Set the rendering intent, Hp professional pantone* emulation – HP Designjet Z6100 Printer series User Manual
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Black point compensation can be specified in the following ways:
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With a Windows PostScript printer driver: click the Color tab, and then select Black point
compensation.
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With a Mac OS printer driver: select the Color Options panel, and then select Black point
compensation.
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Through the Embedded Web Server: select the Submit Job page, and then select Color > Black
point compensation.
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On the front panel: select the
icon, and then select Printing preferences > Color
options > Black point compensation.
Set the rendering intent
NOTE:
This option is available only when printing a PostScript, PDF, TIFF, or JPEG job.
Rendering intent is one of the settings available when doing a color transformation. Because some of the
colors you want to print might not be reproducible by the printer, using the rendering intent allows you to
select one of four different ways of handling these out-of-gamut colors.
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Saturation (graphics): best used for presentation graphics, charts, or images that are made up
of bright, saturated colors
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Perceptual (images): best used for photographs or images in which colors blend together. This
setting attempts to preserve the overall color appearance.
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Relative colorimetric (proofing): best used when you want to match a particular color. This
method is mainly used for proofing. It guarantees that if a color can be printed accurately, it will be
printed accurately. The other methods provide a more pleasing range of colors but do not guarantee
that any particular color will be printed accurately. This option maps the white of the input space to
the white of the paper on which you are printing.
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Absolute colorimetric (proofing): this option is the same as relative colorimetric, but without
mapping of the white. This rendering is also used mainly for proofing, where the goal is to simulate
the output of one printer (including its white point).
The rendering intent can be specified in the following ways:
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With a Windows PostScript printer driver: click the Color tab, and then select Rendering
intent.
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With a Mac OS printer driver: select the Color Options panel, and then select Rendering
intent.
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Through the Embedded Web Server: select the Submit Job page, and then select Color >
Rendering intent.
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On the front panel: select the
icon, then Printing preferences > Color options > Select
rendering intent.
HP Professional PANTONE* Emulation
When you use a named PANTONE* color in an image, your software program normally sends a CMYK
or RGB approximation to that color to the printer. However, instead of taking the printer or the paper type
into account, the software merely produces a generic approximation of the PANTONE* color, that looks
different on different printers and on different papers.
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