HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing a black & white photo Application: Adobe InDesign 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, 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 Adobe InDesign CS2. 3. Configure the Color Settings, Edit menu > Color Settings…: • Make sure the Advanced Mode check box is ticked.
• Select OK. 4. Open the image, File menu > Open…: 5. If the document has an embedded color profile that does not match the current working space, select Leave the document as is... Otherwise, select Adjust the document to match current color settings; 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.
• Select OK. 6. Place the images if needed, File menu > Place…, browse to the image and select Open…. 7. So that you get a good display select a High Quality Display, View menu > Display Performance > High Quality Display. 8. Make sure you have configured the Document Setup appropriately for your document, File menu > Document Setup…. 9. Printer settings, File menu > Print…: • Printer...: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z2100 24in Photo).
• Color tab: o Select Print in Grayscale > Gray and Black inks only. o Select Color Management > Application Managed Colors.
• Select Print. NOTE: If you are printing on photo paper with Gray and Black Inks Only option, and you experience a gloss differential problem when fluorescent light is directly reflected towards you from the print, producing 'bronzed' reflections from the ink; try one of the following: - Use the Full set of inks option. It gives less neutral shades of gray - Display the print vertically or behind glass. 10.
Color Management (left hand menu): • • o Print: Select Document. o Options > Color handling: Let InDesign Determine Colors. o Options > Printer profile: Select the profile of the printer and media type that you will use to print. Select Print.
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