HP LX manual Controlling the Appearance Your Printed Documents

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Controlling the Appearance

of Your Printed Documents

You can change the printer settings in any of the four ways described below.

Using your software application is the easiest and most recommended method. In general, settings made through your software application supercede settings made with the other three methods.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can be used to change

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This method:

these types of settings:

When to use this method

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Software

Typeface style and size.

Whenever possible. Your software

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Application (in

Placement of text, graphics, and

settings will override the front

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

conjunction with a

margins.

panel settings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

printer driver)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page orientation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quality

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Printer Control

Print quality.

When your DOS software does

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Panel Buttons

:Page orientation.

not allow you to make these

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pitch of internal fonts.

settings. The next section "Using

 

Font

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the Printer Control Panel"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

explains how to use these buttons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Printing & Copying

MENU:

Printer Settings in

Character sets.

 

 

 

Printer

the HP OfficeJet LX

:Text lines per page.

 

 

 

Menu

Top and bottom margins.

 

 

 

Settings

 

 

 

 

 

 

When printing ASCII files directly from DOS. Refer to chapter 6 for a map to the printer settings in control panel menu system.

Ec . . .

Printer Commands

Some infrequently-used settings not

(PCL)

usually found in software

 

 

applications, such as stroke weight

 

 

cursor position, raster graphics

 

 

control, and so on.

When your DOS software application allows you to customize the printer software. The HP DeskJet 500 Series Technical Reference Guide will be a helpful reference (refer to chapter 8 for ordering information).

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HP LX manual Controlling the Appearance Your Printed Documents