Print with postscript drivers, Print with hp-gl/2 drivers – HP Designjet T7100 Printer series User Manual
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Colors between different HP Designjets do not match
If you print an image on two different printer models (for instance, on an HP Designjet T7100 printer
series and an HP Designjet 4500 printer series), the colors of the two prints might not match well.
Matching two printing devices that use different ink chemistry, paper chemistry, and printheads is
unlikely to be completely successful. Use the information provided here is to attempt to make one printer
match another.
Print with PostScript drivers
The situation describes printing with the PostScript driver installed for that printer. In this example, we
are using an HP Designjet T7100 printer series and an HP Designjet 4500 printer series.
1.
Check that both printers have the most recent firmware version. See
.
2.
Check that you have the most recent printer driver for both printers. Download the latest versions
for any HP printer from
.
3.
Make sure that Color Calibration is turned on. On the front panel of the HP Designjet T7100,
select the
icon, and then select Image quality maintenance > Enable color
calibration > On.
4.
Load the printers with the same type of paper.
5.
Check that the Paper Type setting on the front panel corresponds to the paper that you have
loaded.
6.
Use your normal settings to print your image on the HP Designjet 4500.
7.
Now prepare to print the same image on the HP Designjet T7100.
In your software, set the color space of the image to emulate the HP Designjet 4500 and the
specific paper type that you used in that printer. The data sent to the driver must be already
converted to this emulation color space, which is a CMYK color space. See the online help for the
software program to find information about how to do this. In this way, the T7100 will emulate the
colors that the 4500 can produce when printing on that paper type.
8.
In the PostScript driver for the HP Designjet T7100, go to the Color Management section and set
the CMYK input profile to the same HP Designjet 4500 color space that you selected in the
software (the emulation color space).
9.
Print the image on the HP Designjet T7100.
Print with HP-GL/2 drivers
The situation describes printing with the HP-GL/2 driver installed for that printer.
1.
Check that both printers have the most recent firmware version. See
.
2.
Check that you have the most recent printer drivers for both printers. You can download the latest
versions for any HP printer from
3.
Make sure that Color Calibration is turned on. On the front panel of the HP Designjet T7100
printer series, select the
icon, then Image quality maintenance > Enable color
calibration > On.
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