HP Designjet 500, Designjet 800 Pocket Guide

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Contents—How Do I...
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Navigate the Front Panel 4
The Front-Panel Display 4 Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 6 Examples of How to Use the Front Panel 17
Manage Prints 23
Cancelling a Page that is Being
Printed 23
Cancelling the Drying Time for a
Printed Page 24
Managing Pages that have Not Yet
been Printed 25
Prioritizing a Job in the Queue
(“Move to Front”) 27
Deleting a Job from the Queue 27
Manage Prints (continued)
Making Copies of a Job in the
Queue 28
Avoiding Paper Waste by Nesting
Pages 29
Replace Ink Cartridges and
Printheads 31
Replacing Ink Cartridges 33 Replacing Printheads 36
Load a Sheet of Paper 45
Unloading a Sheet of Paper 52
Load a Roll of Paper 53
Installing a New Roll on the
Printer 53 Loading a Roll of Paper 56 Unloading a Roll of Paper 62
More
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Information...
You can find more about the following topics in the User’s Reference
Guide, which is on the Using Your Printer CD:
Paper types; more about loading
Ink supplies
Page formatting
Printer configuration
Care of your printer
Accessories
More about solving problems
General index; Glossary of terms.
Many of the procedures in the User’s Reference Guide are animated.
You may also find other information about HP DesignJet printers, associated software and support on the HP web­sites at:
www.hp.com/go/designjet
or
www.designjet-online.com.
See the other side of this Pocket Guide for information about troubleshooting problems.
© 2000 Hewlett-Packard Company
Hewlett-Packard Company, Inkjet Commercial Division, Avda. Graells, 501, 08190 Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
The Front-Panel Display
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The panel on the front of your printer is the principal way of changing the printer’s behavior, apart from controls provided by the software you use.
Up () and Down () keys
Display area Action keys
4 The Front-Panel Display
Display-Area Keys
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Up (∆) and Down () let you navigate
through the items in a menu list. If there are more options than can be shown on the front panel, a vertical scroll bar appears on the right side of the panel. If further choices can be made for a menu item, the symbol “ ” appears to its right. A selected setting is shown by a tick (“√”).
Menu takes you to the main screen. It
cancels selected by pressing Enter.
Back takes you to the previous screen,
also cancelling selected with Enter.
Enter selects the item in the menu list and
makes it current. If there are further
any choices that have not yet been
any choices not yet
The Front-Panel Display 5
selections to be made, Enter takes you to them, shown by the arrows ( that starts on page 6.
) in the table
Display-Area Screen: Menu Icons
There are four main front-panel menus, each with a different icon highlighted. You can always reach a main menu by pressing Menu and then scrolling ( or ∇).
Paper
Ink
Job man­ agement
Set-up
Action Keys
Cancel cancels the current operation
(printing or preparing for printing).
Form Feed and Cut causes a sheet to be
ejected or the roll to be advanced and cut.
navigate the front panel
Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus
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Key to the List of Front-Panel Menus
On pages 7 through 16 are the printer’s front­panel menus, listed alphabetically. The key to the list is on the right.
In the User’s Reference Guide (on the Using Your Printer CD) they are listed
according to the structure of the menus.
For examples of how to use the menus, see page 17.
Note: PostScript functions in the HP DesignJet 500PS printer are available through the supplied PostScript driver, and are not available from the printer’s front panel.
6 Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus
There is more in this Pocket Guide on
23
the page indicated in black or in red if it
is on the reverse (“The Problem Is...”).
There is more in the User’s Reference Guide, some sections with animations.
Only available when PostScript or HP-GL/2 is available on the printer (HP DesignJet 500 [with HP-GL/2 Accessory card], 800 and 800PS printers).
Only available when PostScript is available on the printer (HP DesignJet 800PS printer).
Only available when HP-GL/2 is available on the printer (HP DesignJet 500 [with HP-GL/2 Accessory card], 800 and 800PS printers).
Advance
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calibration
Align
printheads
Altitude
Page formatSizeANSI sizes
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Graphic languageAutomatic
[HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Page format SizeAutomatic
PS settings
Encoding Automatic
Print quality Best
I/O setup Appletalk
Card ID (depends on card)
Page formatSizeARCH sizes
PS settings
Encoding ASCII
Drying time Automatic
Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 7
Advanced options Best quality
settings
PS settings
Encoding Binary
Color settings
Color/MonochromeTrue Black
Front Panel Buzzer (on/off)
navigate the front panel
Color calibration Calibrate now
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Color calibration
Replace Ink
cartridges
Color settings CMYK
33
Calibration
(paper advance)
22
Graphic Language CALS/G4
[HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Queue/copies Cancel
# Jobname(print in progress
23
or waiting) [HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
I/O setup Card ID
I/O setup Card setup
Information Ink cartridges
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Color settings Color/
Monochrome
Color calibration
Color settings
(RGB, CMYK, etc.)
