HP 3550 manual Using color, HP ImageREt, Paper selection, Standard red-green-blue sRGB

Using color

The HP Color LaserJet 3550 series printer and the HP Color LaserJet 3700 series printer offer great color printing as soon as you set up the printer. They provide a combination of automatic color features to generate excellent color results for the general office user. Also, the HP Color LaserJet 3700 series printer provides sophisticated tools for the professional who is experienced with using color.

The HP Color LaserJet 3550 series printer and HP Color LaserJet 3700 series printer provide carefully designed and tested color tables to provide smooth, accurate color rendition of all printable colors.

HP ImageREt 2400

HP ImageREt 2400 is a technology that provides the best color print quality without having to change printer driver settings or make trade-offs between print quality, performance, and memory. ImageREt 2400 produces photorealistic images.

HP ImageREt 2400 has been improved for this printer. The improvements offer trapping technologies, even greater control over dot placement, and more precise control of toner quality in a dot. These new technologies, coupled with HP's multilevel printing process, result in a 600-by-600 dpi printer that provides 2400 dpi color laser-class quality with millions of smooth colors.

Paper selection

For the best color and image quality it is important to select the appropriate paper type from the software printer menu or from the printer control panel. See Selecting paper.

Color options (available for the HP Color LaserJet 3700 series printer)

Color options automatically enable optimal color output for diverse types of documents.

Color options use object tagging, which allows optimal color and halftone settings to be used for different objects (text, graphics, and photos) on a page. The printer driver determines which objects are used on a page and uses halftone and color settings that provide the best print quality for each object. Object tagging, combined with optimized default settings, produces great color out of the box.

In the Windows environment, the Automatic and Manual color options are on the Color tab in the printer driver.

Standard red-green-blue (sRGB)

Standard red-green-blue (sRGB) is a world-wide color standard originally developed by HP and Microsoft as a common color language for monitors, input devices (scanners and digital cameras), and output devices (printers and plotters). It is the default color space used for HP products, Microsoft operating systems, the World Wide Web, and most office software sold today. The sRGB standard is representative of the typical Windows PC monitor today and the convergence standard for high-definition television.

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