HP Color LaserJet 4700 User Manual
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HP customer care Online services For 24-hour access to information using a modem or Internet connection: World Wide Web URL: for the HP Color LaserJet 4700 series printers, updated HP printer software, product and support information, and printer drivers in several languages can be obtained from http://www.hp.com/support/clj4700. (Sites are in English.) Visit: http://www.hp.com/support/net_printing for information about network printing using HP Jetdirect print servers. HP Instant Support Professional Edition (ISPE) is a suite of Web-based troubleshooting tools for desktop computing and printing products. ISPE helps you quickly identify, diagnose, and resolve computing and printing problems. The ISPE tools may be accesssed from http://instantsupport.hp.com . Telephone support HP provides free telephone support during the warranty period. When you call, you will be connected to a responsive team waiting to help you. For the telephone number for your country/region, see the flyer that shipped in the box with the product. You can also visit http://www.hp.com , and then click Contact HP , and then click Contact HP Worldwide . Before calling HP, have the following information ready: product name and serial number, date of purchase, and description of the problem. You can also find support on the Internet at http://www.hp.com . Click the support & drivers block. Software utilities, drivers, and electronic information Visit: http://www.hp.com/go/clj4700_software for the HP Color LaserJet 4700 series printer. The Web page for the drivers might be in English, but you can download the drivers themselves in several languages. Call: See the flyer that shipped in the box with the printer. HP direct ordering for accessories or supplies In the United States, supplies can be ordered from http://www.hp.com/sbso/product/supplies . In Canada, supplies can be ordered from http://www.hp.ca/catalog/supplies . In Europe, supplies can be ordered from http://www.hp.com/supplies . In Asia-Pacific, supplies can be ordered from http://www.hp.com/paper/. Accessories can be ordered from http://www.hp.com/go/accessories . Call: 1-800-538-8787 (U.S.) or 1-800-387-3154 (Canada). HP service information To locate HP-Authorized Dealers, call 1-800-243-9816 (U.S.) or 1-800-387-3867 (Canada). For service for your product, call the customer support number for your country/region. See the flyer that shipped in the box with the printer. HP service agreements Call: 1-800-835-4747 (U.S.) or 1-800-268-1221 (Canada). Extended Service: 1-800-446-0522 ENWW iii
HP support and information for Macintosh computers Visit: http://www.hp.com/go/macosx for Macintosh OS X support information and HP subscription service for driver updates. Visit: http://www.hp.com/go/mac-connect for products designed specifically for the Macintosh user. iv HP customer care ENWW
Table of contents 1 Printer basicsQuick access to printer information ........................................................................................... ............2 World Wide Web links .......................................................................................................... .2 User guide links .............................................................................................................. ......2 Where to look for more information ......................................................................................2 Setting up the printer ............................................................................................2 Using the printer ...................................................................................................3 Printer configurations ........................................................................................................ ....................4 HP Color LaserJet 4700 (product number Q7491A) .............................................................4 HP Color LaserJet 4700n (product number Q7492A) ...........................................................4 HP Color LaserJet 4700dn (product number Q7493A) .........................................................5 HP Color LaserJet 4700dtn (product number Q7494A) ........................................................6 HP Color LaserJet 4700ph+ (product number Q7495A) ......................................................6 Printer features .............................................................................................................. ........................7 Walk around ................................................................................................................... .....................10 Printer software .............................................................................................................. .....................12 Software ...................................................................................................................... ........12 Software features ...............................................................................................12 Driver Autoconfiguration .....................................................................................12 Update Now .......................................................................................................12 HP Driver Preconfiguration ................................................................................12 Installing the printing system software ................................................................................13 Installing Windows printing system software for direct connections ..................13 Installing Windows printing system software for networks .................................14 Setting up a Windows computer to use the network printer with Windows- sharing ...............................................................................................................15 Installing the software after the parallel or USB cable has been connected ...........................................................................................................15 Uninstalling the software ..................................................................................................... 15 Removing software from Windows operating systems ......................................16 Software for networks ......................................................................................................... 16 HP Web Jetadmin ..............................................................................................16 UNIX ...................................................................................................................17 Utilities ..................................................................................................................... ...........17 HP Easy Printer Care Software ..........................................................................17 Embedded Web server ......................................................................................17 Features ............................................................................................18 Other components and utilities ...........................................................................18 Printer drivers ............................................................................................................... .......................19 Supported printer drivers ....................................................................................................1 9 ENWW v
