HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Proof the output on the monitor Application: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z2100 series Software: HP raster driver Operating System: Mac OS X
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 document. 2. Open Adobe Photoshop 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 Use the embedded profile. Otherwise, select Assign working space; in this case, if the displayed image does not look correct, try assigning it to other color spaces with Edit > Assign Profile (try sRGB, Adobe RGB, ColorMatch RGB and others) until you are satisfied.
• Click OK. 5. Configure the Proof Setup dialog box in order to check the output on the monitor, View Menu > Proof Setup > Custom…: 6. Device to Simulate: Select the profile of the output device you want to check; printer profile generally depends on the printer model and the media type. If you don’t have it on the list, you should copy it from the folder: /Library/ColorSync/Profiles. • Rendering Intent: Perceptual (for RGB images) or Relative Colorimetric (for CMYK images).
Click OK. • Now, you can retouch your image and the monitor will show you how it’s going to look once you’ve printed it. 7. Adobe Photoshop Print with Preview… settings, File menu > Print with Preview…: • Page Setup: o Format for: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z2100 24in Photo). o Paper Size: Select the paper size of the media loaded on the printer. o Orientation: Select the orientation of your image on the paper. o Click OK. • Set the Position and the Scaled Print Size you need.
8. Choose driver Settings: • Printer: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z2100 24in Photo). • Select Paper Type/Quality in the drop-dawn menu: o Paper tab: • Paper Type: Select the media type that is loaded on the printer (same settings as selected in Photoshop Print Space Profile, always calibrated). • Quality Options: Standard and drag the slider to Quality.
• Color tab > Color Options: o Select Print in color. o Select Color Management > Application Managed Colors.
• 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 that the printing suggestion may not completely match with your own personal opinion.
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