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... ...133 Check usage statistics for a job ...133 Request accounting data by email ...134 16 Handling ink cartridges and printhead ...136 About the ink cartridges ...137 Check the ink cartridges status ...137 Remove an ink cartridge ...137 Insert an ink cartridge ...138 Safe mode ...140 About the printhead ...140 Check the printhead status ...140 Remove the... printhead ...145 Storage of anonymous usage information ...148 17 Printer maintenance ...149 Check printer status ...150 Clean the exterior of the printer ...150 Maintain the ink cartridges ...150 Move or store the printer ...150 vi ENWW
... ...133 Check usage statistics for a job ...133 Request accounting data by email ...134 16 Handling ink cartridges and printhead ...136 About the ink cartridges ...137 Check the ink cartridges status ...137 Remove an ink cartridge ...137 Insert an ink cartridge ...138 Safe mode ...140 About the printhead ...140 Check the printhead status ...140 Remove the... printhead ...145 Storage of anonymous usage information ...148 17 Printer maintenance ...149 Check printer status ...150 Clean the exterior of the printer ...150 Maintain the ink cartridges ...150 Move or store the printer ...150 vi ENWW
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The whole image is blurry or grainy ...187 The paper is not flat ...188 The print is scuffed or scratched ...188 Ink marks on the paper ...189 Black ink comes off when you touch the print 190 Edges of objects are stepped or not sharp ...190 Edges of objects are darker than expected...
The whole image is blurry or grainy ...187 The paper is not flat ...188 The print is scuffed or scratched ...188 Ink marks on the paper ...189 Black ink comes off when you touch the print 190 Edges of objects are stepped or not sharp ...190 Edges of objects are darker than expected...
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...plot ...224 Monitor calibration ...224 Save the diagnostic plot for future use ...225 25 Troubleshooting ink cartridge and printhead issues 226 Cannot insert an ink cartridge ...227 Ink cartridge status messages ...227 Cannot insert the printhead ...227 The front-panel display recommends reseating or......231 The printer seems slow ...232 The printer behaves strangely ...232 Communication failures between computer and printer 232 Cannot access the HP Utility ...233 Cannot access the Embedded Web Server ...233 Cannot connect to the Internet ...233 Mobile printing troubleshooting ...234 Automatic...
...plot ...224 Monitor calibration ...224 Save the diagnostic plot for future use ...225 25 Troubleshooting ink cartridge and printhead issues 226 Cannot insert an ink cartridge ...227 Ink cartridge status messages ...227 Cannot insert the printhead ...227 The front-panel display recommends reseating or......231 The printer seems slow ...232 The printer behaves strangely ...232 Communication failures between computer and printer 232 Cannot access the HP Utility ...233 Cannot access the Embedded Web Server ...233 Cannot connect to the Internet ...233 Mobile printing troubleshooting ...234 Automatic...
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... help you carry out normal printer procedures and include the following topics. Using this guide This guide can be downloaded from the HP Support Center (see HP Support Center on page 51 ● Working with your printer; ● During a power failure ● The power cord or...Color management on page 103 ● Practical printing examples on page 115 ● Retrieving printer usage information on page 132 ● Handling ink cartridges and printhead on page 136 ● Printer maintenance on page 149 Troubleshooting These chapters help you solve problems that may occur while ...
... help you carry out normal printer procedures and include the following topics. Using this guide This guide can be downloaded from the HP Support Center (see HP Support Center on page 51 ● Working with your printer; ● During a power failure ● The power cord or...Color management on page 103 ● Practical printing examples on page 115 ● Retrieving printer usage information on page 132 ● Handling ink cartridges and printhead on page 136 ● Printer maintenance on page 149 Troubleshooting These chapters help you solve problems that may occur while ...
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...Failure to them by their short names for paper types, ink supplies and accessories. Full name HP DesignJet T2500 eMultifunction HP DesignJet T2500 PostScript eMultifunction HP DesignJet T2530 Multifunction HP DesignJet T2530 PostScript Multifunction Short name T2500 T2500 PS T2530 T2530 4 Chapter 1 Introduction ENWW Follow the instructions...9679; Troubleshooting paper issues on page 168 ● Troubleshooting print-quality issues on page 179 ● Troubleshooting ink cartridge and printhead issues on page 226 ● Troubleshooting general printer issues on page 230 ● Front-...
