HP Z6100 HP Designjet Z6100 Printer Series - User's Guide - Page 173

Pen settings seem to have no effect

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Troubleshoot images The print is a mirror image of the original On the front panel, select the icon, and then select Printing preferences > Paper options > Enable mirror image. Verify that the setting is what you wanted. The print is distorted or unintelligible ● The interface cable that is connecting your printer to your network (or to your computer) might be faulty. Try another cable. ● On the front panel, select the icon, and then select Printing preferences > Select graphics languag. If the language setting is Automatic (the default), try the other settings: PostScript for a PostScript file, HP-GL/2 for an HP-GL/2 file, on so on. Then send the file again. ● Depending on the software, drivers, and RIPs that you are using with your printer, different ways to solve this problem exist. Refer to the vendor's user documentation for details. One image overlays another on the same print The I/O timeout setting might be too long. On the front panel, decrease the setting and print again. Select the icon, and then select Connectivity menu > Advanced > Select I/O timeout. Pen settings seem to have no effect ● You have changed the settings on the front panel by selecting the icon followed by Printing preferences > HP-GL/2 > Define palette, but did not select that palette in Printing preferences > HP-GL/2 > Select palette. ● To enable the software-driven pen settings, go to the front panel and select the by Printing preferences > HP-GL/2 > Select palette > Software. icon followed The image has a wood-grain appearance (aeroworms) Aeroworms are wavy, horizontal bands produced by air-induced dot placement error (DPE). In extreme cases, aeroworms give the image a wood-grain appearance. The problem occurs most commonly on print jobs that are set for low-quality and high-speed. It does not occur when the custom print-quality setting is set to "best." To eliminate aeroworms, select a higher IQ print setting. See Select print quality on page 80. The print is a mirror image of the original 161

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The print is a mirror image of the original
On the front panel, select the
icon, and then select
Printing preferences
>
Paper options
>
Enable mirror image
. Verify that the setting is what you wanted.
The print is distorted or unintelligible
The interface cable that is connecting your printer to your network (or to your computer) might be
faulty. Try another cable.
On the front panel, select the
icon, and then select
Printing preferences
>
Select graphics
languag
. If the language setting is
Automatic
(the default), try the other settings:
PostScript
for
a PostScript file,
HP-GL/2
for an HP-GL/2 file, on so on. Then send the file again.
Depending on the software, drivers, and RIPs that you are using with your printer, different ways to
solve this problem exist. Refer to the vendor's user documentation for details.
One image overlays another on the same print
The
I/O timeout
setting might be too long. On the front panel, decrease the setting and print again.
Select the
icon, and then select
Connectivity menu
>
Advanced
>
Select I/O timeout
.
Pen settings seem to have no effect
You have changed the settings on the front panel by selecting the
icon followed by
Printing
preferences
>
HP-GL/2
>
Define palette
, but did not select that palette in
Printing
preferences
>
HP-GL/2
>
Select palette
.
To enable the software-driven pen settings, go to the front panel and select the
icon followed
by
Printing preferences
>
HP-GL/2
>
Select palette
>
Software
.
The image has a wood-grain appearance
(aeroworms)
Aeroworms are wavy, horizontal bands produced by air-induced dot placement error (DPE). In extreme
cases, aeroworms give the image a wood-grain appearance. The problem occurs most commonly on print
jobs that are set for low-quality and high-speed. It does not occur when the custom print-quality setting is
set to “best.”
To eliminate aeroworms, select a higher IQ print setting. See
Select print quality
on page
80
.
The print is a mirror image of the original
161
Troubleshoot images