HP Designjet T1300 PostScript 1118 mm User Manual

							Introduction
There are five different ways in which you can choose to print, depending on your circumstances and
preferences.
●Print a TIFF, JPEG, HP-GL/2, RTL, PDF or PostScript file directly from a USB flash drive. See 
Print
from a USB flash drive on page 53.
●Print a file that is already in the job queue. See 
Reprint a job from the queue on page 79.
●Print a TIFF, JPEG, HP-GL/2, RTL, PDF or PostScript file directly from a computer connected to the
printer, using the Embedded Web Server or the HP Utility. See 
Print from a computer using the
Embedded Web Server or HP Utility (T1300 series) on page 54.
●Print any kind of file from a computer connected to the printer by network or USB cable, using a
software application that can open the file, and a printer driver supplied with your printer. See
Print from a computer using a printer driver on page 55.
NOTE:To print PDF or PostScript files, a PostScript printer is required.
Print from a USB flash drive
1.Insert a USB flash drive containing one or more TIFF, JPEG, HP-GL/2, RTL, PDF or PostScript files
into one of the printers USB ports.
NOTE:To print PDF or PostScript files, a PostScript printer is required.
NOTE:The use of USB flash drives with your printer may be disabled by the administrator: see
Control access to the printer on page 30.
2.
At the front panel, go to the home screen and press 
.
3.
Select the file to be printed. Files that can be printed are indicated with 
; files that cannot be
printed are indicated with 
. You can press folders to browse their contents.
4.The default print settings are displayed. If you want to change them, press Settings. The
following settings are available:
●Size allows you to resize the print in two different ways: to a percentage of its original size,
or to fit a particular paper size. The default is 100% (its original size).
●Color allows you to choose color or grayscale printing.
●Print quality allows you to set the print quality to Best, Normal or Fast.
●Roll allows you to specify printing on roll 1 or roll 2, or you can choose Save paper,
which automatically chooses the narrowest roll on which the print will fit.
●Rotation allows you to rotate the print by any multiple of 90°, or you can choose
Automatic, which rotates the print automatically if that will save paper.
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							NOTE:If you change the settings in this way, the changed settings apply to the current job but
are not saved permanently. You can change the default settings by pressing 
, then , then
Print from USB preferences.
5.
To display a preview of the printed job on the front panel, press .
When the preview is displayed, you can press it to zoom in on it. Press it again to zoom out.
6.When you are satisfied with the print settings, press Start.
7.If two rolls are loaded, you can choose to print on either roll, or you can let the printer choose
automatically.
NOTE:The printer will automatically rotate the image by 90° if it can save paper by doing so.
8.After printing, you can choose to print another file or go to the job queue. If you print another file
immediately without returning to the home screen, the temporary settings used for the previous file
are used again.
Print from a computer using the Embedded Web
Server or HP Utility (T1300 series)
You can print files in this way from any computer that can access the printers Embedded Web Server.
See 
Access the Embedded Web Server on page 33.
From the Embedded Web Server, select the Main tab and then Submit job. From the HP Utility,
select Job Center > Submit Job. You will see the window below.
Press the Add files button to choose the files from your computer that you want to print. The files must
be in one of the following formats:
●HP-GL/2
●RTL
●TIFF
●JPEG
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							●PDF (PostScript printers only)
●PostScript (PostScript printers only)
NOTE:When you print to a file, the file should be in one of the above formats, but its name may
have an extension such as .plt or .prn.
If the files are not in one of these formats, they will not be printed successfully.
If the jobs have been generated with the appropriate settings (such as page size, rotation, resizing and
number of copies), you can just press the Print button and they will be sent to the printer.
If you need to specify printing settings, go to the Job settings section and select the options you need.
Each option has explanatory text on the right, so that you can understand the behavior of each setting.
Remember that, if you leave the setting as Default, the setting saved in the job will be used. If the job
contains no setting, the setting in the printer will be used.
