HP Color LaserJet 5500 Printer series - Manual (Page 88)

Special printing situations
Use these guidelines when printing on special types of paper.
Printing a different first page
Use the following procedure to print the first page of a document on a different paper type
than the rest of the document, for example, to print the first page of a document on letterhead
paper and the rest on plain paper.
1. From your application or printer driver, specify a tray for the first page and another
tray for the remaining pages.
2. Load the special paper into the tray that you specified in step 1.
3. Load the paper for the remaining pages of the document into another tray.
You can also print on different paper by using the printer control panel or printer driver to
set the types of paper that are loaded in the trays and then selecting the first and remaining
pages by paper type.
Printing on custom-size paper
The printer supports single-sided printing and manual duplexing on custom-size paper.
Tray 1 supports paper sizes from 76 by 127 mm (3 by 5 inches) to 312 by 470 mm (12.3 by
18.5 inches).
When printing on custom-size paper, if Tray 1 is configured in the printer control panel as
TRAY 1 TYPE=ANY and TRAY 1 SIZE=ANY, the printer will print on whatever paper is
loaded in the tray. When printing on custom size paper from Trays 2, Tray 3, and Tray 4,
adjust the switch on the tray to the Custom position, and from the control panel, set the
paper size to CUSTOM or ANY CUSTOM.
Some software applications and printer drivers allow you to specify custom paper-size
dimensions. Be sure to set the correct paper size in both the page setup and print dialog
boxes. If your software doesn’t allow this, specify the custom paper-size dimensions in the
Paper handling menu of the printer control panel. See
Paper handling menu for more
information.
If your software application requires you to calculate margins for custom-size paper, see the
online Help for that application.
Stopping a print request
You can stop a print request either from the printer control panel or from your software
application. To stop a print request from a computer on a network, see the online Help
for the specific network software.
Note It may take some time for all printing to clear after you have canceled a print job.
To stop the current print job from the printer control panel
Press C ANCEL J OB on the printer control panel to cancel the job that is currently printing.
Pressing C ANCEL J OB does not affect subsequent print jobs that are stored in the printer buffer.
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