Device Options

The following topics explain how to use the Device Options Properties tab to set color values and other options for your printer.

Print Quality (DesignJet 5000 PS3)

Color Management

Print Color as Gray


Print Quality (DesignJet 5000 PS3)

The Print Quality setting offers the following three modes:

Max Quality	Use this setting when you are printing to high-cost media such as "clear film" or one of the glossy media types, this option gives the highest print quality.

Productivity	Use this setting to produce excellent print quality on plain or special paper, printing with this option is faster than Best Mode.

Max Speed	Use this setting to produce better printing details for photographic images or detailed image renderings, printing with this option is slower.

Maximum Detail	Use this setting to produce better details for bitmap images or detailed renderings.


WebAccess (DesignJet 5000 PS3)

WEBAccess provides Queue Management, Preview and Status access directly from your computer. WebAccess is available if the printer has an IP address assigned. Please refer to the DesignJet 5000 PS3 printer user manual to obtain the IP address. Use Configure WEBAccess to activate WEBAccess.  Also, it is necessary to have a configured browser available on your system. Refer to your operating system manual.

Configure WEBAccess:	This dialog allows the user to enter the IP address of the printer. After clicking OK the  “Hold Job for Preview” option and the “Open WEB tools” button changes to active.

Open WEBAccess:	This option will launch the default WEB browser in the system, and connect to the Printer’s IP address that was setup. The Web browser will display the printer queue.

Hold Job for Preview:	If this setting is checked, Your job will be held on the printer's job queue until you unhold it. You can do this by using the “WebAccess” interface that you can open by clicking on the "Open WebAccess" button


Color Management

The following topics explain how to use the color management options properties tab to set color values and other options for your printer.

Default

Printer Color Management

Automatic Pantone Calibration


Default

The default setting is for users that do not wish to interact with color.  With this option the printer color path selected on the printer is decided by the application that is doing the printing if this application is generating CMYK. If the application is generating RGB, the printer will approximate the output to the colors of a standard monitor.


Printer Color Management

This setting allows the experienced users to change default color management. Selecting this setting enables the Color Options button.

Color Options


Automatic Pantone Calibration

If this setting is selected the printer will extract Pantone color names from the PostScript job and will insert the closest printer CMYK colors matching for these colors.

Pantone Workflow

Pantone colors are identified by their name, and Pantone defines the appearance for the color. Pantone calibrates DesignJet printers so that they can produce the best match of a Pantone color.

When an application sends a Pantone color to the printer, it can use two methods:

1.	Pantone colors as spot are defined with their name, so that the printer can select how to best emulate that Pantone color.

2.	Pantone colors as composite colors are defined with a CMYK value.

Since CMYK values are device-dependent, the CMYK for the Pantone composite color must be adapted to the target printer. Most applications contain CMYK definitions of Pantone colors optimized for the SWOP or EuroOffset standards. If the application does not allow selection of this CMYK, and the printer CMYK does not emulate these standards, the output will not match well the Pantone colors.

If the Pantone colors are defined as spot colors, the DesignJet printer will produce the best match through the Automatic Pantone Calibration mechanism. If the best CMYK for the Pantone is not known, it is recommended that Pantone colors be defined as spot.

Only Pantone Coated colors are reproduced in a DesignJet.


Print Color as Gray

If this setting is selected the printer will substitute shades of gray for color in your document.

Use Print Color as Gray for:

•	Enhancing black and white graphics.

•	Printing drafts of your document before printing the final color output.

•	Printing a color document in grayscale for use with a non-color photocopier.

•	Printing images, as they would print on a monochrome printer. This option overrides the printer's Color/Mono setting.


Color Options

The color options allow the user to set the emulation, to make manual color adjustments and set Rendering Intents.

Emulations

Manual Color Adjustments

Rendering Intents


Emulations

The emulation options allow the user to control the desired standard or default color management.

Standard Emulation

Other Printer

No Emulation


Standard Emulation

The standard emulation option allows to the user to activate the HP Ink emulation on the printer.

CMYK Workflows

Traditional workflow defines the color in the CMYK space. To obtain optimal results, CMYK must be adapted to the target printer that receives the data - different printers will produce different color from the same CMYK data.

In some situations the CMYK data in your document will not be suited to your printer. Two typical situations are:

1.	The document was optimized for a certain printer, and now it has to be produced on a different printing device.

2.	The document is being optimized for a printing press, but it is necessary to produce a check print using a less-expensive printing device.

