HP Designjet T770, Designjet T1200 User's Guide

HP Designjet T770 and T1200 printer
series

Using your printer

© 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development
Company, L.P.

2nd edition

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Table of contents

1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 1

Safety precautions ................................................................................................................................ 2

HP Start-Up Kit ..................................................................................................................................... 2

Using this guide .................................................................................................................................... 2

Printer models ...................................................................................................................................... 4

The printer's main features ................................................................................................................... 4

The printer's main components ............................................................................................................ 5

The front panel ..................................................................................................................................... 8

Printer software .................................................................................................................................... 9

The printer's internal prints ................................................................................................................. 10

2 Installing the software .................................................................................................................................. 11

Choose which connection method to use ........................................................................................... 12

Connect to a network (Windows) ....................................................................................................... 12

Connect directly to a computer (Windows) ......................................................................................... 12

Uninstall the printer software (Windows) ............................................................................................ 13

Connect to a network (Mac OS) ......................................................................................................... 14

Connect directly to a computer (Mac OS) .......................................................................................... 17

Uninstall the printer software (Mac OS) ............................................................................................. 18

3 Setting up the printer .................................................................................................................................... 20

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 21

Paper suitability options (T1200 series only) ...................................................................................... 21

Turn nesting on and off (T1200 series only) ....................................................................................... 22

Turn usage information on and off ..................................................................................................... 23

Turn alerts on and off ......................................................................................................................... 23

Control access to the printer .............................................................................................................. 24

Require account ID (T1200 series only) ............................................................................................. 24

Set Windows driver preferences ........................................................................................................ 24

4 Personalizing the printer .............................................................................................................................. 25

Turn the printer on and off .................................................................................................................. 26

Change the language of the front-panel display ................................................................................. 27

Access the HP Utility .......................................................................................................................... 27

Access the Embedded Web Server ................................................................................................... 27

Change the language of the HP Utility ............................................................................................... 28

Change the language of the Embedded Web Server ......................................................................... 28

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Change the sleep mode setting .......................................................................................................... 28

Turn the buzzer on and off ................................................................................................................. 28

Change the front-panel display contrast ............................................................................................. 29

Change the units of measurement ..................................................................................................... 29

Configure network settings ................................................................................................................. 29

Change the graphic language setting ................................................................................................. 30

5 Paper handling .............................................................................................................................................. 31

General advice ................................................................................................................................... 32

Load a roll onto the spindle ................................................................................................................ 33

Load a roll into the printer ................................................................................................................... 34

Unload a roll ....................................................................................................................................... 38

Load a single sheet ............................................................................................................................ 39

Unload a single sheet ......................................................................................................................... 41

View information about the paper ....................................................................................................... 42

Paper presets ..................................................................................................................................... 43

Printing paper info .............................................................................................................................. 43

Move the paper .................................................................................................................................. 43

Maintain paper .................................................................................................................................... 44

Change the drying time ...................................................................................................................... 44

Turn the automatic cutter on and off .................................................................................................. 45

Feed and cut the paper ...................................................................................................................... 45

6 Working with two rolls (T1200 series only) ................................................................................................ 46

The uses of a multiroll printer ............................................................................................................. 47

How the printer allocates jobs to paper rolls ...................................................................................... 47

7 Printing .......................................................................................................................................................... 49

Create a print job ................................................................................................................................ 50

Select print quality .............................................................................................................................. 51

Select paper size ................................................................................................................................ 51

Select margins options ....................................................................................................................... 52

Print with shortcuts ............................................................................................................................. 53

Print on loaded paper ......................................................................................................................... 54

Rescale a print ................................................................................................................................... 55

Change the treatment of overlapping lines ......................................................................................... 55

Preview a print .................................................................................................................................... 56

Print a draft ......................................................................................................................................... 56

High-quality printing ............................................................................................................................ 57

Print in gray shades ............................................................................................................................ 58

Print with no margins (T1200 series only) .......................................................................................... 58

Print with crop lines (T1200 series only) ............................................................................................ 59

Reprint last printed job ....................................................................................................................... 60

Use paper economically ..................................................................................................................... 60

Nest jobs to save roll paper (T1200 series only) ................................................................................ 60

Use ink economically .......................................................................................................................... 62

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Roll protection (T1200 series only) ..................................................................................................... 62

Unattended printing/overnight printing (T1200 series only) ................................................................ 63

8 Color management ....................................................................................................................................... 65

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 66

How colors are represented ............................................................................................................... 66

A summary of the color management process ................................................................................... 66

Color calibration ................................................................................................................................. 66

Color management from printer drivers .............................................................................................. 68

Color management from printer drivers (PostScript printers) ............................................................. 71

Color management from the Embedded Web Server (T1200 series only) ........................................ 73

Color management from the front panel ............................................................................................. 75

9 Practical printing examples ......................................................................................................................... 77

Print a draft for revision with the correct scale ................................................................................... 78

Print a project ..................................................................................................................................... 80

Print a presentation ............................................................................................................................ 90

Print and scale from Microsoft Office ................................................................................................. 97

10 Job queue management ........................................................................................................................... 103

Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 104

Job queue page (T1200 series only) ................................................................................................ 104

Job preview (T1200 series only) ...................................................................................................... 105

Turn off the job queue (T770 HD and T1200 series only) ................................................................ 105

Select when to print a job in the queue (T770 HD and T1200 series only) ...................................... 105

Identify a job in the queue (T770 HD and T1200 series only) .......................................................... 106

Prioritize a job in the queue (T770 HD and T1200 series only) ........................................................ 106

Delete a job from the queue (T770 HD and T1200 series only) ....................................................... 106

Reprint or copy a job in the queue (T770 HD and T1200 series only) ............................................. 107

Job status messages (T770 HD and T1200 series only) ................................................................. 107

11 Retrieving printer usage information ...................................................................................................... 109

Get printer accounting information ................................................................................................... 110

Check printer usage statistics .......................................................................................................... 110

Check ink and paper usage for a job ................................................................................................ 110

12 Handling ink cartridges and printheads ................................................................................................. 112

About the ink cartridges .................................................................................................................... 113

Check the ink cartridges status ........................................................................................................ 113

Remove an ink cartridge .................................................................................................................. 113

Insert an ink cartridge ....................................................................................................................... 115

About the printheads ........................................................................................................................ 116

Check the printhead status ............................................................................................................... 116

Remove a printhead ......................................................................................................................... 117

Insert a printhead ............................................................................................................................. 120

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13 Maintaining the printer ............................................................................................................................. 123

Check printer status ......................................................................................................................... 124

Clean the exterior of the printer ........................................................................................................ 124

Maintain the ink cartridges ............................................................................................................... 124

Move or store the printer .................................................................................................................. 124

Update the firmware ......................................................................................................................... 125

Update the software ......................................................................................................................... 126

Printer maintenance kits ................................................................................................................... 126

Secure Disk Erase ............................................................................................................................ 126

14 Accessories ............................................................................................................................................... 128

How to order supplies and accessories ............................................................................................ 129

Introduction to the accessories ......................................................................................................... 133

15 Troubleshooting paper issues ................................................................................................................. 135

The paper cannot be loaded successfully ........................................................................................ 136

The paper type is not in the driver .................................................................................................... 137

The printer printed on the wrong paper type .................................................................................... 139

An “on hold for paper” message (T1200 series only) ....................................................................... 139

The roll paper will not advance ......................................................................................................... 140

The paper has jammed .................................................................................................................... 141

A strip stays on the output tray and generates jams ........................................................................ 143

The printer displays out of paper when paper is available ............................................................... 144

Prints do not fall neatly into the basket ............................................................................................. 144

The sheet stays in the printer when the print has been completed .................................................. 144

The paper is cut when the print has been completed ....................................................................... 144

The cutter does not cut well ............................................................................................................. 144

The roll is loose on the spindle ......................................................................................................... 144

Recalibrate the paper advance ........................................................................................................ 145

16 Troubleshooting print-quality issues ...................................................................................................... 147

General advice ................................................................................................................................. 148

Print quality troubleshooting wizard .................................................................................................. 148

Horizontal lines across the image (banding) .................................................................................... 149

Lines are too thick, too thin or missing ............................................................................................. 150

Lines appear stepped or jagged ....................................................................................................... 150

Lines print double or in the wrong colors .......................................................................................... 151

Lines are discontinuous .................................................................................................................... 152

Lines are blurred .............................................................................................................................. 152

Line lengths are inaccurate .............................................................................................................. 153

The whole image is blurry or grainy ................................................................................................. 153

The paper is not flat .......................................................................................................................... 154

The print is scuffed or scratched ...................................................................................................... 154

Ink marks on the paper ..................................................................................................................... 155

Black ink comes off when you touch the print .................................................................................. 156

Edges of objects are stepped or not sharp ....................................................................................... 156

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Edges of objects are darker than expected ...................................................................................... 156

Horizontal lines at the end of a cut sheet print ................................................................................. 156

Vertical lines of different colors ........................................................................................................ 157

White spots on the print .................................................................................................................... 157

Colors are inaccurate ....................................................................................................................... 157

Colors are fading .............................................................................................................................. 158

The image is incomplete (clipped at the bottom) .............................................................................. 158

The image is clipped ........................................................................................................................ 158

Some objects are missing from the printed image ........................................................................... 159

A PDF file is clipped or objects are missing ..................................................................................... 160

The Image Diagnostics Print ............................................................................................................ 160

If you still have a problem ................................................................................................................. 162

17 Troubleshooting ink cartridge and printhead issues ............................................................................ 163

Cannot insert an ink cartridge .......................................................................................................... 164

Ink cartridge status messages .......................................................................................................... 164

Cannot insert a printhead ................................................................................................................. 164

The front-panel display recommends reseating or replacing a printhead ........................................ 164

Clean the printheads ........................................................................................................................ 165

Clean the printhead drop detector .................................................................................................... 165

Align the printheads .......................................................................................................................... 168

Printhead status messages .............................................................................................................. 170

18 Troubleshooting general printer issues ................................................................................................. 171

The printer will not start .................................................................................................................... 172

The printer does not print ................................................................................................................. 172

The printer seems slow .................................................................................................................... 173

Communication failures between computer and printer ................................................................... 173

Cannot access the HP Utility ............................................................................................................ 174

Cannot access the Embedded Web Server ..................................................................................... 174

Automatic file system check ............................................................................................................. 174

An AutoCAD 2000 memory allocation error ..................................................................................... 175

No output when printing from Microsoft Visio 2003 .......................................................................... 175

Unavailable driver features when printing from QuarkXpress .......................................................... 175

Printer alerts ..................................................................................................................................... 176

19 Front-panel error messages .................................................................................................................... 177

20 HP Customer Care .................................................................................................................................... 179

Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 180

HP Professional Services ................................................................................................................. 180

HP Instant Support ........................................................................................................................... 181

HP Proactive Support ....................................................................................................................... 181

Contact HP Support ......................................................................................................................... 182

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21 Printer specifications ............................................................................................................................... 183

Functional specifications .................................................................................................................. 184

Physical specifications ..................................................................................................................... 185

Memory specifications ...................................................................................................................... 185

Power specifications ......................................................................................................................... 185

Ecological specifications .................................................................................................................. 186

Environmental specifications ............................................................................................................ 186

Acoustic specifications ..................................................................................................................... 186

Glossary ........................................................................................................................................................... 187

Index ................................................................................................................................................................. 189

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1Introduction

Safety precautions

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HP Start-Up Kit

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Using this guide

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Printer models

The printer's main features

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The printer's main components

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The front panel

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Printer software

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Introduction

The printer's internal prints

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Introduction

Safety precautions

The following precautions ensure the proper use of the printer and prevent the printer from being
damaged. Follow these precautions at all times.

● Use the power supply voltage specified on the nameplate. Avoid overloading the printer's

electrical outlet with multiple devices.

Ensure the printer is well-grounded. Failure to ground the printer may result in electrical shock,

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fire and susceptibility to electromagnetic interference.

Do not disassemble or repair the printer yourself. Contact your local HP Service Representative

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for service, see

Use only the electrical cord supplied by HP with the printer. Do not damage, cut or repair the

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power cord. A damaged power cord has risk of fire and electric shock. Replace a damaged
power cord with an HP-approved power cord.

● Do not allow metal or liquids (except those used in HP Cleaning Kits) to touch the internal parts

of the printer. Doing so may cause fire, electric shock or other serious hazards.

Turn off the printer and unplug the power cable from the power outlet in any of the following

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cases:

When placing your hands inside the printer

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If there is smoke or an unusual smell coming from the printer

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Contact HP Support on page 182.

◦ If the printer is making an unusual noise not heard during normal operation

A piece of metal or a liquid (not part of cleaning and maintenance routines) touches internal

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parts of the printer

◦ During a thunderstorm

During a power failure

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HP Start-Up Kit

The HP Start-Up Kit is the CD that comes with your printer; it contains the printer's software and
documentation.

Using this guide

This guide can be downloaded from the HP Knowledge Center (see Knowledge Center

on page 180).

Introduction

This chapter provides a brief introduction to the printer and its documentation for new users.

Use and maintenance

These chapters help you carry out normal printer procedures and include the following topics.

Installing the software on page 11

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Setting up the printer on page 20

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Personalizing the printer on page 25

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Paper handling on page 31

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Working with two rolls (T1200 series only) on page 46

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Printing on page 49

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Color management on page 65

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Practical printing examples on page 77

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Job queue management on page 103

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Retrieving printer usage information on page 109

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Handling ink cartridges and printheads on page 112

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Maintaining the printer on page 123

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Troubleshooting

These chapters help you solve problems that may occur while printing and include the following
topics.

