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							●Japan Color 2001 Uncoated uses the Japan Color 2001 specification for type 4 (uncoated)
paper. It is designed to produce quality separations using 310% total ink coverage, positive film
and uncoated paper.
●Japan Color 2002 Newspaper uses the Japan Color 2002 for Newspapers specification. It is
designed to produce quality separations using 240% total ink coverage, positive film and
standard newsprint paper.
●JMPA: Japanese standard for offset press.
●Toyo is designed to produce quality separations for Toyo printing presses.
●DIC is designed to produce quality separations for Dainippon Ink Company printing presses.
NOTE:These options have no effect if the application is defining its own CMYK space, known as
calibrated CMYK or CIEBasedDEFG in PostScript terminology.
RGB color emulation
Your printer is provided with the following color profiles:
●None (Native): no emulation, for use when the color conversion is done by the application or
operating system, and therefore the data arrive at the printer already color-managed.
●sRGB IEC61966-2.1 emulates the characteristics of the average PC monitor. This standard
space is endorsed by many hardware and software manufacturers, and is becoming the default
color space for many scanners, printers and software applications.
●ColorMatch RGB emulates the native color space of Radius Pressview monitors. This space
provides a smaller gamut alternative to Adobe RGB (1998) for print production work.
●Apple RGB emulates the characteristics of the average Apple monitor, and is used by a variety
of desktop publishing applications. Use this space for files that you plan to display on Apple
monitors, or for working with old desktop publishing files.
●Adobe RGB (1998) provides a fairly large gamut of RGB colors. Use this space if you need to
do print production work with a broad range of colors.
Color management from the Embedded Web Server
(T1200 series only)
Submit Job options
When you send jobs to the printer using the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page, you have
the following color management options.
If you leave an option set to Default, the setting saved in the job will be used. If the job contains no
setting, the front-panel setting in the printer will be used.
T1200 and T1200 PS options
●Color/Grayscale: you can choose to print in color, in shades of gray or in pure black and white.
●Default RGB source profile: you can choose from a selection of RGB source profiles
recognized by the printer.
●Printer emulation: you can choose to emulate a different HP Designjet printer. Default: Off (no
printer emulation).
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							T1200 PS options (with PostScript or PDF jobs)
●Default CMYK source profile: you can choose from a selection of CMYK source profiles
recognized by the printer. Default: Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27.
●Rendering intent: you can select the rendering intent.
●Black point compensation: you can turn black point compensation on or off.
●HP Professional PANTONE Emulation: you can turn HP Professional PANTONE Emulation on
or off.
Rendering intent
Rendering intent is one of the settings used when doing a color transformation. As you probably
know, some of the colors you want to print may not be reproducible by the printer. The rendering
intent allows you to select one of four different ways of handling these so-called out-of-gamut colors.
●Saturation (graphics): best used for presentation graphics, charts or images made up of bright,
saturated colors.
●Perceptual (images): best used for photographs or images in which colors blend together. It
tries to preserve the overall color appearance.
●Relative colorimetric (proofing): best used when you want to match a particular color. This
method is mainly used for proofing. It guarantees that, if a color can be printed accurately, it will
be printed accurately. The other methods will probably provide a more pleasing range of colors
but do not guarantee that any particular color will be printed accurately. It maps the white of the
input space to the white of the paper on which you are printing.
●Absolute colorimetric (proofing): the same as relative colorimetric, but without mapping the
white. This rendering is also used mainly for proofing, where the goal is to simulate the output of
one printer (including its white point).
Perform black point compensation
The black point compensation option controls whether to adjust for differences in black points when
converting colors between color spaces. When this option is selected, the full dynamic range of the
source space is mapped into the full dynamic range of the destination space. It can be very useful in
preserving shadows when the black point of the source space is darker than that of the destination
space. This option is allowed only when the Relative colorimetric rendering intent is selected (see
Rendering intent on page 74).
Printing PANTONE swatch books
You can use the Embedded Web Server to print a swatch book showing emulations of PANTONE
colors as made by your printer, together with a measure of the color difference (∆E) between each
emulation and the original PANTONE spot color.
To print a swatch book, select the Embedded Web Servers Main tab, then HP Professional
PANTONE Emulation. Select the PANTONE stock to emulate, and one or more strips of PANTONE
colors that you want to print. You can select color strips from more than one PANTONE stock. When
you have selected all the colors you want, press the Next button. The next window displays your
selection; you can press Print to print that selection, or Back to change the selection.
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							Color management from the front panel
You can color-calibrate the loaded paper type from the front panel by selecting the Image Quality
Maintenance menu icon 
, then Calibrate color. See Color calibration on page 66.
The other color options in the front panel can all be found by selecting the Setup menu icon 
,
then Printing preferences > Color options.
NOTE:These front panel settings can all be overridden by the printer driver or (with the T1200
series) Embedded Web Server job submission settings.
T770 series and T1200 series options
●Color/Grayscale: you can choose to print in color or in shades of gray. Default: Print in color. 
●Select RGB source profile: you can choose from a selection of RGB source profiles recognized
by the printer. Default: sRGB (HP). 
●Emulate printer: you can choose to emulate a different HP Designjet printer. Default: Off (no
printer emulation). 
TIP:If you have old HP-GL/2 or PostScript files made for a different HP Designjet printer, you
can send them to the printer and use the front panel to turn on the appropriate emulation mode.
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							T1200 PS options (with PostScript or PDF jobs)
●Select CMYK source profile: you can choose from a selection of CMYK source profiles
recognized by the printer. Default: Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27. 
●Select rendering intent: you can select the rendering intent. Default: Perceptual. 
●Black point compensation: you can turn black point compensation on or off. Default: On. 
●HP Professional PANTONE Emulation: you can turn HP Professional PANTONE Emulation on
or off. Default: On. 
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							9 Practical printing examples
●Print a draft for revision with the correct scale
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Print a project
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Print a presentation
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Print and scale from Microsoft Office
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							Print a draft for revision with the correct scale
This section demonstrates how to print a draft for revision with the correct scale from Adobe Acrobat.
Using Adobe Acrobat
1.In the Acrobat window, bring the mouse cursor to the bottom left corner of the document pane to
check the plot size.
2.Select File > Print and ensure that Page Scaling is set to None.
NOTE:The page size will not be automatically selected according to the drawing size.
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							3.Press the Properties button and then select the Paper/Quality tab.
4.Choose whatever Document Size and Print Quality you want to use. If you want to define a
new custom paper size, press the Custom button.
5.Select the Features tab, and then Autorotate.
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							6.Click OK, and check that the print preview in the Print dialog box seems correct.
Print a project
This section demonstrates how to print a project from Autodesk Design Review, AutoCAD and the
printers Embedded Web Server.
Using Autodesk Design Review
Autodesk Design Review offers the Use HP Instant Printing option. This needs to be enabled once,
after which it is taken as the default printing option until it is disabled.
Enabling HP Instant Printing from Autodesk Design Review
1.Start Autodesk Design Review and select File > Print.
Alternatively, click the Print icon on the toolbar.
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							2.In the Print dialog box, check the Use HP Instant Printing box. You can select your printer and
paper size here, or in the next window.
3.Ensure that the printer and paper size are correct, then click OK to start printing.
Enabling HP Instant Printing from the Batch Print Wizard
1.Make sure you have installed the Batch Print Wizard. Start Autodesk Design Review and select
File > Batch Print Wizard.
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							2.In the Welcome box, click Next.
3.Select the DWF files to print, then click Next.
4.Use the Shift key if you want to select multiple files to configure. Then click Print Setup, and the
printing configuration will be applied to all the files you have selected..
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