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SETUP TAB
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 the current 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 (the standard paper tray), Tray 2 (if you 
have the optional 2nd paper tray installed) or the multi 
purpose feeder. You can also click on the appropriate part 
of the screen graphic to select your preferred tray.
3. The setting for paper weight  should match the type of 
paper on which you intend to print.
4. A variety of document finishing options can be selected, 
such as normal one page per sheet, or N-up (where N can 
be any number up to 16) for printing scaled down pages 
at more than one page per sheet. Booklet printing prints 
two pages per sheet on each side of the paper so that 
when folded they make up  a booklet. Booklet printing 
requires the duplex unit to  be installed in your printer.
Poster printing will print large pages as tiles spread over 
multiple sheets.
5. For two-sided printing, you can choose to flip the page by 
the long edge or the short edge. Of course, this requires 
that a duplex unit be installed in your printer.
6. 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. This 
can save a lot of time and is especially useful with so 
many combinations of paper sizes, weights, duplex, 
booklet etc.
7. A single on-screen button restores the default settings.
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JOB OPTIONS TAB
1.The output resolution of the  printed page can be set as 
follows.
• The High Quality setting prints at 600 x 600dpi x 2 bit.  This option requires the most printer memory and 
takes the longest to print.
• The Fine/Detail setting prints at 1200 x 600dpi and is  adequate for all but the most discerning applications.
• The Normal setting prints at 600 x 600dpi and is  suitable for most draft documents, where print quality 
is less critical.
2. You can print watermark text behind the main page 
image. This is useful for marking documents as draft, 
confidential, etc.
3. 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.
4. Page orientation can be set to either portrait (tall) or 
landscape (wide).
5. The printed pages can be scaled to fit larger or smaller 
stationery.
6. Clicking the Advanced button gives you access to further 
settings. For example, you can elect to have black areas 
printed using 100%K toner (a more matte appearance). 
7. A single on-screen button restores the default settings.
8. Photo Enhance - this setting allows printing of sharp, 
photo-like images on ordinary office quality paper.
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COLOUR TAB
1.Control over the colour output of your printer may be 
performed automatically, or for advanced control, by 
manual adjustment. The automatic setting will be 
appropriate in most cases. The other options in this 
window only become visible when you select a choice 
other than Auto. For greyscale printing, the printer runs at 
32ppm and all pages are printed in black and white.
2. You can choose from a range of colour matching options, 
depending on the image source for your document. For 
example, a photograph taken on a digital camera might 
require different colour matching to a business graphic 
created in a spreadsheet application. Again, for most 
general purpose use, automatic is the best choice.
3. Printed output may be made lighter or darker, or the 
colours made more saturated and vibrant as required.
4. Black areas may be printed using 100% cyan, magenta 
and yellow (composite black), giving a more glossy 
appearance, or using only black toner (true black), giving 
a more matte appearance. Choosing the automatic setting 
allows the driver to make the most appropriate choice 
depending on image content.
5. A single on-screen button restores the default settings.
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SETTING FROM WINDOWS CONTROL PANEL
When you open the driver properties window directly from 
Windows, rather than from within an application program, a 
somewhat more extensive range of settings is provided. Changes 
made here will generally affect all documents you print from 
Windows applications, and w ill be remembered from one 
Windows session to the next.
GENERAL TAB
1. This area lists some of the main features of your printer, 
including optional items, such as duplex (two-sided) 
printing.
2. This button opens the same windows as described earlier 
for items which can be set from within application 
programs. Changes you make here, however, will become 
the new default settings for all Windows applications.
3. This button prints a test page to ensure that your printer 
is working.
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ADVANCED TAB
1.You can specify which times of day your printer will be 
available.
2. Indicates current priority, from 1 (lowest) to 99 (highest). 
Highest priority documents will print first.
3. Specifies that documents should be spooled (stored in a 
special print file) before being printed. The document is 
then printed in the background, allowing your application 
program to become available more quickly.
