Sharp AJ-2200 User Manual

Contents

How to Use the Online Manual

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

Printer Properties

Outline of the Printer Driver 2 "Paper Settings" Dialog Box 3 Printer Driver Functions 7 "Main" Menu Settings 8 "Output" Menu Setting s 11 "Quality" Menu Settings 13 "Function" Menu Settings 14 "Watermark Settings" Dialog Box 16 "Version" Menu Settings 18 "Maintenance" Dialog Box 19

Printing Overview 20 Using the Chooser 21 Basic Printing 22 Printing a Watermark 23 Enlarge/Reduce the Printed Image 24 Printing Multiple Pages on One Page 25 Make a Poster 26 Printing a Photograph 27 Background Printing 28 Print Monitor 29 Print Monitor Functions 30

Maintenance

Time to Change the Ink Tank 31 Changing the Ink Tank 32 Test Print Head 35 Cleaning the Print Head 36 Changing the Print Head 37 Aligning the Print Head 40 Keeping the Printer Cle an 42

Troubleshooting

Identifying Printer Problems 43 Paper is not Fed into the Printer 44 Paper Jam 46 Printer Inoperative 47 Nothing Prints 48

Uninstalling the Printer Driver

Faint, Uneven or Smeared Print Output 51 Characters or Graphics are not Printed in Correct Position Printed Lines are not Straight, or Have Blank Spaces 53 Unit does not Print in Colour 54 Printing is too Slow 55

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This Online Manual provides instructi on for the oper ation of your new printer. It is designed to assist you in the operation of the Online Manual and 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 docu ment, 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 "Print" button to print.

In this online ma nual, screen image s and operating proced ures are mainly for M ac OS 9.x. With other versions of Mac OS, some screen images may be different from those in this manual.

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Outline of the Printer Driver

Printer Properties

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.

Starting the Printer Driver

The printer driver setup screen includes the "Paper Settin gs" di alog box and "Print" dialog box. On th e "Paper Sett ings" dialog box, you can specify value s relat ed to paper including pape r size. Open th e dial ogs by f ollowing th e ste ps shown below. Follow the steps shown below to open t he printer dr iver setu p screen t hrough any application on your comp uter such as SimpleText or Microsoft Word. First, activate any application on your computer.

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Go to "File" menu, and select "Page Setup".

A "Paper Settings" dialog box of the printer driver will appear.

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"Paper Settings" Dialog Box

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After setting preferences on the "Paper Settings" dialog box, select "Print" from "File" menu.

A "Print" dialog box of the printer driver will appear. To switch the dialog box, click the ( ) button.

Main Output Quality Function Version

You can jump to the detailed information by clicking each menu on the screen above.

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"Paper Settings" Dialog Box (part 1)

Printer Properties

The following dialog box will appear when you select "Page Setup" from "File" menu of your application. You have to specify preferences on thi s dialog box bef ore printing.

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Select the paper size for your document.

The settings you made for "Orientation" and "Image Rotation" are shown in this image.

Quality guaranteed area and printable area

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

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

Click this button to show the information on this dialog box.

Select the orientation for your documents.

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

The dialog box for your application may look slightly different. For details, refer to the operation manual or the help file of your application.

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Enable/disable "Image Rotation" which rotates the printed image by 180 degree. This function is available if landscape is selected for the "Orientation".

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

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"Paper Settings" Dialog Box (part 2)

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Paper Size

Select an appropriate paper size for your document from menu.

Paper

Ledger (Fit to Page) Letter Legal Executive

A4 A5 A6

COM10 DL C6 Invitation A2 Index card 5" x 8" Index card 4" x 6" Index card 3" x 5" Banner Letter Banner A4 (Custom)

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 B4 (Fit to Page) 182mm x 257mm B5

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"

8.5" x 11" 210mm x 297mm Min. : 76.2mm x 127.0mm (3.00" x 5.00")

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

! Generally, load the paper whose si ze corresponds to the

size you select for the "Paper Size". If you set different size of paper into the tray, you may fail to print successfully. For the detail of paper setting, refer to "LOADING PAPER" in the Setup Guide and Operation Manual.

