Selecting a PDL in Printing Preferences ..................2-2 Settings List ........................... 2-2 Print Preview ..........................2-2 Previewing a Print Job ......................2-3 Kyocera Logo ..........................2-3 Displaying Version Information ....................2-3 Displaying Plug-in Information ....................2-3 Chapter 3 Device Settings Accessing Device Settings ......................
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General ............................3-4 Show Quick Print Tab ......................3-4 Send Count Information ......................3-5 Send Application Name ......................3-5 Associate Profile with Application .................... 3-5 Password Protect Administrator Settings ................3-5 Hide Factory Default Profile ..................... 3-6 SNMP Settings ........................3-6 SNMPv3 Options ........................
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Application Based Printing ....................... 4-6 Chapter 5 Basic Print Size ............................5-1 Page Sizes ............................ 5-1 Creating a Custom Page Size ....................5-2 Deleting a Custom Page Size ....................5-2 Printing with Custom Size Pages ..................... 5-2 Media Type ........................... 5-2 Source ............................
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Color ............................. 7-7 Color Reproduction ........................7-7 Color Correction ........................7-8 Color Adjustment ......................... 7-10 Selecting Custom Color Adjustment ..................7-10 Adjusting HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) ................7-10 Adjusting Color Balance ......................7-11 Black and White Adjustment ....................... 7-11 Adjusting Black and White Settings ..................7-11 Color Conversion ........................
1 Installation A printer driver is an application that manages communication between a printer and your computer. Once installed, the printer driver settings must be configured in the printer Properties and Printing Preferences. In the Product Library window, there are two methods of installation. Express Install is a quick way to install a driver and certain features in package form.
Installation At the bottom of the Product Library window, select your language from the list. Default Duplex Printing on both sides of a sheet of paper (duplex mode) reduces paper consumption and helps conserve environmental resources. Duplex mode also lowers costs by reducing the amount of paper that must be purchased. We recommend that printing systems capable of duplex printing use duplex mode by default.
Installation Express Install Express Install refers to quick device, driver, and utility installation for a USB or network connection in Windows operating systems. The installation application discovers printing devices that are turned on, and connected by USB or network cable. One or more feature packages can be installed together. If the installer cannot find your printing system, contact your system administrator.
Installation During the installation, you can expand or collapse the installation detail by clicking the arrow. When the installation completes successfully, on the Finished page you can select from the following options. These options only appear after a printer driver installation. Print a test page Select the check box to test the connection and operation of the printing system.
Installation If the installer cannot find your printing system, contact your system administrator. Note: You must install .NET Framework 4.0 or later to use Status Monitor. Installing with Custom Install Ensure that your printing system and computer are turned on and connected by USB or network cable.
Installation During the installation, you can expand or collapse the installation detail by clicking the arrow. When the installation completes successfully, on the Finished page you can select from the following options. These options only appear after a printer driver installation. Print a test page Select the check box to test the connection and operation of the printing system.
Editing Utility Properties In the Product Library window, click Custom Install. In the Utilities list, select KYOCERA Net Viewer and click the arrow to move it to the Products to Install list. In the Products to Install list, click the Edit pencil icon in the KYOCERA Net Viewer utility product.
Installation A dialog box opens to show the utility options. Make your selections. KYOCERA Net Viewer Device Management Finds devices and manages device settings. Account Management Establishes accounts for device groups and manages the account settings. Host Management Manages printer drivers and print queues.
Installation For the XPS driver, only Common Profiles and Help Modules can be installed. Installing Optional Printer Components Click Maintenance. Select Optional Printer Components and click Run. On the Select Printer page, select one or more printing systems. and click Next.
Installation Uninstalling Driver Components In the Product Library window, click Uninstall. Select components from the list to uninstall. Select by device model, or click the plus sign to expand a list of individual devices. Below the list you can also click icons to select all the check boxes, or to clear them.
