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							●Using a Mac OS 9 or 10.1 printer driver: create a custom paper size with zero margins, and take
into account that the margins added to the final job will be the ones that are set in the printers
front panel.
●Using a newer Mac OS printer driver: select the printer in the Format for popup menu, select
the paper size, and then margins options will appear. You can select the oversize page and the
margins at the same time.
●Using the Embedded Web Server: on the Submit Job page, select Oversize from the Margin
layout list.
●Using the front panel: select Default printing options > Paper options > Select layout >
Oversize.
When using oversize pages, you can select the width of the margins as usual (see 
Adjust the
margins).
See also 
Print without added margins.
Print without added margins
For technical reasons, it is impossible to print an image that covers the full width or length of the
paper. There must always be a margin around the image. However, if your image already contains
adequate margins (white space around the edges) then you can tell the printer not to add margins to
the image when printing it. In this case it will, in fact, clip the edges of your image, assuming that the
edges contain nothing that needs to be printed.
You can request no added margins in the following ways:
●Using the Windows HP-GL/2 printer driver: select the Paper/Quality tab and press the Margins/
Layout button, then select Clip Contents By Margins from the layout options.
●Using the Embedded Web Server: on the Submit Job page, select Clip Contents By Margins
from the Margin layout list.
●Using the front panel: select Default printing options > Paper options > Select layout > Clip
contents by margins.
This option is not available from the Windows PostScript driver or the Mac OS drivers.
When using this option, you can select the width of the margins as usual (see 
Adjust the margins).
The printer continues to use margins: it just takes them out of the image instead of adding them to
the image.
Select the orientation of the image
The orientation of the image may be portrait or landscape. When you see it on screen:
●The height of a portrait image is greater than its width (a tall image).
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							●The width of a landscape image is greater than its height (a wide image).
You should select the orientation that your image has when you see it on screen. If you have a
landscape image and you select portrait, or if you have a portrait image and you select landscape,
the image may be clipped when printed.
You can select the orientation using a printer driver or the Embedded Web Server.
●Using the PostScript printer driver for Windows NT: go to the Orientation section of the Page
Setup tab.
●Using any other printer driver for Windows: go to the Orientation section of the Finishing tab.
●Using the PostScript printer driver for Mac OS: select Page Setup from the File menu, then go
to the Orientation section of the Page Attributes panel.
●Using the Embedded Web Server: go to the Orientation section of the Submit Job page.
Rotate an image
By default, images are printed with their shorter sides parallel to the leading edge of the paper, like
this:
You may wish to rotate your images by 90 degrees in order to save paper, like this:
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							You can do this in the following ways:
●Using a Windows printer driver: select the Finishing tab, then Rotate by 90 degrees.
●Using a Mac OS printer driver: select the Finishing panel, then Rotate.
●Using the Embedded Web Server: select the Submit Job page, then Rotate.
●
Using the front panel: select the 
 icon, then Default printing options > Paper options >
Rotate.
NOTEIf rotation is set with the printer driver or with the Embedded Web Server, it overrides
the setting in the front panel.
NOTEWhen you rotate a job, the page length may be increased to avoid clipping, because
the top and bottom margins are usually larger than the side margins.
CAUTIONWith either rolls or sheets, if you rotate an image to landscape whose original
orientation was portrait, the paper may not be wide enough for the image. For example,
rotating a portrait D/A1-size image on D/A1-size paper by 90 degrees will probably exceed the
width of the paper. If you are using the Embedded Web Server, the preview screen will
confirm this with a warning triangle. If you are using the HP Designjet 4500 Printer series, the
job will be put “on hold for paper”.
Autorotate
The HP-GL/2 printer driver provides an Autorotate option, which will automatically rotate by 90
degrees any oversized portrait images in order to save paper.
Print a mirror image
If you are using clear imaging paper, sometimes called backlit, you may want to print a mirror image
of your drawing, so that when the paper is lit from behind it is in the correct orientation. To do this
without changing the image in your application:
●Using a Windows printer driver: select the Finishing tab, then Mirror image.
●Using a Mac OS printer driver: select the Finishing panel, then Mirror image.
●Using the Embedded Web Server: select the Submit Job page, then Mirror image.
●
Using the front panel: select the 
 icon, then Default printing options > Paper options >
Enable mirror.
NOTEIf mirror image is set with the printer driver or with the Embedded Web Server, it
overrides the setting in the front panel.
Scale an image
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 does not support large formats
●If your file is too large for the printers memory—in this case you can reduce the page size in
your software and then scale it up again using the front panel option
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							You can rescale an image in the following ways:
●Using a Windows printer driver: select the Effects tab, then Resizing options.
