HP Z3200ps HP Designjet Z3200 Photo Printer Series - Quick Reference Guide [En - Page 28

Color management 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 any two different printers situated in different geographical locations. Calibration should be done in any of the following circumstances: ● Whenever a printhead is replaced ● Whenever a new paper type is introduced that has not yet been calibrated with the current set of printheads ● Whenever a certain amount of printing has been done since the last calibration ● Whenever the printer has been turned off for a long period of time ● Whenever the environmental conditions (temperature and humidity) change significantly The printer driver usually reminds you with an alert whenever you need to perform color calibration, unless you have disabled the alerts. However, there will be no alert if the environmental conditions change. 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 turn off color calibration from the front panel: select the Image Quality Maintenance menu icon , then set Enable color calibration to OFF. In this case, the printer will use a default calibration set in the factory for all paper types. If you later turn color calibration back on, it will still remember any calibrations that you performed earlier. 24 Chapter 5 Color management ENWW