HP 2500tn, 2500L Features in the printer driver, Selecting a Source, Selecting a Type or Size

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Features in the printer driver

Some printer drivers and some operating systems do not support all printer features. Use the PCL 6 printer driver to take full advantage of all the printer features, as listed below. The Windows directions in the following sections assume that you are using the PCL driver. In the PS driver, the tabs are named differently.

●Selecting a Source

●Selecting a Type or Size

●Setting a custom paper size

●Printing in grayscale

●Changing color settings

●Creating and using watermarks

●Printing multiple pages on one sheet of paper (N-up printing)

●Creating and using Quick Sets

●Reducing or enlarging

●Printing on different paper for the first page

●Changing print quality

●Restoring default printer-driver settings

For manual duplexing, see “Printing on both sides (duplexing manually)” on page 48.

Selecting a Source

You can print by Source (tray) or by Type or Size. To print by Source, follow these steps. For more information, see “About printing by Source versus by Type or Size” on page 34. For Macintosh, types and sizes are all grouped together under the Paper Source pop-up menu.

●Windows: From the Print dialog box in your program, select the Source (tray), if possible. Otherwise, choose a tray from the Source is field from the Paper tab in your printer driver.

●Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x: From the Print dialog box, choose a tray from the Paper Source pop-up menu on the General pop-up menu.

●Mac OS X: From the Print dialog box, select the tray or type of media from the Paper Feed pop-up menu.

Selecting a Type or Size

You can print by Source (tray) or by Type or Size. If you are printing to special print media, such as heavy paper, it is important to print by Type to achieve good results. To print by Type or Size, follow these steps. For more information, see “About printing by Source versus by Type or Size” on page 34. For Macintosh, types and sizes are all grouped together under the Paper Source pop-up menu.

●Windows: From the printer driver, choose a type in the Type is field of the Paper tab. Or, choose a size from the Size is field. For some paper, such as letterhead, you will choose a type and size.

●Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x: From the Print dialog box, choose a type from the Paper Source pop-up menu on the General pop-up menu.

●Mac OS X: From the Print dialog box, select the tray or type of media from the Paper Feed pop-up menu.

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