Oki C 5300n User Manual

C5300n

USER’S GUIDE

PREFACE

Ev ery ef for t ha s be en m ade to ens ure tha t th e in for ma tio n in thi s do cum en t is com ple te, accurate, and up-to-date. The ma nufacturer assumes no responsibility for the results of errors beyond its control. The manufacturer also cannot guarantee that changes in software and equipment made by other manufacturers and referred to in this guide will not affect the applicability of the information in it. Mention of software products manufactured by other companies does not necessarily constitute endorsement by the manufacturer.

While all reasonable efforts have been made to make this document as accurate and helpful as possible, we make no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained herein.

The most up-to-date drivers and manuals are available from the Oki Europe website:

http://www.okieurope.com

Oki and Microline are registered trademarks of Oki Electric Industry Company, Ltd.

Energy Star is a trademark of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Hewlett-Packard, HP, and LaserJet are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company.

Microsoft, MS-DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Apple, Macintosh, Mac and Mac OS are registered trademarks of Apple Computer.

Other product names and brand names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their proprietors.

As an Energy Star Program Participant, the manufacturer has determined that this product meets the Energy Star guidelines for energy efficiency.

This product complies with the requirements of the Council Directives 89/336/EEC (EMC) and 73/23/EEC (LVD) as amended where applicable on the approximation of the laws of the member states relating to electromagnetic compatibility and low voltage.

PREFACE > 2

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Printer overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Rear View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Changing the display language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Paper recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Cassette trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Multipurpose tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Face down stacker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Face up stacker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Duplex unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Loading Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Cassette trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Multipurpose tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Printer settings in Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

PCL or PostScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Printing preferences in Windows applications . . . . . . . . . . 20

PostScript Emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

PCL Emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Secure printing feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Sending the document to print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Printing secure documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Proof and print feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Sending the document to print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Printing the remaining copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Permanent print documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Sending the document to print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Printing stored documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Windows 9x Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Printer settings in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

PCL or PostScript. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Printing preferences in Windows applications . . . . . . . . . . 32

Secure printing feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Sending the document to print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Proof and print feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Sending the document to print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Store to Hard Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Sending the document to print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Colour Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Choosing a Colour Matching Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Matching Photographic Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Matching Specific Colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Printing Vivid Colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

PCL Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Accessing the colour Matching Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Setting the colour matching options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Using the Colour Swatch feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

PostScript Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Colour Matching Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

PostScript Colour Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

CMYK Ink Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Windows ICM Colour Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Overlays and Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Creating PCL Overlays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Installing upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Adjusting Windows printer drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Mac OS 9.x / Classic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Printer Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Software Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

AppleTalk Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

TCP/IP Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

USB Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Installed options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Configuring installed hardware options . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

configuring installed hardware options

from the Desktop: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

configuring installed hardware options

from the Chooser: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Paper Feed, Size and Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Colour Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Factors that affect the appearance of prints . . . . . . . . . 63

Choosing a Colour Matching Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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RGB or CMYK? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Matching Photographic Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Matching Specific Colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Printing Vivid Colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Oki Driver Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

OKI Printer Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Colour Matching Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Oki Colour Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

PostScript Colour Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

CMYK Ink Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Black Finish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Separations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Custom Gamma Adjustment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Printer Job Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

To Enable the Job Type Plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Job Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Multiple pages on one sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Duplex printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Custom page sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Print resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Collating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Background Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Colour Swatch Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Oki PostScript Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Mac OS X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Printer Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Installing the printer software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Setting Up The Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Network Connection using AppleTalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Network Connection using TCP/IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

USB cable connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Configuring Installed Hardware Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

To manually configure installed

hardware options: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Colour Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Factors that affect the appearance of prints . . . . . . . . 109

Choosing a Colour Matching Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

RGB or CMYK? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

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Matching Photographic Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Matching Specific Colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Printing Vivid Colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Oki Driver Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

OKI Printer Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Collating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Multiple Pages on One Sheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Duplex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Paper Feed/Type Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Colour Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Factors that affect the appearance of prints . . . . . . . . 126

Choosing a Colour Matching Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

RGB or CMYK? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Matching Photographic Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Matching Specific Colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Printing Vivid Colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

PCL Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Accessing the colour Matching Options . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Setting the colour matching options . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131

Using the Colour Swatch feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

PostScript Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Colour Matching Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

PostScript Colour Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

CMYK Ink Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Windows ICM Colour Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Using ICC Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Menu functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Print jobs menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Information Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Shutdown menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Print menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Media Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Color Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

System configuration menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

PCL emulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Parallel menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

USB menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Network menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

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Maintenance menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Usage menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Overlays and Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

What are overlays and macros? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Creating PostScript Overlays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Creating the overlay image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Create and download the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Test printing the overlay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Defining overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Printing with PostScript overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Creating PCL Overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Creating the overlay image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Create and download macros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Test printing the macro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Defining overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Printing with PCL overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Replacing consumable items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Consumable order details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Toner cartridge replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

Image drum replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Replacing the belt unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Fuser replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Installing upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Duplex unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Memory upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Adjusting Windows printer drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

PCL driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

PostScript driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Clearing paper jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Oki contact details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

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NOTES, CAUTIONS AND WARNINGS

NOTE

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CAUTION!

A caution appears in this manual like this. A caution provides additional information which, if ignored, may result in equipment malfunction or damage.

WARNING!

A warning appears in this manual like this. A warning provides additional information which, if ignored, may result in a risk of personal injury.

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INTRODUCTION

Congratulations on buying an Oki colour printer. Your new printer is designed with advanced features to give you clear, vibrant colour prints and crisp black and white pages at high speed on a range of print media for the office.

Your printer includes these features:

Up to 12 pages per minute in full colour for fast printing of high

impact colour presentations and other documents;

Up to 20 pages per minute in black and white for fast and

efficient printing of all general purpose documents not

requiring colour;

600 x 1200dpi (dots per inch) print resolution for high quality

image production showing the finest detail;

Single Pass Colour Digital LED technology for high speed

processing of your printed pages;

PostScript 3, PCL 5C and Epson FX emulations for industry

standard operation and wide compatibility with most

computer software;

10Base-T and 100Base-TX network connection lets you share

this valuable resource among users on your office network;

Additionally, the following optional features are also available:

Automatic two-sided (duplex) printing for economical use of

paper and compact printing of larger documents;

Additional paper tray for loading a further 530 sheets at a time

to minimise operator intervention, or different paper stocks for

letterhead stationery, alternative paper sizes or other print

media.

Additional memory allows printing of more complex pages,

including two sided and booklet pages with the optional

duplex unit.

Internal 10GB hard disk drive for storage of overlays, macros

and downloadable fonts, and automatic collation of multiple

copies of multipage documents.

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PRINTER OVERVIEW

FRONT VIEW

1. Output stacker, face down.

Standard printed copy delivery point. Holds up to 250 sheets at 80g/m².

2. Operator panel.

Menu driven operator controls and LCD display panel.

3. Paper tray.

Standard blank paper tray. Holds up to 300 sheets of 80g/m² paper.

4. Multipurpose feeder.

Used for feeding heavier paper stocks, envelopes and other special media. Also for manual feeding of single sheets when required.

5. ON/OFF switch.

The LCD display language can be changed to show any of 12 different languages. (See “Changing the display language” on page 12.)

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REAR VIEW

This view shows the connection panel, the rear output stacker and the location of the optional duplex (two-sided printing) unit.

5. ON/OFF switch.

6. AC power socket.

7. Parallel data interface.

8. USB interface.

* The Network Interface has a protective “plug” which must be removed before

connection can be made.

9. Network interface.*

10. Location of optional duplex unit.

11. Rear, face up, 100 sheet stacker.

When the rear paper stacker is folded down paper exits the printer through the rear of the printer and is stacked here face up. This is mainly used for heavy print media. When used in conjunction with the multipurpose feed tray, the paper path through the printer is essentially straight. This avoids bending the paper around curves in the paper path and enables feeding of up to 203g/m² media.

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CHANGING THE DISPLAY LANGUAGE

The language used by your printer for display messages and for report printing can be changed quickly and easily as follows:

READY

ATTENTION

Press the + key repeatedly to access the System Configuration

BACK

ENTER

ON LINE

CANCEL

Menu.

Press the

Press the – key to move directly to the last item in this menu:

key to enter the System Configuration Menu.

ENTER

LANGUAGE.

Press

Use the +/– keys to move in either direction through the list of

to change this setting.

ENTER

available languages until the language you want is displayed.

Press the

key to select this language.

ENTER

ON LINE

key to exit the menu system and return the

printer to standby.

The LCD display language can be changed to any of these languages:

English Norwegian

German Danish

French Dutch

Italian Turkish

Spanish Portuguese

Swedish Polish

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PAPER RECOMMENDATIONS

Your printer will handle a variety of print media, including a range of paper weights and sizes, transparencies and envelopes. This section provides general advice on choice of media, and explains how to use each type.

The best performance will be obtained when using standard 75~90g/m² paper designed for use in copiers and laser printers. Suitable types are:

Ajro Wiggins Colour Solutions 90g/m²;

Colour Copy by Neuisedlier.

Use of heavily embossed or very rough textured paper is not recommended.

Pre-printed stationery

exposed to the high fuser temperatures used in the printing process.

Envelopes

should also be of the rectangular flap type, with glue that remains intact when subjected to hot roll pressure fusing used in this type of printer. Window envelopes are not suitable.

Transparencies

laser printers. We strongly recommend Oki transparencies (Order No. 01074101). In particular, avoid office transparencies designed for use by hand with marker pens. These will melt in the fuser and cause damage.

Labels

laser printers, in which the base carrier page is entirely covered by labels. Other types of label stock may damage the printer due to the labels peeling off during the printing process. Suitable types are:

should be free from twist, curl or other deformations. They

should also be of the type recommended for use in copiers and

Avery White Laser Label types 7162, 7664, 7666 (A4),

or 5161 (Letter);

Kokuyo A693X series (A4) or A650 (B5).

can be used, but the ink must not offset when

should be of the type designed for use in copiers and

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CASSETTE TRAYS

Size Dimensions Weight (g/m²)

A6 (Tray 1 only) 105 x 148mm A5 148 x 210mm B5 182 x 257mm Executive 184.2 x 266.7mm A4 210 x 297mm Letter 215.9 x 279.4mm Legal 13in. 216 x 330mm Legal 13.5in. 216 x 343mm Legal 14in. 216 x 356mm

Light 64-74g/m²

Medium 75-90g/m²

Heavy 91-120g/m²

Ultra heavy 121-176g/m²

(Tray 2 only)

If you have identical paper stock loaded in another tray (2nd tray if you have one, or multipurpose tray) you can have the printer automatically switch to the other tray when the current tray runs out of paper. When printing from Windows applications, this function is enabled in the driver settings. (See “Printer Settings in Windows” later in this guide.) When printing from other systems, this function is enabled in the Print Menu. (See “Menu Functions” later in this guide.)

