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GT-3 Cookbook - Printer Driver

GT-3 Cookbook: Tour to Printer Driver 1:

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The printer driver is a bridge between the PC and printer. It receives the bitmap image data from the application software, e.g. Photoshop and CorelDRAW, makes the print data and sends it to the printer, which plays a very important role because you can never print without it. Any printer needs a printer driver in the controlling PC. The GT-3 printer driver follows the user-friendly interface from the GT-541 printer driver, and it is the best solution for T-shirt printing of any color. Pay attention to those settings to have better quality prints.

What's Printer Driver?
Printer driver works for converting the "light" Red/Green/Blue values of colors, which you see in the monitor, into the "ink" Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/blacK values to re-create the image by printing objects. Explaining by using specific terms, it receives bitmap data and converts its RGB (three primary colors of colored light) into CMYK (three primary colors of ink plus black) print data.

PC Color WorldPrinter Color World

How Printer Driver Works
The printer driver starts working when print menu of your application, e.g. [ Print ] or [ Page Setup ] is selected. Choose either Brother GT-3 (direct to printer with USB cable) or Brother GT-3 FileOutput (saving print data into "ar3" file) and click [ Properties ] or [ Preferences ] button to do the settings of printer driver.

Main Setting
Click each menu for details.
DriverMain Machine Mode Job Comment Advanced Platen Size Resolution Color+White White Only Color Only White Volume: Highlight White Volume: Mask White Volume: Highlight Print with Black ink CMY Gray Color Multiple Pass Prinitng default button Rollover Help

Here is the menu for Color Only.
DriverMainColor Ink Volume

All of the selected settings will be back to default when you click [ default ] button.
Click Advanced button for advanced settings.

Paper/Quality
Version of the Printer Driver is mentioned here.

Test data e.g. Color Chart, White Volume, etc are in [ Test Data ] of [ Brother GT-3 Tools ] in your PC. Click and send one to your printer from GT-3 File Viewer.





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