C941dn Multimedia Production Platform Device

Printing with Spot Clear or White Toner

Printing with the C941dn: the industry’s only 5-color LED device.
With your C941dn Multimedia Production Platform invitations, brochures, packaging prototypes, point-
device from OKI, you can demonstrate your creativity of-sale material, watermarks, window graphics,
or broaden your printed offerings by producing labels, etc., but to do so quickly and easily—as well
materials on an incredible range of media in CMYK as cost-effectively.
plus solid White or Clear gloss. In the pages that follow, we provide step-by-step
The C941dn not only gives you the opportunity instructions for file prep and printing—to ensure the
to produce extraordinary mock-ups, stationery, best possible results from your C941dn.

Contents:
Printing from a Mac® 3 Adobe Illustrator File Prep 9
Printing from a PC 5 Adobe Photoshop® File Prep 10
Adobe® InDesign® File Prep 7 Creating a High-Res PDF 11
Printing with Clear or White toner from a Mac®
To print using White or Clear toner you must first specify
“White” or “Clear” in the print driver:
1. Open System Preferences and click on the Print & Scan
icon (Fig. A)
2. Make sure that the OKI-C941dn printer is chosen on the
left hand side of the Print & Scan dialogue box (Fig. B).
Click the Options & Supplies button to access the print
driver settings (also Fig. B).
3. Click the Driver button and choose “White” or “Clear”
from the SpotColor Toner menu (Fig. C)
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To print using Clear toner, click the Printer button at the
bottom of the Print dialogue box (Fig. D):
1. Make sure that OKI_C941dn is chosen in the Printer
menu (Fig. D)
2. In the Layout menu choose Printer Features and in the
Feature Sets menu choose General 1 (Figs. E & F)
3. Under General 1 in Feature Sets, you’ll find several
options for adding Clear toner to your layout (see next
page – Fig. G – for Usage Methods)
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Printing with Clear or White toner from a Mac® (continued)
Usage Methods gives you several options for adding Clear toner to your layout
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(Fig. G ). The graphics at right indicate the Clear toner coverage that results
from each selection. The purple coloration shows where Clear toner will print
on top of the elements in the page layout. Sample 4 assumes a dark paper
stock with only Clear toner printed on it. Sample 5 shows a repeat-pattern
watermark that can be created with Clear toner.

Sample page layout 3

See instructions on the next page for printing with White toner (Fig. H)
Printing with Clear or White toner from a Mac® (continued)
To print using White toner, follow steps on previous page for Fig. A through Fig. F,
selecting “White” in Fig. C (SpotColor Toner). General 1 under Feature Sets will then
give you two options for applying White toner to your layout. (Fig. H)
1. Click on the Order of Superposition menu and choose from “Print white on the color”
or “Print white under the color

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A white panel is printed underneath

all color areas.
To print White toner only on a colored paper stock, set up your artwork in Black.
Go to the Usage Methods menu (Fig. I ) and choose Prints only spot color toner.
This will print all Black data (artwork) with White toner.

Original page layout

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 Printing with Clear or White toner from a PC
Applying Clear or White toner is quick and easy
with the C941dn print driver.
1. For most applications, select Print > Output > Color
(Fig. J), then click Spot Color (Fig. K).
2. For Usage Methods and descriptions (Fig. L), go to
Page 4 (“Printing with Clear toner from a Mac”) and
see Fig. G diagram.

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 Printing Clear toner only in select areas of your page layout:
Adobe® InDesign® file preparation for “Application Specification” printing
Make specific areas of Clear toner on your 3. Choose the SpotColor_Clear layer at the top of your
page layout layers pallete using one or more of the methods below:

1. In InDesign, add a new layer in the layers pallet.
(Fig. M)
a. Name the new layer SpotColor_Clear.
(IMPORTANT: Case- and underscore-sensitive)
b. Make the SpotColor_Clear layer the first layer at the
top of the layers palette.
M Adobe Photoshotp into the SpotColor_Clear layer
a. Draw shapes on your page layout with any drawing
tool and fill them with the SpotColor_Clear PMS color
swatch.
b. Dupicate the text and place it on the SpotColor_Clear
layer. The text must also be colored in the SpotColor_
Clear PMS color swatch.
c. Import a graphic element from Adobe Ilustrator or
and color it in the SpotColor_Clear PMS swatch. (See
Adobe Illustrator- and Adobe Photoshop-specific
application instructions.)

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a.
2. Add a new color in the swatches pallet and name it
SpotColor_Clear. (Fig. N)
a. Designate the Color Type as Spot.
b. Set the Color Mode to PANTONE+Solid Coated b.
(It does not matter which PMS Color you choose, as
long as it is set to 100%.) Sample page layout This page layout simulates vector
c. Click OK. art from Adobe Illustrator using
Clear toner as a repeat-pattern
d. In the Swatches pallete, rename the PMS color watermark
to SpotColor_Clear.

