HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing your design Application: Adobe Illustrator 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. More recommendations: • Be sure your printer has the latest firmware version and also the latest color profiles, for the paper type you use.
• 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 current working space.
• Select OK. 5. If you place an image, you should embed the image in the document. If it has an embedded profile, it will be converted from the embedded color profile to the document color profile preserving the color appearance. If it doesn’t have an embedded color profile, Illustrator will assign the document color profile. • File menu > Place…: browse to the image and uncheck the Link checkbox. If you are asked What would you like to do? Select Convert. • Select OK. 6.
• Print Quality: Select Standard Options and drag the slider to Quality. o Color tab > Color Options: • Select Print in color. • Select Color Management > Application Managed Colors.
• Select OK and Print until the Illustrator print dialog box. 9. Adobe Illustrator Print… settings: • • General (left hand menu): o Media > Size: Defined by Driver. o Options: Select the scaling option you need. Color Management (left hand menu): o Print Method > Color Handling: Let Illustrator determine colors. o Print Method > Printer Profile: Select the profile of the printer and media type you will use to print.
• 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, refer to the following document to create and install a new color profile automatically: Create and Install ICC profile for an existing paper.
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