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Oki C9800hdn Print Manual

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    C9800 user’s guide - 2 p reface c9800 user’s guide p/n 59374101, revision 2.0 every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this document is complete, accurate, and up-to-date. Oki assumes no responsibility for the results of errors beyond its control. Oki also cannot guarantee that c...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 3 c ontents before you start ......................................................... 5 about this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 how to access the driver screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 changing the driver defaults . . . . . . . . . . ...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 4 finishing options ...................................................... 23 booklet printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 activating booklet printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 collating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 5 c hapter 1: b efore you start a bout this book this book is delivered as an adobe acrobat pdf file. It provides a convenient on-screen reference to the many features of the driver software supplied with your c9800. There are many cross-references within this book, each highlig...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 6 if you choose this method any changes you make will usually only last for as long as the particular application is running, or until you change them again. In most cases, once you quit the application the driver defaults will return. C hanging the driver defaults windows xp/20...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 7 windows 98/me 1. Click [start] → [settings] → [printers] to open the printers window. 2. In the printers window, right-click on the appropriate printer driver icon, and choose [properties] from the context menu. C hanging the application ’ s driver settings 1. In your applicat...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 8 s aving a set of driver settings 1. Make any changes to the driver settings you want, as described in the relevant section of this manual. 2. In the driver’s [setup] tab, click [save…]. 3. Enter a meaningful name for the settings you are saving, and click [ok]. R ecalling save...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 9 s etting the driver device options this section explains how to ensure that your printer driver can utilise all of the hardware features installed in your printer. Accessories such as hard disk, duplex unit (two sided printing), additional paper trays, etc., will only be usabl...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 11 c hapter 2: p rinting black b lack generation you can specify whether black graphics in color documents are printed using: > composite black > pure black pure black is the default setting. Composite black the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black toners are combined to create comp...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 12 h ow to choose composite black or pure black pcl 1. On the [color] tab select [manual settings] and click [options...]. 2. Select or deselect [pure black graphics]. If pure black graphics is not selected, prints will use composite black..

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    C9800 user’s guide - 13 pcl 6 1. On the [color] tab select [manual settings] and click [options...]. 2. From the [pure black graphics] drop-down list, select [on] or [off]. If pure black graphics is [off], prints will use composite black..

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    C9800 user’s guide - 15 c hapter 3: color matching f actors that affect color printing there are many factors that affect color printing. Some of the most important factors are: > the differences between the range of colors a monitor can reproduce versus the range of colors that a printer can reprod...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 16 both devices use very different technologies to represent color. > a monitor uses red, green and blue (rgb) phosphors (or lcds). > a printer uses cyan, yellow, magenta and black (cmyk) toner or ink. Very vivid colors (such as intense reds and blues) can be displayed on a moni...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 17 s oftware settings many software applications have their own color settings. The application settings may override the settings in the printer driver. Please refer to the documentation for your software application for details on that particular program’s color management fun...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 18 h ow to perform color matching there are several ways to achieve color matching with your printer. The range of options available varies according to your computer platform, operating system, color production method, and printer driver type. D escriptions the following table ...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 19 r endering intents when a document is printed, a conversion takes place from the document's color space to the printer color space. The rendering intents are essentially a set of rules that determine how this color conversion takes place. To change these settings in your prin...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 20 b rightness and saturation note this feature is available with pcl 6 only. Before printing a document, you can adjust the brightness and saturation settings: to adjust these settings: 1. Click the [color] tab. 2. Select [manual settings] and click [options...]. 3. Use the hor...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 21 c hapter 4: p rint resolution the resolution for a print job controls the print speed and print quality of a job. Raising the print resolution can maximise the image quality of a print job. You usually do this for final versions of documents or when printing images (photograp...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 23 c hapter 5: f inishing options your printer has many features that help control the form of your printed document. > “booklet printing” on page 24 > “collating” on page 26 > “separating queued print jobs” on page 28 > “cover print” on page 29 > “custom page size” on page 30 >...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 24 b ooklet printing booklet printing allows printing of multipage documents with their pages ordered and arranged so that final printed output can be folded into a booklet. Typically, letter (or tabloid) pages would be reduced to half-letter (or letter) and printed side by side...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 25 2. Click [options...]. 3. In the booklet window you can set the [signature] size, the number of [pages] per side of paper, the [binding margin], and if the booklet will be read [right to left] or left to right. The graphic in this window shows the effect of each choice you ma...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 26 c ollating this feature allows multiple copies of a multipage document to be printed with the pages of each copy in sequence. Uncollated pages print like this: collated pages print like this: application collate —some application programs have a collate feature in their print...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 27 p rinting collated documents 1. On the [job options] tab, choose how many [copies] you want to print from the scrolling list. 2. Click the [collate] checkbox (a checkmark appears). 3. Click [ok]..

