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INFORMATION REGARDING HEWLETT PACKARD PLOTTERS
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You have selected one of the following plotters:
HP 7470A HP 7580B HP ColorPro
HP 7475A HP 7586B HP ColorPro with GEC
HP 7550A HP DraftPro
HP 7580A HP DraftMaster I
HP 7585A HP DraftMaster II
CONFIGURING YOUR PLOTTER
A. SETTING UP THE COMMUNICATIONS PORT
1. From Control Panel, pull down the Setup menu and choose the
Communications Port command. A dialog box appears displaying the
communications settings.
2. Specify the following settings, then choose the OK button in the
Communications Settings box:
Baud Rate: 9600
Word Length: 8
Parity: None
Stop Bits: 1
Handshake: Hardware (essential for RS-232 port)
Port: COM1 or COM2, depending on which port your
plotter is connected to.
B. SPECIFYING YOUR PLOTTER CONNECTIONS
3. Pull down the Setup menu and choose the Connections command. A dialog
box displays a list of printers/plotters and a list of ports.
4. Select "HP Plotter" in the printer list box.
5. Select the desired port from the Connections list box (the same port
you specified in the Communications Settings box), and choose OK. If you
choose a port that is connected to another device, you must change the
other device's port connection before the driver will accept your port
choice.
C. SETTING UP YOUR PLOTTER
IMPORTANT: Be sure you have completed steps 1 through 5 before proceeding with
selecting your plotter.
SELECTING YOUR PLOTTER AS DEFAULT PRINTER
6. From Control Panel, pull down the Setup menu and choose Printer. The
Default Printer box appears, listing all available printers and their
assigned port connections.
7. Select "HP plotter on COMx" in the Default Printer list box.
8. Use the Printer Timeouts box to adjust the amount of time Windows
waits before sending you messages about plotter problems.
a. "Device Not Selected." We recommend that you leave this setting
at the default of 15 seconds. This setting controls how much time
passes before Windows informs you that your plotter is off-line.
b. "Transmission Retry." We recommend initially increasing this
setting to a value between 100 and 200 seconds. Plots with many
filled areas require a higher Transmission Retry setting. You may
need to experiment with various values to determine which works best
with your plots. See section C of "Advanced Features" below for
important details on this setting.
9. Choose OK in the Default Printer box. The Plotter dialog box appears,
displaying default plotter settings. (You will override the defaults by
selecting your plotter model in the next step.)
10. Pull down the Device menu and select your plotter. A check mark is
placed next to the plotter you select, and the dialog box title changes to
your plotter model.
IMPORTANT: If your 758xB plotter serial number prefix is less than 2402,
select the corresponding 758xA plotter.
SELECTING MEDIA SIZE
11. From the Plotter dialog box, pull down the Size menu. The media sizes
which your plotter supports display in bold and a check mark appears next
to the default media size for your plotter.
12. If you use a size other than the default, select that size, and the
check mark moves to your selection. The current media size also appears
in the lower left corner of the Plotter dialog box.
SETTING PAPER FEED
13. Choose one of the following options:
a. "Manual" causes the plotter to stop between pages so you can
manually load the next page when plotting multiple copies of a
drawing.
b. "Automatic" is available only for the following models, and
allows continuous plotting on rollfeed or automatically-fed media:
7550, 7586B, DraftMasterII
c. "Preloaded" turns off the Insert Paper prompt which appears
after you start a plot but before plotting actually begins.
SETTING ORIENTATION
14. Choose one of the following options:
a. "Portrait" uses the shorter side of your paper as the X-axis.
b. "Landscape" uses the longer side of your paper as the X-axis.
Default orientation is Portrait; however, many standard plotter
applications use Landscape orientation.
SELECTING PEN COLORS AND TYPES
The driver provides six carousels so you can customize pen combinations.
For example, if you plot on both paper and transparency, you can set up
one carousel with paper pens, and another with transparency pens. Then
you simply select the appropriate carousel for your plot, rather than
repeatedly resetting the pen features of a single carousel. The driver
also allows you to use more colors than will fit in one carousel. To do
this you set more than one carousel as Active. For instructions on using
more than one carousel, refer to "Using Multiple Carousels" under
"Advanced Features" below.
