Printing to the Poster Printer

Printing to the Poster Printer Document size The HP Design Jet Z3100ps uses a roll of paper that is 36 wide, however it does not print all the way to the edge of the paper (known as a bleed ). One dimension of your document - including any cropmarks - needs to be smaller than 35.5. Your document will always be orieted to use the least amount of paper. Scanned images 150 dpi is the ideal final resolution for scanned images for this printer. To calculate the correct resolution you will need to scan to get to 150 dpi, simply figure out approximately how much you will be enlarging your original scan on the poster (2x, 2.5x, 3x, etc.) and multiply that same number by 150. Use this result as a rough dpi resolution number for your image. Enlarging your image or raising its resolution in Photoshop does NOT increase your useful resolution or improve image quality. Do not scan or resample photographic images at resolutions higher than 200 dpi when using this printer. The way the printer works and the nature of viewing posters means that anything over these resolutions is not only wasted disk space, but also INCREDIBLY longer processing times. If your image is exceedingly large, we will ask you to adjust it down in Photoshop to a more appropriate resolution. If you are using photographs from CD ROMs, open them in Photoshop and size them by going to the Image Size option in the Image menu, and setting the dimensions to your desired size on the poster (in inches), and setting the resolution to 150 dpi. Resave the image with these new dimensions (and apply the modified image to your document as necessary). The HP Design Jet Z3100ps uses 12 inks to print images, which enlarges the range of colors it can print beyond the normal CMYK color gamut. To utilize this larger color gamut, you should leave your scanned images in RGB mode. However, you should preview your image in CMYK on screen for a more realistic approximation of your printed image. Bright or saturated Reds, Greens, and Blues will not match the screen when printed, since those colors do not exist in the printer s color gamut. In Adobe Photoshop, go to the View menu and select Proof Setup>Working CMYK. Then go to View>Proof Colors) which doesn t actually convert to CMYK, but can give you an idea of what your print will look like. Adjust your colors so that they are acceptable when viewing the proof. Gamut Warning under View will also gray-out the problem areas to make them more obvious to you. Draw-type graphics (such as EPS files) and typography can be scaled up or down with no loss in image quality (even though EPS images on the screen may look poor). Specifying colors The HP Design Jet Z3100ps has its own color reference book that should be used to specify colors for fonts and objects. Use this book to define your colors. The printer does have a Pantone matching system, but cannot gaurentee to be accurate match with the exact Pantone color. Every color printer is going to print out colors differently, so be aware that your colors may not exactly match what you had intended or printed on another printer. Choose a paper There are 2 types of paper to choose from when printing to this printer: HP Premium Instant-dry Photo Gloss (a coated stock with a glossy finish), and or Magiclee Firenze 170 (a matte finish paper). They cost the same, use the sample prints to choose which to print your document. Handling your finished print The HP Design Jet Z3100ps printer is an ink jet printer, so it is sensitive to moisture and fingerprints. Be absolutely sure that your hands and anything else that contacts your print is completely dry, otherwise the ink will run. It is strongly recommended that you make your print more water and fade resistant by lightly spraying it with a sealer of some kind (such as Krylon matte or glossy finish). page 14

Printing Posters from Adobe InDesign 1. Tell the lab assistant which type of paper you wish to use. Save your file. Then, go to Preflight in the File menu. This will check your document for missing fonts and image link problems. To correct missing font problems use FontExplorerX to open the fonts that are needed (instructions listed elsewhere in this manual), or reassign them to fonts that are open by clicking on Fonts in the left column, then clicking on the Find Font button. To correct missing links and images click on Links and Images in the list on the left of the Preflight window. Click on Repair All. A window will appear that requires you to locate the missing files necessary to print your document. If no problems are indicated, or when they are solved, click on Cancel. 