HP LF Printing Knowledge Center How to reprint a job with color consistency Application: Adobe InDesign 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.
2. Configure the Color Settings, Edit menu > Color Settings…: • Make sure the Advanced Mode check box is ticked. • Working Spaces > RGB: Select profile of the scanner or camera you have used to get the photo (source profile), if you don’t have it, Adobe RGB (1998). • Working Spaces > CMYK: Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27 (for Europe), U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2` (for US) and Japan Standard v2 (for Japan). • Color Management Policies: Select Preserve Embedded Profiles.
3. 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.
8. Select Adobe InDesign File menu > Print… and 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 InDesign print dialog box. 9.
o • Color Management (left hand menu): o Print: Check Proof. o Options > Color Handling: PostScript® Printer Determines Colors. Click Print. • 10. Color: Composite CMYK. Reprint this job: • • Following the described procedure. Through the Embedded web server, go to the Job queue, select the job you want to reprint, and then click the Reprint button. A file can also be printed again if was stored in the printer.
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