HP Designjet 5000 HP Designjet 5000 series printer - User's Guide - Page 186

Introduction Media & Ink Solutions Front-Panel Printer Options Other Page Format Image Appearance Page Size in the FrontPanel Print Management Front-Panel Image Options Index Printer Configuration These next few pages deals with the ways you can control the overall appearance of your prints from the front-panel in terms of:  pen width  pen color  treatment of overlapping lines  overall print quality and resolution. Some front-panel selections affect the next file or job you send from your computer, but not pages already in the printer's queue. If this is the case, it is stated in the relevant part of this section. Some of the controls are available using the front-panel menus (for example) pen width, pen color, overlapping lines). Print mode options are controlled from the frontpanel. 5000PS Unless you have specifically indicated in your software that the printer's front-panel settings are to be used, (for example, Printer's default Setting in a Macintosh Print Options window), the software settings for a PostScript file override the printer front-panel settings described in this section. Why Use the Front-Panel? By default, the printer looks to your software to provide information on all the above attributes. However, your driver or application may not provide these controls or you may want to experiment with various effects, or try a temporary change without the need to change your images or your driver settings. 5000 Some of these settings do not affect the output generated when printing from most of the applications under Windows when using a HP-GL/2 driver.