HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing a black & white photo for an exhibition Application: Adobe InDesign CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z3100 series Software: HP raster driver Operating System: Windows
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 section. • In order to get a correct display, it’s also essential you have the monitor calibrated, consult the Profile my monitor section. 2.
• Select OK. 5. 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, 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. Place the images if needed, File menu > Place…, browse the image and click Open…. 6. So that you get a good display select a High Quality Display, View menu > Display performance > High Quality Display. 7. Make sure you have configured the Document Setup appropriately for your document, File menu > Document Setup…. 8. Printer settings, File menu > Print… > Setup… button: • Select Printer...: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z3100 44in Photo).
o Color tab > Color Options: • Select Print in Grayscale. • Select Color Management > Application Managed Colors.
• Select OK and Print. 9. 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 Gray. Color Management (left hand menu): o Print: Check Document. o Options > Color Handling: Select Let InDesign Determine Colors.
• Select Print. The spectrophotometer allows HP Designjet Z3100 printers to generate custom ICC profiles automatically for your preferred paper types. If the printed image does not look correct, you can create your own color profile easily for use with your paper. Please, consult the next document to create and install a new color profile automatically: Create and Install ICC profile for an existing paper.
For more information on HP Designjet products www.hp.com/go/designjet © 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
