Panasonic KX-PS8000 User Manual

Utilities and Drivers

Model No. KX-PS8000

Reference Guide

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This manual explains how to use the Digital Duplicator Utility, Scanner and Printer features. It consists of three parts:

■ Part 1 Digital Duplicator Utility (

☞

P. 3)

This part explains how to use the Digital Duplicator Utility, which lets you adjust the appearance of your document before duplicating. For example, you can enlarge or reduce the size of the image, change the color, or select an area. This utility also provides a variety of duplicating functions.

■ Part 2 Scanner Function (

☞

P. 74)

This part explains how to use the scanner driver, which lets you adjust the appearance of your document before scanning. For example, you can enlarge or reduce the size of the image, change the contrast or brightness, or perform other enhancement selections to improve the final image, making it better than the original.

■ Part 3 Printer Function (

☞

P. 108)

This part explains how to use the print features through the printer drivers (Windows¨ 95

/ Windows 3.1

Windows NT¨ 4.0

■ Appendix (

☞

P. 150)

This section consists of Troubleshooting ( ☞ P. 151), Print Quality and Required Memory ( ☞ P. 166) and

Index ( ☞ P. 168).

Introduction

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Microsoft¨ Windows¨ 95 operating system (hereafter Windows 95)

Microsoft¨ Windows¨ operating system Version 3.1 (hereafter Windows 3.1)

Microsoft¨ Windows NT¨ Workstation operating system, and Microsoft¨ Windows NT¨ Server network operating system Version 4.0 (hereafter Windows NT 4.0)

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Any details given in this manual are subject to change without notice.

Basic Tasks

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Digital Duplicator Utility

Displaying the Digital Duplicator Utility Window . . . . . . . . . . 5

Names and Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Option Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Using the Print Preview Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Reducing or Enlarging the Output (Zoom) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Displaying the Zoom Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Changing the Zoom Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Printing an Enlarged Image on Multiple Pages . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Shifting an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Displaying the Shift Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Background Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Selecting Print Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Creating a Mirror/Negative Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Creating a Mirror Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Creating a Negative Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Double Side Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Saving, Loading or Deleting a Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Saving the Current Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Loading a Saved Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Deleting a Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Changing the Unit of Measurement (mm or inch) . . . . . . . . . 37

Changing the Preview Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Enabling Jam Recovery ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

Table of Contents

Adjusting the Overall Color of an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Displaying the Color Adjust Entire Image Window . . . . . . . . 40

Adjusting a Specific Color of an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Modifying Color Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Deleting the Stored Color Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Area Duplicate Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Displaying the Area Duplicate Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Pasting an Area of an Image in the Layout Box . . . . . . . . . . 52

Moving a Selection Area in the Original Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Resizing a Selection Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Canceling a Selection Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Moving an Image in the Layout Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Resizing an Image in the Layout Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Creating a Mirror or Negative Image in the Layout Box . . . . 60

Creating Multiple Images in the Layout Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Duplicating an Image in the Layout Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Enlarging an Image to Fit on Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Zooming an Image in the Layout or Original Box . . . . . . . . . 65

Moving the Selected Area to the Front in the Layout Box . . 66 Moving the Selected Area to the Back in the Layout Box . . . 66

Deleting an Image in the Layout Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Using Template Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Area Duplicate

Adjusting Colors

Table of Contents

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

To display the Digital Duplicator Utility main window, perform either of the following steps.

■ For Windows 95 / Windows NT 4.0

Click Start .

Select Programs, select KX-PS8000 Utilities then click Digital

Duplicator Utility.

The Digital Duplicator Utility main window appears.

■ For Windows 3.1

From the Program Manager, double-click the

KX-PS8000 Utilities

icon.

Double-click the

Digital Duplicator Utility

icon.

The Digital Duplicator Utility main window appears.

Displaying the Digital Duplicator Utility Window

No. Name Function

Displays the status of the printer and the scanner. Ready will be displayed when you open the main window. If not, refer to Troubleshooting ( ☞P. 151).

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

Names and Functions

Status display

Displays the zoom value currently set. When the zoom values of the height and the width are the same, one value is displayed. If they are different, two values such as 100 x 50% are displayed.

