HP LF Printing Knowledge Center
Proof a press with CMYK
Application: Adobe InDesign CS2
Printer: HP Designjet Z2100 series
Software
: EFI Designer Edition for HP
Operating System: Windows
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, consult the
Calibrate my printer document.
• In order to get a correct display, it’s also essential you have the monitor calibrated, consult
the
Profile my monitor document.
2. Open the EFI Designer Edition RIP.
3. EFI Designer Edition RIP settings; select Preferences:
• Select Color tab:
o Color output preset: Select Proofing.
o Image profiles:
• Input RGB: Select AdobeRGB1998.icc and Perceptual.
• Input/Emulation CMYK: Select the press profile you want to emulate. If
it is not there, select the Add profile button and browse to it.
Select Relative Colorimetric (Absolute Colorimetric, if you want to
emulate the white of the paper).
o Media profiles (output):
• Paper name: Select the paper type that is loaded on the printer (always
calibrated).
• Print quality: 1200 x 1200.
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• Select OK.
4. Open Adobe InDesign CS2.
5. Configure the Color Settings, Edit menu > Color Settings…:
• Make sure the Advanced Mode check box is ticked.
• Working Spaces > RGB: Select profile of the scanner or camera you have used to get the
photo (source profile), if you don’t have it, Adobe RGB (1998).
• Working Spaces > CMYK: Euroscale Coated v2 (for Europe), U.S. Web Coated (SWOP)
v2` (for US) and Japan Standard v2 (for Japan).
• Color Management Policies: Select Preserve Embedded Profiles.
• Profile Mismatches: Select Ask When Opening and Ask When Pasting.
• Missing Profiles: Select Ask When Opening.
• Conversion Options > Intent: Select Absolute Colorimetric.
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• Select OK.
6. 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, 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.
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• Select OK.
5. Place the images if needed, File menu > Place…, browse to the image and select Open….
6. So that you get a good display select a High Quality Display, View menu > Display
performance > High Quality Display.
7. Make sure you have configured the Document Setup appropriately for your document, File
menu > Document Setup….
8. Printer settings, File menu > Print… > Setup… button:
• Select Printer...: Select the printer (ex. EFI Designer Edition).
• Preferences:
o Layout tab:
• Orientation: Select the orientation of your document on the paper.
• Advanced…:
o Paper/Output > Paper Size: Select the paper size of the media
loaded on the printer.
o Document Options > Printer Features:
• Paper size: Page Setup
• Select RIP’s Default on the others settings.
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• Select OK twice and Print, until the InDesign Print dialog box.
9. 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: Composite CMYK.
• Color Management (left hand menu):
o Print: Check Document.
o Options > Color Handling: PostScript® Printer Determine Colors.
You don’t need to worry about the profiles and rendering intent because you will
select Let PostScript
®
printer determine colors option in the application, then,
the RIP will determine which source profile and rendering intent should be used for
the conversion to the print space, these are the Image profiles settings of the RIP
Color Preferences. The application color settings will be overridden.
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• Select 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 the printing suggestion
may not completely match with your own personal opinion.
NOTE If the printed image does not look correct, you can try the following: Open and save your
image in your application, InDesign. Then, open the EFI Designer Edition RIP and print your design.
Please, consult the following document which explains this process step-by-step:
Proof another printer with your EFI Designer Edition RIP.
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For more information on HP Designjet products
www.hp.com/go/designjet
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