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 paper (up to 0.3 mm), such as card stock or labels, without bending. To use
this path, select Rear manual feed in your software.
●The input tray provided with the HP Designjet 111 Tray printer holds up to 100 sheets of paper,
depending on the paper thickness. You should use this tray to hold paper that you use often. To
use this tray, select Tray 1 in your software.
NOTE:The tray must be extended for paper that is larger than Legal- or B4-size. Open it to
position 2 for paper up to A3-size (or 11×17 in). Open it to position 3 for paper up to A3+-size (or
13×19 in).
NOTE:The output tray holds up to 50 sheets.
Load paper from the input tray
If you have the HP Designjet 111 Tray printer, you can load cut sheets and envelopes from the input
tray.
NOTE:The input tray has two feet that must rest on the table.
1.Remove the input tray.
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							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 aligned with the plastic paper tray guide.
9.Lower the output tray. Note that, if the input tray is extended, it will extend out beyond the output
tray.
Load paper into the front path
NOTE:The front single-sheet paper feed is suitable only for sheets of A4/A-size or larger.
1.Place the paper in the output tray, aligning it on the right of the output tray, with the side that is to
be printed on down.
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							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 checks the alignment of the paper, and ejects it if it is misaligned; in that case, you
must reload the paper.
6.Select Front manual feed as the paper source in the printer driver.
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							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, where the
printer leaves it after printing.
If you have the HP Designjet 111 Roll printer:
●The sheet is moved to a position where you can easily remove it, but it is not completely ejected
from the printer.
●When the printer needs another sheet (or a roll) to continue printing, it attracts your attention by
activating the Paper Status and Waiting for OK icons on the front panel. It also beeps and
flashes a yellow light. You should remove the printed sheet, insert the next sheet into the printer
and press the OK key. If you are using the rear path, you do not need to press the OK key: the
paper sensor detects that a sheet is being loaded.
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							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 the surface of the paper.
4.Make sure that the leading edge of the roll is straight and perpendicular to its side edges and
has no irregularities.
5.Rewind any excess paper so that the paper is rolled tightly onto the spindle.
6.Insert the leading edge of the paper into the printers rear slot until the paper encounters
resistance, keeping the sides of the paper rolled tightly so that the paper is not skewed. After
emitting a beep, the printer takes up the paper.
7.The printer checks the alignment of the paper. If the paper is properly aligned, the roll icon
appears on the display, indicating that the printer is ready to print.
If the paper is misaligned, the printer ejects the paper and the display shows the misaligned and
roll icons; in that case, you must reload the paper.
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							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 Auto
Select (Windows) or Automatic (Mac OS), print jobs will be automatically printed to the roll.
NOTE:You can cut a roll without unloading it by pressing the OK key (upper right key on the front
panel); the paper first advances about 1 cm (0.4 in).
NOTE:Normally the paper is cut automatically after printing is completed; however, a driver option
allows the cutter to be disabled.
Unload a roll of paper
To unload a roll from the HP Designjet 111 Roll printer, press the Cancel and OK keys on the front
panel at the same time.
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							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 look at the Print Quality
section.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog: go to the Paper Type/Quality panel and select Paper.
Select paper size
The paper size can be specified in the following ways.
NOTE:The paper size specified here should be the paper size in which the document was created.
It is possible to rescale the document to a different size for printing. See 
Rescale a print
on page 23.
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Paper/Quality tab, then select your paper size from
the Size is drop-down list.
●In the Mac OS Page Setup dialog: select your printer from the Format for list, then select your
paper size from the Paper Size list.
NOTE:If your application offers no Page Setup dialog, please use the Print dialog.
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							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 Start menu, select Control Panel > Printers, then right-click any empty space in
the window and select Server Properties. In the Forms tab, check the Create a new form
box, specify the name and dimensions of the new form, then click Save Form.
●Under Mac OS: select Paper Size > Manage Custom Sizes in the Page Setup dialog.
NOTE:If your application offers no Page Setup dialog, please use the Print dialog.
Printer minimum margins
The printer leaves a minimum 5 mm (0.2 in) margin between the edges of your image and the edges
of the paper, increased to 12 mm (0.5 in) at the foot of cut-sheet paper.
Rescale a print
You can send an image to the printer at a certain size but tell the printer to rescale it to a different size
(normally larger). This may be useful if your software or your computer cannot cope with a large
image.
You can rescale an image in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Effects tab, then select an option from the Resizing
Options section.
◦The Actual Size option does not rescale the image.
◦The Print Document On option adjusts the image size to the paper size you have
selected. For example, if you have selected ISO A2 as the paper size and you print an A3-
sized image, it is enlarged to fit the A2 paper. If the ISO A4 paper size is selected, the
printer reduces a larger image to fit the A4 size.
◦The % of Normal Size option enlarges the printable area of the original paper size (the
page minus the margins) by the percentage indicated, then adds the margins to create the
output paper size.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog: select the Paper Handling panel, then Scale to fit paper size,
and select the paper size to which you want to scale the image. If you want to increase the size
of the image, make sure that the Scale down only box is unchecked.
If you are printing to a single sheet, you must ensure that the image can actually fit onto the sheet,
otherwise the image will be clipped.
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							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.
◦Click the Preview button at the bottom of the Print dialog box. This is the basic print
preview provided by Mac OS.
◦Click the PDF button at the bottom of the Print dialog box, then click HP Print Preview.
This provides a preview with more features, such as the ability to change paper size, paper
type and print quality, and to rotate the image.
NOTE:HP Print Preview is not available if you are using Adobe InDesign, Adobe
Illustrator, Adobe Reader or Apple Aperture.
Print in gray shades
You can convert all colors in your image to shades of gray in the following ways:
●In your application program: many programs provide this option.
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Color tab and look at the Color Options section. Select
Print in Grayscale.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog: go to the Paper Type/Quality panel and select Color, then select
Print In Grayscale.
Use paper economically
Here are some recommendations for making economical use of paper:
●You may be able to save some roll paper by using the following options:
◦In the Windows driver dialog: select the Paper/Quality tab, press the Advanced Paper
Settings button, and check the boxes for Remove Top/Bottom Blank Areas and/or
Autorotate.
◦In the Mac OS Print dialog: select the Paper Type/Quality panel, then Paper, then
Remove Top/Bottom Blank Areas.
●If you check the print preview on your computer before printing, you can sometimes avoid
wasting paper on prints containing obvious mistakes. See 
Preview a print on page 24.
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