Troubleshooting paper issues on page 135

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Troubleshooting print-quality issues on page 147

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Introduction

Troubleshooting ink cartridge and printhead issues on page 163

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Troubleshooting general printer issues on page 171

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Front-panel error messages on page 177

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Accessories, support and specifications

These chapters, Accessories on page 128, HP Customer Care on page 179 and Printer

specifications on page 183, contain reference information, including customer care, the printer

specifications and part numbers for paper types, ink supplies and accessories.

Glossary

The Glossary on page 187 contains definitions of printing and HP terms used in this documentation.

Index

In addition to the table of contents, there is an alphabetical index to help you to find topics quickly.

Warnings and Cautions

The following symbols are used in this manual to ensure the proper use of the printer and to prevent
the printer from being damaged. Follow the instructions marked with these symbols.

WARNING! Failure to follow the guidelines marked with this symbol could result in serious personal

injury or death.

CAUTION: Failure to follow the guidelines marked with this symbol could result in minor personal

injury or damage to the product.

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Introduction

Printer models

The printer's main features

This guide covers the following printer models, normally referring to them by their short names for
brevity.

Full name Short name

HP Designjet T770 T770

HP Designjet T770 with PS Upgrade T770 PS

HP Designjet T770 with Hard Disk T770 HD

HP Designjet T770 with Hard Disk and PS Upgrade T770 HD PS

HP Designjet T1200 T1200

HP Designjet T1200 PostScript® T1200 PS

Your printer is a color inkjet printer designed for printing high-quality images on paper up to 610 mm
(24 in) or 1118 mm (44 in) wide. Some major features of the printer are shown below:

Print resolution of up to 2400 × 1200 optimized dpi, from a 1200 × 1200 dpi input, using the Best

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print-quality option, the Maximum Detail option and photo paper

The HP Utility, see

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including:

Job management, see

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Printer calibration

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Access to the online HP Knowledge Center (see

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Paper flexibility and automatic easy load, see

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presets accessible from the front panel and the HP Utility

Handles cut-sheet and roll paper

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Six-ink system

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● Accurate and consistent color reproduction with automatic color calibration

Color emulations, see

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Economode for printing economically

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● Two rolls loaded at once provide fast and easy switching between different rolls, or long runs of

unattended printing (T1200 series only)

High productivity features such as job previewing and nesting using the HP Utility or the printer's

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Embedded Web Server (T1200 series only)

Access the HP Utility on page 27, provides an easy-to-use interface

Job queue management on page 103

Knowledge Center on page 180)

Paper handling on page 31, with information and

Printer emulation on page 68

Ink and paper usage information available from the Embedded Web Server, see

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Embedded Web Server on page 27

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Access the

The printer's main components

The following front and rear views of the 1118mm (44 in) printer illustrate the main components. The
610 mm (24 in) printer (not shown) has the same components in a narrower body.

Front view

1. Ink cartridge

2. Ink cartridge slots

3. Blue lever

Introduction

4. Window

5. Front panel

6. Printhead carriage

7. Printhead

8. Output tray

9. Paper alignment lines

10. Basket

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Introduction

Rear view

HP Designjet T1200 series HP Designjet T770 series

1. Roll cover

2. Communication ports

3. Power switch

4. Power socket

5. Spindle

6. Spindle stop

7. Paper roll

8. Quick Reference Guide holder

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Communication ports

1. USB 2.0 port, to connect a computer

2. Ethernet port, to connect to a network

3. Diagnostic LEDs, to be used by service engineers

4. USB 2.0 host port, to connect an accessory

The wall spacers

If you place the printer with its back against a wall, lower the two wall spacers at the rear of the printer
to ensure that the rear of the printer is a minimum distance from the wall. Otherwise, you may
experience paper advance problems.

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Introduction

The front panel

Your printer's front panel is located on the front of the printer, in the center. It has the following
important functions:

● Assists you in troubleshooting issues

Is used to perform certain procedures, such as cutting and unloading paper

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Displays helpful animations to guide you through procedures

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Displays up-to-date information about the status of the printer such as, the ink cartridges, the

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printheads, the paper and the print jobs

Displays warning and error messages, when appropriate, along with audio alerts to call attention

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to a warning or message

Can be used to change the values of printer settings and thus change the operation of the

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printer. However, settings in the front panel are overridden by settings in the printer drivers, see

Installing the software on page 11

HP Designjet T1200 series HP Designjet T770 series

The front panel has the following components, starting with the four direct-access keys:

1. View ink levels key: see

2. View information key. By pressing this key repeatedly, you can see information about all loaded

papers (roll 1, roll 2, sheet) and about the printer's connection to the computer. See

information about the paper on page 42.

3. Pause printing key (T1200 series) pauses printing after finishing the current page. Press the key

again to restart printing. This can be useful, for instance, when you want to change or load a roll.

Unload paper key (T770 series) unloads the currently-loaded paper (roll or sheet).

4. Form feed and cut key: see

5. Front-panel display - Displays errors, warnings and information on using your printer.

6. Back key - To go to the previous step in a procedure or interaction. To go to the upper level, or

leave the option in the menu, or when given an option.

7. Menu key - Press to return to the main menu of the front-panel display. If you are already on the

main menu it will display the status screen.

8. Down key - To go down in a menu or option, or to decrease a value, for example when

configuring the front-panel display contrast or the IP address.

Check the ink cartridges status on page 113.

View

Feed and cut the paper on page 45.

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9. Power key - To turn the printer off or on, it also has a light to indicate the printer's status. If the

power key light is off the printer is off. If the power key light is blinking green, the printer is
starting up. If the power key light is green on, the printer is on. If the power key light is amber on,
the printer is in standby. If the power key light is blinking amber, the printer needs attention.

10. Cancel key - To abort a procedure or interaction.

11. Up key - To go up in a menu or option, or to increase a value, for example when configuring the

front-panel display contrast or the IP address.

12. OK key - To confirm an action while in a procedure or interaction. To enter in a submenu in the

menu. To select a value when given an option. If the status screen is displayed, this key takes
you to the main menu.

13. Status light - Indicates the printer's status. If the Status light is solid green, the printer is ready. If

it is flashing green, the printer is busy. If it is solid amber, there is a system error. If it is flashing
amber, the printer needs attention.

To highlight an item in the front-panel display, press the Up or Down key until the item is highlighted.

To select an item in the front-panel display, first highlight it and then press the OK key.

When this guide shows a series of front-panel display items like this: Item1 > Item2 > Item3, it means
that you should select Item1, then select Item2, then select Item3.

Information about specific uses of the front panel can be found throughout this guide.

Printer software

The following software is provided with your printer:

The HP-GL/2 and HP RTL driver for Windows

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Introduction

The PCL3 raster driver for Mac OS (T770 and T1200)

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The PostScript drivers for Windows and Mac OS (T770 PS and T1200 PS)

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The HP Utility, see

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◦ Manage the printer including color with the HP Color Center

View the status of the ink cartridges, the printheads and the paper

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Access the HP Knowledge Center, see

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Update the printer's firmware, see

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Perform calibrations and troubleshooting

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Manage the job queue, see

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View job accounting information, see

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Change various printer settings (in the Settings tab) (T1200 series only)

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The Embedded Web Server runs in the printer and enables you to use a Web browser on any

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computer to check ink levels and printer status, see

on page 27.

Access the HP Utility on page 27, allows you to:

Knowledge Center on page 180

Update the firmware on page 125

Job queue management on page 103

Retrieving printer usage information on page 109

Access the Embedded Web Server

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The printer's internal prints

The internal prints give various kinds of information about your printer. They can be requested from
the front panel without using a computer.

Before requesting any internal print, check that the printer and the paper are ready for printing.

The print will be made on the active roll. To change the active roll, select the Paper menu icon

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, then Select active roll.

The loaded paper should be at least A3 landscape—420 mm (16.53in) wide—otherwise the print

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may be clipped.

The front panel should be displaying the Ready message.

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To print any internal print, select the Internal Prints menu icon

want. The following internal prints are available.

Demo prints: show some of the capabilities of the printer

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Print drawing demo

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Print rendering demo

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Print GIS map

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Menu map: shows details of all the front-panel display menus

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Configuration: shows all the current front-panel display settings

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Usage report: shows estimates of the total number of prints, number of prints by paper type,

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number of prints by print-quality option and total amount of ink used per color (the accuracy of
these estimates is not guaranteed) (T770 HD and T1200 series only)

HP-GL/2 palette: shows the color or grayscale definitions in the currently selected color palette

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Service information: provides information needed by service engineers

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PostScript font list: shows PostScript fonts available (PostScript printers only)

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, then select the internal print you

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2 Installing the software

Choose which connection method to use

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Connect to a network (Windows)

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Connect directly to a computer (Windows)

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Uninstall the printer software (Windows)

Connect to a network (Mac OS)

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Connect directly to a computer (Mac OS)

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Uninstall the printer software (Mac OS)

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Choose which connection method to use

The following methods can be used to connect your printer.

Connection type Speed Cable length Other factors

Ethernet Very fast; varies

Jetdirect print server

Software installation

(optional accessory)

USB 2.0 Very fast Short: 5 m (16 ft) A certified USB 2.0 cable is necessary for

NOTE: The speed of any network connection depends on all components used in the network,

which can include network interface cards, hubs, routers, switches and cables. If any one of these
components cannot operate at high speed, you will have a low-speed connection. The speed of your
network connection can also be affected by the total amount of traffic from other devices on the
network.

Connect to a network (Windows)

Before you begin, check your equipment:

The printer should be set up and on.

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according to network
traffic

Moderate; varies
according to network
traffic

Long: 100 m (328 ft) Requires extra equipment (switches)

Long: 100 m (328 ft) Requires extra equipment (switches)

Provides additional features

See

http://www.hp.com/go/jetdirect/ for

more details

reliable communication.

The Ethernet hub or router should be on and functioning correctly.

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All computers on the network should be on and connected to the network.

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The printer should be connected to the network.

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Now you can proceed to install the printer software and connect your printer:

1. Make a note of the printer's IP address from the front panel (see

Server on page 27).

2. Insert the HP Start-Up Kit CD into your computer. If the CD does not start automatically, run the

autorun.exe program in the root folder of the CD.

3. Press the Express Network Install button, and choose your printer from the list of networked

printers that appears, identifying it by its IP address if necessary. The printer drivers and the HP
Utility are installed.

If your computer fails to find any printers on the network, the Printer Not Found window is displayed,
which helps you to try to find your printer. If you have a firewall in operation; you may have to disable
it temporarily in order to find the printer. You also have the options of searching for the printer by its
URL, IP address or MAC address.

Connect directly to a computer (Windows)

You can connect your printer directly to a computer without going through a network, by using the
printer's built-in USB 2.0 port.

Access the Embedded Web

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TIP: A USB connection may be faster than a network connection, but the cable is limited in length

and it is more difficult to share the printer.

NOTE: The use of non-certified USB cables can lead to connectivity problems. Only cables certified

by the USB Implementor's Forum (

1. Do not connect the computer to the printer yet. You must first install the printer driver

software on the computer, as follows.

2. Insert the HP Start-Up Kit CD into your CD drive. If the CD does not start automatically, run the

autorun.exe program in the root folder of the CD.

3. Press the Custom Install button.

4. In some cases, you may see a message warning you that the installer would need to

communicate through the firewall in order to search the network for printers. As you have no
need to do this, you can check the box Continue installation without searching the network.

5. If you see a list of networked printers, select Help me find my printer (including network, USB

or parallel connected printers).

6. Select USB Cable.

NOTE: You can connect your printer and complete the installation later if you prefer. To do so,

check the box marked I want to connect my printer after completing the setup wizard.

7. When prompted to do so, connect your computer to the printer with a certified USB cable.

Ensure that the printer is turned on.

http://www.usb.org/) should be used with this printer.

Software installation

8. The printer drivers and the HP Utility are installed.

TIP: If you would like to share the printer with other people connected to your network, press the

Printer Properties button in the Ready to Install window, set Printer Name to the name under which
the printer will be shared, then set Shared to Yes.

Printer sharing considerations

The HP Utility must be installed on a computer before it can be used from that computer.

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Any other users sharing your directly connected printer will be able to send print jobs, but will not

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be able to receive information from the printer—which affects printer alerts, printer status
reports, paper management, printer administration and troubleshooting.

Any other users sharing your directly connected printer will be unable to use the printer's own

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print preview facility, although the application's print preview will still be available. See

print on page 56.

TIP: The best way to share the printer over a network is to connect the printer not to any computer,

but to the network. See

Connect to a network (Windows) on page 12.

Uninstall the printer software (Windows)

1. Insert the HP Start-Up Kit CD into your CD drive. If the CD does not start automatically, run the

autorun.exe program in the root folder of the CD.

Preview a

2. Press the Modify Installation button, and follow the instructions on your screen to uninstall the

printer software.

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Connect to a network (Mac OS)

You can connect your printer to a network under Mac OS X by using the following methods:

Bonjour/Rendezvous

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TCP/IP

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NOTE: The printer does not support AppleTalk.

Before you begin, check your equipment:

Software installation

The printer should be set up and on.

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The Ethernet hub or router should be on and functioning correctly.

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All computers on the network should be on and connected to the network.

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The printer should be connected to the network.

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Now you can proceed to install the printer software and connect your printer.

Bonjour/Rendezvous connection

1.

Go to your printer's front panel and select the Connectivity menu icon

or Gigabit Ethernet > View configuration. Note the mDNS service name of your printer.

, then Fast Ethernet

2. Insert the HP Start-Up Kit CD into your CD drive.

3. Open the CD icon on your desktop.

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4. Open the Mac OS X HP Designjet Installer.

