HP 9500hdn, 9500n User Manual

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The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice.

Part number: C8546-90987 Edition 1, 06/2003

Hewlett-Packard Company 11311 Chinden Boulevard Boise, Idaho 83714 U.S.A.

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1 Finding information

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Which guide to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Obtaining a user reference guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Where to find Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

At the control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

At the computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2 Using the control panel

Control panel features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Interpreting control panel lights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Using control panel menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Gaining access to Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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3 What you can do

Features for users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Open the printer driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Print on both sides of paper (duplexing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Store print jobs that you can print later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Create booklets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Staple your documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Use the HP Fast Infrared Receiver to print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Print covers or a different first page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Create the effect of a full-bleed image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Print special documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Features for administrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Manage the printer remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Obtain firmware updates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Manage page usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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4 Improving print quality

What you can do to improve print quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Setting the media size and type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Printing by type and size of media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Calibrating the printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using the Print Quality Troubleshooting Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Cleaning the post charger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Setting registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Cleaning the fuser input area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Solving print-quality issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Print-quality procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Solving persistent print-quality problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Print-quality-defect chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

5 Using color and media

Managing color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Print in grayscale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Automatic or manual color adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Matching colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

PANTONE®* color matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Swatch book color matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

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Four-color (CMYK) printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

CMYK Ink Set Emulation (PostScript only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Supported types of media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Orienting media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

6 Solving problems

Clearing jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Solving repeated jams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Clearing jams from the input-tray areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Clearing jams from the door areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Clearing jams from the duplexer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Clearing jams from the output areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Printing a paper-path test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Interpreting the lights on the accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Solving printer configuration issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Configuration page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Interpreting control panel messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

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7 Supplies

Checking supply levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Using the supplies status indicators on the control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Using the supplies status pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Using HP Web Jetadmin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Ordering supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Factors that can shorten the life-expectancy of supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Ordering directly through the embedded Web server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Ordering through the Internet-Enabled Supplies Ordering Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Installing supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Replacing the print cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Replacing the image drums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Replacing the image transfer kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Replacing the image fuser kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Replacing the image cleaning kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

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8 Service and support

Warranty information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Service during and after the warranty period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Extended warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Spare parts and supplies availability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Limited warranty for print cartridge and image drum life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

HP software license terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Customer support options worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Information from the printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Customer support and printer repair assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

9 Specifications and regulatory information

Printer specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Physical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Power requirements and circuit capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Power consumption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Acoustical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Operating and storage environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Environmental product stewardship program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Protecting the environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

FCC regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

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Regulatory statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Laser safety statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Declaration of Conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Canadian DOC regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Laser statement for Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

VCCI statement (Japan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Korean EMI statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Regulatory Model Information Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

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Finding information

Introduction

Hewlett-Packard offers a variety of ways to obtain information about this printer.

This guide (user guide) This guide is a quick-reference document that provides information that is useful when you

Online user reference guide The online user reference guide is located on the CD-ROM that came with the printer. It

Printer driver Help The printer driver Help provides detailed information about using the printer from your

Control panel Help The control panel Help provides help for, or additional information about, the current task.

HP’s website See HP’s website for more up-to-date information about the printer:

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are at the printer. It also includes information about some useful things that you can do with the printer.

contains more detailed information about the printer. See “Obtaining a user reference guide” on page 13.

computer. See “Where to find Help” on page 13.

ELP

Open the Help at the control panel by pressing (H that appears depends on the status of the printer. See “Where to find Help” on page 13.

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button). The type of information

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Which guide to use

The following table shows which guide you should use when searching for different kinds of information.

