HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Printing your design Application: Adobe Illustrator CS2 Printer: HP Designjet Z2100 series Software: HP raster driver Operating System: Mac OS X
1. First recommendations: • See the Media type functionality & features and choose the most appropriate media. • It is essential you the media type correctly calibrated with the printer and print mode, consult the Calibrate my printer section. • In order to get a correct display, it’s also essential you have the monitor calibrated, consult the Profile my monitor section. 2. Open Adobe Illustrator CS2. 3.
4. Open the image, File menu > Open…: If the document has an embedded color profile that does not match the current working space, select Use the embedded profile. Otherwise, select Assign working space; 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. • Click OK. 5. If you place an image, you can embed the image in the document.
6. Make sure you have configured the Document Setup appropriately for your document, File menu > Document Setup…. 7. Driver Settings, File menu > Print…: • Printer: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z2100 24in Photo). • Page Setup…: • o Format for: Select the printer. o Paper Size: Select the paper size of the media loaded on the printer. o Orientation: Select the orientation of your image on the paper. o Click OK. Printer...
• Click Print. 8. Adobe Illustrator Print… settings: • • General (left hand menu): o Media > Size: Defined by Driver. o Options: Select the scaling option you need. Color Management (left hand menu): o Print Method > Color Handling: Let Illustrator determine colors. o Print Method > Printer Profile: Select the profile of the printer and media type that you will use to print. o Print Method > Rendering Intent: Perceptual (for RGB images) or Relative Colorimetric (for CMYK images).
• Click 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 that the printing suggestion may not completely match with your own personal opinion.
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