MULTIPURPOSE TRAY

The multipurpose tray can handle the same sizes as the cassette trays but in weights up to 203g/m². For very heavy paper stock use the face up (rear) paper stacker. This ensures that the paper path through the printer is almost straight.

The multipurpose tray can feed paper widths as small as 100mm and lengths up to 1200mm (banner printing).

For paper lengths exceeding 356mm (Legal 14in.) use paper stock between 90g/m² and 128g/m² and the face up (rear) paper stacker.

Use the multipurpose tray for printing on envelopes and transparencies. Up to 50 sheets of transparencies or 10 envelopes can be loaded at one time, subject to a maximum stacking depth of 10mm.

Paper or transparencies should be loaded print side up and top edge into the printer. Do not use the duplex (two sided printing) function.

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FACE DOWN STACKER

The face down stacker on the top of the printer can hold up to 250 sheets of 80g/m² standard paper, and can handle paper stocks up to 176g/m². Pages printed in reading order (page 1 first) will be sorted in reading order (last page on top, facing down).

FACE UP STACKER

The face up stacker at the rear of the printer should be opened and the tray extension pulled out when required for use. In this condition paper will exit via this path, regardless of driver settings.

The face up stacker can hold up to 100 sheets of 80g/m² standard paper, and can handle stocks up to 203g/m².

Always use this stacker and the multipurpose feeder for paper stocks heavier than 176g/m².

DUPLEX UNIT

This option provides automatic two sided printing on the same range of paper sizes as tray 2 (i.e. all cassette sizes except A6), using paper stocks from 75-105g/m².

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LOADING PAPER

CASSETTE TRAYS

Remove the paper tray from the printer.

Fan the paper to be loaded at the edges (1) and in the middle (2)

to ensure that all sheets are properly separated, then tap the

edges of the stack on a flat surface to make it flush again (3).

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Load letter headed paper face down and top edge towards the

front of the printer, as shown.

Adjust the rear stopper (1) and paper guides (2) to the size of

paper being used.

To prevent paper jams:

Do not leave space between the paper and the guides

and rear stopper.

Do not overfill the paper tray. Capacity depends on the

type of paper stock.

Do not load damaged paper.

Do not load paper of different sizes or types at the same

time.

Do not pull the paper tray out during printing (except as

described below for the 2nd tray).

Close the paper tray gently.

If you have two trays and you are printing from the 1st (upper)

tray, you can pull out the 2nd (lower) tray during printing to

reload it. However, if printing from the 2nd (lower) tray, do not

pull out the 1st (upper) tray. This will cause a paper jam.

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For face down printing, make sure the face up (rear) stacker (3)

is closed (the paper exits from the top of the printer). Stacking

capacity is approximately 250 sheets, depending on paper

weight.

For face up printing, make sure the face up (rear) stacker (3) is

open and the paper support (4) is extended. Paper is stacked

in reverse order and tray capacity is approximately 100 sheets,

depending on paper weight.

Always use the face up (rear) stacker for heavy paper (card

stock etc.)

CAUTION!

Do not open or close the rear paper exit while printing as it may result in a paper jam.

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MULTIPURPOSE TRAY

Open the multi purpose tray and press gently down on the

paper platform (1) to ensure it is latched down.

Load the paper and adjust the paper guides (2) to the size of

paper being used.

For single sided printing on headed paper load the

paper into the multipurpose tray with pre-printed side up and top edge into the printer.

For two sided (duplex) printing on headed paper load

the paper with pre-printed side down and top edge away from the printer. (Optional duplex unit must be installed for this function.)

Envelopes should be loaded face up with top edge to

the left and short edge into the printer. Do not select duplex printing on envelopes.

Do not exceed the paper capacity of about 50 sheets or

10 envelopes. Maximum stacking depth is 10mm.

Press the tray latch button (3) inwards to release the paper

platform, so that the paper is lifted and gripped in place.

Set the correct paper size for the multipurpose tray in the Media Menu (see “Menu Functions”).

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PRINTER SETTINGS IN WINDOWS

Your printer’s operator panel menus provide access to many options. The Windows printer driver also contains settings for many of these items. Where items in the printer driver are the same as those in the operator panel menus, and you print documents from Windows, the settings in the Windows printer driver will override those items in the operator panel menus.

The illustrations in this chapter show Windows XP. Windows 2000 versions may appear slightly different, but the principles are the same.

PCL OR POSTSCRIPT

Two printer drivers are supplied with your printer: one for PCL emulation, and the other for PostScript 3 emulation. If you print mainly from general “Office” applications choose the PCL driver. For faster printing of PDF documents, choose PostScript. If you print mainly from professional DTP and graphics applications, choose PostScript.

PRINTING PREFERENCES IN WINDOWS APPLICATIONS

When you choose to print your document from a Windows application program a print dialogue box appears. This dialogue usually specifies the name of the printer on which you will print your document. Next to the printer name is a button.

Properties

When you click short list of the printer settings available in the driver, which you can choose for this document.

The window which opens when you click printer driver has been installed. The PostScript driver offers different choices to the PCL driver.

Properties

a new window opens which contains a

Properties

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depends on which

POSTSCRIPT EMULATION

Page orientation sets

portrait (tall) or

landscape (wide) page

orientation. The

“rotated” rotates the

paper through 90

degrees anti-

clockwise.

When printing double

sided pages (duplex

unit required). You can flip the paper either on its long edge or

short edge.

Pages can be printed in forward or reverse order. If using the

face down (top) paper stacker, forward order is usually

appropriate to ensure that pages are stacked in numerical

order. If using the face up (rear) paper stacker, reverse order

would normally stack your pages in numerical order.

You can specify how many pages to print on a sheet. Pages will

be scaled to fit the number you choose. If you choose booklet

printing (requires duplex unit) two pages will automatically be

set, and pages will be printed with the correct pages opposite

one another so that folding the stacked printout produces a

booklet.

3 4

Advanced options are also available, such as how to download

TrueType fonts, and whether advanced options such as

booklet printing are available.

The printer driver contains extensive on-line help for these items to help you make the most appropriate choices.

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PCL EMULATION

When you click the

Properties

button from your application’s Print dialogue, the driver window opens to allow you to specify your printing preferences for this document.

Paper size should be

the same as the page size of your document

1 2

(unless you wish to scale the printout to fit another size), and should also be the same as the size of

paper you will feed into the printer.

You can choose the source of the paper to feed, which may be

Tray 1 (the standard paper tray), Tray 2 (if you have the optional 2nd paper tray installed) or the multipurpose feeder. You can also click on the appropriate part of the screen graphic to select your preferred tray.

A variety of document finishing options can be selected, such

as normal one page per sheet, or N-up (where N can be any number up to 16) for printing scaled down pages at more than one page per sheet. Booklet printing prints two pages per sheet on each side of the paper so that when folded they make up a booklet. Booklet printing requires the duplex unit to be installed in your printer.

Poster printing will print large pages as tiles spread over multiple sheets.

For two sided printing, you can choose to flip the page by the

long edge or the short edge. Of course, this requires that a duplex unit be installed in your printer.

If you have changed some printing preferences before and

saved them as a set, you can recall them to avoid having to set them individually each time you need them.

A single on-screen button restores the default settings.

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SECURE PRINTING FEATURE

With this feature you can send confidential documents to print and have them stored in the printer until you are ready to print them. Documents sent in this way are protected by a PIN (personal identification number), which must be entered before they will print. This is useful when you need to print confidential documents on a printer which is shared with, or accessible to, other people.

NOTE

This feature requires the optional internal hard disk.

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

From your application’s Print dialogue, select your printing

choices in the normal way, and then click the button.

Properties

In the driver window, on the

(1).

In the small pop-up window which appears, enter a name for

this print job (16 characters maximum) and a 4-digit PIN using any combination of digits from 0 to 7 (do not use 8 or 9), and click OK.

Click OK again to close the driver window, and again to close

your application’s Print dialogue.

The document will be sent to the printer’s hard disk but will not print until you request it.

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Job Options

tab and select

Secure

PRINTING SECURE DOCUMENTS

Secure documents stored on the printer’s hard disk may be printed in either of two ways:

From the printer’s operator panel;

or…

From your PC desktop, using the Storage Device

Manager utility supplied on CD1 (Drivers and Utilities) with the printer.

Printing from the operator panel

READY

ATTENTION

Press the +button to access the Print Jobs menu.

Press

Use the +/– buttons to display the first digit of your PIN, and

then press

to select this menu.

ENTER

to enter this digit. Repeat this procedure for

ENTER

BACK

ENTER

each of the four digits.

Use the +/– buttons to display each of your stored secure

documents in turn, or to select all documents. When the required selection is displayed, press

ENTER

to print the

document(s).

If you have only selected a single document to print, the

display will prompt you for the number of collated copies you wish to print (default is 1 copy). Use the +/– buttons to choose the number of copies you want and press

ENTER

printing.

After a short pause the selected document will print. When printing is complete the document will automatically be deleted from the printer’s hard disk.

ON LINE

CANCEL

to begin

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Printing from your PC desktop

If you have installed the Storage Device Manager software from the supplied CD, you can also print secure documents directly from your PC desktop. You might do this, perhaps, when the office is empty and your confidential documents can safely be printed remotely.

From the Windows

If necessary, use the

menu, run Storage Device Manager.

Start

SDM Printer Discovery

window to find all available printers on your network or connected to your computer.

Select the icon for the printer holding your secure documents.

From the

In the HDD Print Jobs window, choose the

Printers

menu, choose

HDD Print Jobs

View User Jobs

option button and enter your PIN in the text box provided. After a short pause, a list of your print jobs will appear.

In the list of print jobs, select the job you wish to print and

click

Print Job(s)

. If necessary, adjust the number of copies you

want when the prompt appears.

After a short pause the selected document will print. When printing is complete the document will automatically be deleted from the printer’s hard disk.

