OKI C5900DTN User Manual

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PRINTER SETTINGS IN WINDOWS
Your printer’s operator panel menus 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 menus, and you print 
documents from Windows, the settings in the Windows printer 
driver will override those items in the operator panel menus.
The illustrations in this chapter show Windows XP. Windows 2000 
versions may...

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POSTSCRIPT EMULATION
1.Page orientation sets 
portrait (tall) or 
landscape (wide) page 
orientation. The 
“rotated” rotates the 
paper through 90 
degrees anti-clockwise.
2. When printing double 
sided pages (duplex 
unit required). You can 
flip the paper either on 
its long edge or short edge.
3. Pages can be printed in forward or reverse order. If using 
the face down (top) paper stacker, forward order is 
usually appropriate to ensure that pages are stacked in...

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PCL EMULATION
When you click the Properties button from your application’s 
Print dialogue, the driver window opens to allow you to specify 
your printing preferences for this document.
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...

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SECURE PRINTING
Secure printing allows you to print confidential documents on 
printers that are shared with other users in a network 
environment.
The document does not print until a PIN (Personal Identification 
Number) is entered through the Printer Control Panel. You must 
go to the printer and enter the PIN.
This feature requires the hard disk drive in your printer, this 
device must be enabled in the pr inter driver. (See “Setting the 
driver device options” on page...

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3.The Job PIN (Personal Identification Number) window 
opens.
4. If the PIN window does not open, click the [PIN] button.
5. In the Job PIN window, enter a [name] for this print job.
6. The name may be up to 16 alpha-numeric characters. If 
you have more than one print job stored on the printer 
when you come to print, you will need a distinctive name 
to distinguish between each of your print jobs.
7. If you would like a prompt at the printer for the job name, 
click the...

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Mac OS 9
If you use the Apple LaserWriter driver, the printing plug-in for 
secure printing must first be enabled in the printer driver. This 
step is not necessary for the Adobe PostScript driver.
To enable the LaserWriter plug-in:
1.On the desktop, click the printer icon for the printer for 
which you want to enable the plug-in.
2. Choose [File] Æ [Print Desktop].
3. Select [Plug-In Preferences] (1).
4. Select [Print Time Filters] (2) and [Job Type] (3).
5. Click [Save...

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PRINTING THE DOCUMENT
Your secure print job is printed using the Printer Control Panel on 
the front of the printer.   
1.When the printer is idle (“ONLINE” indicated in the 
display), use the +/- buttons to select the PRINT JOB 
menu, then press [ENTER].
2. Select “ENCRYPTED/STORED JOB”.
3. Use the +/- buttons to enter the first digit of your PIN, 
then press [ENTER].
4. Repeat step 3 to enter the remaining three digits.
5. If you have more than one stored document, a...

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DELETING A SECURE PRINT DOCUMENT
If you change your mind about printing a secure document, you 
can delete it from the printer’s hard disk without printing it first.
1.Follow steps 1 to 4 in the above procedure for printing the 
document.
2. Use the +/- buttons to highlight the DELETE option and 
press [ENTER].
3. If necessary, use the +/- buttons to highlight the YES 
choice, and press [ENTER] to confirm the deletion.
Your document is deleted from the printer’s hard disk...

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SENDING THE DOCUMENT
Follow the same procedures as described in the section “Sending 
the document” on page 24 for sending a secure document, 
except that on the [Job Options] tab in step 2, click [Store to 
HDD].
PRINTING THE DOCUMENT
Follow the same procedures as described in the section “Printing 
the document” on page 27 for printing a secure document. In this 
case the document will not be deleted from the hard disk after it 
has been printed.
DELETING A STORED...

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A GUIDE TO PRINTING
This Chapter provides a convenient on-screen reference to the 
many features of the driver software supplied with your printer.
HOW TO ACCESS THE DRIVER SCREENS
Most of the features described are accessed via the printer driver 
screens. How you access them depends on your computer and its 
operating system.
WINDOWS DRIVERS
The driver windows are tabbed dialogue boxes, offering a wide 
range choices about how you want to print your documents.
There are two...