HP Designjet 5500 HP Designjet 5500 series - User Guide - Page 365

using icc profiles hp designjet 5500 series welcome how do I ... tell me about ... the problem is ... legal notices glossary index using icc profiles The International Color Consortium (ICC) color profiles provided with your printer driver are identical to the color profiles that the internal PostScript RIP uses, although the latter converts them to PostScript Color Rendering Dictionaries internally. To use the ICC profiles outside the internal PostScript RIP, the application and the driver must be configured correctly for good results. q Make sure the ICC profile for the correct printer model, ink type (dyebased or UV), printing material, and print quality is selected in your application, and that it is being used to convert RGB or CIELab images to CMYK. q Choose the correct rendering intent for your type of job: Perceptual for photographic type images, Colorimetric for logos and proofing, and Saturation for computer graphics images. q Make sure the application is sending device CMYK colors to the printer, not calibrated color. For instance, when printing from Photoshop 5.x, select the profile and rendering intent in the CYMK setup, select CMYK as the output color space, and unselect the Postscript Color Management check box. q In the printer driver, make sure that Automatic Black Replacement is disabled, and that no CMYK emulations are being used. If all of these conditions are met, the results of using a provided ICC profile externally or internally will be very similar. © 2002 hewlett-packard company file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/---/Desktop/HP/html/p0085b.htm [8/5/2002 3:29:42 PM]