HP Designjet L25500 Series - Page 3

HP Designjet L25500 printer series Add New Substrate and Image Quality Troubleshooting
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Summary .......................................................................................................... 3
2. Substrate loading and RIP media preset ............................................................. 4
Recommended print modes ....................................................................................................7
Print-mode parameters ...........................................................................................................8
3. Optimize substrate settings ................................................................................ 9
Recommended default substrate settings ..................................................................................9
Main settings ........................................................................................................................9
Change substrate settings while printing ............................................................................... 12
Advanced settings .............................................................................................................. 13
Temperature profile ............................................................................................................ 16
4. Image quality troubleshooting ......................................................................... 17
Substrate jams, ink smears or deformation ............................................................................ 18
Ink smudge and image durability problems ........................................................................... 20
Graininess or coalescence in dark or saturated colors ............................................................ 21
Vertical banding ................................................................................................................ 23
Horizontal banding ............................................................................................................ 24
Misaligned colors or lack of sharpness ................................................................................. 28
Black areas look hazy or image gloss is not completely uniform .............................................. 29
Stains or uneven finishing of image ...................................................................................... 29
5. How to print faster .......................................................................................... 30
6. Printer color calibration and substrate color profiling ........................................ 31
7. Color reproduction tricks .................................................................................. 32
8. Summary of common substrate problems ......................................................... 33