Topic User guide (this guide) User reference guide

Color printing X X Control panel X X Customer support information X X Fonts X Paper and other print media some X Print quality X X Printer configuration X X Printer drivers and software X Printing tasks some X Relocating the printer X Supplies X X Support X X Troubleshooting jams X

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Obtaining a user reference guide

You can obtain a copy of the online user reference guide from the following sources:

• The online user reference guide is on the CD-ROM that came with the printer. Contact your company’s

administrator for information about how to acquire it.

• The online reference guide can be ordered from HP’s website: http://www.hp.com/support/lj9500.

Where to find Help

At the control panel

The button on the control panel provides help for, or additional information about, the current task. The type of information that appears depends on the status of the printer. See “Gaining access to Help” on page 20 for more information.

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At the computer

Microsoft® Windows®

Each printer driver has context-sensitive help screens that can be activated from the Help button, the F1 key, or the question mark symbol in the upper-right corner in the printer driver (depending on the Windows operating system that is used). These help screens give detailed information about the specific printer driver and the task you are performing. Printer-driver help is separate from the software-application help.

Macintosh

1 Open the Help menu. 2 Select Help Center. 3 Click HP LaserJet Printer Help.

These help screens give detailed information about using the printer. Printer-driver help is separate from the software-application help.

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Using the control panel

This chapter contains the following information:

• “Control panel features” on page16

• “Interpreting control panel lights” on page 17

• “Using control panel menus” on page 18

• “Gaining access to Help” on page 20

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Control panel features

The control panel includes three light-emitting diode (LED) indicator lights; four navigation buttons; a (H

AUSE/RESUME

a P supplies-status indicators, and printer animations.

Note

button; a C

To find information about control panel messages, see “Interpreting control panel messages” on page 143.

PAUSE/RESUME button

CANCEL JOB button

Ready light

ANCEL JOB

Data light

button; a numeric ke ypad; and a g rap hical displa y t hat shows up to f our lin es of te xt,

Graphical display

Attention light

Supplies-status indicators

BACK button

UP button

HELP button

SELECT button

Numeric keypad

CLEAR button

DOWN button

ELP

) button;

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Interpreting control panel lights

Light State Indication

Ready Off The printer is off or offline, or has ex perienced an error.

On T he printer is ready to print. Blinking The printer is going offline; please wait.

Data Off The printer has no data to print.

On The printer has data to print, but is not ready or is offline. Blinking The printer is processing or is printing the data.

Attention Off T he printer is functioning without error.

On The printer has experienced a critical error. Note the error message, and

Blinking Action is required. See the control panel display.

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Using control panel menus

The control panel menu map shows the menus that all users use while protecting the menus that only administrators use. Users typically use the first three menus on the list: R ETRIEVE JOB, INFORMATION, and PAPER HANDLING. Administrators and service technicians use the other menus, which can be protected with a personal identif i cation number (PIN): CONFIGURE DEVICE, DIAGNOSTICS, and SERVICE. A brief description of each main menu follows here.

• Use the Retrieve Job menu to see jobs that are stored on the device. Jobs are listed by user and job name. See

“Store print jobs that you can print later” on page 25 for information about how to store jobs.

• Use the Information menu to see the printable menu map and other information pages.

• Use the Paper Handling menu to set media type (and size if not detected) for each printer tray.

• Administrators use the Configure Device menu to set defaults, I/O ports, diagnostics, and resets. The Configure

Device menu contains the following submenus:

• Printing submenu

• Print Quality submenu

• System Setup submenu

• I/O submenu

• Resets submenu

• Administrators use the Diagnostics menu to perform tests that are grouped by print quality, jam clearance, and

isolation of field-replaceable parts.

• Service technicians use the Service menu to monitor printer status and to provide appropriate assistance during a

service call.

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From the control panel, you can print a menu map that shows the layout and current settings of the control panel menu items. Additional menu items can appear in the control panel, depending on the options that are currently installed in the printer.

Note

You can perform most routine printing tasks from the computer through the printer driver or in the software application. This is the most conv enient method to control the printer , and it overrides the printer controlpanel settings. For more information about how to gain access to the printer driver, see “Open the printer driver” on page 22.

