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 provides a preview with more features, such as the ability
to change paper size, paper type and print quality, and to rotate the image. See below:
NOTE:HP Print Preview may not be available if you are using Adobe InDesign, Adobe
Illustrator, Adobe Reader or Apple Aperture. It is possible with Adobe Indesign CS4 and
Adobe Illustrator CS4.
●To preview a print using the Embedded Web Server, select Basic settings > Hold for preview.
Print a draft
You can specify fast draft-quality printing in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality
section. Move the print-quality slider to the extreme left (Speed).
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PCL3 driver): go to the Paper/Quality panel, then move the print-
quality slider to the extreme left (Speed).
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							●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 intended
mainly for documents containing only text and line drawings.
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality
section. Select Custom Options, then set the quality level to Fast and check the Economode
box.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PCL3 driver): go to the Paper/Quality panel and set the quality
options to Custom, then set quality to Fast and check the Economode box.
●In the Mac OS X 10.4 Print dialog (PostScript driver): go to the Image Quality panel and set
the quality options to Custom, then set quality to Fast and check the Economode box.
●In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 Print dialog (PostScript driver): go to the Paper/Quality panel
and set the quality options to Custom, then set quality to Fast and check the Economode box.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Basic settings > Print quality >
Custom. Set Quality level to Fast, and Economode to On.
High-quality printing
You can specify high-quality printing in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality
section. Move the print-quality slider to the extreme right (Quality).
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PCL3 driver): go to the Paper/Quality panel, then move the print-
quality slider to the extreme right (Quality).
●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 right (Quality).
●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 right (Quality).
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Basic settings > Print quality >
Standard options > Quality.
If you have a high-resolution image
If your image has a resolution greater than the rendering resolution (which you can see in the drivers
Paper/Quality tab under Windows), print sharpness may be improved by selecting the Maximum
Detail option. This option is available only if you are printing on glossy paper and you have selected
Best print quality.
●In the driver dialog (Mac OS Print dialog): select custom instead of standard print-quality
options, then check the Maximum Detail box.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Basic settings > Print quality >
Custom. Set Quality level to Best, and Maximum detail to Yes.
NOTE:The Maximum Detail option results in slower printing with photo papers, but it does not
increase the amount of ink used.
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							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 More Passes option results in slower printing, but it does not increase the amount of
ink used.
TIP:Instead of using this option, consider using the Image Diagnostics Print to identify the printhead
or printheads that are causing the problem, and then clean or replace them. See 
The Image
Diagnostics Print on page 155.
Print 16-bit color images
In a 16-bit RGB image, each of the three primary colors is encoded by a 16-bit value, so that each
pixel takes up 48 bits.
If you print your 16-bit color images through a printer driver, they will be reduced to 8-bit colors before
they reach the printer.
In order to send a 16-bit color image to the printer, you must save it as a 16-bit color TIFF or JPEG
file, then send the file directly to the printer without using a printer driver (see 
Using the Embedded
Web Server to print files on page 44). In this case, color management is done on the 16-bit color
image, and is therefore done more accurately. The image is still reduced to 8-bit colors for final
printing.
TIP:Some applications refuse to save a 16-bit color image in JPEG format; others automatically
reduce it to 8-bit colors. A TIFF file generally gives a higher-quality result, and is recommended.
Print in gray shades
You can convert all colors in your image to shades of gray in the following ways:
●In your application program: many programs provide this option.
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Color tab and look at the Color Options section. Select
Print in Grayscale.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PCL3 driver): go to the Paper/Quality panel and select Print In
Grayscale.
●In the Mac OS X 10.4 Print dialog (PostScript driver): go to the Color Options panel and
select Print In Grayscale.
●In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 Print dialog (PostScript driver): go to the Color Options panel
and select Grayscale from the Mode drop-down list.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Color > Color/Grayscale > Print
in grayscale.
See also 
Print a black-and-white photo for an exhibition (Photoshop, PS driver) on page 80.
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							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 in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Paper/Quality tab and press the Margins/Layout
button. Then select Borderless.
TIP:In the Windows PostScript driver, make sure you have made the right choice from the
Document size list. You should select a no margins document size when using the Borderless
option.
