HP LaserJet 5100 - Printer Features

WORKAROUND: Use the settings in the driver. Under Watermarks, set
value to greater than 2.
• ISSUE (External): Watermark does not mirror when Mirror Image is selected in
the PS driver.
DESCRIPTION: When a watermark and Mirror Image are selected in the
PS driver, the document will print mirrored, but the watermark will not.
WORKAROUND: Do not use watermarks when printing mirror images.
• ISSUE (External): Print jobs in CorelDraw 9 yield shaded areas print in discrete
blocks, rather than showing smooth transition.
DESCRIPTION: When printing shaded areas in CorelDraw 9, using the
PS driver on the Windows 95 operating system, the shading is not
smooth, but appears in discrete blocks. This issue occurs because of a
defect in the color-to-grayscale conversions.
WORKAROUND 1: Use the PCL 6 driver.
WORKAROUND 2: Use a color PS PPD driver, such as HP LaserJet
8550.
• ISSUE (External): During red, green, blue (RGB) color conversion to gray using
the PS driver, the blue gradients are lost in PowerPoint slides.
DESCRIPTION: The PS driver reports itself as a gray device to the
operating system, causing the operating system to convert RGB values to
gray incorrectly. The incorrect conversion results in the loss of the blue-
to-black gradient.
WORKAROUND 1: Use the PCL 6 driver.
WORKAROUND 2: Use a color PS PPD driver, such as HP LaserJet
8550.
• ISSUE (External): Vertical characters are not printed using Windows 2000 or
Windows XP.
DESCRIPTION: When using the PostScript driver with the Windows 2000
or the Windows XP operating system, and printing vertical 2-byte
characters, no vertical characters are printed. This can occur with any 2-
byte language.
WORKAROUND 1: Follow these steps:
1. In the PS driver, click the Advanced tab.
2. Scroll to and expand PostScript Options.
3. Click TrueType Font Download Option:.
4. Select Outline.
HP Restricted 18 HP LaserJet 5100 Known Issues