HP LF Printing Knowledge Center Proof the output on the monitor Application: Adobe InDesign 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 have the media type correctly calibrated with the printer and print mode, consult the Calibrate my printer document. • In order to get a correct display, it’s also essential you have the monitor profiled, consult the Profile my monitor document. 2. Open Adobe InDesign CS2. 3.
• Click OK. 4. Open the image, File menu > Open…: 5. 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. 6. Place the images if needed, File menu > Place…, browse to the image and click Open…. 7. So that you get a good display select a High Quality Display, View menu > Display Performance > High Quality Display. 8. Make sure you have configured the Document Setup appropriately for your document, File menu > Document Setup…. 9.
9. • Click OK. • Now, you can retouch your image and the monitor will show you how it’s going to look once you’ve printed it. Printer settings, File menu > Print…: • Printer...: Select the printer (ex. HP Designjet Z2100 24in Photo). • Page Setup… button: 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.
o Color tab: 1. Select Print in Color. 2. Color Management: Select Application Managed Colors.
• Click Print. 10. 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: Select Composite RGB. Color Management (left hand menu): o Print: Document. o Options > Color handling: Let InDesign Determine Colors.
• 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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