HP Designjet Z5200ps User Manual

							Setup menu icon , then Printing preferences > Paper options > Sheet load, check skew >
No.
You are not recommended to disable it, unless the printer has difficulty in performing the check
successfully with the substrate you are using.
While performing the skew check, the printer also measures the length of the sheet. If you disable the
skew check, the printer does not measure the length of the sheet; instead, it estimates the length as
four times the width. This means, for instance, that the length of the sheet is likely to be shown
incorrectly in the print preview.
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.
NOTE:Photo and coated paper requires careful handling, see The print is scuffed or scratched
on page 145.
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.
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							Turn the automatic cutter on and off
To turn the printers paper cutter on or off:
●From the HP Utility for Windows, select the Settings tab and change the Cutter option in
Printer Settings > Advanced.
●From the HP 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 42.
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 102 mm (4 in)
strip from the front edge of the paper.
Alternatively, you can use the Up and Down keys to remove more or less of the paper, minimum 51
mm (2 in). 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 145.
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							5Printing
●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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Print on loaded paper
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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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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 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 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. If you select Fast, you
can also select Economode, which uses a lower rendering resolution 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 52.
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.
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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 Print dialog (PCL3 driver): 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.
●In the Mac OS X 10.4 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 X 10.5 or 10.6 Print dialog (PostScript driver): 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 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.
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 49.
●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.
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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.
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							NOTE:If you have disabled skew checking, the paper 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.
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, 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.
NOTE:Such forms are not available when using a shared printer that is connected to a
different computer.
◦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 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.
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 > 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 (PCL3 driver): select the Paper/Quality panel and then Layout.
●In the Mac OS X 10.4 Print dialog (PostScript driver): select the Finishing panel and then
Layout.
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							●In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 Print dialog (PostScript driver): select the Margins/Layout
panel.
●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 54.
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.
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							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.
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 (PCL3 driver): select the Paper/Quality panel, then select Any in
the Paper Type drop-down list.
●In the Mac OS X 10.4 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript driver): select the Image Quality
panel, then select Any in the Paper Type drop-down list.
●In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript driver): select the Paper/
Quality panel, then select Any in the Paper Type drop-down list.
NOTE:Any is the default Paper Type selection.
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.
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							You can rescale an image in the following ways:
●In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Features tab and look at the Resizing Options section.
◦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 actual 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 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.
●In the Mac OS Print dialog (PCL3 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.
●On the Embedded Web Servers Submit Job page: select Advanced settings > Resizing.
◦The Standard and Custom options adjust the image size to the standard or custom 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 actual 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.
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Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon 
, then Printing preferences > Paper >
Resize.
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 with skew checking disabled, 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 print under Windows, you have the following options:
◦Use your applications print preview option.
◦Check the Show preview before printing option, which you can find in the drivers
Printing Shortcuts tab, Paper/Quality tab and Features tab. The preview may be
provided in different ways, depending on your printer and printer driver.
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