halftone

Identifies the desired combination of screen name, output appearance, and optionally, calibration to use for printing halftones. The halftone values are used to prepare color and gray-scale documents for printing on bi-level, black and white printers.

GUI label

Halftone

DSS

PSF

Type

Resettable, single-valued, complex, per-document

Syntax

screen-name:output-appearance.saved-calibration

Separate the values with colons, for example: 

ibm106lpi:dark

The saved-calibration value is used only for custom halftones.

Allowed Values

The value of a halftone attribute is a combination of screen name and output appearance in the format: screen-name:output-appearance. For custom halftones, the value can also be a combination of screen name, output appearance, and saved calibration in the format: screen-name:output-appearance.saved-calibration.

You can enter a customized value or any of the supported (default) values for a particular model. The supported values by models follow.

With the InfoPrint 4000 (IR1/IR2) or InfoPrint 4000-IR3-IR4 printer, you can enter one of these halftone values:

  • ibm71lpi:standard
  • ibm71lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm71lpi:dark
  • ibm71lpi:standard.enhtoner
  • ibm71lpi:highlight-midtones.enhtoner
  • ibm71lpi:dark.enhtoner
  • ibm85lpi:standard
  • ibm85lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm85lpi:dark
  • ibm85lpi:standard.enhtoner
  • ibm85lpi:highlight-midtones.enhtoner
  • ibm85lpi:dark.enhtoner
  • ibm106lpi:standard
  • ibm106lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm106lpi:dark
  • ibm106lpi:standard.enhtoner
  • ibm106lpi:highlight-midtones.enhtoner
  • ibm106lpi:dark.enhtoner
  • ibm141lpi:standard
  • ibm141lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm141lpi:dark
  • ibm141lpi:standard.enhtoner
  • ibm141lpi:highlight-midtones.enhtoner
  • ibm141lpi:dark.enhtoner

With the InfoPrint 4100-HD3-HD4, 4100-HD5-HD6, 4100-HS3, 4100-MD1-MD2, 4100-MS1, 4100-PD1-PD2, 4100-PS1, 4100-TS1, 4100-TS2, 4100-TS3, 4100-TD1-TD2, 4100-TD2-TD3, 4100-TD3-TD4, 4100-TD5-TD6, 5000–AS1, 5000–AD1–AD2, 5000–AS3, 5000–AD3–AD4, 5000–AD3–AD4–XR3, 5000–MP-MD3–MD4, 5000–MP-MC1–MC2, 5000–KM3, 5000–KM3–MD4 printers, you can enter one of these halftone values:

  • ibm71lpi:standard
  • ibm71lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm71lpi:dark
  • ibm71lpi:dark2
  • ibm71lpi:accutone
  • ibm71lpiRot90:standard
  • ibm71lpiRot90:highlight-midtones
  • ibm71lpiRot90:dark
  • ibm71lpiRot90:dark2
  • ibm71lpiRot90:accutone
  • ibm85lpi:standard
  • ibm85lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm85lpi:dark
  • ibm85lpi:dark2
  • ibm85lpi:accutone
  • ibm85lpiRot90:standard
  • ibm85lpiRot90:highlight-midtones
  • ibm85lpiRot90:dark
  • ibm85lpiRot90:dark2
  • ibm85lpiRot90:accutone
  • ibm106lpi:standard
  • ibm106lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm106lpi:dark
  • ibm106lpi:dark2
  • ibm106lpi:accutone
  • ibm106lpiRot90:standard
  • ibm1061lpiRot90:highlight-midtones
  • ibm106lpiRot90:dark
  • ibm106lpiRot90:dark2
  • ibm106lpiRot90:accutone
  • ibm141lpi:standard
  • ibm141lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm141lpi:dark
  • ibm141lpi:dark2
  • ibm141lpi:accutone
  • ibm141lpiRot90:standard
  • ibm141lpiRot90:highlight-midtones
  • ibm141lpiRot90:dark
  • ibm141lpiRot90:dark2
  • ibm141lpiRot90:accutone

With the InfoPrint 4100 printers, you can enter one of these halftone values:

  • ibm71lpi:standard
  • ibm71lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm71lpi:dark
  • ibm71lpiRot90:standard
  • ibm71lpiRot90:highlight-midtones
  • ibm71lpiRot90:dark
  • ibm85lpi:standard
  • ibm85lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm85lpi:dark
  • ibm85lpiRot90:standard
  • ibm85lpiRot90:highlight-midtones
  • ibm85lpiRot90:dark
  • ibm106lpi:standard
  • ibm106lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm106lpi:dark
  • ibm106lpiRot90:standard
  • ibm1061lpiRot90:highlight-midtones
  • ibm106lpiRot90:dark
  • ibm141lpi:standard
  • ibm141lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm141lpi:dark
  • ibm141lpiRot90:standard
  • ibm141lpiRot90:highlight-midtones
  • ibm141lpiRot90:dark

For all other base-printer models, you can enter one of these halftone values:

  • ibm71lpi:standard
  • ibm71lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm71lpi:dark
  • ibm85lpi:standard
  • ibm85lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm85lpi:dark
  • ibm106lpi:standard
  • ibm106lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm106lpi:dark
  • ibm141lpi:standard
  • ibm141lpi:highlight-midtones
  • ibm141lpi:dark

Default Value

No default value; however there is a default behavior based on printer model.

Usage Guidelines

  • InfoPrint validates and schedules jobs using this attribute against the actual destination attribute halftones-supported.
  • This document attribute is used only for GIF, JPEG, PDF, PostScript, and TIFF documents.
  • This document attribute works with the actual destination toner-version attribute, which specifies the version of the printer toner that you want to use.
  • This attribute works only with the document attribute document-ps-processor set to CPSI or with the document attribute document-pdf-processor set to APPE or CPSI.
Parent topic: Attributes for documents and default documents