HP DesignJet T100 and T500 Printer Series - User Guide
NOTE: If the print quality is set from your computer, it overrides the print-quality setting in the front
panel.
NOTE: You cannot change the print quality of pages that the printer is already receiving or has already received
(even if they have not started to print yet).
Select paper size
The paper size can be specied in the following ways.
NOTE: The paper size specied here should be the paper size in which the document was created. It is possible
to rescale the document to a dierent size for printing. See Rescale a print on page 40.
● In the Windows driver dialog: Select the Paper/Quality or Paper tab (depending on the driver version), then
select your paper size from the Document Size list.
NOTE: If you are printing with the V4 driver and from Adobe Acrobat, the page size and orientation are
determined by the application.
NOTE: If your application oers no Page Setup dialog, use the Print dialog.
NOTE: If the paper size is set from your computer, it overrides the paper size setting in the front panel.
Custom paper sizes
If you want to choose a paper size that is not included in the list of standard paper sizes, there are various
dierent ways to specify it.
Use the Windows printer driver (version 3)
1. Click the Paper/Quality tab.
2. Click Custom.
3. Enter the name and dimensions of your new paper size.
4. Click OK. The new paper size is automatically selected.
Use the Windows printer driver (version 4)
1. Click the Paper tab.
2. Click Document size.
3. Enter the dimensions of your new paper size into the two elds in the custom area.
4. Click the arrow button.
A custom paper size created with the printer driver has the following characteristics:
● The paper size is permanent. It will not disappear if the driver is closed or the computer is turned o.
● The paper size is local to the printer queue. It will not be seen from other printer queues in the same
computer.
● In Domain server networks, the paper size is local to the computer. It will not be seen from other computers
sharing the printer queue.
● In Workgroup networks, the paper size will be shared among all the computers sharing the printer queue.
● If the printer queue is deleted, the paper size is deleted with it.
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