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PROOF AND PRINT FEATURE

This feature allows you to send multiple copies of a document to print but only print the first copy so that you can check the output quality before printing the rest.

NOTE

This feature requires the optional internal hard disk in the printer.

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

From your application’s Print dialogue, select the number of

copies you need, and then click the

Properties

button.

In the driver window, on the

2. and Print

In the small pop-up window which appears, enter a name for

this print job (16 characters maximum) and a 4-digit PIN using any combination of digits from 0 to 7 (do not use 8 or 9), and click OK.

Click OK again to close the driver window, and again to close

your application’s Print dialogue.

The document will be sent to the printer’s hard disk but only the first copy will print.

(2).

Job Options

2 2

tab and select

Proof

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PRINTING THE REMAINING COPIES

Documents stored on the printer’s hard disk may be printed in either of two ways:

From the printer’s operator panel;

or…

From your PC desktop, using the Storage Device

Manager utility supplied on CD1 (Drivers and Utilities) with the printer.

Printing from the operator panel

READY

ATTENTION

Press the +button to access the Print Jobs menu.

Press

Use the +/– buttons to display the first digit of your PIN, and

then press

to select this menu.

ENTER

to enter this digit. Repeat this procedure for

ENTER

BACK

ENTER

ON LINE

CANCEL

each of the four digits.

Use the +/– buttons to display each of your stored documents

in turn. When the required selection is displayed, press

ENTER

to print the document(s).

Use the +/– buttons to choose the number of copies you want

and press

to begin printing.

ENTER

After a short pause while the selected document is processed it will begin printing. When printing is complete the document will automatically be deleted from the printer’s hard disk.

Printing from your PC desktop

If you have installed the Storage Device Manager software from the supplied CD, you can also print the remaining copies directly from your PC desktop.

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From the Windows

menu, run Storage Device Manager.

Start

If necessary, use the

SDM Printer Discovery

window to find all available printers on your network or connected to your computer.

Select the icon for the printer holding your secure documents.

From the

In the HDD Print Jobs window, choose the

Printers

menu, choose

HDD Print Jobs

View User Jobs

option button and enter your PIN in the text box provided. After a short pause, a list of your print jobs will appear.

In the list of print jobs, select the job you wish to print and

click

Print Job(s)

. If necessary, adjust the number of copies you

want when the prompt appears.

After a short pause while the selected document is processed it will begin printing. When printing is complete the document will automatically be deleted from the printer’s hard disk.

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PERMANENT PRINT DOCUMENTS

With this feature you can create standard documents that you often need to print and store them on your printer’s internal hard disk. You can then print them at any time without having to send them again from your computer.

NOTE

This feature requires the optional internal hard disk.

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

From your application’s Print dialogue, select your printing

choices in the normal way, and then click the button.

Properties

In the driver window, on the

2. to HDD

In the small pop-up window which appears, enter a name for

this print job (16 characters maximum) and a 4-digit PIN using any combination of digits from 0 to 7 (do not use 8 or 9), and click OK.

Click OK again to close the driver window, and again to close

your application’s Print dialogue.

The document will be sent to the printer’s hard disk but will not print.

(1).

Job Options

1 1

tab and select

Store

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PRINTING STORED DOCUMENTS

Documents stored on the printer’s hard disk may be printed in either of two ways:

From the printer’s operator panel;

or…

From your PC desktop, using the Storage Device

Manager utility supplied on CD1 (Drivers and Utilities) with the printer.

Printing from the operator panel

READY

ATTENTION

Press the +button to access the Print Jobs menu.

Press

Use the +/– buttons to display the first digit of your PIN, and

then press

to select this menu.

ENTER

to enter this digit. Repeat this procedure for

ENTER

BACK

ENTER

each of the four digits.

Use the +/– buttons to display each of your stored secure

documents in turn, or to select all documents. When the required selection is displayed, press

ENTER

to print the

document(s).

If you have only selected a single document to print, the

display will prompt you for the number of collated copies you wish to print (default is 1 copy). Use the +/– buttons to choose the number of copies you want and press

ENTER

printing.

After a short pause the selected document will print.

ON LINE

CANCEL

to begin

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Printing from your PC desktop

If you have installed the Storage Device Manager software from the supplied CD, you can also print permanently stored documents directly from your PC desktop.

From the Windows

If necessary, use the

menu, run Storage Device Manager.

Start

SDM Printer Discovery

window to find all available printers on your network or connected to your computer.

Select the icon for the printer holding your secure documents.

From the

In the HDD Print Jobs window, choose the

Printers

menu, choose

HDD Print Jobs

View User Jobs

option button and enter your PIN in the text box provided. After a short pause, a list of your print jobs will appear.

In the list of print jobs, select the job you wish to print and

click

Print Job(s)

. If necessary, adjust the number of copies you

want when the prompt appears.

After a short pause the selected document will print.

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WINDOWS 9X DIFFERENCES

Screen presentations of Windows 9x, together with some procedures, are significantly different than other versions of Windows (2000/XP etc.). This Chapter deals mainly with these variations. If necessary, reference should be made to the relevant subject or online help for more information.

PRINTER SETTINGS IN WINDOWS

PCL OR POSTSCRIPT

Two printer drivers are supplied with your printer: one for PCL emulation, and the other for PostScript 3 emulation. If you print mainly from general “Office” applications choose the PCL driver. For faster printing of PDF documents, choose PostScript. Also choose PostScript if you print mainly from professional DTP and graphics applications.

NOTE

With both drivers - if optional accessories such as a Hard Disk or Duplex unit are fitted, ensure that they are enabled in the Start/Settings/ Printers/Properties/Device options dialogue.

PRINTING PREFERENCES IN WINDOWS APPLICATIONS

Properties

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YOUR PRINTER

When you click

Properties

a new window opens which contains a short list of the printer settings available in the driver, which you can choose for this document.

The window which opens when you click

Properties

depends on which printer driver has been installed. The PostScript driver offers different choices to the PCL driver.

PostScript Emulation

Paper size should be the

same as the page size of your document (unless you wish to scale the

printout to fit another size), and should also be the same as the size of

paper you will feed into the printer.

You can specify how many

pages to print on a sheet. Pages will be scaled to fit

the number you choose.

Page orientation sets

portrait (tall) or landscape (wide) page orientation. Rotated turns the paper through 90 degrees anticlockwise.

By selecting the More Options Tab you can flip the paper either

on its long edge or short edge when printing double sided pages (duplex unit required).

The printer driver contains extensive online help for these items to help you make the most appropriate choices.

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PCL Emulation

When you click the

Properties

button from your application’s Print dialogue, the driver window opens to allow you to specify your printing preferences for this document.

Paper size should be

the same as the page size of your document (unless you wish to

1 2

scale the printout to fit another size), and should also be the same as the size of paper you will feed

into the printer.

You can choose the

source of the paper to feed, which may be Tray 1 (the standard paper tray), Tray 2 (if you have the optional 2nd paper tray installed) or the multipurpose feeder. You can also click on the appropriate part of the screen graphic to select your preferred tray.

A variety of document finishing options can be selected, such

Poster printing will print large pages as tiles spread over multiple sheets.

For two sided printing, you can choose to flip the page by the

long edge or the short edge. Of course, this requires that a duplex unit be installed in your printer.

If you have changed some printing preferences before and

saved them as a set, you can recall them to avoid having to set them individually each time you need them.

A single on-screen button restores the default settings.

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SECURE PRINTING FEATURE

NOTE

With both PS and PCL drivers, this feature requires the optional internal hard disk to be fitted and enabled in the Start/Settings/Printers/ Properties/Device options dialogue.

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

From your application’s Print dialogue, select your printing choices in the normal way, and then click the

PCL Emulation

In the driver window, on

the

Job Options

Secure Print

In the small pop-up

window which appears, enter a name for this print job (16 characters maximum) and a 4-digit PIN using any combination of digits from 0 to 9, and click OK.

tab, select

(1).

Properties

button.

Click OK again to close the

driver window, and again to close your application’s Print dialogue.

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PostScript Emulation

In the driver window, on the Device Options tab, select Secure

Print (1).

In Printer Features, select Password 1 and select a number

from 0 - 9 in the Change Setting for: drop-down box. Repeat for passwords 2 - 4.

Click OK again to close the driver window, and again to close

your application’s Print dialogue.

The document will be sent to the printer’s hard disk, but will not print until you request it.

See Chapter “Printer Settings in Windows” for information on printing secure documents.

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Proof and print feature

This feature allows you to send multiple copies of a document to print but only print the first copy so that you can check the output quality before printing the rest.

NOTE

With both PS and PCL drivers, this feature requires the optional internal hard disk to be fitted and enabled in the Start/Settings/Printers/ Properties/Device options dialogue.

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

From your application’s Print dialogue, select the number of copies you need, and then click the

In the driver window, on

the

Job Options

Proof and Print

In the small pop-up

tab, select

(1).

window which appears, enter a name for this print job (16 characters maximum) and a 4-digit PIN using any combination of digits from 0 to 9, and click OK.

Properties

button.

Click OK again to close the

driver window, and again to close your application’s Print dialogue.

The document will be sent to the printer’s hard disk but only the first copy will print.

See Chapter “Printer Settings in Windows” for information on printing the remaining copies.

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STORE TO HARD DISK

NOTE

With both PS and PCL drivers, this feature requires the optional internal hard disk to be fitted and enabled in the Start/Settings/Printers/ Properties/Device options dialogue.

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

From your application’s Print dialogue, select your printing choices in the normal way, and then click the

PCL Emulation

In the driver window, on

the

Job Options

Store to HDD

In the small pop-up

window which appears, enter a name for this print job (16 characters maximum) and a 4-digit PIN using any combination of digits from 0 to 9, and click OK.

tab, select

(1).

Properties

button.

Click OK again to close the

driver window, and again to close your application’s Print dialogue.

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PostScript Emulation

In the driver window, on the Device Options tab, select Store to

HDD (1).

In Printer Features, select Password 1 (1 above) and select a

number from 0 - 9 in the Change Setting for: drop-down box (2 above). Repeat for passwords 2 - 4.

NOTE

A “Password” is part of a PIN. Password 1 is the first digit of a PIN, Password 2 is the second digit of a

PIN etc.

Click OK again to close the driver window, and again to close

your application’s Print dialogue.

The document will be sent to the printer’s hard disk but will not print.

See Chapter “Printer Settings in Windows” for information on printing stored documents.

