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HP Designjet 10ps/20ps/50ps software...

The HP Designjet 10ps/20ps/50ps software is a raster image processor that is specially designed to provide a smooth interface with your printer.

How do I install the HP Designjet 10ps/20ps software?

The installation and set up of the software for your HP Designjet 50ps printer is described in the document HP Designjet 50ps software--Installation.PDF which is on your HP Designjet 50ps printer software CD.

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PostScript drivers supplied with your printer...

There are three models of the HP Designjet 10ps/20ps/50ps printer, and each comes with a CD containing printer drivers. These drivers support many popular applications, including

    Adobe PhotoShop®

    Quark XPress®

    Macromedia Freehand®

    Adobe Illustrator®

    CorelDRAW™

    and other graphics applications that produce PostScript output.

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Office driver available on the web...

A Windows office driver is available on the HP web. Use this driver for printing office documents from applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

This driver is not intended for the enhanced color features provided by the HP Designjet 10ps/20ps software, but does make available specific office features provided by other office drivers.

It includes:

  • Print Quality (Best/Normal/Draft)
  • Orientation (Portrait/Landscape/Mirror Image/Rotate 180)
  • Margins (emulated Laserjet margins/Symmetric margins)
  • User-defined paper sizes from 7.6 cm x 12.7 cm (3"x5") to 33 cm x 127 cm (13"x50")
  • Preview
  • Scale to fit (ZoomSmart)
  • Two-sided printing (Book/Tablet/Automatic)
  • Multiple pages per sheet (2, 4, 6.../Draw page border/Page order)
  • Watermark
  • Tiling (Poster Printing)
  • Quick Sets
  • Faster file processing compared with the HP Designjet 10ps/20ps software RIP

Office Driver Limitations:

This driver is not oriented to obtain graphic artist documents. Using this driver you lose all the 'enhanced color features' provided by the HP Designjet software RIP, but you will have the office features provided by other office drivers except:

  • Color control sliders
  • Dry time
  • PhotoREt
  • Use the HP Designjet software RIP to obtain full color features.

Resolution provided by the driver:

  • Plain paper Best (600)
  • Plain paper Normal/Fast (300)
  • Other media Best/Normal (600)
  • Other media Fast (300)

This driver is for a Designjet printer but is not optimized for AutoCAD 2000. Each time you run AutoCAD 2000 you will receive a warning message. This message recommends the installation of an HP-GL/2 & RTL driver. The HP Designjet 10ps/20ps Windows driver is a PCL3GUI driver, not an HP-GL2 & RTL driver. Please, don't try to follow the instructions to get an optimized driver.

It does not include automatic color calibration or emulations (Pantone, ICC profiles) and has a smaller color gamut.


To download the driver (a compressed file of 2 to 3 Mb) go to

and select Drivers, or to

    http://www.hp.com/cposupport/software.html.

  • Enter the product name or product number
  • Select the language and operating system
  • Select the software to be downloaded
  • Click on Download Now
  • Save the program to disk
  • Run the program
  • Save all decompressed files
  • From Settings/Printers add a new printer
  • Press the Have Disk button from the Add Printer Wizard
  • Navigate to the directory where you have copied the files
  • Select the printer
  • And follow the remaining steps of the Add Printer wizard (clicking on Next or Finish).

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Maintenance...

A web-based maintenance tool is available.

From the Help menu of the HP Designjet 10ps or 20ps software, select Maintenance. This launches the online maintenance program. It requires the printer to be connected by a TCP/IP or USB port.

 

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