HP DesignJet T1700 Printer Series - User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Welcome to your printer
- Printer models
- Safety precautions
- Main components
- Turn the printer on and off
- Front panel
- HP Utility
- HP Print Preview
- Embedded Web Server
- Demo prints
- Configure your printer
- Connect the printer to your network
- Install your printer under Windows
- Uninstall the printer software under Windows
- Install your printer under Mac OS X
- Uninstall the printer software under Mac OS X
- Set up printer services
- Control access to the printer
- Require account ID
- Drivers
- Set Windows driver preferences
- Change the graphic language setting
- Mobile printing
- Accessibility
- Other sources of information
- Paper handling
- General advice
- Load a roll onto the spindle
- Load a roll into the printer
- Unload a roll
- Load a single sheet
- Unload a single sheet
- Sensitive-paper mode (T1700dr only)
- View information about the paper
- Paper presets
- Printing paper info
- Move the paper
- Maintain paper
- Change the drying time
- Turn the automatic cutter on and off
- Feed and cut the paper
- Working with two rolls (T1700dr only)
- Networking
- Printing
- Introduction
- Print from a USB flash drive
- Print from a computer using a printer driver
- Advanced print settings
- Select print quality
- Select paper size
- Select margin options
- Print on loaded paper
- Rescale a print
- Change the treatment of overlapping lines
- Preview a print
- Print a draft
- High-quality printing
- Print in gray shades
- Print with crop lines
- Use paper economically
- Nest jobs to save roll paper
- Use ink economically
- Protect a paper type
- Unattended printing/overnight printing
- Mobile printing
- Job queue management
- Color management
- Practical printing examples
- Retrieving printer usage information
- Handling ink cartridges and printheads
- Maintaining the printer
- Accessories
- Troubleshooting paper issues
- Paper cannot be loaded successfully
- Paper type is not in the driver
- Printer printed on the wrong paper type
- Automatic cut not available
- On hold for paper
- Which criteria are used to decide on which roll a job will be printed?
- When is a job put on hold for paper?
- If I load a new roll of paper, will jobs that were on hold for paper be automatically printed?
- I don’t like jobs being put on hold for paper. Can I prevent it?
- My job is exactly as wide as the roll of paper that is loaded on the printer, but is put on hold for ...
- Roll paper will not advance
- Paper has jammed
- A strip stays on the output tray and generates jams
- Printer displays out of paper when paper is available
- Prints do not fall neatly into the basket
- Sheet stays in the printer when the print has been completed
- Paper is cut when the print has been completed
- Cutter does not cut well
- Roll is loose on the spindle
- Recalibrate the paper advance
- Troubleshooting print-quality issues
- General advice
- Horizontal lines across the image (banding)
- Whole image is blurry or grainy
- Paper is not flat
- Print is scuffed or scratched
- Ink marks on the paper
- Black horizontal lines on yellow background
- Black ink comes off when you touch the print
- Edges of objects are stepped or not sharp
- Edges of objects are darker than expected
- Horizontal lines at the end of a cut sheet print
- Vertical lines of different colors
- White spots on the print
- Colors are inaccurate
- Colors are fading
- Image is incomplete (clipped at the bottom)
- Image is clipped
- Some objects are missing from the printed image
- Lines are too thick, too thin or missing
- Lines appear stepped or jagged
- Lines print double or in the wrong colors
- Lines are discontinuous
- Lines are blurred
- Line lengths are inaccurate
- Image Diagnostics Print
- If you still have a problem
- Troubleshooting ink cartridge and printhead issues
- Troubleshooting general printer issues
- Front-panel error messages
- HP Customer Care
- Printer specifications
- Glossary
- Index

During initial printer setup, you are asked whether you want to enable these services. That decision can be
changed later by tapping , then , then Services > Printer Data Sharing Agreement.
If you are part of the HP Partner Link Pay-per-use service, tap , then Services > > Register new
service in order to register the printer service.
Verify printer connection to HP
You can check that the printer is able to connect to HP services by tapping and viewing the status there.
You can see detailed information by clicking the Network or Service card.
If there is any problem connecting to HP, you will be provided with a description of the problem and some
possible solutions.
Enable email printing with HP ePrint
The HP Connected service makes it easy to send jobs to your printer by attaching them to an email message.
You must accept the Printer Data Sharing Agreement in order to use HP Connected.
To congure the email printing conguration, tap , then Services. Scroll down until you nd the HP ePrint
card, which will display your printer’s email address, which can be used to send jobs to the printer. Double-click
the HP ePrint card to access the printer's code and other
conguration details.
If you are the printer administrator, log in at HP Connected (http://www.hpconnected.com) to customize your
printer’s email address or manage printer security for remote printing.
You must also visit http://www.hpconnected.com to register yourself and your printer (using the printer code).
Congure your HP ePrint connection
By default, the jobs sent by email are directly printed. To change the settings, tap , then at the right
top corner of the page, then Services > HP Connected > HP ePrint jobs > On hold.
You can disable the connection to HP ePrint if required for security. At the front panel, tap , then at
the right top corner of the page, then Services > HP Connected > HP ePrint Connectivity > Disable.
Disable just puts the remote printing function on hold. If you want to resume using it, you just need to re-enable
it in the same menu. No more setup steps are required.
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