Clicking on the displayed zoom value opens the

Zoom window ( ☞P. 16).

Zoom Value display

No. Name Function

Printing density can be adjusted by clicking Hor

or by pressing + or Ð keys on the keyboard.

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

7 Density

Various options for editing an image can be selected

( ☞P. 10).

Option Buttons

Tray Selection button ( )

Allows you to select an installed tray by clicking this button or by pressing F12 on the keyboard. The indicator of the selected tray will be illuminated in the tray display ( ☞No. 19).

Paper Size

Allows you to select a media type loaded in the multipurpose tray by clicking G. This is effective only when the multi-purpose tray is selected. Plain Paper,

Transparency, Label, Coated paper or Paper 2nd Side can be selected.

Media Type

Allows you to select a paper size loaded in the multipurpose tray by clicking G, or displays the paper size of the selected media tray. This is effective only when the multi-purpose tray is selected. Letter, Legal or A4 can be selected.

Used to select an image type by clicking G.

Color Printed Photo:

Select for color printed materials such as a catalog. The color mode is selected in the

Output Color

(☞No. 18).

Color Glossy Photo:

Select for color photos such as a glossy photo. The color mode is selected in the

Output Color

(☞No. 18).

B/W Text:

Select for text. The monochrome color is selected in the

Output Color (☞No. 18).

B/W Halftone, Photo:

Select for monochrome Photo or halftone original. The monochrome color is selected in the

Output Color (☞No. 18).

The image can be viewed in the Print Preview window

(☞P. 12).

Original Image Type

Page Mode9

Allows you to select a page mode by clicking G.

All page- All documents will be duplicated.

Even pageS- Only even pages will be duplicated.

Odd pageS- Only odd pages will be duplicated.

This function is used for double side printing

( ☞P. 30)

When Even page or Odd page is selected, the Output Order selection ( ☞No. 10) is not effective and the documents are automatically printed face

up.

Stops printing by clicking .

Starts printing by clicking or by pressing the S key on the keyboard. It is also used to resume printing after loading media, or after clearing a media jam when the Jam Recovery ON is selected

( ☞P. 39).

When the Energy Star is set to ON if the printer is idle for 30 minutes, the printer will enter the Sleep Mode. The status display in the Digital Duplicator Utility window shows the message Ready (Sleep). While the printer is in the Sleep Mode, a document cannot be duplicated. To release the Sleep Mode, click the Start button ( ). The message Ready will appear in the status display.

No. Name Function

Specifies whether your document prints face up or face down in the printerÕs output tray by clicking G.

Note: This selection is not effective when the MPT

(Multi-Purpose Tray) is selected. When the MPT is selected, Face up is automatically selected.

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

Output Order

Start button ( )

Resets all settings to default settings by clicking or by pressing the Home key on the keyboard. If you press while printing, the printer stops printing.

Reset button ( )

B/W Text Start button ( )

Clicking or pressing the Ctrl + S keys on the keyboard forces a document to print in black and white regardless of the color settings.

Note: When the B/W Text is selected in the Original

Image Type ( ☞No. 3) and Black is selected in the Output Color ( ☞No. 18)), pressing the Start button ( ) prints a document in black

and white.

Stop button ( )

Views the help information by clicking Help .Help button

( Help )

Exits the Digital Duplicator Utility window by clicking Exit .

Exit button ( Exit )

Numeric keypad17

Used to enter the number of duplicates (1-999). Clicking or pressing C key on the keyboard resets the duplicate count to 1.

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

No. Name Function

Displays the status of the selected tray. If the selected tray has paper installed, the green indicator will be illuminated. Otherwise, the red indicator will be illuminated.

Tray display

Output Color

Sets an output color. The items of Output Color vary depending on the item selected in the Original Image

Type ( ☞No. 3).

(1) When the Color Glossy Photo or Color Printed Photo is selected, 4 Color (CMYK) or 3 Color (CMY) can be selected. The 3 Color (CMY) selection provides faster duplicating speed, and is used only when printing on plain paper.