2 Driver Overview The lower panel of the Printing Preferences dialog box contains overview features that illustrate driver selections. Overview images and the settings list are available when selecting settings. After selecting driver settings, you can use Print preview to check the print job. If the vertical screen resolution of your computer is 864 pixels or less, the lower panel of the Printing Preferences dialog box does not appear.
Driver Overview automatically when some driver settings are selected, or you can click the tabs on the left side to change the image. The printing system image displays most attached devices. Source and Destination selections are highlighted in green. The storage device icon appears when a job storage option is selected in the Job tab.
If you are satisfied with the preview, click the printer button to print the job. Kyocera Logo The Kyocera logo appears at the bottom of Device Settings and the Printing Preferences dialog box. Clicking the logo opens the About dialog box that displays the driver version number and driver plug-in information.
3 Device Settings In Device Settings, you can select installed printing system options so the associated features can be used with the printer driver. You can also match the memory setting in the driver with the memory installed in your printing system, which lets the driver manage font downloads more efficiently.
Device Settings Setting Device Options In Device Settings > Device options, select the check boxes for all installed devices. Click OK. Setting up Custom Boxes In Device Settings > Device options, select SSD. Or if already selected, double-click the blue text. If necessary, clear the RAM disk check box. In the SSD Settings dialog box, click Add.
Device Settings Note: The default setting for Windows XP Service Pack 2 is for the Windows Firewall to be set to On. The setting can be changed to allow communication between the printing system and your computer. In the Windows Security Alert dialog box, click Unblock.
Device Settings RAM Disk The RAM disk functions as a virtual storage device, saving print requests into the printing system’s memory. Because the RAM disk is temporary memory, all data stored there is lost when the power is turned off. The setting for RAM disk size must match the operation panel setting.
Device Settings Hide Edit Quick Print control prevents users from customizing the Quick Print tab. Send Count Information With this option, you can embed count information in the print job, which can be used by some applications for accounting purposes. Count information includes the number of copies produced as well as duplex printing, multiple pages per sheet, color mode, color page count, and paper size values.
Device Settings In the Enter Password dialog box, type the password and click OK. In the Administrator Settings dialog box, clear the Password protect administrator settings check box and click OK. Hide Factory Default Profile With this option, you can hide or show the Factory Default profile in the Quick Print tab and the Profiles dialog box.
Device Settings This option uses the Data Encryption Standard for encryption. DES turns cleartext into ciphertext via an encryption algorithm. It encrypts and decrypts data using 8-byte blocks and a 56-bit key. This option uses the Advanced Encryption Standard for encryption. AES is a symmetric block cipher that can process data blocks of 128 bits, using cipher keys with lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits.
Device Settings Lock Settings An administrator can specify settings at the tab or feature level in the driver, and then lock them. The settings are then applied to all print jobs, and changes are restricted. The settings are locked in Device Settings > Administrator > Lock Settings.
Device Settings Locking Driver Settings In Device Settings > Administrator, click Lock Settings. Select the check box for each driver feature to be locked. Select the Password settings check box if you wish to set a password to temporarily unlock settings. In the Password Settings dialog box, type a password from 4 to 16 characters.
Device Settings Prompt for name and validate This option prompts for a name and password. For the job to print, the name and password entered must be on the Login user name list. You can use the Login user names entered in the Login user name list of the driver. When sending a print job, type a name and password when prompted, then click OK to print.
Device Settings Print the document from the application. When the Print Options or Identity Settings dialog box appears, type or select a name and password, and click OK. Job Accounting Job accounting gives an administrator control of a printing system. With Job accounting, account IDs (identification numbers) can be assigned to users or departments.
Device Settings Select this option to display the account ID list at the time of printing. The print job can be assigned to a user or group. The account ID list is stored in the driver and more than one ID must be established for the list to appear. Validate user name (computer) or prompt for account ID This option searches for the Windows User name in the driver’s Account IDs list.
Device Settings Next to the Account IDs list, click the buttons to view and manage the list. Select from the remaining Job accounting options: Prompt for account ID and validate Display account ID list Validate user name (computer) or prompt for account ID Click OK in all dialog boxes.
