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Windows-driven devices

Driving devices directly through Windows is a new way for the queue to print to Windows control panel drivers and will be used automatically if the control panel printer is a PostScript compatible device.

Note: Supported PostScript devices can use Duplex Printing and Costing. The other features in Queue Properties may not be available.

Note: Templates are supported on all devices. Roll mode is supported for non-PostScript devices.

Installing Windows-driven Printers

The advantage of using this method for these printers is we can then send CMYK data to the printer.

CMYK gives more control color matching.

This will work with any PostScript device, but does send bitmap data and therefore its not very efficient to use this for large format work.

In the printer options, you can use the Resolution to determine how large the data (and how much detail) is in the bitmap that we send to the driver. Currently, options range from 72dpi to 600dpi (default is 600dpi).

Use the Printer Status button to set printer options such as page size, media type, and other options that will vary depending on the PostScript device.

For PostScript devices that use a genuine Adobe PostScript engine (such as OKI and Ricoh) you can disable the color management in the printer.

This will turn off any equivalent ICC processing, which gives us greater control over printing the CMYK and allow pure primaries (i.e., pure Cyan) to be printed.

By default this is left enabled. When disabled, you will need to create a profile for the device to get good color. When enabled, we will send ISOCoated CMYK data (which can be configured in the ICC setup tab of the print mode) and this should give good color results without the need to profile.

Note: We cannot guarantee that the disabling of the ICC / Color Management will always work with this feature as it's possible for the manufacturer to override our commands. While we have tested this and had success with OKI and Ricoh Laser printers, it doesn't work with HP Lasers we have tested. Its also less likely to work with Adobe PostScript RIP engines.

In the International version (also refered to as RW) there is also an option to use 3Color White, which will send CMY + White channel (instead of Black).

There are three print modes already set up that use this option:

CMYW Forever Dark Transfer
CMYW Forever Dark Transfer with Holes
CMYW Forever Dark Transfer with Stripes

These print modes are set up using profiles for OKI toner and you would need to profile for other manufacturer toner.

In many cases when a White toner is added the toner order is re-ordered to allow for White first or White last. You can reorder the toner using the printer options. There are four custom controls: Black, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. Each one has a drop-down so you can select the output color for that slot (from Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black & White).

If your Ink Setup is CMYK, you must select just one each of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. If the Ink Setup is 3Color White, you must select one each of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and White. If you select Cyan in two slots, you will get an error.

This gives you complete control over which slot prints which color.