HP CM8060/CM8050 Color MFP with Edgeline Technology - HP PCL 6, PCL 5, and PS Emulation drivers for MS Windows

Control the drivers directly from the Printers folder through the two sets of driver tabs: the Printing Preferences tabs and the Properties tabs. The settings on the Printing Preferences driver tabs control the driver default settings for each user's profile. Configure installable options on the Properties driver tabs.

The Printing Preferences driver tabs change the default settings that are used across all software programs. To gain access to these tabs:

1. Click Start.
2. For Windows 2000, select Settings, and then click Printers.
   For Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003, click Printers and Faxes.
   For Windows XP Home, click Control Panel, and then double-click the Printers and Faxes icon.
3. Right-click the driver name.
4. Click Printing Preferences.

The following Printing Preferences print-driver tabs are available:

• Advanced
• Printing Shortcuts
• Paper/Quality
• Effects
• Finishing
• Output
• Job Storage
• Color
• Services

All of these tabs are device-specific.

The Job Storage tab is available only when the Job Storage setting is Enabled on the Device Settings tab in the Properties print-driver tabs. To make the settings take effect, click OK on the Device Settings tab.

The Output tab is available only when an output device is connected to the HP CM8060/CM8050 Color MFP with Edgeline Technology.

This set of tabs controls the driver behavior and driver connections. To gain access to the Properties tabs:

1. Click Start.
2. For Windows 2000, select Settings, and then click Printers.
   For Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003, click Printers and Faxes.
   For Windows XP Home, click Control Panel, and then double-click the Printers and Faxes icon.
3. Right-click the driver name.
4. Click Properties.

The following Properties print-driver tabs are available:

• General
• Sharing
• Ports
• Advanced
• Security
• Device Settings
• About

Only device-specific HP driver tabs are described in this STR; the other driver tabs are part of the operating system.

The following Properties driver tabs are described in this STR:

• Device Settings
• About

The Paper/Output control contains the following settings:

• Copy Count
• Collated check box (becomes available and can be changed when the Copy Count setting is greater than 1)

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When changing control settings, click the setting to see the drop-down list for that setting.

Copy Count specifies the number of copies to print. This driver setting is useful for software programs that do not provide a copy count. If a copy count is available in the software program, set the copy count in the software program.

The requested number of copies appears in the Copy Count option. Select the number by typing in the box or by using the up and down arrows to the right of the text box. Valid entries are numbers from 1 to 9999. The copies value will not advance from the maximum number (9999) to 1 when the up arrow is used, or change from 1 to the maximum number (9999) when the down arrow is used.

When you click another group box or leave the Advanced tab, invalid entries into the edit box (such as non-numerical input, numbers less than 1, or numbers greater than the maximum allowed) are changed to the last valid value that appeared in the box. The default number of copies is 1.

Because the number of copies can be set in some software programs, conflicts between the software program and the driver can arise. In most cases, the software program and the driver communicate so that the number of copies set in one location (such as the software program) appears in the other (such as the driver). For some software programs, this communication does not take place, and the copies values are treated independently. For example, setting 10 copies in the program and then setting 10 copies in the driver results in 100 copies (10 x 10) being printed. Set the number of copies in the software program, wherever possible.

The Collated check box is visible when the Copy Count setting is selected. The check box becomes available and can be changed when the Copy Count setting is greater than 1.

When collated, pages print consecutively for each copy of the document. When not collated, copies of each page print together.

This setting is not synchronized with the collate setting in the software program Print dialog box. Settings in the software program override settings in the print driver. For instance, when using Microsoft Word, the Collate check box in the Print dialog box is selected by default. However, in the print driver, the Collated check box on the Advanced tab is not selected by default. The software program setting takes precedence over the driver setting, and the printed output is collated by default. Therefore, if the Collated check box is selected in the driver, but the Collate setting is not enabled in the software program, the printed output is uncollated.

To obtain uncollated printed output, clear the Collate setting in both the driver and the software program.

The Graphic control contains the following settings:

• Image Color Management
• True Type Fonts

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When changing control settings, click on the setting to see the drop-down list for that settings.

This setting lists the available Image Color Management (ICM) options that are used for printing color graphics. ICM, a set of calculations for color matching, makes it possible for programs to adjust colors before printing so that the color of images on the screen more closely match the color of those images when they are printed. The following options are available:

• ICM Method. The ICM Method setting specifies how to print the color graphics.
  • To enable Image Color Management, click the option and then select ICM Enabled.
  • If you want the host computer to perform calculations for color matching before it sends the document to the product, select ICM Handled by Host System.
  • If you want the device to perform calculations for color matching, select ICM Handled by Printer. In this case, a set of rules for mapping the colors is created and downloaded to the device. The device uses these rules to adjust colors in the document.
• ICM Intent. The ICM Intent setting specifies how color images are created to produce the image that looks best on the printed page.
  • When printing a chart or using fully saturated, bright colors, select Graphics.
  • For photographs or pictures where the colors blend together, select Pictures to maximize the contrast. This is the default setting.
  • When the document uses a color that must be matched exactly, and the document is printing on a device that has that specific color of ink, select Proof.
  • To preview the color settings from another device, select Match.

