HP Designjet Z2100 Photo Printer Series - Quick Reference Guide

4Printing

Select print quality

The printer has various print-quality options because best-quality printing requires some loss of speed,

while fast printing implies some reduction in print quality.

Therefore, the standard print-quality selector is a slider that allows you to choose between quality and

speed, or perhaps some compromise between the two.

Alternatively, you can select from the custom options: Best, Normal, and Fast. There are also two

supplementary custom options that may have an effect on print quality: Maximum detail and More

passes. See Using your printer on DVD.

NOTE In the Windows driver dialog, the rendering resolution for your job is displayed in the

Custom Print Quality Options dialog box.

You can select print-quality options in the following ways:

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In the Windows driver dialog: go to the Paper/Quality tab and look at the Print Quality section. If

you select Standard Options, you will see a simple slider with which you can select some compromise

between speed and quality. If you select Custom Options, you will see the more specific options

described above.

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In the Mac OS Print dialog: go to the Paper Type/Quality panel and select Paper. If you select

Standard quality options, you will see a simple slider with which you can select some compromise

between speed and quality. If you select Custom quality options, you will see the more specific options

described above.

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Using the front panel: select the Setup menu icon

, then Printing preferences > Print

quality. This option is available only with the HP-GL/2 Upgrade.

NOTE If the print quality is set in the Print dialog, it overrides the print-quality setting in

the front panel.

NOTE You cannot change the print quality of pages that the printer is already receiving or has