...Failure to them by their short names for paper types, ink supplies and accessories. Full name HP DesignJet T2500 eMultifunction HP DesignJet T2500 PostScript eMultifunction HP DesignJet T2530 Multifunction HP DesignJet T2530 PostScript Multifunction Short name T2500 T2500 PS T2530 T2530 4 Chapter 1 Introduction ENWW Follow the instructions...9679; Troubleshooting paper issues on page 168 ● Troubleshooting print-quality issues on page 179 ● Troubleshooting ink cartridge and printhead issues on page 226 ● Troubleshooting general printer issues on page 230 ● Front-...
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...sheet loading from the front of the printer ● Two rolls with automatic switching, enabling long runs of unattended printing ● Six-ink system ● Integrated printhead, 9/8 in (28 mm) wide, with duplicated black nozzles improving speed and quality ● Capacitive touch-...jobs on photographic paper ● High-productivity features such as automatic firmware updates, HP ePrint and Mobile Printing ● Driverless printing using the printer's Embedded Web Server ● Ink and paper usage information available from the front panel ● Accurate and consistent color...
...sheet loading from the front of the printer ● Two rolls with automatic switching, enabling long runs of unattended printing ● Six-ink system ● Integrated printhead, 9/8 in (28 mm) wide, with duplicated black nozzles improving speed and quality ● Capacitive touch-...jobs on photographic paper ● High-productivity features such as automatic firmware updates, HP ePrint and Mobile Printing ● Driverless printing using the printer's Embedded Web Server ● Ink and paper usage information available from the front panel ● Accurate and consistent color...
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The printer's main components The following front and rear views of the printer illustrate the main components. Ink cartridges 6. Printhead 3. Stacker 4. Front panel 5. Scanner 2. Lower roll cover 8. Upper roll cover 6 Chapter 1 Introduction ENWW Basket 7. Front view 1.
The printer's main components The following front and rear views of the printer illustrate the main components. Ink cartridges 6. Printhead 3. Stacker 4. Front panel 5. Scanner 2. Lower roll cover 8. Upper roll cover 6 Chapter 1 Introduction ENWW Basket 7. Front view 1.
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... page 86. ● Press to view information about printer and scan status, change printer settings, or initiate actions such as loading paper or replacing ink supplies. ● Press to scan a sheet of the above button is inserted. ● Press to print a file. See Printing on hold.... Home screen dynamic icons The following items are displayed only on page 90. ● Press to view the printer's email. See http://www.hp.com/go/designjeteprinters. See Copying on the home screen. ● Press to reach the information screen, where you can view information about the...
... page 86. ● Press to view information about printer and scan status, change printer settings, or initiate actions such as loading paper or replacing ink supplies. ● Press to scan a sheet of the above button is inserted. ● Press to print a file. See Printing on hold.... Home screen dynamic icons The following items are displayed only on page 90. ● Press to view the printer's email. See http://www.hp.com/go/designjeteprinters. See Copying on the home screen. ● Press to reach the information screen, where you can view information about the...
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... the information screen, press on the home screen. Printer Monitoring (with the Print Spooler) and Remote Printer Management with the HP Utility and Web JetAdmin continue to perform the task. Printer software The following software is 30 minutes. The printer can be ... opening the stacker cover. Information screen dynamic icons ● Press for information about the paper status. ● Press for information about the ink cartridge status. ● Press for information about the printhead status. ● Press for information about the network status. ● Press for...
... the information screen, press on the home screen. Printer Monitoring (with the Print Spooler) and Remote Printer Management with the HP Utility and Web JetAdmin continue to perform the task. Printer software The following software is 30 minutes. The printer can be ... opening the stacker cover. Information screen dynamic icons ● Press for information about the paper status. ● Press for information about the ink cartridge status. ● Press for information about the printhead status. ● Press for information about the network status. ● Press for...
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Mobile printing Your printer can be connected to the Internet. To take advantage of the ink cartridges, the printhead, and the paper ◦ Update the printer's firmware, see Update the firmware on page 151 ◦ Perform calibrations and troubleshooting ◦ ...you to: ◦ Manage the printer from a remote computer (the Embedded Web Server is enabled through Airprint. NOTE: The HP Utility under Mac OS X and the HP DesignJet Utility under Windows have it . With HP Mobile Printing Solutions you are, by using your printer there may already be expected to appear from Google Play...
