HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Proof a press Application: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z2100 series Software: HP raster driver Operating System: Windows
The goal of a press proof is to accurately reproduce the output that would normally be printed from a press. Presses usually use Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black inks to create their artwork. In order to accurately reproduce a job from the press, we should also work with CMYK jobs rather than RGB (which is the color mode used by monitors, scanners and digital cameras). As today’s operating systems do not handle CMYK data (internally they work in RGB mode), we need to bypass it in order to work in CMYK.
• Click OK. 4. 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. Select your printer profile in the Proof Setup dialog box, View Menu > Proof Setup > Custom…: • Device to Simulate: Select the press profile of the output device you want to proof.
• Select OK. 6. Adobe Photoshop Print with Preview… settings, File menu > Print with Preview…: • Page Setup…: o Printer...: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z2100 24in Photo) and click OK. o Paper Size: Select the paper size of the media loaded on the printer. o Orientation: Select the orientation of your image on the paper. o Select OK. • Set the Position and the Scaled Print Size you need. • Select the Color Management tab: o Print: Check Proof.
• Select Print. 7. Driver Settings; Properties button: • Paper/Quality tab: o Paper Type: Select the media type that is loaded on the printer. o Print Quality: Select Standard Options and drag the slider to Quality.
• Color tab: o Select Color Options > 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. Photoshop version 9.0.1 doesn’t gray out the non selected options. Ensure the selected option is the correct one.
• Click OK twice. You should consider that each person has their own perception and their own subjective opinion about the result; this is because there are various factors that can influence our opinions, such as the type of photo (portrait, landscape…), the source color space, the media used, the environmental conditions, the subjective perception about your own photo, etc.... This means the printing suggestion may not completely match with your own personal opinion.
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