4. This specifies that printing sh ould not start until the last 
page has been spooled. If your application program needs 
a lot of time for further computation in the middle of 
printing, causing the print job to pause for more than a 
short period, the printer could prematurely assume that 
the document has finished. Selecting this option would 
prevent that situation, but printing will be completed a 
little later, as the start is delayed.
5. This is the opposite choice to the one above. Printing 
starts as soon as possible after the document begins 
spooling.
6. This specifies that the document should not be spooled, 
but printed directly. Your application will not normally be 
ready for further use until the print job is complete. This 
requires less disk space on your computer, since there is 
no spool file.
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7.Directs the spooler to check the document setup and 
match it to the printer setup  before sending the document 
to print. If a mismatch is detected, the document is held 
in the print queue and does not print until the printer 
setup is changed and the do cument restarted from the 
print queue. Mismatched documents in the queue will not 
prevent correctly matched documents from printing.
8. Specifies that the spooler should favour documents which 
have completed spooling when deciding which document 
to print next, even if completed documents are lower 
priority than documents which are still spooling. If no 
documents have completed  spooling, the spooler will 
favour larger spooling documents over shorter ones. Use 
this option if you want to maximise printer efficiency. 
When this option is disabled the spooler chooses 
documents based only on their priority settings.
9. Specifies that the spooler should not delete documents 
after they are completed. This allows documents to be re 
submitted to the printer from the spooler instead of 
printing again from the application program. If you use 
this option frequently it will require large amounts of disk 
space on your computer.
10. Specifies whether advanced features, such as booklet 
printing, page order and pages per sheet, are available, 
depending on your printer. For normal printing keep this 
option enabled. If compatibility problems occur you can 
disable the feature. However, these advanced options 
may then not be available, even though the hardware 
might support them.
11. This button provides access to the same setup windows as 
when printing from applications. Changes made via the 
Windows Control Panel become the Windows default 
settings.
12. You can design and specify a separator page that prints 
between documents. This is particularly useful on a 
shared printer to help each user find their own documents 
in the output stack.
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DEVICE OPTIONS TAB
In this window you can select which optional upgrades are 
installed on your printer. This is covered in more detail in the 
section in this guide about installing upgrades.
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PRINTER SETTINGS IN MAC
MAC OS 9
CHOOSING PRINTING OPTIONS
Use the print dialog to choose your printer and select options for 
how you want your document to print.
1.Open the document you want to print.
2. If you wish to change the paper size or page orientation, 
choose File > Page Setup.
The Page Setup options are described commencing 
page 29.
3. Choose File > Print.
4. Select your printer from the Printer pop-up menu.
5. If you wish to change any printer driver settings, select 
the necessary options in the print dialog. You can select 
more options from the Copies & Pages menu.
The printer driver options are described commencing 
page 29.
6. Click Print.
CHANGING THE DEFAULT PRINT SETTINGS
If you print a document and change the printer driver settings, 
these changes are only rememb ered for that particular 
document. To change the printer driver settings for all future 
print jobs:
1. Select Apple menu > Chooser.
2. Select your printer driver in the left-hand panel of the 
Chooser window.
3. Select your printer model in the right-hand panel of 
Chooser.
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4.Click Preferences.
5. Change Page Setup Preferences or Print Preferences as 
required. 
These new settings will be saved as the printer driver 
defaults.
PAGE SETUP OPTIONS - GENERAL
Paper
Choose the paper size that matches your document and the 
paper loaded in the printer. The paper margin is 1/6 inch (4.2 
mm) at all edges.
Orientation
Selects either portrait (tall) or landscape (wide).
If using landscape, you can flip the orientation 180 degrees.
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Reduce or Enlarge
Documents can be scaled up or down to fit on different paper 
sizes.
PAGE SETUP OPTIONS - LAYOUT
Multiple pages can be shrunk and printed on a single sheet of 
paper. For example, choosing 4-up will tile four of your 
documents pages across a single sheet of paper. 
You can control the order in which the documents are tiled and 
also choose to surround each document page with a border.
Duplex
If you have an optional duplex unit fitted to your printer, you can 
print on both sides of the paper.
Long-Edge Binding prints pages that read like a normal book. 
Short-edge Binding prints pages that read like a notepad.
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