Profile your monitor, Color management options – HP Designjet Z3200 PostScript Photo Printer series User Manual
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NOTE:
The printer's spectrophotometer measures from 400 to 700 nm in steps of 20 nm. All other
measurement types are interpolated.
Profile your monitor
You are also recommended to calibrate and profile your monitor (display device), so that the colors you
see on the screen are more closely related to those you see on your prints. There are two ways to do
this:
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Use the facilities provided with your operating system. From the HP Color Center, select How To
Calibrate Your Display for further information.
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Use the HP Advanced Profiling Solution, which will give more accurate results.
Color management options
The aim of color management is to reproduce colors as accurately as possible on all devices: so that,
when you print an image, you see very similar colors as when you view the same image on your monitor.
There are two basic approaches to color management for your printer:
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Application-Managed Colors: in this case your application program must convert the colors of
your image to the color space of your printer and paper type, using the ICC profile embedded in
the image and the ICC profile of your printer and paper type.
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Printer-Managed Colors: in this case your application program sends your image to the printer
without any color conversion, and the printer converts the colors to its own color space. The details
of this process depend on the graphics language that you are using.
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PostScript: the PostScript interpreter module inside the printer performs the color conversion
using the profiles stored in the printer (including those generated by the HP Color Center) and
any additional profiles sent with the PostScript job. This kind of color management is done
when you are using the PostScript driver and you specify printer color management or when
you send a PostScript, PDF, TIFF or JPEG file directly to the printer through the Embedded
Web Server. In either case you have to select the profiles to use as default (in case the job
doesn't specify any) and the rendering intent to apply.
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Non-PostScript (PCL3): the color management is done using a set of stored ICC profiles.
This method is somewhat less versatile than the previous methods, but is a little simpler and
faster, and can produce good results with standard HP paper types. This kind of color
management is done when you are using a non-PostScript driver and you specify printer color
management, or when you send a PCL3 file directly to the printer through the Embedded Web
Server.
There are only two color spaces that the printer can convert to its own color space using the
stored profiles: Adobe RGB and sRGB if you are using Windows, Adobe RGB if you are using
Mac OS. In addition, you can use ColorSync.
ColorSync is the Mac OS built-in Color Management System; so, when you select ColorSync,
color management is performed by Mac OS, and it is done based on the ICC profiles of the
specified paper type. ColorSync is available with the PCL3 driver only.
ColorSync can be selected under Mac OS X 10.4 from the Paper Type/Quality panel: select
the Color tab, then select Use Embedded (ICC/ColorSync) from the Source Profile drop-
down list. Under Mac OS X 10.5, ColorSync can be selected from the Color Matching panel.
You are recommended to consult the Knowledge Center
to see how to use the color management options of your particular application.
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