Color settings
Rendering intent Colorimetric
Front Panel Contrast
Queue/copies Reprints/
# Jobname copies [HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
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Cutter (on/off)
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Defects in
images (Troubleshooting)
HP-GL/2 settings Define palette
15
Drying time
(none, automatic, manual)
PS settings Encoding
(ASCII, Binary, Automatic)
Log Errors
17
Queue/copies Delete (print
# Jobname→ already printed) [HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Advanced options
Best quality settingsMaximum detail
Color settings
CMYK DIC
I/O setup DNS name
Card ID (depends on card)
Advanced options
Optimize for Drawings/text
Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 9
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Color settings
CMYK Euroscale
Page formatSizeExtra print sizes
Advance calibration Restore factory
settings
Print quality Fast
Advanced optionsFast quality
settings
[HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
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PS settings
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PS Scale Fit to page
Front Panel
(language, buzzer, contrast)
Graphic language
(PS, HP-GL/2, CALS/G4, Automatic)
[HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Color settings
Color/MonochromeGrayscale
Help
Graphic LanguageHP-GL/2
[HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
HP-GL/2 settings
I/O setup HW address
Card ID (depends on card)
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I/O setup
I/O setup I/O timeout
Image quality
(Troubleshooting
Advanced options
Optimize for Images
Information (ink
cartridges, printheads)
Printer
Information
Information Ink cartridges
Replace Ink
cartridges
)
15
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Ink menu
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Information
Ink cartridges Ink levels
Page format SizeInked area
I/O setup IP address
Card ID (depends on card)
Page formatSizeISO sizes
Page formatSizeJIS sizes
Graphic Language
[HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Front Panel Language
(national)
Load roll
Load sheet
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Job management
Queue/copies Job name (and
number of copies)
[printers with formatter card only]
Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 11
Log
(printheads, errors)
Drying time Manual
Select paper
( Media) type
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navigate the front panel
HP-GL/2 settingsMerge (on/off)
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Page format Mirroring
Color settings Color/
Monochrome
Queue/copies Move print to
# Jobname top [HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Color settings
CMYK Native CMYK
Color settings
RGB Native RGB
Nest settings Nest (on/off)
[HP DesignJet 800 series only]
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29
Nest settings Nest
wait time
[HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Print quality Normal
Advanced optionsOptimize for
(drawings/text/images)
Page formatSizeOversize prints
Page format
HP-GL/2 settingsPalette
(define, select)
Paper (load, type)
Page format Paper size
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Select paper type
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Advance calibration Pattern
(create, measure)
HP-GL/2 settings
Define palette→...→ Pen width, color
Color settings
Rendering intent Perceptual
Graphic Language PostScript
[HP DesignJet 800PS printers only]
Queue/copies
# Jobname→ Print cancel
[HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Page format Print (paper) size
22
23
Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 13
Print quality
(best, normal, draft; also Set-UpAdvanced Options)
Print quality
(poor) (Troubleshooting)
Page format Size Printed area
– see Inked area
Printer
information
Information Printheads
Printheads
(align, replace)
PS settings PS scale
(PostScript)
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Print Quality
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(best, normal, draft)
Quality of
images (Troubleshooting)
Queue
(on/off)
[HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Queue/
copies
[HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Advanced options
Fast quality settingsReduced speed [HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Color settings Rendering intent
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25
25
Replace ink
cartridges
Replace
printheads
Queue/copies Reprints/
# Jobname copies
I/O setup Card
setup AdvancedReset card
Color settings RGB
Roll
(load, unload)
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36
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Page format Rotate (0°, 90°,
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Color settings
Rendering intent Saturation
PS settings PS Scale
(PostScript)
Select paper type
Sheet
Page format Size (of paper)
Page format Software
Size (Automatic)
180°, 270°)
(load, unload)
45
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Advanced options
Fast quality settings→Reduced speed [HP DesignJet 800 series printers only]
Color settings
RGB sRGB
Color settings
CMYK SWOP
Advanced options
Optimize for Drawings/Tex t
I/O setup I/O Timeout
Color settings
CMYK TOYO
Troubleshooting
(image quality)
Select paper type
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navigate the front panel
Unload roll
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Unload
sheet
Nest settings Wait time
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Examples of How to Use the Front Panel
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The keys you should press on the front panel are highlighted here in yellow.
