HP LF Printing Knowledge Center How to reprint a job with color consistency Application: Adobe Illustrator CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z600 series Software: HP PS Driver Operating System: Mac OS X
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. Configure the Color Settings, Edit menu > Color Settings…: • Make sure the Advance Mode is displayed. • Working Space > RGB: Select the profile of the scanner or camera you have used to get the photos (source profile), if you don’t have it, select Adobe RGB (1998). • Working Space > CMYK: Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27 (for Europe), U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 (for US) and Japan Standard v2 (for Japan). • Color Management Policies: Preserve Embedded Profiles.
• Click OK. 2. 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; in this case, 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. • Click OK.
3. 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 the image and uncheck the Link checkbox. If you are ask What would you like to do? Select Convert. • Click OK. 4.
• Driver print settings, press Printer... button: o Image Quality tab: • • Select Paper Handling tab: o • Quality Options: Select Standard and drag the slider to Quality: Destination Paper Size: Select the media size that is loaded on the printer. Make sure that the document size is not bigger than the paper size you have in the printer. Color Options tab: o Select Print In Color. o Select Color Management > Printer Managed Colors. • Default RGB Source Profile: Select Adobe RGB (HP).
• Click Print.
6. 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 Rendering Intent: Relative Colorimetric. • Click Print. 7. Reprint this job: • • Following the described procedure.
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