Sharp AR-C360P Owner's Manual

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Sharp AR-C360P Printing Guide P/N 59379601 Revision 1.1 September, 2005

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

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

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Document Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Regulatory Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Trademark Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Before you start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

About this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

How to access the driver screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Changing the driver defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Windows XP/2000/Server 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Windows 98/Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Changing the application’s driver settings . . . . . . . . 7

Driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Saving a set of driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Recalling saved driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Setting the driver device options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Printing black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Black generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Composite black. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Pure black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

How to choose composite black or pure black . . . . 11

PCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

PCL 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Color matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Factors that affect color printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Monitor colors vs. printer colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Monitor settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Software settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

How the application displays color . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Lighting (Viewing) conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Paper type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

How to perform color matching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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How to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Rendering intents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Brightness and saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Matching specific colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Print resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

How to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Finishing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Booklet printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Activating Booklet Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Collating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Printing collated documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Separating queued print jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Cover print. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

How to use cover print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Custom page size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

How to create, edit, and delete

a custom page size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Selecting a custom page size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Duplex (double-sided) printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Activating duplex printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Printing multiple pages on one sheet (N-up). . . . . . . . 32

How to Print Multiple Pages on One Sheet . . . . . . . 32

Poster printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Printing Posters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Fit to page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

How to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Watermarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

How to create a new watermark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

How to choose a previously created watermark . . . 37

How to edit an existing watermark . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Secure printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Sending the document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Printing the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Deleting a secure print document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Font Substitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

How to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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Chapter 1: Before you start

About this book

This book is delivered as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. It provides a convenient on-screen reference to the many features of the driver software supplied with your Sharp AR-C360P.

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) the display will instantly jump to the part of the manual containing the referred 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.

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How to access the driver screens

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

The driver windows are tabbed dialogue boxes, offering a wide range of choices about how you want to print your documents.

There are two ways to access the driver features:

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.

Important!

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.

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Changing the driver defaults

Windows XP/2000/Server 2003

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 NT

1. Click [Start] → [Settings] → [Printers] to open the Printers

window.

2. In the Printers window, right-click on the appropriate printer driver icon, and choose [Document Defaults] from the context menu.

Windows 98/Me

1. Click [Start] → [Settings] → [Printers] to open the Printers

window.

2. In the Printers window, right-click on the appropriate printer driver icon, and choose [Properties] from the context menu.

Changing the application’s driver settings

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].

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Driver settings

This feature 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 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.

Saving 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].

Recalling 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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Setting the driver device options

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

Accessories such as hard disk, duplex unit (two sided printing), additional paper trays, etc., 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.

To set the driver device options:

1. Access the driver’s [Properties] window.

2. Select the [Device Options] tab.

3. Set the options for any devices you have installed, including

the correct number of paper trays, finisher, duplex unit, etc.

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

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Chapter 2: Printing black

Black generation

You can specify whether black graphics in color documents are printed using:

> Composite Black

> Pure Black

Pure Black is the default setting.

Composite 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 appear as a slightly brownish black.

Pure black

Only black toner is used to print pure black.

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How to choose composite black or pure black

PCL

1. On the [color] tab select [Manual Settings] and click

[Options...].

2. Select or deselect [Pure Black Graphics]. If Pure Black Graphics is not selected, prints will use composite black.

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PCL 6

1. On the [color] tab select [Manual Settings] and click

[Options...].

2. From the [Pure Black Graphics] drop-down list, select [On] or [Off]. If Pure Black Graphics is [Off], prints will use composite black.

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Chapter 3: Color matching

Factors that affect color printing

There are many factors that affect color printing. Some of the most important factors are:

> the differences between the range of colors a monitor can

reproduce versus the range of colors that a printer can reproduce (See page 14).

> monitor settings (See page 14).

> color settings in your software application (See page 15).

> how your software application displays color (See page 15).

> color settings in your printer driver (See page 15).

> viewing (lighting) conditions (See page 15).

> paper type (See page 16).

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Monitor colors vs. printer colors

(Differences between the range of colors a monitor or printer can reproduce)

Neither a printer nor a monitor can reproduce the full range of colors seen by the human eye. Each device is limited to a certain range of colors.

> A printer cannot reproduce all of the colors displayed on a

monitor.

> A monitor cannot reproduce all of the colors printed by a

printer.

Both devices use very different technologies to represent color.

> A monitor uses Red, Green and Blue (RGB) phosphors (or

LCDs).

> A printer uses Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black (CMYK) toner

or ink.

Very vivid colors (such as intense reds and blues) can be displayed on a monitor. These same colors cannot be easily produced on any printer using toner or ink.

There are certain colors (for example, some yellows), that can be printed, but cannot be displayed accurately on a monitor.

These differences between monitor colors and printer colors are the main reasons why printed colors do not always match the colors displayed on screen.

Monitor settings

The brightness and contrast controls on your monitor can change how your document looks on-screen.

Your monitor color temperature also influences how “warm” or “cool” the colors look.

Several of the color matching options make reference to your monitor’s color temperature.

Many monitors allow you to adjust the color temperature through their control panels.

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