HP Designjet T620 610 mm User Manual

You can check the color calibration status of the currently loaded paper at any time by pressing the
View loaded paper key on the front panel. The status may be one of the following:
● PENDING: the paper has not been calibrated.
NOTE:
Whenever you update the printers firmware, the color calibration status of all papers is
reset to PENDING.
● OBSOLETE: the paper has been calibrated, but the calibration is now out of date because a
printhead has been replaced, and should be repeated.
● DONE: the paper has...

There are two basic approaches to color management for your printer:
●Application-Managed Colors
: in this case your application program must convert the colors of
your image to the color space of your printer and paper type, using the ICC profile embedded in
the image and the ICC profile of your printer and paper type.
● Printer-Managed Colors
: in this case your application program sends your image to the printer
without any color conversion, and the printer converts the colors to its own color space....

Printing in color
You can adjust the colors of your print in similar ways under Windows and Mac OS:
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the 
Color tab, ensure that the  Advanced color
adjustments  box is checked, then press the  Settings button beside it.
● In the Mac OS Print dialog:
 select the Paper Type/Quality  panel, then Lightness and Hue .
Under either operating system, you will then be able to make adjustments using a lightness slider and
three color sliders.
● The lightness slider simply...

●The lightness slider simply makes the whole print lighter or darker. This slider is available under
Windows in the same window as the other grayscale controls; it is available under Mac OS by
selecting 
Lightness and Hue .
● The zone definition sliders can be used to define what you mean by highlight, midtone and shadow.
● The other controls for highlight, midtone and shadow can be used to adjust the gray balance of
highlights, midtones and shadows respectively.
The  Reset  button restores each control...

8 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 .
NOTE: The page size will  not be automatically selected according to the drawing size.
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3.In order to keep the scale, set  Page Scaling to None (which is not the default setting).
4. Press the  Prop
 erties button and then select the  Paper/Quality tab.
5. Choo se whatever  Document
  Size and Print Quality  you want to use. If you want to define a new
custom paper size, press the  Custom button.
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6.Select the Features  tab, and then Autorotate.
7. Click  OK, and ch ec
 k that the print preview in the Print dialog box seems correct.
Print a project
This section demonstrates how to print a project from AutoCAD.
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.
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Using HP Instant Printing
●Make sure Use HP Instant Printing
 has been selected. To print, click the Print icon in the toolbar
or select  File > Print . Choose your preferred printing settings and click  OK.
● Alternatively, Use HP Instant Printing can be launched directly from its own toolbar icon. In this
case, it starts immediately, using the settings you defined previously.
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Using AutoCAD
1.The AutoCAD window shows the Model  tab followed by a tab for each layout. Normally one of the
layouts is printed rather than the model.
2. Select  File > Plot .
3. You can see further options by pressing the circular button in the lower right corner of the window.
NOTE: The Quality option here does not refer to the final print quality but to the quality of AutoCAD
viewport objects that are sent for printing.
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