HP (Hewlett-Packard) HP LaserJet 5 Printer User Manual


 
4 Printing
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Preparing for Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Selecting Paper and Other Print Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Media Input Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Loading Tray 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Loading Tray 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Printing Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Stopping a Print Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Manually Feeding Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Reserving or Locking-out Trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Printing on Special Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Printing Letterhead and Preprinted Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13
Printing Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16
Printing Labels and Transparencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18
Printing with Optional Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Printing from the 500-sheet Tray 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
Printing with the Duplex Unit (2-Sided Printing) . . . . . . . . . 4-24
Printing with the Envelope Feeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27
Printing with the Infrared Serial Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-30
5 PostScript Printing
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Preparing for PostScript Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Using PostScript Printer Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Printer Memory and PostScript Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Printing a Legal Page in PostScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Switching Printer Languages (Personalities) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Control Panel Differences with PostScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
PostScript Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
Menu Items Affected by PostScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
Printing a PostScript Configuration Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
PostScript Configuration Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
6 Adjusting Print Quality
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Choosing Print Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Fine-Tuning Print Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Adjusting Print Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Enhancing Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Harmonizing Print Density and REt Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5
EconoMode Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Saving Toner with EconoMode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
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