2. Go to Print in the File menu. In the window that appears, next to Printer: select HP DesignJet Z3100ps. Along the left side of the window you will see a summary list of options to select: General - Print only 1 copy let the assistant know if you want additional copies later. Print only 1 page at a time, using the Range field. Choose Spreads if you want to print both the left and right hand pages of a spread as a single print. Setup - Next to Paper Size: choose Custom. This will create a page size to match your document. Next to Orientation, select the icon that makes your document print landscape (short and fat, as shown) unless one dimension is greater than 35.5 when you include Crop Marks (selected in the next step). Crop Marks add about 1 to your document. If one dimension is greater than 35.5, choose the icon to orient your document to print tall. Print all documents at 100%. [To resize, go to File>Document Setup. Enter the Width and Height for your desired printout and click OK. Choose the solid Arrow tool and go to Edit>Select All. Then go to Object>Group. Resize your document to fit the new page size by dragging on a corner of the grouped objects while holding down the Shift and Command keys on the keyboard.] Make sure that both Thumbnails & Tile are unchecked. Marks & Bleed - turn on All Printers Marks. Go back to Setup and make sure your page width does not exceed 35.5. If it does, you ll need to change the orientation to print as a Tall document and you ll be charged for the longer dimension. Output - set to Composite Leave Unchanged. Graphics - set Fonts > Download: to Subset, and Postscript : to Level 3. Color Management - if available, click next to Document, and next to Color Handling select Postscript Printer Determines Color. Be sure to select Preserve CMYK numbers. Advanced - for Transparency Flattener: Preset, select [High Resolution] 3. Click on the Printer... button at the bottom (Continue through the warning if it appears). Confirm HP Design Jet Z3100ps next to Printer:, and click on the triangle next to it if it points down. Set Copies to 1. Click and hold on Layout and drag down to Paper handling. Leave Scale to fit paper size unchecked. Change to Color Options. Select Printer Manages Colors and select the Color Management settings shown to the right. Leave all Lightness and Hue and Gray Balance settings at 0. Change to Finishing. Leave all boxes unchecked (including Rotate by 90 Degrees), and ignore the paper size and orientation indicator on the roll graphic on the left. Toggle to Layout (next to Finishing) and select Print with Margins, then Standard. Change to Image Quality. Set Paper Type: to either HP Premium Instant-dry Photo Gloss or Magiclee Firenze 170, and Quality Options: to Standard. Drag the slider all the way to the right to Quality. Leave all fields blank in Services and Accounting. 4. Notify the Lab Assistant before you print. Do not print to these printers without first talking with a Lab Assistant. Do not print to these printers if you do not have the money with you to pay for them. Please note that the printers are all You print, you pay. You pay for all documents printed. page 15

Printing Posters from Adobe Photoshop 1. Read the Scanned Images section in Printing to the Poster Printer on page 15 (Leave your image as RGB for maximum color gamut, but be sure to preview your image in CMYK as described before printing). 2. Tell the lab assistant which type of paper you wish to use. Save your file. Go to Image>Image Size... In the box that appears, make sure there is a check next to Constrain Proportions and Resample Image. Under Document Size set the Width and Height to Inches and enter your desired dimensions. Set the resolution anywhere from 120 (min) to 300 (max). Note the exact width and height of your document for the next step. Click on OK. Resave your file with a different name. 3. Go to Print in the File menu. Click on the Page Setup button. Choose HP Design Jet Z3100ps next to Format for:. Next to Paper Size: choose Manage Custom Sizes. Click on the + button to add your custom page size. Double-click Untitled to rename it. Enter dimensions that are exactly one inch larger than your document dimensions. Set all Margins to 0. Click on OK. Next to Paper Size:, select your page name from the long list (it will be at the bottom). Set the Scale to 100%. Click on OK when finished. 4. Make sure your image fits completely inside the paper you ve setup in the previous setup (if not, redo step 3). Change Output to Color Management, click next to Document, and next to Color Handling, select Printer Manages Color. Click and hold on Color Management and change to Output. Select the desired bars and marks (usually the top 6 checkboxes). Click on the blue Print button in the lower-right of the window. 