Ricoh Aficio 401 Operating Instructions Manual page 43

USING THE CONTROL PANEL
When you first turn on the machine, the Copy Menu displays on the Control
Panel. To access the Printer Mode menus, you must press the
[Printer/Scanner] button located on the left side of the display panel.
When you enter printer mode, you can use the various printer Configuration
and Job Control menus to specify how you want the printer to function.
You will want to set your printer configuration default values when you first
set up your printer. However, you should not have to change the printer
configuration on a regular basis.
tion in this chapter for information on how to use the Configuration Menu to
configure the machine for printing.
There are numerous selections you can make for each print job.
example, you can select a different paper tray, set the printer to Printer
Control Language (PCL), specify the image orientation (SEF or LEF),
change the default font, specify the number of lines per page, and so forth.
Note: Most applications allow you to make choices so that your document
is correctly formatted for printing. You can also use the printer driver
software to perform this task. Therefore, in general, you do not have
to use the Control Panel to make these types of selections.
When you send a document to the printer, the printed format and output of
the document depends on the selections you have made using the menus
available from the Control Panel, as well as the print commands that you
send to the printer.
Frequently, the print commands associated with a document that you send
to the printer are managed by the software application and the printer driver.
When you send a formatted document to the printer, the appropriate print
commands are sent to the printer so that your text and graphics are printed
using the formatting choices you have made.
Most of the time, you can use your software to format your document and
specify how it should print. These print commands override any Control
Panel settings.
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