5. Follow the instructions on your screen.

6. The printer software is installed, including the printer driver and the HP Utility.

7. When the software has been installed, the HP Printer Setup Assistant starts automatically, to set

up a connection to your printer. Follow the instructions on your screen.

Software installation

8. When you reach the Select Printer screen, look for your printer's mDNS service name (which

you noted in step 1) in the Printer Name column.

If you find the right printer name, scroll sideways if necessary to see the Connection Type

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column, and check that it shows Bonjour/Rendezvous. Then highlight that line. Otherwise,
continue searching further down the list.

If you cannot find your printer name with a Bonjour/Rendezvous connection type, check

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the box My printer is not in the list.

Click Continue.

9. Continue following the instructions on the screen. When you reach the Printer Queue Created

screen, click Quit to exit, or Create New Queue if you want to connect another printer to the
network.

10. When the HP Printer Setup Assistant has finished, you can remove the CD from the CD drive.

If the printer driver is already installed, the HP Printer Setup Assistant can be run at any time from the
CD.

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TCP/IP connection

1. Go to your printer's front panel and make a note of the printer's URL (see Access the Embedded

Web Server on page 27).

2. Insert the HP Start-Up Kit CD into your CD drive.

3. Open the CD icon on your desktop.

Software installation

4. Open the Mac OS X HP Designjet Installer.

5. Follow the instructions on your screen.

6. The printer software is installed, including the printer driver and the HP Utility.

7. When the software has been installed, the HP Printer Setup Assistant starts automatically, to set

up a connection to your printer. Follow the instructions on your screen.

8. When you reach the Select Printer screen, look for your printer's URL (which you noted in step

1) in the Printer Name column.

If you find the right printer name, scroll sideways if necessary to see the Connection Type

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column, and check that it shows IP Printing. Then highlight that line. Otherwise, continue
searching further down the list.

If you cannot find your printer name with an IP Printing connection type, check the box My

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printer is not in the list.

Click Continue.

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9. Continue following the instructions on the screen. When you reach the Printer Queue Created

screen, click Quit to exit, or Create New Queue if you want to connect another printer to the
network.

10. When the HP Printer Setup Assistant has finished, you can remove the CD from the CD drive.

If the printer driver is already installed, the HP Printer Setup Assistant can be run at any time from the
CD.

Connect directly to a computer (Mac OS)

You can connect your printer directly to a computer without going through a network, by using the
printer's built-in USB 2.0 port.

1. Make sure the printer is either turned off, or disconnected from the computer.

2. Insert the HP Start-Up Kit CD into your CD drive.

3. Open the CD icon on your desktop.

Software installation

4. Open the Mac OS X HP Designjet Installer.

5. Follow the instructions on your screen.

6. The printer software is installed, including the printer driver and the HP Utility.

7. Make sure that the printer is turned on and connected to the computer with a certified USB

cable.

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NOTE: The use of non-certified USB cables can lead to connectivity problems. Only cables

certified by the USB Implementor's Forum (

8. Shortly afterwards, a print queue is created automatically for your printer.

Sharing the printer

If your computer is connected to a network, you can make your directly connected printer available to
other computers on the same network.

http://www.usb.org/) should be used with this printer.

Software installation

1. Double-click the System Preferences icon on the Dock menu bar on your desktop.

2. Under Mac OS X 10.4, enable printer sharing by going to Sharing > Services > Printer

Sharing.

Under later versions of Mac OS X, go to Sharing, select Printer Sharing, and then check the
printer(s) that you want to share.

3. Your printer now automatically appears in the list of shared printers displayed by any other

computer running Mac OS and connected to your local network.

Please bear in mind the following considerations.

Any other users wishing to share your printer must install the printer software on their own

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computers.

Anyone sharing your directly connected printer will be able to send print jobs, but will not be able

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to receive information from the printer—which affects printer alerts, printer status reports, paper
management, printer administration and troubleshooting.

The PCL3 (raster) driver can drive a shared printer between different versions of Mac OS, but

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the PostScript driver does not support printer sharing between Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS X

10.5 or 10.6. It does support printer sharing between Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.

You may find that sharing your directly connected printer with other users will slow down your

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computer unacceptably.

TIP: The best way to share the printer over a network is to connect the printer not to any computer,

but to the network. See

Connect to a network (Mac OS) on page 14.

Uninstall the printer software (Mac OS)

1. Insert the HP Start-Up Kit CD into your CD drive.

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2. Open the CD icon on your desktop.

3. Open the Mac OS X HP Designjet Uninstaller, and follow the instructions on your screen to

uninstall the printer software..

To delete the print queue:

Under Mac OS X 10.4 there are two alternative ways of deleting the print queue:

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From the system preferences, select the Printing pane of the Print & Fax dialog. Select

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the name of the printer and click the – button.

From the Print Setup utility, select the name of the printer and click the Delete icon.

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Under Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6: from the system preferences, select the Print & Fax dialog.

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Select the name of the printer and click the – button.

Software installation

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3 Setting up the printer

Introduction

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Paper suitability options (T1200 series only)

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Turn nesting on and off (T1200 series only)

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Turn usage information on and off

Turn alerts on and off

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Control access to the printer

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Administrator settings

Require account ID (T1200 series only)

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Set Windows driver preferences

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Introduction

This chapter describes various printer settings that the printer administrator may wish to control as
soon as a new printer is assembled and ready for use.

Paper suitability options (T1200 series only)

Paper mismatch action

If the paper currently loaded in the printer is not suitable for a particular job, the printer can either put
the job on hold until some suitable paper is loaded, or it can ignore the problem and print the job on
the unsuitable paper. There are several ways in which the loaded paper may be considered
unsuitable:

The paper type is not as specified for the job

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The paper source (roll 1, roll 2 or sheet) is not as specified for the job

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The paper size is smaller than specified for the job

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You can set the printer's behavior in such cases from the front panel.

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Select the Setup menu icon

Print anyway if you want such jobs to print on whatever paper is loaded. This is the default
option.

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Select the Setup menu icon

Put job on hold if you want such jobs to be put on hold. The printer will send an alert whenever
a job is put on hold.

When a job is put on hold for paper, it is kept in the printer queue until some suitable paper is loaded
(in which case, all jobs waiting for that paper type can be printed). Meanwhile, other jobs with different
requirements can continue printing.

Roll switching options

If two rolls are loaded, both of which are suitable for the job, the roll will be chosen according to your

preferences. These can be set from the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

preferences > Paper options > Roll switching options. There are three available options:

Minimize paper waste. If this option is chosen, the printer will choose the narrowest roll that

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meets all the criteria, to avoid wasting paper due to trimming. This is the default option.

Minimize roll changes. If this option is chosen, the printer will choose the roll that is currently

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active, to avoid wasting time with a roll switch. To change the active roll, select the Paper menu

icon

, then Select active roll.

, then Job management options > Paper mismatch action >

, then Job management options > Paper mismatch action >

Administrator settings

, then Printing

Use roll with less paper. If this option is chosen, the printer will choose the roll that has the

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least paper.

NOTE: This option is effective only if you have enabled Printing paper info (see Printing

paper info on page 43). Otherwise, it has the same effect as Minimize paper waste.

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Turn nesting on and off (T1200 series only)

Nesting means automatically printing images or document pages side by side on the paper when
feasible, rather than one after the other. This is done to avoid wasting paper. See

roll paper (T1200 series only) on page 60.

Nest jobs to save

Administrator settings

To turn nesting on or off, you must first make sure that the job queue is enabled (see

queue (T770 HD and T1200 series only) on page 105) and the start of printing is set to After

Processing (see

on page 105). Then:

In the HP Utility for Windows: select Settings > Job Management > Nest.

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● In the HP Utility for Mac OS: select Configuration > Printer Settings > Configure Printer

Settings > Job Management > Nest.

In the Embedded Web Server: select Setup > Printer settings > Job management > Nest.

●

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Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

options > Enable nesting.

In each case, you will see the following options:

In order: pages are nested in the order in which they are sent to the printer. The nested pages

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are printed as soon as one of three conditions is met:

The next page will not fit on the same row as the other pages already nested.

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No page has been sent to the printer during the specified wait time.

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The next page is incompatible with the pages already nested (see

◦

paper (T1200 series only) on page 60).

Select when to print a job in the queue (T770 HD and T1200 series only)

, then Job management > Nest

Nest jobs to save roll

Turn off the job

Optimized order: pages are not necessarily nested in the order in which they are sent to the

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printer. When it receives an incompatible page, the printer holds it and waits for compatible
pages to complete the nest. The nested pages are printed as soon as one of three conditions is
met:

The next page will not fit on the same row as the other pages already nested.

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No page has been sent to the printer during the specified wait time.

◦

The incompatible-page queue is full. The printer can queue up to six incompatible pages

◦

while nesting compatible pages. If it receives a seventh incompatible page, the nest is
printed as it is.

Off: nesting is disabled. This is the default option.

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The nesting wait time can be set at the front panel: Setup menu icon

options > Select wait time.

TIP: Optimized order uses the minimum amount of paper; however, it may take longer to print

because the printer waits for compatible pages to arrive.

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Turn usage information on and off

The printer can send usage information periodically by e-mail. You can request this in the following
ways:

● In the HP Utility for Windows: select Settings > Accounting.

In the HP Utility for Mac OS: select Configuration > Printer Settings > Configure Printer

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Settings > Accounting.

● In the Embedded Web Server: select Setup > Printer settings > Accounting.

In each case, you must set the following options:

Send accounting files: On (the default is Off)

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Send accounting files to: a valid e-mail address

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Send accounting files every: choose a number of days (1–60) or a number of prints (1–500)

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You must also ensure that the e-mail server has been configured. To configure the e-mail server
using the Embedded Web Server, select Setup > E-mail server, and fill in the following fields:

SMTP server: the IP address of the outgoing mail server (SMTP) that will process all e-mail

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messages from the printer. If the mail server requires authentication, e-mail notifications will not
work.

Printer e-mail address: each e-mail message sent by the printer must include a return address,

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which does not need to be a real, functional E-mail address, but it should be unique, so that
recipients of the message can identify the printer that sent it.

Turn alerts on and off

Printer alerts warn you when there is a printer problem that you can correct by taking action, or when
one of your printing jobs changes its status. The alerts are displayed by the printer's front panel, by
the HP Utility, by the printer driver and by the Embedded Web Server.

You can tell the printer which kinds of alerts you would like to see (if any). To access the alert
settings:

● Select Alert Settings in the Device List page of the HP Utility.

Select Alert Settings in any alert page displayed by the HP Utility for Windows.

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Right-click the system tray icon of the HP Utility for Windows, and select Alert Settings.

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You can change the settings in the following ways:

Turn all alerts on or off.

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Turn job status alerts on or off (T1200 series only).

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Turn on or off printer alerts for problems that stop the printer from printing.

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Administrator settings

Turn on or off printer alerts for problems that do not stop the printer from printing.

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Turn on printer alerts in all circumstances, or only when you are trying to print to the printer

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affected by the problem.

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Control access to the printer

From the Embedded Web Server, you can select Setup > Security to control access to the printer in
various ways:

● Specify separate administrator and guest passwords to control access to the Embedded Web

Server

Enable or disable Ethernet and USB connections to the printer

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● Enable or disable various groups of front panel operations

NOTE: For more information, see the Embedded Web Server's online help.

If you forget the administrator password, you can delete the current password from the front panel:

select the Connectivity menu icon

access control.

Access to the Networking page is protected by a different password (the administrator's password).
To reset the administrator's password, you need to reset the whole input/output configuration. Using

the front panel, select the Connectivity menu icon

, then Advanced > Embedded Web Server > Reset EWS

, then select your connection method (e.g.

Administrator settings

Require account ID (T1200 series only)

Set Windows driver preferences

Gigabit Ethernet), then Restore factory settings.

NOTE: This will reset the whole input/output configuration, the printer will reset to the DHCP

configuration method and its IP address could change.

If you want to keep records of printer usage by different user accounts, you can set your printer to
require an account ID for each job.

In the HP Utility for Windows: select Settings > Accounting > Require account ID.

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In the HP Utility for Mac OS: select Configuration > Printer Settings > Configure Printer

●

Settings > Accounting > Require account ID.

If this setting is turned on, the account ID field will be mandatory and jobs with no account ID will be
kept "on hold for accounting".

The account ID can be set in the printer driver when sending the job. If the job is set "on hold for
accounting" by the printer, you can introduce the account ID in the HP Utility by going to the Job
Center > Job Queue and clicking the job that is on hold. A window with a text box will be displayed
and you can enter the account ID into it.

You can change some default settings in your printer driver according to your own preferences, for
instance to set color emulation or paper-saving options. To do this, press the Start button on your
computer's screen, then select Printers and Faxes. In the Printers and Faxes window, right-click on
your printer's icon, and select Printing Preferences. Any settings you change in the Printing
Preferences window will be saved as default values.

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4 Personalizing the printer

Turn the printer on and off

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Change the language of the front-panel display

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Access the HP Utility

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Access the Embedded Web Server

Change the language of the HP Utility

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Change the language of the Embedded Web Server

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Change the sleep mode setting

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Turn the buzzer on and off

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Change the front-panel display contrast

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Change the units of measurement

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Configure network settings

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Change the graphic language setting

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Personal settings

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Turn the printer on and off

TIP: The printer can be left powered on without wasting energy. Leaving it on improves response

time and overall system reliability. When the printer has not been used for a certain period of time
(the default time is determined by Energy Star), it saves power by going into sleep mode. However,
any interaction with the printer's front-panel display, or sending a new job to print, returns it to active
mode, and it can resume printing immediately. To change the sleep mode time, see

sleep mode setting on page 28.