Carousel 1 is the default Active carousel and contains default pen colors
and types for your plotter. These defaults display in the right half of
the plotter dialog box. (The first time you set up carousels 2-6 there
will be no previous settings displayed.) When you are ready to plot, you
will place pens in your plotter's carousel according to the settings for
the Active carousel. You may accept the default settings in Carousel 1
and skip to step 19, or you may customize individual pen features by using
the Carousel menu, as follows:
15. Pull down the Carousel menu. A list of Current and Active carousels
appears.
a. Select under Current the carousel whose pen attributes you want
to specify. Only one carousel at a time may be Current.
b. Choose as Active the carousel(s) to be used by your plotter for the
next plot job. You may select more than one Active carousel by repeatedly
pulling down the Carousel menu and selecting additional carousels. A
check appears next to each Active carousel. This setting toggles on and
off; select an Active carousel to make it inactive.
16. Select from the Pen Color list the pen number(s) which you want to
set. You may select more than one pen by pressing the Shift key while
clicking on each desired pen number. All the menu bar items become
available, enabling you to change pen color, type, and other options.
17. Pull down the PenColor menu and choose your color from this list of HP
colors. Your new color replaces any previous color(s) for the selected
pen(s).
18. Pull down the Type menu and choose from the list of available pen
types for the selected color. The new type replaces the present type(s)
in the carousel list. Pen type abbreviations are:
P = Paper T = Transparency V = Vellum R = Rollerball
NOTE: When you select a pen type, the driver automatically assigns the
correct speed, force, and acceleration. If you use standard HP pen colors
and types, you may never need to use the Options menu to adjust these
features.
SETTING DRAFT AND SAVE BOXES
19. Draft: An "X" in the Draft box signals your plotter to draw wide
lines and borders quickly. For final plotting, turn draft mode off by
clicking the "X" in the Draft box. Draft mode is recommended for the
majority of your plots to reduce plotting time.
20. Save: If the Save box is selected when you choose OK in the Plotter
dialog box, the current settings are saved in the WIN.INI file and they
become your defaults for that plotter. To execute your settings for the
current session only, click on the Save box to remove the "X" before
choosing OK.
WHAT ABOUT RESET AND CANCEL?
Reset returns to their driver default values all the settings in the
Plotter dialog box except Draft and Save. Cancel ignores any changes made
in the Plotter dialog box during the current session and returns control
to the Default Printer box.
COMPLETING CONFIGURATION
21. When you have made all necessary changes to the Plotter dialog box,
choose the OK button. Your plotter is now properly configured.
ADVANCED FEATURES
A. CUSTOMIZING PEN FEATURES BEYOND THE BASICS
The Options menu in the Plotter dialog box allows you to specify pen speed,
force, acceleration and priority. (Force and Acceleration options are
unavailable on some plotters.)
1. Choose a Current carousel from the Carousel menu and set its pen
colors and types, if necessary.
2. Select the pen number(s) you want to tailor. Only select more than
one pen if you want EACH selected pen to receive the SAME speed, force,
acceleration and/or priority setting.
3. Pull down the Options menu and select the desired pen feature. Your
selected pen(s) for the Current carousel appear in a dialog box with their
current settings.
4. Do one of the following:
a. To set pen speed, force, and acceleration: Use the up/down arrow
scroll box to change pen speed, force, or acceleration for the
selected pen(s). Choose OK to save the current setting, Reset to
return to the driver default value, or Cancel to exit the feature box
without changing the setting.
b. To set pen priority: In the Priority box, choose the desired
priority for the selected pen(s). For example, you may specify all
lines and text to be drawn with a P.3 pen (thin line), and all fill
to be drawn with a P.7 pen (wide line) to speed your plotting. Choose
OK to save the current setting, Reset to return to the driver
default priority, or Cancel to exit the Priority box without changing
the setting.
5. Choose OK in the Plotter dialog box when all values are set as
desired.
B. USING MULTIPLE CAROUSELS
Your plotter driver allows you to set up multiple carousels for a single
plot, e.g., in case you want to use all 10 colors on a single drawing.
