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101 • Printer Settings in Windows
Image tab
1.Dithering produces an intermediate grey scale by adjusting the combination of 
dots used in printing. Selecting a se tting determines the degree of detail with 
which a graphics image will be printed. Me sh determines that a screen of dots is 
used for dithering while Line Art determine s that an array of lines is used for 
dithering.
2. Select dithering texture by setting the si ze of dots used in the halftone screen.
3. Set this control to print greyscale effect s in black without dithering. Select the 
check-box to disable greyscale printing  or de-select the check-box to enable 
greyscale printing.
4. You can manually adjust lightness (the hi gher the setting the lighter the print) 
and contrast (the higher the setting the greater the contrast).
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 will be rememb ered from one Windows session to the 
next.
General tab
1. This area lists some of the main features of your printer, including optional items.
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. Options follow:
This specifies that printing should 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 docume nt has finished. Selecting this option 
would prevent that situation, but printing  will be completed a little later, as the 
start is delayed.
This is the opposite choice to the one above. Printing starts as soon as possible 
after the document begins spooling.
4. 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.
5. 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 
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held in the print queue and does not print until the printer setup is changed and 
the document restarted from the print queue. Mismatched documents in the 
queue will not prevent correctly  matched documents from printing.
6. 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 maximize printer 
efficiency. When this option is disa bled the spooler chooses documents based 
only on their priority settings.
7. Specifies that the spooler should not del ete 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 progra m. If you use this option frequently it 
will require large amounts of disk space on your computer.
8. Specifies whether advanced features, such as 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.
9. This button provides access to the same  setup windows as when printing from 
applications. Changes made via the Wind ows Control Panel become the Windows 
default settings.
10. You can design and specify a separator page that prints between documents. 
This is particularly useful on a shared pr inter 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. 
See the chapter entitled “Installing options”.
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PS emulation (MB470 MFP & MB480 MFP)
Layout tab
1.Page orientation can be set to portrait (tall), landscape (wide) or landscape 
rotated by 180 degrees.
2. Print on both sides (duplex printing) can be set to long edge or short edge of the 
document.
3. Printed page order can be set as front to back or back to front of the document.
4. Set the number of pages to be printed on a single sheet. You can also set it to 
print a booklet.
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5.Click the Advanced button to be able to set further document options as follows:
a. Select the required printed paper size.
b. You can substitute another font for TrueType Font.
c. You can set other document options as required, including PostScript options 
and printer features.
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Paper/Quality tab
You can set the paper source or leave it as automatic selection and by using the 
Advanced button you have access to the same  set of options as described above for 
the  Layout  Tab.
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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 1200 x 1200dpi for Xxxxxdn and Xxxxxdtn  and is the best option for printing vector objects such as graphics and text.
• The Normal setting prints at 600 x 600dpi and is suitable for most printing  jobs. You can select Toner Saving to save toner for some print jobs.
2. You can print watermark text behind the main page image. This is useful for 
marking documents as draft, confidential, etc.
If you would like to print on special stationery, such as forms and letterhead, but 
do not want to use pre-printed stationery , you can create your own using Overlays. 
For more information on Overlays and Macros refer to “Overlays and Macros 
(Windows only)” on page 129. The Overlays  button also offers guidelines on how 
to carry out manual duplex printing.
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. Your printed pages can be scaled to fit larger or smaller stationery.
5. Using the Advanced button gives you access to the facility to set mirror image 
printing and negative image printing.
6. A single on-screen button restores the default settings.
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Settings from the Control Panel
The main tabs are the General Tab, Advanced Tab  and Device Settings Tab . The 
General and Advanced tabs are the same as for PCL emulation described earlier.
Device settings tab
1. You can set the desired paper sizes in each of the available paper feed trays.
2. You can make a variety of font settings depending on your application.
3. You can set which optional upgrades are installed on your printer. See the chapter 
entitled “Installing options”.
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