HP T2500 manual Print from a computer using a printer driver, Advanced print settings

Press the Add files button to choose the files from your computer that you want to print. The files must be in one of the following formats:

●HP-GL/2

●RTL

●TIFF

●JPEG

●PDF (PostScript printers only)

●PostScript (PostScript printers only)

NOTE: When you print to a file, the file should be in one of the above formats, but its name may have an extension such as .plt or .prn.

If the files are not in one of these formats, they will not be printed successfully.

If the jobs have been generated with the appropriate settings (such as page size, rotation, resizing and number of copies), you can just press the Print button and they will be sent to the printer.

If you need to specify printing settings, go to the Job settings section and select the options you need. Each option has explanatory text on the right, so that you can understand the behavior of each setting. Remember that, if you leave the setting as Default, the setting saved in the job will be used. If the job contains no setting, the setting in the printer will be used.

If you have chosen some non-default settings and expect to reuse the same group of settings in the future, you can save them all under a single name from the Manage presets tab, and recall them using that name later.

Print from a computer using a printer driver

This is the traditional way of printing from a computer. The correct printer driver must be installed on the computer (see Installing the software on page 15), and the computer must be connected to the printer by network.

When the printer driver has been installed and the computer is connected to the printer, you can print from a software application by using the application's own Print command and selecting the correct printer.

NOTE: When first printing, Windows automatically searches for the printer driver on the Internet (if the computer is connected to the Internet). This means that you do not need to search for the driver yourself. However, this process will install the driver without the rest of the software. Therefore, we recommend installation using the DVD (or the install package that you can download from HP's website) so that all of the printer software is installed.

Advanced print settings

The rest of this chapter explains the various print settings that you can use when printing with a printer driver, the Embedded Web Server or the HP Utility. These methods offer a relatively large number of settings in order to satisfy all requirements.

TIP: In general you are recommended to use the default settings unless you know that they do not meet your requirements.

TIP: If you intend to reuse a particular group of settings repeatedly, you can save those settings under a name of your own choice and recall them later. A saved group of settings is known as a 'quick set' in the Windows printer driver, and as a 'preset' in the Embedded Web Server.

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