HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing a banner Application: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z2100 series Software: HP raster driver Operating System: Windows
1. First recommendations: • Refer to Media type functionality & features and choose the most appropriate media. • It is essential you have the media type correctly calibrated with the printer and print mode, consult the Calibrate my printer section. • In order to get a correct display, it’s also essential you have the monitor calibrated, refer to the Calibrate my monitor section. 2. Open Adobe Photoshop CS2. 3.
• Select OK. 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, 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. 5. Adobe Photoshop Print with Preview… settings, File menu > Print with Preview…: • Page Setup…: o Printer...: Select your printer (ex.
• Select Save and OK. The custom page size you have just defined will not become available for selection until you have exited and re-entered the Printing Properties dialog box. • Click OK to exit Printer Properties. o Click OK. o Paper Size: Select the paper size you defined in Custom Paper Size. o Orientation: Select the orientation of your banner on the paper.
o Select OK. • Set the Position and the Scaled Print Size you need. • Make sure More Options is displayed. • Select the Color Management tab: o Print: Document. o Options > Color Handling: Let Photoshop Determine Colors. o Options > Printer profile: Select the right profile for your printer and paper type. o Options > Rendering Intent: Perceptual (for RGB images) or Relative Colorimetric (for CMYK images).
6. Driver Settings; Properties button; click Print...: • Paper/Quality tab: o Paper Options> Document Size: Select your custom paper size. o Paper Options> Paper Type: Select the media type that is loaded on the printer. o Print Quality: Select Standard Options and drag the slider to Quality. o Check Show preview before printing.
• Color tab > Color Options: o Select Print in color. o Select Color Management > Application Managed Colors. NOTE Application manage colors was the recommended color management option in the step 5. Consequently, the Printer managed colors option will be grayed out, at this time. Photoshop version 9.0.1 doesn’t gray out the non selected options. Ensure the selected option is the correct one.
• Select OK twice. 7.
8. Select Print to proceed with printing or Cancel to cancel the job.
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