Canon MG6400 series Online Manual

MG6400 series

Online Manual

Printing

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Contents

Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Printing from a Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Printing with Application Software that You are Using (Printer Driver). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Printing with Easy Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Setting the Media Type with the Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Various Printing Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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

Setting the Stapling Margin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Execute Borderless Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Scaling the Printing to Fit the Paper Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Scaled Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Page Layout Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Duplex Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Printing on Postcards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Displaying the Print Results before Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Setting Paper Dimensions (Custom Size). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Changing the Print Quality and Correcting Image Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Setting the Print Quality Level (Custom). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Printing a Color Document in Monochrome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Specifying Color Correction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Optimal Photo Printing of Image Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Adjusting Colors with the Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Printing with ICC Profiles (Specifying an ICC Profile from the Application Software). . . . . . . 44

Printing with ICC Profiles (Specifying an ICC Profile from the Printer Driver). . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Interpreting the ICC Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Adjusting Color Balance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Adjusting Brightness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Adjusting Intensity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Adjusting Contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Overview of the Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Canon IJ Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

How to Open the Printer Driver Setup Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Page Setup Dialog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Print Dialog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Quality & Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Color Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Borderless Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Margin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Canon IJ Printer Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Opening the Canon IJ Printer Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Maintenance of this Machine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Display the Printing Status Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Deleting the Undesired Print Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Instructions for Use (Printer Driver). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Updating the Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Obtaining the Latest Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Delete the Unnecessary Canon IJ Printer from the Printer List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Before Installing the Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Installing the Printer Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Printing Using the Operation Panel of the Machine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Printing Photo Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Printing Photographs Saved on a Memory Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

About Advanced photo Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Selecting and Printing Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Printing Photo with Trimming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Setting Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Using Useful Display Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Using the Slide Show Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Printing Photo While Viewing the Slide Show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Printing Template Forms Such As Lined Paper or Graph Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Printing Documents (PDF File) Saved on a Memory Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Using Web Service Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Notice for Web Service Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Printing Photos in Online Photo Album. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Downloading and Printing Template Forms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Settings for Web Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Printing from a Digital Camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Printing Photographs Directly from a PictBridge (Wireless LAN) Compliant Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

About PictBridge (Wireless LAN) Print Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Printing with the Access Point Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Copying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Making Copies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Displaying the Preview Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Setting Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Reducing or Enlarging a Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Two-Sided Copying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

About Special Copy Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Copying Two Pages to Fit onto a Single Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Copying Four Pages to Fit onto a Single Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Copying Thick Originals Such as Books. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Copying without Borders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Copying Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Printing

Printing from a Computer

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

Printing Using the Operation Panel of the Machine

Printing Photo Data

Using the Slide Show Function

Printing Template Forms Such As Lined Paper or Graph Paper

Printing Documents (PDF File) Saved on a Memory Card

Using Web Service Printing

Notice for Web Service Printing

Printing Photos in Online Photo Album

Downloading and Printing Template Forms

Settings for Web Service

Printing from a Digital Camera

Printing Photographs Directly from a PictBridge (Wireless LAN) Compliant Device

About PictBridge (Wireless LAN) Print Settings

Printing with the Access Point Mode

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

Updating the Printer Driver

Printing with Easy Setup

The simple setup procedure for carrying out appropriate printing on this machine is as

follows:

1. Check that the machine is turned on

2. Load paper on the machine

3. Select the printer

Select your model from the Printer list in the Print Dialog.

Note

Click Show Details ( (the disclosure triangle)) to switch the Setup window to

the detailed display.

4. Select the paper size

For Paper Size, select the paper size to be used.

If necessary, set the number of copies, the pages to be printed, and the orientation.

Select Quality & Media from the pop-up menu

6. Select the media type

For Media Type, select the same paper type loaded in the machine.

7. 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.

8. Complete the setup

Click Print.

When you execute print, the document will be printed in accordance with the type

and size of the media.

