HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing a “match to screen” Application: Adobe Illustrator CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z2100 series Software: HP raster driver 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. • In order to get a correct display, it’s also essential you have the monitor profiled, consult the Profile my monitor section. 2. Open Adobe Illustrator CS2. 3.
• 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 Convert document’s colors to the current working space. Otherwise, select Assign current 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.
• Click OK. 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 Z2100 24in Photo). • Select Preferences: o Paper/Quality tab: • Paper Type: Select the media type that is loaded on the printer. • Print Quality: Select Standard Options and drag the slider to Quality. • Color tab > Color Options: o Select Print in color.
• 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 Method > Color Handling: Let Illustrator determine colors. o Print Method > Printer Profile: Select the profile of the printer and media type that you will use to print.
• Click Print. You should consider that each person has their own perception and their own subjective opinion about the result; this is because there are various factors that can influence our opinions, such as the type of photo (portrait, landscape…), the source color space, the media used, the environmental conditions, the subjective perception about your own photo, etc.... This means the printing suggestion may not completely match with your own personal opinion.
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