HP LF Printing Knowledge Center How to reprint a job with color consistency Application: Adobe Illustrator CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z6100 series Software: HP PS Driver Operating System: Windows
As a creative professional, predictable and consistent results from your printer are essential to getting your job done. This guide will explain several elements you need to keep under control to make your printer behave consistently in terms of color when you are intended to reprint your job. You should consider that there are various factors that can influence our opinions plot to plot, such as: • The environmental conditions: Changes in temperature, humidity, or lighting.
1. Open Adobe Illustrator CS2. 2. Configure the Color Settings, Edit menu > Color Settings…: • Make sure the Advanced Mode is displayed. • Working Space > RGB: Select the profile of the scanner or camera you have used to get the photo (source profile), if you don’t have it, select sRGB IEC61966-2.1 or AdobeRGB. • Working Space > CMYK: Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27 (for Europe), U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 (for US) and Japan Standard v2 (for Japan).
• Click OK.
3. Open the image, File menu > Open…: 4. 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. • Click 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.
8. Choose driver settings, click Setup… button: • Click Printer button and select your printer (ex. HP Designjet Z6100 44in Photo). • Click Preferences button: o Paper/Quality tab: • Document size: Select the media size that is loaded on the printer. • Orientation: Select the orientation of the paper. • Print Quality: Select Standard options and drag the slider to Quality (Best).
o Color tab > Color Options: • Select Print in color. • Select Color management > Printer managed colors: o Default RGB Source Profile: Select sRGB (HP). o Default CMYK Source Profile: Select Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27 (for Europe), U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 (for US) and Japan Standard v2 (for Japan). o Rendering Intent: Select Relative Colorimetric and Black Point Compensation option. • Click 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 PostScript® printer determine colors. o Print Method > Rendering Intent: Relative Colorimetric. Click Print. • Reprint this job: • • Following the described procedure.
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