OKI Printing User Guide

Printing Guide

REFACE

Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this document is complete, accurate, and up-to-date. The manufacturer 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.

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Oki Printing Solutions is a registered trademark of Oki Data Corporation.

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Preface > 2

ONTENTS

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

Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Notes, cautions and warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

About this book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

What this book describes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

How to access the driver screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

PCL or Postscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Printing preferences in Windows applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

PCL saved driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Setting the driver device options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Mac OS X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Blacks and greys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Black overprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Black printing (black generation). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Fine lines enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Greyscale printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Colour printing (basics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Factors that affect the appearance of prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Tips for printing in colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Accessing the colour matching options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Setting the colour matching options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Using the colour swatch feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Using the Colour Correct Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Colour matching (advanced). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

What this guide describes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Printer colour management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Office colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Graphic pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Overlays and macros (windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

What are overlays and macros? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Creating PostScript overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Printing with PostScript overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Creating PCL overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Printing with PCL overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Finishing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Booklet printing (imposition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Collating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Colour separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Separating queued print jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Cover print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Banner printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Custom page size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Duplex (double-sided) printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Printing multiple pages on one sheet (n-up) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Poster printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Scale to page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

Watermarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Trapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

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Secure printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Sending the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Printing the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Deleting a secure print document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Store to storage device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Sending the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Printing the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Deleting a stored document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Encrypted secure printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

Sending the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Printing the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

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OTES, CAUTIONS AND WARNINGS

NOTE A note provides additional information to supplement the main text.

CAUTION!

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

WARNING!

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

Specifications subject to change without notice. All trademarks acknowledged.

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NTRODUCTION

BOUT THIS BOOK

This book is delivered as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

There are many cross-references within this book, each highlighted as blue text. When you click on a cross-reference within Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader (also supplied on the Manuals CD/DVD) the display will instantly jump to the part of the manual containing the referenced material.

By using the button in Adobe Reader, you can navigate directly back to where you were before.

If you need to print a part of this manual, use Adobe Reader’s print command, and choose which pages you want to print. Some pages are deliberately left blank so that the page format is appropriate for duplex (double-sided) printing if you wish.

HAT THIS BOOK DESCRIBES

This book provides a convenient on-screen reference to the many features of the driver software supplied with your machine.

NOTE This guide is written to cover a number of products and as such may contain information about features that your product does not have installed or does not support.

Operating system support varies between products. Please check with your support website for the latest information.

Where possible the instructions for both Windows and Mac operating systems have been combined, where there is a significant difference these have been split out and described individually.

NOTE Terminology may vary between operating systems. Windows 2000, XP and Vista use tabbed dialogue boxes, whereas Mac OS X uses pop-up menus. For consistency throughout this manual we will refer to tabs.

NOTE This guide makes reference to “storage devices”, this may be a hard disk drive or an SD card installed in your machine.

Example driver screenshots are used throughout this manual and as such may not represent the driver screens for your machine. Some of the features shown on the example screenshots may not be available on your machine.

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OW TO ACCESS THE DRIVER SCREENS

Most of the features described are accessed via the printer driver screens. How you access them depends on your computer and its operating system.

The driver windows are dialogue boxes offering a wide range of choices about how you want to print your documents. Within Windows these dialogue boxes are tabbed, within Mac the dialogue boxes use pop-up menus.

NOTE Example driver screenshots are used throughout this manual and as such may not represent the driver screens for your machine. Some of the features shown on the example screenshots may not be available on your machine.

There are two ways to access the driver features from within Windows:

1. Directly from the Windows “Printers” folder (“Printers and Faxes” folder in Windows XP).

If you choose this method any changes you make will become the driver defaults. This means they will remain active for all your applications unless you specifically change them from within the application’s Print dialogue.

2. From your application’s Print dialogue.

If you choose this method any changes you make will usually only last for as long as the particular application is running, or until you change them again. In most cases, once you quit the application the driver defaults will return.

NOTE Settings made from the printer’s own control panel are the printer defaults. They determine how your printer will behave unless you specify otherwise from your computer.

