HP DesignJet 815MFP User Manual download pdf (Page 85)

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tell me about unprintable areas

‘account for unprintable area’ option

The margins we set in the Setup tab dialog are the copy’s ‘output

margins’. But the printer itself also creates margins. The size of your

printer’s margins or so-called ‘unprintable area’ depends on the

printer model and cannot be changed. You should consider the

printer’s margins as your minimum margins and they will be in your

output whether you want them to or not.

The ‘Account for unprintable area’ option is found in the Margins

dialog and it lets you compensate for these uncontrollable margins.

Selecting the option lets you economize paper usage by keeping

unneeded margin space down to a minimum. Selecting the option

will tell the application to deduct the printer’s enforced margins from

your output margins so the total margins are as you specified for the

copy. For duplicating originals without margins, you would not want

output margins either and thus the option should be deselected.

To use the option, you have to enter your printer’s unprintable area

values as specified in your printer documentation. This is done

through the Setup tab > Printer > Unprintable Area button.

Here are some guidelines on using the ‘Account for unprintable

area’ option.

If you select ‘Account for unprintable area’:

• You will also have selected a minimum output margin at least

equal to the printer’s margins. The program will automatically

update the values in the Setup tab’s margin values to reflect

this. If you set output margins to zero or lower than the

printer’s, then the printer’s margins are used and updated as

the output margins.

• If the output margins you set are higher than the printer’s, then

the printer’s margins are deducted from the output margins

meaning the scanner software only adds on the margins that

the printer is missing. This means that your total margin,

measured from the paper’s physical edges, will be as you

specified in the Setup tab’s Margins option.

• The cropping effect on the original is always determined by the

value displayed on the Setup tab’s Margin button whether it

was automatically calculated or not. The actual cropping effect

will be as displayed in your WYSIWYG preview.

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