HP DesignJet 800

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Owner/Loaner: LVL1 Serial Number: Serial Number Make/Model: HP DesignJet 800 Arrival Date: Dec 28, 2016 Usability: Yes Contact: person to contact Where: main room

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Installation Software For MacOS X 10.10.x - 10.11.6 (at the time of writing) - install the printer by the following:

• Open System Preferences
• Open Printers & Scanners
• Add a new printer by pressing the + sign
• The HP DesignJet 800 should appear here
• OK the installation by selecting the default options for the generic driver

Driver download page from HP

Older Notes about how to print:

• For Windows, you may have to go into the printer preferences and create a custom page size based on what you are doing then in your program when selecting the printer & preferences, select the custom page size.
• At the time of writing printing from Inkscape on Mac directly from the printer only allowed an 8.5x11 (standard paper size) to be printed; will troubleshoot and offer suggestions on how to print from a Mac.

You can now print

New Notes about how to print (12/2018):

• This printer works best when the computer that is sending the file for printing is Linux operating system based. Several have tried other operating systems unsuccessfully. I (Amy Shah) have only seen this printer work successfully from a Linux based operating system computer.

• Create an ubuntu boot stick by downloading the ubuntu ISO file and flashing it to a > 2GB USB stick drive
• Boot a computer to ubuntu temporarily with the boot USB drive
• Download your image to the ubuntu os computer for editing and printing
• Go to settings in ubuntu and create a custom print size for the poster/document you want to create
• Choose this custom print size to print and then press print.

• Before choosing print, troubleshoot the printer - make sure there is enough ink, paper, and the paper is loaded properly.

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