HP Color LaserJet 4550 printer family - Software Technical Reference

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HP Color LaserJet 4550 Software Technical Reference 213
To use the PANTONE®* color palette in Illustrator 6.0.1 and 5.5
1. Follow the previous steps to open the color palette.
Note: You must open the palette for every session before you can use PANTONE®* colors.
2. Choose Open or New from the File menu.
3. From the Object menu, choose Paint Style and select the appropriate PANTONE®* color.
Adobe Illustrator 4.x
To open a color palette in Illustrator 4.x
1. Start Illustrator.
2. From the File menu, choose Open.
3. Select the HP4550 color palette.
To use the PANTONE®* color palette in Illustrator 4.x
1. Follow the previous steps to open the color palette.
Note: You must open the palette for every session before you can use PANTONE®* colors.
2. Choose Open or New from the File menu.
3. From the Object menu, choose Custom Colors and select the appropriate PANTONE®* color.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
Adobe Photoshop does not allow colors to be defined by a name. When the HP4550 PANTONE®* palette is
opened, the colors is shown but the color names are not available. If you use colors that are similar to each
other, it might be difficult for you to see the difference between the colors. If you are working with an extensive
palette or if you want to see the color names, see Using PANTONE®* Colors Support In Other Applications at
the end of this section, which provides instructions on using EPS or TIFF files to import PANTONE®* colors.
The color palette for Photoshop is stored in the Applicat\ADOBE\PHOTOSHP directory. Before continuing, copy
the palette file named HP4550C.aco for CMYK Images or HP4550R.aco for RGB images to the folder where
other Photoshop files are stored on your hard disk. Note that CMYK images can not be printed to the PCL printer
without an implicit conversion to RGB by Photoshop. To locate the folder, search for files with an extension of
.aco.
Adobe Photoshop 4.X and 5.X
To open a color palette in Photoshop
1. Open Photoshop.
2. If the palette swatches do not appear, select Show Swatches from the Window menu.
3. Select the arrow in the upper-right corner of the Swatches Window and choose Load Swatches.
4. Select the color palette (the file is named HP CLJ 4550.aco) and Open.
Note: If you do not see this file, check the drop-down bar titled List files of format type. Make certain this
option is set to .aco files rather than .act files.
To use a color from your color palette
1. Select the Paint Bucket tool.
2. Select one of the custom colors in the Swatches window.
3. Select anywhere on an object to fill it with the color.