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							The recommended approach to creating a black-and-white image is to take a color image and convert
it to grayscale in an image editing program such as Photoshop. In this scenario, however, this conversion
will take place in the printer. If you want to convert a color image to black-and-white in Photoshop CS2,
you have to go through the optional step 5.
1.Initial recommendations:
●Choose an appropriate paper type for the purpose.
●The paper type should be calibrated with the printer and the print-quality level that you intend
to use. See 
Color calibration on page 60.
●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.(Optional) Use Photoshop to convert the image to grayscale. The simple way is to go to the
Image menu and select Mode > Grayscale.
Alternatively, you can go to the Image menu and select Adjustments > Channel Mixer, to choose
the percentage contribution of each color channel to the grayscale image, as follows:
a.Check Monochrome.
b.Drag any source channels slider to the left to decrease the channels contribution to the output
channel or to the right to increase it, or enter a value between -200% and +200% in the text
box (for example: 30% Red, 59% Green, 11% Blue). Using a negative value inverts the source
channel before adding it to the output channel.
c.Drag the slider or enter a value for the Constant option. This option adds a black or white
channel of varying opacity: negative values act as a black channel, positive values act as a
white channel.
d.Click OK.
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							6.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 Printer Determine Colors.
◦Options > Rendering Intent: select Perceptual.
●Click Print.
7.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.
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							◦Quality Options: select Standard and drag the slider to Quality.
●Select the Color tab.
◦Select Print in Grayscale.
TIP:If you experience bronzing with these options, see Bronzing on page 127.
◦Under Color Management, select Printer Managed Colors, and then select Use Adobe
RGB (1998) from the source profile list.
●Click Print.
Print a digital album (Aperture, Mac OS)
This example uses Apple Aperture under Mac OS X and the color management is done by Aperture.
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 Apple Aperture.
3.If you havent already created a project for this album, go to the File menu and select New
Project, then name the project. Select the new project in the projects menu (on the left), then go
to the File menu and select Import > Folders into a Project.
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							4.Select the images you want to use, then go to the File menu and select New From Selection >
Book.
●Theme list: select a theme in the list to see a preview of its design on the right.
●Book Size popup menu: select the physical size of the book.
●Click Choose Theme, and rename the book album.
5.If you like, change the page layout and customize it. You can add photo and text boxes, modify the
box positions and the text styles.
6.You can let Aperture place your images into the book automatically (select Autoflow Unplaced
Images from the Book Actions menu 
), or you can place them manually by drag and drop.
Furthermore:
●You can scale, crop and pan the image.
●You can set an image as page background and apply wash.
7.Print your book, using the Print button in the Book Layout Editor.
●Presets Name list: select your book preset.
●Select Copies and Pages to print.
●Paper Size: select the paper size on which you want to print the job.
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							●Orientation: select the orientation of your image on the paper.
●ColorSync Profile: select the correct color profile for the printer and paper that you will use.
●Select Black Point Compensation.
●Gamma: Because computer displays are illuminated, images displayed on computers tend
to look more luminous than when printed. Increasing the Gamma from the default of 1.0 can
compensate for this. Usually, a setting 1.1 to 1.2 is adequate.
8.Click the Printer Settings button.
●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.
●Select the Color tab.
◦Select Print in Color.
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							◦Under Color Management, select Application Managed Colors.
●Click Print.
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							7 Retrieving printer usage information
●Get printer accounting information
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Check printer usage statistics
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Check ink and paper usage for a job
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Cost accounting
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Request accounting data by E-mail
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							Get printer accounting information
There are various different ways of getting accounting information from your printer.
●View printer usage statistics for the whole lifetime of the printer, see 
Check printer usage
statistics on page 79.
●View ink and paper usage for each of your recent jobs by using the HP Printer Utility or the front
panel, see 
Check ink and paper usage for a job on page 79. If the HP Printer Utility is not available,
see 
Access the HP Printer Utility on page 19.
●Use a third-party application to request printer status, printer usage or job accounting data from
the printer through the Internet. The printer provides data in XML to the application whenever
requested. HP provides a Software Development Kit to facilitate the development of such
applications.
Check printer usage statistics
There are two ways to check your printers usage statistics.
NOTE:The accuracy of the usage statistics is not guaranteed.
Printer statistics with the HP Printer Utility
1.Start the HP Printer Utility, see Access the HP Printer Utility on page 19.
2.Go to the Usage window to view the total printer usage.
●Under Windows, go to the Overview tab and click Printer usage.
●Under Mac OS, select Information > Printer Usage and click the Start button.
Printer statistics with the Embedded Web Server
1.Access the Embedded Web Server, see Access the Embedded Web Server on page 19.
2.Go to the Main tab and select Usage
Check ink and paper usage for a job
There are two ways to check ink and paper usage for a job.
NOTE:The accuracy of the usage statistics is not guaranteed.
Ink and paper statistics with the HP Printer Utility
1.Start the HP Printer Utility, see Access the HP Printer Utility on page 19.
2.Go to the Accounting window to view information regarding the most recent jobs.
●Under Windows, go to the Job Accounting tab.
●Under Mac OS, select Information > Job Accounting and click the Look Up button.
Printer statistics with the Embedded Web Server
1.Access the Embedded Web Server, see Access the Embedded Web Server on page 19.
2.Go to the Main tab and select Accounting.
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							Cost accounting
The usage statistics tell you the quantities of supplies that have been used. If you would like to assign
a cost per unit to each item, your statistical report can include costs as well as quantities.
1.Access the Embedded Web Server, see 
Access the Embedded Web Server on page 19.
2.Go to the Main tab.
3.Select Accounting > Cost assignments.
Request accounting data by E-mail
1.In the Embedded Web Servers Setup tab, select E-mail server. Enter the address of the SMTP
server that will be used to send e-mail messages, and e-mail address of the printer. The latter is a
fake address that is required only so that the receiver of the messages can recognize where they
are coming from.
2.Also in the Setup tab, select Printer settings and open the Accounting section. You must enter
an E-mail address to which accounting files will be sent, and the frequency with which they will be
sent (specified as a number of days or as a number of prints).
3.When you have completed the above steps, the printer will send accounting data by E-mail with
the frequency that you specified. The data are provided in XML and can easily be interpreted by a
third-party program. The data provided on each job include the job name, the account ID if any,
the user name, when the job was submitted, when the job was printed, the printing time, the type
of image, the number of pages, the number of copies, the paper type and size, the amount of each
color of ink used, and various other attributes of the job.
You can download an Excel template from HP Designjet Online (
http://www.hp.com/go/graphic-arts/)
that will enable you to display the XML data more readably in the form of a spreadsheet.
Analysis of the accounting data will enable you to bill customers precisely and flexibly for the use of your
printer. You can, for instance:
●Bill each customer for the total amount of ink and paper used by that customer over a particular
period.
●Bill each customer separately per job.
●Bill each customer separately for each project, broken down by job.
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