HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing your design Application: Adobe Illustrator CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z2100 series Software: EFI Designer Edition for HP 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, consult the Calibrate my printer document. • In order to get a correct display, it’s also essential you have the monitor calibrated, consult the Profile my monitor document. 2. Open the EFI Designer Edition RIP. 3.
• Click OK. 4. Open Adobe Illustrator CS2. 5. Configure the Color Settings, Edit menu > Color Settings…: • Make sure the Advance Mode is displayed. • Working Space > RGB: Select the profile of the scanner or camera you have used to get the photos (source profile), if you don’t have it, select Adobe RGB (1998).). • Working Space > CMYK: Euroscale Coated v2 (for Europe), U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 (for US) and Japan Standard v2 (for Japan). • Color Management Policies: Preserve Embedded Profiles.
• Select 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 current 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 Adobe RGB or others until you are satisfied. • Select OK.
7. If you place an image, you can 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 to the image and uncheck the Link checkbox. If you are asked What would you like to do? Select Convert. • Select OK. 8.
• Select Print. 10. 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 PostScript® determine colors.
• Select Print. NOTE If the printed image does not look correct, you can try the following: Open and save your image in your application, Illustrator. Then, open the EFI Designer Edition RIP and print your design. Please, consult the following document which explains this process step-by-step: Printing your design with your EFI Designer Edition RIP.
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