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
Edition: April 2000
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Banner paper Paper From the list of Paper Sizes, select
Banner
or
Banner A4
.
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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
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or
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).
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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
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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 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.
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Print
Click this
pop-up
menu to
select print
settings.
This area
displays a
summary of
the current
settings.
From the pop-up
menu, choose:
{
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).