Canon MG2500 series Online Manual

MG2500 series

Online Manual

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Contents

Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Printing from a Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Printing with Application Software that You are Using (Printer Driver). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Printing with Easy Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Setting the Media Type with the Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Various Printing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Setting a Page Size and Orientation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Setting the Number of Copies and Printing Order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Setting the Stapling Margin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Fit-to-Page Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Scaled Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Page Layout Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Tiling/Poster Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Booklet Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Duplex Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Stamp/Background Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Registering a Stamp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Registering Image Data to be Used as a Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Setting Up Envelope Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Displaying the Print Results before Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Setting Paper Dimensions (Custom Size). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Editing the Print Document or Reprinting from the Print History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Changing the Print Quality and Correcting Image Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Setting the Print Quality Level (Custom). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Printing a Color Document in Monochrome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Specifying Color Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Optimal Photo Printing of Image Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Adjusting Colors with the Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Printing with ICC Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Adjusting Color Balance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Adjusting Color Balance Using Sample Patterns (Printer Driver). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Adjusting Brightness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Adjusting Intensity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Adjusting Contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Adjusting Intensity/Contrast Using Sample Patterns (Printer Driver). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Overview of the Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Canon IJ Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

How to Open the Printer Driver Setup Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Canon IJ Status Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Checking the Ink Status from Your Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Canon IJ Preview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Deleting the Undesired Print Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Instructions for Use (Printer Driver). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Printer Driver Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Quick Setup tab Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Main tab Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Page Setup tab Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Maintenance tab Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Canon IJ Preview Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Canon IJ XPS Preview Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Canon IJ Status Monitor Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Updating the MP Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Obtaining the Latest MP Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Deleting the Unnecessary MP Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Before Installing the MP Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Installing the MP Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Sharing the Printer on a Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Settings on Print Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Settings on Client PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Restrictions on Printer Sharing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Copying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Making Copies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Switching the Page Size between A4 and Letter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Printing

Printing from a Computer

Printing with Application Software that You are Using (Printer Driver)

Printing from a Computer

Printing with Application Software that You are Using (Printer Driver)

Printing with Application Software that You are Using

(Printer Driver)

Printing with Easy Setup Basic

Various Printing Methods

Changing the Print Quality and Correcting Image Data

Overview of the Printer Driver

Printer Driver Description

Updating the MP Drivers

Sharing the Printer on a Network

Printing with Easy Setup

This section describes the simple procedure for setting the Quick Setup tab so that you can

carry out appropriate printing on this machine.

1. Check that the machine is turned on

2. Load paper on the machine

3. Open the printer driver setup window

4. Select a frequently used profile

In Commonly Used Settings on the Quick Setup tab, select a printing profile suited

for the purpose.

When you select a printing profile, the Additional Features, Media Type, and

Printer Paper Size settings are automatically switched to the values that were

preset.

5. Select the print quality

For Print Quality, select High, Standard, or Draft according to your purpose.

Important

The print quality settings that can be selected may differ depending on a printing

profile.

6. Complete the setup

Click OK.

When you execute print, the document is printed with settings that match your

purpose.

Important

When you select the Always Print with Current Settings check box, all settings

specified on the Quick Setup, Main, and Page Setup tabs are saved, and you can print

with the same settings from the next time as well.

In the Commonly Used Settings window, click Save... to register the specified

settings.

Setting the Media Type with the Printer Driver

When you use this machine, selecting a media type that matches the print purpose will help

you achieve the best print results.

You can use the following media types on this machine.

Commercially available papers

Media name Media Type in the printer driver

Plain Paper (including recycled paper) Plain Paper

Envelopes Envelope

Canon genuine papers (Photo Printing)

Media name <Model No.> Media Type in the printer driver

Photo Paper Plus Glossy II <PP-201> Photo Paper Plus Glossy II

Photo Paper Glossy <GP-501/GP-601> Glossy Photo Paper

Various Printing Methods

Setting a Page Size and Orientation

Setting the Number of Copies and Printing Order

Setting the Stapling Margin

Fit-to-Page Printing

Scaled Printing

Page Layout Printing

Tiling/Poster Printing

Booklet Printing

Duplex Printing

Stamp/Background Printing

Registering a Stamp

Registering Image Data to be Used as a Background

Setting Up Envelope Printing

Displaying the Print Results before Printing

Setting Paper Dimensions (Custom Size)

Editing the Print Document or Reprinting from the Print History

Setting a Page Size and Orientation

The paper size and orientation are essentially determined by the application software.

