Image Quality: Changing the Contrast (Tone Curve)
Image Quality: Overview of Contrast (Tone Curve)
Select a tone curve in the printer driver, and then print.
Function Introduced in This Section
Tone Curve is a function to adjust brightness and contrast by controlling the input-output density curve,
Once tone curves adjusted in various conditions are registered in the image controller, those registered tone curves can be called and applied at the time of printing.
Tips
Using Color Centro allows tone curve adjustment and registration to the image controller. (Refer to Adjusting Tone Curves.)
Intended Environment
Operating system | Windows 7 |
Application | Adobe Acrobat Reader DC |
Printer driver | PS Plug-in Driver |
Image Controller | Built-in image controller |
* The sample screen may be different from the actual display depending on your system environment and application version/revision.
Workflow
Setting printer driver
Setting printer driver
Call a tone curve registered to the image controller and then set it for the printer.
Open the original data with the application, and then click Print on the File menu.
Select the printer to use for printing and click Properties.
Click the Imaging tab, and then click Acquire Image Controller Default.
When image controller information is acquired, a green checkmark is displayed.
supplementary explanationIf image controller information could not be acquired, a red x mark is displayed.
Under Tone Curve, select the tone curve you wish to apply and click OK.
You can set a tone curve for Image and Text/Graphics separately.
On the Print screen, enter the Copies and click Print.
The document is printed based on the called tone curve.