To handle CMYK data which is not intended for the printer, the DesignJet printers provide color emulation modes. The emulation must be enabled in the PostScript driver, in the “Printer color management” dialog box:

•	Standard Emulations: SWOP (United States), EuroOffset (Europe), DIC (Japan) and Toyo (Japan). CMYK data is frequently designed for these standards. If there is no information as to how the CMYK data was defined, these standards are a good assumption.

•	Custom Emulation: this mode can emulate any CMYK printer. You will need the ICC profile for the printer for which the CMYK data is intended. The ICC profile is a standard which defines which color would come out of that printer. The DesignJet uses this information to produce the same color. ICC profiles are available for the CP series printers and the 1055CM printers.

CMYK for offset presses	For CMYK printing path, you could select a standard ink emulation mode (SWOP, TOYO, DIC, Euroscale). Default value for CMYK is SWOP.

•	SWOP Use this option if your application generates CMYK colors intended for SWOP printing presses, or an unknown printing device. It will translate the CMYK colors (SWOP or otherwise) to HP DesignJet  colors. Your printer will then print the colors emulating the SWOP standard with a high degree of accuracy.  Using this option your job processing will take a little longer, printed colors may be less vivid than is possible, because of the smaller color gamut (range of printable colors) of SWOP printing presses when compared to the HP DesignJet prints.

•	EuroScale Use this option if your application generates CMYK intended for EuroScale printing presses. It will translate EuroScale CMYK to HP DesignJet colors, emulating EuroScale colors as closely as possible. Using this option job processing will take a little longer, printed colors may be less vivid than is possible, because of the smaller color gamut (range of printable colors) of EuroScale printing presses when compared to the HP DesignJet prints.

•	Toyo Use this option if your application generates CMYK intended for Toyo printing presses. It will translate Toyo CMYK to HP DesignJet colors, emulating Toyo colors as closely as possible. Using this option job processing will take a little longer, printed colors may be less vivid than is possible, because of the smaller color gamut (range of printable colors) of Toyo printing presses when compared to the HP DesignJet prints.

•	DIC Use this option if your application generates CMYK intended for DIC printing presses. It will translate DIC CMYK to HP DesignJet colors, emulating DIC colors as closely as possible. Using this option job processing will take a little longer, printed colors may be less vivid than is possible, because of the smaller color gamut (range of printable colors) of DIC printing presses when compared to the HP DesignJet prints.

RGB Monitor

For RGB path, you could select either sRGB, AppleRGB, ColorMatch RGB or Adobe RGB. Default value for RGB will be sRGB.

RGB Workflows

RGB is a device-independent definition of color. Being device-independent implies that RGB has to be converted to the device-dependent CMYK data which drives the printer. And this transformation depends on the target printer..

The transformation from RGB to CMYK requires an ICC profile for the printer. The profile describes which CMYK is a good reproduction of a certain RGB. Because the color which comes out of the printer depends on the printer setup –such as the type of paper and the quality level you must select the ICC profile for the intended printing conditions. DesignJet printers come with ICC profiles for multiple types of paper.

Even if RGB is device-independent, RGB data does not always produce the same color. There are a few frequently used types of RGB color such as sRGB, Apple RGB, Adobe RGB. An ICC profile describes what an RGB color looks like.

Your printing application should be set up with the right ICC profiles for the RGB and CMYK data. Newer applications such as PhotoShop 5 and Illustrator 8 allow you to do this. Your application will use these ICC profiles to convert RGB to CMYK.

If your design application does not support ICC profiles, you don’t have control over the conversion from RGB to CMYK. So, always convert data into CMYK before putting it into the application. Make sure that the CMYK has been optimized for the printer which is going to handle the data –see the recommendations in the previous section.

Some applications send RGB data instead of CMYK. In such case, the printer will carry out the conversion from RGB to CMYK. You must select the type of RGB data in the PostScript driver, in the “Printer color management/RGB emulation” option.


Other Printer

The other printer option allows the user to select one of the CMYK profiles available on the operating systems color profile directory, and send it to the printer with the job. Normally, the color profile directory is called the color folder located in windows system directory. The printer will change the internal printer color profile with the profile received, only for that job. HP DesignJet profiles will appear at the top of this list.  Additional ICC profiles maybe copied to the system color folder.


No Emulation

There are some applications that have its own Color Management including support for ICM and ColorSync. In these cases, the user will select this option and the driver will activate automatically “no emulation mode” on the printer (HP color path that keeps unchanged the colors sent by the application). This option allows color values to be passed to the printer unmodified. Use this option only if your application knows how to generate CMYK colors specifically for the HP DesignJet printer. If you are able to use this option, your jobs will be processed in the shortest possible time, and you will have access to the full color range of the printer.