Use Substitute with Device Font (the default setting) to use equivalent printer fonts to print documents that contain TrueType fonts. This permits faster printing, but can eliminate special characters that the equivalent printer font does not support. Select Download as Softfont to download TrueType fonts for printing instead of using printer fonts.

The Document Options control contains the following settings:

• Advanced Printing Features
• Print Optimizations (HP PCL 6 and PCL 5 drivers)
• PostScript Options (PS Emulation driver)
• Printer Features
• Layout Options

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When changing control settings, click the setting to see the drop-down list for that setting.

When the Advanced Printing Features setting is Enabled, metafile spooling is turned on and Finishing tab options such as Page Order, Booklet Layout, and Pages per Sheet are available, depending on the device. For normal printing, leave the Advanced Printing Features setting at the default (Enabled). If compatibility problems occur, disable the feature. However, some advanced printing features might still be available in the print driver, even if they have been disabled. Selecting an advanced printing feature in the print driver that has been disabled on the Advanced tab automatically makes the feature available.

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Print Optimizations settings are available only in the HP PCL 6 and PCL 5 drivers. They are not available in the PS Emulation driver.

The default setting for Print Optimizations is Enabled. When this feature is enabled and the document contains overlapping text and graphics, the text that is placed on top of a graphic might not print correctly. If the printed output is not correct, disable this feature. When this feature is disabled, print optimization-features, such as substituting device fonts for TrueType fonts and scanning for horizontal and vertical rules, are turned off.

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PostScript Output Options settings are available only in the PS Emulation driver. They are not available in the HP PCL 6 and PCL 5 drivers.

Select one of the following settings in the PostScript Output Options drop-down menu:

• Optimize for Speed. This is the default setting.
• Optimize for Portability. Use this setting to create a file that conforms to the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions (ADSC). Each page of the document is a self-contained object. For example, this option is for creating a postscript file and printing it on a different device.
• Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). Use this setting to include the file as an image in another document that is to be printed from another program.
• Archive format. Use this option to create a postscript file that can be used later.

Select one of the following settings in the TrueType Font Download drop-down menu:

• Automatic. This is the default setting.
• Outline. Select this option to download the TrueType font as a scalable outline font.
• Bitmap. Select this option to download the TrueType font as a bitmap font.
• Native TrueType. If the device is a TrueType rasterizer printer; select this option to download the TrueType font as an outline font.

Select one of the following settings in the PostScript Language Level drop-down menu:

• 3
• 2
• 1

The default setting is 3. It is usually better to select the highest number available, because it provides more features. In some instances, lower numbers might be necessary. For example, when printing a file to disk for someone who has a level-1 device, select 1.

Select one of the following settings in the Send PostScript Error Handler drop-down menu:

• Yes. This is the default setting. When an error occurs in the print job, an error page is sent to the device.
• No. Select this setting if you do not want an error page to be printed when an error occurs.

The Printer Features setting contains the following sub-settings:

• The Edge-To-Edge setting is Off by default. When On is selected, the print area expands to allow printing within 1mm of the edge of the page
• Print All Text as Black.
  The Print All Text as Black setting is Disabled by default. When Enabled is selected, the driver prints all text as black regardless of the original document text color. Color text is printed as black, except for white text, which remains white. (White text is a reliable method of printing reverse typeface against a dark background.) This setting does not affect graphic images on the page, nor does it affect any text that is part of a graphic.
• Send TrueType as Bitmap.

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  The Send TrueType as Bitmap. setting is available only in the HP PCL 6 and HP PCL 5 unidrivers. It is not available in the PS Emulation Unidriver.

  Send TrueType as Bitmap provides an alternative for software programs that have trouble using TrueType fonts for special graphic aspects such as shading, rotation, or slanting. The setting is Disabled (off) by default. The TrueType fonts are converted to bitmap soft fonts before downloading. When Enabled, the driver sends TrueType fonts to the printer as outlines, which retains the standard format (outline) of the fonts.
• Raster Compression

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  The Raster Compression setting is available only in the HP PCL 6 Unidriver. It is not available in the HP PCL 5 Unidriver or the PS Emulation Unidriver.

  Use the Raster Compression feature to select the graphics-compression method:
  • Automatic. The software determines the best compression method to use.
  • Best Quality. This option forces the software to use a lossless compression method. (Lossless means that no data is lost during compression.)
  • Maximum Compression. Where applicable, this option requires the software to always use a lossy compression method (some data is lost).
• Alternative Letterhead Mode.
  When selected, this option enables you to always load preprinted or letterhead paper types the same way for all print jobs, whether you are printing on one side of the sheet or on both sides of the sheet. Load the paper as you would for printing on both sides.
  If the device tray has an icon that indicates to load the paper either face-up or face-down, load the paper opposite of the orientation shown.

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  When this option is selected, the printing speed slows to the speed required to print on both sides of the sheet.

• Graphics Mode. (HP PCL 5 driver)
  Use the Graphics Mode feature to select one of the following settings:
  • Send Graphics as Vector. Select this setting to send graphics to the device as a combination of HP Graphics Language, version 2 (HP-GL/2), and raster images. This setting might produce higher-quality output. It is the default setting.
  • Send Graphics as Raster. Select this setting to send all graphics to the device as images composed of individual dots. This setting might improve printing speed in some cases.

