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Oki PRO510DW Printing Manual
Summary of PRO510DW
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Copyright > 2 copyright © 2010 by oki data. All rights reserved document information___________________________ pro510dw printing guide p/n 59321502 revision 1.0 march, 2010 disclaimer_____________________________________ every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this document is ...
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Contents > 3 c ontents preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 notes, cautions and warnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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Contents > 4 finishing options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 booklet printing (imposition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 collating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 color separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Notes, cautions and warnings > 5 n otes , cautions and warnings specifications subject to change without notice. All trademarks acknowledged. Note a note provides additional information to supplement the main text. Caution! A caution provides additional information which, if ignored, may result in e...
Page 6: Ntroduction
Introduction > 6 i ntroduction a bout this book this book is delivered as an adobe acrobat pdf file. There are many cross-references within this book, each highlighted as blue text . When you click on a cross-reference within adobe acrobat or adobe reader (also supplied on the manuals cd) the displa...
Page 7: Access
How to access the driver screens > 7 h ow to access the driver screens most of the features described are accessed via the printer driver screens. How you access them depends on your computer and its operating system. The driver windows are dialogue boxes offering a wide range of choices about how y...
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How to access the driver screens > 8 pcl or p ostscript three printer drivers are supplied with your printer: one for pcl5c emulation, one for pcl6 emulation, and the other for postscript 3 emulation. If you print mainly from general “office” applications choose one of the pcl drivers. For faster pr...
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How to access the driver screens > 9 p ostscript emulation 1. Page orientation sets portrait (tall) or landscape (wide) page orientation. The “rotated” rotates the paper through 90 degrees anticlockwise. 2. When printing double sided pages (duplex unit required). You can flip the paper either on its...
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How to access the driver screens > 10 pcl emulation when you click the properties button from your application’s print dialogue, the driver window opens to allow you to specify your printing preferences for this document. 1. Paper size should be the same as the page size of your document (unless you...
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How to access the driver screens > 11 c hanging the driver defaults windows xp/2000 1. Click start > settings > printers and faxes to open the printers and faxes window. 2. In the printers and faxes window, right-click on the appropriate printer driver icon, and choose printing preferences from the ...
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How to access the driver screens > 12 pcl saved driver settings this feature, unique to the windows pcl drivers, allows you to save the printer driver settings and reuse them later. This could be useful if you frequently print many different types of document that require different printer driver se...
Page 13: Etting
Setting the driver device options > 13 s etting the driver device options this section explains how to ensure that your printer driver can utilize all of the hardware features installed in your printer. Accessories such as hard disk, duplex unit (two sided printing), additional paper trays, etc., wi...
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Blacks and greys > 14 b lacks and greys b lack overprint black overprint eliminates the white edge between the printed fonts and the colored background. Black overprint can only be used when printing 100 percent black text over a background color. Black overprint may not be available with some softw...
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Blacks and greys > 15 m ac os x 1. From the color menu, click advanced. 2. Check black overprint checkbox. B lack printing ( black generation ) to use black generation, office color or graphic pro must be the selected print mode. Your printer prints the color black in one of two ways: composite blac...
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Blacks and greys > 16 office color 1. On the driver’s color tab, select office color (1) and click the options button. 2. On black finish (2), make your selection: auto (allow printer to choose the best method depending on page content), true black or composite black. 1 2 1 2 windows mac.
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Blacks and greys > 17 graphic pro 1. On the driver’s color tab, select graphic pro (1) and click the options button. 2. From the black finish menu (2), choose your preferred setting. Mac 1 1 2 windows 2.
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Blacks and greys > 18 f ine lines enhancement this feature can be used to emphasize the pen width of very fine lines (minimum line width). With some software applications, if this feature is turned on, the spaces in bar codes may become too narrow. If this happens, turn adjust ultra fine lines off. ...
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Blacks and greys > 19 m ac 1. Select printer features. 2. Select image options. 3. Click the checkbox to turn on adjust ultra fine lines. If the option is turned on, a check mark appears in the box. 1 2.
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Blacks and greys > 20 g reyscale printing if you select greyscale, the printer converts all colors into shades of grey, and prints using only black toner. Use greyscale to speed up printing of proof copies or when you do not need to print a color document in color. W indows pcl and m ac 1. If using ...
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Blacks and greys > 21 some applications will attempt to set the halftone screen information for the printer. If the option to use printer halftones is left at on, the printer will set its own halftone screen value, giving a smoother result. It is recommended to leave this option on. Optimised greysc...
