Front-panel image options, 5000ps, Why use the front-panel – HP DesignJet 500 User Manual
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Front-Panel Image Options
These next few pages deals with the ways you can
control the overall appearance of your prints from the
front-panel in terms of:
pen width
pen color
treatment of overlapping lines
overall print quality and resolution.
Some front-panel selections affect the next file or job
you send from your computer, but not pages already in
the printer's queue. If this is the case, it is stated in the
relevant part of this section.
Some of the controls are available using the front-panel
menus (for example) pen width, pen color, overlapping
lines). Print mode options are controlled from the front-
panel.
Why Use the Front-Panel?
By default, the printer looks to your software to provide
information on all the above attributes. However, your
driver or application may not provide these controls or
you may want to experiment with various effects, or try
a temporary change without the need to change your
images or your driver settings.
5000PS
Unless you have specifically indicated in your
software that the printer’s front-panel settings
are to be used, (for example, Printer’s default
Setting in a Macintosh Print Options window),
the software settings for a PostScript file
override the printer front-panel settings
described in this section.
5000
Some of these settings do not affect
the output generated when printing
from most of the applications under
Windows when using a HP-GL/2 driver.