HP LF Printing Knowledge Center How to reprint a job with color consistency Application: Macromedia FreeHand MX 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 Macromedia FreeHand application. 2. Configure the Color Preferences, Edit menu > Preferences > Colors pane: • Color Management > Type: Kodak Digital Science. • Uncheck Rebuild Color Tables. • Setup button: o Monitor: Select the current display profile. o Monitor simulates: Composite printer. o Separation printer: Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27 o Euroscale Coated v2 (for Europe), SWOP Printer (for US) and Japan Standard v2 (for Japan). o Intent: Relative Colorimetric.
• • • • Click OK. Click OK twice. 3. Open your document, File menu > Open…, create a new one, File menu > New…, or import an image, File menu > Import…. 4. Make sure to have configured the document properly (document size and orientation), Properties panel > Document tab (Window menu > Document).
. Macromedia FreeHand Print settings, Select File menu > Print…: • Printer: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z6100ps 42in Photo). • Scale %: Select the escalation option you need. • Output > Separations tab: Select Composite.
. Choose driver settings, click Properties… 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 > Application Managed Colors: • Click OK twice. 7. 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. Through the Embedded Web Server, go to Stored jobs in printer, select the job you want to print, and then click the Print button).
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