To print a menu map

ELECT

1 Press (S 2 Use (U 3 Use or to scroll to PRINT MENU MAP, and then press . The menu map prints.

button) to open the menus.

button) or (D

OWN

button) to scroll to INFORMATION, and then press .

To navigate the control panel menus

1 Press to open the menus. 2 Use or to scroll to the menu you want, and then press to select it. Depending on the menu, you might

have to repeat this step to select a submenu.

3 Use or to scroll to the item you want, and then press to select it. 4 Use or to scroll to the value you want, and then press to select it. An asterisk ( * ) appears next to the

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selection on the display, indicating that it is now the default.

5 At any time, use (B 6 Press P

AUSE/RESUME

ACK

button) to back up one level in the menu tree or to clear a numeric value.

to close the menu.

Gaining access to Help

ELP

The (H information that appears depends on the status of the printer.

• Press to open the Help. Use or to scroll through the Help messages.

• Press again at any time to exit Help.

Printer status Help available

Ready Idle Paused

Warning Error Other control panel message

In the menus Description of the highlighted menu or value

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button) on the control panel provides help for, or additional information about, the current task. The type of

Description of what kind of Help is available and how to use the Help

Additional information about the message that appears and the actions necessary to resolve the issue

What you can do

Features for users

You can use your printer to do some interesting things. This section describes the ways that you can use the printer features:

Note

Feature Location of procedure Where to perform the feature

•

Open the printer driver

•

Print on both sides of paper (duplexing)

•

Store print jobs that you can print later

•

Create booklets

•

Staple your documents

•

Use the HP Fast Infrared Receiver to print

•

Print covers or a different first page

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If you are an administrator, some useful features are available to you. See “Features for administrators” on page 44.

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Feature Location of procedure Where to perform the feature

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Create the effect of a full-bleed image

•

Print special documents

page 36 Computer page 37 Computer

Open the printer driver

Note

Printer-driver settings override control panel settings. Software application settings override both printer-driver settings and control panel settings.

Changing the settings for a print job

If you want print settings to be used only in the software application that you are using, change the settings from the software application. After you quit the software application, the printer settings return to the defaults that are configured in the printer driver.

To change print settings for a print job

1 In the software application, click the File menu, and then click Print. 2 Click Setup or Properties. (The options might be different for your application.) 3 Change the print settings that you want to change, and then click OK.

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Changing default settings

Note

If you want printing settings to be used in all of the software applications that you use on the computer, change th e default settings in the printer driver.

To change default settings in Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Millennium Edition (Me)

1 Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Printers. 2 Right-click the HP color LaserJet 9500 series printer icon, and then click Properties. 3 Change any of the settings on the Finishing, Effects, Paper, Destination, Basics, and Color tabs (the

4 Click OK to save your settings, and to close the printer driver .

To change default settings in Windows NT® 4.0

1 Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Printers. 2 Right-click the HP color LaserJet 9500 series printer icon, and then click Document Defaults. 3 Change any of the settings on the Finishing, Effects, Paper, Destination, Basics, and Color tabs (the

4 Click OK to save your settings and configuration, and to close the printer driver.

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Printer-driver settings override control panel settings. Software application settings override both printerdriver settings and control panel settings.

PostScript® [PS] driver also includes a PS tab). These settings are now the defaults for the printer.

PostScript[PS] driver also includes PS and Status tabs). These settings are now the defaults for the printer .

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To change default settings in Windows 2000 and Windows XP

1 Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Printers (Windows 2000) or Printers and Faxes

(Windows XP).

2 Right-click the HP color LaserJet 9500 series printer icon, and then click Printing Prefere n ce s. 3 Change any of the settings on the Advanced, Paper/Quality, Finishing, Effects, Destination, and Color tabs.

These settings are now the defaults for the printer.

