488CA Printer - User's Guide

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Printing color drawings in monochrome

You can successfully print color drawings in monochrome with the HP DesignJet

430, 450C or 488CA.

If you send a color file to the HP DesignJet 430 and your software settings are for

printing in color, the printer will automatically convert the print to grayscale.

However, if your printer is set to

Use settings from software (the default) in the

Setup Sheet

Pen Settings (see page 3–12), you will have no control over the

grayscale levels used. If you want to control these yourself, you must select

Use settings from tables below and set them in the Setup Sheet, as described on

page 3–12.

The default setting with the HP DesignJet 450C and 488CA is to print color as

color. However, you may want to print a color drawing in monochrome. For

example:

You may want a draft where color is not important, perhaps to check that the

print is not going to be clipped

You may want a version for photocopying in monochrome.

To switch from color to monochrome

With the HP DesignJet 450C and 488CA, if your application or software driver has

a color/mono setting, use this, since the Setup Sheet setting is normally overridden

by software. If not, you can set the printer to print in monochrome by selecting

Print color as grayscale in the Color/Mono section of the Setup Sheet.

You can force a color print to monochrome, regardless of the application/driver

setting (except with the supplied Windows driver), by additionally setting the Pen

Settings

to Use settings from tables below (see page 3–12).

The Setup Sheet setting also affects the printer’s internal demonstration prints.

Note that if there is no color information in your print file, the printer will print