Sharp AJ-1100 User Manual

Contents

How to Use the Online Manual

How to Control the Online Manual 1 How to Print Out the Online Manual 1

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Outline of the Printer Driver 2 Starting the Printer Driver 3 Printer Driver Functions 5 "Paper/Quality" Tab Settings 6 "Colour Adjustment" Settings 10 "Layout" Tab Settings 11 "Scaling" Tab Settings 14 "Watermark" Tab Settings 16 "Utility" Tab Settings 18

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Outline of the Printer Driver 19 Starting the Printer Driver 20 Printer Driver Functions 22 "Paper/Quality" Tab Settings 23 "Advanced Options" Settings 25 "Layout" Tab Settings 29 "Scaling" Tab Settings 32 "Watermark" Tab Settings 34 "Utility" Tab Settings 36

Printing Overview 37 Basic Prin tin g 38 Printing a Watermark 39 Enlarge/Reduce the Printed Image 40 Printing Multiple Pages on One Page 41 Make a Poster 42 Printing a Photograph 43

Print Status Window

Outline of the Print Status Window 44 Print Status Window Functions 45 Understanding Error Messages 46 "Maintenance" Tab 47 "Options" Tab 48

Sharing Printer

Sharing the Printer using Windows Networking 49 Shared Printer Settings 50 Client Settings 51

Maintenance

Time to Change the Ink Tank 52 Changing the Ink Tank 53 Test Print Head 56 Cleaning the Print Head 57 Changing the Print Head 58 Aligning the Print Head 61 Keeping the Printer Clean 63

Troubleshooting

Identifying Printer Problems 64 Plug and Play Screen does not Appear (when the USB is connected) Failed to Install the Printer Driver (Windows 2000/XP) 66 Paper is not Fed into the Printer 67 Paper Jam 69 Printer Inoperative 70 Nothing Prints 71

Uninstalling the Printer Driver Reinstalling the Printer Driver

Faint, Uneven or Smeared Print Output 75 Characters or Graphics are not Printed in Correct Posit ion 76 Printed Lines are not Straight, or Have Blank Spaces 77 Unit does not Print in Colour 78 Printing is too Slow 79

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This Online Man ual provides in struction for the operation of your new printer. It is designed to assist you in the operation of the Online Manual an d provide you with all relevant information. For more information about computers, operating systems and Acrobat Reader, please refer to the relevant manual or help file.

How to Control the Online Manual

Takes you back page by page. To return to the previous link, click the ( ) button on the menu bar of the Acrobat Reader.

Click this button to display the Index of the Online Manual. From the Index you can jump to various pages.

Click this button to display the Table of Contents of the Online Manual. From the Table of Contents you can jump to various pages.

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Following links

Links can connect parts of a document to other parts for further information. In this document, green coloured letters are linked areas. To follow a link, select the hand tool ( ), a zoom tool, or a selection tool. Position the pointer over the linked area on the page until the pointer changes to a hand with a pointing finger ( ). Then click the link.

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Takes you forward page by page.

Click the listed

items to display the header of that section.

How to Print Out the Online Manual

In order to print out a hard copy of the Online Manual for your reference, go to Acrobat Reader, click the "File" menu, and select "Print". After specifying the printer setting, click the "OK" button to print.

In this online manual, screen images and operating procedures are mainly for Windows Me. With other versions of Windows, some screen images may be different from those in this manual.

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Printer Driver Settings

What is the Printer Driver?

A printer driver is a program designed t o convert print data from any application into d ata understandable by the printer so that the printer can quickly and efficiently print out the data.

The five tabs of this printer driver are shown below.

By clicking the tabs displayed above, you will jump to a detailed description.

The items shown below can be setup on each tab.

Tab Name Setup Items

Paper/Quality Paper Source, Media, Paper Size, Banner Printing, Print Quality, Colour Layout Orientation, Copies, Page Order, Collate, N-Up Printing Scaling Z o om, Fit to Paper Si z e, Poster Print i n g Watermark Watermark, Text, Size, Angle, Edit Co lour, Edit Fonts Utility Maintenance, About

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Starting the Printer Driver (part 1)

Open the printer driver setup screen by either of the methods show n below.

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Click the "Start" button.

Select "Settings" and click "Printers".

Click the "SHARP AJ-1100" printer driver icon in the "Printers" window and from the "File" menu select "Properties".

On Windows NT 4.0, select "Document Defaults" to open the printer driver setup screen.