If you have chosen some non-default settings and expect to reuse the same group of settings in the
future, you can save them all under a single name from the Manage presets tab, and recall them
using that name later.
Print from a computer using a printer driver
This is the traditional way of printing from a computer. The correct printer driver must be installed on
the computer (see 
Installing the software on page 14), and the computer must be connected to the
printer by network or USB cable.
When the printer driver has been installed and the computer is connected to the printer, you can print
from a software application by using the applications own Print command and selecting the correct
printer.
Advanced print settings
The rest of this chapter explains the various print settings that you can use when printing with a printer
driver, the Embedded Web Server or the HP Utility. These methods offer a relatively large number of
settings in order to satisfy all requirements.
TIP:In general you are recommended to use the default settings unless you know that they do not
meet your requirements.
TIP:If you intend to reuse a particular group of settings repeatedly, you can save those settings under
a name of your own choice and recall them later. A saved group of settings is known as a quick set in
the Windows printer driver, and as a preset in the Embedded Web Server.
Select print quality
The printer has various print-quality options because best-quality printing requires some loss of speed,
while fast printing implies some reduction in print quality.
Therefore, the standard print-quality selector is a slider that allows you to choose between quality and
speed. With some paper types, you can choose a compromise position between the two.
Alternatively, you can select from the custom options: Best, Normal and Fast. If you select Fast, you
can also select Economode, which uses a lower rendering resolution and consumes less ink. It
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							therefore increases printing speed even further, but reduces print quality. Economode can be selected
only from the custom options (not from the slider).
There is also a supplementary custom option that may have an effect on print quality: Maximum
detail. See 
High-quality printing on page 62.
NOTE:In the Windows driver dialog, the rendering resolution for your job is displayed in the Custom
Print Quality Options dialog box (select Custom options and then Settings). In the Mac OS Print
dialog, it is displayed in the Summary panel.
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. If you select Standard Options, you will see a simple slider with which you can select
speed or quality. If you select Custom Options, you will see the more specific options described
above.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (non-PostScript printers): go to the Paper/Quality panel
and look at the Quality Options section. If you select Standard quality options, you will see a
simple slider with which you can select speed or quality. If you select Custom quality options,
you will see the more specific options described above.
●In the Mac OS PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Paper/Quality
panel and look at the Quality Options section. If you select Standard quality options, you will
see a simple slider with which you can select speed or quality. If you select Custom quality
options, you will see the more specific options described above.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page (T1300 series): select Basic
settings > Print quality. If you then select Standard options, you can choose between
Speed and Quality. If you select Custom options, you will see the more specific options
described above.
●
Using the front panel: press 
, then , then Setup > Printing preferences > Print
quality.
NOTE:If the print quality is set from your computer, it overrides the print-quality setting in the
front panel.
NOTE:You cannot change the print quality of pages that the printer is already receiving or has
already received (even if they have not started to print yet).
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 59.
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Paper/Quality tab, then select your paper size
from the Document Size 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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							●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page (T1300 series): select Advanced
settings > Paper > Page size > Standard.
●
Using the front panel: press 
, then , then Setup > Printing preferences >
Paper options > Select paper size.
NOTE:If the paper size is set from your computer, it overrides the paper size setting in the front
panel.
Custom paper sizes
If you want to choose a paper size that is not included in the list of standard paper sizes, there are
various different ways to specify it.
Use the Windows printer driver
1.Select the Paper/Quality tab.
2.Press the Custom button.
3.Enter the name and dimensions of your new paper size.
4.Press OK. The new paper size is automatically selected.
A custom paper size created in this way has the following characteristics:
●The paper size is permanent. It will not disappear if the driver is closed or the computer is turned
off.
●The paper size is local to the printer queue. It will not be seen from other printer queues in the
same computer.
●In Domain server networks, the paper size is local to the computer. It will not be seen from other
computers sharing the printer queue.
●In Workgroup networks, the paper size will be shared among all the computers sharing the printer
queue.
