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How Your Printer Works
Whenever you send a job to the printer, an image of the
page to be printed is temporarily written to the rotating
surface of an electrophotographic (EP) drum. This
image acts like a magnet that attracts toner to the drum.
(The toner and the drum are both located inside the
toner cartridge.) At the same time, the paper (or
transparency film or envelope) passes through the
printer and is electrostatically charged as it reaches the
drum. The toner that was previously attracted to the
drum as an image is transferred to the charged paper.
The paper then goes to the fuser unit. There, it passes
between two rollers where a combination of heat (up to
392° F) and pressure bonds the toner to the paper. The
paper is then delivered to the output tray.
Computer Software
Your Silentwriter 1760/65 printer comes with software
that allows you to control your printer from your
computer. This software is described in Chapter 2. It
includes
•
The PCL printer driver NEC Silentwriter 1700 for
®
Windows
3.1x and Windows
•
The PostScript printer driver NEC Silentwriter
1700 PS2 for Windows 3.1x and Windows 95
•
Print Navigator for MS-DOS
If you have the Silentwriter 1765, you also received
administrator and client software for configuring and
monitoring the printer on NetWare
®
AppleTalk
networks. Network utilities also support
®
®
Microsoft
LAN Manager
, LAN Server
®
Warp Server
. The network software is described in the
1765 Network Printer Configuration Guide.
1–2
User's Guide
®
95
®
, TCP/IP, and
®
®
, and OS/2
Printer Memory and Fonts
Two other important factors in the way a printer
operates are memory and fonts. The different types of
printer memory are described in Chapter 6. Fonts and
font management are described in Chapter 5.
Energy and Cost Saving Features
Your Silentwriter 1700 Series printer has several features
designed to protect the environment and save you
money. These include
This feature enables the printer to
Power Saving:
reduce its power consumption from 575 to 45 watts
when not in use (see page 1-10).
This feature allows you to reduce the
Toner Saving:
amount of toner used when printing draft versions
of documents (see page 1-9).
Toner Cartridge Recycling:
recycling program makes it easy for you to return
empty toner cartridges for recycling (see page 7-2).
The Silentwriter 1760 and
1765 printers meet the
requirements of the
Environmental Protection
Agency's Energy Star
Computers program for
printers. The purpose of this
program is to promote the manufacturing and
marketing of energy-efficient office automation
equipment, thereby potentially reducing combustion-
related pollution. (The Energy Star emblem does not
represent EPA endorsement of any product or service.)
NEC's toner cartridge
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