Device Settings Select an authentication option: Use Windows authentication Select to use Windows login information for Net Manager authentication. The Net Manager Login dialog box does not appear during printing unless Windows authentication fails. If selected, continue to step 5. In a workgroup environment, Use Windows authentication can not be used.
Device Settings On the printing system’s operation panel, enter your authentication credentials to release spool jobs. You can print from any printing system managed by the Net Manager server. User Settings With User Settings, you can specify user and department names, select the default unit of measure, and change the driver display language.
With Page Description Languages (PDL), you can specify the contents and layout of a printed page. In Device Settings, you can choose from PCL XL, (Printer Command Language XL), PCL 5c, KPDL (Kyocera Page Description Language), or PDF (Portable Document Format). To add PDF to the list of PDL choices, you must install the Output to PDF plug-in.
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Device Settings Enables native TrueType font downloading Supports most Graphics settings options EMF Spooling unavailable when Data passthrough is selected. Output to PDF is a plug-in that lets you print or save documents from multiple sources to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). The PDF format is independent of the operating system and application software used to create documents.
Device Settings Provides options for printing and saving documents to Adobe PDF format. See PDF topics for details. Selecting a PDL in Device Settings In Device Settings > PDL, select the desired page description language from the Available languages list. If you select PCL XL, you can select Smart duplex printing and Skip blank pages.
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Device Settings Select the check box to use the same file name plus the current date and time whenever the file is saved. Clear the check box to replace an existing file, if a file with the same name already exists. Encryption Encryption adds the selected level of encryption to the PDF.
Device Settings Name and save the PDF file. XPS Driver For Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 with the latest platform updates, and Windows Server 2008, you can use the XML Paper Specification (XPS).
Device Settings Compatibility Settings With Compatibility Settings, you can specify media source values, override the application's Collate setting, and combine the Source and Media type lists in the Basic tab. In a client/server environment, this feature is unavailable to a client logged in as a restricted user.
Note: To remove the Output to PDF module, PDF must not be selected as the PDL. In Device Settings, click Kyocera logo > Plug-in. Select a plug-in module from the list and click Delete, then Yes. Click OK in all dialog boxes.
4 Quick Print In the Quick Print tab, you can apply basic print settings to print jobs. You can select options quickly in a simple user interface. Any Quick Print settings can be saved as a group, called a profile, and applied to any print job.
Quick Print Color With Color, you can choose full-color printing or printing with black toner only. When the selection appears in color, all color settings in the driver are enabled. Color cannot be chosen if Black & White mode is selected in Device Settings >...
Quick Print EcoPrint EcoPrint changes the text and graphics to appear lighter in the print job. EcoPrint does not increase print speed. Click the EcoPrint icon to change between on and off. An administrator can ensure that all jobs are printed in EcoPrint mode by selecting Device Settings >...
Quick Print Profiles You can save printer driver settings as a profile. You can select multiple options in the Quick Print tab and the other Printing Preferences tabs, save them to a profile, and use all of them at once when you apply the profile. You can then use that profile to print the same type of print job again without having to reselect all the settings.
Quick Print Note: To reset the printer driver to default settings, select the Factory Default profile, if available, and then click Apply. This clears the settings of a selected profile. The Profiles Button Set the printing options you want for your print job by opening Printing Preferences and selecting all your driver settings.
Quick Print Click Close to close the Profiles dialog box. Importing a Profile In any tab, click Profiles > Import. Browse for an existing profile (.KXP), select it, and then click Open. A message appears if any of the profile settings in the imported file are unavailable in the existing driver.
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Quick Print In the Application Based Printing dialog box, click Add. In the Add Association dialog box, enter a name for the association, to a maximum of 31 characters. Under Select application, choose an application by one of the following methods: Select Application name, and select an installed application from the list.
5 Basic In the Basic tab, you can specify the most commonly used printer driver settings. To return to the original settings, click Reset. The Reset button is available when accessing the printer driver from the application's Print dialog box. Print Size With Print size, you can select the output size of the document.
