130)] - Printing in Black & White [Adobe Illustrator CS - Mac OS X]

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Printing in Black & White

Application: Adobe Illustrator CS

Printer: HP Designjet 30/130 series printers

Software: HP Software RIP

Operating System: Mac OS X

Summary of content (7 pages)

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HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing in Black & White Application: Adobe Illustrator CS Printer: HP Designjet 30/130 series printers Software: HP Software RIP Operating System: Mac OS X
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The simplest approach to creating a black and white image is taking a color image and converting it to grayscale in an imaging program such as Photoshop or Illustrator. In addition, although converting an image from color to grayscale is easy, the opposite operation is complex, in this case it is better to have it in color in the first place.
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• Click OK 4. Open the image, File menu > Open…: • 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.
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• Click OK 5. If you place an image, you can embed the image in the document. If it has an embedded profile, it will be converted from the embedded color profile to the document color profile preserving the color appearance. If it doesn’t have an embedded color profile, Illustrator will assign the document color profile. • File menu > Place…: browse the image and uncheck the Link checkbox. If you are asked How do you want to treat the data?, select Convert. • Click OK. 6.
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• • Printer Features > Color Options (Mac OS X v10.3): o Uncheck Print in Grayscale. o Uncheck Perform Color Correction. Click Print. 8. Adobe Illustrator Print… settings: • General (left hand menu): o Media > Size: Defined by Driver. o Options: Select the scaling option you need.
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• Output (left hand menu): o • • Mode: Composite. Color Management (left hand menu): o Print Space > Profile: Dot Gain 30%. o Print Space > Intent: Perceptual. Click Print.
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