Olivetti d-Color P20W User Manual

Olivetti d-Color P20W User Manual

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  • Page 1 Digital Color Printer Olivetti d-Color P20W/P26W User Guide...
  • Page 2 Olivetti S.p.A. Gruppo Telecom Italia Via Jervis, 77 - 10015 Ivrea (ITALY) www.olivetti.com Copyright © 2006, Olivetti All rights reserved September 2006 The manufacturer reserves the right to carry out modifications to the product described in this manual at any time and without any notice.
  • Page 3: Ontents Preface

    REFACE 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.
  • Page 4: Directive 2002/96/Ce

    When it is to be disposed of, the device is to be taken to the equipped waste collection centres and is to be handled separately from urban waste; • Olivetti guarantees the activation of the treatment, collection, recycling and disposal procedures in accordance with Directive 2002/96/CE (and subsequent amendments).
  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Introduction ......7 Printer overview......8 Changing the display language .
  • Page 6: Notes, Cautions And Warnings

    Additional paper tray ..... 82 Adjusting Windows printer drivers ... . 83 Clearing paper jams .
  • Page 7: Introduction

    NTRODUCTION Congratulations on buying this colour printer. Your new printer is designed with advanced features to give you clear, vibrant colour prints and crisp black and white pages at high speed on a range of print media for the office.
  • Page 8: Printer Overview

    RINTER OVERVIEW RONT VIEW 1. Output stacker, face down. Standard printed copy delivery point. Holds up to 250 sheets at 80g/m². 2. Operator panel. Menu driven operator controls and LCD display panel. 3. Paper tray. Standard blank paper tray. Holds up to 300 sheets of 80g/m²...
  • Page 9 When the rear paper stacker is folded down paper exits the printer through the rear of the printer and is stacked here face up. This is mainly used for heavy print media. When used in conjunction with the multi purpose feed tray, the paper path through the printer is essentially straight.
  • Page 10: Changing The Display Language

    HANGING THE DISPLAY LANGUAGE The default language used by your printer for display messages and for report printing is English. If required, this can be changed German French Italian Spanish Swedish Russian Finnish Hungarian See the information for changing the language setting contained in the readme.html file on the driver CD.
  • Page 11: Paper Recommendations

    APER RECOMMENDATIONS Your printer will handle a variety of print media, including a range of paper weights and sizes, transparencies and envelopes. This section provides general advice on choice of media, and explains how to use each type. The best performance will be obtained when using standard 75~90g/m²...
  • Page 12: Cassette Trays

    Legal 14in. If you have identical paper stock loaded in another tray (2nd tray if you have one, or multi purpose tray) you can have the printer automatically switch to the other tray when the current tray runs out of paper. When printing from Windows applications, this function is enabled in the driver settings.
  • Page 13: Face Down Stacker

    ACE DOWN STACKER The face down stacker on the top of the printer can hold up to 250 sheets of 80g/m² standard paper, and can handle paper stocks up to 176g/m². Pages printed in reading order (page 1 first) will be sorted in reading order (last page on top, facing down).
  • Page 14: Loading Paper

    OADING PAPER ASSETTE TRAYS Remove the paper tray from the printer. Fan the paper to be loaded at the edges and in the middle to ensure that all sheets are properly separated, then tap the edges of the stack on a flat surface to make it flush again.
  • Page 15 Load letter headed paper face down and top edge towards the front of the printer, as shown. Adjust the rear stopper (1) and paper guides (2) to the size of paper being used. To prevent paper jams: • Do not leave space between the paper and the guides and rear stopper.
  • Page 16 For face down printing, make sure the face up (rear) stacker (3) is closed (the paper exits from the top of the printer). Stacking capacity is approximately 250 sheets, depending on paper weight. For face up printing, make sure the face up (rear) stacker (3) is open and the paper support (4) is extended.
  • Page 17 Load the paper and adjust the paper guides (4) to the size of paper being used. • For single-sided printing on headed paper load the paper into the multi purpose tray with pre-printed side up and top edge into the printer. Loading paper> 17...
  • Page 18 • Envelopes should be loaded face up with top edge to the left and short edge into the printer. Do not select duplex printing on envelopes. • Do not exceed the paper capacity of about 50 sheets or 10 envelopes.
  • Page 19: Printer Settings In Windows

