HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Proof a press with CMYK Application: Adobe InDesign CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z2100 series Software: EFI Designer Edition for HP Operating System: Mac OS X
1. First recommendations: • See the Media type functionality & features and choose the most appropriate media. • It is essential you have the media type correctly calibrated with the printer, consult the Calibrate my printer document. • In order to get a correct display, it’s also essential you have the monitor calibrated, consult the Profile my monitor document. 2. Open the EFI Designer Edition RIP. 3.
• Select OK. 4. Open Adobe InDesign CS2. 5. Configure the Color Settings, Edit menu > Color Settings…: • Make sure the Advanced Mode check box is ticked. • Working Spaces > RGB: Select profile of the scanner or camera you have used to get the photo (source profile), if you don’t have it, Adobe RGB (1998). • Working Spaces > CMYK: Euroscale Coated v2 (for Europe), U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2` (for US) and Japan Standard v2 (for Japan). • Color Management Policies: Select Preserve Embedded Profiles.
• Select OK. 6. If the document has an embedded color profile that does not match the current working space, select Leave the document as is... Otherwise, select Adjust the document to match current color settings; 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.
• Select OK. 7. Place the images if needed, File menu > Place…, browse to the image and click Open…. 8. So that you get a good display select a High Quality Display, View menu > Display Performance > High Quality Display. 9. Make sure you have configured the Document Setup appropriately for your document, File menu > Document Setup…. 10. Printer settings, File menu > Print…: • Printer: Select the printer (ex. EFISoftwarePrinter). • Page Setup… button: o Format for: Select your printer again.
• Select Print. 5. Adobe InDesign Print… settings: • • Setup (left hand menu): o Paper Size: Defined by Driver. o Options: Select the scaling option you need. Output (left hand menu): o • Color: Composite CMYK. Color Management (left hand menu): o Print: Select Document. o Options > Color Handling: PostScript® Printer Determine Colors.
• Select Print. You should consider that each person has their own perception and their own subjective opinion about the result; this is because there are various factors that can influence our opinions, such as the type of photo (portrait, landscape…), the source color space, the media used, the environmental conditions, the subjective perception about your own photo, etc.... This means the printing suggestion may not completely match with your own personal opinion.
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