HP Designjet Z3200ps Photo Printer Series - User Guide [English]
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installing the software
- Personalizing the printer
- Turn the printer on and off
- Change the language of the front-panel display
- Access the HP Printer Utility
- Access the Embedded Web Server
- Change the language of the HP Printer Utility
- Change the language of the Embedded Web Server
- Password-protect the Embedded Web Server
- Set the date and time
- Change the sleep mode setting
- Turn the buzzer on and off
- Change the front-panel display contrast
- Change the units of measurement
- Configure network settings
- Change the graphic language setting
- Paper handling
- General advice
- Load a roll onto the spindle
- Load a roll into the printer
- Unload a roll
- Load a single sheet
- Unload a single sheet
- View information about the paper
- Paper presets
- Print on loaded paper
- Move the paper
- Maintain the paper
- Change the drying time
- Turn the automatic cutter on and off
- Feed and cut the paper
- Printing
- Create a print job
- Select print quality
- Select paper size
- Select margins options
- Print with shortcuts
- Rescale a print
- Preview a print
- Print a draft
- High-quality printing
- Print 16-bit color images
- Print in gray shades
- Print with no margins
- Rotate an image
- Print with crop lines
- Print on sheet paper
- Use paper economically
- Nest jobs to save roll paper
- Use ink economically
- Color management
- What is color?
- The problem: color in the computer world
- The solution: color management
- Color and your printer
- A summary of the color management process
- Color calibration
- Color profiling
- Color management options
- Perform black point compensation
- Set the rendering intent
- Color emulation
- HP Professional PANTONE Emulation
- Color adjustment options
- Color management scenarios
- Print a color photo for an exhibition (Photoshop, PS driver)
- Print a color photo for an exhibition (Photoshop, PCL3 driver)
- Print a black-and-white photo for an exhibition (Photoshop, PS driver)
- Print a black-and-white photo for an exhibition (Photoshop, PCL3 driver)
- Print a digital album (Aperture, PS driver)
- Print a digital album (Aperture, PCL3 driver)
- Proof the output on the monitor (InDesign, PS driver)
- Proof the output on the printer (QuarkXPress, PS driver)
- Job queue management
- Retrieving printer usage information
- Handling ink cartridges and printheads
- Maintaining the printer
- Accessories
- Troubleshooting paper issues
- The paper cannot be loaded successfully
- The paper type is not in the driver
- The paper has jammed
- Prints do not fall neatly into the basket
- The sheet stays in the printer when the print has been completed
- The paper is cut when the print has been completed
- The cutter does not cut well
- The roll is loose on the spindle
- A strip stays on the output tray and generates jams
- Recalibrate the paper advance
- Troubleshooting print-quality issues
- General advice
- Print quality troubleshooting wizard
- Horizontal lines across the image (banding)
- The whole image is blurry or grainy
- The paper is not flat
- The print is scuffed or scratched
- Ink marks on the paper
- Vertical dotted or dashed lines on the print
- Vertical continuous lines on the print
- Black ink comes off when you touch the print
- Edges of objects are stepped or not sharp
- Edges of objects are darker than expected
- Bronzing
- Horizontal lines at the end of a cut sheet print
- Vertical lines of different colors
- White spots on the print
- Colors are inaccurate
- The image is incomplete (clipped at the bottom)
- The image is clipped
- Some objects are missing from the printed image
- Lines are too thick, too thin or missing
- Lines appear stepped or jagged
- Lines print double or in the wrong colors
- Lines are discontinuous
- Lines are blurred
- The Image Diagnostics Print
- If you still have a problem
- Troubleshooting ink cartridge and printhead issues
- Troubleshooting general printer issues
- The printer does not print
- The printer seems slow
- Communication failures between computer and printer
- Cannot access the HP Printer Utility
- Some Color Center options are unavailable
- Cannot access the Embedded Web Server
- Automatic file system check
- No output when printing from Microsoft Visio 2003
- Unavailable driver features when printing from QuarkXPress
- Printer alerts
- Front-panel error messages
- HP Customer Care
- Printer specifications
- Glossary
- Index
What is color?
We see the world around us as steeped in color, where color is in the first instance simply an aspect of
how we experience our environment. Color is therefore subjective. Upon further inspection we find that
our color experiences are closely related to brain activity that is triggered by signals sent to it by our
eyes. These signals undergo a complex and highly interlinked sequence of processing stages that make
the relationship between what our eyes emit and what we experience anything but direct. The signals
sent by the eye depend on the light-sensitive cells that line the back of our eyes, and they belong to
three types, each sensitive to electromagnetic radiation of different physical properties (wavelengths).
Such electromagnetic radiation is called light and objects appear to have certain colors because of how
they interact with light (by emission, reflection, absorption, transmission, scattering, etc.).
Our individual experiences of color are also affected by our previous experiences and memories and
by the way in which we put our experiences into language. Finally, environmental factors such as
changes in lighting, scene content or the proximity of other colors also have an effect, which makes the
way in which we view a given display or print an essential part of the colors we will see. Differences in
all these aspects (from physiological differences between people, to differences in their past
experiences, memories and linguistic tendencies) can result in people talking about colors differently
even in response to the same light reflected from an single object. Nonetheless there are also many
similarities between how individuals experience color and it is possible to make very specific judgments
about it that others will also agree with when care is taken in the process. In conclusion we can say that
color results from the interaction between light, objects and a viewer, which makes it a very complex
and to a large degree subjective phenomenon.
The problem: color in the computer world
Color imaging devices such as printers, displays, projectors and televisions create colors by different
means and by using different materials (colorants). Displays, for instance, use colorants that emit red
(long wavelength), green (medium wavelength) and blue (short wavelength) light, where outputting a
white color requires the full use of all three colorants and black requires that none of them be used (i.e.
that no light be emitted). Devices that use light emitting colorants are called additive, because the light
from them is added together before it enters a viewer’s eyes. Printers, on the other hand, use materials
that absorb parts of the light that shines on them and because of this absorption, they are called
subtractive. Typical prints use cyan (red absorbing), magenta (green absorbing) and yellow (blue
absorbing) inks as well as an additional black ink that absorbs light at all wavelengths. To get white
using a printer requires not absorbing any of the light that illuminates a piece of paper and to get black,
all of the inks need to be used to absorb all of the light that is present.
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