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COLOUR PRINTING

CHOOSING A COLOUR MATCHING METHOD

There is no correct way to achieve a good match between the document displayed on your monitor, and its printed equivalent. There are many factors involved in achieving accurate and reproducible colour.

The following guidelines may help in achieving good colour output from your printer. There are several suggested methods, depending on the type of document you are printing.

These suggestions are for guidance only. Your results may vary depending on the application from which you are printing. Some applications will override any colour matching settings in the printer driver without warning.

RGB or CMYK?

The guidelines for choosing a colour matching method makes distinctions between Red, Green, Blue (RGB) and Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black (CMYK).

Generally, most documents you print will be in RGB format. This is the most common, and if you do not know your document’s colour mode, assume that it is RGB.

Typically CMYK documents are only supported in professional Desktop Publishing and Graphics applications.

MATCHING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES

RGB only

Oki Colour Matching is a generally a good choice. Select a matching method appropriate to your monitor.

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RGB or CMYK

If you are printing photographic images from a graphics application such as Adobe Photoshop, you may be able to use Soft-Proofing to simulate the printed image on your monitor. To do this, you can use the ICC-Profiles provided by Oki, and then print using the ICC profiles as the Print Space (or Output space).

MATCHING SPECIFIC COLOURS

(For instance, a Company logo.)

RGB only

Oki Colour Matching, and the

sRGB setting (PCL or PS driver).

PostScript Colour Matching

using the Relative Colorimetric option.

Use the Colour Swatch Utility (1)

to print out a chart of RGB swatches and enter your desired RGB values in your application's colour picker.

PRINTING VIVID COLOURS

RGB only

Use Oki Colour Matching, with either the Monitor 6500k Vivid,

sRGB or Digital Camera settings (PCL or PostScript emulations).

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PCL DRIVER

ACCESSING THE COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS

The Colour Matching options in the printer driver can be used to help match your printed colours to the ones displayed on your monitor or from some other source, such as a digital camera.

The PCL driver’s colour options are only designed to work with RGB data. If you are printing CMYK data, we recommend you use the PostScript driver.

To open colou r matching options from the Windows Control Panel:

Open the

Printers

window.

Right-click the printer name

and choose

Click the

Printing Preferences

Properties

button (1).

To open colou r matching options from within a Windows application:

Choose

Click the

File—Print…

Properties

from the application’s menu bar.

button next to the printer name.

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SETTING THE COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS

On the

Manual

Choose from the available

Colou r

for Colour Matching.

options:

(a) Monitor (6500k)

Perceptual

Optimised for printing daylight photographs.

(b) Monitor (6500k) Vivid

Optimised for printing bright colours. Good for office graphics.

Optimised for printing photographs when using a professional graphics monitor.

(d) Digital Camera

Optimised for printing photographs taken with a digital camera. This tends to produce prints with lighter and brighter colours. For some photographs, other settings may be better depending on the subjects and the conditions under which they were taken.

tab select

(e) sRGB

Optimised for matching specific colours, such as a company logo colour. The colours within the printer's colour gamut are printed without any modification, and only colours that fall outside the printable colours are modified.

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USING THE COLOUR SWATCH FEATURE

The Colour Swatch function prints charts which contain a range of sample colours. Note that this is not the full range of colours that the printer can produce. Listed on each sample colour are the corresponding RGB (Red, Green, Blue) values. This can be used to pick specific colours in applications that allow you to choose your own RGB values. Simply click the Color Swatch button (1) and choose from the options available.

An example of using the Colour Swatch function:

You wish to print a logo in a particular shade of red. The steps you would follow are:

Print a colour swatch, then select the shade of red that best

suits your needs.

Take a note of the RGB value for the particular shade that you

liked.

Using your program’s colour picker, enter these same RGB

values, and change the logo to that colour.

The RGB colour displayed on your monitor may not necessarily match what was printed on the colour swatch. If this is the case, it is probably due to the difference between how your monitor and printer reproduce colour. Here, it is unimportant since your primary objective is to print the required colour.

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POSTSCRIPT DRIVER

COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS

The PostScript driver offers several different methods of controlling the colour output of the printer.

Some of the colour matching options only work on certain types of data. The table below summarises the various options available, and what types of data they affect.

Colour Matching Option RGB data CMYK data

Oki Colour Matching Yes No PostScript Colour Matching Yes Yes CMYK Ink Simulation No Yes Windows ICM Matching Yes No

Oki Colour Matching

This is Oki’s proprietary colour matching system, and affects RGB data only.

>Perceptual

> Vivid

>sRGB

settings are best for printing photographic images.

Digital Camera

settings produce brightest colours.

is the best choice for matching specific colours (such as

printing logos).

Monitor (6500k) Perceptual

Optimised for printing photographs when using a monitor with a colour temperature of 6500K.

Monitor (6500k) Vivid

Optimised for printing bright colours when using a monitor with a colour temperature of 6500K. Good for office graphics and text.

Monitor (9300k)

Optimised for printing photographs when using a monitor with a colour temperature of 9300K.

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Digital Camera

sRGB

Optimised for matching specific colours, such as a company logo colour.

The colours within the printer's colour gamut are printed without any modification, and only colours that fall outside the gamut (set of) printable colours are modified.

POSTSCRIPT COLOUR MATCHING

This uses PostScript Colour Rendering Dictionaries built into the printer, and affects both RGB and CMYK data.

Rendering Intents

When a document is printed, a conversion takes place from the document’s colour space to the printer colour space. The rendering intents are essentially a set of rules that determine how this colour conversion takes place.

The rendering intents that the printer driver provides are listed below:

> Perceptual

Best choice for printing photographs. Compresses the source gamut into the printer's gamut whilst maintaining the overall appearance of an image. This may change the overall appearance of an image as all the colours are shifted together.

>Saturation

Best choice for printing bright and saturated colours, but less accurately matched. This makes it the recommended choice for graphs, charts, diagrams etc. Maps fully saturated colours in the source gamut to fully saturated colours in the printer’s gamut.

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> Absolute Colorimetric

Best for printing solid colours and tints, such as Company logos etc. Matches colours common to both devices exactly, and clips the “out of gamut” colours to their nearest printed equivalent. Tries to print white as it appears on screen. The white of a monitor is often very different from paper white, so this may result in colour casts, especially in the lighter areas of an image.

> Relative Colorimetric

Good for proofing CMYK colour images on a desktop printer. Much like Absolute Colorimetric, except that it scales the source white to the (usually) paper white. Unlike Absolute Colorimetric, this attempts to take the paper white into account.

CMYK INK SIMULATION

Affects CMYK data only.

This option simulates what the output will look like on a printing press using the ink types SWOP, Euroscale or Toyo. If using CMYK Ink Simulation, it is recommended that you switch off all other Printer Colour Matching. Select the No Colour Matching option under the Colour Match option in the printer driver.

WINDOWS ICM COLOUR MATCHING

Affects RGB data only.

ICM is the colour management system built into Windows.

Windows ICM uses ICC profiles for your monitor and printer; these profiles describe the colours that your device is capable of reproducing. ICC profiles can be associated with your printer via the Colour Management tab of the printer driver.

Depending on how you have installed the printer driver, the colour profiles may already be associated with the driver.

To associate ICC Colour Profiles with the printer driver:

Access the printer settings via the

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Start

menu.

Right-click the printer name and choose

Click the Colour Management tab.

Under “Colour Profiles currently associated with this printer”,

Properties

you should see the names of profiles that match your printer model. If you do not see any profiles associated with the driver, click “Add…” and locate the ICC profiles for your printer.

Windows ICM uses the information in these profiles to convert colours in your documents to colours that the printer can reproduce. The way in which this conversion is performed can be controlled via the ICM Intent control in the printer driver.

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OVERLAYS AND MACROS

NOTE

PostScript overlays are not available for Windows 95/98/Me.

CREATING PCL OVERLAYS

Three steps are required to create an overlay:

Create the form data using your own application software and

print it to a printer (.PRN) file.

Use the Storage Device Manager utility software supplied on

CD with your printer to create a “project file,” import the .PRN file, and download the generated filter (.BIN) files to the printer.

Use downloaded files to define your overlay ready for use with

any future document.

When printing files to disk, do not select any special features, such as two-sided printing or multiple copies. These are not appropriate to macros, they apply only to your final documents.

Step 1: Creating the overlay image

Use your preferred application, perhaps a graphics program,

to create the required image and save it.

Open your application’s

dialogue.

Print…

Make sure that the

selected printer name (1) is that of your PCL printer driver.

Select the

File

Click on

appropriate for the print job.

Print To

(2) option.

Properties

and ensure that all driver settings are

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Click OK, and when prompted for a print file name, enter a

meaningful name with the extension .PRN.

Close your application.

Step 2: Create and download macros

NOTE

Ensure that the Storage Device Manager has been installed (on the Printer Drivers CD, “Software Utilities”).

From the Windows

Storage Device Manager

Start/Programs/Okidata

(SDM) and allow SDM to discover the

menu, start

printer.

Choose

Projects→New Projec

Projects→Filter Macro File

t to start a new project.

. The Filter Printer Patterns dialogue box appears. Make any adjustments in the settings that you need and then click OK.

Example:

If you create a black oval in MS Paint and leave all the colour command filters checked, the black oval will print as a black rectangle when the overlay is used. To maintain the oval shape, turn off (deselect) the “Configure Image Data,” “Palette ID” and “Palette Control” filters.

Set the

Navigate to the folder where the overlay .PRN files are stored

Files of Type

drop-down list to

PRN Files (*.prn)

and select one or more of these to include in your overlay set.

You can have more than one macro file in a project. For example, one for top pages and another for continuation pages. Use standard Windows techniques (Shift or Ctrl keys) to select multiple files simultaneously if you need to.

Click

to add these files to the current project. (You can

Open

also drag and drop files from Windows Explorer directly into the project window if you prefer.) When a message box appears confirming that a filter file has been created, click OK to clear the message.

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The project window will display one .BIN file for each printer

file added. Make a careful note of the name and ID number for each of the files. You will need them later.

If you wish to edit the names or ID numbers, double-click the file entry and edit the details.

= printer’s disk drive PCL partition;

= printer’s disk drive Common partition;

1 %disk0%

= flash memory PCL

2 %Flash0%

= printer’s disk drive PostScript partition;

= flash memory PostScript

Volume

details are as follows:

NOTE

The names are case sensitive, and will be needed later exactly as they appear in this list.

