Finishing tab features
CAUTION Disabling Mopier Mode disrupts functionality for the Output and Finishing tab features.
To gain access to the Finishing tab, follow these steps:
1.
Click Start .
2.
Select Settings .
3.
Click Printers (Windows XP) or Printers and Faxes (Windows XP Professional and
Windows Server 2003) or Printers and Other Hardware Devices (Windows XP Home).
4.
Right-click the device name.
5.
Click Printing Preferences .
6.
Click the Finishing tab.
Use the Finishing tab to print booklets and control the media output. The following figure shows the
Finishing tab.
Figure 5-17 Finishing tab
The Finishing tab contains the following controls:
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Print Task Quick Sets
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Document options
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Document preview image
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Orientation
Print Task Quick Sets
Use the Print Task Quick Sets control to store the current combination of driver settings that appear on all other Printing Preferences driver tabs. Print task quick sets are either preset or user-defined printing specifications, such as media size and pages per sheet.
Document options
The Document Options group box contains the following controls:
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Print on Both Sides
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Flip Pages Up
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Booklet layout
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Pages per Sheet
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Print Page Borders
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Page Order
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Edge-to-edge printing
Print on Both Sides
The default setting for the Print on Both Sides option is off (not selected). Print on Both Sides is available when the following conditions exist:
● Type is: on the Paper tab is set to any media type except for the following types:
● Labels
● Transparency
● Envelope
● Cardstock
● Tough Paper
● Size is: is set to any media size except for the following sizes:
● Statement
● Envelope #10
● Envelope DL
● Envelope C5
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● Envelope B5
● Envelope Monarch
Topics:
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Automatically print on both sides
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Manually print on both sides
Automatically print on both sides
The duplexing unit in the device prints on two sides of a sheet of paper when the Print on Both
Sides option is specified in the print job.
Models with a duplexer installed support smart duplexing. The smart duplexing feature increases printing performance by preventing one-page print jobs or single-sided pages of a duplexed print job from going through the duplexing unit even when the duplexing feature has been selected in the driver.
All media types support the smart duplexing feature, except for media types that cannot be printed on both sides (such as labels, transparencies, and envelopes) and the following media types:
● Prepunched
● Preprinted
● Letterhead
When the media type is set to Unspecified , the smart duplexing feature is disabled.
To achieve the best print quality when printing on the second side of the page, the device makes adjustments to its print modes. Selecting a media type, in effect instructs the MFP to use a group of settings (such as fuser temperature and print speed) to create an image that has the best possible quality for that media. This group of settings is known as print mode. A different print mode is used with each media type. Print-mode adjustments for the second side of a duplexed page are automatic.
Manually print on both sides
Select the Print on Both Sides (Manually) check box to print on the second side of the media for the
HP LaserJet M5025/M5035 MFP models that do not have a duplexing unit installed. Use this setting on all HP LaserJet M5025/M5035 MFP models for media types that the automatic duplexing unit does not support, such as thick media.
Manually printing on the second side of a page is available in the HP PCL 6, PCL 5, or PS emulation drivers. If a duplexing unit is installed and manual duplexing is enabled in the driver, the device automatically prints on both sides of media types that are supported for automatic duplexing (Letter, A4,
Legal, and 8.5 x 13 only), and forces manual printing on both sides for media types that are not supported.
To make the Print on Both Sides (Manually) check box available in the document options, select the Allow Manual Duplexing option on the Device Settings tab the Properties print-driver tabs.
To print on both sides manually while using media that is supported for automatic duplexing, select and apply the Not Installed setting on the Duplex Unit (for 2-Sided Printing) option on the Device
Settings tab.
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Select the media type that corresponds to the media that you are using for the print job. The following media types have a different print modes when you manually print on the second side:
● Plain
● Preprinted
● Letterhead
● Prepunched
● Bond
● Recycled
● Color
● Rough
Cardstock media can be manually printed on the second side, but no change occurs to the print mode.
Transparencies and labels should not be manually printed on the second side.
To print a multiple-page document, follow these steps:
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Select the Print on Both Sides (Manually) check box.
2.
Click OK . The even-number pages of the document print.
3.
When the control panel shows the MANUALLY FEED message, insert the stack of media (on which the even-number pages have been printed) as indicated in the following figure.
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Figure 5-18 Print on Both Sides Instructions dialog box
When you have completed the steps in the dialog box, the second half of the print job prints on the back side of the sheets in the stack of media. The driver does not require the program to specifically support odd- and even-page printing, because the driver coordinates this function.
Flip Pages Up
Use the Flip Pages Up check box is used to specify the duplex-binding option. By default, the Flip
Pages Up check box is available only when Print on Both Sides is selected.
The following table demonstrates the results of selecting this check box, depending on the media orientation selected on the Finishing tab.
