HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing a photo Application: Adobe Illustrator CS Printer: HP Designjet 30/90/130 series Software: EFI Designer Edition for HP Operating System: Windows
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 section. 2. Open the EFI Designer Edition RIP. 3. EFI Designer Edition RIP settings, Preferences: Color: • • o Check the Active Color Management checkbox.
• Color Management Policies: Preserve the Embedded Profiles. • Profile Mismatches: check Ask When Opening and Ask When Pasting. • Missing Profiles: check Ask When Opening. • Conversion Options > Intent: Perceptual. • Click OK 6. 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.
• Click OK 7. If you place an image, you should 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.
8. Make sure you have configured the Document Setup appropriately for your document, File menu > Document Setup…. 9. Printer settings, File menu > Print… > Setup… button: • Select Printer...: Select the printer (ex. EFI Designer Edition). • Preferences: o Layout tab: • o Orientation: Select the orientation of your document on the paper. Advanced…: • Paper/Output > Paper Size: Select the paper size of the media loaded on the printer.
• o Print Space > Profile: PostScript Color Management o Print Space > Intent: Perceptual. Click Print.
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