5. Confirm HP Design Jet Z3100ps next to Printer:, and click on the triangle next to it if it points down. Confirm 1 next to copies - let the assistant know if you want additional copies later. Click and hold on Layout and drag down to Paper handling. Leave Scale to fit paper size unchecked. Change to Color Options. Select Printer Managed Colors and select the Color Management settings shown to the right. Leave all Lightness and Hue and Gray Balance settings at 0. Change to Finishing and match the settings shown on the right. Check or uncheck Rotate by 90 Degrees to use the least amount of paper - use the paper roll graphic as an indicator (note that at least 1 dimension of your page size needs to be less than 35.5 ). Change to Image Quality. Set Paper Type: Set Paper Type: to either HP Premium Instant-dry Photo Gloss or Magiclee Firenze 170, and Quality Options: to Standard. Drag the slider all the way to the right to Quality. Leave all fields blank in Services and Accounting. 6. Notify the Lab Assistant before you print. Do not print to these printers without first talking with a Lab Assistant. Do not print to these printers if you do not have the money with you to pay for them. Please note that the printers are all You print, you pay. You pay for all documents printed. page 16

Printing Posters from Adobe Illustrator 1. Print all documents at 100%. If you want to resize, go to File>Document Setup. Enter the Width and Height for your desired printout and click OK. Choose the Solid Arrow tool and go to Edit>Select All. Then go to Object>Group. Resize your document to fit the new page size by dragging on a corner of the grouped object while holding down the Shift key on the keyboard. 2. Tell the lab assistant which type of paper you wish to use. Save your file. Go to Illustrator>Preferences>Units and Display Performance. Set to General to Inches. Go to Print in the File menu. In the window that appears, next to Printer: select HP DesignJet Z3100ps. 3. Click on the Printer... button at the bottom-left (Continue through the warning if it appears). Confirm HP Design Jet Z3100ps next to Printer:, and click on the triangle next to it if it points down. Confirm 1 next to copies let the assistant know if you want additional copies later. Click and hold on Layout and drag down to Paper handling. Leave Scale to fit paper size unchecked. Change to Color Options. Select Printer Manages Colors and select the Color Management settings shown to the right. Leave all Lightness and Hue and Gray Balance settings at 0. Change to Finishing. Leave all boxes unchecked (including Rotate by 90 Degrees), and ignore the paper size and orientation indicator on the roll graphic on the left. Toggle to Layout (next to Finishing) and select Print with Margins, then Standard. Change to Image Quality. Set Paper Type: to either HP Premium Instant-dry Photo Gloss or Magiclee Firenze 170, and Quality Options: to Standard. Drag the slider all the way to the right to Quality. Select Services and leave all fields blank in. Do the same for Accounting. Click on Print. 4. Along the left side of the window you will see a summary list of options to select: Setup - Next to Crop Artwork to: select Artboard. Set Tiling: to Single Full Page Marks & Bleed - turn on All Printers Marks. Output - set Mode to Composite. Graphics - set Fonts > Download: to Subset, and Postscript : to LanguageLevel 3. Color Management - Next to Color Handling select Let Postscript Printer Determine Color. Be sure to select Preserve CMYK numbers. Advanced - for Preset, select [High Resolution] General (Do this option last) - Set Copies to 1. Print only 1 page at a time, using the Range field. Next to Media>Size: choose Custom (from the top of the list). This will create a page size to match your document. Then, either: a. If your document is perfectly square (and less than 35.5 ), leave the orientation unchanged. b. If the Height shown in the window is less than 35.5, select the landscape Orientation (second from the left). Then reselect Custom next to Media>Size to match the media to the document. c. If the Height shown in the window is more than 35.5, leave the orientation unchanged. Note that your print will be using at least 36 of paper - regardless of the width. Set Options>Print Layers: to Visible & Printable Layers, and select Do Not Scale. 5. Notify the Lab Assistant before you print. Do not print to these printers without first talking with a Lab Assistant. Do not print to these printers if you do not have the money with you to pay for them. Please note that the printers are all You print, you pay. You pay for all documents printed. Click on Print. page 17