    The Windows printer driver also contains settings for many of these items. Where items in the printer driver are the same as those in the operator panel menus, and you print documents from Windows, the settings in the Windows printer driver will override those items in the operator panel menus.
  • Page 20 Booklet printing requires the duplex unit to be installed in your printer. Poster printing will print large pages as tiles spread over multiple sheets.
  • Page 21 The output resolution of the printed page can be set as follows. • The High Quality setting prints at 600 x 600dpi x 2 bit. This option requires the most printer memory and takes the longest to print. • The Fine/Detail setting prints at 1200 x 600dpi and is adequate for all but the most discerning applications.
  • Page 22 OLOUR TAB Control over the colour output of your printer may be performed automatically, or for advanced control, by manual adjustment. The automatic setting will be appropriate in most cases. The other options in this window only become visible when you select a choice other than Auto.
  • Page 23: Setting From Windows Control Panel

    Windows applications, and will be remembered from one Windows session to the next. ENERAL TAB This area lists some of the main features of your printer, including optional items, such as duplex (two-sided) printing. This button opens the same windows as described earlier for items which can be set from within application programs.
  • Page 24 DVANCED TAB You can specify which times of day your printer will be available. Indicates current priority, from 1 (lowest) to 99 (highest). Highest priority documents will print first. Specifies that documents should be spooled (stored in a special print file) before being printed. The document is then printed in the background, allowing your application program to become available more quickly.
  • Page 25 If a mismatch is detected, the document is held in the print queue and does not print until the printer setup is changed and the document restarted from the print queue.
  • Page 26 EVICE OPTIONS TAB In this window you can select which optional upgrades are installed on your printer. This is covered in more detail in the section in this guide about installing upgrades. Printer settings in Windows> 26...
  • Page 27: Printer Settings In Mac

    ETTING RINTING You can choose your printer and select options for how you want your documents to print from the Print dialog box. To set your printer options: Open the document you want to print.
  • Page 28 Click the Print button. ETTING RINTING PTIONS You can save a set of printer driver options to use for future documents. Open the document you want to print. To change the paper size or page orientation, select File > Page Setup.
  • Page 29 Select Save As Default from the Settings drop-down menu. To save the current printer driver settings as a preset, select Save As from the Preset menu. Enter a name for your preset and click OK. HANGING THE DEFAULT PRINTER AND PAPER SIZE The following steps describe how to change your default printer and the paper size options.
  • Page 30: Page Attributes

    Paper size and Orientation. Paper Size Select a paper size to match your document and the paper loaded in the printer. The paper margin is 4.2mm at all edges. To specify your own paper sizes, select “Manage Custom Sizes...”...
  • Page 31 If you select Collate, all pages of the document will print before the next copy prints. Pages You can select whether to print all pages of a document or just a section of it. Printer settings in Mac> 31...
  • Page 32 You can control the order in which the documents are tiled and also choose to surround each document page with a border. Two-sided You cannot use the two sided printing options in this panel. Use the options in the Duplex panel instead. Printer settings in Mac> 32...
  • Page 33 This option lets you choose whether to print your document immediately, or defer printing until later. You can also assign a priority to a print job. These features are useful if you are printing large documents that take a long time to print. Printer settings in Mac> 33...
  • Page 34: Page Order

    Destination paper size Scale documents to fit on the size of paper in your printer. For example, you can take a document formatted for A3 and print it on A4 paper using an A4 printer.
  • Page 35: Color Conversion

    Choose a Quartz filter if you wish to apply a special effect to your print job, such as Sepia or Blue Tone. This is only available on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) or later versions. Printer settings in Mac> 35...
  • Page 36 This is useful in a busy office with many people sharing the printer. Duplex If you have an optional duplex unit fitted to your printer, you can print on both sides of the paper. Long-Edge Binding prints pages that read like a normal book.
  • Page 37: Print Job

