HP Designjet 111 User Manual

3 Paper handling
Cut-sheet paper loading
Cut sheets of paper can be loaded into the printer in the following ways.
●The front path takes single sheets of paper up to D+ size (610 × 914 mm); use this slot for paper
that needs special care in handling. You can also use this slot to print on the back of an already
printed sheet. To use this slot, select Front manual feed in your software.
●The rear path takes single sheets of paper; it is designed to provide a straight paper path for
printing on thicker...

2.Lift up the tray cover.
3.If the paper you are using is larger than Legal- or A4-size, move the small tab in the center
towards the left so that you can lengthen the tray. Let go of the tab and pull the tray extension
out as far as it will go.
4.Riffle the paper. This helps to prevent adjacent sheets of paper from sticking to each other.
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5.Slide the paper into the tray under the tray cover, ensuring that it touches the sides of the tray on
the right and on the printer side.
6.Push in the small tab on the right of the tray so that it fits snugly against the paper. Move the
larger tab on the left of the tray so that it too fits snugly against the paper.
7.Close the tray cover.
8.Lift up the output tray and insert the input tray into the printer, keeping it straight and pushing it in
as far as it will go. The left inside corner must be...

2.If the paper is large enough to hang over the edge of the tray, pull out one or both of the tray
extensions to support it.
3.Push the paper into the printer, pushing it in as far as it will go, while maintaining its alignment to
the right.
4.Press the OK key (the upper right key) on the front panel.
NOTE:You can press the OK key to load paper before sending a job to the printer; you should
also press this button if the paper fails to load, to tell the printer to try to load it again.
5.The printer...

Load paper into the rear path
1.Place the paper in the rear feed, to the left as seen from the rear, with the side upwards that is to
be printed on. Align the paper with the left mark on the rear feed. Make sure that the sheet is
square-on to the printer, and not skewed.
2.Push the paper as far as it will go into the printer.
3.Select Rear manual feed as the paper source in the printer driver.
Unload a sheet of paper
If you have the HP Designjet 111 Tray printer, remove the sheet from the output tray,...

Load a roll of paper
If you have the HP Designjet 111 Roll printer, you can load rolls of paper. See The roll feed
on page 4.
1.Load a roll of the required paper onto the spindle. Ensure that the roll is the right way round and
that the blue stop on the spindle is pushed in against the paper.
2.Insert the spindle into its retaining slots, with the blue stop on the right and the black stop on the
left as seen from the rear of the printer.
3.If the paper is glossy, you should wear gloves to avoid smearing...

8.When printing on roll paper, ensure that the paper source in the printer driver is set to Roll (also
see the note about Auto Select/Automatic below). You must also select the page size.
9.Rewind any excess paper so that the paper is rolled tightly onto the spindle.
NOTE:Only one source of paper can be used by the printer at any one time. If a roll is loaded, it
must be unloaded before printing to a cut sheet.
NOTE:If a roll of paper is loaded and you have the paper source in the printer driver set to...

4Printing
Select print quality
The printer has various print-quality options because best-quality printing causes some loss of speed,
while fast printing causes some reduction in print quality.
Therefore, you can select from the print-quality options Fast, Normal and Best. You can also select
whether to optimize printing for line drawings and text, or images (such as photographs).
You can select print-quality options in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and...

Custom paper sizes
To choose a non-standard paper size not shown in the list of paper sizes:
●Under Windows, there are two different ways:
◦In the driver dialog, click the Custom button in the Paper/Quality tab. In the Custom Paper
Sizes dialog box, select a name for your custom paper size: you can select Custom 1 to
Custom 5. Then specify the paper dimensions, and click Save to save your new paper
size.
NOTE:The driver will not allow you to create a paper size whose width exceeds its
length.
◦From the...

Preview a print
Previewing a print on the screen allows you to check the layout of the print before printing, which may
help you to avoid wasting paper and ink on a bad print.
●To preview a print under Windows, you have the following options:
◦Use your applications print preview option.
◦Check the Show Print Preview box, which you can find in the drivers Paper/Quality tab
and Finishing tab.
●To preview a print under Mac OS, you have the following options:
◦Use your applications print preview option....