HP DesignJet 4500 User Manual

7.Return the cutter to the right-hand side of the drawer.
View information about the paper
At the printers front panel, select the  or icon, then Paper information, then choose the paper
source on which you want information.
You will see the following information displayed on the front panel:
●The roll or sheet status
NOTEThe HP Designjet 4500 Printer series prints on roll paper only.
●The paper manufacturers name
●The paper type you have selected
●The width of the paper in millimeters (estimated by the...

●http://www.hp.com/support/designjet/profiles4500ps/ for the HP Designjet 4500ps
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http://www.hp.com/support/designjet/profiles4500mfp/ for the HP Designjet 4500mfp
If you do not find the media profile you want on the Web, you may find that it has been added to the
latest firmware for your printer. You can check the firmware release notes for information. See
Update my printers firmware.
Use non-HP paper
HPs own paper types have been fully tested with the printer and can be expected to give the best...

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●Submit a job with the Embedded Web Server
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Save a job
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Print a saved job
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Cancel a job
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Manage the print queue
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Nest jobs to save roll paper
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Submit a job with the Embedded Web Server
1.Access the Embedded Web Server (see Access the Embedded Web Server).
2.Go to the Submit job page.
3.Browse your computer and select the file to print.
NOTESubmitting a job to be printed via the Embedded Web Server does not require
you to have the printer driver nor the files native application installed on your computer.
4.If you want to submit more than one file, click the Add files button and select all the files you
want.
NOTEIf you are not using Internet...

3.Browse your computer and select the file to print.
4.If you want to submit more than one file, click the Add another file button to add another file. All
files submitted together will have the same job settings.
NOTEIf you are using Windows and Internet Explorer, you can click the Add files
button and select multiple files at once.
5.In the job options, check the Store job in printer option.
6.Set the rest of the job options.
7.Click the Print button.
Print a saved job
1.Access the Embedded Web Server...

You can select at what point you want to print a file you have in the queue. From the Web server,
select the Settings tab > Device setup > When to start printing; or, from the front panel, select the
 icon and then Job management options > When to start printing.
There are three options you can select:
●When After Processing is selected, the printer waits until the whole page has been processed
and then it starts to print. This is the slowest setting but offers the best print quality.
●When Immediately...

You can also do this from the front panel: select the job and choose Copies, then specify the number
of copies required and press the Select key. This overrides any value set by your software.
NOTEIf Rotate was On when you sent the file, every copy will be rotated.
If the job has already been printed, use Move to front to move it to the top of the queue.
Understanding job status
These are the possible job status messages, approximately in the order in which they may be seen:
●receiving: the printer is...

Nest jobs to save roll paper
Nesting means placing pages side by side on the paper, rather than one after the other. This is done
to avoid wasting paper.
1.Direction of paper flow
2.Nesting off
3.Nesting on
4.Paper saved by nesting
When does the printer try to nest pages?
When both of the following are true:
●The printer is loaded with roll paper, not sheet paper.
●In the front panels Job Management menu or the Embedded Web Servers Device Setup page,
Nest is On.
Which pages can be nested?
All pages can...

●Pages must be all color, or all grayscale: not some in color and some in grayscale.
●All pages must be in one or other of the following two groups (the two groups cannot be mixed
in the same nest):
●HP-GL/2, RTL, CALS G4
●PostScript, PDF, TIFF, JPEG
●JPEG, TIFF, and CALS G4 pages with resolutions greater than 300 dpi may not nest with other
pages in some cases.
How long does the printer wait for another file?
So that the printer can make the best nest possible, it waits after a file has been received to...

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