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							The calibration process is fully automatic and can be performed unattended after you have loaded paper
of the type you wish to calibrate—which should be A4, Letter or any larger size.
The process takes about 8–10 minutes and consists of the following steps.
1.A calibration test chart is printed, which contains patches of each ink used in your printer.
2.The chart is allowed to dry for a period of time that depends on the paper type, so that the colors
have time to stabilize.
3.The chart is scanned and measured using the HP Embedded Spectrophotometer.
4.From the measurements made by the spectrophotometer, the printer calculates the necessary
correction factors to apply for consistent color printing on that paper type. It also calculates the
maximum amount of each ink that can be applied to the paper.
TIP:If color calibration fails, check whether a color is missing from the chart. A missing color may be
caused by a printhead problem: see 
Troubleshooting ink cartridge and printhead issues on page 137.
NOTE:Matte black is not used on glossy or satin papers, so that column of the chart is not printed
when calibrating those paper types.
Calibration from Photoshop
When you use Adobe Photoshop CS3 (or later version) for Windows, the Print window can warn you if
the paper needs color calibration, and can provide an icon 
 to launch the HP Printer Utility to perform
the calibration.
To enable this capability under Windows XP, you must download and install the following free software
packages from Microsofts Web site:
●Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
●Microsoft XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack 1.0
Color profiling
Color calibration provides consistent colors, but consistent colors are not necessarily accurate. For
instance, if your printer prints all colors as black, its colors may be consistent but they are not accurate.
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							In order to print accurate colors, it is necessary to convert the color values in your files to the color values
that will produce the correct colors from your printer, your inks and your paper. An ICC color profile is
a description of a printer, ink and paper combination that contains all the information needed for these
color conversions.
When you have defined and calibrated a new paper type, the printer is ready to create a ICC profile for
use with your paper, which will allow you to print on it with the best possible color accuracy. Alternatively,
if your paper type is already known to the printer, you already have an appropriate ICC profile for use
with it.
Create your own profile
You can create a color profile easily by using the HP Color Center: select Paper Preset
Management > Profile Paper. The printer helps you by prompting for information about the paper, then
creates and installs the new profile automatically.
The process takes about 15–20 minutes and consists of the following steps.
1.A profiling chart is printed, which contains patches of each ink used in your printer. Unlike a
calibration chart, most of the patches contain combinations of more than one ink.
The printer chooses automatically between two profile charts:
●An A3 or B format for cut sheets
●A roll-paper format that minimizes paper use by printing across the full width of the roll
2.The chart is allowed to dry for a period of time that depends on the paper type, so that the colors
have time to stabilize.
NOTE:If you would like to use a longer drying time, you can ask the HP Color Center to create
the chart without going on to create a profile (Windows: Print target only; Mac OS: Print ICC
profiling chart). Then, later, when the chart is completely dry, you can restart the HP Color Center
and ask it to create a profile using the chart you have already created (Windows: Create ICC profile
from a target that has already been printed; Mac OS: Scan ICC profiling chart and create ICC
profile). In this case the spectrophotometer takes a while to warm up before it is ready to scan.
3.The chart is scanned and measured using the HP Embedded Spectrophotometer.
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							NOTE:Chart measurement may not be successful if you load the chart as a single sheet without
skew check.
4.From the measurements made by the spectrophotometer, the printer calculates the ICC profile for
your printer, inks and paper type.
5.The new ICC profile is stored in the correct system folder on your computer, where your application
programs can find it.
The profile is also stored in the printer, so that other computers connected to the same printer can
copy it. The HP Printer Utility will notify you if your printer has profiles that are not yet stored on
your computer.
NOTE:Some applications may need to be closed and restarted in order to use a profile that has just
been created.
You can profile a photo paper with the gloss enhancer on or off. The two profiles will be different, so you
are recommended to save them under different names.
Color measurement
You can also create a color profile by using a third-party profiling program and the Color Measurement
facility. To begin Color Measurement:
●Using the HP Printer Utility for Windows, select Color Center > Paper Preset Management >
Color Measurement.
●Using the HP Printer Utility for Mac OS, select HP Color Center > Paper Preset Management.
Select the paper type, then press the 
 button and select Color Measurement from the popup
menu.
Continue with the following steps.
1.Choose the workflow that you want to use from the following options:
●Print and measure a color chart performs printing and measurement in a single process.
You can choose whether to use gloss enhancer and how much drying time to allow.
●Print a color chart for later measurement assumes that you will measure the printed chart
at some later time to complete the process. You can choose whether to use gloss enhancer.
