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							B4400/B4600 User’s Guide – Interfaces > 51
INTERFACES
Your printer is equipped with a selection of data interfaces:
1. Parallel – For direct connection to a PC. This port 
requires a bi-directional (IEEE 1284 compliant) parallel 
cable.
2. USB – For connection to a PC running Windows 98 or 
above (not Windows 95 upgraded to Windows 98) or 
Macintosh. This port requires a cable conforming to USB 
version 2.0 or above.
The operation of a printer is not assured if a USB 
compatible device is connected concurrently with other 
USB-compatible machines.
When connecting multiple printers of the same type, they 
appear as *****, ***** (2), ***** (3), etc. These 
numbers depend on the order of connecting or turning on 
each printer.
3. Serial – for direct connection to a device that uses serial 
printing (available as an option).
4. Ethernet – For network cable connection. This port is 
standard on the B4400n, B4600n and B4600nPS and 
optional on the B4400, B4600, B4600PS.
If you are connecting your printer directly to a stand alone 
computer proceed to the chapter entitled “Printer Drivers”.
If your printer is to be installed as a network printer, please refer 
to the relevant section in the User’s Guide for the network 
interface card for further details on how to configure the network 
connection before installing the printer drivers.
NOTE
>It is not recommended that you connect serial/USB and 
parallel cables to the printer simultaneously.
>Interface cables are not supplied with your printer.
NOTE
Administrator’s authority is required when installing a 
network connection.
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PRINTER DRIVERS
This chapter describes how to install a printer driver on two types 
of operating system – Windows and Macintosh.
The printer drivers are all contained on the printer driver CD-ROM 
(CD1). Please refer to the readme file on this CD for the latest 
information on printer driver installation.
WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS
1.With Windows running, insert the printer driver CD-ROM 
(CD1) into your CD-ROM drive.
2.If the CD does not run automatically, use Start > Run... 
and enter E:\setup (where E is your CD-ROM drive) in the 
Open field.
3.Click on OK.
4.Select your printer model.
5.Click on Driver Installation > Install Printer Driver and 
follow the on-screen prompts to complete your printer 
driver installation.
6.For the B4400, B4400n only, once the driver has been 
installed, the Status Monitor is then automatically 
installed. 
7.For the B4600, B4600n, B4600PS, B4600nPS, once the 
driver has been installed, the operator panel language 
switching utility will run automatically. Choose your 
preferred operating language.
INSTALLED OPTIONS
Certain options may have been installed in your printer. For those 
that are installed, check that they appear enabled on the Menu 
Map (See “Confirming current settings” in “Operator panels”.) 
NOTE
Take time to note the facilities available on the CD. For 
example, the Help facility briefly describes each of the 
Software Utilities.
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Ensure that your options are set up in the printer driver(s) by 
making the appropriate settings on the Device Options tab (PCL 
emulation) and/or Device Settings tab (PS emulation) described 
in the chapter entitled “Operation”.
MACINTOSH OPERATING SYSTEMS
Please refer to the readme file on CD1 for details on installing the 
appropriate Macintosh drivers.
INSTALLED OPTIONS
Ensure that any installed options are enabled in the printer 
driver.
CHOOSING A MAC DRIVER
The B4400, B4400n, B4600, B4600n models allow you to use a 
PCL Mac driver. 
The B4600PS, B4600nPS models must always use a PS driver on 
Macintosh operating systems.
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OPERATION
This chapter provides a broad outline of how to operate your 
printer from either a Windows or a Macintosh environment. In the 
former, while PCL emulation is available on all printer models, PS 
emulation is standard only on the B4600nPS model and is 
optional on the B4600 and B4600n models.
PRINTER SETTINGS IN WINDOWS
The operator panel controlled menus and Status Monitor 
controlled menus (described in the chapter entitled “Operator 
panels”) provide access to many options.
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 operator panel and Status Monitor menus, and you 
print documents from Windows, the settings in the Windows 
printer driver will override those settings in the operator panel 
and Status Monitor menus.
PRINTING PREFERENCES IN WINDOWS APPLICATIONS
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 which contains 
a short list of the printer settings available in the driver, which 
you can choose for this document. The settings available from 
within your application are only 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.
NOTE
The illustrations in this guide relate to Windows 2000 PCL and 
PS emulations – other operating system windows may appear 
slightly different but the principles are the same.
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PCL EMULATION
The tabs available are the Setup Tab, the Job Options Tab and 
the Image Tab.
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 Tray 1 (the standard paper tray), Manual Feed 
Tray, Tray 2 (if you have the optional second paper tray 
installed) or the optional Multi Purpose feeder. You can 
also click on the appropriate part of the screen graphic to 
select your preferred tray.
If you select manual, the Weight selection box becomes 
visible. You can leave the setting at Printer Setting or 
select as required.
3.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.
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4.Under Manual 2-sided Printing, you can choose to print on 
one side of a sheet only or to use 2-sided printing (duplex 
printing). Your printer allows you to carry out manual 
duplex printing, meaning you must pass the paper 
through the printer twice. For more information, see “2-
sided printing (Windows only)” on page 69. The Duplex 
Help button also offers guidelines on how to carry out 
manual duplex printing.
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.
Job Options tab
1.The output resolution of the printed page can be set as 
follows.
>The ProQ1200 setting prints at 2400 x 600dpi. This 
setting requires the most printer memory and takes the 
longest to print. Your printed pages can be scaled to fit 
larger or smaller stationery. It is the best option for 
printing photographs.
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>The Fine/Detail setting prints at 1200 x 600dpi is the 
best option for printing vector objects such as graphics 
and text. 
>The Normal setting prints at 600 x 600dpi and is 
suitable for most printing jobs.
>The Draft setting prints at 300 x 300dpi and is suitable 
for printing draft documents that contain mainly text. 
You can select Toner Saving to save toner for some 
print jobs.
2.Page orientation can be set to either portrait (tall) or 
landscape (wide). Both views can be rotated by 180 
degrees. 
3.You can print watermark text behind the main page 
image. This is useful for marking documents as draft, 
confidential, etc.
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 Overlays. For 
more information on “Overlays and Macros (Windows 
only)” on page 71. The Overlays button also offers 
guidelines on how to carry out manual duplex printing.
4.In Raster (bitmap) mode, processing of the page image is 
done in the computer leaving little processing for the 
printer to do, although the file size may be large. In 
Vector mode, file sizes may be smaller and so 
transmission over a network, for example, may be faster. 
These effects are more pronounced for graphics printing 
than for text printing.
5.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.
6.Your printed pages can be scaled to fit larger or smaller 
stationery, within a range of 25% to 400% of the original 
size.
7.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. Select the check-box to disable greyscale 
printing or de-select the check-box to enable greyscale 
printing.
4.You can manually adjust lightness (the higher the setting 
the lighter the print) and contrast (the higher the setting 
the greater the contrast).
PS emulation
The tabs available are the Layout Tab, the Paper/Quality Tab 
and the Job Options Tab.
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Layout tab
1.Page orientation can be set to portrait (tall), landscape 
(wide) or landscape rotated by 180 degrees.
2.Printed page order can be set as front to back or back to 
front of the document.
3.Set the number of pages to be printed on a single sheet.
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4.Click the Advanced button to be able to set further 
document options as follows:
1.Select the required printed paper size.
2.You can substitute another font for TrueType Font.
3.You can set other document options as required, including 
PostScript options and printer features.
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