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Configuring trays, Embedded Web server - toolbox

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Configuring trays By default, the printer draws media from tray 1. If tray 1 is empty, the printer draws media from tray 2 (if it is installed and loaded with media). You can change this default behavior using the following features. ● Tray Lock: Use this feature to protect special media such as letterhead or preprinted media from accidental use. If the printer runs out of paper while printing a document, it will not use paper from a locked tray to complete the print job. ● Default Tray: Use this feature to determine the first tray from which the printer draws media. NOTE To use the tray lock and default tray settings, you must select the automatic tray selection option in the printer software. If the printer is on a network and you set a default tray, the setting will affect all users of the printer. Tray 2 is designed to hold only plain paper. To configure the trays 1. Make sure the printer is turned on. 2. Perform one of the following: a. Embedded Web server: Click the Settings tab and click Paper Handling in the left panel. b. Printer driver (Windows): Click the Services tab. For Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003, click the Service this Device button (this option is available only if the Toolbox is installed), and then click the Printer Services tab. Click Paper Handling. c. Toolbox (Windows): Click the Printer Services tab and click Paper Handling. d. HP Printer Utility (Mac OS): Click Trays Configuration from the Printer Settings panel. 3. Change the desired tray settings, and click OK or Apply. The following table lists possible ways you can use the tray settings to meet your printing needs. I want to... Follow these steps Load both trays with the same media, and have the printer pick media from one tray if the other one is empty. 1. Load media in tray 1 and tray 2. See Loading media. 2. Make sure tray lock is disabled. Have both special media (such as transparencies or letterhead) and plain paper loaded in the trays. 1. Load special media in tray 1 and plain paper in tray 2. 2. Make sure tray lock is set to tray 1. Load media in both trays but have the printer pick media from a specific tray first. 1. Load media in tray 1 and tray 2. 2. Make sure default tray is set to the desired tray. ENWW Configuring trays 21

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Configuring trays
By default, the printer draws media from tray 1. If tray 1 is empty, the printer draws media from tray 2
(if it is installed and loaded with media). You can change this default behavior using the following
features.
●
Tray Lock:
Use this feature to protect special media such as letterhead or preprinted media from
accidental use. If the printer runs out of paper while printing a document, it will not use paper
from a locked tray to complete the print job.
●
Default Tray:
Use this feature to determine the first tray from which the printer draws media.
NOTE
To use the tray lock and default tray settings, you must select the automatic tray
selection option in the printer software. If the printer is on a network and you set a default tray,
the setting will affect all users of the printer.
Tray 2 is designed to hold only plain paper.
To configure the trays
1.
Make sure the printer is turned on.
2.
Perform one of the following:
a.
Embedded Web server:
Click the
Settings
tab and click
Paper Handling
in the left panel.
b.
Printer driver (Windows):
Click the
Services
tab. For Windows 2000, Windows XP, and
Windows Server 2003, click the
Service this Device
button (this option is available only if
the Toolbox is installed), and then click the
Printer Services
tab. Click
Paper Handling
.
c.
Toolbox (Windows):
Click the
Printer Services
tab and click
Paper Handling
.
d.
HP Printer Utility (Mac OS):
Click
Trays Configuration
from the
Printer Settings
panel.
3.
Change the desired tray settings, and click
OK
or
Apply
.
The following table lists possible ways you can use the tray settings to meet your printing needs.
I want to...
Follow these steps
Load both trays with the same media, and have the printer
pick media from one tray if the other one is empty.
1.
Load media in tray 1 and tray 2. See
Loading
media
.
2.
Make sure tray lock is disabled.
Have both special media (such as transparencies or
letterhead) and plain paper loaded in the trays.
1.
Load special media in tray 1 and plain paper in tray 2.
2.
Make sure tray lock is set to tray 1.
Load media in both trays but have the printer pick media
from a specific tray first.
1.
Load media in tray 1 and tray 2.
2.
Make sure default tray is set to the desired tray.
ENWW
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