●Measure a previously printed color chart completes the process if you have a color chart
ready for measurement. Load the chart in the correct direction as indicated by the arrows,
loading multiple pages in the correct order, and do not cut the paper.
●Export a color chart as a TIFF for printing externally allows you to use a different program
(a RIP, for example) to print the color chart. Do not modify the TIFF file in any way before
printing it. The printed chart should be exactly the correct size; the simplest way to achieve
this is to print it on a paper size larger than the chart and then cut the paper after printing as
indicated by the crop marks.
2.If printing a chart, select one of the available charts.
3.If measuring a chart, select the characteristics of the measurements file: what sort of information
it should contain (CGATS and MonacoPROFILER formats are supported), and where the file
should be saved.
NOTE:Chart measurement may not be successful if you load the chart as a single sheet without
skew check.
4.Open the measurements file with your profiling program.
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							NOTE:The printers spectrophotometer measures from 400 to 700 nm in steps of 20 nm. All other
measurement types are interpolated.
Install a profile
If you have obtained an ICC profile through other means than using the printers built-in profiling
software, for instance from the Internet or from a third-party profiling software package, you can still
install it for use with your printer and paper.
1.Go to the HP Color Center in the HP Printer Utility. Select Paper Preset Management > Install
Profile.
2.Select the paper type that you will use with the ICC profile, and select the file containing the ICC
profile.
NOTE:ICC profile file names have the extensions .icc (for International Color Consortium) or
.icm (for Image Color Matching).
3.Check the ICC profile name and settings that will be installed. Click Next.
4.The ICC profile is installed in your computer and will be available to use in your applications.
Export a profile
An ICC profile associated with a paper type can be exported, enabling it to be used on a different printer
or with a different paper preset..
1.Go to the HP Color Center in the HP Printer Utility. Select Paper Preset Management > Export
ICC Profile.
2.Select the paper type and the ICC profile to be exported.
3.Choose the pathname of the folder where the ICC profile will be saved in your computer.
4.The ICC profile file is saved in the specified folder.
Restore an original profile
The ICC profile settings in a paper preset can be restored to their original values. This will remove any
ICC profile that you have associated with the selected paper and restore the default ICC profile provided
by HP.
1.Go to the HP Color Center in the HP Printer Utility. Select Paper Preset Management > Restore
Factory ICC Profile.
2.Select the paper type whose ICC profile you want to restore. Click Restore.
Profile your monitor
You are also recommended to calibrate and profile your monitor (display device), so that the colors you
see on the screen are more closely related to those you see on your prints. There are two ways to do
this:
●Use the facilities provided with your operating system. From the HP Color Center, select How To
Calibrate Your Display for further information.
●Use the HP Advanced Profiling Solution, which will give more accurate results. See 
HP Advanced
Profiling Solution on page 109.
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							Advanced profiling
To meet advanced color profiling needs, HP offers an optional Advanced Profiling Solution with software
and monitor-calibration hardware at much lower cost than competing solutions. See 
HP Advanced
Profiling Solution on page 109.
Color management options
The aim of color management is to reproduce colors as accurately as possible on all devices: so that,
when you print an image, you see very similar colors as when you view the same image on your monitor.
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 using a set
of stored ICC profiles. This method is somewhat less versatile and adaptable than Application-
Managed Colors, but it is a little simpler and faster, and can produce good results with standard
HP paper types.
There are only two color spaces that the printer can convert to its own color space using the stored
profiles: Adobe RGB and sRGB if you are using Windows, Adobe RGB if you are using Mac OS.
In addition, you can use ColorSync.
ColorSync is the Mac OS built-in Color Management System; so, when you select ColorSync, color
management is performed by Mac OS, and it is done based on the ICC profiles of the specified
paper type. ColorSync is available with the PCL3 driver only.
ColorSync can be selected under Mac OS X 10.4 from the Paper Type/Quality panel: select
the Color tab, then select Use Embedded (ICC/ColorSync) from the Source Profile drop-down
list. Under Mac OS X 10.5, ColorSync can be selected from the Color Matching panel.
You are recommended to consult the Knowledge Center at 
http://www.hp.com/go/z3200/
knowledgecenter/ to see how to use the color management options of your particular application.
To choose between Application-Managed Colors and Printer-Managed Colors:
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Color tab.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog: select the Paper Type/Quality panel, then Color.
●In some applications: you can make this choice in the application.
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							Color management example with Photoshop
In this example, you have an Adobe RGB image that you want to print from Photoshop. There are three
ways of doing it.
●Select Let Photoshop determine colors in Photoshop. Select Application-Managed Colors in
the printer driver. Color management is done in Photoshop. This is the recommended way.