When Transparency, Label or Coated paper media

type is selected, 3 Color (CMY) cannot be selected. (2) When the B/W Text or B/W Halftone, Photo is selected, a monochrome color (Black, Yellow, Magenta or Cyan) can be selected.

No. Button Name

Function

Various options for editing an image can be selected.

Option Buttons

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

5 7

Creates a mirror image of the original

( ☞P. 29).

To return to the original, click this button.

Reduces the visibility of a reverse side print and can reduce background stains

( ☞P. 26).

Background Reduction button

Changes the resolution setting

( ☞P. 28).

Quality button

Mirror button

Creates a negative image of the original

( ☞P. 29).

To return to the original, click this button.

Negative/Positive button

Adjusts the overall color of an image

( ☞P. 40).

Color Adjust Entire Image button

Adjusts a specific color of an image

( ☞P. 43).

Color Adjust Specific Point button

Allows you to select and edit an area of an image ( ☞P. 48).

Area Duplicate button

Enlarges or reduces an image

( ☞P. 16).

Zoom button

Shifts an image ( ☞P. 24).Shift button

Saves, loads, or deletes the settings made in this utility ( ☞P. 32).

Memorize Settings button

Indicators

No. Button Name

Function

Print Preview button

Allows you to preview the print image by clicking this button, or by pressing the

Page Down key on the keyboard. The Print Preview window also shows

immediately how your changes affect the image ( ☞P. 12).

Used to select a unit of measurement (inch or mm) ( ☞P. 37), a resolution (30 dpi or 60 dpi) ( ☞P. 38), and enable or disable the Jam Recovery function

( ☞P. 39).

Other Settings button

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

■ Indicators

When an option button indicator is illuminated, it indicates that the default setting has been changed.

Make sure that your document has been inserted in the ADF tray or placed on the scanner glass.

Click the Print Preview button ( ).

The scanner starts prescanning the document. During prescanning the document the Scanning Progress window appears, then the prescanned image appears in the Print Preview window.

Basic Tasks

Using the Print Preview Window

The Print Preview window allows you to preview the print image of the document. Before sending it to the printer, all adjustments are shown immediately. It is helpful to open this window when you adjust an image using Zoom, Shift, Mirror or Negative/Positive functions.

Note:

BThe Print Preview will not automatically prescan documents if a

document has already been prescanned. To represcan your document, click the Prescan button ( ) in the Print Preview window.

When the Prescan button is pressed, the Area Duplicate and Color adjustment settings will be reset to the default settings.

Basic Tasks

Prescan button

Prescans a document and resets the Area Duplicate and the Color Adjustment settings to the default settings. If a document is duplicated from the ADF tray, the document is ejected completely. However, if a document is prescanned from the ADF tray but not duplicated, it will remain in the ADF tray. To eject the document, press the Feed Out button (

☞

Feed Out button

Ejects the document that remains in the ADF tray.

Preview Zoom

Sets the zoom value (100, 125, 150, 175 or 200%) of the displayed image in the Print Preview window.

Close button

Closes the Print Preview window.

Help button

Displays help information on the Print Preview window.

■ Changing the size of the Print Preview window

Position the cursor on the side/corner of the window. The mouse pointer changes into a double-ended arrow. Press and hold the mouse button, and drag the side/corner to obtain the desired size. Then release the mouse button.

Reduced window

Enlarged window

Basic Tasks

■ Simultaneously viewing the enlarged and divided

image

When Segment is selected for the enlarged image ( ☞P. 20), the divided multiple images will be displayed in the Print Preview window.

Basic Tasks

Click the Zoom button ( ).

The Zoom window appears.

The zoom function reduces or enlarges the output on the printed page. For your convenience, open the Print Preview window to view changes to your image.

Basic Tasks

Reducing or Enlarging the Output (Zoom)

Displaying the Zoom Window

(

Zoom Value box

Displays the current zoom value. It also allows you to select a zoom value by clicking G( ☞P. 18). Choosing a selection maintains the proportional

relationship of the height and width of an image.

Width Zoom Value box

Set the zoom value of the width by clicking F or G.

