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● Leave the printer permanently turned on so that it can maintain the printhead in good condition
automatically. This regular printhead maintenance uses a small amount of ink. However, if it is not done,
the printer may need to use much more ink later to restore the health of the printhead.
● Wide prints make more eicient use of ink than narrow prints, because printhead maintenance uses some
ink, and its frequency is related to the number of passes made by the printhead.
Color management
Your printer has been engineered with advanced hardware and software features to ensure predictable and
dependable color results:
● State-of-the-art HP printheads and HP inks
● Dedicated color resources for most available paper types
● Color emulation of other HP DesignJet printers
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. Color
management is highly dependent on the paper type loaded at the printer, so take care to select the correct
preset for the paper type you are using.
The color management options for your printer can be selected from the Color menu in the Windows driver
dialog or from the Color Options panel in the Mac OS X Print dialog. In some applications you can make the choice
in the application itself. Consult the HP Support Center for guidance on how to use the color management
options of your particular application.
● 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 prole embedded in the image and the ICC
prole of your printer and paper type.
● 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 color management in the
printer is done using a set of stored color tables. ICC proles are not used. This method can produce very
good results with supported HP paper types. There are two color spaces that the printer can convert to its
own color space using the stored color tables: sRGB and Adobe RGB.
● sRGB emulates the characteristics of the average computer monitor. This standard space is endorsed
by many hardware and software manufacturers, and has become the default color space for many
scanners, cameras, printers, and software applications.
● Adobe RGB provides a larger color gamut than sRGB. Use this space if you need to do print production
work with a wide range of colors.
Printer emulation
If you want to print a particular job and to see approximately the same colors that you would get from printing
the same job on a dierent HP DesignJet printer, you can use the emulation mode provided by your printer.
NOTE: Printer emulation is available only when printing an HP-GL/2 job on plain or coated paper. It is not
available from Mac OS X.
In the Windows HP-GL/2 driver dialog, click the Color tab, then Printer Managed Colors, then select Printer
Emulation from the Source Prole list. You can then select from the Emulated Printer list.
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