HP DeskJet D1460 User Manual

							4.Push the cards into the printer until they stop.
5.Slide the paper guide firmly against the edge of the cards.
Print
NOTE:If your software program includes a greeting card printing feature, follow the
instructions that are provided with the software program. Otherwise, follow the
instructions below.
1.Open the Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Features tab, and then specify the following print settings:
•Print Quality: Normal
•Paper Type: Click More, and then select an appropriate card type.
•Size: An appropriate card size
3.Select any other print settings that you want, and then click OK.
Use the 
Whats This? help to learn about the features that appear in the Printer Properties
dialog box.
Print booklets
Booklet printing automatically arranges and resizes the pages of a document so that when
the document is folded into a booklet, the page order is correct.
For example, when a four-page booklet is printed on both sides of the paper, the pages
are reordered and printed like this:
Guidelines
Do not exceed the paper tray capacity: 80 sheets of paper.
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							Prepare to print
1.Slide the paper guide all the way to the left.
2.Place plain paper in the right side of the tray. The side to be printed on should face
down.
3.Push the paper into the printer until it stops.
4.Slide the paper guide firmly against the edge of the paper.
Print
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Printing Shortcuts tab.
3.In the Printing Shortcuts list, click Two-sided (Duplex) Printing.
4.In the Print On Both Sides drop-down list, select one of the following binding options:
•Left Edge Booklet
•Right Edge Booklet
5.Select any other print settings that you want, and then click OK.
6.When prompted, reload the printed pages in the paper tray as shown below.
7.Click Continue to finish printing the booklet.
Use the 
Whats This? help to learn about the features that appear in the Printer Properties
dialog box.
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							Print posters
Guidelines
• For poster printing, sections of the poster are automatically arranged on individual
sheets that can be taped together. After the sections of a poster have been printed,
trim the edges of the sheets and tape the sheets together.
• Do not exceed the paper tray capacity: 80 sheets of paper.
Prepare to print
1.Slide the paper guide all the way to the left.
2.Place plain paper in the right side of the tray. The side to be printed on should face
down.
3.Push the paper into the printer until it stops.
4.Slide the paper guide firmly against the edge of the paper.
Print
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Features tab, and then specify the following print settings:
•Paper Type: Plain paper
•Orientation: Portrait or Landscape
•Size: An appropriate paper size
3.Click the Advanced tab, and then click Printer Features.
4.In the Poster Printing drop-down list, select the number of sheets for the poster.
5.Click the Select Tiles button.
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							6.Check that the number of tiles that are selected matches the number of sheets for
the poster, and then click OK.
7.Select any other print settings that you want, and then click OK.
Use the 
Whats This? help to learn about the features that appear in the Printer Properties
dialog box.
Print iron-on transfers
Guidelines
• When printing a mirror image, the text and the pictures are horizontally reversed from
what is displayed on the computer screen.
• Do not exceed the paper tray capacity: 10 iron-on transfers.
Prepare to print
1.Slide the paper guide all the way to the left.
2.Place the iron-on transfer paper in the right side of the tray. The side to be printed on
should face down.
3.Push the paper into the printer until it stops.
4.Slide the paper guide firmly against the edge of the paper.
Print
NOTE:If your software program includes an iron-on transfer printing feature, follow
the instructions that are provided with the software program. Otherwise, follow the
instructions below.
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							1.Open the Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Features tab, and then specify the following print settings:
•Print Quality: Normal or Best
•Paper Type: Click More, click Specialty Papers, and then click Other specialty
paper.
•Size: An appropriate paper size
3.Click the Advanced tab.
4.Click Printer Features, and then set Mirror Image to On.
NOTE:Some iron-on transfer software programs do not require you to print a
mirror image.
5.Select any other print settings that you want, and then click OK.
Use the 
Whats This? help to learn about the features that appear in the Printer Properties
dialog box.
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							7 Printing tips
Check your printer
•
Connect the printer to your computer.
•
Print a test page.
Save time
•Use the 
Printing Shortcuts tab.
• Set the 
order that the pages print.
Save money
•Use 
Fast/Economical printing.
•Print 
multiple pages on a single sheet of paper.
•Print in 
grayscale.
• Print a 
two-sided document.
•Use 
HP Everyday Photo Paper to save money and ink when printing photos.
Enhance the quality of prints
•
Preview the document before printing it.
• Print on a 
custom paper size.
•
Select a paper type.
• Change the 
print speed and quality.
• View the 
print resolution.
• Achieve the highest printing resolution with 
Maximum dpi.
•
Resize the document as needed.
Print a test page
You can print a test page to verify that the printer can print from the computer correctly.
To print a test page
1.Load Letter or A4 unused plain white paper in the paper tray.
2.Open the printer 
Toolbox.
3.On the Device Services tab, click the Print a Test Page button.
The Print a Test Page dialog box is displayed.
4.Click the Print Page button.
Recycle or discard the test page.
Printing shortcuts
Use printing shortcuts to print with print settings that you use often. The printer software
has several specially designed printing shortcuts that are available in the Printing
Shortcuts list.
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							NOTE:When you select a printing shortcut the appropriate printing options are
automatically displayed. You can leave them as is or change them.