    Paper source This option allows you to select the paper tray to use for your print job. Printer settings in Mac> 37...
  • Page 38: Print Quality

    Photo Enhance Use Photo Enhance to significantly improve quality when printing images. The printer driver analyses any photographic images and processes them to improve the overall appearance. This setting cannot be used together with the "High Quality (Multilevel)"...
  • Page 39: Colour Mode

    Colour Colour mode COLOUR MODE Advanced Colour Manual Grayscale Printer settings in Mac> 39 DESCRIPTION The driver selects the most appropriate color settings. Allows you to manually adjust colour and black and white settings or select. Convert all colors to shades of grey.
  • Page 40: Color Matching

    As a general rule, reduce saturation by the same amount as you increase brightness. For example, if you reduce saturation by 10, increase brightness by 10 to compensate. Printer settings in Mac> 40 DESCRIPTION Optimised for printing photos. Colors are printed with emphasis on saturation.
  • Page 41: Media Weight

    RINTER SETUP OPTIONS Printer options Media weight Select the thickness or type of paper in the printer. It is important to set this correctly as it affects the temperature at which the toner is fused to the paper. For example, if...
  • Page 42 Feed manually from Multipurpose Tray Select this option if you want the printer to wait until you press the ONLINE button when feeding from the Multipurpose Tray. This can be useful if printing on envelopes. Always create 100% black (K) toner Select this option if you want the printer to always use only black (K) toner when printing pure black (RGB = 0,0,0).
  • Page 43: Colour Printing

    ACTORS THAT AFFECT THE APPEARANCE OF PRINTS If you wish to manually adjust the colour settings in your printer driver, please be aware that colour reproduction is a complex topic, and there are many factors to take into consideration.
  • Page 44 Printer driver colour settings The driver settings for manual colour can change the appearance of a print. There are several options available to help match the printed colours with those displayed on screen.
  • Page 45: Tips For Printing In Colour

    IPS FOR PRINTING IN COLOUR The following guidelines may help you to achieve good colour output from your printer. RINTING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES Use the Monitor (6500k) Perceptual setting. If the colours look too dull, try the Monitor (6500k) Vivid or Digital Camera settings.
  • Page 46: Accessing The Colour Matching Options

    CCESSING THE COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS The colour matching options in the printer driver can be used to help match your printed colours to the ones displayed on your monitor or from some other source, such as a digital camera. To open colour matching options...
  • Page 47 Your results will vary depending on the subject and the conditions under which the photograph was taken. sRGB The printer will try to reproduce the sRGB colour space. This may be useful if colour matching from an sRGB input device such as a scanner or digital camera.
  • Page 48: Menu Functions

    It should be noted that many of these settings can be, and often are, overridden by settings in the Windows printer drivers. However, several of the driver settings can be left at “Printer Setting”, which will then default to the settings entered in these printer menus.
  • Page 49: Print Jobs Menu

    CTION PRINT MENU EXECUTE Prints complete menu listing with current NETWORK EXECUTE Prints Network configuration information. DEMO1 EXECUTE Prints demonstration page containing XPLANATION settings shown. graphics and text in colour and monochrome. Menu functions> 49...
  • Page 50: Print Menu

    If this function is not enabled, the printer will stop and request the correct size of paper to be loaded. Determines whether the printer...
  • Page 51 SPEED COLOR SPEED XPLANATION If the first page of a print job is black and white, the printer runs at 32ppm (pages per minute). When a colour page is detected the printer slows down to 20ppm (P20W) or 26ppm (P26W) for the rest of that job.
  • Page 52: Media Menu

