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l Del after Print l Delete Printing Held and Proof Print Jobs When Using the Operator Panel 1. Press Menu button. 2. Press button until Report/List appears, and then press (Set) button. 3. Press button until Stored Document appears, and then press (Set) button. The stored documents page is printed. Stored Print If you send a Stored Print job, the printer does not print the job immediately, but stores the job in memory so you can print the job later. See Printing and Deleting Held Jobs for more information. Proof Print If you send a Proof Print job, the printer prints one copy and holds the remaining copies you requested from the driver in print memory. Use Proof Print function to examine the first copy to see if it is satisfactory before printing the remaining copies. See Printing and Deleting Held Jobs if you need help printing the additional copies stored in memory. Secure Print When you send a job to the printer, you can specify a password from the driver. The password must be between 0 and 12 digits using numbers 0 - 9. The job is then held in print memory until you enter the same numeric password from the operator panel and choose to print or delete the job. This function is called Stored Print . This ensures that the job does not print until you are there to retrieve it, and no one else using the printer can print the job. When you select Secure Print from Stored Print after selecting your user name, the following prompt is displayed: Use the buttons on the operator panel to enter the numeric password associated with your confidential job. As you enter the password, the password you entered is displayed to ensure confidentiality. If you enter an invalid password, the message Wrong Password appears. Wait three seconds, or Press (Set) or Cancel to return to the screen for user selection. When you enter a valid password, you have access to all print jobs matching the user name and password you entered. The print jobs matching the password you entered appear on the screen. You can then choose to print or delete jobs matching the password you entered. (See Printing and Deleting Held Jobs for more information.) Back to Contents Page NOTE: To send a job to print as Secure Printing or Proof Printing, select Secure Print or Proof Print in Job Type in the Paper/Output tab of the Printing Preferences dialog box. NOTE: The printer holds the job until you delete it by using the operator panel or you turn off the printer. NOTICE: When you select Del after Print , the held job is automatically deleted after printing. NOTE: The printer holds the job until you delete it by using the operator panel or you turn off the printer. The data on memory is cleared when the printer is turned off. NOTICE: When you select Del after Print , the held job is automatically deleted after printing. [ ************ ] NOTE: The printer holds the job until you delete it by using the operator panel or you turn off the printer. The data on memory is cleared when the printer is turned off. NOTICE: When you select Del after Print , the held job is automatically deleted after printing.
Back to Contents Page Setting Up for Shared Printing Point and Print Peer - to - Peer You can share your new printer on the network using the Drivers and Utilities CD that shipped with your printer, or using Microsoft ® point and print or peer - to - peer method. However, if you use one of the Microsoft methods, you will not have all the features, such as the status monitor and other printer utilities, that are installed with the Drivers and Utilities CD. To share a locally - attached printer on the network, you need to share the printer, and then install the shared printer on network clients: n Ethernet cable Windows XP, Windows XP 64 - bit Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, Windows 2000 1. Click start ® Printers and Faxes ( Printers for Windows 2000). 2. Right - click this printer icon and select Properties . 3. From the Sharing tab, check the Share this printer ( Share as for Windows 2000) check box, and then type a name in the Share name ( Share as for Windows 2000) text box. 4. Click Additional Drivers and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this printer. 5. Click OK . If you are missing files, you will be prompted to insert the server operating system CD. Windows Vista , Windows Vista 64 - bit Edition 1. Click Start ® Control Panel ® Hardware and Sound ® Printers . 2. Right - click this printer icon and select Sharing . 3. Click Change sharing options button. 4. The dialog box displaying Windows needs your permission to continue appears. 5. Click Continue button. 6. Check the Share this printer check box, and then type a name in the Share name text box. 7. Click Additional Drivers and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this printer. 8. Click OK . Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition 1. Click Start ® Control Panel ® Printers . 2. Right - click this printer icon and select Sharing . 3. Check the Share this printer check box, and then type a name in the Share name text box. 4. Click Additional Drivers and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this printer. 5. Click OK . To check that the printer is successfully shared: l Ensure that the printer object in the Printers or Printers and Faxes folder is shared. A icon of sharing is shown underneath the printer icon. NOTE: The following are options you need to buy separately for shared printing.
