Printing menu
These settings affect only jobs without identified properties. Most jobs identify all of the properties and override the values set from this menu. This menu can also be used to set default paper size and type.
| Menu item
| Values
| Description
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| COPIES
| 1–32,000
| Allows you to set the default number of copies. The default number of copies is 1.
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| DEFAULT PAPER SIZE
| A list of available sizes appears.
| Allows you to set the default paper size.
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| DEFAULT CUSTOM PAPER SIZE
| UNIT OF MEASURE
X DIMENSION Y DIMENSION
| Allows you to set the default size for any custom job without dimensions. Available for Tray 1.
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| DUPLEX
| OFF
ON
| Allows you to enable or disable the duplex function (automatic 2-sided printing). The default is OFF. You can override this setting in the printer driver.
Available for the HP Color LaserJet 3700dn and 3700dtn printer models.
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| DUPLEX BINDING
| LONG EDGE
SHORT EDGE
| Allows you to choose whether a duplex job will be flipped on the long edge or the short edge.
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| OVERRIDE A4/LETTER
| NO
YES
| Allows you to set the printer to print an A4 job on letter-size paper when no A4 paper is loaded, or to print a letter-size job on A4 when no letter-size paper is loaded. The default is NO.
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| MANUAL FEED
| ON
OFF
| The default is OFF. Setting it to ON makes MANUAL FEED the default for jobs that do not select a tray. You can override this setting in the printer driver.
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| COURIER FONT
| REGULAR
DARK
| Allows you to select a version of the Courier font. The default is REGULAR.
Available for the HP Color LaserJet 3700 series printer.
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| WIDE A4
| NO
YES
| Allows you to change the printable area of A4 paper so that eighty 10-pitch characters may be printed on a single line. The default is NO.
Available for the HP Color LaserJet 3700 series printer.
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| PRINT PS ERRORS
| OFF
ON
| Allows you to select to print PS (emulated PostScript) error pages. The default is OFF.
Available for the HP Color LaserJet 3700 series printer.
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| PCL
| FORM LENGTH
ORIENTATION
FONT SOURCE
FONT NUMBER
FONT PITCH
FONT POINT SIZE
Symbol set
APPEND CR TO LF
SUPPRESS BLANK PAGES
| Allows you to configure settings for the printer control language.
FORM LENGTH sets the number of lines per page. The default is 0.
ORIENTATION determines long-edge versus short-edge page layout. The default is PORTRAIT (available for the HP Color LaserJet 3700 series printer).
FONT SOURCE selects the source of the font used on the printer control panel. The default is INTERNAL. FONT NUMBER is the number of the font you select. If this font is a contour font, use FONT PITCH to set the pitch of a fixed-space font. The default is 10.00 (available for the HP Color LaserJet 3700 series printer).
FONT POINT SIZE sets the size of the fixed-space font you select. The default font is 12 points.
Symbol set sets the symbol set used by the printer control panel. The default is PC-8.
APPEND CR TO LF sets whether a carriage return is appended to each line feed in a backward-compatible PCL job. The default is NO.
SUPPRESS BLANK PAGES sets whether jobs using PCL that include blank form feeds will automatically suppress the blank pages. YES indicates that form feeds will be ignored if the page is blank (available for the HP Color LaserJet 3700 series printer.
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HP 3550 3700 Printing menu