Further Information The Citizen Print Manager has been designed in conjunction with Irseesoft and has many of the features of Turbo Print Professional .The Print Manager will work with V1.2 Workbench and upwards. The Citizen version allows you to obtain the superb prints that you have seen tailored to suit the Citizen range of products . Citizen has chosen the defaults so that you do not need to make any changes except to tell the program which printer you have connected. If you do wish to experiment a short description of the functions is given below. The Citizen Print Manager has 5 main screens which are selected via icons on the right hand side of the screen. These are from left to right , top to bottom 1. Printer 2. Preferences 3. Additional Functions 4. Colour Conversion 5. Text settings Each of the items in the menus is now described in more detail: 1. Printer This menu contains 5 items: Printer Drivers: This sections is used to select the printer that is to be used ,the resolution that is required for the print out to be printed at. The slider should be used to move the list of printers up and down until the required Citizen printer that you have is shown. Click on the required printer name and the possible graphics resolutions are shown in the boxes below "Gap correction". Click on the required graphics resolution. These are indicated as across and down. The first resolution being the horizontal and the second the vertical in dots per inch. Line Gap: The Line gap is for adjusting the line feed increment should each line in the print out have a white line or loverlapping dots. This should rarely need to be used. Pattern: The Amiga can depict 4096 different colours but the printer only has a colour ribbon with 4 colours. The 4096 different colours can be produced on the printer by mixing and arranging them in suitable pattrens. The Citizen print manager provides the following patterns. Norm: Standard Pattern H-T: Half Tone Pattern 4,8,12 Other Patterns 9 pin: FS I: Floyd Steinberg I FS II: Floyd Steinberg II Citizen recommend that for prints that are artistic in nature i.e with lots of curves the FS I or II is selected. For prints that have lots of straight lines use the 4,8,12. Try them and see which is the best. The other patterns that are grayed are available by purchasing the full version of Turbo Print from your dealer. Print Type: This is not used for the PROjet but only for the dot matrix printers.This controls the number of pins that are used in each pass.This reduces the amount of banding or strips that you see across the page and produces a better print. Normal Mode uses all 24 pins Lower Mode uses 18 pins Half Line Mode uses 12 pins Half line mode produces the best output but uses up the ribbon quicker than the others. Aspect Ratio: This changes the height & width of a pixel based on 320x200. 2. Preferences This menu screen contains a number of functions that can usually be set by using the Workbench preferences , however they are given here to speed up your selection process. If you want your application to use the settings set here and not in Workbench preferences then set the "Setting of " button to "Print Manager". Shade: Colour: This setting produces Colour output and should be used only with a Colour option with your printer. Grey: Colour prints are turned to different shades of grey.This is recommended for the PROjet or when using a Black ribbon only. B/W: Prints are printed in black and white only. Negative: This can be used with any of the shade selection above and reverses the colours printed. Landscape: This prints the picture rotated on the page by 90 degrees clockwise. Smoothing: The Citizen print manager considerably improves the quality of the output by smoothing the curves. There are 3 levels of smoothing , OFF I and II , II is by far the best and should be used at all times. Printer Port: The Citizen print manager supports the standard PARallel and SERial ports. However a special high speed port can be used PAR 2 which transfers information directly to the Parallel interface without using the "parallel.device" device driver. Setting the Print Format: The picture format decides on the dimensions of the print out. The "Left offset" can be set to add a left margin to the printout ,or the picture can be "Centered" .The picture format options are : Ignore: The Width & height boxes at the bottom are ignored. The printer prints to the largest size possible on the paper size defined in the Text settings section while maintaining the aspect ratio.. Bounded: The printout size is determined by the Width & Height boxes in Inches or CM which ever is set in the values box.The printout is printed to the largest size possible within these limits keeping the correct aspect ratio. Absolute: The printout size is determined by the Width & Height boxes in Inches or CM or Pixels which ever is set in the values box.The printout is printed to the largest size possible within these limits ignoring the aspect ratio. Multiply: The width & height of the printout become a multiple of the screen graphic size. i.e one screen dot equals one printer dot. 3. Additional Functions This menu screen contains mostly greyed or not available functions that are ouside the requirement of a printer driver. Therefore to be able to use these functions a program can be purchased called Turbo Print Professional from your Amiga dealer. The functions that are available are: Copies: If you wish to print out multiple copies of a print then a number can be entered into the box. Some applications do not send a form feed to feed the paper out of the printer at the end of every page therefore an option is available to force the form feed "FF". If you wish for the printer to wait at the end of every page then use the wait key. PM Resident: Selecting "ON" reset proofs the Citizen print manager Selecting "OFF" means that a soft reset will delete the print manager . Top Offset: Some times you may require when printing multiple pages to adjust the gap between them . This function adds a number of line feeds. 4. Colour Correction The Citizen print manager produces colour output to a very high standard and we have chosen the best possible default values for this for you, so you should not need to adjust any settings.However should you wish to they are defined below Black Print: Selecting "EXTRA" prints a very intense black, like a double strike. Colour Separation: This function allows you to divide the print out into its primary colours for use in offset printing. Gamma Correction: This adjusts the brightness of the colours on the page. Colour Correction: This adjusts the colour between the screen and the printer ribbon.MATRIX I only corrects for the printers ribbon but MATRIX II corrects for both the screen and the ribbon thus giving better output. Note: The graphs at the bottom of the screen cannot be changed in this version. A full version of Turbo Print Professional does allow further modification of colour settings. 5. Text Format In this section you can set values for use with text printing only. These are as follows: Paper size: Narrow carriage printer or Wide Carriage Cut sheet (Single) or Fanfold (Tractor) Pitch Quality Line spacing The Standard font and Text colour functions are not available.