Selecting the correct profile allows Acrobat Pro to more accurately represent the colors in your poster when printing. We have used it to create International Color Consortium (ICC) color profiles for each printer on the standard paper that we use in the lab.
The Escher and Ptolemy printers each have a built-in spectrophotometer.
We recommend this option and it is described in these instructions.Ĭalibration with a spectrophotometer can be used to create a profile of how specific combinations of printer inks and paper actually represent colors. Acrobat Pro will send these pixels to the printer with instructions to print them "as is" with no further changes.
Then, using its knowledge of the original color space for each element that was created or imported into the poster, plus the profile for how the printer colors actually look on paper, Acrobat Pro will adjust the color values of the pixels to match on the print as closely as possible with how they look on the screen. Let the application (Acrobat Pro) manage the colors. With this option, you tell Acrobat Pro where to find the correct color profile for the printer. You have two options for color management:
You will get awful colors unless you set a consistent color matching option in the operating system print driver (this step) and in Adobe Acrobat Pro color management (step 7, below). Without forcing the settings to match, first Acrobat Pro will adjust the colors as it thinks would print best, and then the operating system will adjust them again - differently. The items outlined in red must be checked or changed in the order shown, as described in detail below.ģ) Set color matching in the operating system print driver This will bring up the Acrobat Pro Print dialog box as shown in the screenshot selection below. Start by selecting the Print item from the File menu in Acrobat Pro. printer release form to release your print from the print queue so it can actually print. The basic workflow is to open the File->Print menu select the desired poster printer set the custom page size select "application managed" color matching in the operating system print driver modify margin handling if desired verify the print orientation and scaling select the color matching ICC profile in Acrobat Pro and then send your print job to a queue on the School server, pangea.Īfter printing, you must use the appropriate G.R.I.D. You are "on your own" if you change anything else. All other items were left at default values during our testing. On each screenshot, the only items that you must check or modify are outlined in red. The old Escher printer is the exact same printer model, so all these instructions apply for it as well, except that you must select the specific ICC color profile generated for each printer. The screenshots shown here were made using sample files printed to the new Ptolemy printer that was placed into service in December 2017.
This page will show you how to set the color matching, page size, orientation, scaling, and other essential printer options and then print the poster from Acrobat Pro. There are separate instructions for poster printing from Adobe Acrobat Pro CS6 on MacOS. You may see this program listed in the Start menu as simply "Adobe Acrobat".
lab computers that is running Windows and have opened your poster in the Adobe Acrobat Pro CS6 program. This page assumes you have logged into one of the G.R.I.D.