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SD/CD Installation and Administrator’s Guide 19

Print Text in Monochrome

PrintingtextusingaKpanelcanmaketextlookcrisp,becauseitusesonlyone

panelforprinting.Finetextismorereadablewhenprintedwithmorepower.You

setthepowerusingthePrinterManager.Referto“P rinterSettingMenu”on

pag e 38formoreinformation.

Thefontusedalsoaffectslegibility.Theprinterreliably

prints6‐pointArialfont.Bold,sans‐seriffontsaremore

readableafterprintingthanseriffonts,orfontswith

thinstrokes,asshownatright.Intheexample,fonts

thatprintwellareshowntowardthetopofthecard.

Print Bar Codes

Barcodedesignfollowsasetofstandardsbasedonthetypeofbarcode

produced.Barcodescontainaseriesofblacklines(bars)separatedbywhiteareas

(spaces).Eachcharacterofencodeddataisrepresentedbyasetofbarsand

spaces. Abarcodestandardspecifieshowmanybarsandspacesencodea

character.Thestandardalsospecifiestheminimumsizeofthewhitearea,or

quietzone,thatsurroundsthebarcode.

Whenanapplicationprintsbarcodes,thedataissenttotheprinterasanimage.

Theformatinwhichtheapplicationsendstheimagedetermineshowtheimageis

rendered.Ifthedatasentisaone‐bit‐per‐pixelimage,suchaspureblackbarson

awhitebackground,thesoftwareprocessesitusingtheKpaneloftheprint

ribbon.Ifthedatacontainsapixelofcolorotherthanpureblackorpurewhite,

suchasthevariouscolorsinaJPEGimage,itprocessestheimageusingtheYMC

panelsoftheprintribbon.

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