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Color calibration

Please take time to read this section, as correct color calibration can significantly improve the quality of your prints.

 

Why color calibration?

Your is designed to give prints of an excellent quality. To ensure that the quality is always the best, you will need to perform a color calibration at various times.

Color calibration improves color consistency between prints, and from one printer to another. The printer calibrates color by printing a 'calibration strip' and then scanning the strip with a built-in optical sensor. The printer will then calculate the color correction required, which is then applied to all the subsequent prints. Color Calibration must be performed whenever a printhead is replaced, for each newly introduced media type that has not previously been calibrated for the current set of printheads. This can be turned off however and a default color correction is used for each of the media that is known.

After you have done the calibration, the calibration data is stored in your computer and is used the next time you print with the same type of paper loaded.

 

When to do color calibration?

You must perform the color calibration procedure...

  • When you install one or more new printheads.
  • When you use a type of media for the first time.
  • Whenever environmental conditions change (for example, temperature or humidity).
  • Whenever you note a deterioration in the quality of prints.

Depending on the amount of use made of the printer, we recommend that you recalibrate it every two weeks or so.

 

How do I do color calibration on the HP Designjet 10ps or 20ps?

Color calibration is done from the HP Designjet 10ps or 20ps software that is installed in your computer. For step-by-step procedures, see:

Note that calibration may create more than one profile with different media.

This is because in some cases media types share internal resources. Therefore when you run a calibration, this calibration applies to one setting and all the media that use that setting.

For example, using HP Premium Plus Photo Glossy media to calibrate will generate color calibration curves for:
HP Premium Plus Photo Glossy
HP Premium Photo Paper Glossy
HP Colorfast Photo Paper
HP Premium Plus Photo Matte
Other Photo Paper.

Be aware that if you delete a color calibration curve, all the curves that use the same setting will be deleted.

For help with general problems of print quality, see:

See also the Color Management Tutorial.

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