HP Designjet Z2100 Photo Printer Series - Quick Reference Guide

5 Color management
Color calibration
Color calibration enables your printer to produce consistent colors with the particular printheads, inks, and
paper type that you are using, and under your particular environmental conditions. After color calibration,
you can expect to get identical prints from two different printers situated in different countries.
The printer usually reminds you with an alert whenever you need to perform color calibration, unless you
have disabled the alerts. Calibration should be done in any of the following circumstances:
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Whenever a printhead is replaced
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Whenever a new paper type is introduced that has not yet been calibrated with the current set of
printheads
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Whenever a certain amount of printing has been done since the last calibration
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Whenever the environmental conditions (temperature and humidity) change significantly
You should calibrate a paper type before creating its color profile; however, you can later recalibrate without
needing to recreate the 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 Image Quality Maintenance menu icon
, then Calibrate color.
The calibration process is fully automatic and can be performed unattended after you have loaded paper
of the type you wish to calibrate—which should be A4, Letter, or any larger size.
NOTE Color calibration cannot be performed successfully on plain paper, nor on any kind of
transparent material. Do not attempt it.
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Color management