HP DesignJet Z6100 PS A0 User Manual

6Print options
● Select print quality
● Select page size
● Adjust margins and layout options
● Resize a print
● Print crop lines
● Rotate an image
● Print a mirror image
● Select image orientation
● Remove the top and bottom blank areas
● Enter an account ID
● Select color emulation mode
● Change the treatment of overlapping lines
● Print with shortcuts
● Hold for preview
● Configure for high-quality printing
● Print in grayscale
● Print a draft
● Manage print jobs
● Request the printers internal prints...

Select print quality
The printer has various print-quality options. The best quality printing requires some loss of speed, while
maximum-speed printing can cause so me reduction in print quality. The printer has four different print-
quality options.
NOTE: If you have set the print quality in the printe r driver or through the Embedded Web Server,
that setting overrides a print-quality  setting established on the front panel.
NOTE:You cannot change the print quality of pages th at the printer is already...

Custom page sizes
Custom page sizes can be defined in a driver or through the Embedded Web Server. The two types of
custom page sizes are differentia ted by how they were created, and therefore, which users have
accessibility to them.
● Custom papers: custom papers are custom page size s that have been defined in a driver and that
reside on the users hard drive. Therefore, cust om papers are not available to other users in the
network.
● Printer forms: printer forms are custom page si
zes that have been...

To define a custom paper size that does not appear in the list of paper sizes:
●In the Windows and PostScript drivers, use one of two different methods:
●
In the driver dialog, select  Custom from the  Document size  drop-down menu on the  Paper/
Quality  tab. Type a name for the custom size and click  Save. Then specify the paper
dimensions and click  OK to save your custom paper size.
NOTE: The custom paper size you define is no t available for selection in the list of
custom sizes until you have...

Use the Embedded Web Server
To set the margins through the Embedded Web Server, go to the  Submit Job page on the  Main tab.
In the  Job Settings  tree, select Advanced settings > Paper  > Layout/Margins. Then use the
Select margins  drop-down menu to set th e margins. Select from: Default, Small , Normal and
Extended .
NOTE:Be aware that when you submit more th an one job at a time by clicking the Add files
button in the Embedded Web Server, all of the jobs  that you submit will adopt the settings of...

Use the Embedded Web Server
To rescale a print through the Embedded Web Server, go to the Submit Job page on the  Main tab.
On the  Job Settings tree, select  Advanced settings > Resizing. In the Resizing  drop-down menu,
select  Standard , % of actual size, or  Custom.
● If you select  Standard, select a size and orientation from the drop-down menus.
● If you select  % of actual size , enter a percentage in the free-text field.
● If you select  Custom, type a size in the free-text field, and then set...

Use the Embedded Web Server
To enable crop lines through the Embedded Web Server, go to the Submit Job page on the Main  tab.
In the  Job Settings  tree, select Advanced settings > Roll options  and then select a setting from
the  Enable crop lines drop-down menu.
NOTE: Be aware that when you submit more th an one job at a time by clicking the Add files
button in the Embedded Web Server, all of the jobs  that you submit will adopt the settings of the
final job that you submit. However, none of  the jobs...

When you rotate an image, you are actually rotating the page on the roll; the image maintains its same
orientation on the page. Rotate the image through the Embedded Web Server, in a driver, or on the front
panel. For more information  about image orientation, see 
Select image orientation on page 87.
NOTE:If rotation is set in the prin ter driver or through the Embedded Web Server, it overrides
the front-panel setting.
NOTE: When you rotate  a job, the page length might be increased to avoid clipping,...

Autorotate
The Windows HP-GL/2 printer driver provides an Autorotate option, that automatically rotates oversized
portrait images by 90° in order to save paper. Click the  Features tab and in the Roll Options section,
select  Autorotate . Then select the width of the loaded roll on the  Roll width drop-down menu.
Print a mirror image
If you are using clear imaging paper, sometimes called  backlit, you might want to print a mirror image
of your image, so that when the paper is lit from  behind, the image...

Use the Embedded Web Server
To remove top and bottom blank areas through the Embedded Web Server, go to the Submit Job page
on the  Main tab. In the  Job Settings  tree, select Advanced settings  > Roll options and then
select  Remove top/bottom blank areas .
Use a driver
●
In the Windows driver, go to the  Features tab and select  Remove top/bottom blank
areas .
● In the Mac OS  Print dialog box, go to the  Finishing panel and select  Remove top/bottom
blank areas .
Enter an account ID
Use this feature...