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    C9800 user’s guide - 28 s eparating queued print jobs when you share a printer with other users it can be useful to print a special page between print jobs to help locate each user’s job in a paper stack at the printer. The separator page is set from the printer driver’s default properties window. A...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 29 c over print cover print is when the first page (cover) of a print job is fed from one paper tray, and the remaining pages of the print job are fed from another paper tray. H ow to use cover print 1. On the [setup] tab, click [paper feed options...]. 2. Under [cover printing]...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 30 c ustom page size this feature enables printing on non-standard sized print media. The multipurpose tray is used for feeding non-standard media sizes. Print media width can be from approximately 51mm to 328mm, and its length can be from 128mm to 1200mm. Actual limits vary sli...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 31 to edit a previously saved custom size: a. Click its name in the list and edit its dimensions and/or name. B. Click [modify]. To delete a previously saved custom size: a. Click its name in the list. B. Click [delete]. 4. Click [ok] to accept your changes and close the custom ...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 32 d uplex ( double - sided ) printing if your printer has a duplex unit installed you can print on both sides of the paper, to save paper, weight, bulk and cost. > only paper can be used for duplex printing, not transparencies or other media. > use paper stock of 75–120 g/m². I...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 33 a ctivating duplex printing 1. On the driver’s [setup] tab, under [2-sided printing], select the binding edge you want. For portrait (tall) page layout the usual choice is [long edge]. For landscape (wide) page layout the usual choice is [short edge]. Choosing [none] turns of...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 34 p rinting multiple pages on one sheet (n- up ) this feature scales the page size of your document for printing and reproduces several pages per sheet. This is useful when you simply want to proof your page layout, or distribute your document in a more compact format. It saves...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 35 2. Click [options...] to choose from the available options for this feature. From here you can choose the page printing order, the page layout, whether you want printed page borders, and a binding margin if you need it. 3. Click [ok]..

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    C9800 user’s guide - 36 p oster printing note poster printing is not available with the pcl 6 driver. This option allows you to print posters by dividing a single document page into multiple pieces (sometimes called “tiles”). Each piece prints, enlarged, on a separate sheet. Then, you combine the se...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 37 b. [registration marks] can be printed if required so that your printed pages (tiles) can be trimmed exactly to the edge of the image. C. An [overlap] may help you to match adjacent tiles when making up your final poster. 3. Click [ok] to close the paper feed options window. ...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 38 w atermarks note this feature is not available with the pcl 6 driver. A watermark is typically faint text that is superimposed on a printed document. This can be used to indicate that the document is “draft”, or perhaps “confidential”. H ow to create a new watermark 1. On the...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 39 4. Click [ok]. H ow to edit an existing watermark 1. On the [job options] tab click [watermarks...]. 2. Select the watermark you want to edit, then click [edit...]. 3. Modify the text for your watermark. 4. Modify the attributes (font, color, size, angle) for your watermark a...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 41 c hapter 6: s ecure printing secure printing allows you to print confidential documents on printers that are shared with other users in a network environment. The document does not print until a pin ( p ersonal i dentification n umber) is entered through the printer control p...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 42 s ending the document 1. In the driver’s [job options] tab, click [secure print]. The job pin ( p ersonal i dentification n umber) window opens. If the pin window does not open, click the [pin] button. 2. In the job pin window, enter a [job name] for this print job. The name ...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 43 5. Click [ok] to accept your changes. 6. Click [ok] to close the printer properties window. 7. Print your document. The print job will be sent to the printer, but will not print at this time. P rinting the document your secure print job is printed using the printer control pa...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 44 8. Use the ▲▼ buttons to select the number of collated copies you require. 9. Press [enter] to print your document. When all required copies have been printed your document is automatically deleted from the printer’s hard disk. It is also possible to print and delete secure d...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 45 c hapter 7: f ont s ubstitution this advanced feature allows you to substitute printer fonts for truetype fonts. This may be useful if you have a document formatted with a font that is not installed on your system, but the font is built in to the printer. When using font subs...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 47 i ndex a application collate .................. 26 b black printing black .................... 11 booklets printing .......................24 , 25 c charts colour matching ................. 19 cmyk vs. Rgb ....................... 16 collating ............................... 2...

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    C9800 user’s guide - 48 print quality problems output doesn’t match monitor .. 15 printer collate ........................ 26 printer drivers colour settings ................... 17 printing face up ............................. 30 r recycled paper ...................... 17 rendering intents absolute...