HP Designjet Z3200ps 44 in User Manual

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.
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....

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 (PCL3 driver): go to the Paper Type/Quality panel and select
Color.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PostScript driver): select the Color Options panel.
●In some applications: you can make this choice in the application.
Color management example with Photoshop
In this example, you have an Adobe RGB image that you want to print from Photoshop. There are...

Black point compensation can be specified in the following ways:
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Color > Black point
compensation.
●
Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon 
, then Printing preferences > Color >
Black point compensation.
Set the rendering intent
NOTE:This option is available only when printing a PostScript, PDF, TIFF or JPEG job.
Rendering intent is one of the settings used when doing a color transformation. As you probably know,
some of the colors you want...

the most common standards for the different devices. Apart from selecting the appropriate ICC profile,
you should select the appropriate rendering intent depending on the type of print: business presentation,
photography or proof. See 
Set the rendering intent on page 75.
The options are as follows.
CMYK color emulation
A traditional workflow defines color in the CMYK space. For best results, the colors must be adjusted
to the printer, because different printers will produce different colors from the...

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
These options apply to PDF, PostScript, TIFF and JPEG files.
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...

then press the Next button. Check the strips that you have selected; select gloss enhancer if you want
to use it. Then press the Print button to print the swatch book.
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...

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 (PostScript driver): select the Color Options panel, then Lightness
and Hue.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PCL3 driver): select the Paper Type/Quality panel, then Lightness
and Hue.
Under either operating system, you will then...

●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...