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: 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. Open Adobe InDesign CS2. 2. Configure the Color Settings, Edit menu > Color Settings…: • Check the Enable Color Management checkbox. • Make sure the Advanced Mode check box is ticked. • Working Space > 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 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 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. 5.
. Print your job; File menu > Print…: • Printer: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z6100ps 44in Photo). • Select Printer… button: o Image Quality tab: • • Quality Options: Select Standard and drag the slider to Quality: Select Color Options tab: o Select Print In Color. o Select Color Management > Printer Managed Colors. • Default RGB Source Profile: Select Adobe RGB (HP). • Default CMYK Source Profile: Select Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27 (for Europe), U.S.
• Click Print.
7. Adobe InDesign Print… settings: • Output (left hand menu): o • Color: Select Composite CMYK. Color Management (left hand menu): o Print: Document. o Options > Color Handling: PostScript® Printer Determine Colors. Click Print. • 8. 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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