HP Designjet Z6100 Printing Guide [PS Driver] - How to reprint a job with color consistency [Adobe InDesign CS2 - Windows]

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. Refer to the
Add and profile a new paper type document.
1. Open Adobe InDesign CS2.
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