User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Welcome to your printer
- Safety precautions
- Main components
- Turn the printer on and off
- Front panel
- HP Utility
- HP Print Preview
- Embedded Web Server
- Demo prints
- Configure your printer
- Connect the printer to your network
- Install your printer under Windows
- Uninstall the printer software under Windows
- Install your printer under macOS
- Uninstall the printer software under macOS
- Set up printer services
- Control access to the printer
- Require account ID
- Drivers
- Set Windows driver preferences
- Change the graphic language setting
- Mobile printing
- Accessibility
- Other sources of information
- Paper handling
- General advice
- Load a roll onto the spindle
- Load a roll into the printer
- Unload a roll
- Load a single sheet
- Unload a single sheet
- Sensitive-paper mode (Z6dr and Z9+dr only)
- View information about the paper
- Paper presets
- Printing paper info
- Move the paper
- Feed and cut the paper
- Maintain paper
- Change the drying time
- Turn the automatic horizontal cutter on and off
- Turn the automatic vertical trimmer on and off (Z6dr and Z9+dr only)
- Use the take-up reel
- Working with two rolls (Z6dr/Z9+dr only)
- Networking
- Printing
- Introduction
- Print from a USB flash drive
- Print from a computer using a printer driver
- Advanced print settings
- Select print quality
- Select paper size
- Select margin options
- Print on loaded paper
- Rescale a print
- Change the treatment of overlapping lines
- Preview a print
- Print a draft
- High-quality printing
- Print in gray shades
- Print with crop lines
- Use paper economically
- Nest jobs to save roll paper
- Use ink economically
- Protect a paper type
- Unattended printing/overnight printing
- Mobile printing
- Job queue management
- Color management
- Practical printing examples
- Retrieving printer usage information
- Handling ink cartridges and printheads
- Maintaining the printer
- Accessories
- Troubleshooting paper issues
- Paper cannot be loaded successfully
- Paper type is not in the driver, HP Utility, or front panel
- Printer printed on the wrong paper type
- Automatic cut not available
- On hold for paper
- Which criteria are used to decide on which roll a job will be printed?
- When is a job put on hold for paper?
- If I load a new roll of paper, will jobs that were on hold for paper be automatically printed?
- I don’t like jobs being put on hold for paper. Can I prevent it?
- My job is exactly as wide as the roll of paper that is loaded on the printer, but is put on hold for ...
- Roll paper will not advance
- Paper has jammed
- Strip stays on the output tray and generates jams
- Strip stays in the output area and cutter rail area and generates jams (Z6dr and Z9+dr only)
- Printer displays out of paper when paper is available
- Prints do not fall neatly into the basket
- Sheet stays in the printer when the print has been completed
- Paper is cut when the print has been completed
- Horizontal cutter does not cut well
- Vertical trimmer does not cut (Z6dr and Z9+dr only)
- Vertical trimmer does not cut accurately (Z6dr and Z9+dr only)
- Vertical trimmer: printer reports missing modules (Z6dr and Z9+dr only)
- Vertical trimmer leaves marks on waste paper
- Roll is loose on the spindle
- Recalibrate the paper advance
- Troubleshooting print-quality issues
- General advice
- Horizontal lines across the image (banding)
- Banding appears as irregular watermarks
- Whole image is blurry or grainy
- Paper is not flat
- Print is scuffed or scratched
- Ink marks on the paper
- Black ink comes off when you touch the print
- Edges of objects are stepped or not sharp
- Edges of objects are darker than expected
- Horizontal lines at the end of a cut sheet print
- Vertical lines of different colors
- White spots on the print
- Colors are inaccurate
- My print does not have gloss uniformity (Z9+ only)
- Image is incomplete (clipped at the bottom)
- Image is clipped
- Some objects are missing from the printed image
- Lines are too thick, too thin or missing
- Lines appear stepped or jagged
- Lines print double or in the wrong colors
- Lines are discontinuous
- Lines are blurred
- Line lengths are inaccurate
- Image Diagnostics Print
- If you still have a problem
- Troubleshooting ink cartridge and printhead issues
- Cannot insert an ink cartridge
- Ink cartridge status messages
- Printer does not detect the gloss enhancer cartridge (Z9+ only)
- Cannot insert a printhead
- Front panel recommends reseating or replacing a printhead
- Clean the printheads
- Clean the printhead drop detector
- Align the printheads
- Printhead status messages
- Troubleshooting general printer issues
- Front-panel error messages
- HP Customer Care
- Printer specifications
- Glossary
- Index
● (L) indicates papers available in Latin America
● (N) indicates papers available in North America
If the part number is not followed by parentheses, the paper is available in all regions.
Roll paper
Paper type g/m² Length Width Product number
HP Bond and Coated Paper
HP Super Heavyweight Plus Matte
Paper
200 30.5 m (100 ft) 610 mm (24 in) Q6626B (ELN)
914 mm (36 in) Q6627B (AELN)
1066 mm (42 in) Q6628B (ELN)
HP Universal Bond Paper 80 45.7 m (150 ft) 594 mm (23.39 in) (A1) Q8003A (AJ)
SA089A (2 Pack) (J)
610 mm (24 in) Q1396A
SA025A (2 Pack) (J)
914 mm (36 in) Q1397A
1066 mm (42 in) Q1398A
1117 mm (44 in) 2NC45A
91.4 m (300 ft) 594 mm (23.39 in) (A1) Q8004A (EAJ)
840 mm (33.11 in) (A0) Q8005A (EAJ)
174.9 m (574 ft) 914 mm (36 in) Q8751A (ELN)
HP Bright White Inkjet Paper 90 45.7 m (150 ft) 421 mm (16.57 in) Q1446A (EJ)
594 mm (23.4 in) (A1) Q1445A (EJ)
610 mm (24 in) C1860A (LN)
610 mm (24 in) C6035A (EAJ)
841 mm (33.11 in) (A0) Q1444A (EAJ)
914 mm (36 in) C6036A (EAJ)
914 mm (36 in) C1861A (LN)
91.4 m (300 ft) 914 mm (36 in) C6810A
HP Heavyweight Coated Paper 131 30.5 m (100 ft) 610 mm (24 in) C6029C
914 mm (36 in) C6030C
1066 mm (42 in) C6569C
68.5 m (225 ft) 1066 mm (42 in) Q1956A (ELN)
HP Coated Paper 90 45.7 m (150 ft) 420 mm (16.54 in) (A2) Q1443A (J)
594 mm (23.4 in) (A1) Q1442A (AEJ)
610 mm (24 in) C6019B
841 mm (33.11 in) (A0) Q1441A (EJ)
914 mm (36 in) C6020B
1066 mm (42 in) C6567B
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