4 Click OK to save your settings and configuration, and to close the printer driver.

Print on both sides of paper (duplexing)

The printer can automatically print on both sides of paper when a duplexer is installed and configured. (A duplexer is optional on the HP color LaserJet 9500n model and is standard on the HP color LaserJet 9500hdn model.) See the documentation that is included with the duplexer for installation instructions.

Caution

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Never try to print on both sides of labels, transparencies, on envelopes, or on paper that is hea vie r than 216 g/m2 (58-lb bond). Damage to the printer or a jam can result.

Printer-driver settings override control panel settings. Software application settings override both printer-driver settings and control panel settings.

To duplex in Windows (all versions)

1 Open the printer driver. (See “Open t he printer driver” on page 22.) 2 On the Finishing tab, select Print on Both Sides. 3 Click OK.

Note

The preceding procedures change the printer’s settings for a print job. To change the printer’s default settings, see “Changing default settings” on page23.

Store print jobs that you can print later

You can download a print job to the printer hard-disk accessory with or without printing it. You can then print the job when you want to at the printer control panel. For example, you might want to download a brochure or instruction manual that other users can gain access to and print.

To store a print job on the hard-disk accessory , select the Stored Job option in the printer driv er when you are printing from the printer control panel.

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To protect a stored job, assign a personal identification number (PIN) to the job.

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To create a stored job

Open the printer driver. (See “Open the printer driver” on page 22.)

Click the

2 3 4 5

Destination

Under

Destination Features

Select

Stored Job

Type the user name and job name.

tab.

, click

Settings

Options

The job does not print until someone requests it at the printer.

To print a stored job

You can print a job that is stored on the printer hard-disk accessory at the control panel.

ELECT

Press (S

Use (U

Use or to scroll to the user name, and then press .

Use or to scroll to your job name, and then press .

Use or to scroll to

Use or or the numeric keypad to specify th e number of copies, and then press .

AUSE/RESUME

Press P

If PRINT has (P

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button) to open the menus.

button) or (D

OWN

button) to scroll to RETRIEVE JOB, and then press .

PRINT, and then press .

to close the menus.

ADLOCK

symbol) next to it, the job requires a PIN to begin printing.

To delete a stored job

Jobs that are stored on the printer hard-disk accessory can be deleted at the control panel.

1 Press to open the menus. 2 Use or to scroll to RETRIEVE JOB, and then press . 3 Use or to scroll to the user name, and then press . 4 Use or to scroll to your job name, and then press . 5 Use or to scroll to DELETE, and then press . 6 Press P

If DELETE has next to it, the job requires a PIN to be deleted.

AUSE/RESUME

to close the menus.

Create booklets

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Automatic folding and stapling of a booklet requires the multifunction-finisher accessory (C8088A). If the printer does not have a m ulti function -finisher accessory, the printer can print the pages in the correct order, and the pages can then be folded and stapled or bound manually.

HP recommends that you use your softw are app lication t o prepa re and preview your document f or printi ng, and then use your printer driver to print and saddle stitch your booklet.

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To print a booklet in Windows

Open the printer driver. (See “Open the printer driver” on page 22.)

On the

2 3 4

Finishing

Select

Flip Pages Up

Select the booklet layout from the

tab, select

, if necessary.

Print on Both Sides

Booklet Printing

drop-down list, and then click OK.

To print a booklet in Mac OS

Before printing a booklet for the f i rst time, make sure that you have installed the HP Manual Duplex and Booklet software . This software requires a custom installation and is available for Mac OS 9.2.2 and earlier.

Note

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Mac OS X does not have the ability to print a booklet.

In the software application, click the Select Select Click Click Click Select the

from the pull-down menu, and then click

Layout

Plug-In Preferences Save Settings Booklet Printing Format Booklet

Paper Size

from the pull-down menu,

. . from the pull-down menu, and then click

menu, and then click

File

Print on Both Sides

Print-Time Filters

, and

Booklet

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