Additional drivers ................................................................................................................19 Select the correct printer driver ...........................................................................................20 Printer-driver Help (Windows) .............................................................................................20 Gaining access to the printer drivers ..................................................................................20 Printer drivers for Macintosh computers ....................................................................................... .......22 Supported printer drivers ....................................................................................................2 2 Gaining access to the printer drivers ..................................................................................22 Software for Macintosh computers .............................................................................................. ........24 Installing Macintosh printing system software for networks ................................................24 Installing Macintosh printing system software for direct connections (USB) ......................25 To remove software from Macintosh operating systems ....................................................26 Using the HP Printer Utility for Macintosh .................................................................................... .......27 Opening the HP Printer Utility .............................................................................................27 Printing a cleaning page .....................................................................................................2 7 Printing a configuration page ..............................................................................................27 Viewing supplies status ......................................................................................................2 8 Ordering supplies online and using other support features ................................................28 Uploading a file to the printer ..............................................................................................2 8 Uploading fonts to the printer ..............................................................................................29 Updating the firmware ......................................................................................................... 29 Activating the two-sided printing (duplexing) mode ............................................................29 Activating the Economode printing mode ...........................................................................29 Changing the toner density .................................................................................................30 Changing the resolution settings ........................................................................................30 Locking or unlocking printer storage devices ......................................................................30 Saving or printing stored jobs .............................................................................................30 Configuring trays ............................................................................................................. ....31 Changing network settings .................................................................................................31 Opening the embedded Web server ...................................................................................31 Setting up e-mail alerts ...................................................................................................... .32 Print media specifications .................................................................................................... ................33 Supported media weights and sizes ...................................................................................33 2 Control panel Introduction .................................................................................................................. ........................38 Display ................................................................................................................................38 Accessing the control panel from a computer .....................................................................40 Control panel buttons ..........................................................................................................................41 Interpreting control panel indicator lights ................................................................................... ..........42 Interpreting stapler/stacker indicator light codes ............................................................................ .....43 Control panel menus ........................................................................................................... ................45 Getting started basics ........................................................................................................ .45 Menu hierarchy ................................................................................................................ ....................46 To enter the menus ............................................................................................................ .46 Retrieve job menu ............................................................................................................. ..46 Information menu .............................................................................................................. ..46 Paper handling menu ..........................................................................................................4 7 Configure device menu .......................................................................................................47 Diagnostics menu .............................................................................................................. .49 Retrieve job menu ............................................................................................................. ..................50 vi ENWW
Information menu ................................................................................................................................51 Paper handling menu ........................................................................................................... ...............52 Configure device menu ......................................................................................................... ..............53 Printing menu ................................................................................................................. .....53 Print quality menu ............................................................................................................ ...54 System setup menu ............................................................................................................5 6 Stapler/stacker menu .......................................................................................................... 59 I/O menu ...................................................................................................................... .......60 Resets menu ................................................................................................................... ....62 Diagnostics menu .............................................................................................................. ..................63 Changing printer control panel configuration settings ......................................................................... 64 Job storage limit ............................................................................................................. .....64 Setting the job storage limit ................................................................................64 Job held timeout .............................................................................................................. ...64 Setting the job held timeout ................................................................................64 Show IP address ............................................................................................................... ..65 Showing the IP address .....................................................................................65 Color/black mix ............................................................................................................... ....65 Setting the color/black mix .................................................................................65 Tray behavior options ......................................................................................................... 