HP DesignJet T790 and T1300 Printer Series - Using your printer

If you need to specify printing settings, go to the Job settings section and select the options you need. Each
option has explanatory text on the right, so that you can understand the behavior of each setting. Remember
that, if you leave the setting as Default, the setting saved in the job will be used. If the job contains no setting,
the setting in the printer will be used.
If you have chosen some non-default settings and expect to reuse the same group of settings in the future, you
can save them all under a single name from the Manage presets tab, and recall them using that name later.
Print from a computer using a printer driver
This is the traditional way of printing from a computer. The correct printer driver must be installed on the
computer (see Installing the software on page 12), and the computer must be connected to the printer by
network or USB cable.
When the printer driver has been installed and the computer is connected to the printer, you can print from a
software application by using the application's own Print command and selecting the correct printer.
Advanced print settings
The rest of this chapter explains the various print settings that you can use when printing with a printer driver,
the Embedded Web Server or the HP Utility. These methods oer a relatively large number of settings in order to
satisfy all requirements.
TIP: In general you are recommended to use the default settings unless you know that they do not meet your
requirements.
TIP: If you intend to reuse a particular group of settings repeatedly, you can save those settings under a name
of your own choice and recall them later. A saved group of settings is known as a 'quick set' in the Windows
printer driver, and as a 'preset' in the Embedded Web Server.
Select print quality
The printer has various print-quality options because best-quality printing requires some loss of speed, while
fast printing implies some reduction in print quality.
Therefore, the standard print-quality selector is a slider that allows you to choose between quality and speed.
With some paper types, you can choose a compromise position between the two.
Alternatively, you can select from the custom options: Best, Normal and Fast. If you select Fast, you can also
select Economode, which uses a lower rendering resolution and consumes less ink. It therefore increases printing
speed even further, but reduces print quality. Economode can be selected only from the custom options (not
from the slider).
There is also a supplementary custom option that may have an eect on print quality: Maximum detail. See
High-quality printing on page 55.
NOTE: In the Windows driver dialog, the rendering resolution for your job is displayed in the Custom Print
Quality Options dialog box (select Custom options and then Settings). In the Mac OS Print dialog, it is displayed in
the Summary panel.
You can select print-quality options in the following ways:
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