Important

In the Presets section, click Save Current Settings as Preset... (Save As...) to

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 Pro Platinum <PT-101> Photo Paper Pro Platinum

Photo Paper Pro Luster <LU-101> Photo Paper Pro Luster

Photo Paper Plus Semi-gloss <SG-201> Photo Paper Plus Semi-gloss

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

Matte Photo Paper <MP-101> Matte Photo Paper

Canon genuine papers (Business Letter Printing)

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

High Resolution Paper <HR-101N> High Resolution Paper

Canon genuine papers (Original Products)

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

T-Shirt Transfers <TR-301> T-Shirt Transfers

Photo Stickers <PS-101> Photo Paper Plus Glossy II

Various Printing Methods

Setting the Number of Copies and Printing Order

Setting the Stapling Margin

Execute Borderless Printing

Scaling the Printing to Fit the Paper Size

Scaled Printing

Page Layout Printing

Duplex Printing

Printing on Postcards

Displaying the Print Results before Printing

Setting Paper Dimensions (Custom Size)

Setting the Number of Copies and Printing Order

Collate pages + Reverse Collate pages + Normal Reverse

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

1. Specify the number of copies to be printed

Specify the number of copies to print from the Copies in the Print Dialog.

2. Select Paper Handling from the pop-up menu

3. Check the Collate pages check box when you are specifying multiple

copies in the Copies box

Check the Collate pages check box to print all the pages of a single copy together.

Uncheck this check box to print all pages with the same page number together.

4. Specify the print order

Check Page Order.

When you select Automatic or Reverse, printing starts from the last page.

When you select Normal, printing starts from the first page.

5. Complete the setup

Click Print.

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.

Setting the Stapling Margin

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

1. Select Margin from the pop-up menu on the Print Dialog

2. Set the staple side and the margin width

Select a stapling position from the Stapling Side list, and if necessary, set the

Margin width.

Note

The printer automatically reduces the print area depending on the staple

position margin.

Depending on the Two-Sided setting in the Layout pop-up menu, the Stapling

Side that can be selected differs.

3. Complete the setup

Click Print.

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

width.

Important

When borderless printing is enabled, Stapling Side and Margin appear grayed out

and are unavailable.

Execute Borderless Printing

The borderless printing function allows you to print data without any margin by enlarging the

data so that it extends slightly off the paper. In standard printing, margins are created

around the document area. However, in borderless printing function, these margins are not

created. When you want to print data such as a photo without providing any margin around

it, set borderless printing.

The procedure for performing borderless printing is as follows:

Setting Borderless Printing

1. Select the size of the paper for borderless printing

Select "XXX (borderless)" from the Paper Size in the Print Dialog.

2. Select Borderless Printing from the pop-up menu

3. Adjust the amount of extension from the paper

If necessary, adjust the amount of extension using the Amount of Extension slider.

Moving the slider to the right increases the amount extending off the paper, and

moving the slider to the left decreases the amount.

It is recommended to set the slider at the second position from the right for most

cases.

Important

When the Amount of Extension slider is set to the rightmost position, the back

side of the paper may become smudged.

4. Complete the setup

Click Print.

When you execute print, the data is printed without any margins on the paper.

Important

Borderless printing only supports specific paper sizes. Make sure to select a paper

size with the wording "(borderless)" from the Paper Size.

When borderless printing is enabled, Envelope, High Resolution Paper, and T-Shirt

Transfers appear grayed out and are unavailable in Media Type list of Quality & Media

of the pop-up menu in the Print dialog.

Print quality may deteriorate or the sheet may be stained at the top and bottom

depending on the type of paper used.

When the ratio of the height to the width differs from the image data, a portion of the

image may not be printed depending on the size of the media used.

In this case, crop the image data with an application software according to the paper

size.

When scaled printing or page layout printing is enabled, you cannot perform

borderless printing.

