HP DesignJet Z6600 Using Your Printer - Page 54
Cancel the drying time, Open the HP Color Center.
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TIP: You can get information about the characteristics of each HP paper type from the front panel: select the icon, then Paper types list > Paper category > Paper type > View paper details. This may help you to match your non-HP paper with a similar HP paper type. 6. Load the custom paper. See Load a roll into the printer on page 33. 7. Click Next. The printer performs a color calibration and prints a calibration chart. This can take up to 10 minutes. NOTE: For more information on the processes available in the Color Center, for the Z6800 see A summary of the color-management process on page 100, and for the Z6600 see A summary of the colormanagement process on page 104. 8. After the new calibration parameters are calculated and stored, you are reminded to create an ICC profile. Click Done. The custom paper is added to the paper category you selected. 9. To create an ICC profile, which allows you to print on your paper with the best possible color accuracy, for the Z6800 see Color profiling on page 102, and for the Z6600 see Color profiling on page 106. 10. Perform paper advance calibration (see Perform paper advance calibration on page 43). The default paper advance values for your custom paper are inherited from the paper category, but can probably be improved by calibration. Cancel the drying time Press the Form Feed and Cut key on the front panel. CAUTION: A print that has not dried sufficiently can suffer from quality problems. Change the drying time You can use the HP DesignJet Utility to change the drying time for a particular paper type, to accommodate special printing conditions. 1. Open the HP Color Center. 2. Select Paper preset management. 3. Select Change printing properties. 4. Select the paper category. 5. Select the paper type. 6. Choose a drying time from the Dry Time drop-down menu. NOTE: The text box to the right of the drop-down menu will not display the time in seconds when the Automatic option is selected (it is selected by default for all paper types). This is because the Automatic option means that the printer will calculate the optimal drying time for you depending on the temperature at printing time, and therefore it cannot be known in advance. You can turn off all drying time for all paper types by selecting the time > Off. icon, then Print retrieval > Select drying 46 Chapter 4 Handle the paper ENWW