However, using color values not created specifically for the HP DesignJet printer may result in unacceptable image quality and possible print head damage due to ink saturation of the print medium (more than 200% print density).

No Emulation Additional Settings for DesignJet 5000 PS3


No Emulation Additional Settings for DesignJet 5000 PS3

Automatic Black Replacement

This setting turns on/off the Black ink replacement. (DesignJet 5000 PS3 only)

The no emulation mode has two settings: (DesignJet 5000 PS3 only)

1.	If the Automatic Black Replacement setting is ON the printer adjusts the black color, replacing it by the combination of CMYK inks.

2.	If the Automatic Black Replacement settings is OFF all color values will be passed to the printer unmodified. Standard Emulation will be the default value on the emulation section.


Manual Color Adjustments

The Manual Color Adjustment settings allow the adjustment of lightness for each of the CMYK color channels.  Increasing the number will make the print darker. Decreasing the number will make the print lighter. The Manual Color Adjustment setting can be used to increase or decrease the light intensity of an image to be printed. If the printed image has lost some detail because there are areas that are too light or too dark, you should use this setting to adjust the lightness level of the image in order to recover the lost detail.


Rendering Intents

The Rendering Intents feature provides three methods of handling the slight mismatches that arise between the colors you are trying to print and the colors your printer is capable of printing.

Saturation (Graphics)	Best used for presentation graphics charts or images made up of bright-saturated colors.

Perceptual (Images)	Best used for photographs or images in which colors blend together.

Colorimetric	Best used when you want to match a particular color. This method guarantees that, if a color can be printed accurately, it will be printed accurately. The other methods will probably provide a more pleasing range of colors but do not guarantee that any particular color will be printed accurately.


Paper

The Paper tab adjusts the values for the Paper Size, Layout, Orientation, and scale options, as desired.

Page Size	Allows the user to select standard and custom paper sizes from the paper list box.

More Sizes 	Allows the user to customize the paper sizes displayed for selection. If you need to add, erase, or define a custom page size to the standard Page size list, click on the "More Sizes" button that will show the Paper Sizes dialog. When the user accepts the changes, the page size list is updated automatically.

Orientation	Allows the selection of paper orientation between Portrait or landscape. Note: the relative width and length of a page might appear to change if you set the Orientation value to Landscape or Rotated Landscape, where the Landscape length reflects the Portrait width value and the Landscape width reflects the Portrait length value.

Related Topics:

Paper Sizes


Page Setup

The Page Setup tab allows the user to select paper size, number of copies, orientation of the page and the color appearance of the page.

Page Size

The Page size option on page setup tab allows the user to select a paper size from a list of page size formats.

Copy Count

The Copy count option on the page setup tab allows the user to select the number of copies they wish up to 9999.

Orientation

The Orientation option on the page setup tab allows the user to select the orientation of a page by choosing portrait, landscape or rotate.

Color Appearance

The Color appearance option on the page setup tab allows the user to choose monochrome or color.


Paper Sizes
Paper Size

The Paper Sizes dialog allows the user to customize the paper sizes displayed for selection. If you need to add, erase, or define a custom page size to the standard page size list, click on the ”More Sizes” button to show the Paper Sizes dialog.  Accepting the changes automatically updates the page size list.

Used Standards	These check box settings show the standard paper sizes that are currently displayed in the page list. Turning this setting OFF or ON will remove or add a standard paper size (ISO, ANSI, DIN, JIS, Architectural, Extra Wide) to or from the paper size list.

Printable Area 	Provides options to adjust the printable areas on the printed page.

Normal Margins	Application manages page margin settings.

Full Bleed 	The printable page contains no margins within an application the margins are added by the printer. This setting allows the selection for page size selected with zero margins (Enable Full Bleed) or for page size selected with the printer physical margins (Disable Full Bleed). Default Full Bleed and Extended Margins are disabled.

Extended Margins 	This setting can change the margin type to be used in the printer.  When Extended Margins is enabled the printer will use larger margins. The default will be enabled Full Bleed. If the media used needs bigger margins, the user can select Extended margins.

Custom page size 	There are three custom page sizes in the page size list. When selected the Paper sizes window will open allowing changes to the custom paper name, and the width and height dimensions for the custom paper size.

To customize paper size:

1.	In the Paper properties dialog box, click one of the three custom paper icons at the end of the list of paper sizes, then click Custom.