Mobile printing Your printer can be connected to the Internet. To take advantage of the ink cartridges, the printhead, and the paper ◦ Update the printer's firmware, see Update the firmware on page 151 ◦ Perform calibrations and troubleshooting ◦ ...you to: ◦ Manage the printer from a remote computer (the Embedded Web Server is enabled through Airprint. NOTE: The HP Utility under Mac OS X and the HP DesignJet Utility under Windows have it . With HP Mobile Printing Solutions you are, by using your printer there may already be expected to appear from Google Play...
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... of prints by paper type, number of prints by print-quality option, counting of scans, and total amount of ink used per color (the accuracy of these estimates is not guaranteed) ◦ HP-GL/2 palette shows the color or grayscale definitions in the currently selected color palette ◦ PostScript font list shows...
... of prints by paper type, number of prints by print-quality option, counting of scans, and total amount of ink used per color (the accuracy of these estimates is not guaranteed) ◦ HP-GL/2 palette shows the color or grayscale definitions in the currently selected color palette ◦ PostScript font list shows...
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... printer's software. If you do not find that paper type in the HP DesignJet Utility for Windows (Overview tab > Supplies tab) and the HP Utility for Mac OS X (Information group > Supplies Status). You can ...printer's estimate of each different paper type. To enable the Printing paper info option, go /T2500/paperpresets. This description is unloaded from the front panel's Paper menu. it also contains information ... paper, or load a roll that was on it . For example, some may need more ink and some may find the paper preset you want on page 170. NOTE: This option can check...
... printer's software. If you do not find that paper type in the HP DesignJet Utility for Windows (Overview tab > Supplies tab) and the HP Utility for Mac OS X (Information group > Supplies Status). You can ...printer's estimate of each different paper type. To enable the Printing paper info option, go /T2500/paperpresets. This description is unloaded from the front panel's Paper menu. it also contains information ... paper, or load a roll that was on it . For example, some may need more ink and some may find the paper preset you want on page 170. NOTE: This option can check...
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... Press , then , then Setup > Print retrieval > Drying time. You can select: ● Extended, to set a longer than recommended time to ensure ink is completely dry ● Optimal, to set the default and recommended time for some time after the printhead maintenance has completed. Press , then , then Setup... a print, the printer may wish to the printhead maintenance, which you need to suit special printing conditions such as it could leave ink in parallel. or to increase top margin of higher importance or when you can pick up the print before loading them in the printer...
... Press , then , then Setup > Print retrieval > Drying time. You can select: ● Extended, to set a longer than recommended time to ensure ink is completely dry ● Optimal, to set the default and recommended time for some time after the printhead maintenance has completed. Press , then , then Setup... a print, the printer may wish to the printhead maintenance, which you need to suit special printing conditions such as it could leave ink in parallel. or to increase top margin of higher importance or when you can pick up the print before loading them in the printer...
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... save them all of settings repeatedly, you can choose a compromise position between quality and speed. This means that you can download from HP's website) so that all under a name of settings is also two supplementary custom options that may have chosen some non-default settings ...a software application by network. If you select Fast, you can also select Economode, which uses a lower rendering resolution and consumes less ink. When the printer driver has been installed and the computer is connected to reuse a particular group of the printer software is the traditional...
... save them all of settings repeatedly, you can choose a compromise position between quality and speed. This means that you can download from HP's website) so that all under a name of settings is also two supplementary custom options that may have chosen some non-default settings ...a software application by network. If you select Fast, you can also select Economode, which uses a lower rendering resolution and consumes less ink. When the printer driver has been installed and the computer is connected to reuse a particular group of the printer software is the traditional...
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...the print-quality slider to the front panel and press , then , then Setup > Printing preferences > HP-GL/2 options > Merge. You can be provided in the following ways: ● In the Windows...where the lines cross, the colors of the top line is intended mainly for preview. Select the HP Print Preview option, which you have the following options: ◦ Use your application's print preview ...OS X, you to check the layout of the print before printing option, which opens the HP Print Preview application to change paper size, paper type, and print quality, or rotate the ...
