HP 4250/4350 Select the correct printer driver for your needs, Printer driver Help, Properties

NOTE

NOTE

The OS/2 drivers are available from IBM and are packaged with OS/2. They are not available for Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or Traditional Chinese.

Select the correct printer driver for your needs

Select a printer driver based on the way that you use the printer. Certain printer features are available only in the PCL 6 drivers. See the printer driver Help for available features.

●Use the PCL 6 driver to take full advantage of printer features. For general office printing, the PCL 6 driver is recommended to provide optimum performance and print quality.

●Use the PCL 5 driver if backward compatibility with previous PCL printer drivers or older printers is necessary.

●Use the PS driver if you are printing primarily from PostScript-specific programs such as Adobe® and Corel, for compatibility with PostScript Level 3 needs, or for PS CompactFlash font support.

The printer automatically switches between PS and PCL printer languages.

Printer driver Help

Each printer driver has Help screens that can be activated by using the Help button, the F1 button on the computer keyboard, or a question-mark symbol in the upper-right corner of the printer driver (depending on the Windows operating system that you are using). You can also open printer-driver Help by right-clicking any item in the driver, and then clicking What's This? These Help screens give detailed information about the specific driver. Printer driver Help is separate from your program Help.

Using the printer drivers

Use one of the following methods to open the printer drivers from your computer:

Operating	To change the settings
System	for all print jobs until
	the software program
	is closed

Windows 98, NT	On the File menu in the
4.0, and ME	software program, click
	Print. Select the printer,
	and then click
	Properties.
	The steps can vary; this
	procedure is most
	common.

To change the print job default settings (for example, turn on Print on Both Sides by default)

Click Start, click Settings, and then click Printers. Right-click the printer icon, and then select Properties (Windows 98 and ME) or Document Defaults (Windows NT 4.0).

To change the configuration settings (for example, add a physical option such as a tray or enable/ disable a driver feature such as Allow Manual Duplexing)

Click Start, click Settings, and then click Printers. Right-click the printer icon, and then select Properties. Click the Configure tab.

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