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4-3. Setting the Printer Driver Condition 
 
 
RGB-255 (paper color) is transparent with no ink printed. When there are some spots in RGB=255 color in a photo, e.g. those 
spots will never be printed. Set RGB=254 white for white image.  As for the operations for each application, see 4-2. Setting 
the Applications’ Print Condition or application help. 
 
Set the printer driver condition following the procedure below.   
(1)  Select [ File ] > [...

 
  
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(3)  Click Advanced button and open the Advanced Menu. Here you can arrange [ White Ink Settings ] [ Color Processing ] 
[ Transparent Layer Settings ] and [ Uni-Directional Prin ting ]. See the following sections as for the details.   
 
 
4-3-1. Selecting Machine Mode 
GT-3 Printer Driver is common for GT-381 (four White), GT -361 (two White) and GT-341 (no White). Select the Machine 
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4-3-2. Entering the Job Comment 
You can enter a comment (max 30 characters) to display on your printer’s Control Panel. It is used to advise the operator. 
 
 
4-3-3. Selecting  the Platen Size 
Select the appropriate Platen size from the pull-down menu. The Print Size: standard Platen  （14x16） : 355.6 mm x 406.4 mm 
Baby Platen (7 x 8) : 177.8 mm x 203.2 mm, Youth Platen  (10 x 12): 254 mm x 304.8 mm. Baby and Youth Platens are 
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4-3-6. White Settings 
The following menu appears on when either [ Color + White ] or [ White Only ] is selected. Adjust the volume of White Ink for 
Highlight (White Ink volume for whitish colors) and Mask (underbase White Ink to cover the print media for CMYK Inks). 
 
Highlight 
Adjusts the RGB=254 White and whitish colors. GT-381/GT-361 print more than one layer when the White Ink is used more 
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z  Print WhiteVolume_1200.ar3 or WhiteVolume_600.ar3 to find  out the optimal Highlight / Mask. Those data are in [ All 
Program ] > [ Brother GT-3 Tools ] > [ Test Data ].   
 
How to open the WhiteVolume_600.ar3 and WhiteVolume_1200.ar3 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Image of WhiteVolume_1200.ar3 printed on Lav ender T-shirt (R=174, G=111, B=255) 
 
 
 
4-3-7. Print with Blac k Ink on black garment 
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4-3-9. Color Multiple Pass Printing 
Make this menu ON when you see some thin white lines (clearance between the printed lines) with all Print Head Nozzles are 
firing properly. Multiple Pass Printing is to move the Platen F eed by half for more precise printing so that the print time is 
doubled but the regular clearance will not be seen easily. Co lor Multiple Pass Printing is ON automatically when 
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4-3-11. Settings for White Ink 
This menu is available only for White ink ([ Color + White ] and [ White Only ]). RGB=255 white (paper color) is always 
transparent with no ink printed. RGB=0 bla ck is transparent too when [ Print with Black ink ] is checked OFF, when black color 
is expressed with the background T-shirt body color.   
 
Transparent Color 
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4-3-13. Printing the image file on Transparent Layer 
This menu can handle the image on the transparent layer, which was impossible on previous GT models.   
 
The image format TIFF, PNG, PSD (Photoshop) can have a info rmation of transparent info as well as RGB info. GT-782 
cannot identify and deal with this information but GT-3 can  with some additional steps. Use both Photoshop and Microsoft 
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Step 2: Save the RGB info and transparent info to different PNG files.   
(1)    Open the PNG file with Microsoft Paint (Windows XP and Vista) and then the transparent info will be ignored. Save as 
another PNG file with [ File ] > [ Save as ... ].   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
z   Do not use Photoshop to extract RGB info. Open the PNG file with Microsoft Paint (Windows XP and Vista).   
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(5)    Delete the Red, Green and Blue Channels in the Channels. Right-click the channel to be deleted and select [ Delete 
Channel ] .   
 
(6)    The dialog box “Flatten layers?” appears. Click [ OK ].   
 
(7)    The only “test” channel is left after  you delete the Red, Green and Blue channels.   
 
(8)    Change the image to grayscale by selecting the menu [  Image ] > [ Mode ] > [ Grayscale ] in the Tool Bar.   
(9)    Select [ Image ] >...