l Browse Network or My Network Places . Find the host name of the server and look for the shared name you assigned to the printer. Now that the printer is shared, you can install the printer on network clients using the point and print method or the peer - to - peer method. Point and Print This method is usually the best use of system resources. The server handles driver modifications and print job processing. This lets network clients return to their programs much faster. If you use the point and print method, a subset of driver information is copied from the server to the client computer. This is just enough information to send a print job to the printer. Windows XP, Windows XP 64 - bit Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, Windows 2000 1. On the Windows desktop of the client computer, double - click My Network Places . 2. Locate the host name of the server computer, and then double - click the host name. 3. Right - click the shared printer name, and then click Connect . Wait for the driver information to copy from the server computer to the client computer, and for a new printer object to be added to the Printers and Faxes ( Printers for Windows 2000) folder. The copy time varies, based on network traffic and other factors. Close My Network Places . 4. Print a test page to verify installation. a. Click start ® Printers and Faxes ( Printers for Windows 2000). b. Select the printer you just created. c. Click File ® Properties . d. From the General tab, click Print Test Page . When a test page prints successfully, installation is complete.
Windows Vista, Windows Vista 64 - bit Edition 1. On the Windows desktop of the client computer, click Start ® Network . 2. Locate the host name of the server computer, and then double - click the host name. 3. Right - click the shared printer name, and then click Connect . 4. Click Install driver . 5. Click Continue in User Account Control dialog. 6. Wait for the driver information to copy from the server computer to the client computer, and for a new printer object to be added to the Printers folder. The time this takes varies, based on network traffic and other factors. 7. Print a test page to verify installation. a. Click Start ® Control Panel ® Hardware and Sound . b. Select Printers . c. Right - click the printer you just created and select Properties . d. From the General tab, click Print Test Page . When a test page prints successfully, installation is complete. Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition 1. On the Windows desktop of the client computer, click Start ® Network . 2. Locate the host name of the server computer, and then double - click the host name. 3. Right - click the shared printer name, and then click Connect . 4. Click Install driver . 5. Wait for the driver information to copy from the server computer to the client computer, and for a new printer object to be added to the Printers folder. The time this takes varies, based on network traffic and other factors. 6. Print a test page to verify installation. a. Click Start ® Control Panel . b. Select Printers . c. Right - click the printer you just created and select Properties . d. From the General tab, click Print Test Page . When a test page prints successfully, installation is complete. Peer - to - Peer If you use the peer - to - peer method, the printer driver is fully installed on each client computer. Network clients retain control of driver modifications. The client computer handles the print job processing. Windows XP, Windows XP 64 - bit Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, Windows 2000 1. Click start ® Printers and Faxes ( Printers for Windows 2000). 2. Click Add a Printer to launch the Add Printer wizard. 3. Click Next . 4. Select A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer , and then click Next (For Windows 2000, select the network printer from the Shared printers list). If the printer is not listed, type in the path of the printer in the text box.
The server host name is the name of the server computer that identifies it to the network. The shared printer name is the name assigned during the server installation process. 5. Click Browse for a printer , and then click Next (For Windows 2000, click OK ). If this is a new printer, you may be prompted to install a printer driver. If no system driver is available, then you will need to provide a path to available drivers. 6. Select whether you want this printer to be the default printer for the client, click Next , and then click Finish (For Windows 2000, click Finish ). 7. Print a test page to verify installation: a. Click start ® Settings ® Printers and Faxes ( Printers for Windows 2000). b. Select the printer you just created. c. Click File ® Properties . d. From the General tab, click Print Test Page . When a test page prints successfully, installation is complete. Windows Vista, Windows Vista 64 - bit Edition 1. Click Start ® Control Panel ® Hardware and Sound ® Printers . 2. Click Add a Printer to launch the Add Printer wizard. 3. Select Add a network , wireless or Bluetooth printer , and then click Next . If the printer is listed, select the printer and click Next , or select The printer that I want isnt listed and type in the path of the printer in the Select a shared printer by name text box and click Next .
The server host name is the name of the server computer that identifies it to the network. The shared printer name is the name assigned during the server installation process. 4. If this is a new printer, you may be prompted to install a printer driver. If no system driver is available, then you will need to provide a path to available drivers. 5. Select whether you want this printer to be the default printer for the client, click Next . 6. If you want to verify installation then click Print a test page . 7. Click Finish . When a test page prints successfully, installation is complete. Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition 1. Click Start ® Control Panel ® Printers . 2. Click Add a Printer to launch the Add Printer wizard . 3. Select Add a network , wireless or Bluetooth printer , and then click Next . If the printer is listed, select the printer and click Next , or select The printer that I want isnt listed and type in the path of the printer in the Select a shared printer by name text box and click Next . For example: \\< server host name >\< shared printer name > The server host name is the name of the server computer that identifies it to the network. The shared printer name is the name assigned during the server installation process. 4. If this is a new printer, you may be prompted to install a printer driver. If no system driver is available, then you will need to provide a path to available drivers. 5. Select whether you want this printer to be the default printer for the client, click Next . 6. If you want to verify installation then click Print a test page . 7. Click Finish . When a test page prints successfully, installation is complete.