●In the Mac OS Page Setup dialog (PCL3 driver): select a paper size name that includes the
words “no margins”. Then, in the Print dialog, select Paper/Quality > Layout > Borderless.
●In the Mac OS X 10.4 Page Setup dialog (PostScript driver): select a paper size name that
includes the words “no margins”. Then, in the Print dialog, select Finishing > Layout >
Borderless.
NOTE:If your application offers no Page Setup dialog, please use the Print dialog.
●In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 Page Setup dialog (PostScript driver): select a paper size
name that includes the words “no margins”. Then, in the Print dialog, select Margins/Layout >
Borderless.
NOTE:If your application offers no Page Setup dialog, please use the Print dialog.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Advanced settings > Paper >
Layout/Margins > Borderless.
When you select Borderless, you must also select one of the following Image Enlargement options:
●Automatically by Printer means that the printer automatically enlarges your image slightly
(normally by a few millimeters in each direction) in order to print over the edges of the paper.
●Manually in Application means that you must enlarge the image yourself in your application to
a size slightly larger than the actual paper size.
NOTE:If the first print job after loading paper is a borderless job, the printer may trim the leading
edge of the paper before printing.
At the end of a borderless print, the printer normally cuts the print slightly inside the image area to
ensure that the print is borderless. It then cuts the paper again so that no residual part of the image is
included in the next print. However, if the job is cancelled, or if there is white space at the bottom of
the image, only a single cut is made.
Rotate an image
By default, images are printed with their shorter sides parallel to the leading edge of the paper, like
this:
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							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 > Rotate.
●
In the front panel: select the Setup menu icon 
, then Printing preferences > Paper >
Rotate.
NOTE:If rotation is set from your computer, it overrides the setting in the front panel.
NOTE:When you rotate a job, the page length may be increased to avoid clipping, because the top
and bottom margins are usually larger than the side margins.
NOTE:With either rolls or sheets, if you rotate an image to landscape whose original orientation
was portrait, the paper may not be wide enough for the image. For example, rotating a portrait D/A1-
size image on D/A1-size paper by 90 degrees will probably exceed the width of the paper. If you are
using the Embedded Web Server, the preview screen will confirm this with a warning triangle.
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							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 to the Finishing panel and select Enable
crop lines.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Advanced settings > Roll
options > Enable crop lines.
●
Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon 
, then Printing preferences > Paper >
Enable crop lines > On.
To print crop lines with nested jobs (see 
Nest jobs to save roll paper on page 57), you must select a
different option:
●In the Embedded Web Server: select Job management > Use crop lines when nest is
enabled > On.
●
Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon 
, then Job management > Nest
options > Enable crop lines > On.
Print on sheet paper
To print on cut-sheet paper, first load the sheet of paper (see Load a single sheet on page 32). Then:
●With a Mac OS printer driver or with the PostScript driver for Windows: select a paper size
described as “for sheet paper”, then select Manual Feed as the Paper Source.
●With the PCL3 driver for Windows: select Manual Feed as the Paper Source.
Use paper economically
Here are some recommendations for making economical use of paper:
●If you are printing relatively small images or document pages, you can use nesting to print them
side by side instead of one after another. See 
Nest jobs to save roll paper on page 57.
●If you are printing multipage documents with relatively small pages, you can print up to 16 of
them on one sheet of paper. Use the Pages per sheet option in the Features tab (Windows
driver) or the Layout panel (Mac OS driver).
●You may be able to save some roll paper by using the following options:
◦In the Windows driver dialog: select the Features tab and then Remove Top/Bottom
Blank Areas and/or Rotate by 90 degrees or Autorotate.
◦In the Mac OS Print dialog (PCL3 driver): select the Paper/Quality panel, then Remove
Top/Bottom Blank Areas; and/or select HP Print Preview, then Rotate by 90 degrees.
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							◦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 printing images or document pages side by side on the paper, rather
than one after the other. This is done to avoid wasting paper.
1.Direction of paper flow
2.Nesting off
3.Nesting on
4.Paper saved by nesting
When does the printer try to nest pages?
When both of the following are true:
●The printer is loaded with roll paper, not sheet paper.