! "Fit to Page" is automatically enabled when "Ledger (Fit

to Page)", "A3 (Fit to Page)" or "B4 (Fit to Page)" is selected.

Size

Custom Paper Size

When "(Custom)" is selected for "Paper Size" setting, the following dialog box will appear, and you can specify the desired paper size.

Width

Enter a number to customize the width to the custom paper you wish to use.

Length

Enter a number to customize the le ngth to t he custom paper you wish to use.

millimetres / inches

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

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"Paper Settings" Dialog Box (part 3)

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Orientation

Set the orientation for your documents either to portrait or landscape.

This option prints your document in portrait format.

This option prints your document in landscape format.

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).

! When "COM10", "DL" , "C6", "Invitati on A2", "Banner

Letter" or "Banner A4" is selected for "Paper Size", "Zoom[%]" setting is disabled.

When "Fit to Page" is checked or "N-Up/Poster"

setting is enabled, "Zoo m[ %]" setting has no effect.

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

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"Paper Settings" Dialog Box (part 4)

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 y our document.

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Printable area

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Printable area

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Printer Driver Functions

Copies

Set the number of copies between 1 - 50.

When either of "Banner A4", or "Banner Letter" is selected for "Paper Size", you cannot specify any value for "Copies" setting.

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

Check box

Click this option to activate/deactivate each function.

Check button

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

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Specify the pages to be printed here. To print all the pages, select "All". To select some of the pages, specify the first and the last page to be printed.

When using the "Multiple Users" function of Mac OS 9.x, click this button to specify the spool files and the collation files.

"Maintenance" button

Click to access maintenance options.

Reference: "Maintenance"

Dialog Box

Displays important print settings.

"Help" button

The information on the currently open dialog box will appear by clicking this button.

The dialog box for your application may look slightly different. For details, refer to the operation manual or the help file of your application.

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"Cancel" button

Click this button to close the dialog box without printing.

"Print" button

Click this button to start printing.

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"Main" Menu Settings (part 1)

On this screen, you can select the print quality, paper size, and the tray.

This option sets printing quality.

Check this box when not printing in colour.

Click this button to change the default setting value of "Print Quality".

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

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Select the type of paper.

Select the paper source.

To provide the highest possible pr int quality wh en printing in the "Best" mode, a special printin g technique is use d which requires the print medium to move through the machine a t a uniform speed. As a result, the time to make a print in this mod e will be approximately the same for all files regardless of the area being printed. This is also true for "Normal" mode printing on photo paper.

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"Main" Menu Settings (part 2)

Printer Properties

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

Normal

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 settings cannot be selected 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.

"Default settings" button

Select the default print quality. This decides the print quality when "Plain" is selected as "Media".

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"Main" Menu Settings (part 3)

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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 Overhead presentation on

clear film. The print side of transparency film is rougher.

T-shirt transfer This media is to be

transferred to cloth materials by an iron.

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 prop er image on the T-shirt.

! When "Card Stock" is selected, b e sure to turn th e paper

knob to ( ) setting to feed the thicker card stock.

! Depending on this "Media" setting, some of the "Print

Quality" settings cannot be selected.

Corporate documents

Graphics, Images

Photographs

Overhead presentations

T-shirt, Place mat

Paper Selection

Select "Tray" or "Bypass" for your print job.

Tray

Paper is fed to the printer from the paper tray.

If the "Tray" is selected from thi s menu and paper is pl aced in the bypass tray, the paper in the bypass tray wil l be fed first, and then paper will be fed from the paper tray.

Bypass

Paper will be fed to the printer from the bypass tray. Only one sheet can be loaded into the bypass tr ay. To load paper int o the bypass, align t he paper with the right side of the bypass and press the paper button.

