Printing
8.
This chapter explains common printing tasks.
This chapter includes:
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Printer driver features
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Basic printing
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Opening printing preferences
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Using help
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Setting Device Options
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Using special print features
•
Using direct printing utility
The procedures in this chapter are mainly based on Windows XP.
Printer driver features
Your printer drivers support the following standard features:
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Paper orientation, size, source, and media type selection
•
Number of copies
You can also use various special printing features. The following table
shows a general overview of features supported by your printer drivers:
Some models or operating systems may not support all feature(s)
shown in the following table.
PCL/PS
PS
Feature
Windows
Machine quality
option
Poster printing
Multiple pages per
sheet
Booklet printing
Fit to page printing
Reduce and enlarge
printing
Different source for
first page
Cover page options
Raster compression
(PCL only)
Finishing options
Output options
a
/X
PS
MAC
Linux
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
●
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Changing the default print settings
•
Setting your machine as a default machine
•
Printing to a file (PRN)
•
MAC printing
•
Linux printing
•
UNIX Printing
Feature
Watermark
Overlay
Double-sided printing
(duplex)
a. The PostScript driver is recommended for best print quality from
PostScript-based applications such as Acrobat Reader®, Adobe
Illustrator®, Adobe Photoshop®, etc.
(●: Supported, Blank: Not supported)
Unix
●
●
●
●
●
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Printing_ 100
a
PCL/PS
/X
PS
PS
Windows
MAC
Linux
●
●
(PCL only)
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●
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Unix
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