Choose

Projects→Save Project

and enter a meaningful name

(e.g. “Letter Stationery”) so that you can recognise it.

Choose

Projects→Send Project Files to Printer

to download

the project to the printer.

When the message “Command Issued” appears confirming

10.

that the download is complete, click OK to clear the message.

Test printing the macro

Choose

In the Test Macro window, enter its ID number and click OK.

Printers→Test Macro

After a short pause the printer will print the macro.

When each macro has been tested, click

Click the standard Windows

4. Projects→Exit

to close Storage Device Manager.

Close (X)

button, or choose

Exit

Step 3: Defining overlays

This is the final step before the new overlays are ready for use.

Open the

Printers

window via the

menu or the Windows

Start

Control Panel.

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Right-click on the relevant PCL printer icon and choose

2. Printing Preferences

from the pop-up menu.

On the Job Options tab, click the

In the Overlay window, Click the

4. Define Overlays button

In the Define Overlays window,

enter the

(a) and ID(b) of

name

Overlay

(1).

button.

the required overlay, as noted in step 2, para 7, and define which

page(s)

use this overlay. Then click the

Add button

(1) to add this overlay

1 a

b c

to the list of defined overlays. Repeat for any other related

overlays (this will create a “group” of overlays). When done, click the

Close button

window.

Remember that names and IDs of overlay files must be entered exactly as they appeared in the Storage Device Manager project window. Remember also that names are case sensitive.

(2) to close the

If you forgot to note the overlay name or ID when you created them, you can find them using Storage Device Manager to view the project file, or the printer’s Information Menu to print a file list and identify them from there.

The new overlays will now appear in the Defined Overlays list in the printer properties window.

When done, click OK to close the printing preferences window.

Your new overlays are now ready and available to be used for any future documents you wish.

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INSTALLING UPGRADES

ADJUSTING WINDOWS PRINTER DRIVERS

Once your new upgrade has been installed, you may need to update the Windows printer driver so that the additional features are available to your Windows applications.

Remember that if your printer is shared between users on different computers, the driver must be adjusted on each user’s machine.

The illustrations shown here are for Windows XP. Other Windows versions may appear slightly different, but the principles are the same.

PCL driver

If you have installed a memory upgrade it is not necessary to change the PCL printer driver, and you can ignore this section.

If you have installed a duplex unit or hard disk, proceed as follows:

Open the Printers window via the

Menu or from the Windows

Start

Control Panel.

Right-click the printer icon for this

printer, and choose from the pop-up menu.

Properties

On the

the box for the upgrade you have just installed.

Click OK to close the properties

window, and then close the Printers window.

Device Options

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tab, check

PostScript driver

This driver must be adjusted for any upgrade just installed.

Open the Printers window via the

Menu or from the

Start

Windows Control Panel.

Right-click the printer icon for this printer, and choose

2. Properties

On the Device Settings tab,

from the pop-up menu.

select the upgrade you have just installed from the list of

“Installable Options”. Select “Installed” in the “Change

Settings for:” box.

Click OK to close the Properties

window, and then close the Printers window.

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MAC OS 9.X / CLASSIC

PRINTER DRIVERS

CD1 contains the printer drivers. Please refer to the readme file on this CD for the latest information on printer driver installation.

If the settings selected manually in the printer differ from those selected in the printer driver, the printer will not print and the LCD will display an error message.

The following printer driver instructions are given as a guide only. Some software applications require the paper feed, size and media settings to be selected from within the software (Page Setup).

NOTE

> Switch off antivirus software before installing a printer driver. > Take time to note the facilities available on the CD. For example, the

Help facility briefly describes each of the Software Utilities.

SOFTWARE INSTALLATION

Place the software CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.

Double click the CD icon.

Double click

Double click the “Install Oki Software” shortcut icon.

This launches the installer program. Follow the on-screen instructions.

If you wish to find out more about the software that is included, please refer to the

Help

Language

facility.

folder.

SOFTWARE CONNECTION

APPLETALK CONNECTION

If you have not already done so, run the installer program to install the software.

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Restart your computer if prompted to do so.

In the

In the left-hand side of the

LaserWriter printer driver that you use.

If you are on a network with multiple AppleTalk zones, select

the appropriate zone for the printer in the bottom left side of the Chooser. If your network does not have multiple AppleTalk zones, this option will not be visible.

Click

network, and tries to select the appropriate PPD (PostScript Printer Description) file.

The correct PPD should be discovered automatically, and installable hardware options are detected and configured as appropriate. If the correct PPD cannot be located automatically, you will be asked to manually select a file.

menu, select

Apple

; the Chooser tries to locate the printer on the

Create

Chooser

window, select the

NOTE

If the printer cannot be discovered by the Chooser, it is most likely a connection problem.

Close .

TCP/IP CONNECTION

The printer can be connected over TCP/IP using LPR.

LPR is simply a method of printing directly over TCP/IP, without the need for a print server.

NOTE

This installation procedure uses Apple's Desktop Printer Utility to connect the printer to your Mac. You cannot connect to a printer over TCP/IP using the Chooser.

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To setup the printer using a TCP/IP network connection:

If you have not already done so, run the installer

(a)

program to install the software.

Restart your computer if prompted to do so.

(b)

Launch the

Desktop

NOTE

> The Desktop Printer Utility is not provided by Oki. There may be a

copy of the Desktop Utility on your Mac hard disk, located in the “Applications (Mac OS 9)” folder, under “Utlities”. Alternatively, the utility can be installed by performing Custom installation from the Mac OS 9 Installation CD.

> At this step you are given the choice of creating a Desktop Printer

using either the Adobe PostScript driver (if installed) or the LaserWriter driver. Choose the LaserWriter driver.

Select

Printer (LPR)

In the

PostScript Printer Description (PPD) File

Change...

In the

and select the PPD file for your printer.

LPR Printer Selection section

Enter the printer's IP address in the

Enter the queue name in the the Queue name, leave it blank.

Click

to confirm the connection to the printer.

Verify

and click OK.

Queue section

section, click

, click

Change....

Printer Address

. If you don't know

section.

Click OK.

Click

Create

This prompts you to give the printer a name.

Enter the name you wish to use and click

10.

A printer icon is created on your Desktop.

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Save....

USB CONNECTION

This installation procedure uses Apple's Desktop Printer Utility to connect the printer to your Mac. You cannot connect to a PostScript printer over USB using the Chooser.

To set up the printer using a USB connection:

If you have not already done so, run the installer

(a)

program to install the software.

Restart your computer if prompted to do so.

(b)

Launch the

Desktop Printer Utility

NOTE

> The Desktop Printer Utility is not provided by Oki. There may be a

copy ofthe Desktop Utility on your Mac hard disk, located in the “Applications (Mac OS 9)” folder, under “Utlities”. Alternatively, the utility can be installed by performing Custom installation from the Mac OS 9 Installation CD.

> At this step you are given the choice of creating a Desktop Printer

using either the Adobe PostScript driver (if installed) or the LaserWriter driver. Choose the LaserWriter driver.

Select

Printer (USB)

Click on the bottom

Select the printer that is connected to your Mac and click OK.

The Desktop Printer Utility should have automatically located the correct PPD file for your printer. If the PPD file does not correspond to your printer model (for example if “Generic” is listed), click the uppermost appropriate file for your printer.

Click

Create

and click OK.

Change

button to select the printer.

Change...

button and select the

This prompts you to give the printer a name.

Enter the name you wish to use and click

A printer icon is created on your Desktop.

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Save...

INSTALLED OPTIONS

CONFIGURING INSTALLED HARDWARE OPTIONS

If you have added optional hardware to your printer, these must be enabled in the printer driver. Examples of additional hardware that can be added to your printer include:

Additional paper trays

Printer hard disk

Additional printer memory

Duplex unit

There are 2 ways of configuring installed hardware options, depending on how printing is setup on your Mac.

CONFIGURING INSTALLED HARDWARE OPTIONS FROM THE DESKTOP:

On the Desktop, select the printer icon for your printer.

From the

In the

installed, and change the

Printing

Change

menu, choose

menu, select the hardware item(s) that you have

Change Setup...

values as appropriate.

To...

NOTE

If your printer is connected via USB or AppleTalk, click the Auto Setup button. This queries the printer, and sets the options automatically.

Click OK to save your settings.

CONFIGURING INSTALLED HARDWARE OPTIONS FROM THE CHOOSER:

In the Apple menu, select

Select the printer LaserWriter driver in the left-hand side of the

2. Chooser

window.

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Chooser

If you are on a network with multiple AppleTalk zones, select

the appropriate zone for the printer in the bottom left side of the

Chooser

zones, this option will not be visible).

Select the name of your printer in the right-hand side of the

4. Chooser

(if your network does not have multiple AppleTalk

Click

Make changes to the installed hardware options as appropriate for your printer.

Click

Setup...

Configure

, and close the Chooser window to save your settings.

PAPER FEED, SIZE AND MEDIA

To s e lect Paper S i ze:

From the

Select the

If you wish to use a custom paper size, select the menu.

Once you’ve chosen your preferred page size, click OK.

If you wish to save these paper settings as default, hold down the Option (Alt) key as you click OK.

To select Paper Feed and Media Type:

From the

menu, choose

File

Paper Size

menu, choose

File

and

Orientation

Page Setup

Custom Page Sizes

from

In the

If you select a paper tray (e.g. Tray 1), the printer takes paper from that source for your print job.

General

either the paper tray, or the media type to use for your print job.

section, use the

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Paper Source

option to select

If you select a media type (e.g. Plain), the printer takes paper from a tray that contains that type of media. To assign media types to specific paper trays, you need to use the printer’ s operator panel.

If you choose

Auto Select

, the printer automatically chooses a tray in

the printer that contains the correct size of paper.

If you choose a paper source manually, ensure that the paper tray in the printer contains paper of the correct size.

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OPERATION

This section explains how to change the printer’s operation for specific print jobs when required.

The PostScript printer drivers supplied with this machine provide several controls for changing the colour output of your printer. Generally, using the default settings will suffice, producing good results for most documents.

Many applications have their own colour settings, and these may override the settings in the printer driver. Please refer to the documentation for your software application for details on how that particular program’s colour management functions.

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COLOUR MATCHING

FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE APPEARANCE OF PRINTS

If you wish to manually adjust the colour settings in your printer driver, please be aware that colour reproduction is a complex topic, and there are many factors to take into consideration. Some of the most important factors are listed below.

