HP Designjet Z3200 44 in User Manual

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

◦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...