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DesignJet Tips and Tricks

Speaker’s Name: Dave SmitchgerCourse ID: GD21-3Course Outline: Various Tips and Tricks for Designjet users

Dave Smitchger

Hewlett-Packard

Response Center Engineer

Advanced Technical Support

Designjet Tips & Tricks Plus Q & A

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designjet 430

designjet 500 / 500ps

designjet 800 / 800ps

designjet 1050c + / 1055CM + also with Multi-roll feeder

designjet 5500 / 5500ps *

designjet cc800ps

Designjet Portfolio(For Technical Market)

* New this Fall

How does WebAccess work?

TCP/IP

Type IP address of the printer into your web browser

Designjet 5000 series embedded

WebServer

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Uses:• Driverless printing• Reprint files after changing

settings• New path for UNIX and

LINUX• Production environment• Remote printing

Designjet 5500/5500psWebSubmitter

Accepted File Formats:HP-GL/2, HP RTL CALS G4 TIFFJPEGAdobe PDF 1.3

(only in the HP DJ 5500PS)

Adobe PS (only in the HP DJ 5500PS)

Designjet 5500/5500psWebSubmitter

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Designjet 5500/5500ps WebSubmitter(Browse Printer)

Copying .PLT files to the printer over the network

With any designjet printer that uses a jetdirect card

model number 600N, 610N or 615N, using

TCP/IP protocol, you can FTP the file to the printer

Detailed instructions at the end of this presentation

Designjet models:

500 series

800 series

1000 series

5000 series

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Why are my plots clipping?

Why are my plots clipping?Most common reason is the non-printable area has not been taken into account.

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Why are my plots clipping?Enter the

leading edge, trailing edge

and side margins that are list in the Users Manual of the printer.

These values are also listed at the end of this

presentation

Note: For most page sizes, the proper margins, or non-printable area, have been properly predefined

Colors are coming out different on one printer vs. another.

Print out the Color Wheel to find out your complete gamut

of colors to choose from.

The different designjet printers are designed with various inks and media types to achieve the most

optimum quality available.

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How can I reduce the leading edge margin on my designjet 5000 series printer

Heavy ink saturation on the leading edge of the media would cause media/print head crashes.

If the margin were less, the potential for media/print head

crashes would increase substantially.

There is no way to reduce the leading edge margin unless you

use the take-up reel option.

If TUR is installed:(Printer Menu > Device Setup > TUR installed=YES)

AND(Media Menu > TUR Loaded=YES)

The Reduced Margins option is only available:

designjet 500

Designjet 500 printer

CAD or GIS

HPGL/2 Accessory Card

When using the designjet 500 printer in the CAD or GIS Environment, the HPGL/2 Accessory Card is a great

enhancement.

HPGL/2 is a very good printer language for CAD and GIS

applications.

HPGL/2 Card: C7772A

Additional Memory:

64MB C2387A

128MB C2388A

Part Numbers:

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Designjet 10PS/20PS/50PS

Target market:Proofing

Not For CAD because there is no

HPGL/2 support

ColorPro CAD

ColorPro CADHp Business Inkjet 2600

Designjet 10PS/20PS/50PS

Use the Correct and Most Current Driver

Get the latest HP Designjet printer drivers from:

www.designjet-online.com www.hp.com

Use HP-GL/2 for AutoCAD plots.

Use Postscript for graphics & rendered Images

Call HP Customer Care Center for printer help (208) 323-2551

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Q&A

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TIPS -N-Tricks

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MODEL F/W LEVEL• 5000, 5000PS A.02.16• 1055CM A.01.13• 1050C A.01.13• 1055CM+ A.02.05• 1050C+ A.02.05• 800PS A.02.05• 800 A.02.05 • 500PS A.02.05 • 500 A.02.05• CP series A.04.08

How old is your printer’s firmware?

The designjet 500, 800 & 5000 series printers, have firmware available for

download from the HP web site.

http://www.hp.com/go/designjet

What actually happens when I select a media type on the printer?

