HP 5961-0509 manual Group of all of the printer’s current feature settings

3 The Print

Environment

	Introduction
	The group of all of the printer’s current feature settings,
	collectively, is referred to as the print environment. The printer
	maintains four print environments: the Factory Default
	Environment, the User Default Environment, the Modified
	Print Environment and the Overlay Environment. This chapter
	describes the Factory Default Environment, the User Default
	Environment, and the Modified Print Environment (the Overlay
	Environment is described in Chapter 12, Macros).
	Default settings refer to the settings programmed into the printer
	at the factory or settings selected using the control panel. The
	term “default” simply refers to the settings the printer uses unless
	printer commands select other settings.
	Each time a job is printed, some of the printer’s feature settings
	may be changed from their default values to produce the desired
	printed output for that job. After the job prints, the job-specific
	feature settings are longer be required, since the next job is likely
	to have different output requirements. The next job should clear
	all previous job settings by performing a reset. This allows a job
	to start with the default settings as a known base set, and vary
	only those settings that are needed. Starting with the default
	environment at the beginning of each print job eliminates the
	need to set every feature each time a job is run.
Note	The print environment features presented in this chapter are for a
	variety of HP LaserJet printers. Not all of the features are applicable
	to every printer. To identify variations and default settings for specific
	printers, refer to Chapter 3 of the PCL 5 Comparison Guide.

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