1. Differences between the range of colours a monitor or printer can reproduce

Neither a printer nor a monitor is capable of

reproducing the full range of colours visible to the human eye. Each device is restricted to a certain range of colours. In addition to this, a printer cannot reproduce all of the colours displayed on a monitor, and vice versa.

Both devices use very different technologies to

represent colour. A monitor uses Red, Green and Blue (RGB) phosphors (or LCDs), a printer uses Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black (CMYK) toner or ink.

A monitor can display very vivid colours such as intense

reds and blues and these cannot be easily produced on any printer using toner or ink. Similarly, there are certain colours, (some yellows for example), that can be printed, but cannot be displayed accurately on a monitor. This disparity between monitors and printers is often the main reason that printed colours do not match the colours displayed onscreen.

2. Viewing conditions

A print can look very different under different lighting conditions. For example, the colours in a print may look different when viewed standing next to a sunlit window, compared to how they look under standard office fluorescent lighting.

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3. Monitor settings

The brightness and contrast controls on your monitor can change how your document looks on-screen. Additionally, your monitor colour temperature influences how “warm” or “cool” the colours look.

NOTE

Several of the Printer Driver’s Colour Matching options make reference to your monitor’s Colour Temperature. Many modern monitors allow the colour temperature to be adjusted using the monitor’s control panel.

There are several settings found on a typical monitor:

> 5000k

Warmest; yellowish lighting, typically used in graphics/

arts environments.

> 6500k

> 9300k

Cooler; approximates daylight conditions.

Cool; the default setting for many monitors and

television sets.

(k = degrees Kelvin, a measurement of temperature)

4. How your software application displays colour

Some graphics applications such as Corel Draw or Adobe Photoshop may display colour differently from “office” applications such as Microsoft Word. Please see your application’s online help or user manual for more information.

5. Paper type

The type of paper used can also significantly affect the printed colour. For example, a printout on recycled paper can look duller than one on specially formulated glossy paper.

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CHOOSING A COLOUR MATCHING METHOD

There is no correct way to achieve a good match between the document displayed on your monitor, and it's printed equivalent. There are many factors involved in achieving accurate and reproducible colour.

However, the following guidelines may help in achieving good colour output from your printer. There are several suggested methods, depending on the type of document you are printing.

NOTE

RGB OR CMYK?

The guidelines for choosing a colour matching method makes distinctions between Red, Green, Blue (RGB) and Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black (CMYK).

Generally, most documents you print will be in RGB format. This is the most common, and, if you do not know your document’s colour mode, assume that it is RGB.

Typically CMYK documents are only supported in professional Desktop Publishing and Graphics applications.

MATCHING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES

RGB only

Oki Colour Matching is a generally a good choice. Select a matching method appropriate to your monitor.

RGB or CMYK

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MATCHING SPECIFIC COLOURS

(For instance, a Company logo.)

RGB only

Oki Colour Matching, and the sRGB setting.

PostScript Colour Matching using the Relative Colorimetric

option.

Use the Colour Swatch Utility to print out a chart of RGB

swatches and enter your desired RGB values in your application's colour picker.

RGB or CMYK

If you are printing from a graphics application such as Adobe

Photoshop, you may be able to use Soft-Proofing to simulate the printed image on your monitor. To do this, you can use the ICC-Profiles provided by Oki, and then print using the ICC profiles as the Print Space (or Output space).

Alternatively, use PostScript Colour Matching with the Relative

Colorimetric setting.

PRINTING VIVID COLOURS

RGB only

Use Oki Colour Matching, with either the Monitor 6500k Vivid,

sRGB or Digital Camera settings.

RGB or CMYK

Use PostScript Colour Matching with the Saturation option.

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OKI DRIVER OPTIONS

This section references only the OKI-specific driver selections.

OKI PRINTER FEATURES

From within your application, select

Then open the drop-down menu at left and select

File

then

Features.

Feature Set 1

The tab’s features are explained below.

YOUR PRINTER

1. Quality

A straightforward selection of the print quality desired.

Normal: normal resolution, fast speed: choose this for quick proofing of drafts.

Printer

Best: high resolution, slower speed: provides optimum results when printing graphics.

Select your desired print quality.

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YOUR PRINTER

2. Collate

Collating can be carried out with or without a hard disk drive installed. However, printers with a hard disk drive will provide greater performance. This option is useful when printing multiple copies of large documents and you want to print them in sequence. Click to enable collation of your documents.

3. Media Type

Many options are available for selecting the thickness of the paper type. Normally the Printer Setting is sufficient.

Select your desired Media Type. Any option, other than “Use Printer Settings”, will override the setting at the printer.

4. Multipurpose tray is handled as manual feed

When this is checked, the printer waits until the is pressed before feeding paper from the Multipurpose Tray. This is useful for printing on stationery such as envelopes.

If the manual feed timeout is exceeded, the print job is discarded, and the printer goes back

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Online

button

5. Black Overprint

This option prevents registration errors and only works for 100% black text. Click on the checkbox to enable the option.

Feature Set 2

The tab’s features are explained below.

YOUR PRINTER

1. Colour Matching

No Colour Matching

No colour correction occurs when selected. This option is beneficial when other matching regimens are used, specifically if you select a Ink Simulation option. Also use this option if using an application program’s Colour Matching.

OKI Colour Matching

This is Oki’s proprietary colour matching system and affects RGB data only. This is the default setting and provides the best colour matching for your printer.

Postscript Colour Matching

This uses PostScript Colour Rendering Dictionaries built into the printer, and affects both RGB and CMYK data.

Print In Grayscale

No colour will print. The printer will interpret all colours as a variation of grays.

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YOUR PRINTER

2. Black Finish

This setting determines Black Toner usage only.

Auto

This option is best for an office environment, with the printer determining which style is better.

Matte

This option produces a True Black (K only).

Gloss

This option uses CMY to produce a Composite Black.

3. Oki Colour Match Options

These options are available when selected in “Colour Match Using...”. You can match to a device such as a Monitor or Digital Camera. Select the option desired based upon the information below.

Oki Colour Matching

Digital Camera

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Monitor (6500k) Auto

The default setting that selects the best options for your printer. This selection works best for office graphics.

Monitor (6500k) Perceptual

Optimised for printing photographs when using a monitor with a colour temperature of 6500K. This is best for printing photographic images.

Monitor (6500k) Vivid

Optimised for printing bright colours when using a monitor with a colour temperature of 6500K. Ideal for office graphics and text. Vivid or Digital Camera settings produce the brightest colours.

Monitor (9300k)

Optimised for printing photographs when using a monitor with a colour temperature of 9300K.

sRGB

Optimised for matching specific colours, such as a company logo colour. This option attempts to simulate RGB colour. The colours within the printer's colour gamut are printed without any modification, and only colours that fall outside the printable colours are modified.

4. Rendering Intent

YOUR PRINTER

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Rendering Intents are only used when “Postscript Colour Matching” is selected.

When a document is printed, a conversion takes place from the document's colour space to the printer colour space. The rendering intents are essentially a set of rules that determine how this colour conversion takes place.

Select the option desired.

Absolute Colorimetric

Matches colours common to both devices exactly, and clips the out of gamut colours to their nearest printed equivalent. Tries to print white as it appears on screen. The white of a monitor is often very different from paper white, so this may result in colour casts, especially in the lighter areas of an image.

Auto

The best default selection, as this selects the optimal settings for a general office environment.

Perceptual

Relative Colorimetric

Good for proofing CMYK colour images on a desktop printer. Best for solid colours and tints.

Much like Absolute Colorimetric, except that it scales the source white to the (usually) paper white; i.e. unlike Absolute Colorimetric, this attempts to take the paper white into account.

Saturation

Best choice for printing bright and saturated colours if you don't necessarily care how accurate the colours are. This makes it the recommended choice for graphs, charts, diagrams etc. Maps fully saturated colours in the source gamut to fully saturated colours in the printer’s gamut.

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5. Always use Printer Halftone

YOUR PRINTER

This option prevents the halftone of a high-end graphic application from printing by using the printer’s halftone pattern instead of the application’s one.

Click on the checkbox to enable the option.

Feature Set 3

The tab’s features are explained below.

YOUR PRINTER

Ink Simulation

Affects CMYK output only and is usually used in offset printer environments only.

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This option simulates how the output will look on a printing press using the ink types SWOP, Euroscale or Japan. If using CMYK Ink Simulation, it is recommended that you switch off all other Printer Colour Matching by selecting the No Colour Matching option under the “Colour Match Using” option in the printer driver.

Select the option desired.

YOUR PRINTER

Separations

This option affects output only, allowing you to print all colours or separate plates.

Select the option desired.

Media Check

Sets whether the printer checks the matching of paper size to that of the tray. Only standard sizes are checked.

Toner Saving

Checking this will enable toner saving, but reduce print quality and provide a much lighter print.

Page Rotate

Checking this will rotate the printed material on the page 180 degrees.

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COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS

The PostScript driver offers several different methods of controlling the colour output of the printer.

Some of the colour matching options only work on certain types of data. The table below summarises the various colour-matching options available in the PostScript driver, and what types of data they affect.

1 2 3

YOUR PRINTER

To access Colour Options:

Select the desired printer from an application using

1. File→Print

Open the drop down Menu and select

Select the option required.

Printer Colour Options

Colour Matching Option RGB data CMYK data

Oki Colour Matching Yes No PostScript Colour Matching Yes Yes CMYK Ink Simulation No Yes

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OKI COLOUR MATCHING

This is Oki’s proprietary colour matching system, and affects RGB data

only.

Perceptual settings are best for printing photographic images.

Vivid or Digital Camera settings produce the brightest colours.

sRGB is the best choice for matching specific colours (such as

printing logos).

Monitor (6500k) Perceptual

Optimised for printing photographs when using a monitor with a colour temperature of 6500K.

Monitor (6500k) Vivid

Optimised for printing bright colours when using a monitor with a colour temperature of 6500K. Ideal for office graphics and text.

Monitor (9300k)

Optimised for printing photographs when using a monitor with a colour temperature of 6500K.

Digital Camera

sRGB

Optimised for matching specific colours, such as a company logo colour.

The colours within the printer’s colour gamut are printed without any modification, and only colours that fall outside the printable colours are modified.

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POSTSCRIPT COLOUR MATCHING

This uses PostScript Colour Rendering Dictionaries built into the printer, and affects both RGB and CMYK data.