Table 5-4 Page orientation
Orientation (Finishing tab)
Portrait
Landscape
Flip Pages Up selected
Short-edge binding
Long-edge binding
Flip Pages Up not selected
Long-edge binding
Short-edge binding
When Print on Both Sides is selected, the document preview image changes to show a spiral binding along either the left edge or the top edge of the page. In addition, a folded-over corner appears in the lower-right portion of the preview image, indicating that printing occurs on the back side. An arrow on the folded-over corner points in the direction that the pages would be flipped if they were bound together.
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Short-side binding is for print jobs with pages that read by flipping over like the pages of a calendar.
Long-side binding is for print jobs with pages that read by turning like the pages of a book.
Booklet layout
The Booklet Layout drop-down menu, visible when Print on Both Sides is selected, offers choices that are based on the current media size. The default setting for the Booklet Printing drop-down menu is Off . The other settings have the following format, where [paper size] depends on the media size that is set on the Paper/Quality tab:
● Left Edge Binding
● Right Edge Binding
Selecting Left Edge Binding or Right Edge Binding changes the document preview image to show the location of the binding. If the Pages per Sheet setting is on the default setting of 1, it automatically changes to 2 pages per sheet . Changing the Pages per Sheet setting manually to 4, 6, 9, or 16 pages per sheet disables the booklet setting.
Topics:
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Book and Booklet Printing
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Print a booklet
Book and Booklet Printing
The HP LaserJet M5025/M5035 MFP supports book and booklet printing.
A book is a print job that consists of at least two pages. It can have a different media type for the front cover, first page, other pages, last page, or back cover. Use the settings on the Paper tab (available when you select the Use Different Paper/Covers check box) to select the following printing options for the book:
● Front Cover
● First Page
● Other Pages
● Last Page
● Back Cover
A booklet is a print job that places two pages on each side of a sheet that can then be folded into a booklet that is half the size of the media. Use the Booklet Layout drop-down menu on the Finishing tab to control booklet settings.
Print a booklet
Complete the following steps to print a booklet in most software programs.
1.
Click File .
2.
Click Print .
3.
Click Properties .
4.
Click the Finishing tab.
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Select the Print on Both Sides check box.
6.
In the Booklet Layout drop-down menu, select the type of booklet printing that you want (for example, Right Edge Binding ).
7.
Click OK in the print driver.
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Click OK in the print dialog box to print.
Pages per Sheet
Use the Pages per Sheet option to select the number of pages to print on a single sheet of media.
If you print more than one page per sheet, the pages appear smaller and are arranged on the sheet in the order that they would otherwise be printed. The Pages per Sheet drop-down menu provides six settings:
● 1 page per sheet (this is the default)
● 2 pages per sheet
● 4 pages per sheet
● 6 pages per sheet
● 9 pages per sheet
● 16 pages per sheet
NOTE Selecting an option other than 1 page per sheet makes booklet printing unavailable.
Print Page Borders
Related controls indented beneath the Pages per Sheet edit box are Print Page Borders and Page
Order , which become active when Pages per Sheet is greater than 1.
Print Page Borders sets a line around each page image on a printed sheet to help visually define the borders of each logical page.
Page Order
The Page Order drop-down menu contains four selections:
● Right, then Down
● Down, then Right
● Left, then Down
● Down, then Left
The preview document image changes to reflect alterations in these settings, as shown by the examples in the following figure.
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Figure 5-19 Page-order preview images
● 2 pages per sheet
● 4 pages per sheet
● 6 pages per sheet
● 9 pages per sheet
● 16 pages per sheet
Edge-to-edge printing
By default, the device prints within approximately 5 millimeters of all edges of the print media. With edgeto-edge printing enabled, the device can print within approximately 2 millimeters of all edges of the print media.
NOTE With the edge-to-edge printing option enabled, a document might not print the same as it would with the option disabled. When the option is enabled, the amount of space available for the print job increases, which can affect printed layout and page count.
The edge-to-edge print option is set from the device driver.
Document preview image
The document preview image is a line-drawn image of a page that represents graphics and text. The document preview image is always oriented so that the contents of the page are right-side-up.
Move the cursor over the document preview image to change the cursor from an arrow to a gloved hand.
Toggle between portrait and landscape page orientation by clicking the image.
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Figure 5-20 Document preview image
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Orientation
Orientation refers to the layout of the image on the page, and does not affect the way that media feeds into the device.
NOTE Nearly all software programs establish the orientation for the printed page, so the page orientation in the driver is useful only for the few software programs that do not set an orientation.
The Orientation group box contains two options:
● Portrait.
The top edge of the document is the shorter edge of the media. This is the default orientation.
● Landscape.
The top edge of the document is the longer edge of the media.
In addition to the Portrait and Landscape orientation options, you can select the Rotate by 180 degrees check box. This creates a landscape or portrait orientation in which the image is rotated 180°.
This setting is useful for printing prepunched media.
Toggle orientation between portrait and landscape by clicking the document preview image. Selecting the Rotate by 180 degrees check box does not change the document preview image.
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