HP Color LaserJet 4550 printer family - Software Technical Reference

Printing system software components
HP Color LaserJet 4550 Software Technical Reference 31
Print Document On:
This feature allows you to format the document for one paper size but print the document
on a different paper size, with or without scaling the page image to fit the new paper size.
The Print Document On: control is disabled by any of the following:
• % of Normal Size is not 100 percent
• Pages per Sheet is not 1
• Booklet Printing is not off
When the control is selected, the drop-down list will specify the target paper size on
which to print. The list contains all standard paper sizes supported by the currently
selected paper source and any custom paper sizes that you have created (if the currently
selected paper source is Manual, Auto, or any Tray). When the Print Document On: box
is selected, the Scale to Fit option is enabled.
Scale to Fit
The Scale to Fit option specifies whether each formatted document page image is scaled
to fit the target paper size. The default setting is selected. If the setting is turned off, then
the document page images will not be scaled, but instead is centered at full size on the
target paper. If the document size is larger than the target paper size, then the document
image is clipped. If it is smaller, then it is centered within the target paper. Figure 16
shows preview images for a document formatted for Legal paper with the Print Document
On: option selected, and the target size specified as Letter.
Figure 16: Preview images - legal on letter; Scale to Fit off (left) and on (right)
Whenever the size for which the document is formatted (that is, the logical size) differs
from the target size, the preview image uses a dashed gray line to show the boundaries
of the logical page in relation to the target page size.
Percent of normal size (Scaling)
The default setting in the entry box is 100 percent of Normal Size. Normal Size is defined
as the paper size selected within the driver or what the driver receives from the
application (if the application does not negotiate paper size with the driver). The driver will
scale the page by the appropriate factor and send it to the printer.
The limits of the range are from 25 percent to 400 percent and any values outside of the
range is clipped to those limits as soon as the focus is removed from the control (that is,
when the tab key is pressed or another control is selected).
When this control is not selected, its value is 100 except when the Scale to Fit option is
selected. In this case, the dimmed value represents the percentage of normal size to
which the page image is scaled to fit the specified target paper size. For example, when