HP Z3100ps HP Designjet Z3100 Printing Guide [HP Raster Driver] - Image Qualit

Technical Newsletter:

Image Quality Problems

February 17

th

, 2007

Are you experiencing marks on the media? Or maybe banding?

With this document we would like to explain a few tips & tricks we hope will help

you when you encounter Image quality problems.

Loading paper or creating a customer paper

The most important thing when loading media or creating custom media is you

must select the correct media settings. When you load the media, you also select

the media type you are loading. When you do this, you are actually selecting a lot

of different settings, such as paper advance, ink limiting, carriage height and so

on.

One important thing is that,

if you select a different paper type in the

driver, this will override the selection you made when physically

loading the media

. This means that you have to make sure that you always

have the right paper selected in the driver.

The same occurs when you create a new paper type. In there, you are also asked

to select the paper type most similar to your custom paper. When you do so, you

are selecting a set of paper settings that may impact the performance of your

custom paper.