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Printing

Printing has never been easier or more flexible. Print from computers and mobile devices with the use of a variety software, customizable options and advanced settings.

Mobile Printing

You can print to your printer from many mobile devices using direct printing by connection to the same network.

Print from mobile devices

With HP Mobile Printing Solutions you can print straight from your smartphone or tablet in just a few simple steps.

  • Apple iOS printing is enabled through AirPrint, which comes pre-installed in iOS devices.

  • For Android printing, install the HP Print Service Plugin from Google Play (if you do not have it already pre-installed in your mobile device).

For more information, see http://www.hp.com/go/designjetmobility.

Print from Android

Install and enable the HP Print Service App from Google Play.

You can download the App from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hp.android.printservice, if it is not already installed in your device. You must have Android Lollipop 5.0 or later.

  1. Open the document or photo you want to print, and tap the menu icon, then Print.

  2. Choose your printer from the list.

  3. Check the print settings, then tap Print.

iOS (iPhone, iPad) with AirPrint

Printing with AirPrint is simple, all you have to do is make sure your device and printer are operating on the same network.

Follow the steps below:

  1. Choose your content. Open the document or photo you want to print, then tap the share button.

  2. Select print icon.

  3. Confirm that the correct printer and print setting are selected. Tap Print and collect your printed documents.

Print from Apple iOS or Android with HP Smart App

Connect and print wirelessly from an Android or Apple smartphone or tablet.

Download from the Apple Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hp-all-in-one-printer-remote/id469284907?mt=8) or from Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hp.printercontrol).

  1. Open HP Smart App and browse for the document or photo you want to print.

  2. Go to Edit to adjust the output if necessary.

  3. Tap Print.

With HP Smart App you can also print even when your mobile device and your printer are not in the same network.

Remote Printing feature can be enabled either during the initialization process if you choose to do it with HP Smart. Otherwise, it can be enabled later.

Note:

Inside HP Smart, enable your printer for remote printing by pressing the printer icon. Check the option Print Anywhere in printer options and follow the steps in the app.

Note:

Remote Printing feature requires that device and printer are connected to Internet.

Note:

Remote Printing feature requires to have an HPSmart.com account. If you don´t have an account, HP Smart will guide you to create one.

If Remote Printing feature is configured in your printer, the owner of the printer can manage the remote printing access to share the printer with other users:

  1. Open HP Smart App, select your printer and press the printer icon.

  2. If you are the owner of the printer, you will see an option called Manage Print Anywhere. Tap it.

  3. Decide whether to share the printer with others or grant/revoke access individually.

Note:

The owner of the printer is the HPSmart.com user that has registered the printer in their account.

Print using Wi-Fi Direct

With Wi-Fi Direct, you can print wirelessly from a computer, smart phone, tablet, or other wireless-capable device—without connecting to an existing wireless network.

Guidelines for using Wi-Fi Direct

There are essential prerequisites to using Wi-Fi Direct.

  • Make sure your computer or mobile device has the necessary software.

    • If you are using a computer, make sure you have installed the HP printer software.

    • If you have not installed the HP printer software on the computer, connect to Wi-Fi Direct first and then install the printer software. Select Wireless when prompted by the printer software for a connection type.

  • If you are using a mobile device, make sure you have installed a compatible printing app. For more information, visit the HP Mobile Printing website at http://www.hp.com/go/mobileprinting. If a local version of this website is not available in your country/region or language, you might be directed to the HP Mobile Printing website in another country/region or language.

  • Make sure Wi-Fi Direct for your printer is turned on.

  • Up to five computers and mobile devices can use the same Wi-Fi Direct connection.

  • Wi-Fi Direct can be used while the printer is also connected either to a computer using a USB cable or to a network using a wireless connection.

  • Wi-Fi Direct cannot be used to connect a computer, mobile device, or printer to the Internet.

Turn on Wi-Fi Direct

You can turn on Wi-Fi Direct directly from the front panel, or alternatively from the EWS.

  1. From the printer front panel, tap or swipe down the tab at the top of the screen to open the dashboard, and then tap .

  2. Tap .

  3. If the display shows that Wi-Fi Direct is Off, tap Wi-Fi Direct and then switch it on.

  4. You can also turn on Wi-Fi Direct from the EWS. For more information about using the EWS, see Access the Embedded Web Server.

Change connection method

You can change the Wi-Fi Direct connection method, and choose between automatic and manual.

