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Table 6-1 Manual color options (continued)
Setting description | Setting options |
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Neutral Grays | ● Black Only generates neutral colors (grays and black) by using |
The Neutral Grays setting (available for the HP Color | only black toner. This guarantees neutral colors without a color |
cast. | |
LaserJet 3000 and 3800 Series printers only) |
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determines the method for creating gray colors used | ● |
in text, graphics, and photographs. | all four toner colors. This method produces smoother gradients |
| and transitions to other colors, and it produces the darkest black. |
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Edge Control | HP Color LaserJet 3000 and 3800 Series printers: |
The Edge Control setting determines how edges are | ● Maximum is the most aggressive trapping setting. Adaptive |
rendered. Edge control has two components: | halftoning is on. |
adaptive halftoning and trapping. Adaptive halftoning | ● Normal is the default trapping setting. Trapping is at a medium |
increases edge sharpness. Trapping reduces the | |
effect of | level and adaptive halftoning is on. |
the edges of adjacent objects slightly. | ● Light sets trapping at a minimal level, and adaptive halftoning is |
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| on. |
| ● Off turns off both trapping and adaptive halftoning. |
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| HP Color LaserJet 3600 Series printer: |
| ● Maximum is the most aggressive trapping setting. |
| ● Normal sets the trapping at a medium level. |
| ● Light sets trapping at a minimal level. |
| ● Off is the default trapping setting. Trapping is turned off. |
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RGB Color (HP Color LaserJet 3000 and 3800 Series | ● Default (sRGB) instructs the printer to interpret RGB color as |
printers only) | sRGB. The sRGB standard is the accepted standard of Microsoft |
| and the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org). |
| ● Image optimization (sRGB) (HP Color LaserJet 3800 Series |
| printer only) instructs the printer to use the best color matching for |
| rendering sRGB images. Select this option to print raster objects, |
| such as .BMP, .TIF, or .GIF files. |
| ● Adobe RGB (1998) (HP Color LaserJet 3800 Series printer only) |
| instructs the printer to use the best color matching for documents |
| or images that are in the Adobe RGB color space that some digital |
| cameras and |
| with Adobe RGB from a professional software program, turn off the |
| color management in the program and allow the printer software |
| to manage the color space. |
| ● None instructs the printer to print RGB data in raw device mode. |
| You must manage color in the program in which you are working |
| or in the operating system in order to render photographs correctly |
| when this option is selected. |
| ● Custom Profile instructs the printer to use a custom input profile |
| to more accurately predict and control color output. Download |
| custom profiles from www.hp.com. |
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Restricting color printing
NOTE This feature is available for the HP Color LaserJet 3000 and 3800 Series printers only.
ENWW | Managing color 103 |