Setting the Ink-Drying Time to Two Minutes
1 From the table on page 9, the menu
structure is shown as:
Drying time
2 Starting from the main Paper menu, press
the Down key () once...
...until the Ink menu ( ) is highlighted
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( ); then press the Enter key...
...to enter the Ink menu:
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The scroll bar at the right indicates that the
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list of available options is longer than can be displayed at a time.
3 Press the Down key () several times until
Drying time is highlighted.
The number of times you have to press the Down key depends on:
which model of printer–HP DesignJet
500 or 800 series,
whether you have an accessory card
installed on an HP DesignJet 500 series printer,
which options were recently used.
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4 Then press Enter. 5 Press Down () twice to highlight Manual,
and then press Enter again...
...to select Manual drying time:
6 Press the Up key (∆) to change the drying
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time selection from 1 to 2 minutes. Then press Enter to set the two-minute drying time.
If the front-panel Buzzer is set On, there will be a short ‘beep’ to confirm the change. The value will be confirmed by a tick mark at the right (“√”).
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7 Finally, press the Menu key to return to the
main menu.
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Printing Three Additional Copies of a Job that has Already been Printed
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This applies to HP DesignJet 800 and 800PS printers only; see page 22 for the HP DesignJet 500 Series with an Accessory card.
Ensure that the highlighting is on Queue/ copies, by pressing the Up () or Down
key () if necessary.
1 From the table on page 8, the menu
structure is shown as:
Queue/Copies
2 Starting from the main Paper menu, press
the Down key () twice until Job
management ( ) is highlighted ( ); and then press Enter to enter the Job
management menu.
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3 Press Enter to enter the Queue/copies
menu.
You will see a list of jobs that are in the print queue. Jobs that have already been printed have negative numbers; jobs that
are waiting to be printed have positive
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numbers.
Suppose the list of jobs are as shown in the diagram. The job that is currently being printed is number 0, whose job name is “Job #7”.
4 Suppose that the job you want to print
again is number -2, “piston.gif”. Press Up () or Down () sufficient times to highlight it; and then press Enter to select this job.
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5 The options available for the job are listed;
select Reprints and press Enter again.
6 Press the Up key () to select three
reprints, and then press Enter to set the number of reprints to 3;
the earlier screen is shown, with available options.
The reprint is automatically moved to the front of the queue.
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7 Finally, press the Menu key to return to the
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top-level menu.
See page 25 for more about Queueing
and Nesting prints.
Reprints with the HP DesignJet 500 Series Printers
You must have an accessory card installed in an HP DesignJet 500 Series printer to obtain extra copies; proceed as follows:
1 With Job management highlighted ( ),
press Enter.
You can navigate to any of the
settings in the table that starts
on page 6 in a similar way.
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2 You will either see the message Queue is
empty, or the name of your job. In the
latter case, press Enter to see the options available (including Reprints), and continue as in Step 5 on page 21.
Cancelling a Page that is Being Printed
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1 Press the Cancel key on the front panel.
The printer advances the paper as though the print were finished.
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A multi-page job or a big file may take longer to stop printing than other files.
Cancel key
manage prints
Cancelling the Drying Time for a Printed Page
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Use caution when performing this procedure as an image which has had insufficient time to dry could get damaged.
1 Press the Form Feed and Cut key on the
front panel.
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2 The printer will release the paper and it will
fall into the paper bin.
Managing Pages that have Not Yet been Printed
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Queueing and nesting are only available on the HP DesignJet 800 Series. (On the 500 Series, you can obtain reprints if an accessory card is installed; see page 22).
Change the Queueing setting by selecting Queue On or Off from the Job Management
( ) menu.
To change the Nesting setting, see page 30, Turning Nesting On and Off.
If the printer is turned off with unprinted files in the queue, the files are lost and must be resent.
With Queueing Turned ON
When Queueing is On and the printer receives print files, the files are stored in the queue in the
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order they are received. If Nesting is Off, the files are printed as soon as possible, in the order they are received. If Nesting is On, files are printed when the time-out period expires or there are enough files to fill a page width. You can reprint files which have already been printed. See also page 29, Avoiding Paper Waste by Nesting Pages.
