HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing a banner Application: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z2100 series Software: HP raster driver Operating System: Mac OS X
1. First recommendations: • See the Media type functionality & features and choose the most appropriate media. • It is essential you have the media type correctly calibrated with the printer and print mode, consult the Calibrate my printer document. • In order to get a correct display, it’s also essential you have the monitor calibrated, consult the Profile my monitor document. 2. Open Adobe Photoshop CS2. 3. Configure the Color Settings, Edit menu > Color Settings…: • Make sure More Options is displayed.
• Select OK. 4. Open or place your design, File menu> Open…, File menu > Place… or create a new one, File menu > New…: If the document has an embedded color profile that does not match the current working space, select Use the embedded profile. Otherwise, select Assign working space; if the displayed image does not look correct, try assigning it to other color spaces with Edit > Assign Profile (try sRGB, Adobe RGB, ColorMatch RGB and others) until you are satisfied.
• Select OK. 5. Adobe Photoshop Print with Preview… settings. File menu > Print with Preview…: • Page Setup…: o Format for: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z2100 24in Photo). o Paper Size: Select Manage Custom Sizes…: Select the + icon to create a new custom size. Page Size: Select the media size you are going to print on.
Select OK twice. o Orientation: Select the orientation of your image on the paper. o Select OK. • Set the Position and the Scaled Print Size you need. • Make sure More Options are displayed. • Select the Color Management tab: o Print: Document. o Options > Color Handling: Let Photoshop Determine Colors. o Options > Printer profile: Select the right profile for your printer and paper type.
• Select Print…. 6. Choose driver Settings: • Printer: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z2100 24in Photo). • Select Paper Type/Quality in the drop-dawn menu: o Paper tab: • Paper Type: Select the media type that is loaded in the printer. • Quality Options: Standard and drag the slider to Quality.
• Color tab > Color Options: o Select Print in color. o Select Color Management > Application Managed Colors. NOTE Application manage colors was the recommended color management option in step 5. Consequently, the Printer managed colors option will be grayed out, at this time. Photoshop version 9.0.1 doesn’t gray out the non selected options. Ensure the selected option is the correct one.
• Click the PDF button at the bottom of the Print dialog box to preview your banner before printing. o Click HP Print Preview. This provides a preview with more features, such as the ability to change paper size, paper type, print quality, and to rotate the image. 7. Click Print to proceed with printing or Cancel to cancel the job.
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