HP Designjet T1100ps A1 User Manual

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Method defines the basic image enhancement to apply to the scanned image. It 
depends on the printer installed, but may have one of the following values: 
 
Continuous tone:  
used when the image has many colors and transitions among them. 
This method is used in the “Color Photo” type of original. 
 
 
Graphics:  
used for images where lines and edges should be sharp. Used...

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This setting is used to adjust the color balance for the whole image. If you find that the 
overall image has a color cast (e.g. it is too green) then you may correct it by modifying 
the color balance. You may set the Color balance value to RGB (Red, Green and Blue) 
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set. For example, to make the image bluer you may increase the Blue value or decrease 
both the Red and Green values. 
 
The entity of the color change differs depending on the direction you are heading. In 
other words, when moving towards positive values in RGB mode the appearance of the 
image changes slightly, whilst when moving towards negative values, the image 
exhibits a much bigger change. In CMY mode, it is the...

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The following picture shows the effects of increasing the RGB values of an image: 
 
 
 
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This setting is used to blacken all areas below the defined lightness level. It is employed 
to enhance the text parts of a document, when black text is copied as gray. Valid 
values range from 0 to 255. If 0 is selected, the image is not modified; if 255 is 
selected the whole image will be black. 
 
 
 
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This setting is used to sharpen the image. It enhances the edges between areas of 
different colors, thus resulting in better-defined text and edges. The strength of the 
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Although blurring is the opposite of sharpening, they do not cancel each other out. In 
fact, the two options can be usefully combined to blur away noise in the image first and 
then sharpen the result. Observe below the same example as before, with blur and 
sharpening applied. Note that now there is no “augmented noise” in the text area, 
compared with the result when only sharpening was applied. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Method defines the basic image enhancement to apply to the scanned image. It 
depends on the printer installed, but may have one of the following values: 
 
Graytone: 
used for pictorial images (pictures with many gray shades). 
 
B&W Threshold: 
used for pure B&W clear CAD drawings and/or text only 
documents, where the background is pure white and the text or 
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This setting is used to sharpen the image; it enhances the edges between areas of 
different colors (see the explanation in section 3.4.7). 
 
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This setting is used to smooth the image. It is useful when the scanned original is “noisy” 
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4. GLOSSARY 
 
Background cleaning 
Image enhancement feature that whitens all areas above a 
defined lightness level. Typically used to avoid noise, 
stains or wear marks. 
Black enhancement 
Image enhancement feature that blackens all areas below 
a defined lightness level. Typically used to enhance text. 
Black ink only 
A print settings option that forces the printer to use only 
black ink. It is useful to avoid a color...