Rendering Intents

The rendering intents that the printer driver provides are listed below:

>Auto

The best default selection, as this selects the optimal settings for a general office environment.

> Perceptual

>Saturation

Best choice for printing bright and saturated colours if you don’t necessarily care how accurate the colours are. This makes it the recommended choice for graphs, charts, diagrams etc. Maps fully saturated colours in the source gamut to fully saturated colours in the printer’s gamut.

> Absolute Colorimetric

Matches colours common to both devices exactly, and clips the “out of gamut” colours to their nearest printed equivalent. Tries to print white as it appears on screen. The white of a monitor is often very different from paper white, so this may result in colour casts, especially in the lighter areas of an image.

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> Relative Colorimetric

Best for printing solid colours and tints, such as company logos etc. Good for proofing CMYK colour images on a desktop printer. Much like Absolute Colorimetric, except that it scales the source white to the (usually) paper white; i.e. unlike Absolute Colorimetric, this attempts to take the paper white into account.

CMYK INK SIMULATION

Affects CMYK data only.

Select the option desired.

BLACK FINISH

Controls the way in which black is printed in colour documents.

Auto

This option is best for an office environment, with the printer determining which style is better.

Glossy

This option uses CMYK to represent black. Best for photographic images.

Matte

This option uses black toner to represent black. Best for business graphics.

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SEPARATIONS

This option affects output only, allowing you to print all colors or separate plates.

Select the option desired.

If an application does not have a colour separation feature, you can still print four colour separations (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) with the printer driver.

Each colour separation is printed using black toner; the blacker the area, the more of the relevant colour toner will be used in the composite.

CUSTOM GAMMA ADJUSTMENT

NOTE

This option requires the installation and use of the Oki PostScript utility. See the relevant section for further instructions.

You will need to create a custom gamma profile using the Oki PostScript Utility before selecting one here.

Black Overprint

This option prevents registration errors and only works for 100% black text.

Click on the checkbox to enable the option.

Printer Halftone

This option prevents the halftone of a high-end graphics application from printing.

Click on the checkbox to enable the option.

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PRINTER JOB OPTION

To access Printer Job Options:

1 2

Select

YOUR PRINTER

File

then

Select the relevant printer

Open the drop down Menu and select

Select the option required.

Printer Job Options.

Quality

A straightforward selection of the print quality desired.

> Best

= high resolution, slower speed: the default. Provides

optimum results when printing graphics.

>Normal

= lower resolution, fast speed: choose this one for

quick proofing of drafts. Select the desired print quality.

Media Weight

Select the appropriate Media Weight. If you are printing on regular paper, do not select Labels or Transparency. Because fusing temperature is lower on this this type of media, doing so will cause toner smearing and paper jams.

Media Type

Many options are available for selecting the thickness of the paper type. Normally the Printer Setting is sufficient.

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Select your desired Media Type. Any option, other than Printer

Setting, will override the setting at the printer.

Collate

Collating can be carried out with or without a hard disk drive

installed. However, printers with a hard disk drive will provide greater performance. This option is useful when printing multiple copies of large documents and you want to print them in sequence. Click to enable collation of your documents. Click

to enable collation of your documents.

NOTE

If your software application has a collate option, use it instead of the

collate option in the printer driver.

Media Check

Sets whether the printer checks the matching of paper size to that of the tray. Only standard sizes are checked.

MP tray is handled as manual feed

Checking this will cause the MP tray to be used in manual feed situations. The MP tray

Page Rotate

Checking this will rotate the printed material on the page 180 degrees.

cannot

be used for duplex printing.

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Toner Saving

Checking this will enable toner saving.

TO ENABLE THE JOB TYPE PLUG-IN

NOTE

This procedure can only be carried out from Mac OS 9.x or earlier. It cannot be performed from the Classic Environment.

On the Desktop, click the icon of the printer you wish to enable

the printing plug-in for.

From the

Select

Printing

File→Print Desktop.

Plug-In Preferences

YOUR PRINTER

Print Time Filters

menu, select

from the pop-up menu.

Set Default Printer.

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Select

JobType

NOTE

To use the Job Type functions, you need to have a hard disk installed in the printer.

Click

Save Settings.

and then

Cancel

to return to the Desktop.

JOB TYPE

This plug-in allows you to utilise the options of the built-in hard drive of the printer.

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NOTE

> The internal hard disk must be installed in the printer and enabled

to allow for spooling of the print job before final printing.

> If the hard disk memory is insufficient for the spooled data, DISK

FULL is displayed and only one copy printed.

> If the software application being used has a collate print option, this

must be turned OFF for Secure Printing to operate correctly.

> Secure printing may not be available in some software applications.

To access Job Type, first select your desired printer from an

application using

Then open the drop-down menu directly underneath the

printer and select

File→Print

Job Type

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Each option on the Job Type screen is detailed below.

Normal

This is the default setting for which no further action is required.

Job Spool

If you wish to spool your print job to the printer’s hard drive, select Job Spool.

Secure Print Setup

This option allows you to print confidential documents on printers that are shared with other users in a network environment.

Select the Secure option.

Enter a job name of up to 16 characters next to Job Name and a

four-digit personal ID number (4-digit password (0000 to

9999)) in the ID Number box.

Press Print to proceed with your print job. The document will

be stored on the printer’s hard disk.

Use the printer front panel controls to print out the document.

Proof and Print

Proof and print allows printing of a single copy of a document for checking before printing multiple copies. First the document is assigned a password and processed to a print file. The file is saved on the hard disk drive and one copy printed. If the document is okay for printing, the remaining copies are printed on demand by entering the password through the printer’s front panel.

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Once the document is printed, it is deleted from the hard drive. If you wish to retain the document on the hard disk drive after printing it, use the Store to Hard Disk feature.

NOTE

> The internal hard disk must be installed in the printer and enabled

to allow for spooling of the print job before final printing.

> If the hard disk memory is insufficient for the spooled data, DISK

FULL is displayed and only one copy printed.

> If the software application being used has a collate print option, this

must be turned OFF for Proof and Print to operate correctly.

> Proof and Print may not be available in some software applications.

Select Proof and Print.

Enter a job name of up to 16 characters under Job Name

Setting and a four-digit personal ID number (0000 to 9999).

Click Print to proceed with your print job. Print the document

from the software application being used. The document will be stored on the printer’s hard disk and one copy will print for your perusal.

After checking the proof, you can then print or delete (if

incorrect) the remaining copies of the document using the procedures given below.

At the Printer.

ACK

Press + to enter the menu mode.

PRINT JOBS MENU

....will appear on the display.

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ENU

NTER

N INE

ANCEL

Press

ENTER

ENTER PASSWORD ****

....will appear on the display.

Use +/ – to set the number for the first digit of the password,

then press

to enter the number and move to the next

ENTER

digit:

ENTER PASSWORD 5***

....will be displayed (showing first digit selection).

Repeat step 3 for each of the remaining digits in the password.

SELECT JOB

ALL JOBS

....will be displayed when all digits have been selected.

To print all jobs stored under your password, press

print a specific job, press +/– until the job you wish to print appears on the second line of the display, then press The document will print and be deleted from the HDD.

Deleting the Confidential Document Before Printing it.

Press + to enter the menu mode.

PRINT JOBS MENU

....will appear on the display

Press

ENTER

ENTER PASSWORD ****

....will appear on the display

Use +/ – to set the number for the first digit of the password,

then press

to enter the number and move to the next

ENTER

digit:

ENTER PASSWORD 5***

....will be displayed (showing first digit selection).

Repeat step 3 for each of the remaining digits in the password.

ENTER

. To

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SELECT JOB

ALL JOBS

....will be displayed when all digits have been selected.

Press

CANCEL

DELETE THE JOB

Y = ENTER/N = CANCEL

...will be displayed.

Press

to delete the job, then press

ENTER

ON LINE

Store to Hard Disk

Store to HDD (job spooling) allows print jobs to be temporarily stored on the hard disk before printing. This is ideal for forms, generic memos, letterhead stationery, etc.

NOTE

> The internal hard disk must be installed in the printer and enabled

to allow for spooling of the print job before final printing.

> If the hard disk memory is insufficient for the spooled data, DISK

FULL is displayed and only one copy printed.

> If the software application being used has a collate print option, this

must be turned OFF for Store to Hard Disk to operate correctly.

> Store To Hard Disk may not be available in some software

applications.

Select

Store to HDD

Enter a job name of up to 16 characters under Job Name and a

four-digit personal ID number (0000 to 9999).

Click

to proceed with your print job. The document will be

stored on the printer’s hard disk.

The document can then be printed or deleted using the

procedures given below.

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Printing the Stored document from the printer Front Panel.

ACK

Press + to enter the menu mode.

ENU

NTER

N INE

ANCEL

PRINT JOBS MENU

....will appear on the display.

Press

ENTER

ENTER PASSWORD ****

....will appear on the display.

Use +/ – to set the number for the first digit of the password,

then press

to enter the number and move to the next

ENTER

digit:

ENTER PASSWORD 5***

....will be displayed (showing first digit selection).

Repeat step 3 for each of the remaining digits in the password.

SELECT JOB

ALL JOBS

....will be displayed when all digits have been selected.

Press

second line of the display, then press

until the job you wish to print appears on the

+/–

ENTER

The document will print.

Deleting the Confidential Document from the Hard Disk Drive (HDD).

Press + to enter the menu mode.

PRINT JOBS MENU

....will appear on the display.

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Press

ENTER

ENTER PASSWORD ****

....will appear on the display.

Use +/ – to set the number for the first digit of the password,

then press

to enter the number and move to the next

ENTER

digit:

ENTER PASSWORD 5***

....will be displayed (showing first digit selection).

Repeat step 3 for each of the remaining digits in the password.

SELECT JOB

ALL JOBS

....will be displayed when all digits have been selected.

Press

CANCEL

DELETE THE JOB

Y = ENTER/N = CANCEL

...will be displayed.

Press

to delete the job, then press

ENTER

ON LINE

Run Maintenance Cycle Before Printing

This option allows you to improve your print quality if you suspect there is a problem with printing, such as too much graininess in the print.

Select

Run Maintenance Cycle Before Printing

to force the

printer to automatically clean itself before printing.

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MULTIPLE PAGES ON ONE SHEET

The printer driver allows you to print multiple pages in one sheet, with each page image reduced in size. This is sometimes known as “n-up” printing.