NOTE: In sleep mode, the printer performs maintenance service to the printheads from time-to-time.

This avoids long preparation times after long idle periods. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to
leave the printer powered on or in sleep mode to avoid wasting ink and time.

The printer has three levels of power consumption.

Plugged in: the power cord is plugged into the back of the printer

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Switched on: the switch at the back of the printer is in the on position

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Powered on: the Power key on the front panel shows a green light

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If you wish to turn the printer on or off or reset the printer, the normal and recommended method is to
use the Power key on the front panel.

Change the

Personal settings

However, if you plan to store the printer indefinitely or the Power key does not seem to work, you are
recommended to power it off using the Power key, and then also switch off the power switch at the
rear.

To turn it back on, use the power switch at the rear.

When the printer is powered back on, it takes about three minutes to initialize and check and prepare
the printheads. Preparing the printheads takes about one minute and 15 seconds. However, if the
printer has been off for six weeks or more, preparing the printheads could take up to 45 minutes.

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Change the language of the front-panel display

There are two possible ways to change the language of the front-panel menus and messages.

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If you can understand the current front-panel display language, select the Setup menu icon

then Front panel options > Select language.

If you cannot understand the current front-panel display language, start with the printer powered

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off. At the front panel, press the OK key and hold it down. While holding the OK key down, press
the Power key and hold it down. Continue to hold down both keys until the green light on the
right side of the front-panel display starts flashing, and then release both keys. You can expect a
delay of about one second. If the green light starts flashing without any delay, you may need to
start again.

Whichever method you used, the language selection menu should now appear on the front-panel
display. Highlight your preferred language with the Up and Down keys, then press the OK key.

When you have selected your preferred language, turn off the printer with the Power key and then
turn it on again. The front panel will appear in the selected language.

Access the HP Utility

The HP Utility enables you to manage your printer from a computer with a USB, TCP/IP or Jetdirect
connection.

,

Under Windows, start the HP Utility from your desktop shortcut or from Start > All Programs >

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Hewlett-Packard > HP Utility > HP Utility. This launches the HP Utility, showing the printers
installed on your computer.

Under Mac OS, launch the HP Utility from your dock shortcut or by selecting STARTUP_DISK >

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Library > Printers > hp > Utilities > HP Utility. This launches the HP Utility, showing the
printers installed on your computer.

When you select your printer in the left pane, everything that appears in the right pane is specific
to that printer.

If you have followed these instructions but failed to get through to the HP Utility, see

the HP Utility on page 174.

Access the Embedded Web Server

The Embedded Web Server enables you to manage your printer remotely using an ordinary Web
browser running on any computer.

To access the Embedded Web Server directly, you must have a TCP/IP connection to your printer.
However, you can access the Embedded Web Server indirectly through the HP Utility, if you connect
to your printer with a USB connection.

The following browsers are known to be compatible with the Embedded Web Server:

Cannot access

Personal settings

Internet Explorer 6 and later, for Windows

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Safari 2 and later, for Mac OS X 10.4

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Firefox 1.5 and later

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To access the Embedded Web Server on any computer, open your Web browser and give the IP
address of your printer.

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You can see your printer's IP address (192.168.1.1 in this example) on the front panel's status
screen.

If you have followed these instructions but failed to get through to the Embedded Web Server, see

Cannot access the Embedded Web Server on page 174.

Change the language of the HP Utility

The HP Utility can work in the following languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan (Windows
only), French, Italian, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and
Japanese.

Under Windows, select Tools > Set Language and select a language from the list.

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Change the language of the Embedded Web Server

Personal settings

Change the sleep mode setting

Under Mac OS, the language is changed as for any other application. In System Preferences,

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select International and re-launch the application.

The Embedded Web Server can work in the following languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish,
Catalan, French, Italian, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and
Japanese. It uses whichever language you have specified in your Web browser's options. If you have
specified a language that it cannot support, it works in English.

To change the language, you must change your Web browser's language setting. For example, in
Internet Explorer version 6, go to the Tools menu and select Internet Options, Languages. Then
ensure that the language you want is at the top of the list in the dialog box.

If the printer is left switched on but unused for a certain period of time, it goes automatically into sleep
mode to save power. To change the time the printer waits before it goes into sleep mode, go to the

front panel and select the Setup menu icon

Highlight the wait time you want and then press the OK key. You can set the time from 1 to 240
minutes. The default time is 30 minutes.

, then Front panel options > Sleep mode wait time.

Turn the buzzer on and off

To turn the printer's buzzer on or off, go to the front panel and select the Setup menu icon , then

Front panel options > Enable buzzer, and highlight on or off and press the OK key. By default, the
buzzer is set to on.

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Change the front-panel display contrast

To change the contrast of the front-panel display, select the Setup menu icon , then Front panel

options > Select display contrast, and enter a value using the Up or Down key. Press the OK key

to set the value. The default contrast is set to 50.

Change the units of measurement

To change the units of measurement in the front-panel display, select the Setup menu icon , then

Front panel options > Select units, and select English or Metric. By default the units are set to
metric.

Configure network settings

You can view and configure the network settings from the HP Utility (T1200 series only). Under
Windows, select the Settings tab, then Network Settings. Under Mac OS, select Configuration >

Network Settings. The following settings are available.

IP Configuration method: specify the way to set an IP address, selecting BOOTP, DHCP,

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Auto IP or Manual.

Host name: specify an IP name for the network device. The name may contain up to 32 ASCII

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characters.

IP address: specify the IP address on the print server. Duplicate IP addresses on a TCP/IP

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network are not allowed.

NOTE: If you change the current IP address and click Apply, the browser loses the current

connection to the print server because it is pointing to the old address. To reconnect, browse to
the new IP address.

Subnet mask: specify a subnet mask, which is a 32-bit number applied to an IP address to

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determine which bits specify the network and subnet and which bits uniquely specify the node.

Default gateway: specify the IP address of a router or computer that is used to connect to other

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networks or sub-networks. If none exist, use the IP address of the computer or the IP address of
the print server.

● Domain name: specify the name of the DNS domain in which the print server resides (for

example, support.hp.com).

NOTE: The domain name does not include the host name: it is not the fully qualified domain

name, such as printer1.support.hp.com.

Idle timeout: specify the number of seconds that an idle connection is allowed to remain open;

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30 is the default value. If set to zero, the timeout is disabled and TCP/IP connections remain
open until closed by the other node (such as a workstation) on the network

Default IP: specify the IP address to use when the print server is unable to obtain an IP address

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from the network when powered on or when reconfigured to use BOOTP or DHCP.

Personal settings

Send DHCP requests: specify whether DHCP requests are transmitted when a legacy default

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IP address or a default Auto IP is assigned.

To configure the same network settings from the front panel, select the Connectivity menu icon

then Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet > Modify configuration.

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,

You have various other options available from the Connectivity menu icon.

USB: view information about the USB connection

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● Jetdirect EIO: view information, configure and reset the Jetdirect connection

Advanced > Select I/O timeout: specify the number of seconds that an idle connection is

●

allowed to remain open, 270 is the default value, if set to zero, the timeout is disabled

● Advanced > Allow SNMP: specify whether SNMP is permitted

Advanced > Embedded Web Server > Allow EWS: specify whether the Embedded Web

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Server is enabled

● Advanced > Web Services > HP Utility software: view the HP Utility software settings

Advanced > Web Services > Color and paper management: view the color and paper

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management settings

Change the graphic language setting

You can change the graphic language setting from the HP Utility with the following steps (T1200
series only).

1. Under Windows, select the Settings tab then Printer settings > Printing preferences.

Personal settings

Under Mac OS, select Configuration then Printer settings > Configure printer settings >
Printing preferences.

2. Select one of the following options.

● Select Automatic to let the printer determine which type of file it is receiving. This is the

default setting; it works for most software applications. You should not normally need to
change it.

Select HP-GL/2 only if you are sending a file of that type directly to the printer, without

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going through a printer driver.

Select PDF only if you are sending a file of that type directly to the printer, without going

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through a printer driver (PostScript printers only).

Select PostScript only if you are sending a file of that type directly to the printer, without

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going through a printer driver (PostScript printers only).

● Select TIFF only if you are sending a file of that type directly to the printer, without going

through a printer driver (T1200 PS only).

Select JPEG only if you are sending a file of that type directly to the printer, without going

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through a printer driver (T1200 PS only).

You can change the graphic language setting from the front panel. Select the Setup menu icon

then Printing preferences > Select graphic language. Select the desired option and press the OK
key to set the value.

,

NOTE: If the graphic language is set from the HP Utility, it overrides the front panel setting.

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5 Paper handling

General advice

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Load a roll onto the spindle

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Load a roll into the printer

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Unload a roll

Load a single sheet

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Unload a single sheet

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View information about the paper

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Paper presets

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Printing paper info

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Move the paper

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Maintain paper

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Change the drying time

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Turn the automatic cutter on and off

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Feed and cut the paper

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Paper handling

General advice

CAUTION: Before starting a paper loading process, ensure you have enough room around the

printer, both in front and behind.

CAUTION: Make sure the printer wheels are locked (the brake lever is pressed down) to prevent

the printer from moving.

Paper handling

CAUTION: All paper must be 280 mm (11 in) or longer. A4 and letter paper cannot be loaded in

landscape orientation.

TIP: For photo paper wear cotton gloves to avoid transferring oils onto the paper.

CAUTION: Keep the basket closed throughout the loading process.

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Load a roll onto the spindle

1. Open the roll cover.

2. Remove the black end of the spindle from the printer, then the blue end.

CAUTION: Be sure to remove the black end first. Removing the blue end first could damage

the black end.

WARNING! Do not insert your fingers into the spindle supports during the removal process.

3. The spindle has a stop at each end to keep the roll in position. The blue stop can be removed to

mount a new roll; it slides along the spindle to hold rolls of different widths. Remove the blue
paper stop from the end of the spindle.

4. If the roll is long; rest the spindle horizontally on a table and load the roll on the table.

TIP: You may need two people to handle a large roll.

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5. Slide the new roll onto the spindle. Make sure the paper type is oriented as shown. If it is not,

remove the roll, turn it 180 degrees and slide it back on to the spindle. There are labels on the
spindle showing the correct orientation.

NOTE: From the back of the printer, the blue stopper is inserted into the right-side holder.

Ensure both ends of the roll are as close to the spindle stops as possible.

6. Put the blue paper stop on to the open end of the spindle, and push it towards the end of the roll.

Load a roll into the printer

Paper handling

7. Ensure the blue paper stop is pushed in as far as it goes; until both ends are against the

stoppers.

If you are a regular user of different paper types, you can change rolls more quickly if you preload
rolls of different paper types on different spindles. Extra spindles are available for purchase, see

Accessories on page 128.

To start this procedure, you must have a roll loaded on the spindle. See Load a roll onto the spindle

on page 33.

TIP: If you have a T1200 series printer, do not try to open both roll covers at once; this may cause

problems. Always close one cover before opening the other.

NOTE: The first three steps below are optional: you can start with step 4. However, in this case the

printer will not keep track of the length of the roll, and will print no barcode on the roll when it is next
unloaded. So you are recommended to follow all the steps, starting with step 1, unless you have
turned off the Printing paper info option. See

1.

From the front panel, select the Paper menu icon

Printing paper info on page 43.

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2. Select Paper load.

3. Select the roll that you want to load.

If the roll you have selected is already loaded, you have to wait while it is automatically
unloaded.

4. In the T1200 series only, if you start to load roll 1 while roll 2 is already loaded, roll 2 is

withdrawn to the standby position, so that it can be printed on again without reloading whenever
required.

NOTE: If at any time you open a roll cover while that roll is in the standby position, the roll will

be automatically unloaded, and you will have to reload it the next time you want to print on it.

5. Open the roll cover, if it is not already open.

6. You should stand behind the printer when loading the T1200's lower roll (roll 2). You may stand

behind or in front of the printer when loading the upper roll (roll 1), or when loading a roll into the
T770.

CAUTION: If your height is less than 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in), loading a roll while standing in front of

the printer may cause back pain or other physical problems.

7. Rest the spindle's black end on the left side roll holder. Do not put the end completely into the

roll holder.

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Paper handling

8. Rest the blue end of the spindle on the right side roll holder.

9. With both hands, push the spindle into both roll holders at the same time.

Paper handling

10. If the edge of the roll is not straight or torn (sometimes due to tape used to hold end of the roll),

pull the paper slightly and cut a straight edge.

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11. Insert the edge of the paper into the printer.

WARNING! Do not push your fingers inside the printer's paper path.

TIP: When loading the upper roll, avoid inserting roll paper into the cut-sheet slot. If you do so,

the printer beeps and the front panel asks you to remove the paper.

12. Roll the paper into the printer until you feel resistance and the paper flexes slightly. When the

printer detects the paper, it feeds it in automatically.

13. If the leading edge of the paper has a barcode, the printer reads and then cuts off the barcode;

you should remove and discard the cut strip of paper.

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14. If the leading edge of the paper has no barcode, the front panel prompts you to select the paper

category and type.

TIP: If you have loaded a paper type whose name does not appear in the paper list, see The

paper type is not in the driver on page 137.

15. If the Printing paper info option is enabled, the front panel may ask you to specify the length of

the roll. See

16. The printer checks the alignment and measures the width, then the front panel prompts you to

close the roll cover.

If the roll is not correctly aligned, follow the instructions on the front-panel display.

NOTE: If you have an unexpected issue at any stage of the paper loading process, see The paper

cannot be loaded successfully on page 136.

Printing paper info on page 43.