Click the "Setup" tab.

The printer driver setup screen will appear.

Refer to the Windows manual or help file for more information on th e "General" tab, " Details" tab, "C olour Management" ta b and "Sharing" tab .

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Starting the Printer Driver (part 2)

Starting the Printer Driver through an Application

Follow the steps shown below to open the printer driver setup screen through WordPad. First, activate WordPad. (Click the "Start" button, select "Programs" , select "Accessories" and then click "WordPad".)

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Go to "File" menu in WordPad, and select "Print".

Select "SHARP AJ-1100" from the Printer Name drop-down list.

Click the "Properties" button to open the printer driver setup screen.

If the dialog box is setup through an application, all settings will be void when you quit the application.

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Tab

Index which allows you to switch between the various setup screens.

Check button

Allows you to select one item from a list of options.

Check box

Click this option to activate/deactivate each function.

"OK" button

Click this button to save your settings, and exit the dialog box.

"Cancel" button

Click this button to exit the dialog box without making any changes to the settings.

"Apply" button

Click to save your settings without closing the dialog box.

Windows NT 4.0 does not have the "Apply" button on each screen.

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Quit button

Click this button to quit the printer driver setup screen.

( ) button

After clicking this button, click the preference located in the dialog box you want to know more about, and receive a basic explanation.

Basic explanation is also available by right-clicking on the preference you want to know.

Drop-down list

Allows you to make one selection from a list of choices. Click the ( ) button to display your choices.

"Defaults" button

Returns settings to default mode of the tab. Refer to the information page for each tab to check the values of the default settings.

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"Paper/Quality" Tab Settings (part 1)

On this tab, specify settings related to paper or print quality.

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Only "Tray" is available with this model.

Select the paper size for your document.

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Select the type of paper. This option sets printing quality. Set printer output preferences to

colour or greyscale.

When printing colour data in greyscale mode, a small amount of colour ink will still be utilised. For this reason, output colouration will appear slightly different from that obtained when printing monochrome data.

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On the above screen, click on options shown in the green boxes to make additional changes.

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Open to set output quality and adjust colours.

Returns all user modified settings back to default settings of this tab.

Media: Plain Paper Size: A4 or Letter Banner Printing: Off Print Quality: Normal Colour: Colour

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Media

Select the type of paper to be used. Select from "Plain", "Coated", "Photo", "Transparency", "T-shirt transfer", and "Card Stock". Insert the paper that was selected into the tray. For more information on various paper types, refer to the following table.

Media Description Media Usage

Plain Normal office paper

(copier paper and high quality paper)

Coated The print side of coated paper

is whiter.

Photo The print side of photo paper is

glossy.

Transparency

T-shirt transfer This media is to be tra nsferred

Overhead presentation on clear film. The print sid e o f transparency film is rougher.

to cloth materials by an iron.

Corporate documents

Graphics, Images

Photographs

Overhead presentations

T-shirt, Place mat

Print Quality

This option sets printing speed and quality. You can trade off speed for quality. "Draft" is the fastest and lowest quality, "Best" is the slowest and best quality.

Draft

Sharp Rapid

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Best

* The print quality also depends on the specified (loaded) paper type.

! If lines are broken when printing with "Draft", change

the setting to any other option.

! Some of the settin gs ca nn ot be sel e cted depending

on the "Media".

Select this option when you want to print text data with high speed. If you print graphics, illustrations, or lines with this option, the print quality is low.

Select this option when you want to print a document containing graphics or illustrations with high speed. This option provides a lower print quality than "Normal" or "Best".

This option offers you normal print quality with normal print speed.

Select this option when you want to get high print quality for photographs or images.

Card Stock Thick plain paper Card printing

! Be sure to use Sharp recommended OHP films

when you select "Transparency".

! If you select "T-shirt transfer", the original image will

be reversed on the printed media to make a proper image on the T-shirt.

! Depending on th is "Media" setting, some of the "Print

Quality" settings cannot be selected.

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Paper Size

Select an appropriat e paper size for your document from dr op-down list.