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Color printing (basics) > 22 c olor printing ( basics ) the printer drivers supplied with your printer provide several controls for changing the color output. For general use the automatic settings will suffice, providing reasonable default settings that will produce good results for most documents....
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Color printing (basics) > 23 viewing conditions a print can look very different under different lighting conditions. For example, the colors in a print may look different when viewed standing next to a sunlit window, compared to how they look under standard office fluorescent lighting. Printer drive...
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Color printing (basics) > 24 t ips for printing in color the following guidelines may help you to achieve good color output from your printer. P rinting photographic images use the monitor (6500k) perceptual setting. If the colors look too dull, try the monitor (6500k) vivid or digital camera settin...
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Color printing (basics) > 25 a ccessing the color matching options the color matching options in the printer driver can be used to help match your printed colors to the ones displayed on your monitor or from some other source, such as a digital camera. To open color matching options from the windows...
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Color printing (basics) > 26 s etting the color matching options 1. On the color tab select office color for color matching. 2. Choose options (1) and select an options from the drop- down menu (2): (a) monitor (6500k) perceptual optimised for printing photographs. Colors are printed with emphasis o...
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Color printing (basics) > 27 (b) monitor (6500k) vivid optimised for printing photographs, but with even more saturated colors than the monitor (6500k) perceptual setting. (c) monitor (9300k) optimised for printing graphics from applications such as microsoft office. Colors are printed with emphasis...
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Color printing (basics) > 28 u sing the color swatch feature to use the color swatch feature, you must install the color swatch utility. This is supplied on the cd-rom that was supplied with your printer. The color swatch function prints charts which contain a range of sample colors. Note that this ...
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Color printing (basics) > 29 u sing the c olor c orrect u tility the oki color correct utility is provided on your printer driver cd-rom. You must install it separately since it is not installed along with the printer driver. The color correct utility has the following features: > microsoft office p...
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Color matching (advanced) > 30 c olor matching ( advanced ) b asics there are three methods by which your document’s color can be managed and adjusted: 1. Application color management (1). Some graphics and desktop publishing programs such as adobe photoshop, adobe illustrator, and quark xpress have...
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Color matching (advanced) > 31 when you print your document and modify settings in the printer driver, the printer performs color adjustments. W hat this guide describes this guide only discusses the printer color management system. If you wish to learn more about your application program or operati...
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Color matching (advanced) > 32 p rinter color management i ntroduction your printer has two separate color management systems – office color and graphic pro. > office color (3a) – see “office color” on page 34. This is a simpler color management system designed for ease of use. Office color is recom...
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Color matching (advanced) > 33 a bout rgb and cmyk color some application programs give you the choice to create and edit documents using either rgb color or cmyk color. Typically, only professional graphics and desktop publishing software support cmyk color. Most application programs only support r...
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Color matching (advanced) > 34 o ffice color this section describes the features in the printer driver for “office color” printer color management. There are two different sets of options in office color: although the office color options contain controls for cmyk data, it is strongly recommended th...
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Color matching (advanced) > 35 these rgb color matching options are available in all printer drivers. This information applies to the windows pcl 5c, pcl 6, postscript and mac os x drivers. Preset explanation monitor (6500k) – auto the best color match preset will be selected based on the type of do...
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Color matching (advanced) > 36 1. On the printer driver color tab, select office color (1) and click the options button. 2. Select a preset from color matching options (2). 1 2 1 2 mac windows.
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Color matching (advanced) > 37 c ustomizing rgb office color with the color correct utility if the office color presets are not sufficient for your needs, the color correct utility provides a means of further adjustment. The color correct utility provides two methods for adjusting the office color s...
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Color matching (advanced) > 38 g raphic pro this section describes the color matching options available for graphic pro. The graphic pro color matching system is based around icc profiles. These profiles are downloaded to the printer using the profile assistant utility and then selected in the print...
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Color matching (advanced) > 39 more accurate printer color if you have created your own profiles with third-party icc profile creation software, these can be downloaded to the printer and used when printing. T ypes of icc profile supported there are four classes of icc profile supported by the graph...
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Color matching (advanced) > 40 step 1 - gather or create the icc profiles where can i get the profiles i need? Step 2 - downloading icc profiles to the printer hard disk you can download profiles to the printer hard disk using the profile assistant utility. Using profile assistant 1. Launch profile ...
