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
Functional specications
HP ink supplies
Printheads Universal printheads, which can be inserted into any of the available slots. Once initialized in
a particular slot, they cannot be moved to another.
Ink cartridges Cartridges containing 300 ml of ink: matte black, photo black, cyan, magenta, yellow,
chromatic red, chromatic green (Z9
+
only), chromatic blue (Z9
+
only), gray (Z9
+
only), gloss
enhanc
er (Z9
+
only)
Paper sizes
Minimum Maximum
Roll width 279 mm (11 in) 610 mm (24 in) (24-in printer)
1118 mm (44 in) (44-in printer)
Roll length 91 m (300 feet)
Roll diameter 135 mm (5.3 in)
Roll weight 11.9 kg (26.3 lb)
Sheet width 210 mm (8.26 in) 610 mm (24 in) (24-in printer)
1118 mm (44 in) (44-in printer)
Sheet length 279 mm (11 in) 1676 mm (66 in)
Paper thickness 0.8 mm (31.5 mil)
Paper weight 80 g/m² 500 g/m²
Printing resolutions
Self-adhesive material, banner, backlit, glossy
p
aper Coated, bond, lm, technical
Print quality
Maximum
detail
Rendering resolution
(ppi)
Printing resolution
(dpi)
Rendering resolution
(ppi)
Printing resolution
(dpi)
Best On
O
1200 × 1200
600 × 600
2400 × 1200
1200 × 1200
600 × 600 1200 × 1200
Normal On/O 600 × 600 1200 × 1200 600 × 600 1200 × 1200
Fast On/O – – 600 × 600 1200 × 1200
Economode On/O – – 300 × 300 600 × 1200
Margins
Top, right and left margins 5 mm (0.2 in)
Bottom margin (trailing edge) 5 mm (0.2 in) (roll)
17 mm (0.67 in) (sheet)
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