Height Zoom Value box

Set the zoom value of the height by clicking For G.

Note:

BWhen using the ADF tray, you cannot print an image enlarged

more than 100%.

Basic Tasks

W-H Uniform

Clicking on this check box allows you to set height and width simultaneously by entering zoom value in either of their box. To set them independently, click off this check box.

Segment

Divides the enlarged image ( ☞P. 20).

(

Default button

Resets the settings to the default settings.

Selections FunctionZoom value

100%

Duplicates an entire letter size document on A4 size paper.

Basic Tasks

Changing the Zoom Value

Change the zoom value by selecting an option from the Zoom Value box or by entering it in the Width or Height Zoom Value box.

■ Using the Zoom Value box

Click Gof the Zoom Value box.

The zoom value selections appear ( ☞table below).

Click the desired selection.

The selected zoom value will be displayed in the Zoom Value, Width Zoom Value and Height Zoom Value boxes. You can see the result of the selection in the Print Preview window.

Click OK to make the selection effective.

The Zoom window will close.

400%

300%

200%

50%

Custom

A5->A4 (fit)

A4->A4 (fit)

A4->Letter (fit)

Letter->Letter (fit)

Letter->A4 (fit)

Letter ->Legal (fit)

Legal->Legal (fit)

100%

Duplicates the same size as the original. If the document size is the same as paper size, the edges of the document will not be printed.

Duplicates 4 times the original.

Duplicates 3 times the original.

Duplicates twice the original.

Duplicates at 50% of the original.

This option is automatically selected when the zoom value of width and height are set using the Width or Height Zoom Value box.

Enlarges to fit the A5 size document on A4 size paper.

Duplicates an entire A4 size document on A4 size paper.

Duplicates an entire A4 size document on Letter size paper.

Duplicates an entire letter size document on Letter size paper.

Duplicates an entire letter size document on Legal size paper.

Duplicates an entire Legal size document on Legal size paper.

400%

300%

200%

50%

135%

95%

90%

96%

92%

96%

■ Using the Width / Height Zoom Value boxes

Enter the zoom value in either the Width or Height Zoom Value box by clicking For G.

You can see the result of the selection in the Print Preview window.

To set each value independently, click off the W-H Uniform check box.

Click OK to make the selection effective.

The Zoom window will close.

Basic Tasks

F : increases the number of the zoom value (maximum 400%). G : reduces the number of the zoom value (minimum 20%).

Holding down the mouse sequentially changes the zoom value.

Note:

BThe zoom value range available in the Digital Duplicator Utility is

from 20 to 400% . If you have used 200% for Area Duplicate function ( ☞P.58), you can set the percentage up to 200%.

Height Zoom Value box

Width Zoom Value box

Output size

Paper size

(Example: 70%)

Basic Tasks

Printing an Enlarged Image on Multiple Pages

You can enlarge the image and print it on multiple pages. Each divided image overlaps 0.5 inch.

Note:

BThe ADF tray cannot be used when performing a multi-page print.

■ Example: Enlarging a Letter size document to 140% and printing it on

multiple pages

Click the Zoom button ( ).

The Zoom window appears.

Basic Tasks

Click on the Segment check box.

The Document Size box appears at the bottom of the Zoom window.

Basic Tasks

Note:

BThe Document Size determines the size of the scanning area. The

closest size to the document must be selected from the Document Size box.

Document Size box

Segment check box

Click the Document Size box, then click Letter.

Set the width and length zoom value to 140% by clicking For

of the Width or Height Zoom Value box.

The printing area (shade) is displayed on the divided pages.

Click OK to make the selection effective.

To cancel the selection, click Cancel .

The Zoom window will close and its

indicator is lit

BIf the Print Preview window is opened, the result of the selection is

displayed.

Click the Start button ( ).

The printer starts printing multiple pages.

Basic Tasks

Note:

BIf an image has been pasted in the Layout box of the Area

Duplicate window, the Document Size box becomes inactive. In this case, the paper size selected in the Digital Duplicator Utility window will be automatically assigned.

The Shift function shifts (scrolls) the image.

Click the Shift button ( ).

