OKI B2400 User Manual

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5.Load the sheet to be printed, top edge first, print side up, 
into the feeder and push it gently until you feel slight 
resistance. The printer will advance the paper a short 
distance and retain it and the Load Paper light will stop 
flashing.
When the page image has been processed the paper will be 
drawn into the printer and your printed page will be ejected 
into the output tray.
TRANSPARENCIES AND LABELS
Choose transparencies designed for use in plain paper 
monochrome copiers, as they are required to withstand high 
temperature and pressure. These usually have a print side which 
feels slightly rougher (matt finish) than the back, which is a little 
more glossy.
Transparencies tend to feed more reliably in the manual feeder 
than when stacked in the input tray.
Choose sheets of labels designed for use in laser type printers or 
copiers. The labels should cover the entire sheet, leaving no part 
of the backing sheet exposed, otherwise they will tend to peel off 
inside the printer.
LOADING TRANSPARENCIES AND LABELS
It is recommended to use the manual feeder for this type of 
media, as described earlier for paper.
NOTE
Pages are ejected face up. For multipage documents you may 
want to choose reverse print order in your print dialogue if 
your application offers it.
CAUTION!
Do not use transparencies designed only for hand 
marking on an overhead projector. These will melt 
inside the printer and cause serious damage.
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ENVELOPES
Envelopes can be directly printed in this printer as long as you 
choose suitable types. Avoid self sealing envelopes and those 
with windows or metal clasps. Preferably choose envelopes with 
rectangular flaps rather than triangular flaps.
LOADING ENVELOPES IN THE MANUAL FEEDER
1.When creating your address document, format it to the 
size of the envelope, remembering to set it to landscape 
(wide) format for most envelopes. (Standard DL size 
envelopes are 22cm wide by 11cm tall.)
2.In your computer’s Print dialogue, click the printer 
[Properties] button to display the Printing Preferences 
dialogue.
3.On the Setup tab, choose the correct size for your 
envelope, Source to [Manual] (you can click on the 
manual feeder in the printer graphic if you prefer), and set 
the Weight to [Heavy].
4.On the Job Options tab, set the Orientation to 
[Landscape] (if your envelopes are to print this way).
5.Click [OK] to close the Printing Preferences dialogue and 
click [OK] to close the Print dialogue and print the 
envelope.
The paper fed light will flash, prompting you to load the 
envelope.
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6.Load the envelope, short edge first, print side up, flap 
folded under and to the left, into the feeder and push it 
gently until you feel slight resistance. The printer will 
advance the envelope a short distance and retain it.
The sheet will be drawn into the printer and the printed 
page will eject normally into the output tray.
PRINT QUALITY ADJUSTMENTS
For most printing on standard bond paper the default (medium) 
setting for paper thickness is appropriate. However, for printing 
on other media it may be necessary to make temporary 
adjustments.
The settings for various types of print media are given in the 
following table:
ADJUSTING YOUR PRINTER PREFERENCES
Changes you make in the Printing Preferences dialogue at 
print time are temporary. When you quit from your application 
the settings will return to their default values. Permanent 
changes (new default values) are made using the Status Monitor 
for Windows to adjust using the built in printer menus.
Alternatively, you can set new default values for printing 
preferences for your PC only using the Printer’s Properties 
dialogue from the Printers and Faxes window.
WINDOWSMACINTOSHMEDIA WEIGHT
Heavy Heavy 105–120g/m²
Medium heavy Medium heavy Approx. 90–104g/m²
Medium Medium Approx. 75–89g/m²
Medium light Medium light Approx. 68–74g/m²
Light Light Approx. 60–67g/m²
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CLEARING PAPER JAMS
Occasionally it may be necessary to clear a sheet of paper that 
has become jammed inside the printer. When this happens the 
printer will stop immediately and the Error light will flash.
After the jam has been cleared and the top cover closed, the 
printer will automatically reprint the lost page
1.Open the top cover and carefully remove the print 
cartridge (image drum and toner cartridge together) as 
illustrated.
WARNING!
If the printer has been printing for a while the fuser 
unit will be hot. This unit is clearly marked with a 
yellow warning label. Do not touch it!
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2.If the paper was fed from the tray, pull the sheet as 
illustrated below.
3.If the paper was feed from the manual feeder, pull the 
sheet as follows.
