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SOFTWARE SETTINGS
Many software applications have their own color settings.
The application settings may override the settings in the printer 
driver. Please refer to the documentation for your software 
application for details on that particular program’s color 
management functions.
HOW THE APPLICATION DISPLAYS COLOR 
Some graphics applications such as Adobe® Photoshop®, or 
Macromedia Freehand® may display color differently from “office” 
applications such as Microsoft® Word.
Please see your application’s online help or user manual for more 
information. 
PRINTER DRIVER SETTINGS
The color settings in your printer driver can change the appearance 
of a document. The default driver settings produce good results for 
most documents.
There are several options available to help match the printed colors 
with those displayed on screen. (See “How to perform color 
matching” on page 52.)
LIGHTING (VIEWING) CONDITIONS
A document can look very different under various lighting 
conditions.
For example, the colors may look different when viewed standing 
next to a sunlit window compared to how they look under standard 
office fluorescent lighting.
PAPER TYPE
The type of paper used can also significantly affect the printed color.
For example, a printout on recycled paper can look duller than one 
on specially formulated glossy paper.
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HOW TO PERFORM COLOR MATCHING
There are several ways to achieve color matching with your printer. 
The range of options available varies according to your computer 
platform, operating system, color production method, and printer 
driver type.
DESCRIPTIONS
The following table provides a brief description of the available 
settings for color matching:
HOW TO USE
You can change these settings on the [color] tab.
SETTINGDESCRIPTION
Automatic The printer driver will apply optimal settings based 
on the page content of your document.
ManualPCL
Allows you to select the rendering intent and pure 
black.
See “Rendering intents” on page 53.
See “Black generation” on page 47.
PCL6
Allows you to select the rendering intent, pure 
black, and adjust the brightness and saturation 
levels.
See “Rendering intents” on page 53.
See “Black generation” on page 47.
See “Brightness and saturation” on page 53.
Greyscale  This option prints all documents as monochrome 
using only black toner. No color prints.
The printer interprets all colors as a variation of 
greys.
Use Greyscale to speed up printing of proof copies 
or when you don’t need to print a color document in 
color.
No color Matching Use this option to turn off all printer color matching.
No color correction occurs when selected.
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RENDERING INTENTS
When a document is printed, a conversion takes place from the 
documents color space to the printer color space. The rendering 
intents are essentially a set of rules that determine how this color 
conversion takes place.
To change these settings in your printer driver:
1.Click the [color] tab.
2.Select [Manual Settings] and click [Options...].
3.Select [Printer color Matching] and choose the desired 
rendering intent from the drop-down list.
BRIGHTNESS AND SATURATION
Note
This feature is available with PCL 6 only. S
ETTINGDESCRIPTION
Auto Best choice for printing general documents. 
This setting is used by default.
Perceptual  Best choice for printing photographs. 
Compresses the source gamut into the printers gamut 
while maintaining the overall appearance of an image. This 
may change the overall appearance of an image as all the 
colors are shifted together.
This option attempts to simulate RGB color.
Saturation  Best choice for printing bright and saturated colors if you 
dont care how accurate the colors are.
Best choice for graphs, charts, diagrams etc.
Maps fully saturated colors in the source gamut to fully 
saturated colors in the printers gamut.
Relative 
colorimetric Good for proofing CMYK color images on a desktop printer.
Much like Absolute colorimetric, except that it scales the 
source white to the (usually) paper white.
Unlike Absolute colorimetric, Relative colorimetric attempts 
to take the paper white into account.
Absolute 
colorimetric Best for printing solid colors and tints (such as Company 
logos).
Matches colors common to both devices (monitor and 
printer) exactly. Clips the out-of-gamut colors to their 
nearest printed equivalent.
Tries to print white as it appears on screen. The white of a 
monitor is often very different from paper white, so this 
may result in color casts, especially in the lighter areas of 
an image.
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Before printing a document, you can adjust the brightness and 
saturation settings:
To adjust these settings:
1.Click the [color] tab.
