Lexmark Z22, Z32 User Guide

Lexmark Z22/Z32

™

Color Jetprinter™

User’s Guide for

Windows 95 and 98, and Mac OS 8.6 and 9

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Contents

Basic printing for Windows 1

Step 1: Load the paper 1

Step 2: Customize the printing options 3

Step 3: Print your document 6

Basic printing for Macintosh 7

Step 1: Load the paper 7

Step 2: Customize the printing options 9

Step 3: Print your document 14

Contents

Maintaining your printer 15

Using the Control Program in Windows 15

Using the Control Panel in Macintosh 16

Installing or replacing print cartridges 17

Improving print quality 18

Troubleshooting 23

Printer prints slowly or doesn’t print 23

Paper misfeeds or jams 26

Document prints with mistakes or poor quality 27

Problems with transparencies, photos, or envelopes 29

Error messages and flashing lights 30

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Appendix 31

Index 37

Installing printer software 31

Uninstalling printer software for Windows 33

Uninstalling printer software for Macintosh 33

Printing from DOS 33

Electronic emission notices 33

Energy Star 34

Power supply information 34

Safety information 34

Statement of limited warranty 35

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Basic printing for Windows

This chapter describes how to use your printer with Windows 95 and Windows 98. For help using your printer with Mac OS

8.6 or Mac OS 9, see page 7. For help using your printer with Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, refer to the

Guide

button on the Printer Software CD.

Basic printing is as easy as:

1 Load the paper (see next section) 2 Customize the printer settings (see page 3) 3 Print your document (see page 6)

Step 1: Load the paper

1 Place up to 100 sheets of paper (depending on thickness)

against the right side of the sheet feeder, with the print side facing you. To load specialty paper, see page 2.

Paper alignment marks

Sheet feeder

User’s

Paper guide

Release tab

2 Squeeze the release tab and the paper guide together and

slide the paper guide to the edge of the paper.

Basic printing for Windows

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Loading specialty paper

Load up to: Make sure:

10 envelopes • The print side is facing you.

• The stamp location is in the upper left corner.

• The envelopes are loaded

the right side of the sheet feeder.

• The paper guide is against the side of the envelopes.

vertically

against

10 greeting cards, index cards, postcards, or photo cards

25 sheets of photo paper, glossy paper, or coated paper

20 sheets of banner paper

10 transparencies • The rough side of the transparency is facing you (smooth side down).

100 sheets of custom size paper

• The print side is facing you.

• The cards are loaded

• The paper guide is against the side of the cards.

• The glossy or coated side is facing you.

• The paper guide is against the side of the photo paper.

• You place the banner paper behind the

printer. Then bring the unattached edge of the first page over the printer and into the sheet feeder.

• The paper guide is against the side of the paper.

Note:

Make sure you select Banner or

Banner A4 paper size in the Printer Properties. For help, see page 5.

• The paper guide is against the edge of the transparencies.

• The print side is facing you and the paper guide is against the side of the

paper.

• Your paper size fits within these dimensions:

-Width:

76 mm to 215.9 mm

3.0 in. to 8.5 in.

vertically

against the right side of the sheet feeder.

- Length 127 mm to 432 mm

5.0 in. to 17.0 in.

25 iron-on transfers • You follow the instructions on the packaging to load the iron-on transfers.

• The paper guide is against the side of the iron-on transfers.

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Step 2: Customize the printing options

Your printer software works with your operating system to help you print documents with superior results. To customize the printing options, you will need to use the Printer Properties dialog box.

Click the Paper tab to:

• Select a paper size and orientation.

• Set the number of copies to print.

• Reverse the printing order of your

document pages. The first page of your document will be on top of the stack in the paper exit tray.

• Collate your document.

Click the Help button on any tab in the Printer Properties to access the printer driver help.

Basic printing for Windows

Click the Document/Quality tab to select:

• The Document Type you are printing.

• A paper type.

• A print quality setting.

• Web Smoothing (when you print from

the Internet).

• The default settings.

• The About button to find out which

version of the printer software you are using.

Basic printing for Windows

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Changing the Printer Properties from an application

You can open the Printer Properties from almost any application. This lets you change printer settings ONLY for the document you are currently creating in the application. To open the Printer Properties from an application:

1 Open the application’s File menu. 2 Choose Print (or Printer) Setup. 3 In the Printer Setup dialog box, click the Properties, Option,

or Setup button (depending on the application).

4 Change settings as needed (see page 3).

Changing the Printer Properties from Windows

When you open the Printer Properties from Windows, the settings apply to ALL documents, unless you change them from the application.

1 From the Start menu, select Settings, and then select

Printers.

2 From the Printers folder, right-click the printer icon for your

printer.

3 Select Properties from the sidebar menu.

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Changing the printing options for specialty paper

You can use the Printer Properties default settings for printing most documents on plain paper. To change these settings for specialty paper, use the following table:

When you are printing on:

Envelopes Paper From the Paper Size area, scroll to

Click this tab: To make these selections:

select the appropriate envelope size.

Note:

Many applications are designed to override the envelope settings in Printer Properties. Make sure landscape orientation is selected in your application.

Basic printing for Windows

Greeting cards, index cards, postcards, or

Document/Quality

From the Paper Type area, select

Greeting Card Stock

photo cards

Paper

Select the appropriate Paper Size setting.

