HP Designjet Z5200ps User Manual

●To preview a print under Mac OS, you have the following options:
◦Use your applications print preview option.
◦Click the Preview button at the bottom of the Print dialog box. This is the basic print
preview provided by Mac OS.
◦If you are using the PostScript driver, check the Show print preview option, which you can
find in the drivers Printing dialog, in the Finishing panel.
◦If you are using the PCL3 driver, click the PDF button at the bottom of the Print dialog box,
then click HP Print Preview. This...

●In the Mac OS X 10.4 Print dialog (PostScript driver): go to the Image Quality panel and
move the print-quality slider to the extreme left (Speed).
●In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 Print dialog (PostScript driver): go to the Paper/Quality panel
and move the print-quality slider to the extreme left (Speed).
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Basic settings > Print quality >
Standard options > Speed.
You can specify even faster draft-quality printing by using Economode, as follows. This is...

If you have printhead problems
If your printheads have an excessive number of clogged nozzles (which may cause banding or white
streaks on your prints), print quality can be improved by selecting the More Passes option.
●In the driver dialog (Mac OS Print dialog): select custom instead of standard print-quality
options, then check the More Passes box.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Basic settings > Print quality >
Custom. Set Quality level to Best, and More passes to Yes.
NOTE:The...

Print with no margins
Printing with no margins (to the edges of the paper) is known as borderless printing.
In order to be sure of leaving no margins, the printer prints slightly past the edges of the paper. Any
ink deposited outside the paper is absorbed by the sponge situated in the platen.
NOTE:If you wish to print with no margins, you must ensure that your image will fill the page. If your
image is smaller than the page, it will not be automatically stretched.
You can request printing with no margins...

You may wish to rotate your images by 90 degrees in order to save paper, like this:
You can do this in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Features tab, then Rotate by 90 degrees.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PCL3 driver): select the HP Print Preview and then Rotate by 90
degrees.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PostScript driver): go to the Finishing panel and select Rotate
by 90 degrees.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Advanced settings > Roll
options >...

Autorotate
With some printer drivers, you can also select the Autorotate option, which will automatically rotate
by 90 degrees any oversized portrait images in order to save paper.
Print with crop lines
Crop lines indicate where the paper should be cut to reduce it to your selected page size. You can
print crop lines automatically with individual jobs in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Features tab, then Enable crop lines.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PostScript driver): go...

◦In the Mac OS Print dialog (PostScript driver): select the Finishing panel, then Remove
Top/Bottom Blank Areas and/or Rotate by 90 degrees.
◦On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Advanced settings > Roll
options > Remove top/bottom blank areas and/or Rotate.
●If you check the print preview on your computer before printing, you can sometimes avoid
wasting paper on prints containing obvious mistakes. See 
Preview a print on page 50.
Nest jobs to save roll paper
Nesting means automatically...

●The Margins setting must be the same for all pages.
●The Mirror Image setting must be the same for all pages.
●The Rendering Intent must be the same for all pages.
●The Cutter setting must be the same for all pages.
●The color adjustment settings must be the same for all pages. See 
Color adjustment options
on page 73.
●Pages must be all color, or all grayscale: not some in color and some in grayscale.
●All pages must be in one or other of the following two groups (the two groups cannot be mixed in
the...

6 Color management
●What is color?
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The problem: color in the computer world
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The solution: color management
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Color and your printer
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A summary of the color management process
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Color calibration
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Color profiling
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Color management options
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Perform black point compensation
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Set the rendering intent
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Printer emulation
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HP Professional PANTONE Emulation
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Color adjustment options
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Color management scenarios
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Color management
 

What is color?
We see the world around us as steeped in color, where color is in the first instance simply an aspect
of how we experience our environment. Color is therefore subjective. Upon further inspection we find
that our color experiences are closely related to brain activity that is triggered by signals sent to it by
our eyes. These signals undergo a complex and highly interlinked sequence of processing stages
that make the relationship between what our eyes emit and what we experience anything...