System Setup sub-menu
System Setup sub-menu
Use the SYSTEM SETUP menu to make changes to default settings for general printer configuration, such as date/time, printer personality (language), and jam recovery. See Changing printer control-panel configuration settings for more information.
| Menu item | Values | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DATE/TIME | DATE DATE FORMAT TIME TIME FORMAT | Sets the time and date on the printer. |
| JOB STORAGE LIMIT (HP Color LaserJet 3000 and 3800 Series printers only) | 1–100 | Limits the number of stored jobs that can be saved to the printer. |
| JOB HELD TIMEOUT (HP Color LaserJet 3000 and 3800 Series printers only) | OFF 1 HOUR 4 HOURS 1 DAY 1 WEEK | Sets the amount of time that a stored job can remain on the printer before it is automatically deleted. The default is OFF. |
| SHOW ADDRESS | AUTO OFF | Select AUTO to show the printer IP address on the printer control panel, alternating with the Ready message. The default is OFF. This menu item appears only if the printer is connected to a network. |
| RESTRICT COLOR USE (HP Color LaserJet 3000 and 3800 Series printers only) | DISABLE COLOR ENABLE COLOR COLOR IF ALLOWED | Disables or restricts color use. The default is ENABLE COLOR. To use the COLOR IF ALLOWED setting, set up user permissions by using the embedded Web server. See Using the embedded Web server. |
| COLOR/BLACK MIX | AUTO MOSTLY COLOR PAGES MOSTLY BLACK PAGES | Establishes how the printer switches from color to monochrome (black and white) mode for maximum performance and print cartridge life. AUTO will reset the printer to the factory default setting. The default is AUTO. Select MOSTLY COLOR PAGES if nearly all of your print jobs are color with high page coverage. Select MOSTLY BLACK PAGES if you print mostly monochrome print jobs, or a combination of color and monochrome print jobs. |
| TRAY BEHAVIOR | USE REQUESTED TRAY MANUALLY FEED PROMPT PS DEFER MEDIA USE ANOTHER TRAY SIZE/TYPE PROMPT DUPLEX BLANK PAGES | Specifies settings for the tray selection behavior. (Use this setting to configure the trays to behave like trays in some previous HP printers.) The default for USE REQUESTED TRAY is EXCLUSIVELY. The default for MANUALLY FEED PROMPT is ALWAYS. PS DEFER MEDIA affects how paper is handled when printing from an Adobe® PS print driver. ENABLED uses HP’s paper handling. DISABLED uses the Adobe PS paper handling. The default is ENABLED. USE ANOTHER TRAY defines whether the printer prompts the user to use another tray when the selected tray is unavailable. The default is ENABLED. SIZE/TYPE PROMPT defines whether the printer prompts the user to reconfigure the tray after loading and closing the tray. The default is DISPLAY. DUPLEX BLANK PAGES defines whether the printer flips a page over even when a page is blank. The default is AUTO (duplex models only). See Tray Behavior menu options for more information. |
| SLEEP DELAY | 1 MINUTE 15 MINUTES 30 MINUTES 45 MINUTES 60 MINUTES 90 MINUTES 2 HOURS 4 HOURS | Reduces power consumption when the printer has been inactive for an extended period. Sets the length of time the printer remains inactive before going into sleep mode. The default is 30 MINUTES. See Sleep Delay and Sleep Mode features for more information. |
| WAKE TIME | MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY | Sets a “wake-up” time for the printer to warm up and calibrate each day. The default for each day is OFF. If you set a wake time, HP recommends setting an extended sleep delay time period, so that the printer will not return to sleep mode soon after waking. |
| OPTIMUM SPEED/ENERGY USAGE (HP Color LaserJet 3000 and 3800 Series printers only) | FASTER FIRST PAGE SAVE ENERGY | Affects print speed by defining whether the fuser cools between jobs. When FASTER FIRST PAGE is selected, the fuser does not cool, and printing is faster. When SAVE ENERGY is selected, the fuser cools between jobs. The default is FASTER FIRST PAGE. |
| DISPLAY BRIGHTNESS | 1–10 | Adjusts the brightness of the printer control panel. The default is 5. See Display Brightness feature. |
| PERSONALITY (HP Color LaserJet 3000 and 3800 Series printers only) | AUTO PCL PS | Sets the default personality to automatic switching, PCL, PDF, or PostScript emulation. The default is AUTO. See Personality feature for more information. |
| CLEARABLE WARNINGS (HP Color LaserJet 3000 and 3800 Series printers only) | JOB ON | Sets the amount of time that a clearable warning appears on the printer control panel. The default is JOB, which appears until the end of the job that generated the warning. ON appears until the  is pressed.See Clearable Warnings feature for more information. |
| AUTO CONTINUE | OFF ON | Determines printer behavior when the system generates an auto-continuable error. The default is ON. ON automatically continues printing after 10 seconds. OFF pauses printing. Press to continue printing.See Auto Continue feature for more information. |
| REPLACE SUPPLIES | STOP AT LOW STOP AT OUT OVERRIDE AT OUT | Sets low or out supplies operating options. The default is STOP AT OUT. STOP AT LOW pauses printing when a low supply is reported. Press to continue printing.OVERRIDE AT OUT allows the printer to continue printing even after some supplies have run out. See Replace Supplies feature for more information. |
| ORDER AT | 0–100 | The user can set the percent remaining at which the ORDER AT message is displayed. The default percentage is 15. |
| COLOR SUPPLY OUT | STOP AUTOCONTINUE BLACK | Sets the printer behavior when a color print cartridge is empty. When the printer is set to AUTOCONTINUE BLACK, the printer continues printing using black toner only. The default is STOP. |
| JAM RECOVERY | AUTO OFF ON | Sets whether the printer will attempt to reprint pages after a jam. The default is AUTO. See Jam Recovery feature for more information. |
| RAM DISK (HP Color LaserJet 3000 and 3800 Series printers only) | AUTO OFF | Determines how the RAM disk feature is configured. Select AUTO to allow the printer to determine the optimal RAM disk size based on the amount of available memory. OFF disables the RAM disk, but a minimal RAM disk is still available. The default is AUTO. |
| LANGUAGE | A list of available languages appears. | Sets the default control-panel language. See Language feature for more information. |