The Layout Options setting contains the Page Order sub-setting.

Page Order specifies the order in which the pages of the document are printed. Front to Back prints the document so that page 1 prints first. Back to Front prints the document so that page 1 prints last.

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The page-ordering operation works on whole sheets of paper rather than on individual logical pages. Accordingly, if Pages per Sheet (on the Finishing tab) is greater than one, the ordering of logical pages on a physical sheet of paper does not change.

The settings specified in the Paper Options group box on the Paper/Quality tab apply to all of the pages of the document. The following figure shows the Paper Options group box and the selections that are available by default.

The Paper Options group box contains the following controls:

The Page size: setting is a drop-down menu that lists all of the supported paper sizes.

Move the mouse cursor over the dimensions label to change the cursor from an arrow to a gloved hand. Click the dimensions label to toggle between English and metric units.

Because paper-size settings in most software programs override driver settings, it is generally best to use the driver to set paper size only when printing from software programs that do not include a paper-size setting, such as NotePad, or when producing a book or a booklet that does not require different paper sizes.

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Certain software programs can override the size command and specify different paper sizes within a single document.

When you change the print-driver setting to a paper size that is not currently loaded in the device, a control-panel message appears that prompts you to load the paper size or select another tray.

The Paper Source: setting specifies the source tray to use for printing a document. The list of source trays depends on the device accessories that are installed. Any optional source trays that are installed through the Device Settings tab also appear here.

The Paper Source: drop-down menu can contain the following options, depending on what has been installed on the device:

• Automatically select
• Printer Auto Select
• Manual Feed in Tray 1
• Tray 1
• Tray 2
• Tray 3
• Tray 4
• Tray 5

The default setting is Automatically Select. When this setting is selected, the HP CM8060/CM8050 Color MFP with Edgeline Technology uses the source tray that supports the selected paper size. If you select a source tray other than Automatically select, make sure that the correct paper size is loaded in the source tray.

The Paper Type: drop-down menu shows all of the paper types that the HP CM8060/CM8050 Color MFP with Edgeline Technology supports. When you use the default setting, Unspecified, the device uses the default paper type, which is usually Plain.

No mechanism exists for manually adding custom paper types through the driver. Custom types can be added only by using the bidirectional communication mechanism, so they must already exist in the device when the bidirectional query occurs. If bidirectional communication is enabled, then an updated list of paper types is returned. If bidirectional communication is not enabled, then the driver looks for custom paper types that have been saved from a previous bidirectional communication query, and uses those. Otherwise, no custom paper types are available through the driver.

Select a paper type instructs the device to use a group of predefined settings to create the best possible print quality for that type of paper.

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Selecting a paper type that does not match the type of paper that is loaded in the tray can damage the device.

The following standard types appear in the list:

• Unspecified
• Plain
• HP Office LG (long grain) Plain 80g
• HP Premium Presentation Matte 120g
• HP Brochure & Flyer Matte 180g
• HP Cover Matte 200g
• HP Edgeline Glossy 180g
• HP Edgeline Glossy 220G
• Cardstock 160-220g
• Matte
• Matte Brochure
• Matte Cover
• Labels
• Letterhead
• Preprinted
• Prepunched
• Colored
• Bond
• Recycled

The default setting is Unspecified, and the program selects the paper type. Before selecting a different setting, make sure that the correct paper type is loaded in the tray that is specified in the Paper Source: setting.

If the print-driver setting is changed to a paper type that is not currently loaded in the device, a control-panel message appears that prompts you to load the selected paper type or select another tray.

Use the Special pages: (“page exceptions”) list box to select different trays loaded with different types of paper for different parts of the print job. For example, you can have covers printed on different paper, or you can insert pre-printed pages at designated places to print books.

Select an option in the Special pages: list box, and then click Settings.... Use the Settings dialog box to control the settings for the special pages of the print job. Examples of the dialog boxes for the special pages options are shown in the following figures.

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Options available in the Settings dialog box change depending on the selection made in the Special pages: list box.

The Color Quality group box is shown in the following figure.

The Color Quality group box contains the following controls:

The Color Quality drop-down menu contains the following settings:

• Professional (default). Use this setting to print jobs with color saturation levels that are comparable to competitive devices that are using their default mode.
• General office. Use this setting to print jobs with lower color saturation levels.

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Both color-quality settings print jobs with the same black saturation level. Black text, lines, and graphics are identical between the two modes.

Click HP Digital Imaging to open the HP Digital Imaging Options dialog box, which is shown in the following figure.

The following settings can be adjusted on the HP Digital Imaging Options dialog box:

• Contrast Enhancement
• Digital Flash
• SmartFocus
• Sharpness
• Smoothing

The HP Digital Imaging settings should be used only on high-resolution images (600 dpi or higher) that are printed on photograph-quality paper. These settings are not recommended for text.

For the Contrast Enhancement, Digital Flash, SmartFocus, and Smoothing settings, the following controls are available:

• Automatic check box
• A slide bar ranging from Off to High

The SmartFocus settings are Off and On.