The plotter uses all the colors in the first Active carousel, then the
Spooler prompts you to change carousels in the plotter, and then the
plotter completes the drawing using the next Active carousel. To receive
the Change Carousel prompt, your application screen MUST be sized so that
the Spooler icon is visible during plotting. When the icon blinks, double
click on the icon to display its message.
IMPORTANT: The driver minimizes bleeding of colors by using the colors in
each carousel in the following sequence, regardless of how they are
numbered in the carousel:
1. Yellow
2. Orange
3. Red
4. Green
5. Red-Violet
6. Aqua
7. Brown
8. Violet
9. Blue
10. Black
Because all the pens in one carousel are used before the next carousel is
introduced, bleeding is more likely if you place darker pens in Carousel 1
and lighter pens in subsequent carousels.
1. To set a new carousel, pull down the Carousel menu, and select as
Current the carousel you want to set up. Select as Active each carousel
you want used for your next plot.
2. Select the number of the first pen you want to set. All the menu bar
options become available, enabling you to set pen color, type, speed,
force, acceleration and priority.
3. Set any pen options you want as described above under "Selecting Pen
Colors and Types" and "Customizing Pen Features Beyond the Basics."
4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 for each carousel you want to set up, then
choose OK in the Plotter dialog box to accept the current settings.
Before plotting, place pens in the plotter's carousel according to the
pens you specified for the first Active carousel. When you are prompted
to change carousels during plotting, replace the pens in the plotter's
carousel with the pens you specified for the next Active carousel.
C. MORE ON TRANSMISSION RETRY
When you start a plotting job, Windows sends data to your plotter at a constant
transmission rate. Because plotters cannot plot at the same speed at which
data is transmitted, they have buffers that receive and store data while they
plot. When the buffer fills, the plotter stops accepting data from Windows
until the buffer is able to accept more data.
The Transmission Retry setting tells Windows how long to wait after your
plotter stops accepting data before trying to send it more data. If the
specified amount of time passes and your plotter still does not accept data,
Windows stops the plot and displays an error message.
The error message offers the option to Retry or Cancel the plot. In most cases,
Retry enables the plot to complete properly. However, to avoid this disruption
of plotting, we recommend that you increase the Transmission Retry setting.
This is especially important for the following plotters which have large memory
buffers that may delay data acceptance for longer than the default of 45
seconds:
ColorPro with GEC
7475
7550
758XB
DraftPro
DraftMaster I/II
D. UNDERSTANDING PLOTTER SETTINGS IN YOUR WIN.INI FILE
Your WIN.INI file contains settings for many Microsoft Windows features and
Windows applications. Refer to Appendix A, "Customizing Your WIN.INI File," of
the Microsoft Windows User's Guide for descriptions of these settings.
Your plotter driver adds a [Plotter Model] section to the WIN.INI file. All
plotter settings in this section of the file can be changed through Control
Panel, so it may never be necessary for you to work directly in this file. And
because some of these settings are determined by your plotter model, they
should be changed ONLY in Control Panel where incorrect options for your
plotter are unavailable. The following descriptions of the plotter settings
are provided for your reference.
Current Carousel
Indicates which carousel displays as Current when you enter the Plotter
dialog box.
PaperFeed
0 = Single Sheet (Manual load)
1 = Automatic
This setting is 0 for all plotters except those with automatic paperfeed
(7550, 7586B and DraftMasterII).
Preloaded
0 = Paper is not preloaded (default)
1 = Paper is preloaded
Orientation
0 = Portrait Mode
1 = Landscape Mode
Draft
0 = Final mode
1 = Draft mode (default)
Active Carousels
0 = Inactive
1 = Active
Each of the six carousels is represented by the value in its respective
position to the right of the "ActiveCarousels=" phrase.
Size
The first value after "Size=" represents media size as follows:
0-4 = A-E size media
5-9 = A4-A0 size media
The second value applies only to roll media and represents plot length:
10 = 24 X 36-inch roll media
11 = 36 X 48-inch roll media
C1..C6
These settings display specific carousel information for Carousels 1 (C1)
through 6 (C6). Each line represents a carousel's eight pens, each with
six characteristics listed in the following order:
color, type, speed, force, acceleration, priority
This order repeats across the line for each pen.
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END OF README FILE
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