Unload a roll

Quick procedure with paper on the roll (T770 series only)

Quick procedure with paper on the roll (T1200 series only)

Paper menu procedure with paper on the roll

Paper handling

Before unloading a roll, check whether there is paper on the roll or if the roll is out of paper, and follow
the appropriate procedure as described below.

To unload the roll, press the Unload paper key on the front panel.

If there is paper on the roll, just open the roll cover, and the roll is unloaded automatically.

NOTE: When the roll is unloaded in this way, no barcode is printed on it, so the printer will not know

the length of the roll when it is next loaded. See

NOTE: If you open the cover of roll 1 while a sheet is loaded, the sheet is also unloaded.

If there is paper on the roll, you can unload it from the front panel.

1.

Select the Paper menu icon

.

Printing paper info on page 43.

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2. Select Unload paper.

3. Select the roll that you want to unload.

4. You may need to open the roll cover.

Roll out of paper procedure

If the end of the paper is no longer attached to the core, use the following procedure.

1. If you have already started the unload process, press the Cancel key on the front panel to cancel

that procedure.

2. Lift the blue lever on the left. If the front panel displays a warning about the lever, ignore it.

3. Pull out the paper from the printer. Pull from wherever the paper is accessible; the back of the

printer is recommended. You may need to open the roll cover.

4. Lower the blue lever.

5. If the front panel displays a warning message, press the OK key to clear it.

Load a single sheet

1. When using a T1200 series printer, ensure that the cover of roll 1 is closed. If it is opened while

a sheet is loaded, the sheet will be immediately unloaded.

2.

At the front panel, select the Paper menu icon

.

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Paper handling

3. Select Paper load.

4. Select Load sheet.

5. If a roll is already loaded, you have to wait while it is automatically unloaded. In the T1200 series

only, the roll is not unloaded, but withdrawn to the standby position, so that it can be printed on
again without reloading as soon as the sheet paper has been unloaded.

Paper handling

NOTE: If at any time you open a roll cover while that roll is in the standby position, the roll will

be automatically unloaded, and you will have to reload it the next time you want to print on it
(T1200 series only).

6. Select your paper category and type.

TIP: If you have loaded a paper type whose name does not appear in the paper list, see The

paper type is not in the driver on page 137.

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7. When prompted by the front panel, insert the sheet into the cut-sheet slot on the right side of the

printer.

Load your sheet aligned with the load line and insert until the paper will not continue; with thicker
sheets, you feel resistance.

WARNING! Do not push your fingers inside the printer's paper path.

8. Press the OK key on the front panel to feed the paper into the printer. Guide the sheet into the

printer; this is especially important with thicker papers.

9. The printer checks the alignment and measures the sheet.

NOTE: Depending on the length of the sheet, it feeds out the front of the printer.

10. If the length of the sheet is more than 600 mm (23 in), the front panel prompts you to check that

the rear of the sheet is hanging backwards over the roll cover (and not forwards over the printer
window).

11. If the sheet is not correctly aligned, you may be asked to correct the alignment. Please follow the

instructions on the front-panel display.

NOTE: If you have an unexpected problem at any stage of the paper loading process, see The

paper cannot be loaded successfully on page 136.

Unload a single sheet

To unload a single sheet after printing, you can simply pull the sheet free from the front of the printer.

To unload a sheet without printing, use the Unload paper key (T770 series only) or the following
Paper menu procedure.

1.

At the front panel, select the Paper menu icon

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2. Select Unload paper.

3. Select Unload sheet.

The sheet unloads out of the front of the printer, either catch it manually or allow it to fall in the
basket.

View information about the paper

Paper handling

To view the loaded paper information, press the View information key or on the front panel. By
pressing this key repeatedly, you can see information about all loaded papers: roll and sheet for the

T770 series; roll 1, roll 2 and sheet for the T1200 series.

You can also select the Paper menu icon

Down key, you can see information about all loaded papers.

The following information is displayed on the front panel:

Roll or sheet status

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Paper type you have selected

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Width of the paper in millimeters (estimated)

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Length of the paper in millimeters (estimated)

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Color calibration status

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Paper advance calibration status

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If no paper is loaded, the message Out of paper is displayed.

The same information is displayed in the HP Utility for Windows (Overview tab > Supplies Status
tab), the HP Utility for Mac OS (Information group > Printer Status > Supplies Details) and the
Embedded Web Server (upper-right corner).

and then View loaded paper. By pressing the Up or

NOTE: Photo and coated paper requires careful handling, see The print is scuffed or scratched

on page 154.

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Paper presets

Each supported paper type has its own characteristics. For optimum print-quality, the printer changes
the way it prints on each different paper type. For example, some may need more ink and some may
require a longer drying time. So the printer must be given a description of the requirements of each
paper type. This description is called the “paper” preset. The paper preset contains the ICC profile,
which describes the color characteristics of the paper; it also contains information on other
characteristics and requirements of the paper that are not directly related to color. Existing paper
presets for your printer are already installed in the printer's software.

However, as it is inconvenient to scroll through a list of all paper types available, your printer only
contains paper presets for the most commonly used paper types. If you have a paper type for which
your printer has no preset, you cannot select that paper type in the front-panel display.

There are two ways to assign a preset for a new paper type.

● Use an HP factory paper preset by selecting the closest category and type in the front panel or

the HP Utility, see

NOTE: Colors may not be accurate. This method is not recommended for high-quality prints.

The paper type is not in the driver on page 137.

Download the correct paper preset from:

●

http://www.hp.com/go/T1200/paperpresets/.

NOTE: HP provides presets for HP paper types only. If you do not find the paper preset you

want on the Web, you may find that it has been added to the latest firmware for your printer. You
can check the firmware release notes for information, see

Printing paper info

Enable the Printing paper info option to record the printer’s estimate of the remaining roll length,
paper width and type. The information is a combination of barcode and text that is printed on the
leading edge of the roll when the paper is unloaded from the printer.

NOTE: The paper-length estimate is available only if the printer registered the amount of paper that

was on the roll when you loaded it. To provide this information to the printer, specify the roll length on
the front panel when loading the paper, or load a roll that has the paper-data barcode printed on it.

NOTE: The barcode and text are printed on the roll only when the loading and unloading processes

are started from the front panel's Paper menu.

NOTE: This option can be expected to work only with papers that are completely opaque. It may fail

with transparent or translucent papers.

http://www.hp.com/go/T770/paperpresets/ or

Update the firmware on page 125.

To enable the Printing paper info option, go to the front panel and select the Setup menu icon ,

then select Printing preferences > Paper options > Enable printing paper info.

NOTE: Enabling this option slightly changes the paper loading and unloading procedures.

Move the paper

If the printer is idle (ready to print), you can move the paper forwards or backwards from the front
panel. You may want to do this in order to have more or less white space between the last print and
the next one.

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Paper handling

To move the paper, select the Paper menu icon and then Move paper.

You can move the paper forwards by pressing the Up key on the front panel, or backwards by
pressing the Down key. When the paper is positioned as you want it, press the OK key.

Maintain 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

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Clean input and output platens

●

Always keep the window of your printer closed

●

NOTE: Photo and coated paper requires careful handling, see The print is scuffed or scratched

on page 154.

Change the drying time

Paper handling

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.

Select the Setup menu icon

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 (this is the default

●

setting)

Reduced, to set a shorter than recommended time when quality is of lower importance

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None, to disable the drying time and remove your print as soon as it finishes printing

●

CAUTION: 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 you

press the Form feed and cut key

, then Print retrieval > Select drying time. You can select:

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Turn the automatic cutter on and off

To turn the printer's 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, select Configuration > Printer Settings > Advanced and

●

change the Cutter option.

● From the Embedded Web Server, select the Setup tab, then Printer Settings > Advanced, and

change the Cutter option.

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From the front panel, select the Setup menu icon

change the cutter option.

The default setting is On.

NOTE: If the cutter is turned off, it will not cut the paper between jobs, but it will continue to cut the

paper on loading, unloading and switching between rolls.

TIP: To cut roll paper while the automatic cutter is disabled, see Feed and cut the paper

on page 45.

Feed and cut the paper

If you press the Form feed and cut key on the front panel, the printer advances the paper and

makes a straight cut across the front edge. There are several possible reasons why you might want to
do this.

To trim the leading edge of the paper if it is damaged or not straight.

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To feed and cut the paper when the automatic cutter has been disabled.

●

To cancel the waiting time and print the available pages immediagely, if the printer is waiting to

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nest more pages (T1200 series only).

, then Print retrieval > Enable cutter and

NOTE: The printheads are serviced after each print, and the paper cannot be cut until the process

completes, so you may notice a delay.

CAUTION: Remove the cut piece from the output tray. 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 154.

TIP: To move the paper without cutting it, see Move the paper on page 43.

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Two rolls

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only)

The uses of a multiroll printer

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How the printer allocates jobs to paper rolls

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The uses of a multiroll printer

A multiroll printer can be useful in several different ways:

The printer can automatically switch between different paper types according to your needs.

●

The printer can automatically switch between different paper widths according to your needs.

●

This enables you to save paper by printing smaller images on narrower paper.

If you load two identical rolls into the printer, you can leave it printing unattended for a long time,

●

because it can switch from one roll to the other automatically when the first is exhausted. See

Unattended printing/overnight printing (T1200 series only) on page 63.

There are two concepts to help you when working with multiple rolls.

● The active roll is the roll that is currently loaded and will be printed on by default unless the

printer has some reason to switch rolls. To change the active roll, select the Paper menu icon

, then Select active roll.

A protected roll is protected from use unless the roll number or its paper type are specifically

●

requested. See

The current status of both rolls is shown on the front panel's status screen.

Roll protection (T1200 series only) on page 62.

Two rolls

How the printer allocates jobs to paper rolls

When you submit a print job from the Embedded Web Server or the printer driver, you can specify
(using the Paper type or Type is option) that you want it to be printed on a particular paper type; you
can even specify (using the Paper source, Source is or Paper Feed option) that you want it to be
printed on a particular roll (1 or 2). The printer will try to satisfy these requirements, and it will also
look for a paper roll large enough to print the image without clipping.

If both rolls are suitable for the job, the roll will be chosen according to the roll switching policy.

●

Roll switching options on page 21.

See

If just one of the rolls is suitable for the job, it will be printed on that roll.

●

If neither roll is suitable for the job, it will be held in the job queue with the status “On hold for

●

paper”, or printed on an unsuitable roll, depending on the paper mismatch action. See

mismatch action on page 21.

The printer driver for Windows will tell you which paper types and widths are currently loaded in the
printer, and on which rolls.

Paper

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Two rolls

Here are some settings that might be used in typical situations:

With different paper types loaded:

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◦ Type is: select the paper type you require

Source is: Automatically select / Predetermined

◦

Roll switching policy: doesn't matter

◦

With different paper widths loaded:

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Type is: Any

◦

Source is: Automatically select / Predetermined

◦

◦ Roll switching policy: Minimize paper waste

TIP: You can also save paper in some cases by rotating or nesting your images. See Use

paper economically on page 60.

With identical rolls loaded:

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Type is: Any

◦

Source is: Automatically select / Predetermined

◦

Roll switching policy: Minimize roll changes

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7Printing

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

Print with shortcuts

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Print on loaded paper

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Rescale a print

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Change the treatment of overlapping lines

●

Printing

Preview a print

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Print a draft

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High-quality printing

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Print in gray shades

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Print with no margins (T1200 series only)

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Print with crop lines (T1200 series only)

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Reprint last printed job

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Use paper economically

Nest jobs to save roll paper (T1200 series only)

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Use ink economically

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Roll protection (T1200 series only)

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Unattended printing/overnight printing (T1200 series only)

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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 printer's print queue. There are two main ways of sending a print job to the printer:

● To print directly from a program, use the program's Print command as usual. When you select

your 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

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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 (T1200 series only)

Printing

From the HP Utility, select Job Center > Submit Job. From the Embedded Web Server, select the
Main tab and then Submit job. 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 (T1200 PS only)

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PostScript (T1200 PS only)

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TIFF (T1200 PS only)

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JPEG (T1200 PS only)

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HP-GL/2

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RTL

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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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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. With some paper types, you can choose a compromise position between the two.

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 is also a supplementary custom option that may have an effect on print quality: Maximum

detail. See

NOTE: In the Windows driver dialog, the rendering resolution for your job is displayed in the Custom

Print Quality Options dialog box (select Custom options and then Settings). In the Mac OS Print
dialog, it is displayed in the Summary panel.

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.

High-quality printing on page 57.

Printing

In the Mac OS Print dialog (T770, T1200): 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 10.5 or 10.6 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): 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 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): 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.

On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page (T1200 series): 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.

●

Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

quality.

NOTE: If the print quality is set from your computer, it overrides the print-quality setting in the

front panel.

, then Printing preferences > Print

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.

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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

on page 55.

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 from the Format for list, then select your

paper size from the Paper Size list.

NOTE: If your application offers no Page Setup dialog, please use the Print dialog.

On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page (T1200 series): select Advanced

●

settings > Paper > Page size > Standard.

Printing

●

Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

options > Select paper size.

NOTE: If the paper size is set from your computer, it overrides the paper size setting in the

front panel.

, then Printing preferences > Paper

Rescale a print

Custom paper sizes

To choose a non-standard paper size not shown in the list of paper sizes:

● Under Windows, there are two different ways:

In the driver dialog, click 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. 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 and Faxes, 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.

Under Mac OS: select Paper Size > Manage Custom Sizes in the Page Setup dialog.

●

NOTE: If your application offers no Page Setup dialog, please use the Print dialog.

On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page (T1200 series): select Advanced

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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 (increased to 17 mm at the foot of cut-sheet 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.