66 Setting the printer to use the requested tray ......................................................66 Setting manually feed prompt ............................................................................67 Setting the printer default for PS defer media ....................................................67 Setting the printer to use size/type prompt .........................................................68 Setting the printer to use another tray ................................................................68 Setting the printer to duplex blank pages ...........................................................68 Setting the printer to rotate images ....................................................................69 Sleep delay ................................................................................................................... ......69 Setting sleep delay .............................................................................................69 Disabling/enabling sleep mode ..........................................................................70 Wake time ..................................................................................................................... ......70 Setting the wake time .........................................................................................70 Display brightness ............................................................................................................ ..71 Setting the display brightness ............................................................................71 Personality ................................................................................................................... .......72 Setting the personality ........................................................................................72 Clearable warnings ............................................................................................................ .72 Setting the clearable warnings ...........................................................................72 Auto continue ................................................................................................................. .....73 Setting auto continue .........................................................................................73 Replace supplies .............................................................................................................. ..73 Setting replace supplies response .....................................................................74 Order at ...................................................................................................................... .........74 Setting order at response ...................................................................................74 Color supply out .............................................................................................................. ....74 Setting color supply out response ......................................................................75 Jam recovery .................................................................................................................. ....75 Setting jam recovery response ...........................................................................75 RAM disk ...................................................................................................................... ......76 Changing RAM disk behavior .............................................................................76 ENWW vii
Language ............................................................................................................................76 Selecting the language .......................................................................................76 Selecting the language if the display is in a language you do not understand ...77 Using the printer control panel in shared environments ......................................................................78 3 I/O configuration Network configuration ......................................................................................................... .................80 Configuring TCP/IP parameters ..........................................................................................80 Manually configuring TCP/IP parameters from the printer control panel . ..........80 Setting an IP address .........................................................................................80 Setting the subnet mask .....................................................................................81 Setting the default gateway ................................................................................82 Disabling network protocols (optional) ...............................................................82 Disabling IPX/SPX .............................................................................................83 Disabling DLC/LLC .............................................................................................83 Disabling AppleTalk ...........................................................................................84 Parallel configuration ........................................................................................................ ...................85 USB configuration ............................................................................................................. ..................86 Auxiliary connection configuration ............................................................................................ ...........87 HP Jetdirect print servers ....................................................................................................................88 Available software solutions ...............................................................................................88 Wireless printing ............................................................................................................. .....................89 IEEE 802.11 standard .........................................................................................................8 9 Bluetooth ..................................................................................................................... ........89 4 Printing tasks Controlling print jobs ........................................................................................................ ....................92 Source ........................................................................................................................ ........92 Type and size ................................................................................................................. ....92 Print setting priorities ...................................................................................................... ....92 Selecting print media ......................................................................................................... ..................94 Media to avoid ................................................................................................................ ....94 Paper that can damage the printer .....................................................................................94 Automatic media type sensing (auto sense mode) .............................................................................95 Tray 1 sensing ................................................................................................................ ....95 Tray 2–N sensing .............................................................................................................. ..96 Configuring input trays ....................................................................................................... .................97 Configuring trays when the printer gives a prompt .............................................................97 Configuring a tray when loading paper ...............................................................................97 Configuring a tray to match print job settings .....................................................................98 Configuring trays using the paper handling menu ..............................................................98 Configuring Tray 2 and optional trays for a custom paper size ..........................................99 Printing from Tray 1 (multipurpose tray) ...........................................................................100 Loading Tray 1 .................................................................................................100 Printing envelopes from Tray 1 .........................................................................................101 Loading envelopes into Tray 1 .........................................................................101 Printing envelopes ............................................................................................102 Printing from Tray 2 or the optional trays ..........................................................................102 Loading detectable standard-sized media into Tray 2 and optional trays .........................103 Loading undetectable standard-sized media into Tray 2 and optional trays .....................105 viii ENWW