Paper

Ledger (Fit to Page) Letter Legal Executive

A4 A5 A6 B4 (Fit to Page) B5 COM10 DL C6 Invitation A2 Index card 5" x 8" Index card 4" x 6" Index card 3" x 5" Custom

When "Ledger (Fit to Page)", "A3 (Fit to Page)" or "B4 (Fit

11" x 17"

8.5" x 11"

8.5" x 14"

7.25" x 10.5" 297mm x 420mmA3 (Fit to Page) 210mm x 297mm 148mm x 210mm 105mm x 148mm 257mm x 364mm 182mm x 257mm

4.125" x 9.5" 110mm x 220mm 114mm x 162mm

4.375" x 5.75" 5" x 8" 4" x 6" 3" x 5" Min. : 76.2mm x 127.0mm (3.00" x 5.00")

Max. : 215.9mm x 355.6mm (8.50" x 14.00")

to Page)" is selected, the printing image will be sized to fit A4 or Letter size. If you want the image to be sized to fit other sizes of paper, select the "Fit to Page" box.

Generally, load the paper whose size corresponds to the size you select for the " Paper Size". If you set di fferent size of paper into the tray, you may fai l to pri nt successf ully. For the detail of paper setting, refer to "LOADING PAPER" in the Setup Guide and Operation Manual.

Size

"Custom Size" button

Select "Custom" for "Paper Size" and then click this button to set custom paper sizes for your document.

Click the up and down arrows of the spin box, or enter a number to customize the width to the custom paper you wish to use.

Click the up and down arrows of the spin box, or enter a number to customize the length to the custom paper you wish to use.

Select the units of measurement for paper size settings: either "millimetres" or "inches".

Banner Printing

Enable/disable "Banner Printing" setting. When this setting is enabled, you can print up to 5 pages of A4 or letter size data continuously without any white blanks on the page borders.

"Banner Printing" is available when "A4" or "Letter" is selected for "Paper Size".

! Open the paper tray so that it is ne arly horizontal (position

2) before inserting the banner paper.

Maximum 5 sheets of banner paper can be used.

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Quality guaranteed area and printable area

This printer can print onto the following area of the paper. It is recommended that you specify margins from your application to fit within the quality guaranteed area.

Quality guaranteed area

Guaranteed area is inside 19mm from the top / bottom edge of the paper, and 10mm from the right / left edge of the paper.

Printable area

The void area of th e prin ter d rive r is 3mm from th e pap er ed ges. The print quality may be degraded outside the guaranteed area according to the contents of your document.

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"Colour Adjustment" Settings

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Set the colour matching as well as the brightness, contrast and colour balance of an image.

Check your colour image preferences using this screen.

Set the brightness, contrast and colour balance level of your print job here.

Allows you to select the Colour Management System. The Colour Management System enables you to adjust the image colour on your display to the result of the print job.

SHARP Colour matching

Select this option to utilise SHARP's original Colour Management System.

ICM

Select this option to utilise Windows standard Colour Management System.

• By selecting "ICM", both the "Image" and "Colour Balance" options become disabled.

• The "ICM" setting is unavailable with Windows 95 or NT 4.0.

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Directly enter the figure or move the scroll bar.

Returns all user modified settings back to default settings of this dialog box.

Colour matching: SHARP Colour matching Brightness: 50% Contrast: 50% Saturation: 50% Red Strength: 50% Green Strength: 50% Blue Strength: 50%

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"Layout" Tab Settings (part 1)

On this tab, specify a preferred option for each setting for output layout .

Select the orientation for your documents.

The settings you made at "Banner Printing", "Orientation", "N-Up Printing" and "Poster Printing" are shown in this image.

Choose the output order of pages when printing multiple pages.

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Set the number of copies between 1 - 50.

Not available when "Banner Printing" is enabled.

Check this box when you want to print multiple pages of document as collated sets.

Set this feature to place multiple reduced pages onto a single page.

Returns all user modified settings back to default settings of this tab.

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On the above screen, click on options shown in the green boxes to make additional changes.

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Orientation

Set the orientation for your documents either to "Portrait" or "Landscape".

Portrait

Check this setting to print your documents vertically.

Landscape

Check this setting to print your documents horizontally.

Image Rotation

Enable/disable "Ima ge Rotation" whic h rotates the printed ima ge by 180 degree. This function is available if "Landscape" is selected for the "Orientation".

Image Rotation: On

Page Order

Use this setting to specify the output order of multiple pages. You can select "Front to Back" or "Back to Front".

Front to Back Back to Front

If "COM10", "DL", "C6", or "Invitation A2" is selected for the "Paper Size" setting and set to "Landscape", the paper will be output in the orientation shown in the right illustration.

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N-Up Printing

Set this feature to place multiple reduced pages onto a single page. Select the "2-Up" option to copy two pages or the "4-Up" option to copy four pages onto a single printed page.

