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Printing your design
Application: Macromedia FreeHand MX
Printer: HP Designjet Z2100 series
Software: EFI Designer Edition for HP
Operating System: Windows
1. First recommendations:
• Refer to the
Media type functionality & features and choose the most appropriate media.
• It is essential that you have the media type correctly calibrated with the printer, refer to
the
Calibrate my printer document.
• In order to get a correct display, it’s also essential that you have the monitor calibrated,
consult the
Profile my monitor document.
2. Open the EFI Designer Edition RIP.
3. EFI Designer Edition RIP settings, Preferences:
• Select Color tab:
o Color output preset: Select Photo.
o Image profiles > Input RGB: Select the profile of the scanner or camera you
have used to get the photo (source profile), press Add profile button to add it. If
you don’t have it, select Adobe RGB1998 and Perceptual rendering intent.
o Media profiles (output):
• Paper name: Select the paper type that is loaded on the printer.
• Print quality: 1200 x 1200.
• Select OK.
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4. Open Macromedia FreeHand MX.
5. Configure the Color Preferences, Edit Menu > Preferences > Colors tab:
• Color Management > Type: Kodak Digital Science.
• Uncheck Rebuild Color Tables.
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• Setup button:
o You can add the needed color profiles in the next folder so that FreeHand
shows them: Windows/System32 folder.
o Monitor: Select the current display profile.
o Monitor simulates: Composite printer.
o Separation printer: Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27 (for Europe), SWOP
Printer (for US) and Japan Standard v2 (for Japan).
o Intent: Relative Colorimetric.
o Check temporally the Composite simulates separations checkbox to
choose the Composite printer profile.
o Composite printer: Select the same profile you have selected in the
Separation printer option.
o Uncheck the Composite simulates separations checkbox.
o RGB image source: Select Adobe RGB (1998).
o Select OK.
6. For non-PostScript printers, FreeHand queries the system, and asks it to provide a “drawing area”
in memory. We then need to configure the preview settings in order to get a good resolution
output. Edit Menu > Preferences > Redraw tab:
• Select Smart image preview resolution if it is not already selected. Set this option
to Full Resolution to display imported TIFF files at the highest resolution available.
• Select OK.
7. Open your document, File menu > Open…, create a new one, File menu > New…, or
import an image, File menu > Import….
8. Make sure that you have configured the document properly (document size and orientation),
9. Properties panel > Document tab (Window menu > Document).
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10. Select File menu > Print…:
• Printer: select the printer (ex. EFI Designer Edition).
• Printer settings, Properties… button:
o Advanced…:
• Paper/Output > Paper Size: Select the paper size of the media loaded
on the printer.
• Document Options > Printer Features:
• Paper size: Page Setup.
• Select RIP’s Default on the others settings.
• Select OK until the FreeHand Print dialog box.
11. FreeHand print settings:
• Scale %: Select the escalation option you need.
• Output > Separations tab: Select Composite.
• Advanced…:
o Separations tab: Select Composite.
o Imaging tab: Uncheck Convert RGB to process.
o Paper tab: Uncheck the Automatic orientation if you need to configure it
manually from the driver.
o Select OK twice.
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For more information on HP Designjet products
www.hp.com/go/designjet
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