Use the following controls to enhance digital images:

• Contrast Enhancement. Use the Contrast Enhancement setting to increase image contrast for a more visually pleasing result. This filter is useful with flat images (images in which much of the image content is compressed into a small, dynamic range of pixel values). Flat images can result from low lighting, environmental haze, or camera or scanner limitations.
• Digital Flash. Use the Digital Flash setting to adjust lighting levels to reveal areas in shadow. The filter locates dark areas in an image and brings out detail without degrading other features in the image.
• SmartFocus. Use the SmartFocus setting to increase the apparent resolution of lower resolution images. Many images that are downloaded from the Internet or from digital cameras can be compressed because of size restrictions, and might exhibit pixilation artifacts when printed. SmartFocus upscales the image to the printer resolution without accentuating these artifacts.
• Sharpness. Many images are improved by increasing their sharpness. Use the Sharpness setting to make edge detail more prominent. The filter detects regions that contain significant variations in pixel value along a number of different vectors (which denotes edges) and then applies a filter to enhance detail.
• Smoothing. Just as many images benefit from increased sharpness, many images are improved by smoothing, which decreases noise artifacts that digital cameras or scanners often create. When Smoothing is selected, the filter locates areas that contain abrupt changes in pixel value by comparison with surrounding pixels (which denotes noise) and then applies a filter to smooth the output.

The Resizing Options group box contains the following controls:

• Actual Size (default)
• Print Document On setting
• Scale to Fit option
• % of Normal Size setting

Actual Size is the default setting. It prints the document without changing the document size.

Click the Print Document On option to format the document for one paper size and then print the document on a different paper size, with or without scaling the image to fit the new paper size.

The Print Document On control is disabled by either of the following conditions:

• The % of Normal Size value is not 100.
• The Pages per Sheet value on the Finishing tab is not 1.

When Print Document On is selected, the drop-down menu shows the paper sizes on which you can print. The list contains all of the standard paper sizes that the selected paper source supports and any custom sizes that have been created. When Print Document On is selected, Scale to Fit is automatically selected. Clear this check box if you do not want the document reduced or enlarged to fit on the selected paper.

The Scale to Fit option box specifies whether each formatted document page image is scaled to fit the target paper size. By default, Scale to Fit is selected when Print Document On is selected. If the setting is turned off, then the document page images will not be scaled, and are instead centered at full size on the paper. If the document size is larger than the paper size, then the document image is clipped. If it is smaller, then it is centered within the paper. The following figure shows preview images for a document formatted for Legal-size paper with the Print Document On check box selected and the paper size specified as Letter.

When the size for which the document is formatted (that is, the logical size) differs from the target size, the preview image uses a dashed gray line to show the boundaries of the logical page in relation to the target page size.

The % of Normal Size option provides a slider bar to use for scaling the percentage setting. The default setting in the entry box is 100% of normal size. Normal size is defined as the paper size that is selected within the driver or what the driver receives from the software program (if the software program does not negotiate the paper size with the driver). The driver scales the page by the appropriate factor and sends it to the device.

The limits of the range are from 25% to 400%, and any values outside the range are adjusted to those limits as soon as the focus is removed from the control (that is, when the Tab key is pressed or another control is selected).

Any change to the scale also changes the page preview, which increases or decreases from the upper-left corner of the preview.

The slider bar controls the scale directly. The value in the edit box changes as the slider-bar indicator is dragged, and the document preview image is updated to the new image scale. Each click on the arrows increases or decreases the scale by 1%. Each click on the slider bar affects the scale by 10%.

Dragging the slider-bar indicator does not yield an exact value. Instead, either use the slider-bar indicator to approximate the value and then use the arrows to refine the value, or type the value into the entry box.

The following settings disable % of Normal Size:

• Print Document On on the Effects tab is selected
• Pages per Sheet on the Finishing tab is not 1

Use the Watermarks feature to select a watermark, create a custom watermark (text only), or edit an existing watermark. The following watermarks are preset in the driver:

• (none)
• Confidential
• Draft
• SAMPLE

The drop-down menu shows alphabetically sorted watermarks that are currently available on the system plus the string "(none)", which indicates that no watermark is selected. This is the default setting. Any watermark that is selected from this list appears in the preview image.

When the First Page Only check box is selected, the watermark is printed only on the first page of the document. The First Page Only check box is disabled when the current watermark selection is "(none)".

Watermarks are applied to logical pages. For example, when Pages per Sheet is set to "4" and First Page Only is turned off, four watermarks appear on the physical page (one on each logical page).

Click Edit, and the Watermark Details dialog box appears.

The dialog box shows a preview image and provides options for creating a new watermark and controlling the message angle and font attributes.

Click OK to accept all of the changes that are made in the Watermark Details dialog box. However, clicking Cancel does not cancel all of the changes. If you make changes to a watermark and then select a different watermark or click New, all of the changes are saved, and only the current, unsaved changes can be canceled.

The Current Watermarks group box contains a list of available watermarks, both the predefined watermarks that are available in the driver and any new watermarks that have been created.

To create a new watermark, click New. The new watermark appears in the Current Watermarks list and in the Watermark Message edit box as "Untitled" until you name it. The name typed in the Watermark Message field appears in the Current Watermarks group box in the Watermark Details dialog box and in the Watermarks group box on the Effects tab.

To name the new watermark, type the selected watermark text in the Watermark Message edit box.

To delete a watermark, select the watermark in the Current Watermarks list and click Delete. A warning appears asking whether you are sure you want to delete the selected item. Click Cancel to keep the watermark. Click OK to delete the selected watermark.