The Shift window appears.

Shift Direction box

Selects shift direction.

None: Returns the image to original position.

Left/Top Space: Allows you to make space on left and/or top.

Right/Top Space: Allows you to make space on right and/or top.

Left/Bottom Space: Allows you to make space on left and/or bottom.

Right/Bottom Space: Allows you to make space on right and/or bottom.

Horizontal Shift box

Shifts the image horizontally.

Vertical Shift box

Shifts the image vertically.

BIf you wish to use mm instead of inch, select mm in the Other

Settings window ( ☞P. 37).

Basic Tasks

Shifting an Image

Displaying the Shift Window

Note:

BThe Shift function is not effective when the Segment is selected in

the Zoom window ( ☞P. 21).

■ Example: Shifting the image 0.5ý on the left and 0.3ý on the top.

Click Gof the Shift Direction box, then select Left/Top Space.

Enter the desired space (0.5) in the Horizontal Shift box and (0.3) in the Vertical Shift box by clicking F or G.

The image display reflects the changes.

Click OK to make the selection effective.

BTo cancel the selection, click Cancel .

The Shift window will close and its indicator is lit.

Click the Start button ( ).

The printer starts printing.

Basic Tasks

Horizontal Shift box

Vertical Shift box

Shift Direction box

Basic Tasks

When a double side printed document is printed, the reverse side print may be visible on the paper. To reduce this effect (visibility of a reverse side print), use the Background Reduction function.

Click the Background Reduction button ( ).

The Background Reduction window appears.

Click on the Use Background Reduction check box.

The Background Level box becomes active.

Background Reduction

Background Level box

Basic Tasks

Drag the slider to right or click Hto reduce the background.

The setting range is 1-8. The effect level is displayed in the Level box, and the result of the selection is displayed in the Background Level box.

Click OK .

To cancel, click Cancel .

The Background Reduction window will close.

Level box

Background Level box

Three print quality modes (Standard, Fine and Enhanced) are available. Fine or Enhanced mode provides better quality than Standard mode but takes longer to process.

The standard mode for the ADF tray and for the Flatbed (Scanner glass) can be selected individually.

Standard (300 ✕ 300 dpi for ADF tray, 600 ✕ 300 dpi for Flatbed) is the default setting.

Additional memory (SIMM, option) is required to select these modes

( ☞ P. 166 Print Quality and Required Memory).

To select a mode, perform the following steps.

Click the Quality button ( ).

The Quality window appears.

Click the desired mode.

Click OK .

To cancel the selection, click Cancel .

The Quality window will close.

Selection Scanning resolution Printing resolution

300 ✕ 300 dpi

Basic Tasks

Selecting Print Quality

600 ✕ 600 dpi 600 ✕ 600 dpi 600 ✕ 1200 dpi

Standard

Enhanced

Fine

600 ✕ 300 dpi

600 ✕ 600 dpi

2 3

Basic Tasks

Creating a Mirror / Negative Image

You can create a mirror or negative image of the original.

Creating a Mirror Image

Click the Mirror button ( ).

The indicator is illuminated, and a mirror image of the document is displayed in the Print Preview window.

BTo return to the original image, click the Mirror button again.

The indicator is turned off.

Mirror Image Negative ImageOriginal

Creating a Negative Image

Click the Negative/Positive button ( ).

The indicator is illuminated, and a negative image of the document is displayed in the Print Preview window.

BTo return to the original image (positive image), click the

Negative/Positive button again. The indicator is turned off.

Basic Tasks

Double Side Printing

Single sided documents can be printed on both sides of the paper by using the Page Mode function.

Insert the documents into the ADF with the printed sides facing up and top of the documents first.

Click Gof the Page Mode and select Odd page.

Click the Start button ( ).

Odd pages of the documents will be printed face up.

Place the printed pages in the multi-purpose tray of the printer with the page face down and top first. Select multi-purpose tray by clicking the Tray Selection button ( ).

Place all the documents into the ADF tray again

( ☞Step 1 above)

Click Gof the Page Mode and select Even page.

Page Mode

+ 141 hidden pages