DesignJet T900 and T1500 Printer Series - User guide

Color management from the Embedded Web Server (T930, T930
PS and T1500 series)
Submit Job options
When you send jobs to the printer using the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page, you have the following
color management options.
If you leave an option set to Default, the setting saved in the job will be used. If the job contains no setting,
the front-panel setting in the printer will be used.
T930, T930 PS, T1500 and T1500 PS options
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Color/Grayscale: you can choose to print in color, in shades of gray, or in pure black and white.
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Default RGB source prole: you can choose from a selection of RGB source proles recognized by the
printer.
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Printer emulation: you can choose to emulate a dierent HP DesignJet printer. Default: O (no printer
emulation).
T930 and T1500 PS options (with PostScript or PDF jobs)
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Default CMYK source prole: you can choose from a selection of CMYK source proles recognized by the
printer. Default: US Coated SWOP v2.
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Rendering intent: you can select the rendering intent.
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Black point compensation: you can turn black point compensation on or o.
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HP Professional PANTONE Emulation: you can turn HP Professional PANTONE Emulation on or o.
Rendering intent
Rendering intent is one of the settings used when doing a color transformation. As you probably know, some
of the colors you want to print may not be reproducible by the printer. The rendering intent allows you to
select one of four dierent ways of handling these so-called out-of-gamut colors.
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Saturation (graphics): best used for presentation graphics, charts or images made up of bright,
saturated colors.
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Perceptual (images): best used for photographs or images in which colors blend together. It tries to
preserve the overall color appearance.
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Relative colorimetric (proong): best used when you want to match a particular color. This method is
mainly used for proong. It guarantees that, if a color can be printed accurately, it will be printed
accurately. The other methods will probably provide a more pleasing range of colors but do not
guarantee that any particular color will be printed accurately. It maps the white of the input space to the
white of the paper on which you are printing.
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Absolute colorimetric (proong): the same as relative colorimetric, but without mapping the white.
This rendering is also used mainly for proong, where the goal is to simulate the output of one printer
(including its white point).
Perform black point compensation
The black point compensation option controls whether to adjust for dierences in black points when
converting colors between color spaces. When this option is selected, the full dynamic range of the source
space is mapped into the full dynamic range of the destination space. It can be very useful in preserving
shadows when the black point of the source space is darker than that of the destination space. This option is
allowed only when the Relative colorimetric rendering intent is selected (see Rendering intent on page 94).
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