Media length tracking – HP Designjet 5100 Printer series User Manual

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HP Designjet 5100 printer Customer Reference Guide

using that profile. It takes about nine minutes to print a sample, depending

on the print mode and the printing material.

RGB sample

CMYK sample

If you are unsure which profile to choose, you can print samples using

several different profiles and decide for yourself which gives the best print

quality.

Many of our customers prefer high-grammage printing materials (about 170

g/m²), and there is a generic media profile best suited to such materials.

Choose Heavyweight Coated, and then HW Coated 2. This profile is

designed to give particularly good quality, especially in Production mode.

In some cases it may be possible to select Production mode although the

non-HP printing material is not compatible with Production mode. In such

cases the printer will print in Productivity mode.

Media length tracking

The media length tracking function enables the printer to register through the

front panel how much printing material is left on the roll you are using.

To turn on the function

1 Go to the Printer Setup menu and press

Enter

:

2 The front panel displays:

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