When the page size and orientation set for Page Size and Orientation on the Page Setup

tab are same as those set with the application software, you do not need to select them on

the Page Setup tab.

When you are not able to specify them with the application software, the procedure for

selecting a page size and orientation is as follows:

You can also set page size and orientation on the Quick Setup tab.

1. Open the printer driver setup window

2. Select the paper size

Select a page size from the Page Size list on the Page Setup tab.

3. Set Orientation

Select Portrait or Landscape for Orientation. Check Rotate 180 degrees check

box when you want to perform printing with the original being rotated 180 degrees.

4. Complete the setup

Click OK.

When you execute print, the document will be printed with the selected page size and

the orientation.

Note

If Normal-size is selected for Page Layout, then Automatically reduce large

document that the printer cannot output is displayed.

Normally, you can leave the Automatically reduce large document that the printer

cannot output check box checked. During printing, if you do not want to reduce large

documents that cannot be printed on the printer, uncheck the check box.

Setting the Number of Copies and Printing Order

The procedure for specifying the number of copies and printing order is as follows:

You can also set the number of copies on the Quick Setup tab.

1. Open the printer driver setup window

2. Specify the number of copies to be printed

For Copies on the Page Setup tab, specify the number of copies to be printed.

3. Specify the print order

Check the Print from Last Page check box when you want to print from the last

page in order, and uncheck the check box when you want to print from the first page.

Check the Collate check box when you are printing multiple copies of a document

and want to print out all pages in each copy together. Uncheck this check box when

you want to print all pages with the same page number together.

• Print from Last Page: /Collate:

4. Complete the setup

Click OK.

When you execute print, the specified number of copies will be printed with the

specified printing order.

Important

When the application software that you used to create the document has the same

function, specify the settings on the printer driver. However, if the print results are not

acceptable, specify the function settings on the application software. When you specify

the number of copies and the printing order with both the application software and this

printer driver, the number of copies may be multiplied numbers of the two settings or the

specified printing order may not be enabled.

Print from Last Page appears grayed out and is unavailable when Tiling/Poster is

selected for Page Layout.

When Booklet is selected for Page Layout, Print from Last Page and Collate

appear grayed out and cannot be set.

When Duplex Printing (Manual) is selected, Print from Last Page appears grayed

out and cannot be set.

Note

By setting both Print from Last Page and Collate, you can perform printing so that

papers are collated one by one starting from the last page.

These settings can be used in combination with Normal-size, Fit-to-Page, Scaled,

Page Layout, and Duplex Printing (Manual).

Setting the Stapling Margin

The procedure for setting the staple side and the margin width is as follows:

1. Open the printer driver setup window

2. Specify the side to be stapled

Check the position of the stapling margin from Stapling Side on the Page Setup tab.

The printer analyzes the Orientation and Page Layout settings, and automatically

selects the best staple position. When you want to change the setting, select from the

list.

3. Set the margin width

If necessary, click Specify Margin... and set the margin width, and then click OK.

Note

The printer automatically reduces the print area depending on the staple

position margin.

4. Complete the setup

Click OK on the Page Setup tab.

When you execute print, the data is printed with the specified staple side and margin

width.

Important

Stapling Side and Specify Margin... appear grayed out and are unavailable when:

• Tiling/Poster or Booklet is selected for Page Layout

• Scaled is selected for Page Layout (When Duplex Printing (Manual) is also

selected, only Stapling Side can be specified.)

Fit-to-Page Printing

The procedure for printing a document that is automatically enlarged or reduced to fit the

page size to be used is as follows:

1. Open the printer driver setup window

2. Set fit-to-page printing

Select Fit-to-Page from the Page Layout list on the Page Setup tab.

3. Select the paper size of the document

Using Page Size, select the page size that is set with your application software.

4. Select the print paper size

Select the size of the paper loaded in the machine from the Printer Paper Size list.

When the Printer Paper Size is smaller than the Page Size, the page image will be

reduced. When the Printer Paper Size is larger than the Page Size, the page image

will be enlarged.

The current settings are displayed in the settings preview on the left side of the

printer driver.

5. Complete the setup

Click OK.

When you execute print, the document will be enlarged or reduced to fit to the page

size.

Scaled Printing

The procedure for printing a document with pages enlarged or reduced is as follows:

1. Open the printer driver setup window

2. Set scaled printing

Select Scaled from the Page Layout list on the Page Setup tab.

3. Select the paper size of the document

Using Page Size, select the page size that is set with your application software.

