Changing Print Settings For Dos Applications; Printing Envelopes; Printing To A File - Lexmark Z51 User Manual

You can use the printer driver for your
Lexmark Z51 Color Jetprinter™ to change
printer settings that are not in your
application. For help, see "Changing print
settings for DOS applications" below.
Changing print settings for DOS
applications
If possible, use options in your DOS application
to change printer settings. Use the following
steps only if you want to change a printer setting
that does not exist in your DOS application.
Settings in your DOS application override
settings in the driver.
1
From the Start menu, click Settings.
2
Click Printers.
3
Right-click the Lexmark Z51
A sidebar menu appears.
4
Click Properties.
5
Click the DOS Printing
6
Change settings as needed.
7
Click OK to save the settings.
Note:
When you make changes on the DOS
Printing tab, they apply to DOS print
jobs only. When you make changes on
other tabs, they apply to all print jobs.

Printing to a file

To print a document that has been processed by
the driver and stored in a file (that is, printed to
file):
1
Make sure you are in Windows, not native
DOS.
2
Start your application from DOS.
For help, see your Windows
documentation.
3
Create a print file using the "Print to File"
function of your application. For help
printing to a file, see your application's
user's documentation.
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4
Use this DOS command to copy the print
file to the port where the printer is
connected:
copy filename lptn /b
In the command example:
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Note:
printer icon.

Printing envelopes

1
Load up to 10 envelopes against the right
side of the automatic feeder.
2
Insert the envelopes with print side facing
tab.
you and stamp location in the lower right
corner.
3
Squeeze the release tab and the media guide
together, and slide the media guide to the
edge of the envelopes.
4
Customize the Printer Properties for
printing envelopes.
5
Print your envelopes.
copy is the DOS copy command.
filename is the name of the print file
you created.
lptn is the port where your printer is
connected. For example, lpt1 or lpt2.
/b instructs the computer to send the
data in binary form.
Avoid using the DOS Print command to
send a job to the printer port. The Print
command causes printing delays.
Printing from non-Windows DOS
applications
Follow these steps if your application runs from
the native DOS prompt, but does not run from the
DOS prompt in Windows.
1
From the Start menu, click Settings.
2
Click Printers. The Printer folder appears.
3
Right-click on the Lexmark Z51
icon.
4
Click Properties.
5
Click the DOS Printing tab.
6
Make sure DOS Printing is enabled.
7
Exit Windows.
8
Start your DOS application.
9
Install the HP DeskJet 500C as the current
printer in the DOS application from which
you are printing.
Some applications offer a color or black
(mono) version of the HP DeskJet 500C
driver. Choose the black (mono) version if
you are printing in black only. Choose the
color version if you are printing in color
and black.
If your application does not offer the HP
DeskJet 500C printer driver, install the HP
DeskJet 500 printer driver. You will not be
able to print in color with the HP DeskJet
500 printer driver.
For help installing a printer, see your
application user's documentation.
10
Create a print file using the "Print to File"
function of your application. For help
printing to a file, see your application's
user's documentation.
11
Exit the DOS application.
12
Start Windows.
13
From the Start menu, click Programs.
14
Select the MS-DOS Command Prompt.
15
The DOS screen appears.
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