Color printing on HP Designjet T630

[zaerth]

Hello all. I recently purchased an HP Designjet T630 36" plotter for my home office. I am an architect and it will mainly be used for plotting blueprints. I does give me the side benefit of being a color printer and my family and I play a lot of DnD. I tried printing a couple color maps over the weekend on HP Universal Instant-Dry Satin Photo Paper and it seems no matter what I do, the colors are washed out and everything is printing too dark. Is it the paper or am I doing something wrong?

[Repairatrooper]

Number one issue I run into is people not setting the print quality to highest mode, especially when printing photographic quality images. It is also important to calibrate the printer with the paper you are using to ensure best quality and ensure that when you install the paper you are setting the correct paper type as driver performance will vary wildly if you tell the printer you loaded plain paper when in fact you have something else.

Lastly, while this device is capable of printing color images, it will not produce the same quality as higher end product that uses more colors and in some cases has higher printhead nozzles counts.