...the print-quality slider to the front panel and press , then , then Setup > Printing preferences > HP-GL/2 options > Merge. You can be provided in the following ways: ● In the Windows...where the lines cross, the colors of the top line is intended mainly for preview. Select the HP Print Preview option, which you have the following options: ◦ Use your application's print preview ...OS X, you to check the layout of the print before printing option, which opens the HP Print Preview application to change paper size, paper type, and print quality, or rotate the ...
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... print quality is set from your printheads have selected Best print quality. ● In the driver dialog (Mac OS X Print dialog): select Custom instead of ink used. If you have an excessive number of clogged nozzles (which you can specify high-quality printing in the following ways: ● In the Windows...
... print quality is set from your printheads have selected Best print quality. ● In the driver dialog (Mac OS X Print dialog): select Custom instead of ink used. If you have an excessive number of clogged nozzles (which you can specify high-quality printing in the following ways: ● In the Windows...
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...Margins/Layout > Borderless. NOTE: If the first print job after loading paper is a borderless job, the printer may trim the leading edge of ink used. NOTE: The More Passes option results in the following Image Enlargement options: ● Automatically by printer means that the printer automatically enlarges your ... on rolls of the paper) is known as borderless printing. This can be sure of leaving no residual part of the paper. Any ink deposited outside the paper is absorbed by a few millimeters in each direction) in order to ensure that no margins, the printer prints slightly...
...Margins/Layout > Borderless. NOTE: If the first print job after loading paper is a borderless job, the printer may trim the leading edge of ink used. NOTE: The More Passes option results in the following Image Enlargement options: ● Automatically by printer means that the printer automatically enlarges your ... on rolls of the paper) is known as borderless printing. This can be sure of leaving no residual part of the paper. Any ink deposited outside the paper is absorbed by a few millimeters in each direction) in order to ensure that no margins, the printer prints slightly...
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... some cases. Cleaning the printhead can be printed on it can make more ink later to restore the health of passes made by the printhead. TIP: If you print without interacting with the HP printer driver. ◦ HP-GL/2, RTL, TIFF, JPEG ◦ PostScript, PDF ● JPEG and... TIFF pages with resolutions greater than narrow prints, because printhead maintenance uses some ink, and its frequency is related to save ink as well as saving paper (see ...
... some cases. Cleaning the printhead can be printed on it can make more ink later to restore the health of passes made by the printhead. TIP: If you print without interacting with the HP printer driver. ◦ HP-GL/2, RTL, TIFF, JPEG ◦ PostScript, PDF ● JPEG and... TIFF pages with resolutions greater than narrow prints, because printhead maintenance uses some ink, and its frequency is related to save ink as well as saving paper (see ...
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..., Bond, Heavyweight Coated, Photo Coated, Heavyweight Coated, Photo Coated, Heavyweight Coated, Photo Print from the barcode printed on page 28). ● Check the ink levels remaining in your ink cartridges. ● When you loaded it . ● Load two rolls of your jobs. Table 8-1 Recommended settings for your jobs. Unattended printing/overnight printing...
..., Bond, Heavyweight Coated, Photo Coated, Heavyweight Coated, Photo Coated, Heavyweight Coated, Photo Print from the barcode printed on page 28). ● Check the ink levels remaining in your ink cartridges. ● When you loaded it . ● Load two rolls of your jobs. Table 8-1 Recommended settings for your jobs. Unattended printing/overnight printing...
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...the correct color preset for the paper type you are using, and under your printer to produce consistent colors with the particular printhead, inks, and paper type that is vital. 2. Color calibration Color calibration enables your particular environmental conditions. After color calibration, you may wish...9679; One gray and two black inks provide neutral grays on all other paper types, calibration should follow these steps for each paper type that you should be converted from another , but does not completely solve the problem of other HP DesignJet printers. In addition, you can ...
...the correct color preset for the paper type you are using, and under your printer to produce consistent colors with the particular printhead, inks, and paper type that is vital. 2. Color calibration Color calibration enables your particular environmental conditions. After color calibration, you may wish...9679; One gray and two black inks provide neutral grays on all other paper types, calibration should follow these steps for each paper type that you should be converted from another , but does not completely solve the problem of other HP DesignJet printers. In addition, you can ...