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Use the front panel
HP Designjet 5100 printer Customer Reference Guide
Selecting production mode
Production mode is a fast print mode that gives acceptable image quality for
some purposes. It is available only with dye-based inks and certain specific
HP paper types: Coated, Heavyweight Coated, Productivity Gloss, and
Productivity Semi-Gloss. When one of these paper types is loaded, the front
panel announces that Production mode is available.
If you select Production mode when using a printing material that does not
support Production mode, the printer will print in Productivity mode.
If you decide to use a non-HP printing material, see using non-hp printing
materials, on page 60.
Selecting production mode using the front panel
Press the Print Quality key repeatedly until you see two green lights, beside
Productivity and Max Speed. The two lights indicate that Production mode is
selected.
However, remember that the print mode selected in the front panel is ignored
if you have set a different mode in the printer driver or in WebAccess.
Selecting production mode using the printer driver
To select Production mode in the Windows HP-GL/2 printer driver, you must
select the Max Speed mode with the Enhanced IQ option.
Click the More button above to obtain the Advanced Optimization Options
box, below:
Selecting production mode using webaccess
Choose Submit Job and you will see a Print Quality option. Select
Production 300 × 300
Productivity 300 × 300 600 × 600
Max Quality 600 × 600
1200 × 600
(with glossy paper)
Print quality
setting
Default
resolution
Resolution with Enhanced IQ
setting
