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							6.If you wish, use the Change Printing Properties button to change the following properties:
●Paper Thickness: This is relevant to carriage height or platen gap. You should choose
High if your paper weighs over 250 g/m² or if it does not have a plastic coating.
●Dry Time: The recommendation is to use Automatic by default and move to Extended if
needed.
●Starwheels: Print with the starwheels up or down.
●Cutter: Enable or disable the cutter.
●Global Ink Limit: Initially it can be left as it is and modified later on, based on printing results.
●Gloss Enhancer Amount: Initially it can be left as it is and modified later on, based on printing
results.
NOTE:When an option is grayed out, that means that it is not available for the selected paper
type.
Some paper types are available with different ink limits (less/normal/more ink). Ink limits are
generally proportional to color gamut volume, but a higher ink limit can cause printing artifacts
(bleed, coalescence, etc.) in some cases. HP papers have fine-tuned ink limits while other papers
use generic ink limits.
7.Click Next under Windows, Continue under Mac OS.
8.Load your custom paper, see 
Load a roll into the printer on page 28 or Load a single sheet
on page 33. You will find the paper name in the Custom paper category in the front panel.
9.Under Windows, select yes when asked to calibrate paper. Under Mac OS, select Paper Preset
Management > Calibrate Paper. For more information on color calibration, see 
Color
calibration on page 69.
10.You can print an image of your choice to check for color gamut, coalescence, mottle, bronzing and
gloss uniformity. If the results are not satisfactory, you can change printing properties and launch
another calibration. For instance:
●For better color gamut, increase the ink limit or select a more ink variant of the same paper
type if available.
●To reduce coalescence, decrease the ink limit and/or the amount of gloss enhancer or select
a less ink variant of the same paper if available.
●To reduce bronzing or improve gloss uniformity, adjust the amount of gloss enhancer.
For more information, see the online help 
 in the Color Center.
11.With your final printing properties, you can now create an ICC profile for the paper using one of the
following three options:
●The standard process with the Color Center (see 
Color profiling on page 70).
●The HP Advanced Profiling Solution (supplied with your printer). For more information on the
HP Advanced Profiling Solution, see its own documentation and also 
http://www.hp.com/go/
z3200ps/solutions/.
●A third-party profiling program (see 
Color measurement on page 72).
12.Once you have created and adjusted the ICC profile for your paper, you can link this profile to the
paper preset with the Color Center: select Paper Preset Management > Install Profile. If you
have used the standard Color Center profiling process, this step is not necessary because the
profile is linked automatically to the paper preset.
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							For more information on the processes available in the Color Center, see A summary of the color
management process on page 68.
Now that you have created the paper preset, you will be able to select the paper type from the front
panel and from the driver under the Custom paper category. The ICC profile for the new paper type
will be ready to use by your application.
You can export the new paper preset to your computer and use it on other HP Designjet Z3200 series
printers. In the Color Center, select Paper Preset Management > Export Paper Preset, then follow
the instructions on the screen. To install the preset on another printer, see 
To install a downloaded paper
preset on page 38.
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 PCL3 Print dialog: select the Paper Type/Quality panel, then select Any in the
Paper Type drop-down list.
●In the Mac OS PostScript Print dialog: select the Image Quality panel, then select Any in the
Paper Type drop-down list.
NOTE:Any is the default Paper Type selection.
Move the paper
If the printer is idle (ready to print), you can move the paper forwards or backwards from the front panel.
You may want to do this in order to have more or less white space between the last print and the next
one.
To move the paper, select the Paper menu icon 
 and then Move paper.
You can move the paper forwards by pressing the Up key on the front panel, or backwards by pressing
the Down key. When the paper is positioned as you want it, press the OK key.
Maintain the 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.
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							NOTE:Photo and coated paper requires careful handling, see The print is scuffed or scratched
on page 154.
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.
NOTE:Most paper types require no drying time.
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
TIP: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 the HP Printer Utility for Windows, select the Settings tab and change the Cutter option
in Printer Settings > Advanced.
●From the HP Printer Utility for Mac OS, in the Configuration group, select Printer Settings >
Configure Printer Settings and change the Cutter option in Printer Settings > Advanced.
●From the Embedded Web Server, select the Setup tab, then Printer Settings, and change the
Cutter option in Printer Settings > Advanced.
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From the front panel, select the Setup menu icon 
, and then Print retrieval > Enable cutter.
NOTE:To cut rolled paper while the automatic cutter is disabled, see Feed and cut the paper
on page 43.
Feed and cut the paper
To feed and cut the paper when the automatic cutter has been disabled, or when the front edge of the
paper is not straight, press the Form feed and cut key on the front panel. The paper advances and a
message is displayed on the front panel:
Select the cutting position by pressing the arrow keys backward and forward
If you immediately press the OK key, the printer will make a straight cut removing a 4-inch strip from the
front edge of the paper.
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							Alternatively, you can use the Up and Down keys to remove more or less of the paper (minimum 2
inches). Open the window to see where the cut will be made, indicated by a scissors label at the side
of the carriage. The window can remain open while you are moving the paper. When you have finished
moving the paper, close the window and press the OK key.
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.
NOTE: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 154.
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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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Preview a print
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Print a draft
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High-quality printing
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Print 16-bit color images
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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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Print on sheet paper
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Use paper economically
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Nest jobs to save roll paper
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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 the HP Printer 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 computer that you want to print. The files must
be in one of the following formats:
●PDF
●PostScript
●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.
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.
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							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 information 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 any column to sort the list by the information in that column.
You can select one or more jobs in the list and perform 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 permanently deleted from the printer.
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 and printing resolutions for your job are displayed
in the Paper/Quality tab. In the Mac OS Print dialog, they are 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 (PCL3 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.
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							●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.
●
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.
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 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.
●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.
NOTE:If you selected Sheet, without skew check when loading the paper, the paper length is
estimated as four times the width.
TIP:If your document is 13 × 19 in (33 × 48 cm), designed to fit on sheet paper of the same size, select
the document size Super B/A3.
Custom paper sizes
To choose a non-standard paper size not shown in the list of paper sizes:
●Under Windows, there are three different ways:
◦In the driver dialog, press the Custom button in the Paper/Quality tab, then specify the name
and the dimensions of your new paper size, then click Save to save your new paper size. In
the PostScript driver, 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 if necessary).
NOTE:The driver will not allow you to create a paper size whose width exceeds its length.
◦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.
◦The PostScript driver offers a special way of defining a custom paper size for the current
session only. Select the Advanced tab, then Paper/Output > Paper Size. Select PostScript
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							Custom Page Size from the paper size list, then specify the paper dimensions, then click
OK to save the new dimensions of the PostScript Custom Page Size, which appears in the
list of custom sizes available in the Paper/Quality tab. Your new page size is saved until you
exit your current application, after which the PostScript Custom Page Size remains in the list
but reverts to its default dimensions.
●In the Mac OS Page Setup dialog: select Paper Size > Manage Custom Sizes.
●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 Margins/Layout button.
TIP:In the Windows PostScript driver, make sure you have made the right choice from the
Document size list. You should select a no margins document size if you intend to use the
Oversize, Clip Contents By Margins or Borderless options.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PostScript driver): select the Finishing panel and then Layout.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PCL3 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.
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. Use this option when your image has white borders and a size equal
to that of the paper you have selected. The printer will use the white border for its margins and you
will get a page of size equal to that which is selected in the driver.
●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 should ensure that the image size in your
application is slightly larger than the paper size. 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.
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							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.
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 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
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