●If the printer queue is deleted, the paper size is deleted with it.
Use Windows forms
1.From the Start menu, or from the Control Panel, select Printers and Faxes.
2.From the File menu, select Server Properties.
3.In the Forms tab, check the Create a new form box.
4.Enter the name and dimensions of your new paper size. Leave the margins as 0.00.
5.Press the Save Form button.
6.Go to the printer driver, and select the Paper/Quality tab.
7.Select More… from the drop-down list of paper sizes.
8.Select your new paper size from the group of Custom sizes.
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							A custom paper size created in this way has the following characteristics:
●The paper size is permanent. It will not disappear if the driver is closed or the computer is turned
off.
●Restricted users cannot create paper forms. The “manage documents” role in the Windows Active
Directory is the minimum required.
●The paper size is local to the computer. It will be seen in all the printer queues that have been
created on the computer and that support paper of that size.
●If a printer queue is shared, this paper size will appear in all the client computers.
●If a printer queue is shared from another computer, this paper size will not appear on the driver´s
document size list. A Windows form in a shared queue needs to be created in the server.
●If the printer queue is deleted, the paper size is not deleted.
Use the Mac OS printer driver
1.Go to the Page Setup dialog.
NOTE:If your application offers no Page Setup dialog, please use the Print dialog.
2.Select Paper Size > Manage Custom Sizes.
Use the Embedded Web Server (T1300 series only)
1.Go to the Submit Job page.
2.Select Advanced settings > Paper > Page size > Custom.
Select margins options
By default, the printer leaves a 5 mm margin between the edges of your image and the edges of the
paper (increased to 17 mm at the foot of cut-sheet paper). However, you can change this behavior in
several ways.
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Paper/Quality tab and then the Margins/
Layout button.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (non-PostScript printers): select the Margins/Layout
panel.
●In the Mac OS PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the Margins/
Layout panel.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page (T1300 series): select Advanced
settings > Paper > Layout/Margins.
You will then see at least some of the following options.
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							NOTE:Under Mac OS, the available margins options depend on the paper size selected. For
instance, for borderless printing you must select a paper size name that includes the words “no
margins”.
●Standard. Your image will be printed on a page of the size you have selected, with a narrow
margin between the edges of the image and the edges of the paper. The image should be small
enough to fit between the margins.
●Oversize. Your image will be printed on a page slightly larger than the size you have selected. If
you cut off the margins, you will be left with a page of the size you selected, with no margins
remaining between your image and the edges of the paper.
●Clip Contents By Margins. Your image will be printed on a page of the size you have
selected, with a narrow margin between the edges of the image and the edges of the paper. In
this case, if the image is the same size as the page, the printer assumes that the extreme edges of
the image are either white or unimportant, and do not need to be printed. This may be useful
when your image already contains a border.
●Borderless (T1300 series only). Your image will be printed on a page of the size you have
selected, with no margins. The image is slightly enlarged to ensure that no margin is left between
the edges of the image and the edges of the paper. If you select Automatically by Printer,
this enlargement is done automatically. If you select Manually in Application, you must select
a custom page size slightly larger than the page on which you intend to print. See also 
Print with
no margins (T1300 series) on page 63.
Print on loaded paper
To print a job on whichever paper is loaded in the printer, select Any in the Paper Type option of your
printer driver.
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Paper/Quality tab, then select Any in the Paper
Type drop-down list.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (non-PostScript printers): select the Paper/Quality panel,
then select Any in the Paper Type drop-down list.
●In the Mac OS PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the Paper/Quality
panel, then select Any in the Paper Type drop-down list.
NOTE:Any is the default Paper Type selection.
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 does not support large formats
●If your file is too large for the printers memory—in this case, you can reduce the paper 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:
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Features tab and look at the Resizing Options
section.
◦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 actual 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 (non-PostScript printers): 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.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the Finishing panel, then Print
document on, and select the paper size to which you want to scale the image. 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.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page (T1300 series): select Advanced
settings > Resizing.