2.	Specify the name of the custom paper (up to 63 characters) as you wish it to appear in the Paper Size box.

3.	Select either Inches or Millimeters as the unit of measure for the width and length of the paper.

4.	Enter the dimensions of the paper in the Width and Length boxes.

Note:	The values you set for the width and length are specific to the Portrait orientation. The relative width and length of a page might appear to change if you set the Orientation value to Landscape or Rotated Landscape, where the Landscape length reflects the Portrait width value and the Landscape width reflects the Portrait length value.


Page Layout

The Page Layout tab allows the user to view page information, select settings for the scaling and rotation of a page and view the layout of a page.

Related Topics

Page Information

Layout View

Scaling/Rotation


Page Information

The Page Information option displays the size, print area and the margins of a page.


Scaling/Rotation

The Scaling/Rotation setting options allows the user to scale settings to the current page, by percentage or width/height.

Enable Scaling

Rotate


Enable Scaling

The Enable Scaling setting turns on the Scale Options.

The Scale to Setting gives three options to scale to by:

•	This page size Depending on your page size selection, the driver will automatically calculate the necessary scaling factor, taking into account the margins required by the printer. The printable area of the page in your application will be scaled when printed by your HP DesignJet, centered on your selected page size and undistorted.

•	Percent the scaling factor percent you enter here is used to increase the area of the final printed image. For example, a scaling factor of 200% will double the height and width dimensions of the final image.

•	Width/Height this allows you to specify a target width and height and a scale factor will automatically calculated to scale the final image.

Units  Enables the selection between of English (inches) or Metric (mm) units to be displayed.

Scaling From/To 	Displays the original page size and the final size after the scaling is applied.


Rotate

The Rotate option in the Graphics properties page allows you to rotate your drawing by 90 degrees so that you can use less of your roll media. For example, if your drawing is long and narrow, but not longer than the printable width of your roll, you could make use of the Rotate setting at print time and use less media. Note: this feature will also rotate the margins required by the printer. This usually results in a page size slightly larger (12mm each side) than you entered.  This option should not be confused with the Rotated option on the Paper Properties page, which rotates a landscape drawing, by 180 degrees.


Layout View

The Layout View displays the relative position, scale and rotation automatically when the user changes the driver options settings, in order to show the position, dimensions, orientation and imageable area for the printer job.  Driver settings shown in the layout view are selected page size, orientation, rotation, scaling, full bleed and extended margins.


Restore default

Restore default restores any changes to the settings back to the driver default values.


Scaling (Enlarging or Reducing)

You can enlarge or reduce a document by setting a print option.

Consider the following points when setting the scaling option:

-	Some applications include their own scaling features (typically in the Print, Print Setup, or Page Setup dialog boxes). Always use the scaling feature in your application if it is available. Setting scaling values in both the application and the Graphics properties dialog box can cause the settings to combine in unexpected ways.

-	When the driver is used to perform scaling, the imageable area (maximum possible inked area) is scaled either by the scaling factor you entered or to the selected Scale to page size. The advantage here is that the margins required by the printer are not scaled by the same amount, and are always constant (Top/bottom = 27mm, Left/right = 15mm).

-	If you want to maximize the use of the printable area using your drawing for the selected page size, you are recommended, where possible, to use your application's fit to page feature.

-	Unlike the scale setting in many applications’ Print dialog boxes, the scaling option you made using the Graphics properties dialog box frequently remains in effect until you change it.


DesignJet 5000 PS3 and DesignJet 800 PS3 PPD features (Win2000 and MS PS driver)

Printer Features Outline

Print Color as Gray – On, Off

Scale to – No Change, US Letter,….

Print Quality – Best, Normal, Draft

Optimized for CAD – On, Off

Maximum detail – On, Off

Automatic Pantone Calibration – On, Off

Rotate – On, Off

Color Management – Native, Emulation, No Emulation

HP CMYK Emulation – No CMYK Emulation, SWOP, Japan Offset, Euro Offset, DIC

HP RGB Emulation – No RGB Emulation, sRGB…

Rendering Intent -  Saturation, Perceptual, Colorimetric

Cyan Lightness – plus or minus 0,5,10,15,20,25%

Magenta Lightness– plus or minus 0,5,10,15,20,25%

Yellow Lightness– plus or minus 0,5,10,15,20,25%

Black Lightness– plus or minus 0,5,10,15,20,25%

Available printer memory	Displays the amount of memory available for the printer.

Installed memory	Allows user to adjust the size of memory available to your printer. If you install additional printer memory, you must use the 'Installed Memory' feature to enter the new amount of total printer memory.