Printing Posters from Preview (PDFs) 1. Open the PDF document using Preview, then go to Tools>Inspector. In the General Info tab on the inspector, make a note of the Page Size of the document. 2. Tell the lab assistant which type of paper you wish to use. Go to Print in the File menu. Select HP Design Jet Z3100ps next to Printer: and click on the triangle next to it if it points down. Confirm 1 next to copies let the assistant know if you want additional copies later. Print only 1 page at a time, using the Range field. Next to Paper Size: choose Manage Custom Sizes. Click on the + button to add your custom page size. Double-click Untitled to rename it. Enter dimensions that are.1 larger your document dimensions. Set all Margins to 0. Click on OK. Now next to Paper Size:, select your page name from the long list (it will be near the bottom). Make sure your image fits completely inside the paper you ve setup in the previous. Redo if not. Put a check inside Automatically rotate each page, and select No automatic page scaling. 3. Click and hold on Preview and drag down to Layout. You cannot print crop or registration marks when printing via the Preview application, but you can add a hairline border to trim from around your print. Select Single hairline next to Border for that feature, or select None. Change to Color Matching, and set to In Printer. Change to Paper handling. Leave Scale to fit paper size unchecked. Change to Color Options. Select Printer Manages Colors and select the Color Management settings shown to the right. Leave all Lightness and Hue and Gray Balance settings at 0. Change to Finishing and match the settings shown on the right. Check or uncheck Rotate by 90 Degrees to use the least amount of paper - use the paper roll graphic as an indicator (note that at least 1 dimension of your page size needs to be less than 35.5 ). Toggle to Layout (next to Finishing) and select Print with Margins, then Standard. Change to Image Quality. Set Paper Type: to either HP Premium Instant-dry Photo Gloss or Magiclee Firenze 170, and Quality Options: to Standard. Drag the slider all the way to the right to Quality. Leave all fields blank in Services and Accounting. 4. Notify the Lab Assistant before you print. Do not print to these printers without first talking with a Lab Assistant. Do not print to these printers if you do not have the money with you to pay for them. Please note that the printers are all You print, you pay. You pay for all documents printed. Click on Print. page 18

Printing Posters from Adobe Acrobat (PDFs) 1. Open the PDF document using Adobe Acrobat, then go to File>Properties. In the Description tab (top), make a note of the Page Size of the document (near the bottom of the window). Click OK to close the Properties window. 2. Tell the lab assistant which type of paper you wish to use. Go to Page Setup in the File menu. Choose HP Design Jet Z3100ps next to Format for:. Next to Paper Size: choose Manage Custom Sizes. Click on the + button to add your custom page size. Double-click Untitled to rename it. Enter dimensions that are exactly one inch larger than your document dimensions. Set all Margins to 0. Click on OK. Next to Paper Size:, select your page name from the long list (it will be at the bottom). Click on OK when finished, then OK again to close the Page Setup window. 3. Go to Print in the File menu. Select HP Design Jet Z3100ps next to Printer: and click on the triangle next to it if it points down. Make sure your image fits completely inside the paper you ve setup in the previous setup with a thin white border around the edges (if not, redo step 2). Confirm 1 next to copies let the assistant know if you want additional copies later. Print only 1 page at a time, using the Pages: field. 4. Click on the Advanced... button at the bottom. Along the top left side of the window you will see a summary list of options to select: Output - set Color to Composite, set Color Profile to Printer/ Postscript Color Management, and set Screening to Custom. Marks & Bleeds - select All Marks. Click on OK. 5. Click and hold on Copies and Pages and drag down to Color Matching, and set to In Printer. Change to Paper handling. Leave Scale to fit paper size unchecked. Change to Color Options. Select Printer Manages Colors and select the Color Management settings shown to the right. Leave all Lightness and Hue and Gray Balance settings at 0. Change to Finishing and match the settings shown on the right. Check or uncheck Rotate by 90 Degrees to use the least amount of paper - use the paper roll graphic as an indicator (note that at least 1 dimension of your page size needs to be less than 35.5 ). Change to Image Quality. Set Paper Type: to either HP Premium Instant-dry Photo Gloss or Magiclee Firenze 170, and Quality Options: to Standard. Drag the slider all the way to the right to Quality. Leave all fields blank in Services and Accounting. 6. Notify the Lab Assistant before you print. Do not print to these printers without first talking with a Lab Assistant. Do not print to these printers if you do not have the money with you to pay for them. Please note that the printers are all You print, you pay. You pay for all documents printed. Click on Print. page 19