HP DesignJet T1700 Printer Series - User Guide

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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
- Mobile printing
- Accessibility
  - Front panel
  - Embedded Web Server
- 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
  - To install a downloaded paper preset
  - To create your own paper preset
- 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)
- Advantages of a multiroll printer
- How the printer allocates jobs to paper rolls
Networking
- Introduction
- Control network protocols
  - Enable or disable network protocols
- Front-panel menu items
- Link configuration methods
- Troubleshooting
Printing
- Introduction
- Print from a USB flash drive
- Print from a computer using a printer driver
- Advanced print settings
Mobile printing
- Mobile printing
- Print from in-OS
- Print by email (HP ePrint)
- Print and share from the HP Smart App
- Mobile specifications
Job queue management
- Job queue in the front panel
- Job queue in the Embedded Web Server or HP DesignJet Utility
Color management
- Introduction
- How colors are represented
- A summary of the color management process
- Color calibration
- Color profiling
- Color management from printer drivers
- Color management from the front panel
Practical printing examples
- Print a draft for revision with the correct scale
  - Using Adobe Acrobat
- Print a PDF multipage job from Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat Pro
- Print a document with the correct colors
- Print a project
  - Using Autodesk AutoCAD
  - Using clip contents by margins
- Print a presentation
  - Using Autodesk AutoCAD
  - Using Adobe Photoshop
- Print and scale from Microsoft Office
Retrieving printer usage information
- Get printer accounting information
- Check usage statistics
  - Check usage from the front panel
  - Check usage from the Embedded Web Server
- Check usage statistics for a job
- Check cost assignment
Handling ink cartridges and printheads
- About the ink cartridges
- Check the ink cartridges status
  - HP DesignJet Utility procedures
- Remove an ink cartridge
- Insert an ink cartridge
  - Use of refilled or altered cartridges
- About the printheads
- Check the printhead status
- Remove a printhead
- Insert a printhead
- Safe mode
Maintaining the printer
- Check printer status
- Clean the exterior of the printer
- Maintain the ink cartridges
- Move or store the printer
- Update the firmware
  - Automatic firmware updates
  - Manual firmware updates
- Update the software
- Printer maintenance kits
- Secure File Erase
- Disk Wipe
Accessories
- How to order supplies and accessories
- Introduction to the accessories
  - Spindle
- Disposal instructions
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
- 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
  - Recalibrating the paper advance procedure
  - Return to default calibration
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
  - Horizontal smears on the front of coated paper
  - Ink marks on the back of 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
  - Corrective action
- If you still have a problem
Troubleshooting ink cartridge and printhead issues
- Cannot insert an ink cartridge
- Ink cartridge status messages
- Cannot insert a printhead
- Front panel recommends reseating or replacing a printhead
- Clean the printheads
- Clean the printhead drop detector
- Align the printheads
- Printhead status messages
Troubleshooting general printer issues
- Printer does not print
- Front panel fails to initialize
- Printer seems slow
- Communication failures between computer and printer
- Cannot access the Embedded Web Server
- Cannot connect to the Internet
- Web Services issues
- Automatic file system check
- Alerts
Front-panel error messages
- System error log
HP Customer Care
- Introduction
- HP Professional Services
- Customer Self Repair
- Contact HP Support
  - Telephone number
Printer specifications
- Functional specifications
- Physical specifications
- Memory specifications
- Power specifications
- Ecological specifications
- Environmental specifications
- Acoustic specifications
Glossary
Index

Align the printheads ............................................................................................................................................................ 160

Printhead status messages ............................................................................................................................................... 162

17 Troubleshooting general printer issues ......................................................................................................................................... 163

Printer does not print .......................................................................................................................................................... 164

Front panel fails to initialize ............................................................................................................................................... 164

Printer seems slow .............................................................................................................................................................. 164

Communication failures between computer and printer .............................................................................................. 165

Cannot access the Embedded Web Server ...................................................................................................................... 165

Cannot connect to the Internet ......................................................................................................................................... 165

Web Services issues ............................................................................................................................................................ 166

Automatic le system check .............................................................................................................................................. 166

Alerts ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 166

18 Front-panel error messages ............................................................................................................................................................ 167

System error log .................................................................................................................................................................. 167

19 HP Customer Care .............................................................................................................................................................................. 168

Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................................... 169

HP Professional Services .................................................................................................................................................... 169

Customer Self Repair .......................................................................................................................................................... 170

Contact HP Support ............................................................................................................................................................. 170

20 Printer specications ......................................................................................................................................................................... 171

Functional specications .................................................................................................................................................... 172

Physical specications ........................................................................................................................................................ 173

Memory specications ........................................................................................................................................................ 173

Power specications ........................................................................................................................................................... 173

Ecological specications ..................................................................................................................................................... 173

Environmental specications ............................................................................................................................................. 174

Acoustic specications ........................................................................................................................................................ 174

Glossary ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 175

Index ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 178

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