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Changing the Clear Coating Settings

When you execute clear coating, the printer applies chroma optimizer (CO) ink onto the printing surface and allows you to adjust the glossiness.

This section explains procedures for changing the clear coating settings.

  1. Open the printer driver setup window

  2. Select Advanced Settings

    From the Main tab pull-down menu, select Advanced Settings.

  3. Select color mode

    For Color Mode, select Color, and then click Color Settings.
    The Color Settings dialog box appears.

  4. Set clear coating area

    Click the Clear Coating tab, select the Clear Coating Area item that matches your purpose (see below for the selections), and then click OK.

    figure: Clear coating area in the Manual Color Adjustment dialog box
    Auto
    The printer automatically sets the areas to be clear-coated and whether clear coating is to be executed.
    It may be possible to reduce the ink consumption of the chroma optimizer (CO) or to accelerate the print speed.
    Overall
    The printer clear-coats the entire print area.
    If selecting Auto produced unsatisfactory clear coating effects, selecting Overall may improve the results.

    Important

    • Depending on the type of paper selected from Media Type on the Main tab, you may not be able to select Overall tab.
      For paper for which Overall can be used, select the paper you want to use from "Paper Information List" and check the information.
    • If Overall is selected and the media type is changed to one that cannot use Overall, the clear coating area setting is changed to Auto.

  5. Complete the setup

    Click OK on the Main tab.
    When printing is executed, the clear coating effect that was set is added when the document is printed.