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No more that 30 watermarks can exist in the Current Watermarks list at one time. When the limit of 30 watermarks is reached, the New button is disabled.

To edit an existing watermark, select the watermark in the Current Watermarks list. If you change the Watermark Message for that watermark, in effect creates a new watermark.

The Watermark Message is also the name that identifies the watermark in the Current Watermarks list, except when more than one watermark has the same message. For example, you might want several different watermarks can contain the message DRAFT, each with a different typeface or font size. When this occurs, the string is appended with a space, a pound sign, and a number (for example, Draft #2). When a number is added, the number two is used first, but if the resulting name is also in the list, then the number increases until the name is unique (Draft #3, Draft #4, and so on).

Use the controls in the Message Angle group box to print the watermark in different orientations on the page. All settings center the watermark string within the page; the selection of a particular setting affects only the angle of the string placement. The following settings are available:

• Diagonal. This is the default setting. Select this setting to place the text along a line that spans the lower-left to upper-right corners of the page.
• Horizontal. Select this setting to place the text along a line that spans the mid-left and mid-right edges of the page.

• Custom. Select this setting to place the text at the specified angle across the page. Use the numeric spin box to select the angle.

Use the controls in the Font Attributes group box to change the font and the shading, size, and style of the font.

The Font Attributes group box contains the following controls:

• Name. The Name drop-down menu lists fonts that are currently installed on the system. The default is language-dependent.
• Color. The Color drop-down menu contains only one option: Gray.
• Shading. The default Shading setting for new and preset watermarks is Very Light. The following range of shades is available from the Shading drop-down menu:
  • Lightest
  • Very Light (default)
  • Light
  • Medium Light
  • Medium
  • Medium Dark
  • Dark
  • Very Dark
  • Darkest
  These values represent the intensity of the gray that is used. Select Light to produce a lightly saturated gray watermark. Select Lightest to produce the lightest shade of watermark. Select Darkest to produce a black watermark.
• Size. Font sizes from 1 to 999 points are available from the Size menu. The default point size is language-dependent.
• Style. The following settings are available:
  • Regular
  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Bold Italic
    The default Style setting for new and preset watermarks is Regular.

The following table shows Font Attribute settings for new and preset watermarks.

Click OK to accept all of the changes that have been made in the Watermark Details dialog box. Clicking Cancel does not cancel all of the changes. If you make changes to a watermark and then select a different watermark or click New, all of the changes are saved, and only the current, unsaved changes can be canceled.

The Document Options group box contains the following controls:

Use the Flip Pages Up check box to specify the duplex-binding option. By default, the Flip Pages Up check box is available only when Print on Both Sides is selected.

The following table demonstrates the results of selecting this check box, depending on the paper orientation selected on the Finishing tab.

When Print on Both Sides is selected, the document preview image changes to show a spiral binding along either the left edge or the top edge of the page. In addition, a folded-over corner appears in the lower-right portion of the preview image, indicating that printing occurs on the back side. An arrow on the folded-over corner points in the direction that the pages would be flipped if they were bound together.

Short-side binding is for print jobs with pages that read by flipping over like the pages of a calendar. Long-side binding is for print jobs with pages that read by turning like the pages of a book.

Use the Pages per Sheet option to select the number of pages to print on a single sheet of paper.

When printing with more than one page per sheet, the pages appear smaller and are arranged on the sheet in a defined order. The Pages per Sheet drop-down menu provides six settings:

• 1 page per sheet (default)
• 2 pages per sheet
• 4 pages per sheet
• 6 pages per sheet
• 9 pages per sheet
• 16 pages per sheet

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Selecting an option other than 1 page per sheet makes booklet printing unavailable.

Related controls indented beneath the Pages per Sheet edit box are Print Page Borders and Page Order, which become active when Pages per Sheet is greater than 1.

Print Page Borders sets a line around each page image on a printed sheet to help visually define the borders of each logical page.

The Page Order drop-down menu contains four selections:

• Right, then Down
• Down, then Right
• Left, then Down
• Down, then Left

The preview document image changes to reflect alterations in these settings, as shown by the examples in the following figure.

• 2 pages per sheet
• 4 pages per sheet
• 6 pages per sheet
• 9 pages per sheet
• 16 pages per sheet

Use the Job Storage Mode options on the HP CM8060/CM8050 Color MFP with Edgeline Technology to store documents at the device and then control their printing at the device control panel.

The HP CM8060/CM8050 Color MFP with Edgeline Technology offers the following Job Storage Mode options:

When selected, this option turns the job-storage feature off (it is disabled), which means that the print job will not be stored in the device.

To use the Proof and Hold option, the job-storage feature must be enabled.

When selected, this option stores the print job in memory and prints only the first copy of the job, allowing you to check the first copy. If the document prints correctly, print the remaining copies of the print job at the control panel. Set the number of proof-and-hold print jobs that can be stored in the device at the control panel.

After it is released for printing, the proof-and-hold job is immediately deleted from the device. If more copies are needed, reprint the job from the software program. Sending a second proof-and-hold job that has the same user name and job name as an existing proof-and-hold job (when the original job has not been released for printing), overwrites the existing job. Proof-and-hold jobs are deleted when the device is turned off.