From the File menu, select

From the pop-up menu, select

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Enter the number of sheets you want to print on a single

(a)

page.

Select the desired print direction.

(b)

For selections other than 1, you may select a page

(c)

border to surround each individual page image that will be printed on the single sheet of paper.

Click

to print or

printer dialogue box.

Save Settings

Layout

to save, and close the

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DUPLEX PRINTING

Duplex Printing is printing on both sides of the paper.

NOTE

> The optional Duplex Unit must be installed in the printer, and

configured in the printer driver.

> Paper weight must be from 75 to 105 g/m². Printing with heavier or

lighter paper weights can cause paper jams.

> Paper must be loaded into the paper tray with the print side facing

upwards. The multi purpose tray cannot be used for duplex printing.

To carry out Duplex printing:

From the File menu, select

From the pop-up menu, select

From the Layout screen, select the desired options:

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TER

Layout

(a)

(b)

Click

printer dialogue box.

Select

Print on Both Sides

Choose which side to bind the paper, (Long-edge or Short-edge).

to print or

Save Settings

to enable Duplex printing.

to save, and close the

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CUSTOM PAGE SIZES

The printer driver allows you to create your own custom paper sizes. Once defined, these appear at the bottom of the Paper menu in the Page Setup section of the printer driver.

From the File menu, choose Page Setup.

Select Custom Page Sizes from the menu.

Define your custom page sizes.

These are saved in the printer driver, and can be selected just as the predefined paper sizes.

NOTE

> Click the graphic in the Page Setup dialogue to view information

about the current page size in centimetres. > Click a second time to display information in inches. > Click a third time to return to the graphic.

NOTE

Custom page sizes can only be printed from the multi purpose tray (manual feed). The printer setting for the multi purpose tray must be manually set to custom paper size before use. Width of a custom page size can be from 76.2mm to 216mm and length from 127mm to 900mm.

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PRINT RESOLUTION

The print resolution affects the quality of your printouts. Select the highest print resolution to get the optimum quality.

From the

From the pop-up menu select

Under the

- The highest resolution your printer is capable of.

Best

Normal

Click

menu, select

File

Resolution

- A medium resolution, suitable for most documents.

setting, choose from either:

Printer Job Options

NOTE

Higher print resolutions require more memory, and the job may take longer to be sent to the printer.

COLLATING

Collating can be carried out with or without a hard disk drive fitted. However, fitting a HDD will achieve greater performance.

If the software application being used has a collate print option, it is recommended to use only one collate option to prevent any conflicts in printing, i.e. collate from the software application or collate from the printer driver.

The following instructions explain how to select collating using a printer driver.

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To setup collate:

1. From the File menu, choose

The General dialogue box should be displayed. If not, select General from the menu.

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2. Type the number of Copies you wish to print.

3. From the pop-up menu, select

4. Select the

5. Click

Collate

option.

Job Options

NOTE

There may also be a collate option provided in the printer driver's General options. This should be disabled. Similarly if your application has a collate option in it's print settings, this should also be disabled.

Why are there several Collate options?

Setting Collate within the Job Options enables printer collate. This causes the printer to do the actual collating, rather than the driver. When the printer collates print jobs, this increases the print speed mainly because the job is only processed once.

Selecting Collate in the General options enables driver collate. When the driver collates, the print job may be sent to the printer multiple times, thereby decreasing print speed.

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BACKGROUND PRINTING

Background printing allows you to print documents and continue to use your Mac at the same time. It does this by saving a temporary print file to your hard disk, and then sending it to the printer.

This has the advantage of freeing up your computer much more quickly, enabling you to do other things whilst your document is printing. The disadvantage of Background printing is that it is slower, and your computer’s performance may temporarily be affected whilst the print job is processed.

You can enable and disable Background printing on an individual print job basis by using the printer driver:

From the

From the pop-up menu, select

From Print In, select the

If you want to enable background printing as default, click

4. Save Settings

Click

menu, select

File

Background Printing

Background

option.

UTILITIES

Two utilities are provided on your printer driver's CD-ROM; the Colour Swatch Utility and the Oki PostScript Utility. The installer programs for these utilities are found in the “Utilities” folder on your CD-ROM.

COLOUR SWATCH UTILITY

The Colour Swatch Utility prints out charts that contain a range of sample colours. Listed below each sample colour are the corresponding RGB (Red, Green, Blue) values. This can be used to pick

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specific colours in applications that allow you to choose your own RGB values.

An example of using the Colour Swatch Utility

Suppose you wished to print a logo in a particular shade of red. Here are the steps you would follow to accomplish a good colour match using the Colour Swatch utility.

Print a colour swatch, taking care to note the printer driver

colour settings that you use.

Select a shade of red that best suits your needs.

Take a note of the RGB value below the particular shade of red

that you prefer.

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Using your application program’s colour picker, enter these

same RGB values (from Step 3) and change the logo to that colour.

NOTE

The RGB colour on your monitor may not necessarily match what was printed on the colour swatch. In this case, don’t worry; you are using the printed colour swatch to pick a colour instead of judging the colour by the way it appears on screen.

Print your document using the same driver settings as you

originally used (see Step 1).

OKI POSTSCRIPT UTILITY

The Oki PostScript Utility works with printers connected via USB or AppleTalk. It does not work with printers connected via TCP/IP.

The utility has the following features:

Adjusts Gamma curves for the printer.

Allows several printer options to be changed, including trays

and paper types.

Downloads PostScript and PDF files directly to the printer.

Displays font lists.

Initialises (formats) the printer hard disk.

Allows the printer AppleTalk name and Zone to be changed.

About Gamma Curves Created with the PostScript Utility

The Gamma curves function effectively allows fine control over the printer’s brightness and colour output. All printer colours can be adjusted together (CMYK), or each colour can be adjusted separately.

Adjusting printer gamma is similar to performing a CMYK Curves adjustment in an image-editing program such as Adobe Photoshop

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Once a custom gamma adjustment has been made, the settings can be saved to the printer’s PPD (PostScript Printer Description) file, and can be selected from the Printer Driver Colour options.

Creating a Gamma Adjustment, Step-by-step

Ensure that your Oki printer is selected as default on your Desktop.

You can do this by selecting the printer icon, and from the

1. Printing

menu select

Set Default Printer

Launch the

From the

Utilities

Oki PostScript Utility

menu, select

YOUR PRINTER

Adjust Printer Gamma…

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Click the New button.

YOUR PRINTER

The printer’s gamma can be adjusted globally (all CMYK values

together), or each separate primary printer colour can be adjusted individually. The gamma curves plot the input values (%) on the X axis against the output values (%) on the Y axis.

The curves can be adjusted by either clicking and dragging the curves with the mouse, or by manually entering values into the text fields. To remove points on the curve, either double click on the points, or delete the corresponding values in the appropriate text fields.

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Tips on Adjusting Colour

To adjust the entire image using a particular colour as a reference, manually enter the desired values in the text fields.

For example, if you print a red colour composed of the following values:

10% cyan, 90% magenta, 80% yellow and 5% black.

You decide that it needs 5% more magenta and 3% less yellow. This means you would need to enter the following new values manually:

For magenta, 90% + 5% extra = 95%

For yellow, 80% - 3% less = 77%

Enter these new values in the text fields, replacing the current values;

change 90% ->95% for magenta, and change 80%->77% for yellow.

This can be used to help compensate for dot gain if proofing for later output to press.

If you are adjusting based on

RGB

values:

To make the entire image redder, increase cyan.

To make the entire image bluer, increase yellow.

To make the entire image greener, increase magenta.

Similarly, you can eliminate tints on your printouts:

To reduce a red tint, decrease cyan.

To reduce a blue tint, decrease yellow.

To reduce a green tint, decrease magenta.

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Oki C 5300n User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

PREFACE

CONTENTS

NOTES, CAUTIONS AND WARNINGS

INTRODUCTION

PRINTER OVERVIEW

FRONT VIEW

REAR VIEW

CHANGING THE DISPLAY LANGUAGE

PAPER RECOMMENDATIONS

CASSETTE TRAYS

MULTIPURPOSE TRAY

FACE DOWN STACKER

FACE UP STACKER

DUPLEX UNIT

LOADING PAPER

CASSETTE TRAYS

MULTIPURPOSE TRAY

PRINTER SETTINGS IN WINDOWS

PCL OR POSTSCRIPT

PRINTING PREFERENCES IN WINDOWS APPLICATIONS

POSTSCRIPT EMULATION

PCL EMULATION

SECURE PRINTING FEATURE

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

PRINTING SECURE DOCUMENTS

PROOF AND PRINT FEATURE

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

PRINTING THE REMAINING COPIES

PERMANENT PRINT DOCUMENTS

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

PRINTING STORED DOCUMENTS

WINDOWS 9X DIFFERENCES

PRINTER SETTINGS IN WINDOWS

PCL OR POSTSCRIPT

PRINTING PREFERENCES IN WINDOWS APPLICATIONS

SECURE PRINTING FEATURE

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

Proof and print feature

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

STORE TO HARD DISK

SENDING THE DOCUMENT TO PRINT

COLOUR PRINTING

CHOOSING A COLOUR MATCHING METHOD

MATCHING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES

MATCHING SPECIFIC COLOURS

PRINTING VIVID COLOURS

PCL DRIVER

ACCESSING THE COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS

SETTING THE COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS

USING THE COLOUR SWATCH FEATURE

POSTSCRIPT DRIVER

COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS

POSTSCRIPT COLOUR MATCHING

CMYK INK SIMULATION

WINDOWS ICM COLOUR MATCHING

OVERLAYS AND MACROS

CREATING PCL OVERLAYS

INSTALLING UPGRADES

ADJUSTING WINDOWS PRINTER DRIVERS

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PRINTER DRIVERS

SOFTWARE INSTALLATION

SOFTWARE CONNECTION

APPLETALK CONNECTION

TCP/IP CONNECTION

USB CONNECTION

INSTALLED OPTIONS

CONFIGURING INSTALLED HARDWARE OPTIONS

CONFIGURING INSTALLED HARDWARE OPTIONS FROM THE DESKTOP:

CONFIGURING INSTALLED HARDWARE OPTIONS FROM THE CHOOSER:

PAPER FEED, SIZE AND MEDIA

OPERATION

COLOUR MATCHING

FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE APPEARANCE OF PRINTS

CHOOSING A COLOUR MATCHING METHOD

RGB OR CMYK?