HP Color LaserJet 4550 printer family - Software Technical Reference

Printing system software components
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round to the nearest valid value. Related controls indented beneath the edit box are Print
Page Borders and Page Order, which become active when When Pages Per Sheet is
greater than 1. Print Page Borders sets a line around each page image to help visually
define the borders of each logical page.
The Page Order drop-down list contains four items:
• Right, then Down
• Down, then Right
• Left, then Down
• Down, then Left
The paper preview image will change to reflect the various combinations of these
settings.
The Pages Per Sheet feature might be disabled if you select Allow Scaling from Large
paper as a paper size on the Paper tab. Some examples are shown in Figure 11.
Figure 11: Preview image
1- 2 Pages per sheet (2-up)
2 - 4-up
3 - 6-up
4 - 9-up with Print Page Borders
5 - 9-up with Page Order (Down, then Right)
6 - 16-up
Print Quality settings
The HP Color LaserJet 4550 driver’s Print Quality group box (refer back to Figures 8 and
9) includes one predefined Print Quality (PQ) setting and one custom setting. A Details
button invokes a dialog where the settings can be customized. The specific PQ choices
defined by these settings are as follows:
Default
For PCL 6 and PCL 5c, the Default mode is as follows:
• 600 dots per inch (dpi)
• Rendering Mode is automatic (PCL 5c only)
• Scale Patterns is on
• Print all Text as Black is off
• Gloss Print Finish is off
• Send TrueType as Bitmap is not selected