HP Designjet Z3200 24 in User Manual

NOTE:The printer may not cut the paper immediately, as the printheads are serviced after each print
and the paper cannot be cut until that process is complete.
When the paper has been cut, remove the cut piece from the output tray.
TIP:If strips or short prints are left in the output tray the printer could jam.
TIP:Photo and coated paper requires careful handling, see The print is scuffed or scratched
on page 124.
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5Printing
●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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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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Reprint an old job
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Rotate an image
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Print with crop lines
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Print on sheet paper
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Use paper economically
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Use ink economically
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Printing
 

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...

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 Margins/Layout button.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog: select the Paper Type/Quality panel and then Layout.
You will then see at least some of the following options.
NOTE:Under Mac OS, the available margins options...

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.
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...

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.
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.
NOTE:If you load sheet paper without a skew check, the printer does not measure the length of the
sheet, so the print preview will not be a reliable guide to the final printout.
●To preview a...

◦Click the PDF button at the bottom of the Print dialog box, then click HP Print Preview. This
provides a preview with more features, such as the ability to change paper size, paper type
and print quality, and to rotate the image. See below:
NOTE:HP Print Preview is not available if you are using Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Reader or Apple Aperture.
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...

If you have a high-resolution image
If your image has a resolution greater 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.
●In the driver dialog (Mac OS Print dialog): select custom instead of standard print-quality options,
then check the Maximum Detail box.
NOTE:The Maximum Detail option results in slower printing with photo papers, but it does not
increase the amount of ink used....

●Better PANTONE coverage
●A smoother surface
●Greater robustness
Print in gray shades
You can convert all colors in your image to shades of gray in the following ways:
●In your application program: many programs provide this option.
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Color tab and look at the Color Options section.
Select Print in Grayscale.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog: go to the Paper Type/Quality panel and select Color, then select
Print In Grayscale.
See also 
Print a black-and-white photo for...

In addition, you may be able to use your operating systems printer spooler to reprint old jobs, if you
have already told the spooler to save old jobs. This facility depends on your operating system.
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:
You can do this in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: select the Features tab, then...