Question: Q: I can't select the manual feed tray for my HP printer. I have a MacBook with Mac OsX Lion and I have an HP Officejet J6480 All-in-One printer. My cardstock keeps jamming and everything I've read says I should use the manual tray, but I don't see anywhere to select which tray to use. Can anyone help me? But you can change the default tray for the printer so that by default it will print from tray 2 and not 3. You will need to boot into windows or connect the printer to windows and use the original cd rom that came with the printer. Load up the printer configuration utility program. It should already say that letter is the default paper type. For laser printer labels - change the Paper Type to 'Labels' For cards - choose 'Heavyweight' or 'Cardstock.' If your printer doesn't have a Labels setting under Paper Type, choose 'Heavyweight' or 'Cardstock' instead. Use the manual feed in you printer tray for the best alignment results. I started out printing fine to my Workcentre 6505dn. I am on a Mac with an OS 10.6. I believe the default was set to print from the tray and double side multiple pages. I had no problems. Lately, I have been trying to print double sided and the only way I am able to do it is by feeding each page in through the manual feed slot. User Guide Color LaserJet Enterprise M651 M651n M651xh M651dn www.hp.com/support/colorljM651.
I don't have your exact printer, but I've attached a couple of screenshots that may help you locate the controls.
First, after you select Print, if your selected printer dialog has a 'down' button next to the printer name, click on that to reveal additional print options. For most Mac apps, then click the Layout button to display additional options.
(If you're in Safari, when you select 'Print', the button you want for additional options is probably labeled 'Safari' rather than 'Layout')
On the LaserJet, the option is called Paper Feed, as shown below.
On my Canon inkjet, it's listed under Quality & Media, Paper Source...
Once you've located it and selected the desired option(s), be sure to use the Presets, Save As option to save your new settings as a Preset for future use. You'll have the option to save for ALL printers or only the selected printer. Because my printers are quite different, I always save for ONLY the selected printer, to avoid potential problems.
Manual Feed Printer
As you can see, I try to make my presets quite descriptive, because I have a lot of very specific settings for print jobs I use just once or twice a year, but year after year.
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Feb 14, 2013 10:35 PM
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On the Office end, all you can really do is to verify that you have the software fully updated -- 14.2.5 is the current version. Odd as it may seem, printers have more of an influence on a program like Word than the program has on the printer. Basically, Word does no more than call for the service & send the data to be printed.
I'm not sure just trying PDF is a fair test, though. PDFs are basically images which most printers handle differently than how they handle text flow. Have you tried manual from other text-based programs such as TextEdit, another word processor, or even Excel?
As for the driver, don't bet the farm on it being fully updated -- or flawless even if it is current. I'd still check the HP site & poke around in the HP Support for mention of similar issues... and it's not unheard of that the latest update could be what broke the feature, especially if the issue is occurring with all the HP printers.