●Select Let printer determine colors in Photoshop. Select Printer-Managed Colors and the sRGB
profile in the printer driver. Photoshop converts the image from Adobe RGB to sRGB and sends it
to the printer. Color management is done in the printer. Unfortunately, conversion to sRGB results
in a loss of gamut, but Photoshop cannot be prevented from converting to sRGB when Let printer
determine colors is selected.
●Select No color management in Photoshop. Select Printer-Managed Colors and the AdobeRGB
profile in the printer driver. Photoshop does not perform any conversion, there is no loss of gamut,
and color management is done in the printer. However, this method will not work if you are using
synchronized color management in Photoshop (see below).
Synchronized color management with Photoshop
If you are using Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Mac OS, or Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Windows, or later
versions, the color management options can be automatically synchronized between Photoshop and
the driver.
●If you select Let Photoshop determine colors or No color management in Photoshop,
Application-Managed Colors is automatically selected in the driver.
●If you select Let printer determine colors in Photoshop, Printer-Managed Colors is
automatically selected in the driver.
To enable this Photoshop synchronization under Windows XP, you must download and install the
following free software packages from Microsofts Web site:
●Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
●Microsoft XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack 1.0
Color adjustment options
The aim of color management is to print accurate colors. If you perform color management correctly,
then you should be able to print accurate colors with no need of any manual color adjustments.
However, manual adjustments may be useful in the following situations:
●If your color management is not working correctly for some reason
●If you want colors that are subjectively pleasing rather than accurate
The printer driver provides different adjustment facilities depending on whether you are printing in color
or in grayscale.
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.
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							Under either operating system, you will then be able to make adjustments using a lightness slider and
three color sliders.
●The lightness slider simply makes the whole print lighter or darker.
●The color sliders can be used to fade or emphasize each of the primary colors in the print. The
primary colors may be red, green and blue; or cyan, magenta and yellow; depending on the color
model used in the image.
The Reset button restores each slider to its default central position.
Printing in grayscale
You can adjust the gray balance 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 Gray balance.
Under either operating system, you will then be able to make adjustments using separate controls for
highlights, midtones and shadows.
●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 to its default setting.
Color management scenarios
The following step-by-step instructions for specific printing jobs using specific software are similar to
those you can find in HPs Knowledge Center on the Web. You are recommended to consult the
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							Knowledge Center at http://www.hp.com/go/z3200/knowledgecenter/ for further examples and for the
most up-to-date information.
Print a color photo for an exhibition (Photoshop, Mac OS)
This example uses Adobe Photoshop CS2 under Mac OS X and the color management is done by
Photoshop.
1.Initial recommendations:
●Choose an appropriate paper type for the purpose.
●The paper type should be calibrated and profiled with the printer and the print-quality level
that you intend to use. See 
Color calibration on page 60 and Color profiling on page 61.
●For a correct preview of the printed image, the monitor should also be profiled.
2.Open Adobe Photoshop CS2.
3.From the Edit menu, select Color Settings.
●Make sure that More Options are displayed.
●Color Management Policies: select Preserve Embedded Profiles.
●Profile Mismatches: check Ask When Opening and Ask When Pasting.
●Missing Profiles: check Ask When Opening.
●Conversion Options > Intent: select Perceptual.
●Click OK.
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							4.From the File menu, select Open to open the image.
●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; in this case, 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.
●Click OK.
5.From the File menu, select Print with Preview.
●Select Page Setup.
◦Format for: select the printer (for example, HP Designjet Z3200 Photo 24in).
◦Paper Size: select the size of the paper that is currently loaded into the printer.
◦Orientation: select the orientation of your image on the paper.
◦Click OK.
●Set the Position and the Scaled Print Size you need.
●Make sure that More Options are displayed.
●Select the Color Management tab.
◦Print: select Document.
◦Options > Color Handling: select Let Photoshop Determine Colors.
◦Options > Printer Profile: select the right profile for your printer and paper type.
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							◦Options > Rendering Intent: select Perceptual.
●Click Print.
6.Choose driver settings.
●Printer: select the printer (for example, HP Designjet Z3200 Photo 24in).
●Select Paper Type/Quality from the drop-down menu, then select the Paper tab.
◦Paper Type: select the paper type that is currently loaded into the printer.
◦Quality Options: select Standard and drag the slider to Quality.
●Click Print.
Print a black-and-white photo for an exhibition (Photoshop, Mac OS)
This example uses Adobe Photoshop CS2 under Mac OS X and the color management is done by the
printer.
NOTE:Application-managed colors could be used in this example, exactly as in the previous example.
However, printer-managed colors will be used this time, in order to illustrate both methods of color
management.
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