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Color matching (advanced) > 41 (c) once you have selected a profile, you can add it to the printer as one of the 4 profile types - rgb source, cmyk simulation, printer or linked. The options available will depend on which icc profile you have selected. For example, if you have selected a cmyk profil...
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Color matching (advanced) > 42 m atching the color of a monitor , scanner or camera the graphic pro color matching system can be used to match the printer color to an rgb input device such as a monitor, scanner or digital camera. To match an rgb input device, first download the rgb source profile an...
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Color matching (advanced) > 43 1. On the printer driver color tab, select graphic pro (1) and click options. 2. Select icc profile color matching (2). 3. Select the icc profile that corresponds to the device you are trying to match such as your monitor, scanner or digital camera (3). 4 3 2 1 mac 1 4...
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Color matching (advanced) > 44 remember that the names “rgb source 1”, “rgb source 2” and so on relate to the number assigned to the profile using profile assistant. See “using profile assistant” on page 40. 4. Select a printer output profile (4). If auto is selected, the factory default profiles th...
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Color matching (advanced) > 45 s imulating another printer – rgb source data the graphic pro color matching system can be used to simulate the color output of another printer. To simulate the output of another printer, you need to download at least 2 profiles to your printer using profile assistant:...
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Color matching (advanced) > 46 if you are using a source rgb document, simulate the output of another printer by making the following selections in the printer driver: 1. On the printer driver color tab, select graphic pro (1) and click options. 2. Select printer simulation (2). 1 2 3 4 5 mac 1 5 2 ...
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Color matching (advanced) > 47 3. Select the icc profile that corresponds to the device used to capture or display your source document - this could be a monitor, scanner or digital camera (3). Remember that the names “rgb source 1”, “rgb source 2” and so on relate to the number assigned to the prof...
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Color matching (advanced) > 48 cmyk ink simulations – cmyk source data the icc-based color matching system can be used to simulate the output on commercial printing presses. You can select from the ink types most commonly used in different regions of the world: > euroscale – europe > swop – north am...
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Color matching (advanced) > 49 if you are using a source cmyk document, use the following printer driver settings to perform a cmyk ink simulation: 1. On the printer driver color tab, select graphic pro (1) and click options. 2. Select icc profile color matching (2). 3. Select the cmyk input profile...
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Color matching (advanced) > 50 euroscale press. If you have another cmyk ink profile that you wish to use, select it here as the appropriate “cmyk source x” profile. Remember that the names “cmyk source 1”, “cmyk source 2” and so on relate to the number assigned to the profile using profile assistan...
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Color matching (advanced) > 51 saturation this option is recommended for printing business graphics if you want vivid colors. This will not necessarily produce accurate color, as the emphasis is on maintaining saturation. Relative colorimetric this option is best for printing solid colors and tints....
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Color matching (advanced) > 52 p rinter driver settings for icc profile creation or no color matching if you are creating icc profiles using third-party software, select disable color matching for icc profile creation. This option switches off all printer color management and also prevents the print...
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Overlays and macros (windows only) > 53 o verlays and macros ( windows only ) w hat are overlays and macros ? If you would like to print on special stationery, such as forms and letterhead, but do not want to use pre-printed stationery, you can create your own using these advanced features. You can ...
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Overlays and macros (windows only) > 54 c reating the overlay image 1. Use your preferred application, perhaps a graphics program, to create the required overlay image and save it. 2. Open your application’s print… dialogue. 3. Make sure that the selected printer name (1) is that of your postscript ...
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Overlays and macros (windows only) > 55 4. Set the files of type drop-down list to prn files(*.Prn). 5. Navigate to the folder where the.Prn files are stored and select one or more of these to include in your overlay set. You can have more than one printer (.Prn) file in a project. For example, one ...
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Overlays and macros (windows only) > 56 t est printing the overlay 1. Click on the printer icon for the relevant printer and choose printers > test form. 2. In the test postscript form window, to test each overlay select it and click ok. There will be a short pause while the printer processes the fo...
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Overlays and macros (windows only) > 57 7. Click ok to close the define overlay window. The new overlay now appears in the defined overlays list in the printer properties window. 8. Repeat the above procedure if you wish to define more overlays. 9. When done, click ok to close the printer properties...
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Overlays and macros (windows only) > 58 case it is the continuation page, click the second overlay (4) and then click the add button (3) again. 7. When you have selected all the overlays you want to use for this document, click ok. 8. Finally, in your application’s print dialogue, click ok to begin ...