4. Set the scaling rate by using one of the following methods:

• Select a Printer Paper Size

When the printer paper size is smaller than the Page Size, the page image will be

reduced. When the printer paper size is larger than the Page Size, the page

image will be enlarged.

• Specify a scaling factor

Directly type in a value into the Scaling box.

The current settings are displayed in the settings preview on the left side of the

printer driver.

5. Complete the setup

Click OK.

When you execute print, the document will be printed with the specified scale.

Important

When the application software which you used to create the original has the scaled

printing function, configure the settings on your application software. You do not need to

configure the same setting in the printer driver.

Note

Selecting Scaled changes the printable area of the document.

Page Layout Printing

The page layout printing function allows you to print more than one page image on a single

sheet of paper.

The procedure for performing page layout printing is as follows:

1. Open the printer driver setup window

2. Set page layout printing

Select Page Layout from the Page Layout list on the Page Setup tab.

The current settings are displayed in the settings preview on the left side of the

printer driver.

3. Select the print paper size

Select the size of the paper loaded in the machine from the Printer Paper Size list.

Setting the layout of two pages of the document from left to right is complete.

4. Set the number of pages to be printed on one sheet and the page order

If necessary, click Specify..., specify the following settings in the Page Layout

Printing dialog box, and click OK.

Pages

To change the number of pages to be printed on a single sheet of paper, select the

number of pages from the list.

Page Order

To change the page arrangement order, select a placement method from the list.

Page Border

To print a page border around each document page, check this check box.

5. Complete the setup

Click OK on the Page Setup tab.

When you execute print, the specified number of pages will be arranged on each

sheet of paper in the specified order.

Tiling/Poster Printing

The tiling/poster printing function allows you to enlarge image data, divide it into several

pages, and print these pages on separate sheets of paper. You can also paste the pages

together to create a large print like a poster.

The procedure for performing tiling/poster printing is as follows:

Setting Tiling/Poster Printing

1. Open the printer driver setup window

2. Set tiling/poster printing

Select Tiling/Poster from the Page Layout list on the Page Setup tab.

The current settings are displayed in the settings preview on the left side of the

printer driver.

3. Select the print paper size

Select the size of the paper loaded in the machine from the Printer Paper Size list.

This completes the setup for dividing the document into 2 and performing tiling/poster

printing.

4. Set the number of image divisions and the pages to be printed

If necessary, click Specify..., specify the following settings in the Tiling/Poster

Printing dialog box, and then click OK.

Image Divisions

Select the number of divisions (vertical x horizontal). As the number of divisions

increases, the number of sheets used for printing increases. If you are pasting pages

together to create a poster, increasing the number of divisions allow you to create a

larger poster.

Print "Cut/Paste" in margins

To leave out words "Cut" and "Paste", uncheck this check box.

Note

This feature may be unavailable when certain printer drivers or operating

environments are used.

Print "Cut/Paste" lines in margins

To leave out cut lines, uncheck this check box.

Print page range

Specifies the printing range. Select All under normal circumstances.

To reprint only a specific page, select Pages and enter the page number you want to

print. To specify multiple pages, enter the page numbers by separating them with

commas or by entering a hyphen between the page numbers.

Note

You can also specify the print range by clicking the pages in the settings

preview.

5. Complete the setup

Click OK on the Page Setup tab.

When you execute print, the document will be divided into several pages during

printing.

Printing Only Specific Pages

If ink becomes faint or runs out during printing, you can reprint only the specific pages by

following the procedure below:

1. Set the print range

In the settings preview on the left of the Page Setup tab, click the pages that do not

need to be printed.

The pages that were clicked are deleted, and only the pages to be printed are

displayed.

Note

Click the deleted pages to display them again.

Right-click the settings preview to select Print all pages or Delete all pages.

2. Complete the setup

After completing the page selection, click OK.

When you execute print, only specified pages will be printed.

Important

Since tiling/poster printing enlarges the document when printing it, the print results

may become coarse.

Booklet Printing

The booklet printing function allows you to print data for a booklet. Data is printed on both

sides of the paper. This type of printing ensures that pages can be collated properly, in

page number order, when the printed sheets are folded and stapled at the center.

The procedure for performing booklet printing is as follows:

1. Open the printer driver setup window

2. Set booklet printing

Select Booklet from the Page Layout list on the Page Setup tab.

The current settings are displayed in the settings preview on the left side of the

window.

3. Select the print paper size

Select the size of the paper loaded in the machine from the Printer Paper Size list.

4. Set the margin for stapling and the margin width

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