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1. Convenient Print Functions
How to print with application
setting
To print image data without the white
background, you need to congure the
application setting. If printing image data without
conguring the application setting, white is
printed on the whole background of the image.
The following pages explain how to congure the
setting in the Adobe applications.
Adobe Photoshop
This section describes how to print the image
data without white background by Adobe
Photoshop CS.
1 Load the image data.
2 Click the all of background to make a
selection area for background by using
Magic wand function.
3 Perform the [Inverse] menu to make
a selection area for print after selection
area for background was made.
4 Click the arrow of [Paths] and perform
the [Make Work Path] menu.
5 Input the value of [Tolerance].
Note
● If you want to select only printable image, you
should use small value, like 0.5. If you want to select
printable image together with the white edge, 2.0 is
maybe good value.
Example:
Tolerance is 0.5. Tolerance is 2.0.
It is minimum edge
but not smooth.
It is smooth but you can
see white on the edge.
6 Click the arrow of [Paths] and perform
the [Save Path] menu.
Click [OK] to save [Working Path] as
[Path 1].
7 Click the arrow of [Paths] and perform
the [Clipping Path] menu.
Click [OK] to select [Path 1] as
[Clipping Path].
8 Save the image data by Photoshop
format (PSD).
9 Select the [Print with Preview] menu.
10 Select the [No Color Management]
in [Color Handling] options then click
[Print] to print the image data.
Adobe Illustrator
This section describes how to print the image
data without white background by Adobe
Illustrator CS.
1 Load the image data.
2 Create a path around the area of the
placed picture image that you want to
mask.
3 Select the created path and the picture
image, and create a clipping mask.
4 Save the image data.
Note
● Do not apply overprint settings for the object's
ll and stroke. Otherwise they may be printed in
unexpected color. Be sure to clear the overprint
check boxes in the attributes panel.