Print an Image

ImagXpress® enables you to print an image, using either ImagXpress or PrintPRO™:

Print the Image Using ImagXpress

The image is sent to a specified Graphics object using the ImageXView.Print method.

Color Management while Printing an Image Using ImageXpress

Image Color Management (ICM) is performed to ensure that the image has a very similar appearance, regardless of the device on which it is displayed or printed. When printing an image, the image must be converted to the device-specific color space of the specified printer. This conversion can be done at a number of different points in the process:

Prior to loading the image into ImagXpress
By ImagXpress
By PrintPRO
By the printing device

To perform color management within ImagXpress:

Ensure that ImageXView.IcmEnabled is set to True.
Specify how to apply profiles, by setting the ImageXView.ColorRenderIntent property (for example, Picture, Graphics, Business or Colorimetric interpretation.)
Enable color management of an image to be proofed, by setting ImageXView.ICMProofingEnabled to True.
Set the ImageXView.TargetProfileName to the profile to use when proofing the image. When ICMProofingEnabled is True, this profile overrides the ImageXView.PrinterProfileName property. This can be helpful if proofing occurs on a printer or ink different from the destination printer.
Specify the color profile to use when performing ICM on an image to be printed (PrinterProfileName). Setting PrinterProfileName doesn't change the profile name stored with the printer device context - it simply specifies the color profile ImagXpress uses with ICM.
Send the image to the specified device, or PrintPRO, for printing.

Print the Image Using PrintPRO

The ImageXView.Print method requires a graphics object. However, in some containers, this may not be available. In this case, PrintPRO provides a vehicle to print to a selected printing device. PrintPRO may also provide the best solution if you require a customized printer interface and programmatic control over printing functions.

To save the image using PrintPRO, pass the image from ImagXView to PrintPRO. Use PrintPRO to compose the printed page, select a printing device and print to that device.