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
● In the Mac OS X Print driver dialog: Go to the Paper/Quality panel and look at the Quality Options section. If
you select Standard quality options, you will see a simple slider with which you can select speed or quality.
If you select Custom quality options, you will see the more specic options described above.
● Using the front panel: Tap , then Default printing conguration > Print quality.
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 56.
● 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.
● In the Mac OS X Printer Setup dialog: Select your printer from the Print settings list, then select your paper
size from the Paper 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.
● Using the front panel: tap , then Default printing conguration > Paper options > Paper size.
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.
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