2.Select [Manual Settings] and click [Options...].
3.Use the horizontal scroll bars to adjust the brightness and 
saturation levels.
MATCHING SPECIFIC COLORS
Use the color Swatch Utility to print out a chart of RGB swatches. 
Select your desired RGB values from the swatches and enter the 
values in your applications color picker.
See the Utilites guide for more information.
SETTINGDESCRIPTION
Brightness Determines the total amount of light (white) in the 
color. Zero brightness is black. 100% Brightness is 
white. Intermediate values are light or dark 
colors.
Saturation The degree of saturation of a color is its relative 
purity, or intensity.
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PRINT RESOLUTION
The resolution for a print job controls the print speed and print 
quality of a job.
Raising the print resolution can maximise the image quality of a print 
job. You usually do this for final versions of documents or when 
printing images (photographs).
Lowering the print resolution can increase print speed, reduce the 
need for toner, and reduce the wear on the image drum. You usually 
do this for proof or draft versions of documents.
HOW TO USE
1.On the [Job Options] tab select the desired [Quality] level.
The available options are:
> Photo (1200 Multilevel) best possible
> Fine/Detail (1200 x 1200)
> Normal (600 x 600)
> Draft (600 x 600)
2.Click [OK].
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FINISHING OPTIONS
Your printer has many features that help control the form of your 
printed document.
> “Booklet printing” on page 57
> “Collating” on page 59
> “Separating queued print jobs” on page 61
> “Cover print” on page 62
> “Custom page size” on page 63
> “Duplex (double-sided) printing” on page 65
> “Printing multiple pages on one sheet (N-up)” on page 67
> “Poster printing” on page 69
> “Fit to page” on page 71
>“Watermarks” on page 72
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BOOKLET PRINTING
Booklet printing allows printing of multipage documents with their 
pages ordered and arranged so that final printed output can be 
folded into a booklet. Typically, letter (or tabloid) pages would be 
reduced to half-letter (or letter) and printed side by side on both 
sides of letter (or tabloid) paper, so that the paper can be folded into 
a booklet.
Since this feature prints on both sides of the page, it requires that a 
duplex unit to be installed in the printer (standard on C9850hdn 
model).
Notes
A few applications do not support booklet printing, but most do.
Note that the number of pages in a booklet is always a multiple of 
four, since two pages are printed on each side of each sheet of 
paper. If your document is not a multiple of four pages long, the last 
one, two or three pages in your folded booklet will be blank.
ACTIVATING BOOKLET PRINTING
1.On the driver’s [Setup] tab, choose [Booklet] from the 
[Finishing Mode] drop-down list.
2.Click [Options...].
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3.In the Booklet window you can set the [signature] size, the 
number of [pages] per side of paper, the [binding margin], 
and if the booklet will be read [Right to Left] or Left to Right. 
The graphic in this window shows the effect of each choice 
you make.
Click [Help] for more information
4.Click [OK].
If you do not have the [Booklet] option on the [Setup] tab, check 
that Duplex is enabled in the driver. (See “Setting the driver device 
options” on page 46.)
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COLLATING
This feature allows multiple copies of a multipage document to be 
printed with the pages of each copy in sequence.
Uncollated pages print like this:
Collated pages print like this:
Application collate—Some application programs have a collate 
feature in their print options. In this case the application performs 
the document collation and may send the job multiple times to the 
printer. Generally, this method is slower but can be more reliable. 
Printer collate—This section describes the collate function built 
into the printer driver. In this case the job is stored temporarily in 
printer memory or on the printer’s hard disk (if installed), and the 
printer performs collation. This method is normally faster, but may 
not work from all applications. 
If you experience problems using printer collate, use the collate 
option in your application’s print options instead.
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PRINTING COLLATED DOCUMENTS
1.On the [Job Options] tab, choose how many [Copies] you 
want to print from the scrolling list.
2.Click the [Collate] checkbox (a checkmark appears).
3.Click [OK].
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