    For CUSTOM setting see X-DIMENSION and Y-DIMENSION later in this table. Selects the type of media loaded in this tray. This will help the printer to adjust its internal operating parameters, such as engine speed and fusing temperature, to better accommodate the media to be fed.
  • Page 53 MEASURE INCH X-DIMENSION 100-210-216 MILLIMETRE XPLANATION Adjusts the printer for the weight of paper stock loaded in this tray (if installed). Selects the size of paper to be fed from the multi purpose tray. For CUSTOM setting see X-DIMENSION and Y-DIMENSION later in this table.
  • Page 54 ETTINGS Y-DIMENSION 148-297-1200 MILLIMETRE XPLANATION Selects the length of paper defined by the “Custom” settings referred to in the foregoing PAPER SIZE settings. Note that media of up to 1200mm in length can be fed from the multi purpose tray for banner printing.
  • Page 55: Colour Menu

    OLOUR MENU The printer automatically adjusts colour balance and density at appropriate intervals, optimising the printed output for bright white paper viewed in natural daylight conditions. The items on this menu provide a means of changing the default settings for special or particularly difficult print jobs.
  • Page 56: System Configuration Menu

    YSTEM CONFIGURATION MENU This menu adjusts general printer settings to suit the way you prefer to work. TEMS POW SAVE TIME 5 CLRABLE WARNING MANUAL TIMEOUT WAIT TIMEOUT 5~40~300 LOW TONER CONTINUE STOP JAM RECOVERY ERROR REPORT ON ETTINGS XPLANATION...
  • Page 57: Usb Menu

    MENU This menu controls the operation of the printer’s USB data interface. SOFT RESET ENABLE / DISABLE SERIAL NUMBER ENABLE / DISABLE SPEED 12 / 480 Mps ETWORK MENU This menu controls the operation of the printer’s 10Base-T/ 100Base-TX network interface.
  • Page 58: Maintenance Menu

    SMALL HUB LINK AUTO SETTING NEGOTIATE 100BASE-TX FULL 100BASE-TX HALF 10BASE-T FULL 10BASE-T HALF AINTENANCE MENU This menu provides access to various printer maintenance functions. ETTINGS MENU RESET EXECUTE SAVE MENU EXECUTE POWER SAVE ENABLE / DISABLE PAPER BLACK –2~0~+2...
  • Page 59: Usage Menu

    SAGE MENU This menu is for information only, and provides an indication of total usage of the printer and the expected life left in its consumable items. This is particularly useful if you do not have a full set of replacement consumables to hand and you need to know how soon you will need them.
  • Page 60: Replacing Consumable Items

    EPLACING CONSUMABLE ITEMS This section explains how to replace consumable items when due. As a guide, the life expectancy of these items is: > Toner: A4 PAGE COVERAGE (OF THIS COLOUR) Black Cyan Magenta Yellow The P20W is shipped with sufficient Cyan, Magenta & Yellow toner for 2,000 A4 pages in the print cartridges, of which 800 A4 pages of toner are used to charge the image drum (1,200 A4 pages remaining).
  • Page 61: Consumable Order Details

    ONSUMABLE ORDER DETAILS ITEM Toner, P26W, black Toner, P26W, cyan Toner, P26W, magenta Toner, P26W, yellow Toner, P20W, black Toner, P20W, cyan Toner, P20W, magenta Toner, P20W, yellow Image drum, P26W, black Image drum, P26W, cyan Image drum, P26W, magenta Image drum, P26W, yellow Image drum, P20W, black Image drum, P20W, cyan...
  • Page 62: Toner Cartridge Replacement

    To avoid toner wastage and possible toner sensor errors, do not change the toner cartridge(s) until “TONER EMPTY” is displayed. The toner used in this printer is a very fine dry powder. It is contained in four cartridges: one each for cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
  • Page 63 Note the positions of the four cartridges. 1. Cyan cartridge 3. Yellow cartridge Pull the coloured toner release lever (1) on the cartridge to be replaced fully towards the front of the printer. Replacing consumable items> 63 2. Magenta cartridge 4. Black cartridge...
  • Page 64 Lift the right-hand end of the cartridge and then draw the cartridge to the right to release the left-hand end as shown, and withdraw the toner cartridge out of the printer. Put the cartridge down gently onto a piece of paper to prevent toner from marking your furniture.
  • Page 65 Holding the cartridge by its top centre with the coloured lever to the right, lower it into the printer over the image drum unit from which the old cartridge was removed. Insert the left end of the cartridge into the top of the...
  • Page 66 This will lock the cartridge into place and release toner into the image drum unit. Finally, close the top cover and press down firmly at both sides so that the cover latches closed. Replacing consumable items> 66...
  • Page 67: Image Drum Replacement

