Garment Printer Owners

Although Illustrator CS has greatly upgraded compared with Illustrator 10, still there are still some noticeable issues to print with GT-541.

1) Make your artwork in RGB color mode.
You'll have lots of difficulties in choosing colors if you are used to CMYK color mode. But this depends on the color management policy of each application, Printer Driver cannot manage that. You can make colors by using CMYK 0-100% scales of color picker, but keep the color mode in RGB and calibrate your monitor sometimes. GT-541 is device-color-maching printer in sRGB.

2) Set GT-541 as your PC's default printer beforehand.
Illustrator has some problem especially in layout when your PC's default printer is NOT GT-541. If you select GT-541 as default before starting Illustrator, those negative effects will be prevented. You can avoide those problems such as a wrong print size, missing data and wrong print direction, etc. Select Printer & Fax menu in Control Panel. Choose Brother GT-541 or Brother GT-541 FileOutput and right-click to set.

Please refer to the manual for the details.

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Color Settings

Select [ Edit ] > [ Color Settings ] and do the settings as below.

Click the Advanced Mode checkbox to show all the settings menu. Make sure that the settings of the Working Space are [ RGB : sRGB IEC61966-2.1 ] and [ CMYK : U.S. Web Coated (SWOP)v2 ]. And also confirm that the setting of Conversion Options is [ Intent : Relative Colormetric ].

Note: GT-541 color management system applies only for sRGB (sRGB IEC61966-2.1). These settings may be changed by your PC settings. So please be aware of these settings.

Edit artwork
If you make a new file, be sure to select the mode as RGB color.

When you open an existent file, be aware of the paper size and color mode.

If CMYK color, color mode change and refilling are necessary for beautiful print. If you can refill each object, change color mode with [ File ] > [ Document Color Mode ] and refill colors with RGB color palette. If you cannot, copy all objects and open new RGB file and paste them. If a file is CMYK color mode, many colors, especially purple, black and yellow, may not be printed as you want. Go to If CMYK to see what's happening.

IMPORTANT

How to Print
Select [ File ] > [ Print ].

The following window opens.

Click [ Color Management ] and the menu changes as follows.
Make sure that Source Space is sRGB IEC61966-2.1 or Untagged RGB and Profile of Print Space is [ Same as Source ] .

Click [ Advanced ] and the menu changes as follows.
In Illustrator 10 "Print as Bitmap is checked" is default setting. But there is no special explanation in Illustrator CS's help and moreover, it takes quite a lot of time to make print file if you checked this. Indeed the color is a little stronger when it is checked, but we do not think it is necessary. It's up to you.

Click [ Setup ] button to do the settings of Printer Driver Menu.
At this time, the following window appears. Just click [ Continue ] to go on.

Confirm the printer name and click [ Preferences ] to do the settings of Printer Driver. Click [ Print ] to print your artwork.

Enjoy your Print! Enjoy your T-shirt!

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