Back to Contents Page Understanding Fonts Typefaces and Fonts Bitmapped and Scalable Fonts Resident Fonts Symbol Sets Typefaces and Fonts A font is a set of characters and symbols created with a distinct design. The distinct design is called a typeface . The typefaces you select add personality to a document. Well - chosen typefaces make a document easier to read. The printer has numerous resident fonts in PCL 5/PCL 6. See Resident Fonts for a listing of all resident fonts. Weight and Style Typefaces are often available in different weights and styles. These variations modify the original typeface so you can, for example, emphasize important words in text or highlight book titles. The different weights and styles are designed to complement the original typeface. Weight refers to the thickness of the lines that form the characters. Thicker lines result in darker characters. Some words commonly used to describe the weight of a typeface are bold, medium, light, black, and heavy. Style refers to other typeface modifications, such as tilt or character width. Italic and oblique are styles where the characters are tilted. Narrow, condensed, and extended are three common styles that modify the character widths. Some fonts combine several weight and style modifications; for example, Helvetica BdOb. A group of several weight and style variations of a single typeface is called a typeface family . Most typeface families have four variations: regular, italic (oblique), bold, and bold italic (bold oblique). Some families have more variations, as the following illustration for the Helvetica typeface family shows: Pitch and Point Size The size of a font is specified as either a pitch or point size, depending on whether the font is fixed space or proportional. In fixed space fonts, each character has the same width. Pitch is used to specify the size of fixed space fonts. It is a measure of the number of characters that will print in one horizontal inch of type. For example, all 10 - pitch fonts print 10 characters per inch (cpi) and all 12 - pitch fonts print 12 cpi: In proportional (or typographic ) fonts, every character can have a different width. Since proportional fonts have characters with different widths, the font size is specified in point size, not pitch. Point size refers to the height of the characters in the font. A point is defined as 1/72 inch. The characters in a font printed at 24 point will be twice as large as the characters in the same font printed at 12 point. The following illustration shows samples of a font printed in different point sizes: The point size of a font is defined as the distance from the top of the tallest character in the font to the bottom of the lowest character in the font. Due to the definition of point size, different fonts printed at the same point size may appear quite different in size. This is because there are other font parameters that
affect how the font looks. However, the point size of a font is an excellent specification of the relative size of a font. The following examples illustrate two very
different proportional fonts at 14 point:
Bitmapped and Scalable Fonts
The printer uses both bitmapped and scalable fonts.
Bitmapped fonts are stored in print memory as predefined patterns of bits that represent a typeface at a specific size, style, and resolution. The following
illustration shows an example of a character from a bitmapped font.
Bitmapped fonts are available in different type styles and point sizes as downloadable fonts.
Scalable fonts (also called outline fonts) are stored as computer programs that define the outlines of the characters in the font. Each time you print characters
from a scalable font, the printer creates a bitmap of the characters at the point size you choose and saves it temporarily in print memory.
These temporary bitmapped fonts are deleted when you turn off or reset the printer. Scalable fonts provide the flexibility of printing in many different point
sizes.
Your printer uses different scalable font formats for downloading fonts to the printer. PCL 5/PCL 6 uses Intellifont and TrueType scalable fonts. There are
thousands of different scalable fonts available in these different font formats from numerous font suppliers.
If you plan to use many downloadable bitmapped or scalable fonts or if you plan to use many different sizes of scalable fonts, you may need to purchase
additional memory for your printer.
Resident Fonts
Your printer is equipped with resident fonts stored permanently in print memory. Different fonts are available in PCL 5/PCL 6. Some of the most popular
typefaces, like Courier and TimesNew, are available for all printer languages.
The following table lists all the fonts resident in your printer. See Printing a Font Sample List for instructions on how to print samples of the fonts. You can
select the resident fonts from your software program or from the operator panel.
Resident scalable fonts
PCL 5/PCL 6
CG Times
CG Times It
CG Times Bd
CG Times BdIt
Univers Md
Univers MdIt
Univers Bd
Univers BdIt
Univers MdCd
Univers MdCdIt
Univers BdCd
Univers BdCdIt