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							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 best possible color
accuracy, see 
Color profiling on page 69.
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 (T1100): select the Paper Type/Quality panel, then select Any in
the Paper Type drop-down list.
●In the Mac OS PS Print dialog (T1100ps): select the Image Quality panel, then select Any
in the Paper Type drop-down list.
NOTE:Any is the driver default.
Maintain paper
To maintain paper quality, follow the recommendations below.
●Store rolls covered by another piece of paper or cloth
●Store cut sheets covered and clean or brush them before loading them in the printer
●Clean input and output platens and cut sheet tray
●Always keep the transparent window of your printer closed
NOTE:Photo and coated paper requires careful handling, see The print is scuffed or
scratched on page 166.
Change the drying time
You may wish to change the drying time setting to suit special printing conditions such as multiple prints
where time is of higher importance or when you need to be sure ink is dry before handling.
Select the Setup menu icon 
, then Print retrieval> Select drying time. You can select:
●Extended, to set a longer than recommended time to ensure ink is completely dry
●Optimal, to set the default and recommended time for your selected paper
●Reduced, to set a shorter than recommended time when quality is of lower importance
●None, to disable the drying time and remove your print as soon as it finishes printing
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							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
completed, even if the Form feed and cut key has been pressed.
Turn the automatic cutter on and off
To turn the printers paper cutter on or off:
●From HP Easy Printer Care (Windows), select the Settings tab and change the Cutter option in
Printer Settings > Advanced.
●From HP Printer Utility (Mac OS), select Configuration > Printer Settings > Configure Printer
Settings and change the Cutter option.
●From the Embedded Web Server, select the Setup tab, then Printer Settings > Advanced, and
change the Cutter option.
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Press the Menu key to return to the main menu, select the Setup menu icon 
, then Printer
Settings > Advanced and change the cutter option.
NOTE:To cut rolled paper while the automatic cutter is disabled, see Feed and cut the paper
on page 42.
CAUTION:There are some papers that cannot be cut, such as canvas or very thick paper, even
when the Form feed and cut key is pressed.
Feed and cut the paper
To feed and cut the paper when the automatic cutter has been disabled, press the Form feed and cut key
on the front panel. The paper advances and the printer makes a straight cut on the front edge.
NOTE:The printer may not cut the paper directly after the Form feed and cut key is pressed, as
each time a print is printed the printheads are serviced and the paper cannot be cut until the process
completes.
Remove the cut piece from the output tray.
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							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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●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 to send it directly to the printer without going through a printer driver (see below).
Using the Embedded Web Server to print files
From HP Easy Printer Care or the Embedded Web Server, 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:
●PDF
●PostScript
●HP-GL/2
●RTL
●TIFF
●JPEG
●CALS/G4
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.
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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 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 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.
Alternatively, you can select from the custom options: Best, Normal, and Fast. There are also three
supplementary custom options that may have an effect on print quality: Maximum detail, More
passes, and Gloss enhancer. See 
High-quality printing on page 54.
NOTE:In the Windows driver dialog, the rendering resolution for your job is displayed in the
Custom Print Quality Options dialog box. 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 (PostScript driver): go to the Image Quality panel. 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 Print dialog (PCL driver): go to the Paper Type/Quality panel and
select Paper. 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 specific options described above.
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Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon 
, then Printing preferences > Print
quality.
NOTE:If you have set the print quality from your computer, 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).
Select paper size
The paper size can be specified in the following ways.
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							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 panel: select the Setup menu icon 
, then Printing preferences >
Paper > Select paper size.
NOTE:If you have set the paper size from your computer, that overrides the paper size
setting in the front panel.
Custom paper sizes
To choose a non-standard paper size not shown in the list of paper sizes:
●Under Windows, there are two different ways:
●In the driver dialog, select Custom from the paper size list in the Paper/Quality tab, then
specify the paper dimensions, then click Save to save your new paper size. To see your new
custom size in the list of custom sizes, you need to exit the printer properties, then reenter them
and use the More button.
●From the Start menu, select Printers and Faxes, then from the File menu select Server
Properties. In the Forms tab, check the Create a new form box, specify the name and
dimensions of the new form, then click Save Form.
●Under Mac OS X 10.4: select Paper Size > Manage Custom Sizes in the Page Setup dialog.
●Under Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3: select Settings > Custom Paper Size from the Page Setup
dialog.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: 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
(17 mm at the foot of a sheet of paper). However, you can change this behavior in several ways.
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Paper/Quality tab and then the Layout button.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PostScript driver): select the Finishing panel and then
Layout.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PCL driver): select the Paper Type/Quality panel and then
Layout.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: 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 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 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. 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 on page 56.
Print with shortcuts
The printer driver provides many options that can be set to different values when printing a particular job.
A printing shortcut stores the values of all these options that are appropriate for a particular kind of job,
so that you can set them all with a single click. Some settings (such as paper size, paper source, and
orientation) may be overridden by the values provided by your application.
To use a shortcut, select the Printing Shortcuts tab in the Windows driver dialog.
NOTE:Shortcuts are available only under Windows.
You can see a list of available shortcuts; select the one that matches the kind of job you want to print.
The driver options are now adjusted to suit your job. You can either print immediately, or examine the
settings to check that you agree with them. If you like, you can select a shortcut and then change some of
its settings manually.
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							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 printing shortcut.
If you decide later that you no longer want a shortcut, you can delete it.
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
You can rescale an image in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Effects tab, then Resizing options.
●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 normal 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 (PostScript driver): select the Finishing panel, then Print
document on to adjust 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 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.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PCL driver): 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.
NOTE:The Scale to fit paper size option is available in Mac OS X 10.4 and later
versions.
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