Basic The Page Sizes dialog box displays the unit of measurement in inches or millimeters. You can change the Units setting in the User Settings dialog box, accessed from Device Settings. Creating a Custom Page Size In the Basic tab, click Page Sizes. In the Page Sizes dialog box, click New.
Basic empty. If Auto media selection is selected, then the printer searches for another tray or cassette using the same paper size and media type. You can display the custom media type names from the printing system. If any names have been changed at the printing system, the new names appear in place of default names.
Basic Printing Carbon Copies In the Basic tab, select a source and number of copies for the original copy. For each carbon copy, load the desired media types or colored paper into additional paper sources. Select the Carbon copies check box. Click Settings.
Basic Orientation This setting specifies the paper orientation of the print job. Click the Portrait, Landscape, Rotated portrait, or Rotated landscape icons. If a rotated option is selected, the print job orientation is rotated 180 degrees. Duplex Printing Duplex printing is printing on both sides of each page. A duplex unit can turn the paper over to allow printing on the reverse side.
Basic Click OK to return to the Print dialog box. Click OK to start printing. Color With Color, you can choose full-color printing or printing with black toner only. The following options are available: Full color This mode prints full four-color text and graphics. Black This mode prints with black toner only, suppressing all color settings.
6 Layout In the Layout tab, you can arrange document data on printed pages without affecting the original document. To return to the original settings, click Reset. The Reset button is available when accessing the printer driver from the application's Print dialog box. Multiple Pages per Sheet Multiple pages per sheet prints several pages on a single sheet of paper for the purpose of reviewing the document and conserving paper.
Layout In the Pages per sheet list, select the number of pages to print on each sheet of paper. In the Layout list, select the direction the pages should flow. If you want to print a border around each page, select Print borders. Click OK to return to the Print dialog box.
Layout Under Gutter width, type or select a value between 0.20 to 1.00 inches (5.0 to 25.4 mm). Short edge (top) This selection modifies the outside margin on the top edge of the page. Long edge (left) This selection modifies the outside margin on the left side of the page. Note: Availability of Gutter settings varies depending on Orientation and Duplex settings in the Basic tab.
Layout This selection duplicates the edges of document data on adjoining sheets. Poster appearance is improved when the edges overlap slightly. Select the check box, then type or select a value between 0.00 and 1.20 inches (0.0 and 30.4 mm). This option reduces the final poster size slightly. Print crop marks This selection prints a border at the edges of each poster sheet.
Layout Printing a Booklet In the Layout tab, click the icon for one of the two binding options: Left edge binding This selection prints text that reads from left to right. Right edge binding This selection prints text that reads from right to left. For additional booklet options, click Booklet Settings.
7 Imaging In the Imaging tab, you can manage print quality and color settings. To return to the original settings, click Reset. The Reset button is available when accessing the printer driver from the application's Print dialog box. Print Quality and EcoPrint Print quality lets you select between High quality or Custom (EcoPrint).
Imaging and black. These color separations must be aligned (registered) precisely to produce a quality full color image. During printing, the paper or media type may shift slightly. While the shift might be very small, the gaps between the colors in the image can be noticeable.
Imaging because of the large amount of font information used for these particular fonts. Allow native download This method improves text quality and increases print speed by converting TrueType fonts to Adobe Type 42 font format. This feature is available when KPDL is selected as the PDL.
Imaging Setting Font Substitution To set font substitution, you must open Printing Preferences outside of a printing application by the following procedure. Depending on your operating system: Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2: click Start > Control Panel > View devices and printers.
Imaging appearance of that on the screen, use Pattern scaling to select a different density of printed dots. In Imaging > Graphics, select a Pattern scaling setting. Auto (default setting) This setting prints patterns and fills to match the on-screen appearance. Coarse This setting prints patterns and fills with the fewest number of lines, patterns, or dots.