In the Mac OS Print dialog (T770, T1200): select the Margins/Layout panel.

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In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the

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Margins/Layout panel.

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In the Mac OS X 10.4 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the Finishing

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panel and then Layout.

On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page (T1200 series): select Advanced

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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. 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. 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. In this case, if
the image is the same size as the page, the printer assumes that the extreme edges of the
image are either white or unimportant, and do not need to be printed. This may be useful when
your image already contains a border.

Printing

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 must select a custom page size
slightly larger than the page on which you intend to print. See also

series only) on page 58.

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.

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Printing

You can see a list of available shortcuts; select the one that matches the kind of job you want to print.

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 printer's default settings. When you click on 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 (T770, T1200): select the Paper/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 printers): 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 printers): select the Image Quality

●

panel, then select Any in the Paper Type drop-down list.

NOTE: Any is the default Paper Type selection.

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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

If your file is too large for the printer's memory—in this case, you can reduce the paper size in

●

your software and then scale it up again using the front-panel option

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 (T770, T1200): 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.

Printing

In the Mac OS Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the Finishing panel, then Print

●

document on, and select the paper size to which you want to scale the image. 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.

On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page (T1200 series): 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 A4-size image, it is enlarged to fit the A2 paper. If the ISO A3 paper size is
selected, the printer reduces a larger image to fit the A3 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.

●

Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

options > 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.

, then Printing preferences > Paper

Change the treatment of overlapping lines

NOTE: This topic applies only when printing an HP-GL/2 job.

The merge option controls the overlapping lines in an image. There are two settings:

Off: where the lines cross, only the color of the top line is printed. This is the default setting.

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On: where the lines cross, the colors of the two lines merge.

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To turn merge on, go to the front panel and select the Setup menu icon , then Printing

preferences > HP-GL/2 options > Enable merge. You can set the merge option from your software
in some applications. Settings in your software override the front-panel settings.

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.

To preview a print under Windows, you have the following options:

●

Use your application's print preview option.

◦

Printing

●

Check the Show preview before printing option, which you can find in the driver's

◦

Printing Shortcuts tab, Paper/Quality tab and Features tab. The preview may be
provided in different ways, depending on your printer and printer driver.

To preview a print under Mac OS, you have the following options:

Use your application's print preview option.

◦

Click the Preview button at the bottom of the Print dialog box. This is the basic print

◦

preview provided by Mac OS.

If you are using the PostScript driver for the T1200 PS printer, check the Show print

◦

preview option, which you can find in the driver's Printing dialog, in the Finishing panel.
This preview is provided by the Embedded Web Server and will appear in a Web browser
window.

If you are using the PCL driver, click the PDF button at the bottom of the Print dialog box,

◦

then click HP Print Preview. This provides a preview with more features, such as the ability
to change paper size, paper type and print quality, and to rotate the image.

NOTE: HP Print Preview may not be available if you are using Adobe InDesign, Adobe

Illustrator, Adobe Reader or Apple Aperture. It is available with Adobe InDesign CS4 and
Adobe Illustrator CS4.

To preview a print using the Embedded Web Server, select Basic settings > Hold for preview.

●

This preview is available from the T770 HD printer and the T1200 printer series.

Print a draft

You can specify fast draft-quality printing in the following ways:

In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality

●

section. Move the print-quality slider to the extreme left ('Speed').

In the Mac OS Print dialog (T770, T1200): go to the Paper/Quality panel and move the print-

●

quality slider to the extreme left ('Speed').

In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Paper/

●

Quality panel and move the print-quality slider to the extreme left ('Speed').

In the Mac OS X 10.4 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Image Quality

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panel and move the print-quality slider to the extreme left ('Speed').

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On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page (T1200 series): select Basic settings >

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Print quality > Standard options > Speed.

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Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

quality > Select quality level > Fast.

You can specify even faster draft-quality printing by using Economode, as follows. This is intended
mainly for documents containing only text and line drawings.

In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality

●

section. Select Custom Options, then set the quality level to Fast and check the Economode
box.

In the Mac OS Print dialog (T770, T1200): go to the Paper/Quality panel and set the quality

●

options to Custom, then set quality to Fast and check the Economode box.

In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Paper/

●

Quality panel and set the quality options to Custom, then set quality to Fast and check the
Economode box.

In the Mac OS X 10.4 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Image Quality

●

panel and set the quality options to Custom, then set quality to Fast and check the Economode
box.

On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page (T1200 series): select Basic settings >

●

Print quality > Custom. Set Quality level to Fast, and Economode to On.

, then Printing preferences > Print

Printing

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Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

quality > Enable economode.

NOTE: If the print quality is set from your computer, it overrides the print-quality setting in the front

panel.

High-quality printing

You can specify high-quality printing in the following ways:

In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality

●

section. Move the print-quality slider to the extreme right ('Quality').

● In the Mac OS Print dialog (T770, T1200): go to the Paper/Quality panel and move the print-

quality slider to the extreme right ('Quality').

In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Paper/

●

Quality panel and move the print-quality slider to the extreme right ('Quality').

In the Mac OS X 10.4 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Image Quality

●

panel and move the print-quality slider to the extreme right ('Quality').

● On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page (T1200 series): select Basic settings >

Print quality > Standard options > Quality.

, then Printing preferences > Print

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Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

quality > Select quality level > Best.

NOTE: If the print quality is set from your computer, it overrides the print-quality setting in the front

panel.

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, then Printing preferences > Print

If you have a high-resolution image

If your image has a resolution greater than the rendering resolution (which you can see in the Custom
Print Quality Options box under Windows), print sharpness may be improved by selecting the
Maximum Detail option. This option is available only if you are printing on glossy paper and you have
selected Best print quality.

In the driver dialog (Mac OS Print dialog): select Custom instead of Standard print-quality

●

options, then check the Maximum Detail box.

On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page (T1200 series): select Basic settings >

●

Print quality > Custom. Set Quality level to Best, and Maximum detail to On.

●

Printing

Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

quality > Enable maximum detail.

NOTE: The Maximum Detail option results in slower printing with photo papers, but it does not

increase the amount of ink used.

, then Printing preferences > Print

Print in gray shades

You can convert all colors in your image to shades of gray in the following ways:

In your application program: many programs provide this option.

●

● In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Color tab and look at the Color Options section. Select

Print in Grayscale. You can also select Print in pure black and white if you want only black
and white, without gray shades.

In the Mac OS Print dialog (T770, T1200): go to the Color Options panel and select

●

Grayscale from the Mode drop-down list. You can also select Pure Black and White if you
want only black and white, without gray shades.

● In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Color

Options panel and select Grayscale from the Mode drop-down list. You can also select Pure
Black and White if you want only black and white, without gray shades.

In the Mac OS X 10.4 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): go to the Color Options

●

panel and select Print In Grayscale. You can also select Print in Pure Black and White if you
want only black and white, without gray shades.

● On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page (T1200 series): select Color, then set

Color/Grayscale to Print In Grayscale. You can also select Pure Black and White if you want

only black and white, without gray shades.

Print with no margins (T1200 series only)

Printing with no margins (to the edges of the paper) is known as borderless printing. This can be done
only on rolls of glossy paper.

In order to be sure of leaving no margins, the printer prints slightly past the edges of the paper. Any
ink deposited outside the paper is absorbed by the sponge situated in the platen.

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You can request printing with no margins in the following ways:

In the Windows driver dialog: select the Paper/Quality tab and press the Margins/Layout

●

button. Then select Borderless.

In the Mac OS Page Setup dialog (T1200): select a paper size name that includes the words

●

“no margins”. Then, in the Print dialog, select Margins/Layout > Borderless.

NOTE: If your application offers no Page Setup dialog, please use the Print dialog.

In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 PostScript Page Setup dialog (T1200 PS): select a paper size

●

name that includes the words “no margins”. Then, in the Print dialog, select Margins/Layout >
Borderless.

NOTE: If your application offers no Page Setup dialog, please use the Print dialog.

In the Mac OS X 10.4 PostScript Page Setup dialog (T1200 PS): select a paper size name

●

that includes the words “no margins”. Then, in the Print dialog, select Finishing > Layout >
Borderless.

NOTE: If your application offers no Page Setup dialog, please use the Print dialog.

On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page: select Advanced settings > Paper >

●

Layout/Margins > Borderless.

When you select Borderless, you must also select one of the following Image Enlargement options:

Printing

Automatically by printer means that the printer automatically enlarges your image slightly

●

(normally by a few millimeters in each direction) in order to print over the edges of the paper.

Manually in application means that you must enlarge the image yourself in your application,

●

and select a custom paper size that is slightly larger than the actual paper size.

NOTE: If the first print job after loading paper is a borderless job, the printer may trim the leading

edge of the paper before printing.

At the end of a borderless print, the printer normally cuts the print slightly inside the image area to
ensure that the print is borderless. It then cuts the paper again so that no residual part of the image is
included in the next print. However, if the job is cancelled, or if there is white space at the bottom of
the image, only a single cut is made.

Print with crop lines (T1200 series only)

Crop lines indicate where the paper should be cut to reduce it to your selected page size. You can
print crop lines with individual jobs in the following ways:

In the Windows driver dialog: select the Features tab, then Crop lines.

●

In the Mac OS Print dialog: select the Finishing panel, then Crop lines.

●

On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page: select Advanced settings > Roll

●

options > Enable crop lines > Yes.

Alternatively, you can choose to print crop lines with all jobs by default:

In the Embedded Web Server: select Setup > Printer settings > Job management > Use

●

crop lines when printing > On.

●

Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

Enable crop lines > On.

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, then Printing preferences > Paper >

To print crop lines with nested jobs (see Nest jobs to save roll paper (T1200 series only)

on page 60), you must select a different option:

In the Embedded Web Server: select Setup > Printer settings > Job management > Use

●

crop lines when nest is enabled > On.

●

Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

options > Enable crop lines > On.

, then Job management > Nest

Reprint last printed job

You can reprint the last job printed from the front panel. Select the Job management menu icon ,

Printing

then Reprint last job.

NOTE: You cannot use this method for PCL3 jobs. To reprint old jobs that are PCL3, you may be

able to use your operating system's printer spooler, if you have already set the spooler to save old
jobs. This facility depends on your operating system.

Use paper economically

Here are some recommendations for making economical use of paper:

● If you are printing relatively small images or document pages, you can use nesting to print them

side by side instead of one after another. See

on page 60.

You may be able to save some roll paper by using the following options:

●

In the Windows driver dialog: select the Features tab and then Remove top/bottom

◦

blank areas and/or Rotate by 90 degrees.

Nest jobs to save roll paper (T1200 series only)

In the Mac OS Print dialog (T770, T1200): select the Finishing panel, then Remove Top/

◦

Bottom Blank Areas.

◦ In the Mac OS PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the Finishing panel,

then Remove Top/Bottom Blank Areas and/or Rotate by 90 degrees.

On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page (T1200 series): select Advanced

◦

settings > Roll options > Remove top/bottom blank areas and/or Rotate.

If you check the print preview on your computer before printing, you can sometimes avoid

●

wasting paper on prints containing obvious mistakes. See

Preview a print on page 56.

Nest jobs to save roll paper (T1200 series only)

Nesting means automatically printing images or document pages side by side on the paper, rather
than one after the other. This is done to avoid wasting paper.

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1. Direction of paper flow

2. Nesting off

3. Nesting on

4. Paper saved by nesting

When does the printer try to nest pages?

When both of the following are true:

The printer is loaded with roll paper, not sheet paper.

●

Printing

The printer's Nest option is not turned off. See

●

on page 22.

What pages can be nested?

All pages can be nested, unless they are so large that two of them cannot fit side by side on the roll,
or unless there are too many of them to fit into the remaining length of the roll. A single group of
nested pages cannot be split between two rolls.

Which pages qualify for nesting?

In order to be in the same nest, the individual pages must be compatible in all of the following ways:

All pages must have the same print quality setting (Economode, Fast, Normal or Best).

●

The Maximum Detail setting must be the same on all pages.

●

The Layout/Margins setting must be the same for all pages.

●

The Mirror Image setting must be the same for all pages.

●

The Rendering Intent must be the same for all pages.

●

The Cutter setting must be the same for all pages.

●

The color adjustment settings must be the same for all pages. See

●

on page 69.

Turn nesting on and off (T1200 series only)

Color adjustment options

Pages must be all color, or all grayscale: not some in color and some in grayscale.

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All pages must be in one or other of the following two groups (the two groups cannot be mixed in

●

the same nest):

HP-GL/2, RTL

◦

PostScript, PDF, TIFF, JPEG

◦

JPEG and TIFF pages with resolutions greater than 300 dpi may not nest with other pages in

●

some cases.

How long does the printer wait for another file?

So that the printer can make the best nest possible, it waits after a file has been received to check
whether a subsequent page will nest with it or with pages already in the queue. This waiting period is

Printing

the nest wait time; the factory default nest wait time is two minutes. This means that the printer waits
for up to two minutes after the last file is received before printing the final nest. You can change this

waiting time from the printer's front panel: select the Setup menu icon

options > Nest options > Select wait time. The available range is 1 to 99 minutes.

While the printer is waiting for nesting to time out, it displays the remaining time on the front panel.
You can print the nest (cancel the nest wait) by pressing the Form feed and cut key.

, then Job management

Use ink economically

Here are some recommendations for making economical use of ink.

For draft prints, use plain paper and move the print-quality slider to the left end of the scale

●

('Speed'). For further economy, select custom print quality options, then select Fast and
Economode.

● Clean the printheads only when needed, and clean only those printheads that need cleaning.

Cleaning the printheads can be useful, but it uses a small amount of ink.

