan orpure magenta text that prints with the same sharpness as black text. (Pure yellow text isextremely hard to read on anything but a dark or complementary background.)Raster images and vector imagesTwo broad categories of artwork can be printed from a personal computer to a colorprinter: raster and vector images.A raster image, also referred to as a bitmap, is composed of a grid of pixels, eachassigned a particular color value (as shown in example a in the following figure). Thegrid, when sufficiently enlarged, resembles a mosaic made from square tiles. Examplesof raster images include scans and images created in painting or pixel-editingapplications, such as Photoshop and Corel Painter.STOP! STOP!Exceptio probatregulam de rebusnon exceptis.De gustibusnon estdisputandum.