The driver defaults override the printer defaults.

Application Print settings override both the printer defaults and the driver defaults.

How to access the driver screens > 7

PCL OR P

There are a number of drivers supplied with your machine, check with your support website for details.

If you print mainly from general “Office” applications choose one of the PCL drivers. For faster printing of PDF documents, choose PostScript. If you print mainly from professional DTP and graphics applications, choose PostScript.

RINTING PREFERENCES IN

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 Properties button.

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.

OSTSCRIPT EMULATION

OSTSCRIPT

INDOWS APPLICATIONS

1. Page orientation sets portrait (tall) or landscape

(wide) page orientation. The “rotated” rotates the paper through 90 degrees anticlockwise.

2. When printing double sided pages (duplex unit required). You can flip the paper either on its long edge or short edge.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

1. 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.

2. You can choose the source of the paper to feed. You can also click on the appropriate part of the screen graphic to select your preferred tray.

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3. If applicable, the setting for paper weight should match the type of paper on which you intend to print.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. A single on-screen button restores the default settings.

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HANGING THE DRIVER DEFAULTS

Windows XP/2000

1. Click Start > Settings > Printers and Faxes to open the Printers and Faxes

window.

2. In the Printers and Faxes window, right-click on the appropriate printer driver icon, and choose Printing Preferences from the context menu.

Windows Vista

1. Click Start > Control Panel > Printers to open the Printers and Faxes window.

2. In the Printers and Faxes window, right-click on the appropriate printer driver icon, and choose Printing Preferences from the context menu.

HANGING THE APPLICATION’S DRIVER SETTINGS

Windows

1. In your application, open the file you want to print.

2. On the File menu, choose Print….

3. In the application’s Print dialogue, make sure the printer shown is the appropriate one, and click Properties.

Mac

1. In your application, open the file you want to print.

2. On the File menu, choose Print….

3. In the application’s Print dialogue, make sure the printer shown is the appropriate

one, and click Printer:.

How to access the driver screens > 10

PCL

SAVED DRIVER SETTINGS

This feature, unique to the Windows PCL drivers, allows you to save the printer driver settings and reuse them later. This could be useful if you frequently print many different types of document that require different printer driver settings.

Recalling saved settings in the PCL drivers is a simple task that must be done first, before any job-specific changes are made. Rather than repeat the procedure throughout this manual, it is described here.

AVING A SET OF DRIVER SETTINGS

1. Make any changes to the driver settings you want, as described in the relevant

section of this manual.

2. In the driver’s Setup tab, click Save….

3. Enter a meaningful name for the settings you are saving, and click OK.

ECALLING SAVED DRIVER SETTINGS

1. In the driver’s Setup tab, choose any previously saved driver settings you need.

2. Proceed to make any other adjustments for this job, as described in the relevant

section in this manual.

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ETTING THE DRIVER DEVICE OPTIONS

This section explains how to ensure that your printer driver can utilize all of the hardware features installed in your printer.

Accessories such as additional paper trays will only be usable if the printer driver on your computer knows they are there.

In some cases the hardware configuration of your printer is automatically detected when the driver is installed. However, it is advisable to at least check whether all of the available hardware features are listed in the driver.

This procedure is essential if you subsequently add extra hardware features to your printer after the drivers have been installed and set up.

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

INDOWS

1. Access the driver’s Properties window. (See “Changing the driver defaults” on

page 10.)

2. Select the Device Options tab.

In the Windows XP PostScript driver the tab may be called “Device Settings”.

3. Set the options for any devices you have installed, including the correct number of paper trays, high capacity feeder, duplex unit, etc.

