pocket guide how do I... ? hp designjet 500 series printers hp designjet 800 series printers i Contents--How Do I... Navigate the Front Panel 4 The Front-Panel Display 4 Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 6 Examples of How to Use the Front Panel 17 Manage Prints 25 Cancelling a Page that is Being Printed 25 Cancelling the Drying Time for a Printed Page 26 Managing Pages that have Not Yet been Printed 27 Prioritizing a Job in the Queue ("Move to Front") 29 Deleting a Job from the Queue 29 Manage Prints (continued) Making Copies of a Job in the Queue 30 Avoiding Paper Waste by Nesting Pages 31 Replace Ink Cartridges and Printheads 33 Replacing Ink Cartridges 35 Replacing Printheads 38 Load a Sheet of Paper 47 Unloading a Sheet of Paper 54 Load a Roll of Paper 55 Installing a New Roll on the Printer 55 Loading a Roll of Paper 58 Unloading a Roll of Paper 64 More Information... You can find more about the following topics in the User's Reference Guide, which is on the Using Your Printer CD: · Paper types; more about loading · Ink supplies · Page formatting · Printer configuration · Care of your printer · Accessories · More about solving problems · General index; Glossary of terms. Many of the procedures in the User's Reference Guide are animated. You may also find other information about HP Designjet printers, associated software and support at this HP Web site: www.hp.com/go/designjet See the other side of this Pocket Guide for information about troubleshooting problems. © 2000, 2005 Hewlett-Packard Company Hewlett-Packard Company, Inkjet Commercial Division, Avda. Graells, 501, 08174 Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain The Front-Panel Display The panel on the front of your printer is the principal way of changing the printer's behavior, apart from controls provided by the software you use. Up () and Down () keys Display area Action keys 4 The Front-Panel Display · · · · Up () and Down () let you navigate through the items in a menu list. If there are more options than can be shown on the front panel, a vertical scroll bar appears on the right side of the panel. If further choices can be made for a menu item, the symbol " " appears to its right. A selected setting is shown by a tick (""). Menu takes you to the main screen. It cancels any choices that have not yet been selected by pressing Enter. Back takes you to the previous screen, also cancelling any choices not yet selected with Enter. Enter selects the item in the menu list and makes it current. If there are further Display-Area Screen: Menu Icons There are four main front-panel menus, each with a different icon highlighted. You can always reach a main menu by pressing Menu and then scrolling ( or ). Paper Ink Job management Set-up Action Keys · · Cancel cancels the current operation (printing or preparing for printing). Form Feed and Cut causes a sheet to be ejected or the roll to be advanced and cut. The Front-Panel Display 5 navigate the front panel Display-Area Keys selections to be made, Enter takes you to them, shown by the arrows () in the table that starts on page 6. Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus Key to the List of Front-Panel Menus On pages 7 through 16 are the printer's frontpanel menus, listed alphabetically. The key to the list is on the right. In the User's Reference Guide (on the Using Your Printer CD) they are listed according to the structure of the menus. For examples of how to use the menus, see page 17. Note: PostScript functions in the HP Designjet 500ps printer are available through the supplied PostScript driver, and are not available from the printer's front panel. There is more in this Pocket Guide on the page indicated in black or in red if it is on the reverse ("The Problem Is..."). 23 There is more in the User's Reference Guide, some sections with animations. Only available when PostScript or HP-GL/2 is available on the printer (HP Designjet 500 [with HP-GL/2 Accessory card], 500 plus, 800 and 800ps). Only available when PostScript is available on the printer (HP Designjet 800ps). Only available when HP-GL/2 is available on the printer (HP Designjet 500 [with HP-GL/2 Accessory card], 500 plus, 800 and 800ps). 6 Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 22 44 Align printheads Altitude Page format Size Automatic PS settings Encoding Print quality Automatic Best Page format Size ANSI sizes I/O setup Card ID Appletalk (depends on card) Advanced options Best quality settings PS settings Encoding Binary Page format Size ARCH sizes PS settings Encoding Drying time ASCII Automatic Color settings Color/Monochrome True Black Front Panel Buzzer (on/off) Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 7 navigate the front panel Advance calibration Graphic language Automatic [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] Color calibration Calibrate now Color calibration Calibration (paper advance) 22 Color settings Color settings Color settings Rendering intent Front Panel Replace Ink cartridges CMYK Color/ Monochrome 35 Graphic Language CALS/G4 [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] Queue/copies Cancel 25 # Jobname (print in progress or waiting) [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] I/O setup I/O setup Information Card ID Card setup Ink cartridges Color calibration Color settings (RGB, CMYK, etc.) Colorimetric Contrast Queue/copies Reprints/ 30 # Jobname copies [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] 8 Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 17 Defects in images (Troubleshooting) Define palette 15 PS settings Log Encoding (ASCII, Binary, Automatic) Errors HP-GL/2 settings Queue/copies Delete (print 29 # Jobname already printed) [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] Advanced options Best quality settingsMaximum detail Color settings CMYK I/O setup Card ID DIC DNS name (depends on card) Color settings CMYK Euroscale Page format Size Extra print sizes Advance calibration Print quality Restore factory settings Fast Advanced options Optimize for Drawings/text Advanced options Fast quality settings [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 9 navigate the front panel Cutter (on/off) Drying time (none, automatic, manual) PS settings PS Scale Fit to page Front Panel (language, buzzer, contrast) I/O setup I/O setup I/O timeout Image quality (Troubleshooting) 15 Graphic language (PS, HP-GL/2, CALS/G4, Automatic) [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] Color