Choose the right printer driver for your needs

Choose a printer driver based on the way you use the printer.

●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.

●Use the PCL 5e driver if you want print results to look comparable to those from older printers, or for font DIMM support.

●Use the PS driver for compatibility with PostScript Level 2. Certain features are not available in this driver.

●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:

●initialize disk and flash memory

●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.

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