OKI C8600n User Manual

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TIPS FOR PRINTING IN COLOUR
The following guidelines may help you to achieve good colour 
output from your printer.
PRINTING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES
Use the Monitor (6500k) Perceptual setting. 
If the colours look too dull, try the Monitor (6500k) Vivid or 
Digital Camera settings.
PRINTING FROM OFFICE APPLICATIONS
Use the Monitor (9300k) setting. This may help if you are having 
problems with specific colours from applications such as Microsoft 
Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint.
PRINTING...

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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...

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2.Choose the Manual colour setting and select from the 
following options:
(a)Monitor (6500k) Perceptual
Optimised for printing photographs. Colours are 
printed with emphasis on saturation.
(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 gr aphics from applications 
such as Microsoft Office. Colours are printed with 
emphasis on Lightness. 
(d)...

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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...

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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...

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MENU FUNCTIONS
This section lists the menus accessed via the controls on the 
printer’s operator panel and displayed in the LCD window.
OPERATOR PANEL:
1.ONLINE LEDON:Ready to receive data.
Blinking:Processing data.
OFF: Offline.2.DISPLAYDisplays the printer 
status and any error 
messages.
3.MENU 
Button Enters the Menu mode. In 
Menu mode, forwards or 
reverses the menu item 
displayed. Press for 2 
secs. or longer to fast 
forward or reverse.4.ONLINE 
ButtonSwitches between 
ONLINE...

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HOW TO CHANGE THE SETTINGS - USER
It should be noted that many of these settings can be, and often 
are, overridden by settings in  the Windows printer drivers. 
However, several of the driver settings can be left at “Printer 
Setting”, which will then default  to the settings entered in these 
printer menus.
Where applicable, factory default settings are shown in bold type 
in the following tables.
In the normal operating condition, known as “standby,” the 
printer’s LCD window will...

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HOW TO CHANGE THE SETTINGS - ADMINISTRATOR
You can set whether to ENABLE or DISABLE each category in the 
user menu.
Disabled categories are not displayed in the User’s menu.
Only a system administrator can change these settings.
1. Tu r n  OFF the printer.
2. Tu r n  ON the printer while pressing the “ ENTER” button.
When [ADMIN MENU] appears, take your finger off the 
button.
3. Press the “ ENTER” button.
4. When [ENTER PASSWORD] appears, press the “ MENU+” 
or “ MENU- ” button...

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15.Press the “ ONLINE” button to switch to [ONLINE].
MENUS
INFORMATION MENU
This menu provides a quick method of listing various items stored 
within the printer.
PRINT MENU
This menu provides adjustment of various print job related 
functions.
ITEMACTIONEXPLANATION
PRINT MENU MAP EXECUTE Prints complete  menu listing with current settings 
shown.
NETWORKEXECUTEPrints Network configuration information.
DEMO1 EXECUTE Prints demonstration page containing graphics and  text in colour and...

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MEDIA MENU
This menu provides adjustment to suit a wide range of print 
media.
MONO-PRINT 
SPEED AUTO
NORMAL SPEED
COLOR SPEED If the first page of a print job is black and 
white, the printer runs at 32ppm (pages 
per minute). When a colour page is 
detected the printer slows down to 26ppm 
for the rest of that job.
This setting operates in the same way as 
AUTO SPEED, except that the printer runs 
at 32ppm until a colour page is detected. 
To achieve this speed the printer requires...