HP DesignJet Z3100 24 User Manual

7.Click Next. The printer performs a color calibration and prints a calibration chart. This may take
ten minutes.
NOTE:For more information on the processes available in the Color Center, see A summary
of the color management process on page 67.
8.Once the new calibration parameters are calculated and stored, you are reminded to create an ICC
profile. Click Done. Your custom paper is added to the paper category you selected.
9.To create an ICC profile, which allows you to print on your paper with the...

CAUTION:If the ink is not dry when the print is removed it could leave ink in the output tray and
marks on the print.
NOTE:If you cancel the drying time during a print, the printer may not feed and cut the paper
right away due to the printhead maintenance, which runs in parallel. If the dry time is zero, the
printer cuts the paper and then performs the printhead maintenance. However, if the dry time is
greater than zero, the printer does not cut the paper until after the printhead maintenance has...

CAUTION:If strips or short prints are left in the output tray the printer could jam.
NOTE:Photo and coated paper requires careful handling, see The print is scuffed or
scratched on page 166.
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Printing
●Create a print job
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Select print quality
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Select paper size
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Select margins options
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Print with shortcuts
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Rescale a print
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Change the treatment of overlapping lines
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Preview a print
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Print a draft
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High-quality printing
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Print in gray shades
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Print with no margins
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Rotate an image
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Print with crop lines
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Use paper economically
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Nest jobs to save roll paper
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Use ink economically
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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 main 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 supported graphical format, you can use the Embedded Web
Server...

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.
Select print quality
The printer has various print-quality options because best-quality printing requires some loss of speed,
while...

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 50.
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Paper/Quality tab, then Document Size.
●In the Mac OS Page Setup dialog: select your printer in the Format for popup menu, then
Paper Size.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Advanced settings >
Paper > Page size > Standard.
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Using the front...

NOTE:Under Mac OS, the available margins options depend on the paper size selected in the
Page Setup dialog. 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...

TIP:Check at least the settings that you can see in the Printing Shortcuts tab: the document
size, orientation, etc.
The Factory Defaults shortcut contains the printers default settings. When you click on it, it sets all options
to their default values.
Printing shortcuts can be customized to your particular needs. To create your own shortcut:
1.Select the shortcut that comes closest to satisfying your requirements.
2.Change any value in the Printing Shortcuts tab and/or other tabs.
3.Save the new...