130 Printing Guide [HP Driver] - Proof a press with CMYK [Adobe Illustrator CS - Mac OS X]

HP LF Printing Knowledge Center

Proof a press with CMYK

Printer: HP Designjet 30/90/130 series

Software: HP Driver

The goal of a press proof is to accurately reproduce the output that it is going to come out of the

press. Presses usually use Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black inks to create their artwork. In order to

accurately reproduce a job from the press, we should also work with CMYK jobs rather than RGB

(which is the color mode used by monitors, scanners and digital cameras).

As today’s operating systems do not handle CMYK data (internally they work in RGB mode), we need

to bypass it in order to work in CMYK. For this, we use PostScript and, consequently, we will need a

Raster Image Processor software (RIP) to process the job and send it to the printer.

Therefore it is not recommended that you use the HP Driver to perform this task.

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HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Proof a press with CMYK Printer: HP Designjet 30/90/130 series Software: HP Driver The goal of a press proof is to accurately reproduce the output that it is going to come out of the press. Presses usually use Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black inks to create their artwork. In order to accurately reproduce a job from the press, we should also work with CMYK jobs rather than RGB (which is the color mode used by monitors, scanners and digital cameras).
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