Orientation

Portrait Landscape

N-Up Printing

4-Up 2-Up

Collate

When multiple copies are printed, this setting places each copy in numerical order. For more detailed information, refer to the table below.

Example: When printing out two copies of a three-page document.

Collate Page Order Output Result

Front to Back

Back to Front

! The illustrations above assume that the paper size

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selected for "Paper Si ze" setti ng co rre sponds to th e size of paper in the tray.

(Fit to Page)", "COM10", "DL", "C6", "Invitation A2" or "Custom" is selected for "Paper Size", "N-Up Printing" is not available.

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"Scaling" Tab Settings (part 1)

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On this tab, set the preferences for enlarging/reducing your document and poster printing.

Allows you to reduce or enlarge the size of the print.

The settings you made at "Banner Printing", "Orientation", "N-Up Printing" and "Poster Printing" are shown in this image.

Enlarges/reduces the image to fit to the size of paper in the printer.

On the above screen, click on options shown in the green boxes to make additional changes.

Enables you to print an enlarged image of onepage document onto separated multiple sheets (4, 9, or 16 sheets).

Returns all user modified settings back to default settings of this tab.

Zoom: 100% Fit to Page: Off Poster Printing: None

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Zoom

Allows you to reduce or enlarge the size of the print from 25% to 400% in 1% increments.

"100%" button

Click to return to 100% (default setting).

"Zoom" setting is not available when any of "Banner Printing", "Fit to Paper Size", "N-Up Printing", or "Poster Printing" setting is enabled.

Fit to Paper Size

Fit to Page

Check this box to fit the document size to the paper size in the printer automatically.

Source Size

The specified "Paper Size" appears in this box. Make sure that the size appearing in this box corresponds to the do cument siz e.

Target Size

Select the size of the paper loaded in the printer.

! When "COM10 ", "DL", "C6" or "Invitation A2" is

selected for "Paper Size", "Zoom" and "Fit to Paper Size" settings are disabled.

! "Fit to Paper Size" setting is no t availa ble when any

of "Banner Printing", "N-Up Printing", or "Poster Printing" setting is enabled.

Poster Printing

Select the number of sheets for "Poster Printing". "2 x 2" (4 sheets), "3 x 3" (9 sheets), and "4 x 4" (16 sheets) are available.

Border

The border of each sheet is printed as shown in the illustration below when this option is checked. This setting is usef ul for cropping margins or pasting the sheets to each other.

Border

Overlap area

Check this option to print overlapped images on multiple sheets. Use this setting when you intend to paste the sheets without any space on the joint.

The same portion of the image is printed on both sheets.

When "Ledger (Fit to Page)", "A3 (Fit to Page)", "B4 (Fit to Page)", "COM10", "DL", "C6", "Invitation A2" or "Custom" is selected for "Paper Siz e", "Poster Printing" is not available.

"Poster Printing" setting is not available when any of "Banner Printing", "Fit to Paper Size", or "N-Up Printing" setting is enabled.

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"Watermark" Tab Settings (part 1)

Use this screen to set watermarks.

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Use this screen to view how the watermark will appear on your document.

You can drag the watermark to your favourite place by using the mouse.

Move the location of the watermark using the scroll bar.

Click this button to centre a watermark in the middle of the document.

On the above screen, click on options shown in the green boxes to make additional changes.

Select the type of watermark.

Create your original watermark in this box.

Use the scroll bar or enter a figure to set the font size of a watermark from 6 to 500 points.

Use the scroll bar to set the print angle of a watermark from

-90 to 90 degree. (The angle can be set in 15

degree multiples.)

You cannot type the desired angle value in this field.

Returns all user modified settings back to default settings of this tab.

Watermark: (None) On First Page Only: Off

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Watermark

Select a watermark from the drop-down list. Select from "TOP SECRET", "CONFIDENTIAL", "DRAFT", "ORIGINAL" and "COPY". No watermark will appear on the document if "(None)" is selected.

Text

To add a new wat ermar k, t ype i n the pre ferr ed cha racte rs in thi s box, and then click the "Add" button. To change your original watermark, select the watermark to be changed from the drop-down list of "Watermark", c hange the characters appearing in this box appropriately, and then click the "Update" button.

"Update" button

Select your original watermark from the drop-down list. After adjusting the size and angle to suit your preferences, click the "Update" button to save.