●In the front panels Job Management menu or the Embedded Web Servers Job Management
page, Nest is On.
What pages can be nested?
All pages can be nested, unless they are so large that two of them cannot fit side by side on the roll,
or unless there are too many of them to fit into the remaining length of the roll. A single group of
nested pages cannot be split between two rolls.
Which pages qualify for nesting?
In order to be in the same nest, the individual pages must be compatible in all of the following ways:
●All pages must have the same print quality setting (Economode, Fast, Normal or Best).
●The Maximum Detail and More Passes settings must be the same on all pages.
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							●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 same nest):
◦CALS/G4
◦PostScript, PDF, TIFF, JPEG
●JPEG, TIFF and CALS/G4 pages with resolutions greater than 300 dpi may not nest with other
pages in some cases.
How long does the printer wait for another file?
So that the printer can make the best nest possible, it waits after a file has been received to check
whether a subsequent page will nest with it or with pages already in the queue. This waiting period is
the nest wait time; the factory default nest wait time is two minutes. This means that the printer waits
for up to two minutes after the last file is received before printing the final nest. You can change this
waiting time from the printers front panel: select the Setup menu icon 
, then Job management
options > Nest options > Select wait time. The available range is 1 to 99 minutes.
While the printer is waiting for nesting to time out, it displays the remaining time on the front panel.
You can print the nest (cancel the nest wait) by pressing the Form feed and cut key.
Use ink economically
Here are some recommendations for making economical use of ink.
●For draft prints, use plain paper and move the print-quality slider to the left end of the scale
(Speed). For further economy, select custom print quality options, then select Fast and
Economode.
●Clean the printheads only when needed, and clean only those printheads that need cleaning.
Cleaning the printheads can be useful, but it uses ink.
●Leave the printer permanently turned on so that it can maintain the printheads in good condition
automatically. This regular printhead maintenance uses a small amount of ink. However, if it is
not done, the printer may need to use much more ink later to restore the health of the
printheads.
●Wide prints make more efficient use of ink than narrow prints, because printhead maintenance
uses some ink, and its frequency is related to the number of passes made by the printheads.
Therefore, nesting jobs can save ink as well as saving paper (see 
Nest jobs to save roll paper
on page 57).
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							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
●
Color calibration
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Color profiling
●
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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							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 but direct.
The signals sent by the eye depend on the light-sensitive cells that line the back of our eyes, and they
belong to three types, each sensitive to electromagnetic radiation of different physical properties
(wavelengths). Such electromagnetic radiation is called light and objects appear to have certain
colors because of how they interact with light (by emission, reflection, absorption, transmission,
scattering, etc.).
Our individual experiences of color are also affected by our previous experiences and memories and
by the way in which we put our experiences into language. Finally, environmental factors such as
changes in lighting, scene content or the proximity of other colors also have an effect, which makes
the way in which we view a given display or print an essential part of the colors we will see.
Differences in all these aspects (from physiological differences between people, to differences in their
past experiences, memories and linguistic tendencies) can result in people talking about colors
differently even in response to the same light reflected from an single object. Nonetheless there are
also many similarities between how individuals experience color and it is possible to make very
specific judgments about it that others will also agree with when care is taken in the process. In
conclusion we can say that color results from the interaction between light, objects and a viewer,
which makes it a very complex and to a large degree subjective phenomenon.
The problem: color in the computer world
Color imaging devices such as printers, displays, projectors and televisions create colors by different
means and by using different materials (colorants). Displays, for instance, use colorants that emit red
(long wavelength), green (medium wavelength) and blue (short wavelength) light, where outputting a
white color requires the full use of all three colorants and black requires that none of them be used
(i.e. that no light be emitted). Devices that use light emitting colorants are called additive, because the
light from them is added together before it enters a viewer’s eyes. Printers, on the other hand, use
materials that absorb parts of the light that shines on them and because of this absorption, they are
called subtractive. Typical prints use cyan (red absorbing), magenta (green absorbing) and yellow
(blue absorbing) inks as well as an additional black ink that absorbs light at all wavelengths. To get
white using a printer requires not absorbing any of the light that illuminates a piece of paper and to
get black, all of the inks need to be used to absorb all of the light that is present.
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