HP Designjets - Change Print Settings (Windows 10)

Print quality

Best produces the best print quality at the slowest printing speed. Normal increases the print speed and decreases the print quality. Fast produces draft quality at the fastest printing speed.

Print quality can be selected from standard options by sliding between Speed and Quality. Optionally it can be changed by going into Custom Options and Settings.

Paper type

Automatic is the default setting. It enables the printer to automatically select the paper type. You can also select a paper type from the drop-down list.

Document size

Select the paper size from the drop-down list.

Click Custom to create and modify custom paper size information.

Margins

• Standard:
  The printable area is equal to the selected paper size minus the selected margins.
  The printer will add the selected margins to the printable area and align the resulting paper to the edge of the loaded paper.
  The printer will cut the paper to a size equal to the selected paper size.
• Oversize:
  The printable area is equal to the selected paper size.
  The printer will add its margins to the printable area and align the resulting paper to the edge of the loaded paper.
  The printer will cut the paper with a size equal to the selected paper size plus the printer margins.
• Clip Contents by Margins:
  The printable area is equal to the selected paper size.
  The printer will align the selected paper size to the edge of the loaded paper, and then clip the contents according to the selected margins. Printer will not print any data inside the clipped area.
  The printer will cut a paper with a size equal to the selected paper size.

Pages per sheet

Select the number of pages to print on each sheet of paper.

Disable Automatic Cutter

Select to turn off the automatic cutter so that the printer will not cut the page at the end of the print job.

Remove Blank Area or Remove Top/Bottom blank area

Select to use only the roll paper that is necessary to print the image, which saves paper. If you select this option, the printer will not print the blank areas of the image. In other printer models this option is called 'Inked area'

Crop Lines

Select to include crop lines on the printed page.

Remove Margins between pages

If this feature is enabled, multi-page printing jobs will be printed without top or bottom margins, creating one continuous image.

Autorotate

Select this feature to permit the image or document to be automatically rotated in order to save paper or avoid clipping.

Page order

Specifies the order in which the pages of your document are printed.

First page on top: Prints the document so that page 1 is on top of the stack.

Last page on top: Prints the document so that page 1 is on the bottom of the stack

Delivery

Defines the paper output path of Stacker or Basket

Hold for Manual printing with stacker open

Manual printing with stacker open

In order to prevent stacker wheel marks on the some photographic papers, you can print your jobs from the printer’s front panel with the stacker cover open.

To print your job in Manual mode, click Print in your application, add it to the printer’s job queue (where available), and follow the instructions in the front panel.

Show preview before printing

Enables the Print Preview utility to display the layout of a document immediately before a print job begins. Make sure you click “Continue” in the preview window for the job to be printed.

Resizing

Actual size: This will print the document without changing its size.

Fit to: This Prints the document on a paper size other than the one for which it is formatted.

This option is useful if document is formatted for a paper size which is not available. For example, if a document is formatted for letter-sized paper and you do not have this size of paper, you can print on another size.

note:

Fit to will not be available if Pages per Sheet or Pages per Sheet and Posters is set to more than one.

% of actual size: Click to enlarge or reduce the document from normal size. Only the image size changes, your document is printed on the paper size selected in your application. Enlarging your document may truncate some of each page.

Quick Sets

The print driver provides many options that can be set to different values when printing a particular job. A quick set stores the values for a print job, so that you can set them all with a single click. Some settings (such as paper size, paper source and orientation) might be overridden by the values provided by your application.

To create a customized quick set:

1. Select the quick set that comes closest to satisfying your requirements.
2. Change any value in any of the tabs.
3. Save the new quick set with a name of your choice.

Click the Factory Defaults quick set to restore all options to their default values.

Color options

Choose to print in Grayscale or Black only.

Color Management

Application Managed colors: Allow the software program from which you are printing to manage the color of the document.

Printer Managed colors: Allow the printer to manage the type of color produced and select the source profile

Printer Emulation

Select the printer whose colors you want to emulate