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7.Click OK twice. Close the Printing Preferences dialog box. 
Network Printer Status Utility  
•Available on TCP/IP network connection only.
The Network Printer Status utility is available if your administrator 
has installed it. 
If the utility is installed, the printer driver Properties dialog box 
changes:
•a new Status tab is added.
•an Option button is added to the Device Option tab.
Important!
If you are using heavy media,...

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This utility allows you to view (but not change) the status of the 
following on the Status tab:
•paper trays installed and the media assigned to them.
•total size and percentage used of disk/memory.
•percentage of toner remaining.
 
Important!
If you select Automatic Status Update in the Status tab, the 
driver automatically pings the printer for the latest status 
information every time you open the Properties dialog box. 
This causes a...

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Windows 2000
Operation
 
This section explains how to set up color printing and how to use 
the printer’s features.
Printer’s features covered in this section include:
•N-up printing (see page 247)
•Custom page sizes (see page 250)
•Selecting print resolution (see page 259)
•Duplex printing (see page 260)
•Printing Booklets (see page 264)
•Watermarks (see page 269)
•Collating (see page 272)
•Proof and Print (see page 273)
•Secure print: printing...

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Factors that Affect Color Printing
The PCL and PostScript printer drivers supplied with your printer 
provide several controls for changing the color output. For general 
use the default driver settings produce good results for most 
documents.
Many applications have their own color settings, and these may 
override the settings in the printer driver. Please refer to the 
documentation for your software application for details on how that...

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Factors that Affect Color Printing
Monitor Colors vs. Printer Colors  
(Differences between the range of colors a monitor or 
printer can reproduce)
•Neither a printer nor a monitor is capable of reproducing 
the full range of colors visible to the human eye. Each 
device is restricted to a certain range of colors. In addition 
to this, a printer cannot reproduce all of the colors 
displayed on a monitor, and vice versa.
•Both devices use very...

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Factors that Affect Color Printing
Monitor Settings 
The brightness and contrast controls on your monitor can 
change how your document looks on-screen. Additionally, your 
monitor color temperature influences how warm or cool the 
colors look. 
  
There are several settings found on a typical monitor:
• 5000k*  
Warmest; yellowish lighting, typically used in graphics arts 
environments.
• 6500k* 
 Cooler; approximates daylight conditions.
• 9300k*...

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Factors that Affect Color Printing
How your Software Application Displays Color 
Some graphics applications such as CorelDRAW® or Adobe® 
Photoshop® may display color differently from office 
applications such as Microsoft® Word. Please see your 
application’s online help or user manual for more information. 
Paper Type 
The type of paper used can also significantly affect the printed 
color. For example, a printout on recycled paper can look duller...

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Color Matching
Choosing a Method 
  
There is no one way to achieve a good match between the 
document displayed on your monitor, and its printed equivalent. 
There are many factors involved in achieving accurate and 
reproducible color.
However, the following guidelines may help in achieving good color 
output from your printer.
There are several suggested methods, depending on the type of 
document you are printing.
•most common [RGB] (see page...

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Color Matching
Choosing a Method
RGB or CMYK?  
The guidelines for choosing a color matching method make 
distinctions between Red, Green, Blue (RGB) and Cyan, 
Magenta, Yellow, Black (CMYK).
Generally, most documents you print are in RGB format. This is 
the most common format.  If you do not know your document’s 
color mode, assume that it is RGB.
Typically, CMYK documents are only supported in professional 
Desktop Publishing and Graphics...

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Color Matching
Choosing a Method
Matching Photographs 
RGB only 
Oki Color Matching (see page 239) is a generally a good choice. 
Select a matching method appropriate to your monitor.
RGB or CMYK  
If you are printing photographic images from a graphics 
application such as Adobe Photoshop, you may be able to use 
Soft-Proofing to simulate the printed image on your monitor. To 
do this, you can use the ICC-Profiles provided (see “Windows 
ICM Color...