HP Designjet 111 User Manual

							HP Designjet 111 printer series
User’s guide
 
						

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							Table of contents
1  Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 1
The front panel ..................................................................................................................................... 1
Windows printer software ..................................................................................................................... 2
Mac OS printer software ....................................................................................................................... 3
The roll feed ......................................................................................................................................... 4
The HP Jetdirect print server ................................................................................................................ 4
2  Connection and software installation ........................................................................................................... 6
Install the Windows printer driver ......................................................................................................... 6
Connect using a USB cable (Windows) ............................................................................................... 6
Connect using a parallel cable (Windows) ........................................................................................... 6
Network connection methods ............................................................................................................... 7
Configure a direct network connection (Windows) ............................................................................... 7
Configure a client-server connection (Windows) .................................................................................. 8
Install the Mac OS printer driver ........................................................................................................... 9
Connect using a USB cable (Mac OS) ................................................................................................. 9
Connect to a network using Bonjour (Mac OS) .................................................................................. 10
Connect to a network using TCP/IP (Mac OS) ................................................................................... 11
Share a printer (Mac OS) ................................................................................................................... 11
Change the IP address of the HP Jetdirect print server ..................................................................... 12
Get the current network configuration information ............................................................................. 13
Change the network parameters ........................................................................................................ 14
3  Paper handling .............................................................................................................................................. 15
Cut-sheet paper loading ..................................................................................................................... 15
Load paper from the input tray ........................................................................................................... 15
Load paper into the front path ............................................................................................................ 17
Load paper into the rear path ............................................................................................................. 19
Unload a sheet of paper ..................................................................................................................... 19
Load a roll of paper ............................................................................................................................ 20
Unload a roll of paper ......................................................................................................................... 21
4  Printing .......................................................................................................................................................... 22
Select print quality .............................................................................................................................. 22
Select paper size ................................................................................................................................ 22
Printer minimum margins ................................................................................................................... 23
Rescale a print ................................................................................................................................... 23
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							Preview a print .................................................................................................................................... 24
Print in gray shades ............................................................................................................................ 24
Use paper economically ..................................................................................................................... 24
Use ink economically .......................................................................................................................... 25
5  Ink-system maintenance .............................................................................................................................. 26
Replace ink cartridges ........................................................................................................................ 26
Replace printheads ............................................................................................................................ 27
6  Supplies and accessories ............................................................................................................................ 30
Supported paper types ....................................................................................................................... 30
Supported paper sizes ....................................................................................................................... 32
Order ink cartridges and printheads ................................................................................................... 32
Order accessories .............................................................................................................................. 33
7  HP Designjet System Maintenance ............................................................................................................. 34
8  Installation issues ......................................................................................................................................... 35
The printer is not found ...................................................................................................................... 35
The printer driver is out of date .......................................................................................................... 35
The Jetdirect print server doesn’t seem to be working ....................................................................... 35
The printer won’t start, and the front panel displays a pattern of squares .......................................... 35
9  Print-quality issues ....................................................................................................................................... 36
The print quality is not what you expect ............................................................................................. 36
Starwheel marks are visible on the paper .......................................................................................... 36
The image seems scrambled ............................................................................................................. 36
The page printed is wholly or partially blank ...................................................................................... 36
Text or graphics are truncated ........................................................................................................... 37
Parts of the image are missing or misplaced ..................................................................................... 37
The printer seems to disregard the print settings ............................................................................... 37