4. Click OK to close the window and save your changes.

MACOS X

Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) and Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5)

1. Open the Mac OS X Print & Fax Preferences.

2. Ensure your machine is selected.

3. Click Options & Supplies.

4. Click Driver.

5. Select all hardware options appropriate to your machine and click OK.

Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4)

1. Open the Mac OS X Print & Fax Preferences.

2. Ensure your machine is selected.

3. Click Printer Setup….

4. Click the menu and choose Installable Options….

5. Select all hardware options appropriate to your machine and click Apply Changes….

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Panther (Mac OS X 10.3)

1. Open the Mac OS X Print & Fax Preferences.

2. Click Printing.

3. Click Set Up Printers….

4. Ensure your machine is selected and click Show Info….

5. Click the menu and choose Installable Options….

6. Select all hardware options appropriate to your machine and click Apply Changes….

Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2)

1. Open the Printer Setup Utility (Print Center on OS X 10.2.x).

This is located in the Applications > Utilities folder.

2. Ensure your machine is selected.

3. Click the Printers menu and click Show Info….

4. From the pop-up menu, choose Installable Options….

5. Select all hardware options appropriate to your machine and click Apply Changes….

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LACKS AND GREYS

LACK OVERPRINT

Black overprint eliminates the white edge between the printed fonts and the coloured background.

Black overprint can only be used when printing 100 percent black text over a background colour.

Black overprint may not be available with some software applications.

NOTE

1. The Black Overprint feature is not included in the Windows PCL 6 driver.

2. When the background colour is very dark, the toner may not fuse

correctly. Change the background to a lighter colour.

INDOWS

1. On the Job Options tab, click Advanced.

2. Check Black Overprint.

MACOS X

1. From the Colour menu, click Advanced.

2. Check Black Overprint checkbox.

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LACK PRINTING (BLACK GENERATION

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To use Black Generation, Office Colour or Graphic Pro must be the selected Print Mode.

Your printer prints the colour black in one of two ways: Composite Black or True Black.

OMPOSITE BLACK

The cyan, magenta, yellow, and black toners are combined to create composite black.

This will sometimes give a glossier finish, due to the increased amount of toner. It can also sometimes appear as a slightly brownish black.

Use composite black when printing photographs.

RUE (PURE) BLACK

Only black toner is used to print true black.

Use True Black when printing a combination of text and graphics. If you use True Black to print photographs, dark sections of the photos may appear black.

Office Colour

1. On the driver’s Colour tab, select Office Colour (1) and click the Options button.

WINDOWS

MAC

2. On Black Finish (2), make your selection: Auto (allow printer to choose the best method depending on page content), True Black or Composite Black.

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Graphic Pro

1. On the driver’s Colour tab, select Graphic Pro (1) and click the Options button.

WINDOWS

MAC

2. From the Black Finish menu (2), choose your preferred setting.

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INE LINES ENHANCEMENT

This feature can be used to emphasize the pen width of very fine lines (minimum line width).

With some software applications, if this feature is turned ON, the spaces in bar codes may become too narrow. If this happens, turn Adjust Ultra Fine Lines OFF.

INDOWS

1. In the driver’s Job Options tab, click Advanced.

2. Click the checkbox to turn on Adjust Ultra Fine Lines.

1. Select Printer features.

2. Select Image Options.

3. Click the checkbox to turn on Adjust Ultra Fine Lines.

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REYSCALE PRINTING

If you select Greyscale, the printer converts all colours into shades of grey, and prints using only black toner.

Use Greyscale to speed up printing of proof copies or when you do not need to print a colour document in colour.

INDOWS

1. If using the PCL driver, in the driver’s Setup tab, choose any previously saved driver

2. On the Colour tab, click Greyscale, and then click Options if you want to adjust

PCL

settings you need. See “Recalling saved driver settings” on page 11.

brightness and contrast.

Blacks and greys > 18

INDOWS

AND MAC

On the driver’s Colour tab, click Greyscale, then click Advanced.

WINDOWS PS

MAC

Some applications will attempt to set the halftone screen information for the printer. If the option to use printer halftones is left at ON, the printer will set its own halftone screen value, giving a smoother result. It is recommended to leave this option on.

NOTE If you are using the ProQ resolution setting, Always use printer halftone is always ON and cannot be disabled.

Optimised greyscale halftones may take slightly longer to print but will give best quality.

