HP Designjet 4500 Series - Quick Reference Guide

application's online help for information on how to do this. In this way, the 4000 series will emulate
the colors that the 1000 series can produce when printing on that paper type.
9. In the PostScript driver for the HP Designjet 4000 Printer series, go to the Color Management
section and set the CMYK input profile to the same HP Designjet 1000 Printer series color space
that you selected in the application (the emulation color space).
NOTE When trying to emulate another printer you should always use CMYK colors, not
RGB.
10. Set the rendering intent to Relative Colorimetric, or to Absolute Colorimetric if you want to emulate
the whiteness of the paper.
11. Print the image on the HP Designjet 4000 Printer series.
Printing via separate HP-GL/2 drivers
The situation is that you are printing on each printer using the HP-GL/2 driver installed for that printer.
1. Ensure that both printers have been updated to the latest firmware version. See Using your printer
on CD.
2. Ensure that you have the latest printer driver for both printers. You can download the latest
versions for any HP printer from
http://www.hp.com/go/designjet.
3. Ensure that Color Calibration is turned on. At the front panel of the HP Designjet 4000 Printer
series, select the
icon, then Printer configuration > Color calibration > On .
4. Load the printers with similar paper types.
5. Ensure that the Paper Type setting on the front panel corresponds to the paper you have loaded.
6. With the HP-GL/2 driver for the HP Designjet 4000 Printer series, select the Color tab, and select
Printer Emulation from the list of color management options. Then choose the Designjet 1000
series from the list of emulated printers.
7. With the HP-GL/2 driver for the HP Designjet 1000 series, select the Options tab, then Manual
Color > Color Control > Match Screen. You should also select the Paper Size tab, then Paper
Type.
Printing the same HP-GL/2 file
The situation is that you have produced an HP-GL/2 file (also known as a PLT file) using the HP-GL/2
driver installed for one printer, and you intend to send the same file to both printers.
1. Ensure that both printers have been updated to the latest firmware version. See Using your printer
on CD.
2. Ensure that Color Calibration is turned on. At the front panel of the HP Designjet 4000 Printer
series, select the
icon, then Printer configuration > Color calibration > On .
3. Load the printers with similar paper types.
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