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OFFICEJET 7500A
Getting Started Guide
E910
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Contents Use the printer ........................................................................................................ 2 HP Digital Solutions ............................................................................................ 3 Internet features ................................................................................................. 4 Set up and use fax .................................................................................................. 6 Set up fax ...
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1. Use the printer Thank you for purchasing this printer. With To scan, copy, and send faxes, you can use this printer, you can print documents and the printer’s control panel. You can also use photos, scan documents to a connected the control panel to change settings, print computer, make copies, and send and reports, or get help for the printer. receive faxes. Tip: If the printer is connected to a computer, you can also change the printer settings using software tools available on your
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HP Digital Solutions The printer includes a collection of digital solutions that can help you simplify and Learn more! streamline your work. For more information about setting up and using these digital solutions, see the user guide. (The user guide is available on your computer after you install the software.) Scan to Computer Using the printer, you can simply walk up to restart your HP software’s scan to the printer, touch a button on the printer’s function on the destination computer.
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Internet features The printer offers innovative, Web-enabled Note: In addition to these solutions, solutions that can help you quickly access you can send print jobs to the printer the Internet, obtain documents, and print remotely from mobile devices. With this them faster and with less hassle—and all service, called HP ePrint, you can print without using a computer. In addition, you from e-mail connected mobile phones, can use a Web service (Marketsplash by netbooks, or other mobile devi
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Marketsplash by HP Grow your business using online HP tools • Keep all of your marketing materials and services to create and print professional organized and readily accessible in marketing materials. With Marketsplash, you your Marketsplash account, available can do the following: from any computer and directly from the printer’s control-panel display (on • Quickly and easily create amazing, select models only). professional-quality brochures, flyers, To get started, select Marketsplash
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2. Set up and use fax This printer allows you to send and receive black-and- white and color faxes. Set up fax Before using the fax feature, follow these IMPORTANT: Check the “Finding steps to connect your printer successfully. fax setup information” box for your country/region. If your country/ Tip: You can use the Fax Setup Wizard region is included in the list, visit the (Windows) or HP Utility (Mac OS X) to Web site for setup information. If your set up the fax. country/region is
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Step 1: Connect the printer to the phone line Note: If the phone cord that came Before you begin… with the printer is not long enough, you can use a coupler to extend the Before beginning, be sure you have length. You can purchase a coupler at done the following: an electronics store that carries phone Installed ink cartridges accessories. You also need another • phone cord, which can be a standard Loaded A4- or Letter-size paper in • phone cord that you might already the tray have
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What is a distinctive ring service? Many phone companies offer a distinctive ring feature that allows you to have several phone numbers on one phone line. When you subscribe to this service, each number is assigned a different ring pattern. You can set up the printer to answer incoming calls that have a specific ring pattern. If you connect the printer to a line with distinctive ring, have your telephone company assign one ring pattern to voice calls and another ring pattern to fax calls. H
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Connecting additional equipment Remove the white plug from the port labeled 2-EXT on the back of the printer, and then connect a phone to this port. If you are connecting additional equipment, such as a dial-up computer modem or a telephone, you will need to purchase a parallel splitter. A parallel splitter has one RJ-11 port on the front and two RJ-11 ports on the back. Do not use a 2–line phone splitter, a serial splitter, or a parallel splitter which has two RJ-11 ports on the front and
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Step 3: Configure fax settings Change the printer’s fax settings to meet W here can I change fax your needs after you have connected the settings? printer to a phone line. Note: To use the same fax resolution You can configure fax settings using and lighter/darker settings for all faxes the following tools: sent from the printer, configure the Printer’s control panel settings as you wish, and then touch Set as New Defaults. Touch the Setup button on the printer’s control panel, touch Fa
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If you want to configure this setting… …do this: Distinctive Ring 1. Touch right arrow and then touch Setup. Change the answer ring pattern for distinctive ring 2. Touch Fax Setup, and then touch Advanced Fax Setup. Note: If you are using a distinctive ring service, you can use more than 3. Touch Distinctive Ring. one telephone number on the same 4. A message appears stating that this telephone line. You can change setting should not be changed unless this setting to enable the printe
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If you want to configure this setting… …do this: Volume 1. Touch right arrow and then touch Change the volume of the printer sounds, Setup. including the fax tones. 2. Touch Fax Setup, and then touch Basic Fax Setup. 3. Touch down arrow , and then touch Fax Sound Volume. 4. Touch to touch Soft, Loud, or Off. Use fax In this section, you will learn how to send Learn more! and receive faxes. See the user guide for more information about the following topics: Send a fax using monitor dialing
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Send a standard fax 1. Load the document you want to fax in 3. Enter the fax number by using the the printer. keypad. You can fax either from the automatic T ip: To add a pause in the fax document feeder (ADF) or from the scanner number you are entering, touch glass. *@ repeatedly, until a dash (-) appears on the display. 4. Touch Start Black or Start Color. Tip: If the recipient reports issues with the quality of the fax you sent, you can try changing the resolution or contrast or you
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Receive faxes You can receive faxes automatically or Learn more! manually. See the user guide for more Note: If you receive a legal-size information about the following topics: or larger fax and the printer is not currently set to use legal-size paper, Reprint received faxes from • the printer reduces the fax so that it memory fits on the paper that is loaded. If you Poll to receive a fax • have disabled the Automatic Reduction feature, the printer prints the fax on two Forward faxes
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Receive a fax manually When you are on the phone, the person you 4. If you are currently on the phone with are speaking with can send you a fax while the sender, instruct the sender to press you are still connected (called “manual Start on their fax machine. faxing”). 5. When you hear fax tones from a You can receive faxes manually from a sending fax machine, do the following: phone that is connected to the printer a. Touch Fax, and then select Start (through the 2-EXT port) or a phone tha
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Working with reports and logs You can print sevral different types of fax These reports provide useful system reports: information about the printer. Fax Confirmation page Note: You can also view the call history • on the printer’s control panel display. Fax Log • To view the call history, touch Fax, and Image on Fax Send Report then touch (Call History). However, • this list cannot be printed. Other reports • To print a report 1. Touch right arrow , and then touch 3. Select the fax re
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Fax and digital phone services Many telephone companies provide their HP printers are designed specifically for customers with digital phone services, such use with traditional analog phone services. as the following: If you are in a digital phone environment (such as DSL/ADSL, PBX, or ISDN), you • DSL: A Digital subscriber line (DSL) might need to use digital-to-analog filters or service through your telephone converters when setting up the printer for company. (DSL might be called ADSL f
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3. Set up wireless (802.11) communication (some models only) If the printer supports wireless Note: Before you set up wireless (802.11) communication, you communication, make sure the can connect it wireless to an printer hardware is set up. For more existing wireless network. information, see the setup poster that came with the printer. To connect the printer, complete the following steps in the order listed. What is my network name and passkey? While you are installing the software, I
