HP DesignJet D5800 Using Your Printer - Page 76
Print a draft, High-quality printing, If you have a high-resolution image
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● On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page: select Basic settings > Print quality. If you then select Standard options, you can choose between Speed and Quality. If you select Custom options, you will see the more specific options described above. ● Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon , then Printing preferences > Print quality. NOTE: If you have set the print quality from your computer, that 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). Print a draft You can specify fast draft-quality printing in the following ways: ● In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality section. Move the print-quality slider to the extreme left ('Speed'). ● In the Mac OS X Print dialog: go to the Paper/Quality panel and move the print-quality slider to the far left ('Speed'). ● On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page: select Basic settings > Print quality > Standard options > Speed. You can specify even faster draft-quality printing by using Economode, as follows. This is intended mainly for documents containing only text and line drawings. ● In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality section. Select Custom Options, then set the quality level to Fast and check the Economode box. ● In the Mac OS X Print dialog: go to the Paper/Quality panel and set the quality options to Custom, then set quality to Fast and check the Economode box. ● On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page: select Basic settings > Print quality > Custom. Set Quality level to Fast, and Economode to On. High-quality printing You can specify high-quality printing in the following ways: ● In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality section. Move the print-quality slider to the extreme right ('Quality'). ● In the Mac OS X Print dialog: go to the Paper/Quality panel and move the print-quality slider to the extreme right ('Quality'). ● On the Embedded Web Server's Submit Job page: select Basic settings > Print quality > Standard options > Quality. Printing is bidirectional by default (the printheads print when travelling in both directions across the paper), but you can choose Unidirectional printing for a further small improvement in quality at the expense of speed. This option is not available if you have chosen Fast print quality. If you have a high-resolution image If your image has a resolution greater than the rendering resolution (which you can see in the driver's Paper/ Quality tab under Windows), print sharpness may be improved by selecting the Max. resolution option. This option is available only if you are printing on glossy paper and you have selected Best print quality. 68 Chapter 6 Print options ENWW