HP LaserJet 9000 Series - Software Technical Reference

Software Technical Reference for the HP LaserJet 9000 printers

Figure 25: Preview images - Legal on Letter; Scale to Fit off (left) and on (right)

When the size for which the document is formatted (that is, the logical size) differs from the target

size, the preview image uses a dashed gray line to show the boundaries of the logical page in

relation to the target page size.

The % of Normal Size option provides a slider bar for scaling the percentage setting. The default

setting in the entry box is 100 percent of normal size. Normal size is defined as the paper size

selected within the driver or what the driver receives from the application (if the application does

not negotiate paper size with the driver). The driver will scale the page by the appropriate factor

and send it to the printer.

The limits of the range are from 25 percent to 400 percent, and any values outside the range are

clipped to those limits as soon as the focus is removed from the control (that is, when the TAB

key is pressed or another control is selected).

Any change to the scale also changes the page preview, which increases or decreases from the

top left corner of the preview.

The slider bar controls the scale directly. The value in the edit box changes as the scroll bar

indicator is dragged, and the preview image is updated to the new image scale. Each click on the

scroll bar arrows increases or decreases the scale by one percent. Each click on the slider bar

affects the scale by 10 percent.

You cannot achieve an exact value by dragging the scroll bar indicator at the default Windows

resolution; use the scroll bar indicator to approximate the desired value, and then use the scroll

bar arrows to refine the value.

The following settings disable % of Normal Size:

• Print Document On: is selected.

• Pages per Sheet is not 1.

• Booklet Printing is on.

Watermarks

The Watermarks feature allows you to choose a watermark, create your own custom watermarks

(text only), or edit an existing watermark. The following watermarks are preset in the driver:

• Confidential

• Draft

• SAMPLE

The drop-down menu shows alphabetically sorted watermarks currently available on the system,

plus the string "None", which indicates that no watermark is selected. This is the default setting.

Any watermark selected from this list appears in the preview image.