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Overlays and macros (windows only) > 59 6. Close your application. C reate and download macros 1. From the windows start menu, start storage device manager (sdm) and allow sdm to discover the printer. 2. Choose printers > new project to start a new project. 3. Choose printers > filter macro file. Th...
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Overlays and macros (windows only) > 60 2 = flash memory pcl %flash0% = flash memory postscript note that the names are case sensitive, and will be needed later exactly as they appear in this list. 8. Choose projects > save project and enter a meaningful name (e.G. “letter stationery”) so that you c...
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Overlays and macros (windows only) > 61 4. In the overlay window, click the define overlays button (1). 5. In the define overlays window, enter the name (a) and id (b) of the required overlay, and define which page(s) (c) of your documents will use this overlay. Then click the add button (3) to add ...
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Overlays and macros (windows only) > 62 p rinting with pcl overlays once you have defined your overlays you are ready to use them for any documents you wish. The example illustrated here uses two overlays for business letters. The first prints on just the top page, and the second prints on any or al...
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Finishing options > 63 f inishing options your printer offers a wide selection of document finishing options that help you to control the final form of your printed document. Depending on the hardware fitted, either as optional upgrades or included as standard, depending on which model you have, you...
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Finishing options > 64 b ooklet printing ( imposition ) booklet printing in the windows drivers printing allows printing of multipage documents with their pages ordered and arranged so that final printed output can be folded into a booklet. Typically, a4 (or a3) pages would be reduced to a5 (or a4) ...
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Finishing options > 65 w indows p ost s cript 1. In the driver’s layout tab, choose booklet from the pages per sheet drop-down list. 2. Check that the duplex option is set to flip on short edge. Note if the booklet choice is not shown, check that the duplex option is enabled in the driver. ( see “se...
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Finishing options > 66 w indows pcl 1. In the driver’s setup tab, recall any saved driver settings you may wish to use. 2. Choose booklet from the finishing mode drop-down list, then click options. 3. In the options window you can set the signature size (see page 64 , the number of pages per side of...
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Finishing options > 67 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 opt...
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Finishing options > 68 w indows 1. If using the pcl driver, on the setup tab first choose any saved driver settings that you wish to use. See “recalling saved driver settings” on page 12. 2. In the job options tab, choose how many copies you want to print from the scrolling list. 3. Click the collat...
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Finishing options > 69 m ac os x 1. Select printer features (1). 2. From the feature sets menu (2), select job options. 3. Select the collate checkbox (3) to enable printer collate.. 1 3 2 note the collate option in the copies & pages dialogue is for application collate. See page 67 ..
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Finishing options > 70 c olor separation the color separation feature prints each of four primary colors as separate greyscale images. This is a proofing facility that indicates the relative densities of each of the four toner colors in your print document. The darker an area appears, the more of th...
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Finishing options > 71 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. In windows this page is called a “separator page”. On the mac it is called a “cov...
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Finishing options > 72 m ac os x cover page the cover page is accessed from your application’s print dialogue. 1. Select cover page (1). 2. Select the required options for the cover page (2). 1 2.
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Finishing options > 73 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. This feature is not available in the windows postscript drivers. Do not confuse cover print with “cover ...
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Finishing options > 74 m ac os x 1. Select paper feed (1). 2. Select the trays or paper types you wish to use for the first page and remaining pages (2). 1 2.
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Finishing options > 75 b anner printing this feature enables printing on standard sized banner media. The multipurpose tray is used for feeding banner media sizes. Some applications software may not produce the desired results with banner print media sizes, and some experimentation may be required t...
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Finishing options > 76 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 76mm to 328mm, and its length can be from 90mm to 1200mm. Actual limits vary sligh...
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Finishing options > 77 3. In the postscript custom page size definition window, choose your paper feed direction from the drop-down list. The available choices are: notice that the size ranges available swap places when you change the paper feed direction between a portrait and a landscape choice. R...
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Finishing options > 78 w indows pcl 1. In the driver’s setup tab, select any previously saved settings you wish to use. 2. Click the paper feed options button. 3. In the paper feed options window, click custom size. If you have previously saved any special custom sizes they will be listed in the cus...
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Finishing options > 79 fit printer page in the paper feed options window, and choose the printer’s actual paper size from the conversion drop-down list. M ac os x 1. In your application program, choose file > page setup. 2. Select manage custom sizes (1). 3. Click the + button (2) to define a new pa...