10  Ink-system issues ....................................................................................................................................... 38
All ink cartridge icons in the front panel are flashing .......................................................................... 38
One ink cartridge icon in the front panel is flashing ............................................................................ 38
All printhead icons in the front panel are flashing ............................................................................... 38
One printhead icon in the front panel is flashing ................................................................................ 38
11  General printer issues ................................................................................................................................ 39
Paper is jammed in the printer ........................................................................................................... 39
Avoid paper jams ................................................................................................................................ 41
The printers yellow light is flashing .................................................................................................... 41
The input tray won’t fit ........................................................................................................................ 42
The printer won’t take paper from the tray ......................................................................................... 43
HP Gloss Paper pages stick together ................................................................................................ 43
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							12  HP Customer Care ...................................................................................................................................... 44
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 44
Knowledge Center .............................................................................................................................. 44
Contact HP Support ...........................................................................................................................  45
Glossary ............................................................................................................................................................. 46
Index ................................................................................................................................................................... 47
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							1Introduction
The front panel
The printer has a control panel at the front left, known as the front panel.
The front panel has two lights (LEDs), three keys to control printing operations, and a display screen
to provide information.
Front-panel lights
There are two front-panel lights: Power and Attention.
●The Power light is green. It is off when the printer is off. It flashes while the printer is printing or is
in the process of turning off. Otherwise it is on to indicate that the printer is on.
●The Attention light is yellow. It flashes to indicate an error or problem; icons in the front-panel
display give more information about the problem. Otherwise it is off.
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							Front-panel keys
There are three front-panel keys: Power, Cancel and OK.
●The Power key is the bottom key on the front panel. It turns the mains power on and off.
NOTE:The Power key is a soft switch, and the printer still has electrical power available to it,
even when switched off. To isolate the printer from the mains supply, you must unplug it.
●The Cancel key is the upper left key on the front panel. It cancels the current operation.
●The OK key is the upper right key on the front panel. It indicates to the printer that you have now
loaded paper in the appropriate tray or feed, so that the printer can start printing. It can also
indicate to the printer that you have corrected a problem—for example, you have removed
jammed paper—and that the printer should continue with its activity: in this case, it should
resume printing. If you press the OK key while the printer is waiting for the ink to dry, the printer
resumes without waiting further. This can be useful if you want to remove large sheets of paper
from the printer before they have completely dried, but you must handle them with due caution.
Front-panel display screen
The above diagram shows all the features and icons that may appear on the display screen. The
notification icons appear above and the ink system status information below.
From left to right, the icons are Busy, Paper misaligned, Roll loaded (on) or Roll empty/stuck
(flashing), No paper, Waiting for OK, Paper jam, Run System Maintenance.
From left to right, the inks are black, cyan, magenta, yellow. The ink levels in each cartridge are
indicated approximately by the black squares.
NOTE:No cartridges or printheads are shown if any cover is open or the rear path is removed.
For details of how to react when a problem occurs, see The printers yellow light is flashing
on page 41.
Windows printer software
The Windows driver for use with your printer is available on the HP Designjet 111 Software and
Documentation CD. Use this driver for printing drawings and office documents from applications such
as AutoCAD, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat Reader and Web browsers.
The driver is compatible with Windows XP, 2003 Server, Vista, 2008 Server and Windows 7.
Driver features include:
●Print quality (Fast/Normal/Best)
●Orientation (Portrait/Landscape/Rotate by 90 degrees/Mirror Print)
●Paper type
●Paper size (standard and customized)
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							●HP Designjet 111 Tray: Paper source (Automatically select (default)/Tray1/Front manual feed/
Rear manual feed)
●HP Designjet 111 Roll: Paper source (Roll (default)/Front manual feed/Rear manual feed)
●Quick sets
●Scale to fit/Scale to % (ZoomSmart)
●Color options (Print in Grayscale, Monochrome Graphics)
●Advanced color settings (Red, Green, Blue and Lightness sliders)
●Print preview
●HP Designjet 111 Roll: Disable automatic cutter, Remove top/bottom blank areas, Autorotate
●HP Designjet 111 Tray: Print on both sides, Multiple pages per sheet, Start printing from the last
page
The driver provides the following print resolutions.
●Fast: 300 dots per inch
●Normal: 300 dots per inch (default)
●Normal: 600 dots per inch (optimized for drawings/text)
●Best: 600 dots per inch
In addition to the printer driver, a Web-based maintenance tool is available: HP Designjet System
Maintenance. See 
HP Designjet System Maintenance on page 34.
Mac OS printer software
The Mac OS driver for use with your printer is available on the HP Designjet 111 Software and
Documentation CD. Use this driver for printing drawings and documents from applications such as
Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, QuarkXpress, CorelDRAW, InDesign, PageMaker, Painter,
Archicad and VectorWorks.
The driver is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6.
Driver features include:
●Custom page size
●Orientation (Portrait/Landscape/Mirror)
●Scale (percentage)
●Paper type
●Quality (Draft/Normal/Best)
●Color options
The driver is configured using the Page Setup and Print dialogs.
In addition to the printer driver, a Web-based maintenance tool is available: HP Designjet System
Maintenance. See 
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							The roll feed
The roll feed is supplied with the HP Designjet 111 Roll printer. It allows the printer to print on a roll of
paper up to 610 mm (24 in) wide. It includes an automatic cutter.
The roll is loaded from the rear of the printer and must be fed into the rear feed slot.
Once a print job to a roll has finished, the printer will automatically cut the roll. However, the cutter
can be disabled from the printer driver. The printer also cuts the roll if you press the OK key.
NOTE:If a roll of paper is loaded and you want to print to a cut sheet, you must first unload the roll.
The HP Jetdirect print server
The HP Jetdirect print server is a network card that can be installed in the printer. It allows the printer
to be connected to a network, allowing the printer to be accessed from different computers on the
network.
To install the card, first turn off and unplug the printer. Then remove the blank plate from the rear left
of the printer, and insert the card in its place.
The card connects to the network via the socket on its end-plate.
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