N IMPORTANT: Attributes Pallete settings

2. For every shape and stroke to print with clear toner
select Window > Output > Attributes > Overprint Fill and/
or Stroke. (Fig. O)

Printing White toner only in select areas of your page layout:

Adobe® InDesign file preparation for “Application Specification” printing
Follow the same proceedures above, using SpotColor_White as your layer designation.
Printing Clear toner only in select areas of your page layout:
Adobe® Illustrator file preparation for “Application Specification” printing
Applying Clear toner in Adobe Illustrator 5. Choose Window > Attributes > Overprint Fill and/or Stroke.

Open your Illustrator file or start a new document. NOTE: If the Illustrator file is being placed in InDesign, the
same spot PMS color must be used for SpotColor_Clear in
1. In Swatches, scroll down to Open Swatch Library.
both programs. Also, all type and graphics for SpotColor_
2. Scroll over to Color Books, look for PANTONE + Solid Coated, Clear must be on the same layer.
and pick any PMS color for the SpotColor_Clear.
Follow printing instructions for Mac® or PC on Pages 3–6.
3. Double-click on the PMS color block to open Swatch Options.
4. In Swatch Options, change swatch name to SpotColor_Clear.
Select Spot Color under Color Type; select Lab under Color
Mode. Click OK.

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Printing White toner only in select areas of your page layout:

Adobe® Illustrator file preparation for “Application Specification” printing
Follow the same proceedures above, using SpotColor_White as your layer designation.
Print Clear toner only in select areas of your page layout:
Adobe® Photoshop file preparation for “Application Specification” printing

Creating soft or faded edge effects in clear gloss toner

requires the use of a rastor based program like Adobe 1
Photoshop.
1. Open the photo you would like to enhance with Clear toner.
2. Create a new layer, then select an area of the photo to be in
Clear toner, or import vector art from Adobe Illustrator and
paste it into the new layer. Either way, the new layer art must
be designated as solid Black for 100% Clear toner. Feather or
soften the layer edges as desired.
3. Copy the selected art.
4. In the channels pallet, scroll down to New Spot Channel and
name it SpotColor_Clear. Your selection will automatically be

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pasted into the new spot channel.

NOTE: If your Photoshop file will be imported into Adobe

InDesign, make sure to designate the same spot PMS color on
the SpotColor_Clear layeras in Adobe InDesign (See Page X)
5. Save the PSD file and place in InDesign on the SpotColor_Clear
layer.
NOTE: The preview image will look darker where the SpotColor_ 4
Clear channel appears on your page layout.
Creating a high-resolution PDF for a page layout that uses Clear toner

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It’s important to choose the correct settings when saving
a PDF for printing with SpotColor_Clear. Follow the steps
below to create a PDF preset for saving high-res PDFs right
out of InDesign.
1. From the main menu select: File > Adobe PDF Presets > Press
Quality, and click Save.
2. Select General: Compatibility > and choose Acrobat 6. On the
lower right side check Create Acrobat Layers. (Fig. P)
3. Under Compression > Color Images, select Do Not
Downsample; Compression > JPEG; and Image Quality >
Maximum. Choose the same for Grayscale Images.
Under Monochrome Images > CCITT Group 4. (Fig. Q)
4. Set up Marks and Bleeds as desired.
5. Under Output, select Color > No Color Conversion. Under

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Profile Inclusion Policy, select All RGB and Tagged Source
CMYK Profiles. Under Ink Manager, be sure that the box for
All Spots to Process is unchecked. (Fig. R)
6. Click on Save Preset... and name it OKI SpotColor_Clear
7. When printing a PDF that has Clear or White spot color, the
Adobe Reader Advanced settings should have Simulate
Overprinting enabled.

Checking your PDF

1. Open your PDF in Acrobat® Professional.
2. From the main menu select Advanced > Print Production
> Output Preview > Show Spot Colors. If your file is set up
correctly, all designated SpotColor_Clear areas should
be visible. If you mouse over a SpotColor_Clear area, the
percentage should change.
R Troubleshooting
•  If the SpotColor_Clear color has knocked out the image
below, make sure that you have specified Overprint, or if
brought in from Adobe® Photoshop, be sure that Multiply has
been assigned.
• For raster images brought in from Photoshop, make sure the
name SpotColor_Clear has been assigned to the color in the
Monotone menu. Names must match between all files.
• If some areas print correctly but other parts have knocked out,
make sure the SpotColor_Clear layer is at the top level and
nothing sits above it. If your file seems to be set up correctly
but does not print correctly, please contact your Print Provider.