Photo, glossy, or coated paper

Document/Quality From the Paper Type area, select

Glossy/Photo Paper

Notes:

If you are using two cartridges, you can print quality photos with the black and color cartridge combination. However, for the best possible photo quality, replace the black cartridge, Lexmark part number 17G0050, with a photo cartridge, Lexmark part number 12A1990. For help, see page 17.

When printing photos, remove each photo as it exits from the printer and allow it to dry before stacking.

Banner paper Paper From the list of Paper Sizes, select

Banner

Banner A4

Basic printing for Windows

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When you are printing on:

Click this tab: To make these selections:

Sheets of custom size paper

Iron-On transfers Document/Quality From the Paper Type area, select

Transparencies Document/Quality

Paper

Step 3: Print your document

• From the list of Paper Sizes, scroll to select Custom.

• Enter the dimensions for your custom paper size. For help, see “Loading specialty paper” on page 2.

Iron-

On Transfer

Note:

transfer will print correctly, you may want to print on plain paper before printing on an iron-on transfer.

• From the Paper Type area, select

Transparency

• Select

1200dpi

Note:

remove each transparency as it exits from the printer and allow it to dry before stacking.

To ensure that the iron-on

Normal 600dpi

Print Quality.

When printing transparencies,

High

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1 From your application’s File menu, click Print. 2 From the Print dialog box, click OK or Print (depending on

the application).

Note:

The Lexmark Z22 ships with a High Resolution Color cartridge only. You can instantly improve print speed and print quality by simply adding an optional Waterproof Black Cartridge (P/N 17G0050).

Basic printing for Macintosh

This chapter describes how to use your printer with Mac OS

8.6 and Mac OS 9. For help using your printer with Windows 95 or Windows 98, see page 1. For help using your printer with Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, refer to the

Guide

button on the Printer Software CD.

Basic printing is as easy as:

1 Load the paper (see next section) 2 Customize the printing options (see page 9) 3 Print your document (see page 14)

Step 1: Load the paper

1 Place up to 100 sheets of paper (depending on thickness)

against the right side of the sheet feeder, with the print side facing you. To load specialty paper, see page 8.

Paper alignment marks

Sheet feeder

User’s

Paper guide

Basic printing for Macintosh

Release tab

2 Squeeze the release tab and the paper guide together and

slide the paper guide to the edge of the paper.

Basic printing for Macintosh

•

Loading specialty paper

Load up to: Make sure:

10 envelopes • The print side is facing you.

• The stamp location is in the upper left corner.

• The envelopes are loaded

the right side of the sheet feeder.

• The paper guide is against the side of the envelopes.

vertically

against

10 greeting cards, index cards, postcards, or photo cards

25 sheets of photo paper, glossy paper, or coated paper

20 sheets of banner paper

10 transparencies • The rough side of the transparency is facing you (smooth side down).

100 sheets of custom size paper

• The print side is facing you.

• The cards are loaded

• The paper guide is against the side of the cards.

• The glossy or coated side is facing you.

• The paper guide is against the side of the paper.

• The print side is facing you, and then place

the banner paper behind the printer. Then bring the unattached edge of the first page over the top of the printer and into the sheet feeder.

• The paper guide is against the side of the paper.

Note:

Select Banner (Letter) or Banner (A4) Paper Size in the Lexmark

Z22/Z32 Page Setup dialog box. For help, see page 11.

• The paper guide is against the edge of the transparencies.

• The print side is facing you and the paper guide is against the side of the

paper.

• Your paper size fits within these dimensions:

-Width:

76 mm to 215.9 mm

3.0 in.to 8.5 in.

vertically

against the right side of the sheet feeder.

- Length 127 mm to 432 mm

5.0 in. to 17.0 in.

25 iron-on transfers • You follow the instructions on the packaging to load the iron-on transfers.

• The paper guide is against the side of the iron-on transfers.

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Step 2: Customize the printing options

Your printer software works with your operating system to help you print documents with superior results. To customize your printing options, you will need to use the Page Setup dialog box and the Print dialog box.

Page Setup

Basic printing for Macintosh

Click the Help button to access the printer driver help.

Click this pop-up menu to select a paper size.

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From the pop-up menu, choose:

General Paper Size

Watermark Watermarks choose the watermark you want.

Select: When you want to:

view the available paper sizes.

Scaling

Orientation

change the scaling value of the document. Valid values are between 25% and 400%.

choose between portrait and landscape modes.

Click one of these to select the page orientation.

Basic printing for Macintosh

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Click this pop-up menu to select print settings.

This area displays a summary of the current settings.

From the pop-up menu, choose:

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Click the Help button to access the printer driver help.

Select: When you want to:

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General Copies

Pages

Print Last Page First

Wait for pages to dry

Paper Type/Quality Paper Type

Print Quality

type in the number of copies (1-99).

print all pages or a given page range.

print the pages in the reverse order.

add more time between pages as they exit the printer.

select Plain Paper, Coated Paper, Glossy/Photo Paper, Transparency, or IronOn Transfer.

select Quick Print (600 dpi), Normal (600 dpi), or High (1200 dpi).

+ 30 hidden pages