Home screen dynamic icons
The following items are displayed only on the home screen.
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Press
to view information about printer status, change printer settings, or initiate actions such as
loading paper or replacing ink supplies. A smaller warning icon appears if there are actions that need to
be performed.
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To the right of the above button is a message showing the printer status or the most important current
alert. Press this message to see a list of all current alerts, with an icon indicating the severity of each
alert.
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Press
to print a file from a USB flash drive, or to print from a computer. See Printing
on page 50.
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Press
to view information about the USB flash drive(s). This icon appears only when one or more
USB flash drives are inserted.
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Press
to view and manage the job queue. A smaller warning icon appears if there are jobs on hold.
See
Job queue management on page 65.
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While a PostScript or PDF job is printing, the Adobe PDF icon
is displayed; pressing it has no effect.
If the printer is left idle for some time, it goes into sleep mode and switches off the front-panel display. 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.
The printer wakes from sleep mode and switches on the front-panel display whenever there is some external
interaction with it.
Information about specific uses of the front panel can be found throughout this document.
Printer software
The following software is provided with your printer:
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PostScript drivers for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
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HP Instant Printing PRO gives you an easy way to print some specific file types without using an
application or a printer driver
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The Embedded Web Server and (alternatively) the HP Utility allow you to:
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Manage the printer from a remote computer
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View the status of the ink cartridges, the printheads and the paper
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Access the HP Knowledge Center, see
Knowledge Center on page 161
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Update the printer's firmware, see
Update the firmware on page 108
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Perform calibrations and troubleshooting
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Submit print jobs
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Manage the job queue, see
Job queue management on page 65
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View job accounting information, see
Retrieving printer usage information on page 92
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