Blacks and greys > 19

OLOUR PRINTING (BASICS

The printer drivers supplied with your printer provide several controls for changing the colour output. For general use the automatic settings will suffice, providing reasonable default settings that will produce 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.

ACTORS 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.

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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, Magenta, Yellow 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 on screen.

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.

Printer driver colour settings

The driver settings for manual colour can change the appearance of a print. There are several options available to help match the printed colours with those displayed on screen.

Monitor settings

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

There are several settings found on a typical monitor:

> 5000k Warmest; yellowish lighting, typically used in graphic art environments.

> 6500k Cooler; approximates daylight conditions.

> 9300k Cool; the default setting for many monitors and television sets.

(k = degrees Kelvin, a measurement of temperature.)

Colour printing (basics) > 20

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 on-line help or user manual for more information.

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.

IPS FOR PRINTING IN COLOUR

The following guidelines may help you to achieve good colour output from your printer.

RINTING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES

Use the Monitor (6500k) Perceptual setting.

If the colours look too dull, try the Monitor (6500k) Vivid or Digital Camera settings.

RINTING FROM OFFICE APPLICATIONS

Use the Monitor (9300k) setting. This may help if you are having problems with specific colours from applications such as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint.

RINTING SPECIFIC COLOURS (E.G. A COMPANY LOGO

There are 2 utilities on your printer driver CD/DVD-ROM that can help match specific colours:

> Colour Correct Utility

> Colour Swatch Utility

DJUSTING THE BRIGHTNESS OR INTENSITY OF A PRINT

If the print is too light/dark, you can use the Brightness control to adjust it.

If the colours are too intense/not intense enough, use the Saturation control.

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Colour printing (basics) > 21

CCESSING 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.

To open colour matching options from the Windows Control Panel:

1. Open the Printers window (called “Printers and Faxes” in Windows XP).

2. Right-click the printer name and choose Properties.

3. Click the Printing Preferences button (1).

To open colour matching options from within a Windows application:

1. Choose File > Print… from the application’s menu bar.

2. Click the Properties button next to the printer name.

ETTING THE COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS

1. On the Colour tab select Office Color for colour matching.

WINDOWS

MAC

Colour printing (basics) > 22

2. Choose Options (1) and select an options from the drop-down menu (2):

(a) Monitor (6500k) Perceptual

Optimised for printing photographs. Colours are printed with emphasis on saturation.

(b) Monitor (6500k) Vivid

Optimised for printing photographs, but with even more saturated colours than the Monitor (6500k) Perceptual setting.

Optimised for printing graphics from applications such as Microsoft Office. Colours are printed with emphasis on Lightness.

(d) Digital Camera

Optimised for printing photographs taken with a digital camera.

Your results will vary depending on the subject and the conditions under which the photograph was taken.

(e) sRGB

The printer will try to reproduce the sRGB colour space. This may be useful if colour matching from an sRGB input device such as a scanner or digital camera.

SING THE COLOUR SWATCH FEATURE

To use the Colour Swatch feature, you must install the Colour Swatch Utility. This is supplied on the CD/DVD-ROM that was supplied with your printer.

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 Colour 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:

1. Print a colour swatch, then select the shade of red that best suits your needs.

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

3. 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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SING THE COLOUR CORRECT UTILITY

The Oki Colour Correct Utility is provided on your printer driver CD/DVD-ROM. You must install it separately since it is not installed along with the printer driver.

The Colour Correct utility has the following features:

> Microsoft Office palette colours can be individually adjusted. This is useful if you

want to change how a specific colour is printed.

> Colours can be adjusted by changing Hue, Saturation and Gamma. This is useful if

you wish to change the overall colour output.

Once these colour adjustments have been made, the new settings can be selected from the printer driver Colour tab.

To select adjustments made with the Colour Correct Utility:

1. From your application program, click File and point to Print.

2. Click Properties. This displays the printer driver options.

3. Click the Colour tab.

4. Click Advanced Colour.

5. Click User Defined.

Select the colour adjustment you made with the Colour Correct Utility.

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