HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing a Black & White photo for an exhibition Application: Adobe InDesign CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z3100 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.
o Advanced… button: • Select Black point compensation. • Select Convert whole images to grayscale. • Select OK twice. 4. Open Adobe InDesign CS2. 5. Configure the Color Settings, Edit menu > Color Settings…: • Make sure the Advanced Mode check box is ticked. • Working Spaces > RGB: Select the profile of the scanner or camera you have used to get the photo (source profile), if you don’t have it, Adobe RGB (1998).
• Working Spaces > CMYK: Euroscale Coated v2 (for Europe), U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2` (for US) and Japan Standard v2 (for Japan). • Color Management Policies: Select Preserve Embedded Profiles. • Profile Mismatches: Select Ask When Opening and Ask When Pasting. • Missing Profiles: Select Ask When Opening. • Conversion Options > Intent: Select Perceptual (for RGB images) or Relative Colorimetric (for CMYK images). • Select OK.
6. Open the image, File menu > Open…: 7. 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. 8.
• • Select RIP’s Default on the others settings. Select Print. 12. Adobe InDesign Print Settings: • • Setup (left hand menu): o Paper Size: Select Defined By Driver. o Options: Select the scaling option you need. Output (left hand menu): o • Color: Select Composite CMYK. Color Management (left hand menu): o Print: Select Document. o Options > Color Handling: PostScript® Printer Determine Colors.
• Select 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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