HP Designjet 4000 Printer Series - User Guide

The problem is the image is clipped
This normally indicates a discrepancy between the actual printable area on the loaded
paper and the printable area as understood by your software.
● Check the actual printable area for the paper size you have loaded.
printable area = paper size – margins
The Windows HP-GL/2 driver displays the printable area in the Paper/Quality tab.
● Check what your software understands to be the printable area (which it may call
"printing area" or "imageable area"). For example, some software applications
assume standard printable areas that are larger than those used in this printer.
● If you are trying to print a very long image on a roll, check that your software is
capable of printing an image of that size.
● Check that the orientation of the paper is the same as that assumed by your
software. The front-panel Printing defaults menu > Paper options > Rotate
option changes both the orientation of a print and the orientation of the page. It is
possible that a rotated image on a roll may be slightly clipped in order to retain
the correct page size.
● You may have asked to rotate the page from portrait to landscape on a paper
size that is not wide enough.
● If necessary, change the printable area in your software.
There is another possible explanation for a clipped image. Some applications, such as
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and CorelDRAW, use an internal 16–bit
coordinate system which means that they cannot handle an image of more than
32,768 pixels. If you try to print an image larger than this from these applications, the
bottom of the image will be clipped. In this case, the only way to print the whole image
is to reduce the resolution so that the whole image requires fewer than 32,768 pixels.
The HP-GL/2 printer driver contains an option called Compatibility with 16–bit
applications, which can be used to reduce the resolution of such images
automatically. You can find this option by clicking the Troubleshooting button in the
driver's Services tab.
The problem is the image is in one portion of the printing
area
● Have you selected too small a page size in your application?
● Does your application think that the image is in one portion of the page?
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The problem is an image error