    MAGE DRUM REPLACEMENT Switch off the printer and allow the fuser to cool for about 10 minutes before opening the cover. Static sensitive devices, handle with care. The printer contains four image drums: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Press the cover release and open the printer’s top cover fully.
  • Page 68 Holding it by its top centre, lift the image drum, complete with its toner cartridge, up and out of the printer. Put the cartridge down gently onto a piece of paper to prevent toner from marking your furniture and to avoid damaging the green drum surface.
  • Page 69 Lift the right-hand end of the cartridge and then draw the cartridge to the right to release the left-hand end as shown, and withdraw the toner cartridge out of the image drum cartridge. Place the cartridge on a piece of paper to avoid marking your furniture.
  • Page 70 Holding the complete assembly by its top centre, lower it into place in the printer, locating the pegs at each end into their slots in the sides of the printer cavity. Finally, close the top cover and press down firmly at both sides so that the cover latches closed.
  • Page 71: Replacing The Belt Unit

    The belt unit is located under the four image drums. This unit requires replacement approximately every 60,000 pages. Switch off the printer and allow the fuser to cool for about 10 minutes before opening the cover. Press the cover release and open the printer’s top cover fully.
  • Page 72 Lift each of the image drum units out of the printer and place them in a safe place away from direct sources of heat and light. The green image drum surface at the base of each cartridge is very delicate and light sensitive. Do not touch it and do not expose it to normal room light for more than 5 minutes.
  • Page 73 Locate the drive gear into the gear inside the printer by the rear left corner of the unit, and lower the belt unit flat inside the printer. Turn the two fasteners (5) 90° to the right until they lock.
  • Page 74: Fuser Replacement

    Holding the fuser by its handle (1), lift the fuser straight up and out of the printer. If the fuser is still warm, place it on a flat surface which will not be damaged by heat.
  • Page 75 The retaining levers (2) should be fully upright, and the two locating lugs (3) should be towards you. Lower the fuser into the printer, locating the two lugs (3) into their slots in the metal partition which separates the fuser area from the image drums.
  • Page 76: Cleaning The Led Head

    Clean the LED head when printing does not come out clearly, has white lines or when text is blurred. Switch off the printer and open the top cover. Gently wipe the LED head surface with LED lens cleaner or soft tissue.
  • Page 77: Installing Upgrades> 77

    The duplex unit slides straight into the rear of the printer and requires no tools to install. Unpack the new unit and remove any transit material from Switch the printer off.
  • Page 78: Memory Upgrade

    Near the top of the page, between the two horizontal lines, you will see the current printer configuration. This list should indicate that the duplex unit is now installed. All that remains is to adjust the Windows printer driver to make full use of the new features. EMORY UPGRADE The basic printer model comes equipped with 64MB of main memory.
  • Page 79 Remove the screw (1) securing the right-hand side cover. Lift the edge of the side cover slightly at the two points shown, and pull the cover away from the printer at the top. Lift the cover slightly to detach it from the printer.
  • Page 80 Identify the locking clips (2) at each end of the RAM expansion slot (1). Push the clips outward and back into the printer. The board will pop out slightly. Grip the board firmly by its short edges and pull it out of the slot.
  • Page 81 Close the top of the side cover up to the printer and refit the securing screw removed in step 4. Close the front cover and close the top cover, pressing down firmly at each side to latch it closed.
  • Page 82: Additional Paper Tray

