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5`11
Controlling the Appearance
of Your Printed Documents
You can change the printer settings in any of the four ways described below.
Using your software application is the easiest and most recommended method. In general,
settings made through your software application supercede settings made with the other
three methods.
This method:
Can be used to change
these types of settings:
When to use this method
Your Software
Application
(in
conjunction with a
printer driver)
Typeface style and size.
Placement of text, graphics, and
margins.
Page orientation.
Whenever possible. Your software
settings will override the front
panel settings.
Quality
Font
Printer Control
Panel Buttons
Print quality.
Page orientation.
Pitch of internal fonts.
When your DOS software does
not allow you to make these
settings. The next section "Using
the Printer Control Panel"
explains how to use these buttons.
MENU:
Printer
Settings
Printer Settings in
the HP OfficeJet LX
Menu
Character sets.
Text lines per page.
Top and bottom margins.
When printing ASCII files
directly from DOS. Refer to
chapter 6 for a map to the printer
settings in control panel menu
system.
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Printer Commands
(PCL)
Some infrequently-used settings not
usually found in software
applications, such as stroke weight
cursor position, raster graphics
control, and so on.
When your DOS software
application allows you to
customize the printer software.
The HP DeskJet 500 Series
Technical Reference Guide will
be a helpful reference (refer to
chapter 8 for ordering
information).
5. Printing &
Copying