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Finishing options > 80 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 75–188 g/m² max...
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Finishing options > 81 w indows p ost s cript and m ac in the driver’s layout 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 (windows ps) or o...
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Finishing options > 82 w indows pcl in 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 off turns off duplex printing and your doc...
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Finishing options > 83 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 save...
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Finishing options > 84 w indows pcl 1. In the driver’s setup tab, choose the number of pages (n -up) you want to print on each sheet. 1-up is normal, 16-up is maximum. 2. Click options to choose from the available options for this feature. From here you can choose the page printing order, the page l...
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Finishing options > 85 m ac os x 1. Select layout (1). 2. From the pages per sheet menu (2), select the number of pages you want to fit onto a single sheet of paper. 3. If required, change the direction (3) the document pages are laid out on each sheet of paper. 4. If required, you can surround each...
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Finishing options > 86 p oster printing 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 separate sheets to create a poster. Poster print is only availab...
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Finishing options > 87 s cale to page scale to page allows you to print data formatted for one size page onto a different size page, without modifying the print data. This feature is not available with the windows ps driver. W indows pcl 1. In the driver’s setup tab, click the options button. 2. Che...
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Finishing options > 88 m ac os x 1. Select paper handling (1). 2. Check the scale to fit paper size checkbox (2). 3. Choose the paper size you need from the drop-down list (3). 1 3 2.
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Finishing options > 89 w atermarks a watermark is typically faint text that is superimposed on a printed document. This can used to indicate that the document is “draft”, or perhaps “confidential”. This feature is not available on mac os x. The illustration below shows the windows postscript driver....
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Finishing options > 90 t o create a new watermark 1. In the watermarks window, click new…. 2. Enter the text you want for your watermark. 3. Adjust your watermark’s font, size, color, angle, position and border (trim) as required. 4. Click ok to accept your changes. T o choose a previously created w...
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Finishing options > 91 t rapping trapping is the process of adjusting the area where colors meet to compensate for registration problems when printing c, m, y and k layers. Trapping can prevent unwanted white gaps or color lines between overlapping objects. W indows pcl 1. Select the driver’s job op...
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Finishing options > 92 white gaps or color lines are still visible on your print, use the wide setting instead. Note 1. Trapping can only be used when the print quality is set to proq2400 or the photo enhance checkbox is selected. 2. If white lines appear when the foreground object is 100% black tex...
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Secure printing > 93 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 (personal identification number) is entered through the printer control panel. You must go t...
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Secure printing > 94 s ending the document 1. If using the pcl driver, in the setup tab choose any saved driver settings you wish to use. See “recalling saved driver settings” on page 12. 2. In the driver’s job options tab, click secure print. The job pin (personal identification number) window open...
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Secure printing > 95 9. 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 panel on the front of the printer. 1. When the machine is idle, use the +/- buttons to select the...
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Secure printing > 96 d eleting a secure print document if you change your mind about printing a secure document, you can delete it from the printer’s hard disk without printing it first. 1. Follow steps 1 to 4 in the above procedure for printing the document. 2. Use the +/- buttons to highlight the ...
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Store to hard disk > 97 s tore to hard disk this feature allows print jobs to be created on the pc and stored on the printer’s hard disk for printing on demand. This is good for forms, generic memos, letterhead, stationery, etc. If you use this feature for standard forms, for example, you can walk u...
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Store to hard disk > 98 s ending the document follow the same procedures as described in the section starting on page 94 for sending a secure document, except that on the job options tab in step 2 , click store to hdd. P rinting the document follow the same procedures as described in the section sta...
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Encrypted secure printing > 99 e ncrypted secure printing security over the network is an increasing concern for some organisations. Encrypted secure printing allows you to send, store and print confidential documents on machines that are shared with other users in a network environment. Encrypting ...
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Encrypted secure printing > 100 s ending the document 1. If using the pcl driver, in the setup tab choose any saved driver settings you wish to use. 2. In the driver’s job options tab, click encrypted secure print. The encrypted secure print window opens. 3. In the encrypted secure print window, ent...
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Encrypted secure printing > 101 > multiple random overwrites: erases a print job after over writing it with data three times. This is the safest method of erasing a print job. However it takes longer to complete the job. 6. Select the auto erase time-out period. Specify a period of time (hours:minut...