HP Designjet 5000 HP Designjet 5000 series printer - User's Guide - Page 187
Pen Widths and Colors in the Internal Palettes, HPDesignjet 5000PS, To Select a Palette - designjet 5000ps printer
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Introduction Media & Ink Solutions Front-Panel Printer Options Other Page Format Image Appearance Page Size in the FrontPanel Print Management Pen Widths and Colors in the Internal Palettes Index Printer Configuration The "pens" discussed throughout this section are the conceptual pens in a software palette, rather than the printer's physical printheads. HP Designjet 5000PS These settings have no effect on PostScript files. The printer has three pen palettes: Factory Palette A Palette B. The factory palette cannot be changed. You can, however, change the line width and color settings for each pen in the remaining two palettes (palette A and palette B). Initially, all three palettes are identical. Each palette has 16 pens which can include pens of different widths and any combination of the printer's predefined 256 colors. To Select a Palette To select a palette through the front-panel menu, go to the Define Palette selection under HP-GL/2 SETTINGS and choose the palette you want. The following table describes the palette choices. Palette Comments Software The printer looks to your software for pen settings and ignores all three internal palettes. Palette A The printer assigns the attributes defined in Palette A to the pens defined in your software as 0 through 15. Palette B The printer assigns the attributes defined in Palette B to the pens defined in your software as 0 through 15. Factory The printer assigns the attributes defined in the Factory Palette to the pens defined in your software as 0 through 15.