The device configuration holds a maximum of 50 quick-copy or proof-and-hold jobs. The number is set at the device control panel in the CONFIGURATION menu, and the default is 32. When this preset limit is reached, the new document overwrites the oldest held document. Also, sending a document that has the same user name and job name as one that is already stored on the device memory overwrites the existing document.

To use the Personal Job option, the job-storage feature must be enabled.

When Personal Job is selected, the print job is sent to the device but is not printed until a selection is made on the device control panel. Selecting Personal Job activates the PIN group box. The print job can be printed only after the correct PIN is typed at the control panel. After the job is printed, the job is immediately deleted from the device. This feature is useful when printing sensitive or confidential documents should not remain in an output bin after printing.

The Personal Job/PIN coupling has a PIN restriction of four ASCII numeric characters (0 though 9). Any non-numeric characters are removed immediately. When more than four characters are typed, the characters past the fourth are truncated. The field temporarily accepts fewer than four digits in the string, but when the edit field loses focus, zeroes pad the left end until the PIN contains exactly four digits. The default initialized value for the PIN is 0000 for Personal Job.

After it is released for printing, the personal job is immediately deleted from the device. If more copies are needed, reprint the job from the software program. Sending a second personal job that has the same user name and job name as an existing personal job (when the original job has not been released for printing) overwrites the existing job, regardless of the PIN. Persoanl jobs are deleted when the device is turned off.

To use the Quick Copy option, the job-storage feature must be enabled.

After the job prints, use the device control panel to print more copies of the job.

To use the Stored Job option, the job-storage feature must be enabled.

When Stored Job is selected, the job will be stored in the device as if it is an electronic file cabinet. Nothing will be printed until the job is requested from the device control panel. Use this storage for forms and other common or shared documents. Selecting Stored Job activates the PIN group box. The print job can be printed only after the correct PIN is typed at the control panel.

Clicking the print icon in the software program toolbar prints the job without using job-storage features.

To use job-storage features when printing:

1. Click File and then click Print from the software program. The Print dialog box appears.
2. Click Properties. The Properties dialog box appears.
3. Click the Job Storage tab.
4. Select the job-storage options by clicking the appropriate option button, and then complete any required fields.
5. Click OK.

After sending a print job that uses the job-storage feature, retrieve and print the job from the device control panel.

1. From the Home screen, touch Job Storage.
2. In the Retrieve tab, touch the appropriate folder on the left of the screen. A list of stored jobs appears.
3. Touch the appropriate job.
   If a PIN is set for the stored job, type the correct PIN. After the PIN is confirmed, the job is unlocked.
4. To print the job, touch the Retrieve Stored Job button.

Sometimes it is necessary to delete a print job from the device memory. Do this from the device control panel.

1. From the Home screen, touch Job Storage.
2. In the Retrieve tab, touch the appropriate folder on the left of the screen. A list of stored jobs appears.
3. Touch the appropriate job.
   If a PIN is set for the stored job, type the correct PIN. After the PIN is confirmed, the job is unlocked.
4. Touch Delete.
5. A message appears: Do you want to delete this stored job?
   Touch Yes. The document is deleted.

Or, do the following:

1. From the Home screen, touch Job Storage.
2. In the Retrieve tab, touch the appropriate folder on the left of the screen. A list of stored jobs appears.
3. Touch the appropriate job.
4. Touch Delete.
   If a PIN for the stored job, type the correct PIN. After the PIN is confirmed, the job is deleted.

Use the Color Options group box to adjust the independent color controls. The settings affect the print job color rendering and print quality. The Color Options group box contains the following controls:

Select whether to print in Black & white or Color.

Use the Neutral grays setting to specify how grayscale tones will be printed. The Neutral grays drop-down menu contains the following settings:

• 4-Color. Select 4-Color to use all four CMYK ink colors (black, cyan, magenta, and yellow) to reproduce the grayscale tones.
• Black Only. Select Black Only to use only black ink to create the grayscale tones.

Click More Color Options... to open the Advanced Color Settings screen, as shown in the following figure.

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The Advanced Color Settings screen is available only when color quality is set to Professional on the Paper/Quality tab.

Use the Advanced Color Settings screen to increase or decrease the amount of each of the four basic printing ink colors (black, cyan, magenta, and yellow), which are sometimes labeled as CMYK options.

The Color Themes group box contains the following settings:

Select Default (sRGB) for most printing needs. This setting instructs the device to interpret RGB color as sRGB, which is the accepted standard of Microsoft and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Colors are matched to optimize the RGB colors on the screen and to provide vivid images and graphics.

Select Image optimization (sRGB) to enhance documents in which the content is mainly bitmap images, such as .GIF or .JPG files. This setting instructs the device to use the best color matching for rendering sRGB bitmap images. This setting affects only raster data; it has no effect on text or vectorbased graphics. Using glossy paper in combination with this setting provides the maximum enhancement.

Select AdobeRGB (1998) for documents that use the Adobe RGB color space rather than sRGB. For example, some digital cameras capture images in Adobe RGB, and documents that are produced with Adobe Photoshop® use the Adobe RGB color space. When printing from a professional software program that uses Adobe RGB, turn off the color management in the software program and allow the device software to manage the color space.