Use printing shortcuts
Use the Printing Shortcuts tab for the following print tasks:
•
General everyday printing
•
Photo printing–borderless
•
Photo printing–with white borders
•
Fast/Economical printing
•
Presentation printing
•
Two-sided, duplex, printing
You can also 
create your own printing shortcuts.
Create printing shortcuts
In addition to the printing shortcuts that are available in the Printing Shortcuts list, you
can create your own printing shortcuts.
If you frequently print on transparency film, for example, you can create a printing shortcut
by selecting the Presentation Printing shortcut, changing the paper type to HP Premium
Inkjet Transparency Film, and then saving the modified shortcut under a new name; for
example, Transparency Presentations. After creating the printing shortcut, simply select
it when printing on transparency film rather than changing the print settings each time.
To create a printing shortcut
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Printing Shortcuts tab.
3.In the Printing Shortcuts list, click a printing shortcut.
The print settings for the selected printing shortcut are displayed.
4.Change the print settings to those you want in the new printing shortcut.
5.In the Type new shortcut name here box, type a name for the new printing shortcut,
and then click Save.
The printing shortcut is added to the list.
To delete a printing shortcut
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Printing Shortcuts tab.
3.In the Printing Shortcuts list, click the printing shortcut that you want to delete.
4.Click Delete.
The printing shortcut is removed from the list.
NOTE:Only the shortcuts that you have created can be deleted. The original HP
shortcuts cannot be deleted.
Set the page order
The page order determines the order in which your multipage documents print.
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							To set the page order
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Advanced tab.
3.Click Document Options, and then click Layout Options.
4.Select one of the following Page Order options:
•Front to back: Prints the first page of the document last. This setting saves time
because you do not have to reorder the printed pages. It is the appropriate setting
for most print jobs.
•Back to front: Prints the last page of the document last.
5.Select any other print settings that you want, and then click OK.
Fast/Economical printing
Use Fast/Economical printing to produce draft-quality printouts quickly.
To use Fast/Economical printing
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Printing Shortcuts tab.
3.In the Printing Shortcuts list, click Fast/Economical Printing.
4.Specify the print settings that you want, and then click OK.
Print multiple pages on a single sheet of paper
Use the printer software to print multiple pages of a document on a single sheet of paper.
The printer software automatically resizes the document text and images to fit on the
printed page.
To print multiple pages on a single sheet of paper
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Features tab.
3.In the Pages Per Sheet drop-down list, select the number of pages that you want to
appear on each sheet of paper.
4.In the Page Order drop-down list, select a layout for the pages.
A preview of the page order is displayed at the top of the Features tab.
5.Select any other print settings that you want, and then click OK.
Print in grayscale
To print in grayscale
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Color tab.
3.Click Print In Grayscale.
4.In the Print In Grayscale drop-down list, select an option.
5.Select any other print settings that you want, and then click OK.
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							Two-sided printing
Use two-sided printing, also called duplexing, to print on both sides of the paper. Printing
on both sides of the paper is not only economical, but environmentally conscious as well.
To print a two-sided document
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Printing Shortcuts tab.
3.In the Printing Shortcuts drop-down list, click Two-sided (Duplex) Printing.
4.In the Print On Both Sides drop-down list, click Manually.
5.Select any other print settings that you want, and then click OK.
The printer prints the odd-numbered pages first.
6.After the odd-numbered pages have been printed, reload the printed pages with the
printed side facing up.
7.Click Continue to print the even-numbered pages.
To create a two-sided document with a binding, see 
Bound two-sided documents.
General Everyday printing
Use General Everyday printing to print documents quickly.
•
Documents
•
E-mail
Print preview
Use the print preview function to view a printout on your computer before printing a
document. If the printout does not look correct, you can cancel the print job and adjust
the print settings as needed.
To preview a printed document
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Features or the Color tab.
3.Select the Show preview before printing check box.
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							4.Select any other print settings that you want, and then click OK.
Before the document prints, a preview is displayed.
5.Do one of the following:
• Click OK to print the document.
• Click Cancel to cancel the print job. Adjust the print settings as needed before
printing the document.
Set a custom paper size
Use the Custom Paper Size dialog box to print on a special paper size.
NOTE:This feature is not available for all paper types.
To define a custom paper size
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Features tab.
3.In the Size drop-down list, select Custom.
The Custom Paper Size dialog box is displayed.
4.In the Name box, type a name for the custom paper size.
5.In the Width and Length boxes, type the dimensions of the custom paper size.
The minimum and maximum dimensions are displayed beneath Width and Length.
6.Click the unit of measurement: Inches or Millimeters.
7.Click Save to save the custom paper size.
8.Click OK to exit the Custom Paper Size dialog box.
9.To use the custom paper size, select its name in the Size drop-down list.
Select a paper type
When printing a higher-quality document, HP recommends that you select a specific
paper type.
To select a specific paper type
1.Open the 
Printer Properties dialog box.
2.Click the Features tab.
3.Click More in the Paper Type drop-down list, and then select the paper type that you
want to use.
4.Click OK.
5.Select any other print settings that you want, and then click OK.
Change the print speed or quality
The HP Deskjet automatically chooses a print quality and speed setting depending on
the paper type setting you select. You can also change the print quality setting to
customize the speed and quality of the print process.
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