488CA Printer - User's Guide

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Company confidential. Genie User’s Guide, Edition 2, First Draft. Freeze Status: open

Finding information ii

Main controls of your printer iii

www.designjet-online.hp.com iv

Welcome ix

1 Setting up your printer

Fast track 1–2

Setup checklist 1–3

Task 1: Check that you have all the items required 1–4

Task 2: (Optional) Install a memory expansion module 1–6

Task 3: Position the printer 1–8

Task 4: Switch on 1–9

Task 5: Load the print cartridge(s) 1–10

Task 6: (Optional) Change the language 1–14

Task 7: Connect the printer to your computer 1–17

Task 8: (Optional) Configure the printer 1–19

Task 9: Set up the printer in your application software 1–24

Task 10: Send a sample or demonstration print 1–26

2 Working with media

Caring for your media 2–2

Choosing media 2–2

Supported media types and relative costs 2–3

Physical characteristics of media types 2–4

Recommended print quality settings and recommended media for color

prints 2–5

Typical media-type choices by application 2–6

Before loading media 2–7

Before sending your file 2–8

Loading sheet media 2–9

To load a sheet (without the roll-feed option installed) 2–9

To realign the sheet manually (if necessary) 2–13

Loading roll media 2–16

To change the roll 2–16

To feed roll media into the printer 2–19

To load a sheet with the roll-feed option installed 2–24

CONTENTS

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