HP Designjet Z6100 Printer Series - Quick Reference Guide

Calibrate a paper type before creating its color profile. Later recalibration does not
require a new color profile.
You can start color calibration in the following ways:
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From the printer alert that recommends calibration
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From the HP Color Center: select Calibrate Your Printer
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From the front panel: select the
icon, and then select Image quality
maintenance > Calibrate color
After launching calibration, the process is fully automatic and can be performed
unattended after you have loaded appropriate paper. The paper must be at least 24
inches wide.
The process takes about 8 minutes and consists of the following steps.
1.
A calibration test chart is printed, which contains patches of each ink that your
printer uses.
2.
To stabilize the colors, the test chart dries for a period of time that depends on
the paper type.
3.
The HP Embedded Spectrophotometer scans and measures the test chart.
4.
The printer uses the measurements to calculate the necessary correction factors
for consistent color printing on that paper type. It also calculates the maximum
amount of each ink that can be applied to the paper.
Color profiling
NOTE: Color profiling information applies only to PostScript printers.
Color calibration provides consistent colors, but consistent colors are not necessarily
accurate colors.
In order to print accurate colors, convert the color values in your files to the color
values that will produce the correct colors when using your printer, your inks, and
your paper. An ICC color profile is a description of a printer, ink, and paper
combination that contains all the information for these color conversions.
When you have defined and calibrated a new paper type, the printer is ready to
create a ICC profile for use with your paper, which allows you to print on it with the
best possible color accuracy. Alternatively, if your paper type is already known to
the printer, you already have its appropriate ICC profile.
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