HP DesignJet 4500ps 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 printer)
●The length of the paper in millimeters (estimated by the printer)
If no paper is loaded, the message Out of paper is displayed.
The same information (apart from the manufacturers name) is displayed on the Embedded Web
Servers Supplies page.
Download media profiles
Each supported paper type has its own characteristics. For optimum print quality, the printer changes
the way it prints on each different paper type. For example, some may need more ink and some may
require a longer drying time. So the printer must be given a description of the requirements of each
paper type. This description is called the “media profile”. The media profile contains the ICC profile,
which describes the color characteristics of the paper; it also contains information on other
characteristics and requirements of the paper that are not directly related to color. Existing media
profiles for your printer are already installed in the printers software.
However, you would find it inconvenient to scroll through a list of all paper types available for your
printer, so your printer contains media profiles for only the most commonly used paper types. If you
buy a paper type for which your printer has no media profile, you will find that you cannot select that
paper type in the front panel. To download the correct media profile, go to:
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http://www.hp.com/support/designjet-downloads/ for the HP Designjet 4000 series
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http://www.hp.com/support/designjet/profiles4500/ for the HP Designjet 4500
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							●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
print quality.
However, you can print on paper from any manufacturer. In that case, you should select (in the front
panel) the HP paper type that is most similar to the paper you will be using. If in doubt, try several
different HP paper type settings, and choose the one that provides you with the best print quality. If
results are not entirely satisfactory with any paper type setting, see 
General advice.
Cancel the drying time
Press the Form Feed and Cut key (1) on the front panel.
CAUTIONA print that has had insufficient time to dry can suffer from quality problems.
Change the drying time
You may wish to change the drying time setting to suit special printing conditions.
Select the 
 icon, then Select drying time. You can select Extended, Optimal, Reduced, or None.
See 
Drying time.
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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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							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 Explorer for Windows, you will see the Add another
file button, which allows you to select additional files one at a time.
5.Set the job options.
If you leave an option set to Default, the setting saved in the job will be used. If the job contains
no setting for that option, the setting in the printer will be used. The setting in the printer can be
changed from the front panel, or in some cases from the Device Setup page in the Embedded
Web Server.
6.Click the Print button.
Save a job
If you intend to reprint a job later with some changes to the job settings (such as size or quality), you
can store the job inside your printer so that you will not need to resubmit it later.
NOTEIf you want to reprint a job without changes, you can do that from the print queue
without needing to save the job.
You can save a job only while submitting it for printing:
1.Access the Embedded Web Server (see 
Access the Embedded Web Server).
2.Go to the Submit job page.
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							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 (see Access the Embedded Web Server).
2.Go to the Stored jobs page.
3.Select the job or jobs that you want to print, using the check box beside each job name.
4.Click the Print button to print the job with the original settings, or Advanced Print to change the
settings.
Cancel a job
A job can be canceled from the front panel by pressing the Cancel key, or from the Embedded Web
Server by selecting the job and clicking the Cancel icon..
The printer advances the paper as though the print were finished.
NOTEA multi-page job or a big file may take longer to stop printing than other files.
Manage the print queue
Your printer can store pages in a queue while it is printing the current page. The queue may contain
pages from more than one job.
NOTEThis information applies only if you are using one of the drivers that came with your
printer or the Embedded Web Server to submit printing jobs.
Turning off the queue [4000]
HP Designjet 4000 series users can turn off the queue from the Web server (Settings tab > Device
setup > Queue), or from the front panel: select the 
 icon and then Job management options >
Disable queue.
HP Designjet 4500 series users cannot turn off the queue.
The When To Start Printing options
NOTEThe When To Start Printing options cannot be used with PostScript jobs.
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							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 is selected, the printer prints the page as it is processed. This is the
quickest setting, but the printer may stop halfway through a print to process data. This setting is
not recommended for complex images with dense color.
●When Optimized is selected (this is the default setting), the printer calculates the best time to
begin printing the page. It is usually the best compromise between the After Processing and
Immediately settings.
Identifying a job in the queue
The best way to look at the queue is in the Embedded Web Server (Information > Jobs queue),
where you can manage the queue and get full information on every job (by clicking the name of the
file).
