HP Designjet T7100 User Manual

							Install the stacker
1.Connect the cables between the stacker and the printer.
2.
Switch on the stacker.
3. Select the 
 icon on the printers front panel, then  Accessories > Stacker > Install
stacker . The front panel will prompt you to attach the stacker to the printer.
4. There are two latches on the stacker that engage wi
th the printer deflectors. To attach the stacker
to the printer, attach first one side and then the other (because less force is required that way).
NOTE: The stacker operates on cut sheets of pape r. When it is switched on, the cutter is
automatically enabled. It cannot work  if the cutter is turned off or if the printing material cannot be cut
(canvas, for example).
Uninstall the stacker
1. To uninstall the stacker, select the  icon on the printers front panel, then  Accessories >
Stacker  > Uninstall stacker .
2. The front panel will then prompt you to detach th
e stacker from the printer. Pull the stacker from
one side to detach it on that  side, then detach the other side.
3. Disconnect the stacker cables.
Using paper with the stacker
The stacker can handle cut sheets
 of paper between 420 mm (A3 portrait) (16.5 in) and 1189 mm (A0
portrait) (46.8 in) in length. Shorter prints will be  enlarged to the minimum length with extra white
space; longer prints risk falling off the stacker.
Some printing materials are not comp atible with the stacker, including:
● Matte and clear film
● Glossy paper (except in
stant-dry glossy paper, which may be used)
● Heavyweight coated paper
● Canvas
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							When printing in Fast mode on Translucent Bond, Vellum or Natural Tracing Paper, there could be
some ink transfer marks in highly inked areas. Select Normal or Best mode to avoid this problem. See
Select print quality on page 79.
NOTE:You will have to remove the accumulated pile  of cut sheets from the stacker every now and
then.
NOTE: If you retrieve just one job from the stack, try  to leave the stack in a tidy condition, otherwise
you may experience stacking  problems and paper jams.
Stacker messages
You may see the following messages when using the stacker.
●
Remove the stacker : You must uninstall the stacker before printing, because there is no paper
loaded that is compatible with it.
● Hold for stacker removal : You must uninstall the stacker before printing the current job,
because the paper type specified for the job is  not compatible with the stacker, and the paper
mismatch action is  Hold for paper.
● Hold for paper : The paper mismatch action is  Hold for paper, and the paper type specified
for the job is not loaded.
● Load paper for next job : No paper is loaded.
Change the temperature
NOTE:This option is only available if the stacker is installed on the printer.
The stacker contains a heated rolle r to remove the curl from the paper. To change the temperature of
the roller, select the 
 icon on the printers front panel, then  Accessories > Stacker  > Select
temperature . There are three options:
● Normal  is the default and recommended setting.
● High  sets the roller to a higher temperature, whic h may be useful for particularly stiff paper.
● Low sets the roller to a lower  temperature, which may be usef ul for paper with a particularly
sensitive coating.
Change paper rolls while using the stacker
1. Remove the stack of cut paper from the stacker in order to make the stacker easier to handle.
2. Detach the stacker from the printer: first one side, then the other.
3. Change the rolls in the normal way: see 
Unload a roll from the printer on page 34
 and Load a roll
into the printer on page 30.
Clean the exterior of the stacker
See Clean the exterior of the printer on page 140 .
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							Clean the stacker rollers
WARNING!The stacker becomes hot during use. Before cleaning, switch it off and give it time to
cool.
Ink tends to stick to the main stacker roller and th e small output rollers, which should therefore be
cleaned regularly using a fabric cloth dampened with water.
The frequency with which cleaning is needed de pends to some extent on the paper type in use.
● For plain, coated or heavyweight coated
 paper, once a month may be sufficient.
● For translucent, vellum, glossy or natural tracin
g paper, cleaning may be required once a week
even with the slowest print modes.
Move or store the stacker
Before moving or storing the stacker, take a couple of steps to reduce the amou nt of space it occupies.
1. Undo the screws at either side of the stac
ker tray, and let the tray hang vertically.
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							2.Remove the pin from each leg extension,
 and rotate the leg extension upwards.
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							8 Print options
●Create a print job
●
Select print quality
●
Print a draft
●
High-quality printing
●
Select paper size
●
Select margins options
●
Print on loaded paper
●
Rescale a print
●
Preview a print
●
Print 16-bit color images
●
Change the treatment of overlapping lines
●
Print crop lines
●
Rotate an image
●
Print in gray shades
●
Use paper economically
●
Nest jobs to save paper
●
Use ink economically
●
Roll protection
●
Unattended printing/overnight printing
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							Create a print job
In order to print something, you must send it to the printer. This constitutes a print job, which is entered
into the printers print queue. There are two ma in ways of sending a print job to the printer:
● To print directly from a program, use the programs  Print command as usual. When you select
your HP Designjet printer, the printer driver  is invoked to send your job to the printer.
● If you have a file that is already in a support
ed graphical format, you can use the Embedded Web
Server to send it directly to the printer without going through a printer driver (see below).
Using the Embedded Web Server to print files
From the HP Utility or the Embedded Web Server, select  Submit Job in the Job Center group. You will
see the window below.
Press the  Add files  button to choose the files from your comput er that you want to print. The files must
be in one of the following formats:
● HP-GL/2
● RTL
● CALS/G4
● PDF (with the PostScript upgrade only)
● PostScript (with the PostScript upgrade only)
● TIFF (with the PostScript upgrade only)
● JPEG (with the PostScript upgrade 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 format s, they will not be printed successfully.
