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Choose the right printer driver for your needs
Choose a printer driver based on the way you use the printer.
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Use the PCL 6 driver to take full advantage of the printer’s
features. Unless backward compatibility with previous PCL
drivers or older printers is necessary, the PCL 6 driver is
recommended.
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Use the PCL 5e driver if you want print results to look comparable
to those from older printers, or for font DIMM support.
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Use the PS driver for compatibility with PostScript Level 2.
Certain features are not available in this driver.
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The printer automatically switches between PS and PCL printer
languages.
Printer driver help
Each printer driver has help screens that can be activated either from
the Help button, the F1 key, or a question mark symbol in the upper
right corner in the printer driver (depending on the Windows operating
system used). These help screens give detailed information about the
specific driver. Printer driver help is separate from the software
application help.
HP Resource Manager
The HP Resource Manager should be installed only on the network
administrator’s computer. The HP Resource Manager allows you to
control the hard disk and flash memory accessory features not found
in the drivers. Bidirectional communication is required.
Use the HP Resource Manager to do the following:
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initialize disk and flash memory
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download, delete, and manage fonts and macros to disk and flash
memory across networks
• PostScript Type 1, PostScript Type 42, TrueType™ fonts
converted to PostScript format, TrueType, and PCL bitmap
fonts
• To download Type 1 fonts, Adobe Type Manager must be
loaded and turned on.
You can obtain a copy of HP Resource Manager over the Internet.
See “Online services” on page 157 for details.
Note
HP Resource Manager is not available for the Macintosh.