However, you can also manage the queue from the front panel. To do so, select the 
 icon and
then Job queue, where you can see a list of the jobs in the queue.
Each has an identifier, comprising:
: 
The job currently being printed is in position 0. The next job to be printed is in position 1, the previous
job already printed is in position -1.
Prioritizing a job in the queue
To make any job in the queue the next one to be printed, select it and choose Reprint (in the
Embedded Web Server) or Move to front (in the front panel).
If nesting is turned on, the prioritized job may still be nested with others. If you really want this job to
be printed next, and on its own on the roll, first turn nesting off and then move it to the front of the
queue as described above.
Deleting a job from the queue
Under normal circumstances, there is no need to delete a job from the queue after printing it, as it will
just fall off the end of the queue as more files are sent. However, if you have sent a file in error, and
want to avoid any chance of it being reprinted, you can simply delete it, by selecting it and choosing
Delete (in the Embedded Web Server or in the front panel).
In the same way, you can delete a job that has not been printed yet.
If the job is currently being printed (Status = printing in the Web server, or its queue position is 0 in
the front panel), and you want both to cancel the job and to delete it, first click the Cancel icon in the
Web server, or press the Cancel key on the front panel, and then delete it from the queue.
Making copies of a job in the queue
To make extra copies of any job in the queue, select the job in the Embedded Web Server and click
the Reprint icon, then specify the number of copies you want. The job will be moved to the top of the
queue.
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							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 receiving the job from the computer
●waiting to process: the job has been received by the printer and is waiting to be rendered (for
jobs submitted through the Embedded Web Server only)
●processing: the printer is parsing and rendering the job
●preparing to print: the printer is performing writing system checks before printing the job
●waiting to print: the job is waiting for the print engine to become free to proceed with printing
●waiting for nest: the printer is set up with Nesting=On and is waiting for other jobs in order to
complete the nest and proceed with printing
●on hold: the job was sent with the on hold for preview option and is on hold
NOTEIf the printer hangs up while printing a job, and the queue facility is turned on,
the partially printed job will appear in the queue as on hold when the printer is next
turned on. When you resume the job, it will start printing at the page at which it was
interrupted.
●on hold for paper: the job cant be printed because the paper it needs is not loaded in the
printer (see 
An “on hold for paper” message [4500]): load the required paper and then click
Continue to resume the job
●on hold for accounting: the job cant be printed because the printer requires all jobs to have
an account ID: enter the account ID and then click Continue to resume the job
●printing
●drying
●cutting paper
●ejecting page
●canceling: the job is being canceled, but will remain in the printer job queue
●deleting: the job is being deleted from the printer
●printed
●canceled: the job has been canceled by the printer
●canceled by user
●empty job: the job does not contain anything to print
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							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 be nested, unless they are so large that two of them cannot fit side by side on the roll,
or unless there are too many of them to fit into the remaining length of the roll. A single group of
nested pages cannot be split between two rolls.
Which pages qualify for nesting?
In order to be in the same nest, the individual pages must be compatible in all of the following ways:
●All pages must have the same print quality setting (Fast, Normal, or Best).
●Pages must be all Optimized for Drawings/Text or all Optimized for Images.
●The Maximum Detail setting must be the same on all pages.
●The Margins setting must be the same for all pages (Extended or Normal).
●The Mirror setting must be the same for all pages.
●The Rendering Intent must be the same for all pages.
●The Cutter setting must be the same for all pages.
●The color adjustment settings must be the same for all pages. These are known as Advanced
Color Settings in the Windows driver, and CMYK Settings in the Mac OS driver.
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							●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 check
whether a subsequent page will nest with it or with pages already in the queue. This waiting period is
the nest wait time; the factory default nest wait time is two minutes. This means that the printer waits
for up to two minutes after the last file is received before printing the final nest. You can change this
waiting time from the printers front panel: select the 
icon, then Job management options > Nest
options > Select wait time. The available range is 1 to 99 minutes.
While the printer is waiting for nesting to time out, it displays the remaining time on the front panel.
You can print the nest (cancel the nest wait) by pressing the Cancel key.
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