When printing one page: Load paper into the bypass then start printing from your computer. If paper is not loaded before printing is started, the paper lamp on the printer will blink and the message "Please set a sheet of paper on bypass" will appear on the screen of the computer.

When printing more than one page: Repeat as above for each page.

Make sure to insert "Banner Letter" and "Banner A4" through the bypass tray. Max. 5 s heets of banner paper can be set to the bypass tray.

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"Output" Menu Settings (part 1)

Printer Properties

Use this scree n when you intend to print multiple pages in the reverse order or change the siz e of the output image to fit to the paper in the printer.

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

When multiple copies are printed, this setting allows you to set the order.

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

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"Output" Menu Settings (part 2)

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Order

Allows you to change the print out order of your documents.

Collate

When multiple copies are printed, this setting places each copy in numerical order.

Reverse Order

Check this box to print documents in reverse order. For more detailed information, refer to the table below.

Example: When printing out two copies of a three-page do cum en t.

Collate Reverse Order Output Result

Fit to Page

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

Output Paper

Select the size of paper loaded in the printer after checking the "Fit to Page" box.

! When "COM10", "DL" , "C6", "Invitati on A2", "Banner

Letter" or "Banner A4" is selected for "Paper Size", "Fit to Page" setting is disabled.

! When "N-Up/Poste r" setting is enabled, "Fi t to Page"

setting is disabled.

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"Quality" Menu Settings

Printer Properties

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

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.

ColorSync

Select this option to utilise Macintosh standard Colour Management System. Click this button to adjust brightness, contrast, or colour balance. The dialog box

below will appear.

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

0% 100%

Directly enter the figure or move the scroll bar.

Check your colour image preferences using this screen.

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

Brightness: 50% Contrast: 50% Saturation: 50% Red: 50% Green: 50% Blue: 50%

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"Function" Menu Settings (part 1)

Specify the details of "Watermark" or "N-Up/Poster" settings through this screen.

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

Click this button to set the details when you intend to add a watermark on your document.

Guides you to specify the preferences for "N-Up/Poster" settings. Click this button to show the dialog box below.

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Check this button when not using "N-Up/Poster" settings.

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

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

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

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"Function" Menu Settings (part 2)

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N-Up

Set this feature to place multiple reduced pages onto a single page. Select "Print two pages on one sheet" or "Print four pages on one sheet".

Orientation

Portrait Landscape

on one sheet

Print two pages

N-Up

on one sheet

Print four pages

The illustrations above assume that the paper size selected for "Paper Size" setting corresponds to the size of paper in the tray.

Poster

Select the number of sheets for "Poster". "Print one page on four sheets" (4 sheets), "Prin t one pa ge on nine sheets" (9 sheets) , and "Print one page on 16 sheets" (16 sheets) are available.

Overlap

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.

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

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When "Ledger (Fit to Page)", "A3 (Fit to Page)", "B4 (Fit to Page)", "COM10", "DL", "C6", "Invitation A2", "Banner Letter", "Banner A4" or "(Custom) " is selected for "Paper Size", "N-Up/Poster" settings are not available.

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"Watermark Settings" Dialog Box (part 1)

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The dialog box shown below will appear when you select "Function" from the menu and then click the "Watermark" button. Use this screen to set preferences for watermarks.

Select the desired watermark from "TOP SECRET", "CONFIDENTIAL", "DRAFT", "ORIGINAL" and "COPY".

Check this box to print

Click this box to uncheck when you do not add any watermark on your document.

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

watermark only on the first page.

Type the original text. Use the scroll bar to set the

print angle of a watermark from

-90 to 90 degree. (The angle can be set in 1

degree multiples.)

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

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

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Open to adjust the font style. Use the scroll bar or enter a

figure to set the font size of a watermark from 6 to 300 points.

If you set the size of your watermark rather large, it

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

may not appear on the preview image shown in the left. This will not lead to any trouble with printing the watermark.

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