Media N ame Print Quality # of passes Resolution Resolution (1) Carriage speed (2)Max Quality 8 600 dpi 600 dpi 40Productivity 6 300 dpi 600 dpi 40Max Speed 1 300 dpi 600 dpi 40Max Quality 8 600 dpi 600 dpi 40Productivity 6 300 dpi 600 dpi 40Max Speed 2 300 dpi 600 dpi 40Max Quality 10 600 dpi 600 dpi 40Productivity 8 300 dpi 600 dpi 40Max Speed 2 300 dpi 600 dpi 40Max Quality 8 600 dpi 1200 dpi 28.3Productivity 8 300 dpi 600 dpi 40Max Speed 4 300 dpi 600 dpi 25

Coated

Heavy Coated Economy

Heavy Coated

Glossy

(1) Enhanced resolution ON(2) All Print Modes are Bi-directional

NOTE: The print modes below are theoreticalexamples and may not reflect actual print modes.

The media type that is selected on the front panel of the printer, along with the print quality selection, will dictate the print mode the printer uses.

The following is a list of the print features that are affected:• Number of passes (media advance)

• Printing Resolution (dpi)

• Carriage Speed (cm/seconds)

• Color Maps

• Print Mask (Fault Tolerant print mode)

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Designjet series Printing Speed Factors:

• Is the printer using the widest media that it can use?

• 42” vs. 60”?

• Rated at ft2 per hour?

• Orientation of the drawing• Short edge first vs. long edge first?

• Relative Humidity and/or Dry Time setting

• Higher humidity needs more time between swaths to dry

• Media type and Print Mode

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M a x Sp e e d5 6 9 ft2/h r

5 2 .8 6 m 2/h r 0 ’ 3 6 ”

4 9 9 ft2/h r 4 6 .3 6 m 2/h r

1 ’ 1 2 ”

P ro d u c tiv ity 1 0 0 ft2/h r

9 .2 9 m 2/h r 3 ’ 3 6 ”

8 9 ft2/h r 8 .2 7 m 2/h r

4 ’ 3 6 ”

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M a x Q u a lity

7 6 ft2/h r 7 .0 6 m 2/h r

4 ’ 3 6 ”

6 8 ft2/h r 6 .3 2 m 2/h r

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Short edge first Long edge first

designjet cc800ps When scanning thick media like foamcore, you must input the specific image size instead of selecting Automatic.

Why does the document that I am scanning, stop before it is complete?

Automatic will pass the document through the feeder to check the image size, but can not reverse the document feed for thick media.

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Designjet 1000 series Multi-roll

• When installing the designjet 1000 series printer on the Multi-roll, by sure that it is completely “square” with the alignment

• 1000 series “A” version connects to the MR with the serial cable and parallel cable

• 1000 series “B” version connects to the MR with the parallel cable

• When inserting the in-feed assembly, make sure the fingers go on top of the Mylar strip. (Don’t force it)

• To test if the in-feed is in the proper position, use a piece of paper to slide in and out along the platen

Designjet 1000 series Multi-roll

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designJet 500/800 series

Designjet Series Margins

designJet CP series

designJet 400 series

Designjet Series Margins

designJet 1000 series

designJet 5000 series

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Procedure to FTP a file to the printer via the jetdirect network connection:

It works best if you make a Temp directory and copy your file(s) to that directory. For example, create a directory called TEMP on your C: drive and copy all of the files you want to print to the TEMP directory.

1. Get to a DOS or COMMAND prompt on your PC and type:CD\TEMP

2. Next type: FTP 192.0.0.192 (In this example 192.0.0.192 is the IP address for the printer. Be sure to use your specific IP address for your printer)

3. You should get something like the following:Connected to 192.0.0.192220 JD FTP Server ReadyUser <192.0.0.192:<none>>:

4. Press Enter and you will be prompted for a Password:

5. Press Enter without typing anything else

You will get several lines of information one of which will probably say something like:PORT1 Print to port 1 DesignJet 5000PS (C6091A)

FTP Instructoins (1 of 2)

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(STEP 5 CONTINUED)

Further down, you should see:230 User logged in.ftp>

6. At the FTP Prompt, type:PUT fname.ext (where fname is the name of the file you want to copy and ext is the file extension)

On the computer you will see 2 or 3 lines of information while it is copying and finally it should say:ftp: xxxxxxxx bytes sent in x.xxSeconds xxx.xxKbytes/sec.ftp>

You can copy more files to the printer at this point if you would like or type QUIT to exit FTP.(NOTE: If the ftp connection times out or is closed by remote host, repeat steps 2 through 5 to regain the connection)

(To quit the FTP program, type QUIT and then close the DOS window)

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