HP LF Printing Knowledge Center
Calibrate your monitor
Printer: HP Designjet Z2100/Z3100 series
Software: HP Advanced Profiling Solution
OS:
Mac OS X
The display is your only reliable way to view your digital files before you print them. Since all
displays change over time, calibration is necessary to bring these devices back into a consistent and
repeatable display condition. The role of the calibration is to adjust the device to produce a desired
behavior. Once the display is calibrated, an ICC device profile will be built to record this device
behavior.
You should calibrate and profile your display on a regular basis, at least once a month. This is highly
recommended. If you are about to start a color critical project, you may wish to recalibrate and
profile your display since it only takes a few minutes to do. Once you calibrate your display, do not
alter it in any way, such as adjusting any of the on board controls. This will invalidate the calibration
and the profile.
Perform the following procedure:
1. Launch HP Advanced Profiling Solution:
Step 1: Select the Profiling button. It will take you to this screen where you can build an ICC
profile for your display.
• Select the Next button to continue with the next step.
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Step 2: You can use the HP Advanced Profiling Solution to calibrate and build ICC profiles for
all your displays. From this screen you can select which device, a monitor or printer you wish to
calibrate and profile. You should calibrate and profile your display first.
• If you are now ready to calibrate and profile your display, click on the Monitor button.
• Select the Next button to continue with the next step.
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Step 3: Display type and Measurement Device Selection.
NOTE Please allow your display to warm up and stabilize before you calibrate. Allow 30-45 minutes
for a CRT and 10-15 minutes for a LCD.
• Select the display type to calibrate and profile. It is important that you select the correct
type of display before proceeding.
• The Expert Options allow you to override the default calibration target values and will
take you to a screen where you can set custom calibration target values. Click the
triangle to show three possible options:
1. Pick White Point, Gamma and Luminance if you wish to override the
default settings selected automatically based on your display type and adjust the
display to specific calibration target values. Works equally well for CRT or LCD
displays.
2. Pick Calibrate Contrast, Brightness and RGB if you wish to override the default
settings selected automatically based on your display type and adjust the display
to specific calibration target values. This is recommended for CRT displays and is
not necessary with LCD and Laptop displays. If you do not activate this check
box, then HP APS will calibrate to default values.
3. Pick Show detailed Profiling Summary if you want to see a report of the
calibration target values achieved. This can be selected for any display type and
is simply a way to view more information about the resulting calibrations.
• Select the Next button to continue with the next step.
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Step 4: Monitor Profiling: OSD Controls.
• Select the OSD (On-Screen Display) control capabilities of your monitor in order to achieve
optimum results.
o If your display provides a Brightness control, please activate the Brightness check
box.
o If your display provides a Contrast control, activate the Contrast check box.
o If your display provides RGB controls, activate the RGB check box.
• Select Presets in the chooser right next to the RGB checkbox if you monitor only allows you
to choose pre-defined color temperatures, and choose RGB Controls if your monitor supports
individual controls for R, G and B.
• Select the Next button to continue with the next step.
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Step 5: Eye-One Display on your monitor.
• Place the Eye-One Display on the screen. The Eye-One can be placed anywhere on the
screen as the software automatically detects the Eye-One's position.
Attempt to place the instrument in the center of the screen and in such a way that it will not
allow any ambient light to enter between the instrument and the surface of the display.
• Select the Next button to continue with the next step.
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Step 6: Create Monitor Profile (White Point, Gamma and Luminance).
• Calibrate Contrast:
o Set the contrast of your display to its maximum value using your monitor controls.
o Adjust the contrast on your display until the orange line is placed in the middle of the
green area.
o Click the Next button to continue with the next step.
• Calibrate Brightness:
o Adjust the brightness on your display until the orange line is placed in the middle of
the green area.
o Select the Next button to continue with the next step.
• Calibrate RGB:
o Make sure your white point matches that of your monitor, 6500K - D65 (Windows
default), 9300K - D93 (Mac default).
The White Point is the color of white of your display, measured in Kelvin, also known
as correlated color temperature. Lower values are warmer (more red) and higher
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values are cooler (more blue). 6500K is recommended for CRT displays while
Native White Point is recommended for LCD displays.
o The Luminance setting defines the maximum intensity (brightness) of white measured
in cd/m2.
Select a value based on display type and the amount of ambient light around the
display. A recommended starting point is 90 CRTs and 120 for LCDs.
• If you wish to use the current luminance the display is producing, select
Native.
• If you wish to set a custom value, use the slider:
o If your images appear too dark compared to your prints, raise the
Luminance.
o If your display appears too bright compared to your prints, lower
the Luminance.
NOTE When attempting to match multiple displays in the same environment, select the same White
Point and Luminance for each display.
o Select the Next button to continue with the next step.
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Step 7: Calculate ICC Profile and finish.
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For more information on HP Designjet products
www.hp.com/go/designjet
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