HP Designjet T920 and T1500 ePrinter series - The front panel

The front panel is located on the front right of the printer. It gives you complete control of your printer: from the front panel, you can print, view information about the printer, change printer settings, perform calibrations and tests, and so on. The front panel also displays alerts (warning and error messages) when necessary. Information about specific uses of the front panel can be found throughout this guide.

1. A Hi-Speed USB host port, intended for connecting a USB flash drive, which can provide files to be printed. When a USB flash drive is inserted, a USB icon is displayed on the front panel's home screen.
2. The front panel itself: a touch-sensitive screen with a graphical user interface.
3. Loudspeakers.
4. The Power key, with which you can turn the printer on or off. The key is illuminated when the printer is on. It flashes when the printer is in sleep mode.

The front panel has a large central area to display dynamic information and icons. On the left and right sides you can see up to six fixed icons at different times. Normally they are not all displayed at the same time.

Left and right fixed icons

• Press to return to the home screen.
• Press to view help about the current screen.
• Press to go to the previous item.
• Press to go to the next item.
• Press to go back to the previous screen. This does not discard any changes made in the current screen.
• Press to cancel the current process.

Home screen dynamic icons

The following items are displayed only on the home screen.

• Press to reach the information screen, where you can view information about printer status, change printer settings, or initiate actions such as loading paper or replacing ink supplies.
• To the right of the above button is a message showing the printer status or the most important current alert.
• Press to print a file from a USB flash drive. See Printing.
• Press to print from your HP Designjet ePrint & Share account. See Print from HP Designjet ePrint & Share using the printer’s front panel.
• Press to view and manage the job queue. A smaller warning icon appears if there are jobs on hold. See Job queue management (T920 PS and T1500 series).
• Press to view information about the USB flash drive. This icon appears only when a USB flash drive is inserted.
• Press to access available applications. See http://www.hp.com/go/designjeteprinters. This icon appears only when one or more applications are installed.

To reach the information screen, press on the home screen.

Information screen dynamic icons

• Press for information about the paper status.
• Press for information about the ink cartridge status.
• Press for information about the printhead status.
• Press for information about the network status.
• Press for a list of alerts.
• Press for information about the printer.
• Press to view and change printer settings.

Sleep mode puts the printer into a reduced power state after a period of inactivity, turning off the front-panel display to save energy. Printer features can be enabled from this mode, and the printer maintains network connectivity, waking up only as necessary. The printer can be woken from sleep mode by the Power button, by sending a print job, or by opening the window, the roll cover, or the stacker cover. The printer wakes up in several seconds, more quickly than if it is completely turned off. While in sleep mode, the Power button blinks.

To change the time that elapses before sleep mode, press , then , then Setup > Front panel options > Sleep mode wait time. You can set a time between 1 and 240 minutes; the default time is 30 minutes.

Printer Monitoring (with the Print Spooler) and Remote Printer Management with the HP Utility and Web JetAdmin continue to be available during sleep mode. Some remote management tasks offer the option of remotely waking up the printer if needed to perform the task.