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ACCESSING THE COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS
The Colour Matching options in the printer driver can be used to 
help match your printed colours to the ones displayed on your 
monitor or from some other source, such as a digital camera.
To open colour matching options from the Windows Control 
Panel:
1.Open the Printers window (called “Printers and Faxes” in 
Windows XP).
2.Right-click the printer name and choose Properties.
3.Click the Printing Preferences button (1).
To open colour matching options from within a Windows 
application:
1.Choose File—Print… from the application’s menu bar.
2.Click the Properties button next to the printer name.
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SETTING THE COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS
1.On the Colour tab select Advanced Colour ((1) below) 
for Colour Matching.
2.Choose the Manual colour setting (2) and select from the 
following options:
(a) Monitor (6500k) Perceptual
Optimised for printing photographs. Colours are 
printed with emphasis on saturation.
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(b) Monitor (6500k) Vivid
Optimised for printing photographs, but with even 
more saturated colours than the Monitor (6500k) 
Perceptual setting.
(c) Monitor (9300k)
Optimised for printing graphics from applications 
such as Microsoft Office. Colours are printed with 
emphasis on Lightness. 
(d) Digital Camera
Optimised for printing photographs taken with a 
digital camera. 
Your results will vary depending on the subject and 
the conditions under which the photograph was 
taken. 
(e) sRGB
The printer will try to reproduce the sRGB colour 
space. This may be useful if colour matching from an 
sRGB input device such as a scanner or digital 
camera.
USING THE COLOUR SWATCH FEATURE
To use the Colour Swatch feature, you must install the Colour 
Swatch Utility. This is supplied on the CD-ROM that was supplied 
with your printer.
The Colour Swatch function prints charts which contain a range 
of sample colours. Note that this is not the full range of colours 
that the printer can produce. Listed on each sample colour are 
the corresponding RGB (Red, Green, Blue) values. This can be 
used to pick specific colours in applications that allow you to 
choose your own RGB values. Simply click the Colour Swatch 
button (1) and choose from the options available.
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An example of using the Colour Swatch function:
You wish to print a logo in a particular shade of red. The steps 
you would follow are:
1.Print a colour swatch, then select the shade of red that 
best suits your needs. 
2.Take a note of the RGB value for the particular shade that 
you liked.
3.Using your program’s colour picker, enter these same 
RGB values, and change the logo to that colour.
The RGB colour displayed on your monitor may not necessarily 
match what was printed on the colour swatch. If this is the case, 
it is probably due to the difference between how your monitor 
and printer reproduce colour. Here, it is unimportant since your 
primary objective is to print the required colour.
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USING THE COLOUR CORRECT UTILITY
The Oki Colour 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 Colour Correct utility has the following features:
>Microsoft Office palette colours can be individually 
adjusted. This is useful if you want to change how a 
specific colour is printed.
>Colours can be adjusted by changing Hue, Saturation and 
Gamma. This is useful if you wish to change the overall 
colour output. 
Once these colour adjustments have been made, the new 
settings can be selected from the printer driver Colour tab.
To select adjustments made with the Colour Correct Utility:
1.From your application program, click File and point to 
Print.
2.Click Properties. This displays the printer driver options.
3.Click the Colour tab.
4.Click Advanced Colour.
5.Click User Defined.
Select the colour adjustment you made with the Colour Correct 
Utility.
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USING THE PRINTER SOFTWARE 
STATUS MONITOR (WINDOWS ONLY)
The Status Monitor software is distinct from and installed 
separately from the driver software.
The Status Monitor provides a readable indication of the printer 
status as displayed on the indicator LEDs on the Operation Panel 
(see “The Operation Panel” on page 12.) and allows you to access 
the printer menus (listed at the end of this chapter) to set printer 
parameters such as paper size etc. 
NOTE
For reliable operation of the Status Monitor, ensure that the 
USB cable is of length 2m maximum.
NOTE
The Status Monitor is available to Windows operating systems 
only. Mac OS X has a “Printer Menu” utility that allows you to 
change the user settings outlined in this chapter.
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USING THE STATUS MONITOR
Viewing the status of the printer, and viewing or changing the 
printer menu settings are carried out though the Status Monitor. 
Click on Start, All Programs and select Okidata OKI 3450 
Status Monitor. The current printer status is shown.
PRINTER STATE TAB
This tab is visible by default on opening the Status Monitor and 
displays detailed information about the status of the printer.
PRINTER SETUP TAB
Selecting this tab provides access to the Select Printer button, 
which, when selected, allows you to monitor the status any 
printer configured for use with your computer. 
NOTE
You are advised to refer to the extensive on-line help as 
required when using the Status Monitor.
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The Printer Menu button enables you to access the printer menu 
settings. 
From the printer menu, you can configure your printer settings.
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PREFERENCES TAB 
Selecting this tab provides the means to choose the information 
displayed by the Status Monitor and how/when the Status 
Monitor appears.
The default Alert view setting (Pop up on alerts) ensures that the 
Status Monitor pops up to inform you of a condition that requires 
your attention e.g. paper out in Cassette Tray.
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PRINTER FUNCTIONS (USER SETTINGS)
The printer settings made from the Status Monitor can be seen 
collectively on a printed Menu Map (or Status Page). To print a 
status page, press printer ON LINE button and hold for 2 
seconds.
USER SETTINGS
1.On the Status Monitor Setup tab, click Printer Menu. The 
User Settings Print Menu appears. You change user 
settings options from this menu.
2.To save your changes, click the Apply the changed 
settings icon (1), in the top left hand corner.
To undo a change, click the Undo changed settings icon (2).
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