 Color Setup

The Color Setup item allows you to choose the way color settings are controlled: either through HP ColorSmart II or manually.

HP ColorSmart II technology is a set of defaults that automatically tune your color printer output. HP ColorSmart II defaults provide high-quality output for most color printing needs. HP ColorSmart II is the easiest way to maximize your color output while maintaining printer performance.

Click the Manual button to turn HP ColorSmart II off and access the Options … button for setting color options.


 Graphics Mode

Depending on the document, one graphics mode may print faster than the other may. HP-GL/2 accelerates printing of documents containing graphics elements such as lines, circles, rectangles, and pie and bar charts. Raster improves print speed for bitmapped images such as clip art, photos, Internet images, and scanned images.


 List Printer Fonts

Select List Printer Fonts if you want fonts that are installed on the printer to be available from within Windows applications.

Clear the List Fonts in Application Font menu option if fonts are listed twice in your Windows applications.


 Print Quality


 Color Mode


 Color Treatment

The Color Treatment  settings allows you to choose the way color settings are controlled: either through HP ColorSmart II or manually.

HP ColorSmart II technology is a set of defaults that automatically tune your color printer output. HP ColorSmart II defaults provide high-quality output for most color printing needs. HP ColorSmart II is the easiest way to maximize your color output while maintaining printer performance.

Click the Manual button to turn HP ColorSmart II off and access the Options … button for setting color options.


 ColorSmart

HP ColorSmart II technology is a set of defaults that automatically tune your color printer output. HP ColorSmart II defaults provide high-quality output for most color printing needs. HP ColorSmart II is the easiest way to maximize your color output while maintaining printer performance.


 Manual

Click the Manual button to turn HP ColorSmart II off and access the Options … button for setting color options


 Options... Button

Click the Options… Button to adjust color control and halftone settings independently for text, graphics, and photographs. Manual Color Options are available when HP ColorSmart II is turned off.


 Defaults Button

Click the Defaults Button to restore the default settings.


 About...


 HP FontSmart

The HP FontSmart utility manages fonts and makes them available to your Windows applications. Using HP FontSmart can speed up Windows performance by allowing you to install and make active only the fonts you need.

HP FontSmart searches your disk(s) for all fonts, allowing you to view font samples and to remove duplicate or unneeded fonts to free up disk space.

Running HP FontSmart can take a few minutes. When you click HP FontSmart, lists are prepared of fonts that you can install and of fonts that are already installed. You can install, uninstall, or delete any font that appears on the lists.

For more information, see the HP FontSmart Help.


 Color Control

Color Control is a Manual Color Option that controls the type of color produced by the printer. Color Control options can be changed when HP ColorSmart II is turned off.


 Halftone

Halftoning is the method by which the printer mixes the four primary colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) in varying proportions to create millions of colors. The Halftone options affect the resolution and clarity of your color output. You can select halftone settings for text, graphics, and photos independently.


 Text

In some applications, colored, filled, or rotated text is treated as a graphic or as a photo. If your text is not as crisp as you would like it to be, change your graphics and photos halftone setting to Detail.

Graphics

Graphics include items such as bar graphs, pie charts, and tables.

Photos

Photos can be in the form of raster images, bitmaps, and device-independent bitmaps (DIBs). Some examples of photos are pictures from a CD-ROM, pictures taken by a digital camera, and images that are scanned by a desktop scanner.


 Vivid

Vivid Color uses the full range of the printer’s capabilities, producing colors that are more deeply saturated than those on your screen. If you use Vivid Color, blues and greens will likely appear darker in print than on your monitor. Vivid color is useful for business graphics and other documents that require deep, rich colors.


 Screen Match

Screen Match (sRGB) (standard red-green-blue) prints colors that are close to those you see on your screen. Screen Match (sRGB) can be useful with images that have been scanned in by an sRGB scanner or created with any sRGB input device. It is also helpful when you are retouching photographs or when you have created colors on your screen that you wish to reproduce, such as special colors for a company logo.

Note that factors such as the type of monitor you use, the monitor’s settings, and the room's lighting can affect the appearance of colors on your screen.


 Detail

The Detail halftone option is useful for images that require sharp distinctions among lines or colors, such as images that contain a pattern or a high level of detail. Detail is useful for text, in which crisp, distinct lines are more important than an even distribution of color.

The Detail halftone setting prints more lines per inch than the Smooth setting.


 Smooth

The Smooth halftone option is useful for images in which an even distribution of color is more important than crisp, distinct lines. For example, use Smooth when you are printing a graph or photograph in which a large area, such as the sky, is colored in a single color. Use it also when you are printing an image that contains a gradation of a single color, such as a background for a transparency in which a light shade of a color progresses to a dark shade of the same color.

The Smooth halftone setting prints fewer lines per inch than the Detail setting.