Leave the printer permanently turned on so that it can maintain the printheads in good condition

●

automatically. This regular printhead maintenance uses a small amount of ink. However, if it is
not done, the printer may need to use much more ink later to restore the health of the
printheads.

● Wide prints make more efficient use of ink than narrow prints, because printhead maintenance

uses some ink, and its frequency is related to the number of passes made by the printheads.
Therefore, nesting jobs can save ink as well as saving paper (see

(T1200 series only) on page 60).

Roll protection (T1200 series only)

If you choose to protect a roll, jobs will be printed on it only if the job explicitly specifies the roll
number or the paper type loaded on the roll. This may be useful, for example, in the following cases.

● To stop people from accidentally printing unimportant jobs on expensive paper.

Nest jobs to save roll paper

To avoid printing on a particular roll when printing from AutoCAD without interacting with the HP

●

printer driver.

To protect a roll, go to the front panel and select the Setup menu icon

preferences > Paper options > Roll protection.

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, then Printing

NOTE: If you protect a roll, then later unload the current roll and load a new one, the new roll

remains protected. You are protecting the roll number, not one specific roll of paper. That roll number
will remain protected until you cancel the protection.

TIP: If you print without specifying a roll number or paper type, you will not be able to print on any

protected roll.

Unattended printing/overnight printing (T1200 series only)

The HP Designjet T1200 printer series, with multiple rolls, plus robust and consistent image quality, is
perfect for long unattended printing jobs.

Here are some recommendations to help you deal with a long queue of printing jobs.

● If feasible, use brand-new long rolls of paper.

If you want to print on partly-used rolls, you can check the paper type and the remaining length

●

in the Embedded Web Server or in the front panel, to confirm that you have enough paper to
print all your jobs.

NOTE: Information on the remaining length is available only if you told the printer the length of

the roll when you loaded it, or if the printer read the length of the roll from the barcode printed on
it.

Load two rolls of paper suitable for your jobs. If the printer finishes one roll, it will automatically

●

switch to the other.

Check that you have paper wide enough to print all of your jobs. Any jobs that are too wide may

●

be put “on hold for paper” if the paper mismatch action is set to Put job on hold (see

mismatch action on page 21).

Check the ink levels remaining in your ink cartridges.

●

When you have submitted your print jobs, you can use the Embedded Web Server from a

●

remote location to monitor their status.

Drying time should be set to Optimal.

●

●

Select the Setup menu icon

options > Minimize roll changes or Use roll with less paper.

We recommend the following settings, depending on the paper type and what kind of prints you are
making.

, then Printing preferences > Paper options > Roll switching

Paper

Printing

Table 7-1 Recommended settings for unattended printing

Print type Print mode MaxDetail Optimized for Drying time Paper types

Lines Normal Off Lines Optimal Coated, Bond,

Lines and fills Normal On Lines Optimal Coated, Bond,

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Heavyweight
Coated, Glossy

Heavyweight
Coated, Glossy

Table 7-1 Recommended settings for unattended printing (continued)

Print type Print mode MaxDetail Optimized for Drying time Paper types

Maps Best On Images Optimal Coated,

Heavyweight
Coated, Glossy

Renderings,
photographs

Best On Images Optimal Coated,

Heavyweight
Coated, Glossy

Printing

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8 Color management

Introduction

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How colors are represented

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A summary of the color management process

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Color calibration

Color management from printer drivers

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Color management from printer drivers (PostScript printers)

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Color management from the Embedded Web Server (T1200 series only)

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Color management from the front panel

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Color management

Introduction

Your printer has been engineered with advanced hardware and software features to ensure
predictable and dependable results.

● Color calibration for consistent colors.

One gray and two black inks provide neutral grays on all paper types.

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The Photo Black ink provides pure blacks when printing on photo papers.

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Color emulation of other HP Designjet printers.

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How colors are represented

All devices that display color use a color model to represent color in numerical terms. Most monitors
use the RGB (Red-Green-Blue) color model, while most printers use the CMYK (Cyan-Magenta­Yellow-blacK) color model.

An image can be converted from one color model to another, but in general the conversion is not
perfect. Your printer uses the RGB color model: the same color model that is used by your monitor.

This simplifies but does not completely solve the problem of matching colors. Each device represents
colors a little differently from another device, even if they use the same color model. However,
software can adjust the colors in an image according to the characteristics of the particular device,
using a color profile of the device, in order to achieve correct colors.

A summary of the color management process

To get the accurate and consistent colors that you want, you should follow these steps for each paper
type that you use.

1. Color-calibrate the paper type, for consistent colors. Calibration should be repeated every now

and then (see
before a particularly important print job for which color consistency is vital.

2. When printing, select the correct color preset for the paper type you are using.

Color calibration on page 66). In addition, you may wish to calibrate immediately

Color calibration

Color calibration enables your printer to produce consistent colors with the particular printheads, inks
and paper type that you are using, and under your particular environmental conditions. After color
calibration, you can expect to get similar prints from any two different printers situated in different
geographical locations.

Some paper types cannot be calibrated. For all other paper types, calibration should be done in any
of the following circumstances:

Whenever a printhead is replaced

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Whenever a new paper type is introduced that has not yet been calibrated with the current set of

●

printheads

Whenever the environmental conditions (temperature and humidity) change significantly

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You can check the color calibration status of the currently loaded paper at any time by pressing the

View information key on the front panel. The status may be one of the following:

PENDING: the paper has not been calibrated.

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NOTE: Whenever you update the printer's firmware, the color calibration status of all papers is

reset to PENDING.

OBSOLETE: the paper has been calibrated, but the calibration is now out of date because a

●

printhead has been replaced, and should be repeated.

DONE: the paper has been calibrated, and the calibration is up to date.

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DISABLED: this paper cannot be calibrated.

●

NOTE: Color calibration cannot be performed on plain paper, nor on any kind of transparent

material.

You can also check the color calibration status by using the HP Utility.

You can start color calibration in the following ways:

From the HP Utility for Windows: select Color Center > Calibrate paper, and choose the paper

●

to be calibrated.

From the HP Utility for Mac OS: select Paper Preset Management from the HP Color Center

●

group, choose the paper to be calibrated, press the

button and select Calibrate Paper.

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From the front panel: select the Image Quality Maintenance menu icon

color.

The calibration process is fully automatic and can be performed unattended after you have loaded
paper of the type you wish to calibrate—which should be A4 or any larger size. The paper on the
active roll will be calibrated; you should ensure that the roll you want to calibrate is active. To change

the active roll, select the Paper menu icon

The process takes about 3–5 minutes and consists of the following steps.

1. A calibration chart is printed, which contains patches of each ink used in your printer.

2. The chart is allowed to dry for a period of time that depends on the paper type, so that the colors

have time to stabilize.

3. The chart is scanned and measured.

4. From the measurements, the printer calculates the necessary correction factors to apply for

consistent color printing on that paper type. It also calculates the maximum amount of each ink
that can be applied to the paper.

, then Select active roll.

, then Calibrate

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Color management from printer drivers

Color management options

The aim of color management is to reproduce colors as accurately as possible on all devices: so that,
when you print an image, you see very similar colors as when you view the same image on your
monitor.

There are two basic approaches to color management for your printer:

Application-Managed Colors: in this case your application program must convert the colors of

●

your image to the color space of your printer and paper type, using the ICC profile embedded in
the image and the ICC profile of your printer and paper type.

Printer-Managed Colors: in this case your application program sends your image to the printer

●

without any color conversion, and the printer converts the colors to its own color space. The
details of this process depend on the graphics language that you are using.

PostScript (PostScript printers): the PostScript interpreter module inside the printer

◦

performs the color conversion using the profiles stored in the printer and any additional
profiles sent with the PostScript job. This kind of color management is done when you are
using the PostScript driver and you specify printer color management or when you send a
PostScript, PDF, TIFF or JPEG file directly to the printer through the Embedded Web
Server. In either case you have to select the profiles to use as default (in case the job
doesn't specify any) and the rendering intent to apply.

Non-PostScript (PCL, RTL, HP-GL/2): the color management is done using a set of stored

◦

color tables. ICC profiles are not used. This method is somewhat less versatile than the
alternatives, but is a little simpler and faster, and can produce good results with standard
HP paper types. This kind of color management is done when you are using a non­PostScript driver and you specify printer color management, or when you send a PCL, RTL
or HP-GL/2 file directly to the printer through the Embedded Web Server.

NOTE: There are only two color spaces that the printer can convert to its own color space

using the stored color tables: Adobe RGB and sRGB if you are using Windows, Adobe
RGB and ColorSync if you are using Mac OS.

ColorSync is the Mac OS built-in Color Management System; so, when you select
ColorSync, color management is performed by Mac OS, and it is done based on the ICC
profiles of the specified paper type. ColorSync is available with the PCL3 driver only.

ColorSync can be selected under Mac OS X 10.4 from the Color Options panel: select
Use Embedded (ICC/ColorSync) from the Source Profile drop-down list. Under Mac OS
X 10.5 and 10.6, ColorSync can be selected from the Color Matching panel.

You are recommended to consult the Knowledge Center (see Knowledge Center on page 180) to
see how to use the color management options of your particular application.

To choose between Application-Managed Colors and Printer-Managed Colors:

In the Windows driver dialog: select the Color tab.

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In the Mac OS Print dialog: select the Color Options panel.

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● In some applications: you can make this choice in the application.

Printer emulation

If you want to print a particular job and to see approximately the same colors that you would get from
printing the same job on a different HP Designjet printer, you can use the emulation mode provided
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NOTE: This option is available only when printing an HP-GL/2, PostScript or PDF job. It will work

correctly only when printing on plain, coated or heavyweight coated paper.

In the Windows HP-GL/2 or PostScript driver dialog: select the Color tab, then Printer

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Managed Colors, then select Printer Emulation from the Source Profile list. You can then
select from the Emulated Printer list.

● In the Mac OS Print dialog (T770, T1200): select the Color Options panel, then Color

Management > Printer, then select Printer Emulation from the Source Profile list.

In the Mac OS Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the Color Options panel, then select

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from the Printer Emulation list.

Color adjustment options

The aim of color management is to print accurate colors. If you perform color management correctly,
then you should be able to print accurate colors with no need of any manual color adjustments.

However, manual adjustments may be useful in the following situations:

If your color management is not working correctly for some reason

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● If you want colors that are subjectively pleasing rather than accurate

The printer driver provides different adjustment facilities depending on whether you are printing in
color or in grayscale. If you are printing in pure black and white, there are no color adjustment
options.

Printing in color

You can adjust the colors of your print in similar ways under Windows and Mac OS:

In the Windows driver dialog: select the Color tab, ensure that the Advanced color

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adjustments box is checked, then press the Settings button beside it.

In the Mac OS Print dialog (T770, T1200): select the Color Options panel, select Color from

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the Mode list, then press the Adjust button.

In the Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the Color

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Options panel, select Color from the Mode list, then press the Adjust button.

In the Mac OS X 10.4 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the Color Options

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panel, then Lightness and Hue.

Under either operating system, you will then be able to make adjustments using a lightness slider and
three color sliders.

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The lightness slider simply makes the whole print lighter or darker.

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The color sliders can be used to fade or emphasize each of the primary colors in the print. The

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primary colors may be red, green and blue; or cyan, magenta and yellow; depending on the
color model used in the image.

The Reset button restores each slider to its default central position.

Printing in grayscale

You can adjust the gray balance of your print in similar ways under Windows and Mac OS:

In the Windows driver dialog: select the Color tab, ensure that the Advanced color

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adjustments box is checked, then press the Settings button beside it.

In the Mac OS Print dialog (T770, T1200): select the Color Options panel, select Grayscale

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from the Mode list, then press the Adjust button.

● In the Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the

Color Options panel, select Grayscale from the Mode list, then press the Adjust button.

In the Mac OS X 10.4 PostScript Print dialog (PostScript printers): select the Color Options

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panel, then Print in Grayscale, then the Gray balance tab.

Under either operating system, you will then be able to make adjustments using separate controls for
highlights, midtones and shadows.

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The lightness slider simply makes the whole print lighter or darker. This slider is available in the

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same window as the other grayscale controls, except under Mac OS X 10.4, where it is available
by selecting Lightness and Hue.

The zone definition sliders can be used to define what you mean by highlight, midtone and

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shadow.

The other controls for highlight, midtone and shadow can be used to adjust the gray balance of

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highlights, midtones and shadows respectively.

The Reset button restores each control to its default setting.

Color management from printer drivers (PostScript printers)

This facility is available when printing with the PostScript driver.

HP Professional PANTONE Emulation

When you use a named PANTONE color in an image, your application will normally send to the
printer a CMYK or RGB approximation to that color. But the application does not take the printer or
the paper type into account, it merely produces a generic approximation of the PANTONE color,
which will look different on different printers and on different papers.

HP Professional PANTONE Emulation can do a much better job by taking into account the
characteristics of the printer and the paper type. The results look as similar to the original PANTONE
colors as is possible on a given printer using a given paper type. This technology is designed to
produce emulations similar to those set up manually by prepress professionals.

To use HP Professional PANTONE Emulation, all you have to do is to turn it on. In fact, it is normally
on by default.

In the Windows PostScript driver dialog: go to the Color tab and select HP Professional

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PANTONE Emulation.

In the Mac OS Print dialog: go to the Color Options panel and select HP Professional

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PANTONE Emulation.

You can also use the Embedded Web Server to print a swatch book showing emulations of
PANTONE colors as made by your printer, together with a measure of the color difference (∆E)
between each emulation and the original PANTONE spot color. So HP Professional PANTONE

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Emulation not only provides the closest match that can be achieved on your printer; it also gives clear
information on how close the emulation is to the original spot color. See

books on page 74.

