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Changing the printer’s logical pen characteristics

The characteristics of the printer’s logical pens, referenced by your software, can

be set either by software or by the settings for pens 1 through 8 in the Setup Sheet.

The default is to use settings from the software.

Sometimes you may, for example, want to produce a set of drawings all with the

same pen settings, but without having to change the software settings for the

individual drawings. In this case you can choose to provide the pen settings from

the printer.

If you want to provide your own settings in the printer and use those, use the

Pen

Settings

section in the Setup Sheet and select Use settings from tables below.

Using this option, you can specify the Width and Color/Grayscale of logical pens

1 through 8.

Item Available options

Pens 1 through 8.

Width (mm) 0.13, 0.18, 0.25, 0.35, 0.50, 0.70, 1.00

Note that 0.13 mm is a one-pixel line width and renders

some colors as a dot pattern.

Grayscale (%) 100, 80, 60, 40, 20, 10, 5

Color Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan

For the HP DesignJet 430, only pen Width and Grayscale are available.

Once you have chosen your pen settings, you can change back to

Use settings

from software

and your settings will be saved for future use if you require.

Note. If you want to produce black and white drawings instead of grayscale, then,

unless your driver has an option for this, choose

Use settings from tables below

and set all 8 pens to Black/100% Grayscale. If you are using one of the Windows

drivers supplied with the printer, you must set this in the driver since the driver

overrides the Pen Settings in the Setup Sheet.

Changing the printer’s logical pen characteristics

Controlling your print’s appearance

Localization Note.

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