Note

When Plain Paper is selected from the Media Type menu of the Quality & Media,

borderless printing is not recommended.

Expanding the Range of the Document to Print

Setting a large amount of extension allows you to perform borderless printing with no

problems. However, the portion of the document extending off the paper range will not be

printed and for this reason, the subjects around the perimeter of a photo may not be printed.

Try borderless printing once. When you are not satisfied with the result of borderless

printing, reduce the amount of extension. The extension amount decreases as the Amount

of Extension slider is moved to the left.

Important

When the amount of extension is decreased, an unexpected margin may be produced

on the print, depending on the size of the paper.

Note

When the Amount of Extension slider is set to the leftmost position, image data will

be printed in the full size. If you set this when printing the address side of a postcard, the

postal code of the sender is printed in the correct position.

Scaling the Printing to Fit the Paper Size

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

page size to be used is as follows:

1. Check the paper size

Check that the Paper Size in the Print Dialog is the same as the paper size that you

set in the application software.

2. Select Paper Handling from the pop-up menu

3. Set the print paper size

Check the Scale to fit paper size check box. Then from the Destination Paper Size

pop-up menu, select the paper size that is actually loaded in the machine.

4. If necessary, check the Scale down only check box

When you check this check box, the document will be reduced to fit to the paper size

when the document size is larger than the page size. The document will be printed in

the original size when the document size is smaller than the page size.

5. Complete the setup

Click Print.

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. Select the printer

In the Page Setup Dialog, select your model name from the Format For list.

2. Set scaled printing

Specify the scaling factor in the Scale box, and click OK.

Note

If you are using Mac OS X v10.8 or Mac OS X v10.7, you can set the Scale rate

to a value in the range from 1 to 999%.

If you are using Mac OS X v10.6.8, set a value in the range from 1 to 10000%. If

you enter any other value, an error message will be displayed.

3. Complete the setup

On the Print Dialog, click Print.

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 Page Setup dialog.

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. Select Layout from the pop-up menu in the Print Dialog

2. Set the number of original you print on one page

In Pages per Sheet, specify the number of page you print on one page.

3. If necessary, set the following items

Layout Direction

To change the page placement order, select an icon from the list.

Border

To print a page border around each document page, select a type of page border.

Reverse page orientation

Select this check box to change the paper orientation.

Flip horizontally

Select this check box to reverse left and right of the document.

4. Complete the setup

Click Print.

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

sheet of paper in the specified order.

Duplex Printing

The procedure for printing data on both sides of one sheet of paper is as follows:

1. Set duplex printing

Check the Two-Sided check box in the Print Dialog.

2. Select Layout from the pop-up menu on the Print Dialog

3. Set the stapling side

For Two-Sided, select either Long-Edge binding or Short-Edge binding.

4. Select Margin from the pop-up menu on the Print Dialog

5. Set the stapling margin

If necessary, set the Margin width, and to change the Stapling Side, select a setting

from the list.

Note

Depending on the Two-Sided setting in the Layout pop-up menu, the Stapling

Side that can be selected differs.

6. Complete the setup

Click Print.

When you execute print, duplex printing will be started.

Important

When a media type other than Plain Paper is selected from Media Type menu of

Quality & Media, duplex printing cannot be executed.

When borderless printing is set, duplex printing cannot be executed.

Duplex printing can be performed only when one of the following paper sizes is

selected from Paper Size.

• US Letter, A4

After printing the front page, there is an ink drying wait time before starting to print the

back page (Operation stops temporarily). Do not touch the paper during this time. You

can change the ink drying wait time from Custom Settings in the Canon IJ Printer

Utility.

Note

If the back side of the paper becomes smudged during duplex printing, display the

pop-up menu of Canon IJ Printer Utility, select Cleaning from the menu, and then

perform Bottom Plate Cleaning.

When you use duplex printing, the print area becomes slightly smaller than the normal

print area.

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