You cannot permanently save changes to the size and angle of a default watermark using this button. To permanently save all new changes, use the "Add" button.

"Add" button

Enter your text over the currently displayed text and click this button to add a new watermark. After selecting a watermark from the drop-down list and setting its size and angle, click this button to add new changes.

"Delete" button

To remove your original watermark from the drop-down list, select it and click this button.

Default watermarks cannot be deleted.

"Edit Colour" button

For setting the colour of a w a ter mar k, cl ick thi s b utt on t o d isp lay the "Colour" dialog box. For more informat ion on this dialog box, click the ( ) button, and then point and click on the item that you want information on.

"Edit Fonts" button

To adjust the font style of a watermark, click this b utton to display the "Font" dialog box. For more informat ion on this dialog box, click the ( ) button, and then point and click on the item that you want information on.

On First Page Only

Check this box to ensure a watermark is printed only on the first page of the document. By leaving this box unchecked, the watermark will appear on every page o f the printed document.

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"Utility" Tab Settings

On this tab, you can open the "Maintenance" tab of the print status window.

"Maintenance" button

Click to access maintenance options.

"About" button

Click this button to display the "About" dialog box for information on the driver name and version.

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On the above screen, click on options shown in the green boxes to make additional changes.

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Printer Driver Settings

What is the Printer Driver?

A printer driver is a program designed t o convert print data from any application into d ata understandable by the printer so that the printer can quickly and efficiently print out the data.

The five tabs of this printer driver are shown below.

By clicking the tabs displayed above, you will jump to a detailed description.

The items shown below can be setup on each tab.

Tab Name Setup Items

Paper/Quality Paper Source, Media, Quality Settings, Colour, Advanced Layout Orientation, Copies, Page Order, Collate, N-Up Printing Scaling Z o om, Fit to Paper Si z e, Poster Print i n g Watermark Watermark, Text, Size, Angle, Edit Co lour, Edit Fonts Utility Maintenance, About

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Starting the Printer Driver (part 1)

Open the printer driver setup screen by either of the methods show n below.

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Click the "Start" button.

Select "Settings" and click "Printers".

On Windows XP, click "Control Panel", click "Printers and Other Hardware", and then click "Printers and Faxes".

Click the "SHARP AJ-1100" printer driver icon and from the "File" menu select "Printing Preferences".

The printer driver setup screen will appear.

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Starting the Printer Driver through an Application

Follow the steps shown below to open the printer driver setup screen through WordPad. First, activate WordPad. (Click the "Start" button, select "Programs" ("All Programs" on Windows XP), select "Accessories" and then click "WordPad".)

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Go to "File" menu in WordPad, and select "Print".

Select "SHARP AJ-1100" printer driver icon from "Select Printer" area.

You can setup the preferences for the printer driver through the five tabs of "Paper/Quality", "Layout", "Scaling", "Watermark", and "Utility". On Windows XP, click the "Preferences" button to open the printer driver setup screen.

If the dialog box is setup through an application, all settings will be void when you quit the application.

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Quit button

Click this button to quit the printer driver setup screen.

Tab

Index which allows you to switch between the various setup screens.

Check button

Allows you to select one item from a list of options.

"OK" button

Click this button to save your settings, and exit the dialog box.

( ) button

After clicking this button, click the preference located in the dialog box you want to know more about, and receive a basic explanation.

Basic explanation is also available by right-clicking on the preference you want to know.

Drop-down list

Allows you to make one selection from a list of choices. Click the ( ) button to display your choices.

Check box

Click this option to activate/deactivate each function.

"Cancel" button

Click this button to exit the dialog box without making any changes to the settings.

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"Apply" button

Click to save your settings without closing the dialog box.

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"Advanced" button

Click this button to make detailed settings.

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"Paper/Quality" Tab Settings (part 1)

On this tab, specify settings related to paper or print quality.

Windows 2000/XP

Printer Driver Settings

Only "Tray" is available with this model.

Select the type of paper.

This option sets printing quality. Select from "Best", "Normal", and "Draft".

"Custom" is selected automatically by changing the "Print Quality" of "Advanced" settings.

On the above screen, click on options shown in the green boxes to make additional changes.

Set printer output preferences to colour or greyscale.

Click this button when you intend to change the settings below.

Paper Size, Custom Size, Banner Printing, Print Quality, Colour Adjustment

How to Use the

Online Manual

Printer Drive r Settings

Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0

Windows 2000/XP

Print Status

Window

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