●The Print document on option adjusts the image size to the page size selected for your
printer. For example, if you have selected ISO A2 as the page size and you print an A4-
size image, it will be enlarged to fit the A2 page. If the ISO A3 page size is selected, the
printer would reduce a larger image to fit the A3 size.
●The % of normal size option enlarges the printable area of the original page by the
percentage indicated and adds the printer margins to make up the output page size.
●Using a Mac OS printer driver: select the Finishing panel, then Print document on.
The driver adjusts the image size to the page size selected for your printer.
●Using the Embedded Web Server: select the Submit Job page, then Resizing.
●
Using the front panel: select the 
 icon, then Default printing options > Paper options > Scale.
If you are printing to a single sheet, you must ensure that the image can actually fit onto the page,
otherwise clipping will occur.
Change the palette settings
You cannot change the Factory palette, but you can define Palettes A and B to be whatever you
choose.
These palettes will be applied only to HP-GL/2 jobs with no software palette embedded.
NOTEAll HP-GL/2 jobs generated by the HP-GL/2 driver that comes with the printer will
include an embedded software palette, and thus any palette settings in the front panel will be
ignored.
To redefine Palette A:
1.
Go to the front panel, select the 
 icon, then Default printing options > HP-GL/2 options >
Define palette > Palette A.
2.Scroll to the pen number you want to change and press Select.
3.You can see the current width assigned to this pen by selecting Width; for example Width=0.35
mm. If you want to change it:
4.Press Select.
5.Scroll to the width you want.
6.Press Select again.
7.Press Back to get to the previous menu: Color/Width. Otherwise, scroll to Color.
8.When you select Color, the current color assigned to the pen is displayed, for example
Color=110. If you want to change it:
9.Press Select.
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							10.Scroll to the color you want.
11.Press Select again.
12.Press Back to get to the previous menu.
13.When both width and color are correct, press Back.
14.Scroll to the next pen number you want to change, press Select and then repeat the above
process.
15.When all pen definitions are correct, press Back to exit the menus.
NOTEThe palette you have just defined will take effect only when you select it to be the
current palette.
If you do not get the results you expect, see Pen settings seem to have no effect.
Change the treatment of overlapping lines
The Merge setting controls the overlapping lines in an image. There are two settings, Off and On.
●If Merge is Off, where the lines cross only the color of the top line is printed.
●If Merge is On, where the lines cross the colors of the two lines are merged.
To turn Merge on, select the 
 icon, then Default printing options > HP-GL/2 options > Enable
merge. You can set the merge setting from your software in some applications. Settings in your
software override the front-panel settings.
NOTEMerge settings have no effect on PostScript files.
Change the graphic language setting
Unless you are troubleshooting one of the problems mentioned below, you should not need to
change the default setting (Automatic), and you are not recommended to do so, because setting a
specific graphic language means that you will be able to print only files in that language.
To change the graphic language setting, select the 
 icon, then Default printing options > Select
graphics language, where the following options are available.
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							●Select Automatic to let the printer determine which type of file it is receiving. This setting works
for most software applications.
●Select HP-GL/2 if you are not working with PostScript files, and you have experienced image
position problems or timing problems.
●Select PS if you are printing only PostScript files and your PostScript jobs do not start with the
standard PostScript header (%!PS) and do not include PJL language switching commands.
Alternatively, select PS if you have experienced problems while downloading PostScript fonts.
In this case, please reselect Automatic after you have downloaded the fonts.
If you are downloading fonts over a USB connection, select the 
 icon, then Default printing
options > PS options > Select encoding > ASCII.
●Select TIFF, JPEG, PDF, or CALS G4 only if you are sending a file of the appropriate type
directly to the printer without going through a printer driver. This is normally done only from the
Embedded Web Server, in which case the language setting is done by the Embedded Web
Server and you do not have to do it yourself.
NOTEThe PS and PDF options are available with PostScript printers only.
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●Perform color calibration
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Perform black point compensation
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Set the rendering intent
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Select the color emulation mode
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Produce matching prints from different HP Designjets
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Get accurate colors from Adobe Photoshop CS (HP–GL/2 & RTL driver)
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Get accurate colors from Adobe Photoshop CS (PostScript driver)
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Get accurate colors from Adobe InDesign CS
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Get accurate colors from QuarkXPress 6
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Get accurate colors from Autodesk AutoCAD
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Get accurate colors from Microsoft Office 2003
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Get accurate colors from ESRI ArcGIS 9
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							Perform color calibration
Color calibration improves color consistency between prints, and from one printer to another.