Select Vivid (sRGB) to reproduce graphics (for example, pie charts and bar graphs) with more saturated colors. This option can be useful when printing business documents that do not contain images.

Select Custom Profile when you want to duplicate the printed output from other devices or for using special effects, such as sepia tones. This setting instructs the device to use a custom input profile to more accurately predict and control color output.

The default Custom Profile is an emulation of the color table used on the device. The device holds only one custom profile at a time, so when you download and install another color table, it erases the default color table and installs the new one.

Download custom profiles from the following Web site:

www.hp.com

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The External Fonts option is available only in the HP PCL 6 and PCL 5 drivers. It is not available in the PS Emulation driver.

Use the External Fonts option to install and remove external fonts for the device. External fonts can be soft fonts or DIMM fonts.

Click the External Fonts option to make the Properties button available. Click Properties to open the HP Font Installer dialog box, which is shown in the following figure.

Follow these steps to install external fonts:

1. Click Start.
2. For Windows 2000, select Settings, and then click Printers.
   For Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003, click Printers and Faxes.
   For Windows XP Home, click Control Panel, and then double-click the Printers and Faxes icon.
3. Right-click the driver name.
4. Click Properties.
5. Click the Device Settings tab.
6. Click the External Fonts option. The Properties button appears.
7. Click Properties. The HP Font Installer dialog box appears.
8. Type the name and path of the font metric file in the Printer Font File Location text box, or click Browse to locate the file on the computer. The font file names appear in the Font(s) to be Added window.
9. Select the fonts to add, and then click Add. The fonts are installed and the file names appear in the Installed Font(s) window.
10. Click OK to close the HP Font Installer dialog box.

1. Click Start.
2. For Windows 2000, select Settings, and then click Printers.
   For Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003, click Printers and Faxes.
   For Windows XP Home, click Control Panel, and then double-click the Printers and Faxes icon.
3. Right-click the driver name.
4. Click Properties.
5. Click the Device Settings tab.
6. Click the External Fonts option. The Properties button appears.
7. Click Properties. The HP Font Installer dialog box appears. The external fonts that are installed appear in the Installed Fonts window.
8. Select the fonts to remove, and then click Remove. The fonts are removed.
9. Click OK to close the HP Font Installer dialog box.

The following controls are available and appear only in the PS Emulation driver Device Settings tab:

This control specifies the amount of available postscript memory and provides a spin box for changing this value. The available postscript memory is a subset of the device total physical memory. It is usually best to set the postscript memory to match the total RAM that appears on the configuration page. To print a configuration page from the device control panel:

1. Touch Administration.
2. Touch Information.
3. Touch Configuration/Status Pages.
4. Touch Configuration Page.
5. Touch Print.

This control specifies the protocol that the device uses for print jobs. The following options are available:

• ASCII (default)
• TBCP
• Binary

Click ASCII to send data in ASCII format (7-bit), which might take longer to print but can be sent through any I/O channel, such as a serial or network port.

Click TBCP (Tagged Binary Communications Protocol) to send all data except special control characters in binary (8-bit) format. The binary formats can be sent over serial communications ports and are faster than sending data in ASCII format.

Click Binary to send all data except special control characters in binary (8-bit) format. The binary formats can be sent over serial communications ports and are faster than sending data in ASCII format.

This control specifies whether the device is reset at the beginning of every postscript document. The default setting is No. Pressing Ctrl-D resets the device to its default setting to ensure that previous print jobs do not affect the current print job. Using Ctrl-D might cause a print job to fail if the device is connected through a network. If the document fails to print when sent to a device connected through serial ports, change No to Yes.

This control specifies whether the device is reset at the end of every postscript document. The default setting is Yes. Pressing Ctrl-D resets the device to its default setting to ensure that future print jobs are not affected by the current print job. Using Ctrl-D might cause a print job to fail if the device is connected through a network. If the document fails to print when sent to a network device, change Yes to No.

This control specifies whether to convert the true gray value (RGB) in text to the gray that the driver provides. The following settings are available:

• Yes
• No (default)

This control specifies whether to convert the true gray value (RGB) in graphics to the gray provided by the driver. The following settings are available:

• Yes
• No (default)

This control specifies whether to add the euro symbol to the device fonts. The following settings are available:

• Yes (default)
• No

This control specifies how long the document can take to get from the computer to the device before the device stops trying to print the document. If you specify 0 seconds, the device continues trying to print indefinitely. The default setting is 0 seconds. Use the spin box to change this value, up to a maximum of 32,767 seconds.

This control specifies how long the device waits to get more postscript information from the computer. After the specified time passes, the device stops trying to print the document and prints an error message. When printing a very complicated document, increase this value. If you specify 0 seconds, the device waits indefinitely. The default setting is 300 seconds. Use the spin box to change this value, up to a maximum of 32,767 seconds.

This control specifies the minimum font size (in pixels) for which the driver downloads TrueType fonts as outline (Type 1) fonts. Any font smaller than the minimum setting is downloaded as a bitmap (Type 3) font. Use this option to fine-tune the Automatic setting for the TrueType Font Download option on the Advanced tab in Document Defaults. The default setting is 100 pixel(s). Use the spin box to change this value, up to a maximum of 32,767 pixels.