Color emulation

Your printer can emulate the color behavior of other devices: RGB devices such as monitors, and
CMYK devices such as presses and printers.

You can set color emulation in the following ways:

In the Windows PostScript driver dialog: select the Color tab, and Printer Managed Colors.

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In the Mac OS Print dialog: select the Color Options panel, then select Printer from the Color

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Management list.

For a good emulation, the printer needs a specification of the colors these devices can reproduce.
The standard way of encapsulating such information is in ICC profiles. As part of the solution, we
provide the most common standards for the different devices.

The options are as follows.

CMYK color emulation

Printing PANTONE swatch

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A traditional workflow defines color in the CMYK space. For best results, the colors must be adjusted
to the printer, because different printers will produce different colors from the same CMYK data. If the
image file you are printing was not created specifically for your printer, it will require some
readjustment, which can be done using one of the following options provided with your printer.

● None (Native): no emulation. The printer will use its default internal conversion from CMYK to

RGB, without following any color standard. This does not imply that results will be bad

U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) 2 uses specifications designed to produce quality separations using

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U.S. inks under the following printing conditions: 300% total area of ink coverage, negative plate,
coated publication-grade stock.

U.S. Web Uncoated 2 uses specifications designed to produce quality separations using U.S.

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inks under the following printing conditions: 260% total area of ink coverage, negative plate,
uncoated white offset stock.

U.S. Sheetfed Coated 2 uses specifications designed to produce quality separations using U.S.

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inks under the following printing conditions: 350% total area of ink coverage, negative plate,
bright white offset stock.

U.S. Sheetfed Uncoated 2 uses specifications designed to produce quality separations using

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U.S. inks under the following printing conditions: 260% total area of ink coverage, negative plate,
uncoated white offset stock.

Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27 is designed to produce quality separations for standard ISO

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12647 printing under the following printing conditions: 350% total ink coverage, positive film,
coated paper.

Euroscale Uncoated 2 uses specifications designed to produce quality separations using

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Euroscale inks under the following printing conditions: 260% total area of ink coverage, positive
plate, uncoated white offset stock.

Japan Web Coated (Ad) uses specifications developed by the Japan Magazine Publisher

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Association for digital proofing of images in the Japanese magazine/advertising market.

Japan Color 2001 Coated uses the Japan Color 2001 specification for type 3 (coated) paper. It

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is designed to produce quality separations using 350% total ink coverage, positive film and
coated paper.

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Japan Color 2001 Uncoated uses the Japan Color 2001 specification for type 4 (uncoated)

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paper. It is designed to produce quality separations using 310% total ink coverage, positive film
and uncoated paper.

Japan Color 2002 Newspaper uses the Japan Color 2002 for Newspapers specification. It is

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designed to produce quality separations using 240% total ink coverage, positive film and
standard newsprint paper.

JMPA: Japanese standard for offset press.

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Toyo is designed to produce quality separations for Toyo printing presses.

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● DIC is designed to produce quality separations for Dainippon Ink Company printing presses.

NOTE: These options have no effect if the application is defining its own CMYK space, known as

calibrated CMYK or CIEBasedDEFG in PostScript terminology.

RGB color emulation

Your printer is provided with the following color profiles:

None (Native): no emulation, for use when the color conversion is done by the application or

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operating system, and therefore the data arrive at the printer already color-managed.

sRGB IEC61966-2.1 emulates the characteristics of the average PC monitor. This standard

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space is endorsed by many hardware and software manufacturers, and is becoming the default
color space for many scanners, printers and software applications.

ColorMatch RGB emulates the native color space of Radius Pressview monitors. This space

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provides a smaller gamut alternative to Adobe RGB (1998) for print production work.

Apple RGB emulates the characteristics of the average Apple monitor, and is used by a variety

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of desktop publishing applications. Use this space for files that you plan to display on Apple
monitors, or for working with old desktop publishing files.

Adobe RGB (1998) provides a fairly large gamut of RGB colors. Use this space if you need to

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do print production work with a broad range of colors.

Color management from the Embedded Web Server (T1200 series only)

Submit Job options

When you send jobs to the printer using the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page, you have
the following color management options.

If you leave an option set to Default, the setting saved in the job will be used. If the job contains no
setting, the front-panel setting in the printer will be used.

T1200 and T1200 PS options

Color/Grayscale: you can choose to print in color, in shades of gray or in pure black and white.

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Default RGB source profile: you can choose from a selection of RGB source profiles

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recognized by the printer.

Printer emulation: you can choose to emulate a different HP Designjet printer. Default: Off (no

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T1200 PS options (with PostScript or PDF jobs)

Default CMYK source profile: you can choose from a selection of CMYK source profiles

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recognized by the printer. Default: Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27.

Rendering intent: you can select the rendering intent.

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Black point compensation: you can turn black point compensation on or off.

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HP Professional PANTONE Emulation: you can turn HP Professional PANTONE Emulation on

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or off.

Rendering intent

Rendering intent is one of the settings used when doing a color transformation. As you probably
know, some of the colors you want to print may not be reproducible by the printer. The rendering
intent allows you to select one of four different ways of handling these so-called out-of-gamut colors.

Saturation (graphics): best used for presentation graphics, charts or images made up of bright,

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saturated colors.

Perceptual (images): best used for photographs or images in which colors blend together. It

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tries to preserve the overall color appearance.

Relative colorimetric (proofing): best used when you want to match a particular color. This

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method is mainly used for proofing. It guarantees that, if a color can be printed accurately, it will
be printed accurately. The other methods will probably provide a more pleasing range of colors
but do not guarantee that any particular color will be printed accurately. It maps the white of the
input space to the white of the paper on which you are printing.

Absolute colorimetric (proofing): the same as relative colorimetric, but without mapping the

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white. This rendering is also used mainly for proofing, where the goal is to simulate the output of
one printer (including its white point).

Perform black point compensation

The black point compensation option controls whether to adjust for differences in black points when
converting colors between color spaces. When this option is selected, the full dynamic range of the
source space is mapped into the full dynamic range of the destination space. It can be very useful in
preserving shadows when the black point of the source space is darker than that of the destination
space. This option is allowed only when the Relative colorimetric rendering intent is selected (see

Rendering intent on page 74).

Printing PANTONE swatch books

You can use the Embedded Web Server to print a swatch book showing emulations of PANTONE
colors as made by your printer, together with a measure of the color difference (∆E) between each
emulation and the original PANTONE spot color.

To print a swatch book, select the Embedded Web Server's Main tab, then HP Professional
PANTONE Emulation. Select the PANTONE stock to emulate, and one or more strips of PANTONE
colors that you want to print. You can select color strips from more than one PANTONE stock. When
you have selected all the colors you want, press the Next button. The next window displays your
selection; you can press Print to print that selection, or Back to change the selection.

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Color management from the front panel

You can color-calibrate the loaded paper type from the front panel by selecting the Image Quality

Maintenance menu icon

The other color options in the front panel can all be found by selecting the Setup menu icon ,

then Printing preferences > Color options.

NOTE: These front panel settings can all be overridden by the printer driver or (with the T1200

series) Embedded Web Server job submission settings.

T770 series and T1200 series options

Color/Grayscale: you can choose to print in color or in shades of gray. Default: Print in color.

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Select RGB source profile: you can choose from a selection of RGB source profiles recognized

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by the printer. Default: sRGB (HP).

Emulate printer: you can choose to emulate a different HP Designjet printer. Default: Off (no

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printer emulation).

TIP: If you have old HP-GL/2 or PostScript files made for a different HP Designjet printer, you

can send them to the printer and use the front panel to turn on the appropriate emulation mode.

, then Calibrate color. See Color calibration on page 66.

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T1200 PS options (with PostScript or PDF jobs)

Select CMYK source profile: you can choose from a selection of CMYK source profiles

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recognized by the printer. Default: Europe ISO Coated FOGRA27.

Select rendering intent: you can select the rendering intent. Default: Perceptual.

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Black point compensation: you can turn black point compensation on or off. Default: On.

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HP Professional PANTONE Emulation: you can turn HP Professional PANTONE Emulation on

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or off. Default: On.

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9 Practical printing examples

Print a draft for revision with the correct scale

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Print a project

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Print a presentation

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Print a draft for revision with the correct scale

This section demonstrates how to print a draft for revision with the correct scale from Adobe Acrobat.

Using Adobe Acrobat

1. In the Acrobat window, bring the mouse cursor to the bottom left corner of the document pane to

check the plot size.

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2. Select File > Print and ensure that Page Scaling is set to None.

NOTE: The page size will not be automatically selected according to the drawing size.

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3. Press the Properties button and then select the Paper/Quality tab.

4. Choose whatever Document Size and Print Quality you want to use. If you want to define a

new custom paper size, press the Custom button.

5. Select the Features tab, and then Autorotate.

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6. Click OK, and check that the print preview in the Print dialog box seems correct.

Print a project

This section demonstrates how to print a project from Autodesk Design Review, AutoCAD and the
printer's Embedded Web Server.

Using Autodesk Design Review

Enabling HP Instant Printing from Autodesk Design Review

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Autodesk Design Review offers the Use HP Instant Printing option. This needs to be enabled once,
after which it is taken as the default printing option until it is disabled.

1. Start Autodesk Design Review and select File > Print.

Alternatively, click the Print icon on the toolbar.

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2. In the Print dialog box, check the Use HP Instant Printing box. You can select your printer and

paper size here, or in the next window.

3. Ensure that the printer and paper size are correct, then click OK to start printing.

Enabling HP Instant Printing from the Batch Print Wizard

1. Make sure you have installed the Batch Print Wizard. Start Autodesk Design Review and select

File > Batch Print Wizard.

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2. In the Welcome box, click Next.

3. Select the DWF files to print, then click Next.

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4. Use the Shift key if you want to select multiple files to configure. Then click Print Setup, and the

printing configuration will be applied to all the files you have selected..

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5. In the Print dialog box, check the Use HP Instant Printing box. You can select your printer and

paper size here, or in the next window.

6. Ensure that the printer and paper size are correct, then click OK. The paper size is automatically

preselected.

7. Back in the Choose print settings box, click Next.

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8. Save or start the batch print job.

Using HP Instant Printing

● Make sure Use HP Instant Printing has been selected. To print, click the Print icon in the

toolbar or select File > Print. Choose your preferred printing settings and click OK.

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Alternatively, Use HP Instant Printing can be launched directly from its own toolbar icon. In this

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case, it starts immediately, using the settings you defined previously.

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Using AutoCAD

1. The AutoCAD window can show a model or layout. Normally a layout is printed rather than the

model.

2. Click the Plot icon at the top of the window.

3. The Plot window opens.

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4. You can see further options by pressing the circular button in the lower right corner of the

window.

NOTE: The Quality option here does not refer to the final print quality but to the quality of

AutoCAD viewport objects that are sent for printing.

5. Press the Properties button.

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6. Select the Device and Document Settings tab, and press the Custom Properties button.

7. In the Paper/Quality tab, check the Show preview before printing box, and select the paper

type that you intend to use.

NOTE: If you select neither the paper source nor the paper type, the printer will not print on

any protected roll (see

8. Select the print quality (your own choice between speed and quality of printing).

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Roll protection (T1200 series only) on page 62).

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9. If you intend to print on roll paper, you must decide where the printer should cut the paper. Press

the Margins/Layout button and select Clip contents by margins.

10. Select the Features tab, then select the Autorotate option. If you have a T1200 series printer,

select the Crop lines option also. Autorotation can help to avoid wasting paper, and the crop
lines will show you where to cut the paper after printing.

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11. Press the OK button and save your configuration changes to a PC3 file.

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12. When you have pressed the OK button in the Plot window, the printer will construct a print

preview (T1200 series only).

Using the Embedded Web Server to submit files (T1200 series only)

From the HP Utility or the Embedded Web Server, select Job Center > Submit Job. With some Web
browsers, you will see the window below; with other Web browsers, the mechanism for adding files is
slightly different.

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Press the Add files button (or Choose File, Add another file) to choose the files from your
computer that you want to print. The files must be in one of the following formats:

PDF (T1200 PS only)

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PostScript (T1200 PS only)

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TIFF (T1200 PS only)

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JPEG (T1200 PS only)

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● HP-GL/2

RTL

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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 the project 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.

Using printer emulation

Printer emulation can be requested by selecting Advanced settings > Color > Color management
> Printer emulation.

You can select Off (no printer emulation) or the name of the printer model that you want to emulate.

Using clip contents by margins

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Using AutoCAD

This setting will apply to jobs that do not contain any printer emulation setting saved in the job.

You can select this margins option from Advanced settings > Paper > Layout/Margins > Print with
margins > Layout > Clip contents by margins.

Use this option when the contents to be printed have 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.

This section demonstrates how to print a presentation from AutoCAD and from Photoshop.

1. Open the AutoCAD file and select a layout.

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2. Click the Plot icon at the top of the window.

3. Ensure that the correct printer is selected, then press the Properties button.

4. Select the Device and Document Settings tab, and press the Custom Properties button.

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5. In the Paper/Quality tab, check the Show preview before printing box, and select the paper

type that you intend to use.

NOTE: If you select neither the paper source nor the paper type, the printer will not print on

any protected roll (see

6. Select the print quality (your own choice between speed and quality of printing).

Roll protection (T1200 series only) on page 62).

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7. If you intend to print on roll paper, you must decide where the printer should cut the paper. Press

the Margins/Layout button and select Clip contents by margins.

8. If you are using photo or glossy paper, you can select Borderless printing (T1200 series only).

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