6 Engineering Details ....................................................................................................................................

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Introduction .......................................................................................................................................

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Remote firmware update .................................................................................................................

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Determining the current level of firmware .......................................................................

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Downloading the new firmware from the HP Web site ....................................................

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Downloading the new firmware to the product .................................................................

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Printer messages during the firmware update ................................................................

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Downloading custom color profiles ..................................................................................

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Remote firmware update by using FTP through a browser .............................................

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Remote firmware update by using FTP on a direct network connection (Windows) .......

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Remote firmware update through a local Windows port .................................................

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Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server

 

2008 ................................................................................................................

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Remote firmware update through a USB port ..................................................................

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Remote firmware update through a Windows network ...................................................

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Remote firmware update by using the LPR command ...................................................

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HP Easy Firmware Upgrade utility ...................................................................................

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Remote firmware update through HP Web Jetadmin .....................................................

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Remote firwmare update using HP Web Jetadmin V7.8 or 8.x .......................

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Remote firmware update using HP Web Jetadmin 10.x .................................

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Remote firmware update by using FTP on a direct network connection (Macintosh) ......

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Remote firmware update using the HP Printer Utility (Macintosh OS X) ........

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Remote firmware update for UNIX systems ...................................................................

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Printing print-ready documents .......................................................................................................

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Print-ready file printing by using FTP through a browser .................................................

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Print-ready file printing by using FTP on a direct network connection (Windows) ...........

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Print-ready printing by using a local Windows port ..........................................................

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Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008,

 

or Windows Vista ............................................................................................

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Print-ready file printing in a Windows network .................................................................

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Print-ready file printing by using the LPR command .......................................................

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Print-ready file printing by using FTP on a direct network connection (Macintosh) .........

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Print-ready file printing in UNIX systems .........................................................................

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Special paper guidelines ..................................................................................................................

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Media attributes and commands ......................................................................................................

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Paper-source commands .................................................................................................

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Paper-type commands .....................................................................................................

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Installation notes ..............................................................................................................................

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I. INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................

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PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT .................................................................

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WHO NEEDS THIS SOFTWARE? .................................................................

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ...........................................................................

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OVERVIEW OF THE PRINTING-SYSTEM COMPONENTS ..........................

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Network administrator software components .................................

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