You can send pages to the printer without
waiting for the current page to finish printing.
Pages are stored in the queue in the order
they are received.
You can manipulate the pages in the queue,
for example prioritizing them and reprinting them.
You can use nesting, the printer’s paper-
manage prints
saving feature (see page 29).
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While one page is printing, the printer will
accept and start processing the next file.
With Queueing Turned OFF
If Queueing is Off and the printer receives files, they are printed as they are received, and are not stored in the queue. Nesting settings have no effect.
Files are printed as they are received, and are
not stored in the queue.
The printer will not accept another file sent
from the computer until the current page has finished printing and the printer is ready.
You cannot use nesting.
If you turn queueing off while pages are still in the queue, they will be printed and (if nesting is on) nested, until the queue is empty.
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Position in Queue
The job currently being printed is in position 0. The next job to be printed is in position 1, the one after in position 2, and so on. The previous job printed is in position –1, the one before that in position –2, and so on.
up to 16 jobs
–3
–2
–1
0
1
2
3
jobs already printed
current job
jobs yet to be printed
Prioritizing a Job in the Queue
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(“Move to Front”)
To make any job in the queue the next one to be printed, select it and choose Move to front.
If nesting is turned on (see page 29, Avoiding Paper Waste by Nesting Pages) the prioritized job may still be nested with others. If you really want this job to be printed next and on its own on the roll, then first turn Nesting Off and then use Move to front to move it to the top of the queue.
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Deleting a Job from the Queue
Under normal circumstances, there is no need to delete a job from the queue after printing it, as it will just “fall off the end” of the queue as more files are sent. However, if you have sent a file in error and want to avoid any chance of it being reprinted, you can delete it by selecting it and choosing Cancel.
To remove a job that has not yet been printed, simply identify it by its position in the queue (see page 26, Position in Queue) and delete it, by choosing Cancel and pressing the Enter key.
If the job is currently being printed (its queue position is 0), and you want both to cancel the job and to delete it from the queue, first press the Cancel key and then cancel it from the queue.
manage prints
Making Copies of a Job in the Queue
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Has the job already
been printed?
Yes
No
In all cases, the job must still be in the queue.
What to do
Use Reprints
(see right)
Use Copies
(see right)
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Copies and Reprints
Having selected the job and chosen Copies or Reprints (from the Job Management (
menu), use the scrolling keys to specify the number of copies required, and press Enter. The number you enter is the actual number of pages to be printed; for example, choosing 2 for a page not yet printed means you will get the one original and one additional; choosing 2 for a page already printed once will result in a total of three (the original one and two more). The maximum number you can specify is 99.
The setting you specify in this option overrides
any value set by your software.
If Rotate was on when you sent the file, every
copy will be rotated also.
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Avoiding Paper Waste by Nesting Pages
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Nesting can only be used with roll paper. Nesting means placing pages side-by-side on the
paper (rather than one after the other), to avoid wasting paper.
The Printer Tries to Nest Pages When...
The printer is loaded with roll paper rather
than sheet paper; and
In the front-panel menus,
default). See page 25, Managing Pages that have Not Yet been Printed; and
In the front-panel menus,
set to a value from 1 to 99 minutes). See page 30, Turning Nesting On and Off.
Queue is On (the
Nest is On (that is,
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To be in the Same Nest, Pages Must Satisfy All the Following Conditions...
All must be Color or all Grayscale.
Grayscale may include a color page rendered in grayscale.
All must be at the same dots-per-inch setting.
All have the same print quality setting (Best,
Normal, Draft).
All have the same Margin sizes.
All must be HP-GL/2 prints or all PostScript.
All must have the same Page accuracy.
Nesting does not cause any automatic rotation of pages.
manage prints
Turning Nesting On and Off Which Pages cannot be Rotated?
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Apart from obvious physical limitations on the roll,
Nest Setting
Selected
Off The printer will not nest pages.
99, ... 2, 1 The number represents the number of minutes that the printer waits, after receiving a file, before it starts printing.
Printer’s Response
Choose one of these values if you want to use the least amount of paper. The printer will search all through the queue for suitable pages. It will nest the pages according to an algorithm that, for most combinations of page sizes, saves the most paper. The resulting nesting pattern may still vary, depending on the size of the first page.
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any HP-GL/2 page containing raster data will not be rotated.
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