HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing a black & white photo for an exhibition Application: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z3100 series Software: HP raster driver Operating System: Mac OS X
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 in color. If your image is already converted, you only have to bypass the section 6.
• Select 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.
• Select OK. 5. (Optional) Convert the image to grayscale. We offer you two ways to perform the 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 menu > Adjustments > Channel Mixer: • Select Monochrome.
• Select OK. 6. Adobe Photoshop Print with Preview… settings. File menu > Print with Preview…: • Page Setup…: o Format for: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z3100 44in Photo). o Paper Size: Select the paper size of the media loaded in the printer. o Orientation: Select the orientation of your image on the paper. o Select OK. • Set the Position and the Scaled Print Size you need. • Make sure More Options are shown. • Select the Color Management tab: o Print: Document.
• Select Print… 7. Driver Settings: • Printer: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z3100 44in Photo). • Select Paper Type/Quality in the drop dawn menu: o Paper tab: • Paper Type: Select the media type that is loaded in the printer. • Quality Options: Standard and drag the slider to Quality.
o Color tab: • Select Print in Grayscale. • Color Management > Printer Manage Color > Source Profile: Use Adobe RGB (1998).
• Select Print. Once the color management option “Let Printer Determine Colors” was selected, the option “Application Managed Colors” is now, automatically gray out. Adobe Photoshop version 9.0.1 does not gray out the non-selected color management option. Ensure the selected option is the correct one.
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