HP DesignJet Z5600 - Advanced print settings

Advanced print settings
The rest of this chapter explains the various print settings that you can use when printing with a printer driver,
the Embedded Web Server or the HP DesignJet Utility. These methods oer 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, and as a 'preset' in the Embedded Web Server.
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.
Therefore, the standard print-quality selector is a slider that allows you to choose between quality and speed.
With some paper types, you can choose a compromise position between the two.
Alternatively, you can select from the custom options: Best, Normal and Fast. If you select Fast, you can also
select Economode, which uses a lower rendering resolution and consumes less ink. It therefore increases
printing speed even further, but reduces print quality. Economode can be selected only from the custom
options (not from the slider).
There is also a supplementary custom option that may have an eect on print quality: Maximum detail. See
High-quality printing on page 59.
NOTE: In the Windows driver dialog, the rendering resolution for your job is displayed in the Custom Print
Quality Options dialog box (select Custom options and then Settings). In the Mac OS X Print dialog, select
Show Presets in the presets list, then choose the Paper/Quality list.
You can select print-quality options in the following ways:
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In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality section. If you
select Standard Options, you will see a simple slider with which you can select speed or quality. If you
select Custom Options, you will see the more specic options described above.
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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 specic options described above.
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On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page: select Basic settings > Print quality. If you then
select Standard options, you can choose between Speed and Quality. If you select Custom options, you
will see the more specic options described above.
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Using the front panel: press , then , then Setup > Printing preferences > Print quality.
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 specied in the following ways.
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