It is normally performed whenever a printhead is replaced, and whenever a new paper type is
introduced that has not been calibrated yet with the new printhead(s). However, this automatic
behavior can be turned off, and a default color correction used for each of the known paper types.
1.
From the front panel, select the 
 icon, then Printer configuration > Color calibration.
2.The available options for color calibration are:
●On: the printer performs color calibration whenever you introduce a new paper type that
has not yet been calibrated with the current set of printheads. The color correction resulting
from the calibration is then used for subsequent prints on that paper type with the same
print quality setting.
●Off: the printer uses a default color correction, different for each paper type and print
quality setting.
3.The printer calibrates the colors by printing a calibration strip, scanning the strip with a built-in
optical sensor, and calculating the color corrections required. The color calibration strip is 269
mm wide, and 18 mm long when using glossy paper; on other paper types, it is 109 mm long.
Color calibration takes about three to six minutes, depending on the paper type.
NOTEColor calibration can be requested manually at any time from the front panel, by
selecting the 
 icon, then Printhead management > Calibrate color.
CAUTIONColor calibration can be performed successfully on opaque materials only. Do not
attempt to calibrate transparent film.
Perform black point compensation
The black point compensation option controls whether to adjust for differences in black points when
converting colors between color spaces. When this option is selected, the full dynamic range of the
source space is mapped into the full dynamic range of the destination space. It can be very useful in
preventing blocking shadows when the black point of the source space is darker than that of the
destination space. This option is allowed only when the relative colorimetric rendering intent is
selected (see 
Set the rendering intent).
Black point compensation can be specified in the following ways:
●Using a Windows PostScript printer driver: select the Color tab, then Black point compensation.
●Using a Mac OS printer driver: select the Color Options panel, then Black point compensation.
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							●Using the Embedded Web Server: select the Submit Job page, then Black point compensation.
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Using the front panel: select the 
 icon, then Default printing options > Color options >
Black point compensation.
Set the rendering intent
Rendering intent is one of the settings used when doing a color transformation. As you probably
know, some of the colors you want to print may not be reproducible by the printer. The rendering
intent allows you to select one of four different ways of handling these so–called out–of–gamut colors.
●Saturation (graphics): best used for presentation graphics, charts, or images made up of
bright, saturated colors.
●Perceptual (images): best used for photographs or images in which colors blend together. It
tries to preserve the overall color appearance.
●Relative colorimetric (proofing): best used when you want to match a particular color. This
method is mainly used for proofing. It guarantees that, if a color can be printed accurately, it will
be printed accurately. The other methods will probably provide a more pleasing range of colors
but do not guarantee that any particular color will be printed accurately. It maps the white of the
input space to the white of the paper on which you are printing.
●Absolute colorimetric (proofing): the same as relative colorimetric, but without mapping the
white. This rendering is also used mainly for proofing, where the goal is to simulate the output of
one printer (including its white point).
The rendering intent can be specified in the following ways:
●Using a Windows PostScript printer driver: select the Color tab, then Rendering intent.
●Using a Mac OS printer driver: select the Color Options panel, then Rendering intent.
●Using the Embedded Web Server: select the Submit Job page, then Rendering intent.
●
Using the front panel: select the 
 icon, then Default printing options > Color options >
Select rendering intent.
Select the color emulation mode
You can set the color emulation mode in the following ways:
●Using a Windows printer driver: select the Color Management section of the Color tab.
●Using a Mac OS printer driver: select the Color Options panel.
●Using the Embedded Web Server: select the Color Management section of the Submit Job page.
●
Using the front panel: select the 
 icon, then Default printing options > Color options.
See 
Color emulation modes.
Produce matching prints from different HP Designjets
See Color matching between different HP Designjets.
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							Get accurate colors from Adobe Photoshop CS (HP–GL/2
& RTL driver)
This topic outlines one way to have good control over the printed colors you will obtain from your
printer; there are many other ways. Before starting, ensure that your paper type has already been
calibrated.
Application settings
1.Open Adobe Photoshop and select Color Settings from the Edit menu.
●Working spaces: the working space is the color space you want to use when manipulating
the image. We recommend using the color space that comes with the image (see Color
Management Policies below), if any; otherwise, our recommended default settings are:
RGB: Adobe RGB 1998, CMYK: SWOP for the USA and Euroscale Coated v2 for the rest
of the world.
●Color Management Policies: select Preserve Embedded Profiles.
●Rendering Intent: see 
Set the rendering intent.
●Black Point Compensation: this option is recommended if you have chosen the Relative
Colorimetric rendering intent. See 
Perform black point compensation.
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