  1. From the printer front panel, tap or swipe down the tab at the top of the screen to open the dashboard, and then tap .

  2. Tap .

  3. Tap Connection Method and then select Automatic or Manual:

    1. If Automatic was selected during Wi-Fi Direct setup on the printer, the mobile device automatically connects to the printer.

    2. If Manual was selected during the Wi-Fi Direct setup on the printer, acknowledge the connection on the printer display or enter the printer PIN on your mobile device. The PIN is provided by the printer when a connection attempt is made.

Print from a wireless-capable mobile device that supports Wi-Fi Direct

Make sure you have installed the latest version of HP Print Service Plugin on your mobile device.

Note:

If your mobile device does not support Wi-Fi, you are not able to use Wi-Fi Direct.

  1. Make sure you have turned on Wi-Fi Direct on the printer.

  2. Turn on Wi-Fi Direct on your mobile device. For more information, see the documentation provided with the mobile device.

  3. From your mobile device, select a document from a print enabled application, and then select the option to print the document.

    The list of available printers appears.

  4. From the list of available printers, choose the Wi-Fi Direct name shown such as DIRECT-**-HP DesignJet Studio Printer series (where ** are the unique characters to identify your printer), and then follow the onscreen instructions on the printer and your mobile device.

  5. Print your document.

Print from a wireless-capable mobile device that does not support Wi-Fi Direct

Make sure you have installed a compatible printing app on your mobile device.

For more information, visit http://www.hp.com/global/us/en/eprint/mobile_printing_apps.html.

  1. Make sure you have turned on Wi-Fi Direct on the printer.

  2. Turn on the Wi-Fi connection on your mobile device. For more information, see the documentation provided with the mobile device.

    Note:

    If your mobile device does not support Wi-Fi, you are not able to use Wi-Fi Direct.

  3. From the mobile device, connect to a new network. Use the process you normally use to connect to a new wireless network or hotspot. Choose the Wi-Fi Direct name from the list of wireless networks shown such as DIRECT-**-HP DesignJet Studio Printer series (where ** are the unique characters to identify your printer).

  4. Enter the Wi-Fi Direct password when prompted.

  5. Print your document.

Print from a wireless-capable computer (Windows)

To use Wi-Fi Direct, your computer must support Wi-Fi.

This example is for Windows 10.

  1. Go to Start > Settings > Devices > Printers & scanners, and tap Add a printer or scanner to add the Printer.

    Note:

    If your printer is not listed, you may need to wait until the Show Wi-Fi Direct printers link appears.

  2. Identify your Wi-Fi Direct, its name starts with the suffix DIRECT-XX-HP... followed by the model name.

  3. Depending on the Wi-Fi Direct connection method configured for your printer, you may need to accept the connection by tapping the message in the front panel.

  4. When connection is established, Windows downloads the appropriate driver and adds the printer to your system.

  5. Once added, the printer is ready for use with any Windows application.

Easy printing with HP Click

HP Click is an easy-to-use tool designed for people who want a simple way of printing on large format printers.

Ideal for a broad range of graphics and technical applications, including posters, roll-up banners, info-graphic presentations, maps, and CAD documents. See http://www.hp.com/go/clickDesignJet.

Printing from an application using a printer driver

This is the traditional way of printing from an application.

The correct printer driver must be installed on the computer (see Connecting the printer), and the computer must be connected to the printer by network or USB cable.

When the printer driver has been installed and the computer is connected to the printer, you can print from a software application by using the application's own Print command and selecting the correct printer.

Advanced print settings

Advanced print settings can be used when the defaults do not meet your requirements.

The rest of this chapter explains the various print settings that you can use. These methods offer a relatively large number of settings in order to satisfy all requirements.

Tip:

In general you are recommended to use the default settings unless you know that they do not meet your requirements.

Tip:

If you intend to reuse a particular group of settings repeatedly, you can save those settings under a name of your own choice and recall them later. A saved group of settings is known as a 'quick set' in the Windows printer driver.

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.

You can select the options: Best, Normal and Fast. If you select Fast, you can also select Economode, which consumes less ink, increases printing speed even further, but reduces print quality. Economode can only be selected from the advanced options.

There are supplementary custom options that may have an effect on print quality: Maximum detail. See High-quality printing.

You can select print-quality options in the following ways:

  • In the Windows driver dialog: Go to Print quality, then depending on the selection, more specific options such as Economode or Maximum detail which can only be selected from the advanced options.

