OKI B4600N User Manual
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B4400, B4400L/B4600, B4600L 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, B4400Ln, B4600n, B4600Ln and B4600nPS, B4600LnPS and optional on the B4400, B4400L, B4600, B4600L, B4600PS, B4600LPS. 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. Downloaded From ManualsPrinter.com Manuals
B4400, B4400L/B4600, B4600L User’s Guide – Printer drivers > 52 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, B4400L, B4400n, B4400Ln only, once the driver has been installed, the Status Monitor is then automatically installed. 7.For the B4600, B4600L, B4600n, B4600Ln, B4600PS, B4600LPS, B4600nPS, B4600LnPS, once the driver has been installed, the operator panel language switching utility will run automatically. Choose your preferred operating language. NOTE Take time to note the facilities available on the CD. For example, the Help facility briefly describes each of the Software Utilities. Downloaded From ManualsPrinter.com Manuals
B4400, B4400L/B4600, B4600L User’s Guide – Printer drivers > 53 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”.) 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, B4400L, B4400n, B4400Ln, B4600, B4600L, B4600n, B4600Ln models allow you to use a PCL Mac driver. The B4600PS, B4600LPS, B4600nPS, B4600LnPS models must always use a PS driver on Macintosh operating systems. Downloaded From ManualsPrinter.com Manuals
B4400, B4400L/B4600, B4600L User’s Guide – Operation > 54 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, B4600LnPS model and is optional on the B4600, B4600L and B4600n, B4600Ln 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. Downloaded From ManualsPrinter.com Manuals
B4400, B4400L/B4600, B4600L User’s Guide – Operation > 55 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. 4 2 3 5 6 1 Downloaded From ManualsPrinter.com Manuals
B4400, B4400L/B4600, B4600L User’s Guide – Operation > 56 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Downloaded From ManualsPrinter.com Manuals
B4400, B4400L/B4600, B4600L User’s Guide – Operation > 57 >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. Downloaded From ManualsPrinter.com Manuals
B4400, B4400L/B4600, B4600L User’s Guide – Operation > 58 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. 1 2 3 4 5 Downloaded From ManualsPrinter.com Manuals
B4400, B4400L/B4600, B4600L User’s Guide – Operation > 59 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. 1 2 3 4 Downloaded From ManualsPrinter.com Manuals
B4400, B4400L/B4600, B4600L User’s Guide – Operation > 60 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. 1 2 3 Downloaded From ManualsPrinter.com Manuals