    DDITIONAL PAPER TRAY Switch the printer off and disconnect the AC power cable. Place additional paper tray on desired location. Observing safety rules for lifting and, using locating guides, place printer on top of the additional paper tray. Re-connect the AC power cable and switch the printer ON.
  • Page 83: Adjusting Windows Printer Drivers

    INDOWS PRINTER DRIVERS Once your new upgrade has been installed, you may need to update the Windows printer driver so that the additional features are available to your Windows applications. Remember that if your printer is shared between users on different computers, the driver must be adjusted on each user’s...
  • Page 84: Clearing Paper Jams

    Jams can occur due to paper misfeeding from a paper tray or at any point on the paper path through the printer. When a jam occurs, the printer immediately stops, and the Alert LED on the Status Panel (together with the Status Monitor) informs you of the event.
  • Page 85 Paper feed Paper path If a sheet is well advanced out of the top of the printer, simply grip it and pull gently to draw it fully out. If it does not remove easily, do not use excessive force. It can be removed from the rear later.
  • Page 86 It will be necessary to remove the four image drums to gain access to the paper path. Holding it by its top centre, lift the cyan image drum, complete with its toner cartridge, up and out of the printer. 2. Magenta cartridge 4. Black cartridge Clearing paper jams> 86...
  • Page 87 Repeat this removal procedure for each of the remaining image drum units. Look into the printer to check whether any sheets of paper are visible on any part of the belt unit. • To remove a sheet with its leading edge at the front of...
  • Page 88 If the sheet is well advanced into the fuser (only a short length is still visible), do not attempt to pull it back. Follow the next step to remove it from the rear of the printer. Clearing paper jams> 88...
  • Page 89 1. Cyan cartridge 3. Yellow cartridge • Holding the complete assembly by its top centre, lower it into place in the printer, locating the pegs at each end into their slots in the sides of the printer cavity. 2. Magenta cartridge 4.
  • Page 90 Lower the top cover but do not press down to latch it closed yet. This will protect the drums from excessive exposure to room lighting while you check the remaining areas for jammed sheets. Open the rear exit tray (5) and check for a sheet of paper in the rear path area (6).
  • Page 91 Lift the front cover release and pull open the front cover. Check inside the cover for sheets in this area and remove any that you find, then close the cover. Pull out the paper tray and ensure that all paper is stacked properly, is undamaged, and that the paper guides are properly positioned against the edges of the paper stack.
  • Page 92 When the jam has been cleared, if Jam Recovery is set to ON in the System Configuration Menu, the printer will attempt to reprint any pages lost due to paper jams. Clearing paper jams> 92...
  • Page 93: Specifications

    PECIFICATIONS ITEM SPECIFICATION Dimensions 435 x 563 x 339mm (W x D x H) without Duplex unit Weight 26Kg approx. (without Duplex unit) Print method LED exposed light source electronic photographic memory Print speeds P20W: 20 pages per minute colour / 32 pages per minute monochrome P26W: 26 pages per minute colour / 32 pages per minute monochrome...
  • Page 94 Cable: USB specification version2.0 (shielded) Transmission mode: High speed (480Mbps + 0.25% maximum) Network 10 Base T, 100 Base TX Printer life 420,000 pages or 5 years Duty cycle 50,000 pages per month max., 4,000 pages per month average Toner life...
  • Page 95 ITEM SPECIFICATION Print 30 to 73% RH @ 10 °C; 30 to 54% RH @ 32 °C environment 10 to 32 °C @ 30% RH; 10 to 27 °C @ 80% RH Colour 17 to 27 °C @ 50 to 0% RH 1.
  • Page 96: Index

    Installing upgrades Additional paper tray Duplex unit Memory upgrade Labels recommended types Mac OS X Changing the default printer and paper size Print options Printer setup options Setting Printing Options Major printer components and paper path Menus ...47...
  • Page 97 ...16 face up stacker ...16 Print quality adjusting ...58 Print settings how to save ...20 Printer default settings Windows defaults Printer overview Priority print queue priority Resolution ...14 setting in Windows Separator page ...20 separating print jobs on a ...12...

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