  • In the Mac OS X Print dialog: 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.

Note:

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

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 and the document can be rescaled if necessary.

Note:

The paper size specified should be the paper size the document was created at. It is possible to rescale the document to a different size for printing. See Rescale a print.

  • In the Windows driver dialog: Select the paper size from the Document Size list.

  • In the Mac OS X Print dialog: Select your printer from the Printer list, then select your paper size from the Paper Size list.

Note:

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

Note:

If the paper size is set from your computer, it overrides the paper size setting in the front panel.

Custom paper sizes

If you want to choose a paper size that is not included in the list of standard paper sizes, there are various different ways to specify it.

Use the Windows printer driver

You can create and save custom paper sizes to suit your requirements.

  1. Go to Basic > Document size.

  2. Open the drop-down list, scroll down to the Custom section and tap on Create.

  3. Enter the name, unit, and size of the new paper custom size.

  4. Tap the Save button.

Custom paper sizes created with the printer driver have the following characteristics:

  • The paper size is permanent and does not disappear if the driver is closed or the computer is turned off.

  • The paper size is local to the printer queue and not seen from other printer queues in the same computer.

  • In Domain server networks, the paper size is local to the computer and not seen from other computers sharing the printer queue.

  • In Workgroup networks, the paper size is shared among all the computers that share the printer queue.

  • If the printer queue is deleted, the paper size is deleted with it.

Use Windows forms

Unrestricted users can create a new Windows form.

  1. From the Start menu or the front panel, tap Printers > File, and select Server Properties.

    Windows 7: From the Start menu or the front panel, tap Devices and Printers, then Select Printer.

  2. In the Forms tab, check the Create a new form box.

  3. Enter the name and dimensions of the new paper size. Leave the margins as 0.00.

  4. Tap the Save form button.

  5. Go to the printer driver and select the document size.

  6. Select your new paper size from the group of Custom sizes.

Paper sizes created with Windows forms have the following characteristics:

  • The paper size is permanent and does not disappear if the driver is closed or the computer is turned off.

  • Restricted users cannot create paper forms. The manage documents role in the Windows Active Directory is the minimum required.

  • The paper size is local to the computer and is seen in all the printer queues created on the computer that support paper that size.

  • If a printer queue is shared, this paper size appears in all the client's computers.

  • If a printer queue is shared from another computer, this paper size doesn't appear on the driver´s document size list. A Windows form in a shared queue must be created in the server.

  • If the printer queue is deleted, the paper size does not disappear.

Use Mac OS X printer driver

You can manage paper customs sizes from the driver.

  1. Go to the Print dialog.

  2. Select Paper Size > Manage Custom Sizes.

Select margins options

By default, the printer leaves a 5 mm margin between the edges of your image and the edges of the paper. However, you can change this behavior in the following way:

  • In the Windows driver dialog: Select the correct option in the Margin layout area.

  • In the Mac OS X Print dialog: Select the Margins/Layout panel.

At least some of the following options appear:

  • Standard or Use application settings. Your image will be printed on a page of the size you have selected, with the default 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. You should load paper that is larger than the size you selected in the application or driver. If you cut off the margins after printing, 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. This is useful when you want your image to cover the whole area of the paper.

  • Clip Contents By Margins. Your image will be printed on a page of the size you have selected, with the default 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.

Print on loaded paper

You can print a job on whichever substrate is loaded in the printer.

  • In the Windows driver dialog: Select Use printer settings in the Paper Type option of your printer driver.

  • In the Mac OS X Print dialog: Select the Paper/Quality panel, then in the Paper Type drop-down list, select Any.

Note:

Use printer settings is the default Paper Type selection.

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 which 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:

  • You can rescale an image from the Windows driver dialog: Go to the Advance options > Scale.

    • By selecting a paper size, the image size is adjusted to the paper size you have selected. For example, if you have selected ISO A2 and you print an A3-sized image, it is enlarged to fit the A2 paper. If the ISO A4 size is selected, the printer reduces a larger image to fit the A4 size.

    • The percentage of actual size option enlarges the printable area of the original paper size by the percentage indicated, and then adds the margins to create the output paper size.

  • In the Mac OS X Print dialog: 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.

If you are printing to a single sheet, you must ensure that the image fits onto the sheet, if not the image will be clipped.

Preview a print

If you preview a print on the screen you can check the layout before you print, which may help avoid paper and ink wastage.