4.Carefully reinstall the print cartridge, pressing down firmly 
at both ends to ensure it is properly seated, and close the 
top cover.
If the top cover will not close, the print cartridge is not 
properly installed. Remove it and refit correctly.
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SETTING PRINTING PREFERENCES
The Status Monitor for Windows provides access to many options 
and enables the printer default settings to be changed to meet 
your every day needs.
The Windows printer driver also contains settings for many of 
these items. Where items in the printer driver are the same as 
those in the Status Monitor menus, and you print documents 
from Windows, the settings in the Windows printer driver will 
override the printer’s default settings.
When you choose to print your document from a Windows 
application program a Print dialogue box appears. This dialogue 
usually specifies the name of the printer on which you will print 
your document. Next to the printer name is a Properties button.
When you click Properties a new window opens the Printing 
Preferences dialogue. These settings are those which you may 
want to change for specific applications or documents. Settings 
you change here will usually only last for as long as the particular 
application program is running.
The Printing Preferences dialogue contains three tabs, which are 
explained in the following sections.
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SETUP TAB
1.Paper size should be the same as the page size of your 
document (unless you wish to scale the printout to fit 
another size), and should also be the same as the size of 
paper you will feed into the printer.
2.You can choose the source of the paper to feed, which 
may be the standard paper tray or manual feeder. You can 
also click on the appropriate part of the screen graphic to 
select your preferred tray.
3.Leave the weight as Printer Setting if using your normal 
paper, or choose a specific setting for special media types.
4.A variety of document finishing options can be selected, 
such as normal one page per sheet, or N-up (where N can 
be 2 or 4) for printing scaled down pages at more than 
one page per sheet.
5.If you have changed some printing preferences before and 
saved them as a set, you can recall them to avoid having 
to set them individually each time you need them.
6.A single on-screen button restores the default settings.
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JOB OPTIONS TAB
1.Set the output resolution of the printed page to meet your 
needs. If selected, toner saving uses less toner at the 
expense of print quality.
2.Page orientation can be set to either portrait (tall) or 
landscape (wide). In landscape the page image is rotated 
90 degrees to the left (e.g. for printing envelopes).
3.If Vector print mode is selected the internal printer fonts 
may be used. Raster print mode downloads the page as a 
bitmap image, which may be preferred if you use fonts 
not resident in the printer.
4.You can select up to 999 copies to print consecutively, 
although you will need to top up the paper tray during 
such a long print run.
5.Your printed pages can be scaled to fit larger or smaller 
stationery or the scaling function can be disabled by 
checking the Disable checkbox.
6.A single on-screen button restores the default settings.
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IMAGE TAB
1.Dithering produces an intermediate greyscale by adjusting 
the combination of dots used in printing. Selecting a 
setting determines the degree of detail with which a 
graphics image will be printed. Mesh determines that a 
screen of dots is used for dithering while Line Art 
determines that an array of lines is used for dithering.
2.Select dithering texture by setting the size of dots used in 
the halftone screen.
3.Set this control to print greyscale effects in black without 
dithering.
4.You can manually adjust lightness (the higher the setting 
the lighter the print) and contrast (the higher the setting 
the greater the contrast).
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PRINTER MENUS
All the standard settings for the printer are stored within the 
printer’s internal memory. They are accessed via a menu system 
via the Configration button in the Status Monitor application.
CATGORYITEMFUNCTIONS
INFO. MENU MENU MAP Prints menu list.
PCL FONT Prints font list for PCL emulation (B2400 
models only).
PRINT IBM 
PPR FONTPrints font list for IBM PPR emulation 
(B2400 models only).
PRINT EPSON 
FX FONTPrints font list for Epson FX emulation 
(B2400 models only).
PRINT MENU COPIES No. of copies to print.
MANUAL Specifies manual feed irrespective of PAPER 
IN setting.
SIZE CHK Specifies whether to display a warning 
when Edit Size and Paper Size do not 
match, i.e. whether or not paper size is 
checked by the printer.
DPI MODE Printer resolution.
TONER SAVE Whether or not toner saving feature is used.
ORIENTATION Page orientation (portrait or landscape) in 
PCL, PPR and FX emulation modes. (B2400 
models only).
LINES PER 
PAGEPCL Emulation setting for B2400 models 
only.
EDIT SIZE In PCL emulation, the print area when the 
host PC does not specify.
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