Imaging This setting prints the page content backwards, as it would appear in a mirror image. Optimization Optimization is a process or methodology of improving a printing system's function or effectiveness. In Imaging > Graphics, select Optimization. The settings are available when KPDL is selected as the PDL.
Imaging print speed. The amount of toner varies based upon your printing system model and the type of data printed (text, graphics, or both). EcoPrint and Gloss mode cannot be used together. EcoPrint is also available in the Quick Print and Basic tabs. An administrator can ensure that all jobs are printed in EcoPrint mode by selecting Device Settings >...
Imaging This option is for selecting a custom color table already installed on your printing system. All other Color reproduction options use the default color table. Advanced This option achieves greater consistency in color reproduction among various devices. It compensates for the different color spaces of color printing systems.
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Imaging Depending on your operating system: Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2: click Start > Control Panel > View devices and printers. Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012: open Control Panel > View devices and printers. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: click Start > Devices and Printers.
Imaging Color Adjustment Color adjustment lets you customize the two color spaces in the driver and save up to three custom groups. Color space changes can be made to hue, saturation, and lightness (HSL) or to color balance levels. Note: If different custom settings are selected for Adjustment and Color Optimizer in the Advanced tab, the latest change takes precedence and is applied to the print job.
Imaging Adjusting Color Balance In Imaging > Color, click the Full color icon. In the Adjustment list, select Edit. In Adjustment Settings > Custom color adjustment, select Custom 1, Custom 2, or Custom 3. Select Color balance. Under Select preview image, click the icon to select one of three different images.
Imaging You can click Reset to restore the default values. Click OK to save the new black and white settings. Color Conversion With Color conversion, you can choose how to apply color processing to your print job depending on how color data is received from the application. This feature is available if KPDL is selected in the Page Description Languages (PDL) dialog box.
8 Publishing In the Publishing tab, you can create covers and inserts for a print job, and add backing sheets between transparencies. The features on this tab are available only when PCL XL, KPDL, or XPS is selected as the PDL. To return to the original settings, click Reset.
Publishing Cover Mode Options Check Box Selection Cover Insertion Type Front Inserts a blank front cover. Front Prints on the outside surface of the front cover. Front Outside Front Prints on the inside surface of the front cover. Front Inside Prints on the outside and inside Front surfaces of the front cover.
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Publishing Check Box Selection Cover Insertion Type Inserts blank front and back covers. Front and back Prints on the outside surface of the Front and back front cover and inserts a blank back cover. Front Outside Prints on the inside surface of the front Front and back cover and inserts a blank back cover.
Publishing Check Box Selection Cover Insertion Type Prints on the inside surface of the Front and back back cover and inserts a blank front Back Inside cover. Prints on the outside surface of the Front and back back cover and inserts a blank front Back Outside cover.
Publishing Select Front or Front and back to specify the type of covers. Select from Print onto options if you want to print on the covers. In the Media for cover list, select the media type or source cassette for the front and back covers.
Publishing on during the print job. Both sides of the page insert can be printed on by using the duplex unit. Duplex printing must be selected in the Basic tab or Quick Print tab in order to print using the Back option. Although Cover mode and Page insert can be used simultaneously, they cannot be used with Transparency interleaving.
Publishing Check Box Selection Page Insertion Type Prints on both sides of the inserted Page insert page. Front Back Printing Page Inserts In the Publishing tab, click the Page insert icon. To print on both the front and back of the inserted page, select the Front and Back check boxes.
9 Job In the Job tab, you can store print jobs in the memory installed in the printing system. You can also select a Job name to use with Job storage features. You can use this tab to set or change the default settings that apply when you print a document from a Microsoft Windows application.
Job Storage (e-MPS) options Storage location Access code When job is When job is required printed deleted from memory Custom box Optional password When printed from When manually operation panel deleted or up to 31 days Quick copy SSD or SD card When sent from the When printing computer system is turned...
Select a Custom Box Settings option: Select Use specific box number, and type the box number and password. Select Prompt for box number, and click OK. When starting to print, the Custom Box dialog box appears. Type a box number from the Defined custom boxes list.