If the jobs have been generated wi th 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.
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							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 th at 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.
Printing stored jobs
When you print a file with the Embedded Web Server , you can mark the job to be stored permanently
in the printer.
If you select  Stored jobs in printer  in the Main tab of the Embedded Web Server, you will see a
list of the stored jobs. The informat ion displayed for each job includes:
● The name of the job
● The size of the job
● The date and time when the job was received by the printer
● The name given by the person who submitted the job
You can click on the title of an y column to sort the list by the information in that column.
You can select one or more jobs in the list and pe rform the following operations on them by using the
buttons at the top of the list.
● Print : The selected jobs are printed with the original  settings. You will be able to see the progress
of your jobs on the  Job queue page.
● Advanced print : The settings of the selected jobs are displayed, and you can modify them. You
can save the new settings by pressing the  Save button, and print the jobs by pressing the  Print
button.
The value of a setting is shown only if it has the  same value in all of the selected jobs. Otherwise,
a hyphen is shown.
● Delete : The selected jobs are permanen tly deleted from the printer.
Select print quality
The printer has various print-quali ty options because best-quality printi ng requires some loss of speed,
while fast printing implies some reduction in print quality.
Therefore, the standard print-quality selector is a sl ider that allows you to choose between quality and
speed.
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 reso lution and consumes less ink. It
therefore increases printing speed even  further, but reduces print quality. EconoMode  can be selected
only from the custom options (not from the slider).
There are also two supplementary custom options  that may have an effect on print quality: Maximum
detail  and More passes . See 
High-quality printing on page 81.
NOTE: In the Windows driver dialog, the rendering  and printing resolutions for your job are
displayed in the  Paper/Quality  tab. In the Mac OS Print dial og, they are displayed in the
Summary  panel.
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							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 X 10.4 Print dialog:  go to the Image 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 X 10.5 Print dialog:  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:  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 spec ific options described above.
● Using the front panel:  select the Setup menu icon 
, then Printing preferences  > Print
quality.
NOTE: If you have set the print quality from your co mputer, that 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).
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 slid er to the extreme left (Speed).
● In the Mac OS X 10.4 Print dialog:  go to the Image Quality panel and move the print-
quality slider to the extreme left (Speed).
● In the Mac OS X 10.5 Print dialog:  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:  select Basic settings > Print
quality >  Standard options  > Speed.
● Using the front panel:  select the Setup menu icon 
, then 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 X 10.4 Print dialog:  go to the Image Quality  panel and set the quality
options to  Custom, then set quality to  Fast and check the  EconoMode box.
● In the Mac OS X 10.5 Print dialog:  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:  select Basic settings > Print
quality >  Custom. Set Quality level  to Fast , and EconoMode  to On.
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 X 10.4 Print dialog:  go to the Image Quality  panel and move the print-
quality slider to the extreme right (Quality).
● In the Mac OS X 10.5 Print dialog:  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:  select Basic settings > Print
quality >  Standard options  > Quality.
● Using the front panel:  select the Setup menu icon 
, then Printing preferences  > Print
quality >  Select quality level  > Best .
Printing is bidirectional by default (the printheads  print when travelling in both directions across the
paper), but you can choose  Unidirectional printing for a further small improvement in quality at the
expense of speed. This option is not available if you have chosen  Fast print quality.
If you have a high -resolution image
If your image has a resolution grea ter than the rendering resolution (which you can see in the drivers
Paper/Quality  tab under Windows), print sharpness may be improved by selecting the  Maximum
Detail  option. This option is available only if you ar e printing on glossy paper and you have selected
Best  print quality.
● In the driver dialog (Mac OS Print dialog):  select custom instead of standard print-quality
options, then check the  Maximum Detail box.
● On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page:  select Basic settings > Print
quality >  Custom. Set Quality level  to Best , and  Maximum detail  to Yes .
NOTE: The Maximum Detail  option results in slower printing with photo papers, but it does not
increase the amount of ink used.
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							If you have printhead problems
If your printheads have an excessive number of clogged nozzles (which may cause banding or white
streaks on your prints),  print quality can be improved by selecting the  More Passes option.
● In the driver dialog (Mac OS Print dialog):  select custom instead of standard print-quality
options, then check the  More Passes box.
● On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page:  select Basic settings > Print
quality >  Custom. Set Quality level  to Best , and  More passes  to Yes .
NOTE: The More Passes option results in slower printing, but  it does not increase the amount of ink
used.
TIP: Instead of using this option, consider using the  Image Diagnostics Print to identify the printhead
or printheads that are causing the problem, and then clean or replace them. See 
The Image Diagnostics
Print on page 61.
Select paper size
The paper size can be specif ied in the following ways.
NOTE:The paper size specified here sh ould 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 84.
●
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 in the Format for popup menu, then
Paper Size.
NOTE: If your application offers no  Page Setup dialog, please use the  Print dialog.
●
On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page:  select Advanced settings >
Paper  > Page size  > Standard .
● Using the front panel:  select the Setup menu icon 
, then Printing preferences  >
Paper options  > Select paper size .
NOTE:If you have set the paper size from your co mputer, that overrides the paper size setting
in the front panel.
NOTE: If you have disabled skew checking, the pa per length is estimated as four times the
width.
TIP: If your document is 330 × 483 mm (13 × 19 in), designed to fit on sheet paper of the same
size, select the document size Super B/A3 .
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