HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing a black & white photo for an exhibition Application: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z2100 series Software: HP raster 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. 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 already in color. If your image is already converted, you only have to bypass the section 5. 1. First recommendations: • See the Media type functionality & features and choose the most appropriate media.
• 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 (instead of the working space). 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. Convert the image to grayscale. There are two ways to perform this conversion, choose the best one for you: a) Let Photoshop do the conversion, Image menu > Mode > Grayscale. b) You can choose the percentage contribution from each color channel when creating the gray image: Image mode > Adjustments > Channel Mixer: • Check Monochrome.
• Click OK. 6. Adobe Photoshop Print with Preview… settings. File menu > Print with Preview…: • Page Setup…: o Printer...: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z2100 24in Photo) and click OK. 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. • Make sure the More Options are displayed. • Select the Color Management tab: o Print: Document.
• Select Print…. 7. Driver Settings; Properties button: • Paper/Quality tab: o Paper Type: Select the media type that is loaded on the printer. o Print Quality: Select Standard Options and drag the slider to Quality.
• Color tab > Color Options: o Select Print In Grayscale: Gray and Black Inks Only. o Color Management: • Select Printer Managed Colors: sRGB.
• Click OK twice.
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