HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Proof a press with CMYK Application: Adobe InDesign CS Printer: HP Designjet 30/130 series Software: HP Software RIP 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. 2. Add the press profile you want to emulate in Adobe InDesign CS and in the HP Software RIP, if it isn’t there.
• Working Space > CMYK: Euroscale Coated v2 (for Europe), U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 (for US) and Japan Standard v2 (for Japan). • Color Management Policies: Preserve Embedded Profiles. • Profile Mismatches: check Ask When Opening and Ask When Pasting. • Missing Profiles: check Ask When Opening. • Conversion Options > Intent: Relative Colorimetric. • Click OK. 5.
• Click OK. 5. Place the images if needed, File menu > Place…, browse the image and click Open…. 6. So that you get a good display select a High Quality Display, View menu > Display performace > High Quality Display. 7. Make sure you have configured the Document Setup appropriately for your document, File menu > Document Setup…. 8. RIP settings, File menu > Print…: • Printer: Select the printer (ex. hp_designjet_130_RIP). • Page Setup… button: o Format for: Select the printer.
o o Color Options 1: Check Perform Color Correction. CMYK Input Profile: select the press profile you want to emulate, if you have added and selected it in the RIP, select Use Default. Color Options 2: • • Color rendering intent: Relative Colorimetric (select Absolute Colorimetric if you want to emulate the white of the paper). Click Print. 9. Adobe InDesign Print… settings: • • Setup (left hand menu): o Paper Size: Defined by Driver. o Options: Select the scaling option you need.
• Click Print.
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