HP Designjet Z3200 PostScript Photo Printer series - Manual (Page 72)

In order to print accurate colors, it is necessary to convert the color values in your files to the color values
that will produce the correct colors from your printer, your inks and your paper. An ICC color profile is
a description of a printer, ink and paper combination that contains all the information needed for these
color conversions.
When you have defined and calibrated a new paper type, the printer is ready to create a ICC profile for
use with your paper, which will allow you to print on it with the best possible color accuracy. Alternatively,
if your paper type is already known to the printer, you already have an appropriate ICC profile for use
with it.
Create your own profile
You can create a color profile easily by using the HP Color Center: select Paper Preset
Management > Profile Paper. The printer helps you by prompting for information about the paper, then
creates and installs the new profile automatically.
The process takes about 15–20 minutes and consists of the following steps.
1. A profiling chart is printed, which contains patches of each ink used in your printer. Unlike a
calibration chart, most of the patches contain combinations of more than one ink.
The printer chooses automatically between two profile charts:
● An A3 or B format for cut sheets
● A roll-paper format that minimizes paper use by printing across the full width of the roll
2. The chart is allowed to dry for a period of time that depends on the paper type, so that the colors
have time to stabilize.
NOTE: If you would like to use a longer drying time, you can ask the HP Color Center to create
the chart without going on to create a profile (Windows: Print target only; Mac OS: Print ICC
profiling chart). Then, later, when the chart is completely dry, you can restart the HP Color Center
and ask it to create a profile using the chart you have already created (Windows: Create ICC profile
from a target that has already been printed; Mac OS: Scan ICC profiling chart and create ICC
profile). In this case the spectrophotometer takes a while to warm up before it is ready to scan.
3. The chart is scanned and measured using the HP Embedded Spectrophotometer.
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