HP Designjet Z6100 Printing Guide [PS Driver] - How to reprint a job with color consistency [Adobe Acrobat - Mac OS X]

As a creative professional, predictable and consistent results from your printer are essential to
getting your job done. This guide will explain several elements you need to keep under control to
make your printer behave consistently in terms of color when you are intended to reprint your job.
You should consider that there are various factors that can influence our opinions plot to plot, such
as:
• The environmental conditions: Changes in temperature, humidity, or lighting.
• The type of photo: Changes in the scene content and the proximity of other colors
also have an effect in the way in which we view the same image.
• The subjective perception about your own photo: Physiological differences between
people, to differences in their past, individual experiences of color and linguistic
tendencies can result in people talking about colors differently even in response to the
same environmental conditions from a single image.
Some sources of variability are controllable with nothing more than a little common sense. Here
are a few recommendations:
• It’s essential to have the monitor consistently calibrated, refer to the
Profile my monitor
document.
• Ensure that the media type used is the most appropriate media for your image and
the same media used job to job.
• Ensure that the Paper Type setting on the front panel corresponds to the paper you
intend to use and also the same type selected job to job.
• Ensure that you keep all the front panel settings consistent.
• A software update may change the device’s behavior. Make sure that you update
only when necessary.
• Ensure also that all your software settings are consistent plot to plot:
o Source and destination color space.
o IQ and resolution settings.
Even if you control all the aforementioned variables, your printer could still exhibit some kind of
variability. These are the tools of tracking and compensating for variability:
• It is essential that the paper you want to use is correctly color calibrated for the
printer. Refer to the following document
Calibrate my printer .
• It is also essential that the color profile you are using to print is up to date for your
preferred paper types. Consult the HP Designjet Z6100 printer series User’s Guide.
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