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

    • Use the HP Print Preview application:

      Check the Show preview before printing box, which you can find in the right bottom corner of the driver dialog. Click Print, then wait a few seconds for the HP Print Preview application to be launched.

      Check that the job preview is as you wanted, and if it is, click Print. If it isn't as you wanted, then modify the Print Preview options and check again, or click Cancel.

      Note:

      You can readjust the driver settings before you try again.

      Note:

      The Show preview before printing box appears in the driver dialog only if HP Print Preview is installed in your computer. If not installed, a download link is displayed.

    • Use your application's print preview option.

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

    • Use your application's print preview option.

    • There is no Preview button at the bottom of the Print dialog box in the latest versions of macOS. A print preview is always shown at the upper left of the Print dialog box for most applications.

    • Choose the HP Print Preview option from the PDF menu at the bottom of the Print dialog box. The print preview is displayed by a separate HP Print Preview application.

Print a draft

You can specify this to save time and cost.

  • In the Windows driver dialog: Go to Print quality and select 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 Print quality, set the quality level to Fast and check the Economode box.

  • In the Mac OS X Print dialog: Go to the Paper/Quality panel and move the print-quality slider to the extreme left (Speed).

High-quality printing

For unrivaled image quality.

  • In the Windows driver dialog: Go to Print quality and select Best.

  • In the Mac OS X Print dialog: Go to the Paper/Quality panel and move the print-quality slider to the extreme right (Quality).

If you have a high-resolution image

You can improve print sharpness when using glossy paper.

If your image has a resolution greater than the rendering resolution (which you can see in the Custom Print Quality Options), print sharpness may be improved by selecting the Maximum Detail option.

This option is available only if you are printing on photo paper and you have selected Best print quality.

Note:

The Maximum Detail option results in slower printing with photo papers, but it does not increase the amount of ink used.

Use paper economically

You may be able to save some of your roll paper by removing blank areas and/or by image rotation.

  • In the Windows driver dialog: Check the Remove blank areas box.

    You can also select one of the Rotation options.

  • In the Mac OS X Print dialog: Select Finishing panel > Remove Blank Areas.

Use ink economically

There are some recommendations you can follow to save ink.

  • Check the print preview on your computer before you print and avoid wasting paper on prints containing obvious mistakes. See Preview a print.

  • For draft prints use plain paper, select Print quality, then Fast. For more economy, select Economode.

  • Clean the printhead only when needed. Cleaning the printhead can be useful, but it uses a small amount of ink.

  • Leave the printer permanently turned on so that it can maintain the printhead 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 maintain the printhead.

  • 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 printhead.

Color management

Your printer has been engineered with advanced hardware and software features to ensure predictable and dependable color results.

  • State-of-the-art HP printheads and HP inks

  • Dedicated color resources for most available paper types

Color management options

Reproduce colors as accurately as possible on all devices. When you print an image, you see very similar colors to the image on your monitor.

Color management is highly dependent on the paper type loaded on the printer, so take care to select the correct preset for the paper type used. The color management options for your printer can be selected from the Color options section in the Windows driver dialog. In some applications you can make the choice in the application itself. Consult HP Support Center for information about how to use the color management options in your application.

  • Application-Managed Colors: Your application must convert the image colors 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: Your application sends the image to the printer without any color conversion, and the printer converts the colors to sRGB. This source profile emulates the characteristics of the average computer monitor. This standard space is endorsed by many hardware and software manufacturers and has become the default color space for many scanners, cameras, printers, and software applications.

    Printer color management is completed using a set of stored color tables. ICC profiles are not used. This method can produce very good results with supported HP paper types.

Printing in grayscale or black-and-white

There are a number of ways to convert all the colors in your image to shades of gray.

  • In your application program: Many applications provide this option.

  • In the Windows driver dialog: In the Color mode selection, tap Print in Grayscale. Only black ink is used to print, except if the paper loaded is glossy, in which case colored inks are used to compose the gray shades. You can also select Print in pure black and white for black and white output only, with no gray shades. In this case only black ink is used to print. The Print in pure black and white option is not supported when you print on glossy paper.

  • In the Mac OS X Print dialog: Go to the Color Options panel and from the Mode drop-down list, select Grayscale. Only black ink is used for printing, unless the paper loaded is glossy, in which case the other inks are used to compose gray shades. You can also select Pure black and white for black and white output only, with no gray shades. In this case, only black ink is used for printing. The Print in pure black and white option is not supported when printing on glossy paper.

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