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increase copy speed or quality

The HP Officejet provides three options that affect copy speed and quality.

•Normal delivers high-quality output and is the recommended setting for most of your copying. Normal copies faster than Best.

•Fast copies faster than the Normal setting. The text is of comparable quality to the Normal setting, but the graphics might be of lower quality. Using Fast reduces the frequency of replacing your print cartridges, because it uses less ink.

•Best produces the highest quality for all paper and eliminates the banding (striping) effect that sometimes occurs in solid areas. Best copies more slowly than the other quality settings.

1Load your original face down on the left front corner of the glass or face up in the automatic document feeder tray.

If you are using the automatic document feeder, place the pages so that the top of the document goes in first.

2Press Copy until Copy Quality appears in the top line of the display. The following options are available in the Copy Quality menu.

copy

Copy Menu

Number of Copies

Reduce/Enlarge

Copy Quality

Copy Paper Size

Paper Type

Lighter/Darker

Enhancements

Color Intensity

Set New Defaults

Copy Quality

Normal

Fast

Best

3Press until the quality setting you want appears.

4 Press Start Black or Start Color.

change default copy settings

When you change copy settings from the front panel or the HP Director, they apply only to the current copy job. To apply copy settings to all future copy jobs, you can save the settings as defaults.

1Load an original face down on the left front corner of the glass or face up in the automatic document feeder tray.

If you are using the automatic document feeder, place the pages so that the top of the document goes in first.

2Make any changes to the options in the Copy menu.

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