Using The Facsimile Machine As A Printer; Selecting The Printer Driver; Setting The Printing Parameters - Xerox Document FaxCentre 165c Service Manual

2 USING THE FACSIMILE MACHINE AS A PRINTER

Once the Printer driver of the LinkFax 8 module
has been installed (LinkFax 8 Colour Printer),
the facsimile machine automatically becomes the
default printer.

SELECTING THE PRINTER DRIVER

To select the LinkFax 8 printer driver, proceed as
follows:
1
Double click on the Control Panel icon and then
double click on the Printers icon.
2
Select LinkFax 8 Colour Printer from the list of
Installed Printers, then:
• click on Set as Default Printer to setup the
facsimile machine as the default printer,
therefore taking priority over any other print-
ers installed;
• if you wish to optimise the sharing of re-
sources, disable the Use Print Manager func-
tion, by clicking on the appropriate box until
the cross disappears.
3
Click on Connect and select the name of the
parallel port of the PC (LPT1 or LPT2) to which
the facsimile machine is connected. Then:
• if you wish to optimise the printing speed of
the facsimile machine, check that the Fast
Printing Direct to Port function is enabled
by clicking on the appropriate box until the
cross appears. Then disable automatic re-
ception, as described in the section entitled
Receiving a Document.
4
Click on OK to confirm and then click on Close,
to close the Printers dialogue box.

SETTING THE PRINTING PARAMETERS

Once the LinkFax 8 Colour Printer has been
installed, you can set the printing parameters
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for the images or documents that you wish to print
from the application of your choice.
The driver Properties can be accessed either via
the Status Monitor (see section entitled Check-
ing the Printer), or by following the instructions
set out below:
1
Select Print Setup from the File menu and enter
the basic printing parameters: page Orientation
(portrait or landscape), Paper size, paper Feed
(manual or automatic). Then click on Options:
... and select the following:
• Document Type:
- Automatic, to set up automatic detec-
tion of the document to be printed: black
and white, colour, or mixed (part black
and white and part colour);
- Graph, to print documents created using
computer graphics;
- Photo, to print photographic images;
- Art, to print drawings;
- Custom, to print special documents cre-
ated by you.
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