settings Color/Monochrome Grayscale Help Advanced options Optimize for Images Information (ink cartridges, printheads) Printer Information Ink cartridges Replace Ink cartridges 35 Graphic Language HP-GL/2 [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] I/O setup Card ID HP-GL/2 settings HW address (depends on card) Information 10 Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus Information Ink cartridges Ink levels Front Panel Language (national) Load roll 58 Page format Size Inked area I/O setup Card ID IP address (depends on card) Page format Size ISO sizes Page format Size JIS sizes Job management Queue/copies Job name (and number of copies) [printers with formatter card only] Load sheet 47 Drying time Log (printheads, errors) Manual Select paper ( Media) type 17 Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 11 navigate the front panel Ink menu Graphic Language [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] HP-GL/2 settings Page format Color settings Merge (on/off) Mirroring Color/ Monochrome Nest settings Nest 31 wait time [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] Normal Print quality Queue/copies Move print to 29 # Jobname top [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] Color settings CMYK Color settings RGB Native CMYK Advanced options Optimize for (drawings/text/images) Page format Size Oversize prints HP-GL/2 settings Page format Palette (define, select) Paper (load, type) Page format Paper size Native RGB 31 Nest settings Nest (on/off) [HP Designjet 800 series only] 12 Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus Advance calibration Pattern (create, measure) 22 HP-GL/2 settings Define palette... Pen width, color Color settings Rendering intent Perceptual Print quality (poor) (Troubleshooting) 15 Page format Size Printed area ­ see Inked area Information Printer information Printheads Printheads (align, replace) PS scale 38 Graphic Language PostScript [HP Designjet 800ps printers only] Queue/copies 25 # Jobname Print cancel [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] Page format Print (paper) size PS settings (PostScript) Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 13 navigate the front panel Select paper type Print quality (best, normal, draft; also Set-UpAdvanced Options) Print Quality (best, normal, draft) Quality of images (Troubleshooting) 15 Replace ink cartridges 38 Replace printheads Queue 27 (on/off) [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] Queue/ 27 copies [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] 38 Queue/copies # Jobname Reprints/ copies 30 Advanced options Fast quality settingsReduced speed [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] Color settings Rendering intent I/O setup Card setup Advanced Reset card Color settings RGB Roll (load, unload) 58 14 Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus Color settings Rendering intent PS settings (PostScript) Saturation PS Scale Select paper type Sheet (load, unload) Size (of paper) Software (Automatic) 47 Color settings RGB Color settings CMYK sRGB SWOP Advanced options Optimize for Drawings/Text I/O setup Color settings CMYK ing I/O Timeout Page format Page format Size TOYO Troubleshoot(image quality) 15 Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus 15 navigate the front panel Page format Rotate (0°, 90°, 180°, 270°) Advanced options Fast quality settingsReduced speed [HP Designjet 800 series printers only] Select paper type Unload roll 64 Unload sheet 54 Nest settings Wait time 31 16 Alphabetical List of Front-Panel Menus The keys you should press on the front panel are highlighted here in yellow. Setting the Ink-Drying Time to Two Minutes 1 From the table on page 9, the menu structure is shown as: Drying time 2 Starting from the main Paper menu, press the Down key () once... ...to enter the Ink menu: ( ); then press the Enter key... ...until the Ink menu ( ) is highlighted Examples of How to Use the Front Panel 17 navigate the front panel Examples of How to Use the Front Panel The scroll bar at the right indicates that the list of available options is longer than can be displayed at a time. 3 Press the Down key () several times until Drying time is highlighted. 4 Then press Enter. 5 Press Down () twice to highlight Manual, and then press Enter again... ...to select Manual drying time: The number of times you have to press the Down key depends on: · which model of printer­HP Designjet 500 or 800 series, · whether you have an accessory card installed on an HP Designjet 500 series printer, · which options were recently used. 18 Examples of How to Use the Front Panel If the front-panel Buzzer is set On, there will be a short `beep' to confirm the change. The value will be confirmed by a tick mark at the right (""). Examples of How to Use the Front Panel 19 navigate the front panel 6 Press the Up key () to change the drying time selection from 1 to 2 minutes. Then press Enter to set the two-minute drying time. 7 Finally, press the Menu key to return to the main menu. Printing Three Additional Copies of a Job that has Already been Printed and then press Enter to enter the Job This applies to HP Designjet 800 and 800ps management menu. printers only; see page 23 for the HP Designjet 500 plus, or 500 Series with an Accessory card. 1 From the table on page 8, the menu structure is shown as: Queue/Copies 2 Starting from the main Paper menu, press the Down key () twice until Job management ( ) is highlighted ( ); 20 Examples of How to Use the Front Panel Suppose the list of jobs are as shown in the diagram. The job that is currently being printed is number 0, whose job name is "Job #7". 4 Suppose that the job you want to print again is number -2, "piston.gif". Press Up () or Down () sufficient times to highlight it; and then press Enter to select this job. 3 Press Enter to enter the Queue/copies menu. You will see a list of jobs that are in the print queue. Jobs that have already been printed have negative numbers; jobs that are waiting to be printed have positive Examples of How to Use the Front Panel 21 navigate the front panel Ensure that the highlighting is on Queue/ copies, by pressing the Up () or Down key () if necessary. numbers. 5 The options available for the job are listed; select Reprints and press Enter again. 7 Finally, press the Menu key to return to the top-level menu. 6 Press the Up key () to select three reprints, and then press Enter to set the number of reprints t ...