HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing a photo for an exhibition Application: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z3100 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 and print mode, consult the Calibrate my printer document. • In order to get a correct display, it’s also essential you have the monitor profiled, consult the Profile my monitor document. 2. Open Adobe Photoshop CS2. 3. Configure the Color Settings, Edit menu > Color Settings…: • Make sure More Options is displayed.
• 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. 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.
5. 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 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.
• Click Print…. 6. Choose 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 Color. • Color Management > Printer Manage Color > Source Profile: Use Adobe RGB (1998). Once the color management option “Let Printer Determine Colors” is selected, the option “Application Managed Colors” is grayed 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.
• Select Print.
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