HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing a black and white photo for an exhibition Application: Adobe Illustrator CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z3100 series Software: HP Raster Driver Operating System: Mac OS X
1. First recommendations: • Refer to 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 section. • In order to get a correct display, it is also essential that you have the monitor calibrated, consult the Profile my monitor section.
• Select OK.
. 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 you select this and 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. • Click OK.
. If you place an image, you can 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.
• Printer... button: o Paper Type/Quality > Paper tab: Paper Type: Select the media type that is loaded on the printer. Quality Options: Standard and drag the slider to Quality.
o • Color tab: • Select Print in Grayscale. • Select Color Management > Application Managed Colors. Select Print.
. 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 that you are going use to print.
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