HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing in Black&White Application: Adobe Illustrator CS Printer: HP Designjet 30/90/130 series Software: HP Driver Operating System: Windows
The simplest approach to creating a black and white image is taking a color image and converting it to grayscale in a photo 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. 1. First recommendations: • See the Media type functionality & features and choose the most appropriate media.
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. • Click OK 5. 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.
6. Make sure you have configured the Document Setup appropriately for your document, File menu > Document Setup…. 7. Driver Settings, File menu > Print… > Setup… button: • Select Printer...: Select the printer (ex. hp designjet 130). • Preferences: o o Paper/Quality tab: • Paper Size is: Select the paper size of the media loaded on the printer. • Type is: Select the media type that is loaded on the printer. • Print Quality: Best.
• Click OK until the Illustrator Print… dialog box. 8. Adobe Illustrator Print… settings: • • General (left hand menu): o Media > Size: Defined by Driver. o Options: Select the scaling option you need. Color Management (left hand menu): o Print Space > Profile: Dot Gain 30%. o Print Space > Intent: Perceptual.
• Click Print.
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