Printing in pure black and white
You can convert all colors in your image to pure black and pure white in the following way:
● In the Windows driver dialog: Go to the Color tab and look at the Output Color or Color Options section
(whichever is available in your driver). Select Print in pure black and white.
HP Professional PANTONE Emulation
When you use a named PANTONE color in an image, your application will normally send to the printer a CMYK or
RGB approximation to that color. But the application does not take the printer or the paper type into account, it
merely produces a generic approximation of the PANTONE color, which will look
dierent on dierent printers and
on dierent papers.
HP Professional PANTONE Emulation can do a much better job by taking into account the characteristics of the
printer and the paper type. The results look as similar to the original PANTONE colors as is possible on a given
printer using a given paper type. This technology is designed to produce emulations similar to those set up
manually by prepress professionals.
To use HP Professional PANTONE Emulation, all you have to do is to turn it on. In fact, it is normally on by default.
● In the Windows driver dialog: Go to the Color tab and select HP Professional PANTONE Emulation.
● In the Mac OS X Print dialog: Go to the Color Options panel and select HP Professional PANTONE Emulation.
● From the front panel: Tap , then Printing preferences > Color options > HP Pantone Emulation.
HP Professional PANTONE Emulation not only provides the closest match that can be achieved on your printer; it
also gives clear information on how close the emulation is to the original spot color.
Color emulation
Your printer can emulate the color behavior of other devices: RGB devices such as monitors, and CMYK devices
such as presses and printers.
You can set color emulation in the following ways:
● In the Windows driver dialog: Select the Color tab, and Printer Managed Colors.
● In the Mac OS X Print dialog: Select the Color Option panel, then select Adobe RGB or SRGB as the source
prole.
For a good emulation, the printer needs a specication of the colors these devices can reproduce. The standard
way of encapsulating such information is in ICC proles. As part of the solution, we provide the most common
standards for the dierent devices.
The options are as follows.
RGB color emulation
Your printer is provided with the following color proles:
● None (Native): No emulation, for use when the color conversion is done by the application or operating
system, and therefore the data arrive at the printer already color-managed. Available for PostScript and
PDF drivers only.
● sRGB IEC61966-2.1 emulates the characteristics of the average PC monitor. This standard space is
endorsed by many hardware and software manufacturers, and is becoming the default color space for
many scanners, printers and software applications.
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