HP Latex 700 / 800 (W) - Printer settings

These settings can be found by clicking on the Settings button from the Print module main window.

Printer tab

• Display printer warnings: You can choose to display, or not, printer warnings directly in the RIP. Warnings are only displayed before printing.

"Display white printhead warning" is available only in W drivers from V18.2 or later.

• Display white printhead warning. When enabled, the printer driver will display two distinct messages based on your production: 

  • For jobs with white ink, the driver will prompt you to unload the white ink printhead from the storage system, and install it following the instructions on the printer's control panel.

      Warning

    If you don't install the white printhead, printing will continue without interruption; however, the controller will register an error.

    For more information on handling white inks in these printers, please refer to the HP documentation (starting on page 202).

  • For jobs without white ink, the driver will recommend placing the white ink printhead in the storage system to extend its life.

Advanced parameters:

• Use printer status: Skip some driver-printer interaction. When this option is disabled the driver does not check for Job-status of the printer. This means the job cannot be canceled and accounting information cannot be retrieved. But it allows continuous printing without waiting for the full completion of the previous jobs. 
• Prepare to print button: Sends a message to the printer so it can make itself ready to print.
• Wake Up printer button: Wakes the printer if in sleeping mode.

Media tab

• Information: at the top of the window, you are able to see information about your media. There you have access to two actions:
  • Save: when you click on this button, the current media settings are saved to the selected media profile (printer, media, resolution, mode) so there will be applied for any new job using the same print configuration. If you don't save, the changes you made are only applied to the current job.
  • Reload: will revert back to default as set during profiling or the last saved changes.
• Horizontal compensation (%): we recommend not to modify this. Any deviation is likely to be mechanical on the printer's side.
• Vertical compensation (%): this can be useful if you detect an increase or decrease in the length due to heating or media tension which is common when printing on vinyl or textiles for example. To calculate the compensation, click Compute and follow the software’s instructions.

• Generic media name: This is the media name used on the printer panel
• Generic media key: It displays the key number used for the media family
• Optimized for lamination: Overwrites the value of the print mode Overcoat level
• Smart chokes: Only for Latex 700 W and Latex 800 W models. It can be defined between 1 and 20 pixels. The white layer is minimized in order to avoid misalignment between the color layer and the white layer in the printed output when using Underflood or Overflood modes.

Comments tab

On this tab you can see comments coming from the EasyMedia module. It can include comments from the global media window and from the profile project window.

Status tab

• Status: global state of the printer:
  • Ready
  • Not available
  • Printing

All data is coming from the printer, if it is not available, nothing can be displayed.

• Inks: information about the ink configuration and the inks levels in %.

• Media: information about the media loaded on the printer.

• Misc: complementary info about the printer (model, serial number, firmware version).

• Refresh: button to refresh the tab.

Spot inks

Available only in W drivers.

Both HP Latex 700 W and 800 W use White ink. For this spot ink, there is a specific tab in the Page Setup window, to be able to configure it:

To have some details on these specific tabs, please refer to this article about Spot Inks.