Note: If you are using this feature with an SD card, clear the RAM disk check box in Device Settings. The RAM disk settings in the device must also be turned off. Printing a Quick Copy Job In the Job tab, click the Job storage (e-MPS) icon. In the Type list, select Quick copy.
retention date has passed. If you do not want the job deleted, select the Job storage feature. When sending a sensitive document to the printing system, a user must type a four-digit access code, which is attached to the print job along with the Job name and User name.
Warning: A print job can replace a job on the storage device having the same user name and job name. To prevent this, select Use job name + date and time under Overwrite job name. Note: If you are using this feature with an SD card, clear the RAM disk check box in Device Settings.
Use job name + date and time This option adds the current date and time to the end of the Job name. The previous print job with the same job name remains in the printing system memory. Selecting a Job Name You can select a Job name to use with Job storage (e-MPS) features, so that you can find your job in the job list displayed on the printing system’s operation panel.
10 Advanced In the Advanced tab, you can choose special features that extend the capabilities of the printing system. Clicking Reset sets EMF spooling and Quiet mode check boxes back to the last setting you made in the printer driver’s Printing Preferences. The Reset button is available when accessing the printer driver from the application's Print dialog box.
Advanced You can remove a Prologue/Epilogue file from the list by selecting the file and clicking Delete. Only the file name is removed from the command file list. The file itself is not deleted, but remains on the network or local computer. Insertion Point Options The insertion point is the location in the print job where the selected Prologue/Epilogue command file is processed by the printing system.
Advanced Repeat steps 1-3 to include additional files. Click OK. Editing a Prologue/Epilogue File You can edit a Prologue/Epilogue file on your computer. In Advanced > Prologue/Epilogue, select a Prologue/Epilogue file name from the list, and then click Edit. After your text editor opens, make your changes to the file. Save the file and exit.
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Advanced Under Watermark name, type a name, to a maximum of 39 characters. A default watermark cannot be renamed. Under Watermark text, type your preferred text. This option is unavailable when editing a default text watermark. Select the desired font, size, and style of the text. Select the color of the watermark text from the list.
Advanced Adding or Editing a Watermark Image In Advanced > Watermark, click New to create a custom image watermark. To edit a custom image watermark, select it from the list. Under Watermark name, type a name, to a maximum of 39 characters. Under Watermark image, click Browse to find an image file (Bitmap, JPEG, GIF, PNG) located on your computer.
Advanced Security Watermark The Security Watermark is a plug-in that prints a nearly invisible image or text against a background pattern. The security watermark appears only when the printed page is photocopied. This helps to identify printed pages that should not be photocopied, or to distinguish between original prints and photocopies.
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Advanced Under Lines of text, select up to 3 lines of text. This option is unavailable when editing a default security watermark. Select from the following options: None This option leaves the line blank. User defined This option inserts your text to a maximum of 39 characters. All other options display date, time, or other job information that is obtained from the computer or printer driver when the job is printed.
Advanced Under Print onto, choose pages for printing the security watermark: All pages This option prints the security watermark on each document page. First page only This option prints the security watermark on the first document page. All pages except first page This option prints the security watermark on all pages after the first page.
Advanced PDF selected as the PDL Black & White mode selected in Administrator > Lock Settings Black selected in the Imaging, Basic, or Quick Print tab Optimizing RGB Color for Printing Open the document containing the desired colors. From the application's File menu, click Print, then click Preferences or Properties to open the Properties dialog box.
Advanced In the Status Monitor Notification dialog box, select the Enables event notification check box. To add sound or speech notification, select an event from the Available events list: Cover open Paper jam Add paper Sleep Add toner Toner low Not connected Printing completed Others...
This option is unavailable for a USB connection. Notification Opens the Status Monitor Notification dialog box. www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.com Opens a web browser to the KYOCERA Document Solutions home page. Exit Closes the status monitor. EMF Spooling EMF (Enhanced MetaFile) is a spool file format used in printing by the Microsoft Windows operating system.