◦The Standard and Custom options adjust the image size to the standard or custom paper
size you have selected. For example, if you have selected ISO A2 as the paper size and you
print an A4-size image, it is enlarged to fit the A2 paper. If the ISO A3 paper size is
selected, the printer reduces a larger image to fit the A3 size.
◦The % of actual 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.
●
Using the front panel: press 
, then , then Setup > Printing preferences >
Paper options > Resize.
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.
Change the treatment of overlapping lines
NOTE:This topic applies only when printing an HP-GL/2 job.
The merge option controls the overlapping lines in an image. There are two settings:
●Off: where the lines cross, only the color of the top line is printed. This is the default setting.
●On: where the lines cross, the colors of the two lines merge.
To turn merge on, go to the front panel and press 
, then , then Setup > Printing
preferences > HP-GL/2 options > Enable merge. You can set the merge option from your
software in some applications. Settings in your software override the front-panel settings.
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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 preview before printing option (for the T1300 series only), which you
can find in the drivers Paper/Quality tab and Features tab. The preview may be
provided in different ways, depending on your printer and printer driver.
●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.
◦If you are using the PostScript driver for the T1300 PS printer, check the Show print
preview option, which you can find in the drivers Printing dialog, in the Finishing
panel. This preview is provided by the Embedded Web Server and will appear in a Web
browser window.
NOTE:This option does not work if the printer is connected by USB cable to a different
computer (printer sharing).
◦If you are using the PCL driver for the T790 or T1300 series, check the Show print
preview option, which you can find in the drivers Printing dialog, in the Finishing
panel. This opens the HP Print Preview application, with more features, such as the ability to
change paper size, paper type and print quality, and to rotate the image.
NOTE:This option does not work if the printer is connected by USB cable to a different
computer (printer sharing).
●To preview a print using the Embedded Web Server for the T1300 series, select Basic settings
> Hold for preview.
Print a draft
You can specify fast draft-quality printing in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality
section. Move the print-quality slider to the extreme left (Speed).
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (non-PostScript printers): go to the Paper/Quality panel
and move the print-quality slider to the extreme left (Speed).
●In the Mac OS PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Paper/Quality
panel and move the print-quality slider to the extreme left (Speed).
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page (T1300 series): select Basic
settings > Print quality > Standard options > Speed.
●
Using the front panel: press 
, then , then Setup > Printing preferences > Print
quality > Select quality level > Fast.
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							You can specify even faster draft-quality printing by using Economode, as follows. This is intended
mainly for documents containing only text and line drawings.
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality
section. Select Custom Options, then set the quality level to Fast and check the Economode
box.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (non-PostScript printers): go to the Paper/Quality panel
and set the quality options to Custom, then set quality to Fast and check the Economode box.
●In the Mac OS PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Paper/Quality
panel and set the quality options to Custom, then set quality to Fast and check the Economode
box.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page (T1300 series): select Basic
settings > Print quality > Custom. Set Quality level to Fast, and Economode to On.
●
Using the front panel: press 
, then , then Setup > Printing preferences > Print
quality > Enable economode.
NOTE:If the print quality is set from your computer, it overrides the print-quality setting in the front
panel.
High-quality printing
You can specify high-quality printing in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality
section. Move the print-quality slider to the extreme right (Quality).
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (non-PostScript printers): go to the Paper/Quality panel
and move the print-quality slider to the extreme right (Quality).
●In the Mac OS PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Paper/Quality
panel and move the print-quality slider to the extreme right (Quality).
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page (T1300 series): select Basic
settings > Print quality > Standard options > Quality.
●
Using the front panel: press 
, then , then Setup > Printing preferences > Print
quality > Select quality level > Best.
NOTE:If the print quality is set from your computer, it overrides the print-quality setting in the front
panel.
If you have a high-resolution image
If your image has a resolution greater than the rendering resolution (which you can see in the Custom
Print Quality Options box under Windows), print sharpness may be improved by selecting the
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