This control specifies the maximum font size (in pixels) for which the driver will download TrueType fonts as bitmap (Type 3) fonts. Any font larger than the maximum setting will be downloaded as an outline (Type 1) font. Use this option to fine-tune the Automatic setting or override the Send TrueType as Bitmap setting for the TrueType Font Download option on the Advanced tab in Document Defaults. The default setting is 600 pixel(s). Use the spin box to change this value, up to a maximum of 32,767 pixels.

Use the Device Settings tab to tell the driver about the hardware configuration of the device. If bidirectional communication is enabled in a supported environment, set up this tab by selecting the Update Now setting in the Automatic Configuration setting. The default setting is Off. After an automatic configuration, the setting returns to Off after the changes are made.

If the computer environment does not support bidirectional communication, the Update Now setting is unavailable, the options on this tab must be manually configured.

If more than one driver is installed for the device (for example, the default HP PCL 6 and PCL 5 drivers), the Update Now feature works automatically only on the driver on which it is activated. The other driver will not be updated, and might show the default setting for the specific device model.

This control specifies whether the optional high-capacity Tray 5 is installed on the device. The default setting is Not Installed.

This control specifies whether the accessory output bin or an optional finisher is installed on the device. The default setting is HP Single Output Bin.

This option matches the setting to the amount of memory that is installed in the device. The driver generates ranges of memory that can be selected, up to the maximum that the device can accept. The driver can use this information to manage how the print driver uses the device memory.

When this option is enabled, the Job Storage option and the Mopier Mode are enabled in the print driver. This option is enabled by default. Use the Job Storage option to store print jobs and then print them later from the control panel. The multiple-original print (mopy) function is an HP-designed feature that produces multiple, collated copies from a single print job.

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A hard disk is required for the device to perform most tasks. The check box is available only for troubleshooting purposes.

When Job Storage is enabled, the device can store print jobs so that you can gain access to those print jobs later at the control panel. This option is enabled by default.

This option is enabled by default.

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Disabling Mopier Mode disrupts functionality for the Output and Finishing tab features.

If Mopier Mode is Disabled, the Output and Finishing tab features might not function as expected or might not function at all. For example, all the pages in a print job might be stapled together when they should be collated.

The multiple-original print (mopy) function is an HP-designed feature that produces multiple, collated copies from a single print job. Multiple-original printing (mopying) increases performance and reduces network traffic by transmitting the job to the device once, and then storing it in memory. The remainder of the copies are printed at the fastest speed. All documents that are printed in mopier mode can be created, controlled, managed, and finished from the computer, which eliminates the extra step of using a photocopier.

The HP CM8060/CM8050 Color MFP with Edgeline Technology supports the transmit-once mopying feature when the Mopier Mode: setting on the Device Settings tab is Enabled.

Use the HP PCL 6, PCL 5, or PS Emulation driver to perform mopying in one of two ways: either through the software or through the device hardware. When the mopier is enabled, mopying takes place through the device hardware by default. One copy of a multiple-page print job is transmitted once through the network to the device, together with a printer job language (PJL) command directing the device to make the specified number of copies.

When the mopier is disabled, mopying is not necessarily disabled. The driver can perform through the software rather than the device hardware (the mopying path that is disabled when you change the Mopy Mode setting to Disabled). However, sending a multiple-copy print job when the mopier is disabled eliminates the advantage of transmitting the print job once, because the job is sent through the network for each copy.

  caution:

Disabling Mopier Mode disrupts functionality for the Output and Finishing tab features.

If Mopier Mode is Disabled, the Output and Finishing tab features might not function as expected or might not function at all. For example, all the pages in a print job might be stapled together when they should be collated.

Mopying and collating print jobs are independent but closely related functions. The print driver performs mopying, sending original print jobs to the device. The print driver or the document software program control collation. The mopying mode is selected by default in the driver, and can be disabled by changing the Mopier Mode setting on the Device Settings tab to Disabled.

Control collation through the print driver by selecting or clearing the Collated check box on the Advanced tab. Clear the check box, which is available only when the Copy Count option is set to more than 1 copy, to allow the software program to control collation.

To receive uncollated multiple copies of a print job, you must clear the Collated check box and make sure that the software program collation feature is not selected.

The following table shows the relation between mopier mode settings and collation settings in the software program and the driver. The first three columns show the settings. The last column, "Expected result", shows how a 3-page print job would appear.

Postscript Passthrough is enabled by default, and must be enabled for most print jobs. Postscript passthrough provides additional capabilities for some software programs when printing to a postscript driver. Options such as Watermarks, n-up and Booklet Printing might not print correctly from some software programs with Postscript Passthrough enabled, because such programs send postscript information that the driver cannot control. Other programs might print using these options without problems. Select Disabled and print the document again if you encounter problems.

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In some cases, disabling Postscript Passthrough can cause unexpected results within a software program.

The JPEG Passthrough setting contains the following options:

• Disable. When this option is selected, images sent as JPEG are printed as bitmaps, resulting in faster printing.
• Enable. When this option is selected, images sent as JPEG are printed as JPEG (JPEG passthrough).
• Auto. When this option is selected, the device connection type is automatically detected. For network (TCP/IP) connections, JPEG passthrough is disabled. For DOT4 and USB connections, JPEG passthrough is enabled.