HP Designjet T7100 Printer series User Manual

HP Printers

Table of contents

Document Outline

Introduction
- Safety precautions
- Product models
- Using this guide
- The printer’s main features
- The printer’s main components
- The Embedded Web Server’s main components
- The HP Utility’s main features
- The printer’s internal prints
- Turn the printer on and off
Connectivity and software instructions
- Choose which connection method to use
- Connect to a network (Windows)
- Connect directly to a computer (Windows)
- Uninstall the printer driver (Windows)
- Connect to a network (Mac OS)
  - Bonjour connection
  - TCP/IP connection
- Connect directly to a computer (Mac OS)
  - Sharing the printer
- Uninstall the printer software (Mac OS)
Personalize the printer
- Change the language of the front-panel display
- Access the HP Utility
- Access the Embedded Web Server
- Change the language of the HP Utility
- Change the language of the Embedded Web Server
- Change the sleep mode setting
- Turn the buzzer on and off
- Change the front-panel display contrast
- Change the units of measurement
- Configure network settings
- Change the graphic language setting
- Paper suitability options
  - Paper mismatch action
  - Roll switching options
Handle the paper
- Overview
- Load a roll into the printer
- Unload a roll from the printer
- View information about the paper
- Perform paper advance calibration
  - Overview of the paper advance procedure
  - Return to the default calibration
- Download paper presets
- Cancel the drying time
- Change the drying time
- Printing paper info
- Feed and cut the paper
- Store the paper
- Order paper
  - Non-recommended paper types
Handle the ink system
- Ink system components
- Ink system tips
- Work with ink system components
- Order ink supplies
Use of multiple rolls
- The uses of a multiroll printer
- How the printer allocates jobs to paper rolls
  - Job allocation with nesting
Use of the stacker
- Install the stacker
- Uninstall the stacker
- Using paper with the stacker
- Stacker messages
- Change the temperature
- Change paper rolls while using the stacker
- Clean the exterior of the stacker
- Clean the stacker rollers
- Move or store the stacker
Print options
- Create a print job
  - Using the Embedded Web Server to print files
  - Printing stored jobs
- Select print quality
- Print a draft
- High-quality printing
  - If you have a high-resolution image
  - If you have printhead problems
- Select paper size
  - Custom paper sizes
- Select margins options
- Print on loaded paper
- Rescale a print
- Preview a print
- Print 16-bit color images
- Change the treatment of overlapping lines
- Print crop lines
- Rotate an image
  - Autorotate
- Print in gray shades
- Use paper economically
- Nest jobs to save paper
- Use ink economically
- Roll protection
- Unattended printing/overnight printing
Color management
- Introduction
- How colors are represented
- A summary of the color management process
- Color calibration
- Color management from printer drivers
- Color management from printer drivers (PostScript)
  - HP Professional PANTONE Emulation
  - Color emulation
    - CMYK color emulation
    - RGB color emulation
- Color management from the Embedded Web Server
  - Submit Job options
    - Rendering intent
    - Perform black point compensation
  - Printing PANTONE swatch books
- Color management from the front panel
Job queue management
- Embedded Web Server job queue page
- Job preview
- Turn off the job queue
- Select when to print a job in the queue
- Identify a job in the queue
- Prioritize a job in the queue
- Delete a job from the queue
- Reprint or copy a job in the queue
- Job status messages
  - Remove a hold
Retrieve printer usage information
- Get printer accounting information
- Check printer usage statistics
  - Printer statistics with the HP Utility
  - Printer statistics with the Embedded Web Server
- Check ink and paper usage for a job
  - Ink and paper statistics with the HP Utility
  - Ink and paper statistics with the Embedded Web Server
Practical printing examples
- Overview
- Print a draft for revision with the correct scale
  - Using Adobe Acrobat
- Print a project
- Print a presentation
  - Using AutoCAD
  - Using Adobe Photoshop
- Print and scale from Microsoft Office
Maintain the printer
- Clean the exterior of the printer
- Clean the platen
- Clean the paper-advance sensor window
- Lubricate the printhead carriage
- Maintain the ink cartridges
- Perform preventive maintenance
- Move or store the printer
- Update the printer firmware
- Secure disk erase
Accessories
- Order accessories
Troubleshoot print-quality issues
- General advice
- Troubleshooting tools
  - Optimize print quality
  - Optimization suggested actions
  - Most-common issues resolution
- Lines are too thick, too thin or missing
- Lines appear stepped or jagged
- Lines print double or in the wrong colors
- Lines are discontinuous
- Lines are blurred
- Line lengths are inaccurate
- The whole image is blurry or grainy
- The paper is not flat
- The print is scuffed or scratched
- Ink marks on the paper
- Black ink comes off when you touch the print
- Vertical lines of different colors
- White spots on the print
- Colors are inaccurate
  - PANTONE* colors are inaccurate
  - Colors between different HP Designjets do not match
- The output is completely blank
- The output contains only a partial print
- The image is clipped
- The image is in one portion of the printing area
- The image is unexpectedly rotated
- The print is a mirror image of the original
- The print is distorted or unintelligible
- One image overlays another on the same print
- Pen settings seem to have no effect
- The image has a wood-grain appearance (aeroworms)
Troubleshoot paper issues
- The paper has jammed
- Prints do not stack correctly in the bin
Troubleshoot ink-system issues
- Cannot insert an ink cartridge
- Cannot insert a printhead
- Cannot insert the maintenance cartridge
- Front panel recommends reseating or replacing a printhead
Troubleshoot stacker issues
- Paper scrolling
- The trailing edge of the paper curling up
- The paper is not completely ejected
- The front panel displays that the stacker is disconnected
Troubleshoot other issues
- The printer is not printing
- A job has not been printed
- The software application slows down or stalls while generating the print job
- The printer seems slow
- Communication failures between computer and printer
- Cannot access the Embedded Web Server
- “Out-of-memory” error message
- The platen rollers squeak
- Cannot access the HP Utility
- Print job canceled and purged when held for preview
- Printer alerts
Get help
- Introduction
- HP Professional Services
- HP Instant Support
- HP Proactive Support
- Customer Self Repair
- HP Customer Care
  - Telephone numbers
- HP Designjet Online
- Other sources of information
Front-panel menus
- Paper menu
- Job management menu
- Ink menu
- Setup menu
- Image quality maintenance menu
- Connectivity menu
- Internal prints menu
- Information menu
Front-panel error messages
Printer specifications
- Functional specifications
- Physical specifications
- Memory specifications
- Power specifications
- Environmental specifications
- Acoustic specifications
Glossary
Index