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Oki ES3640eMFP Printing Manual

Oki ES3640eMFP Printing Manual

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  • Page 2 The most up-to-date drivers and manuals are available from the Oki web site: http://www.okidata.com http://my.okidata.com Copyright © 2005 Oki Data Americas, Inc. Oki and Oki Printing Solutions are registered trademarks of Oki Electric Industry Company, Ltd. Energy Star is a trademark of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Before you start..........5 About this book ......5 How to access the driver screens ....5 Changing the driver defaults .
  • Page 4 Activating duplex printing ....30 How to Print Multiple Pages on One Sheet ..31 Printing Posters ......33 Fit to page .

  • Page 5: Before You Start

    Chapter 1: Before you start About this book This book is delivered as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. It provides a convenient on-screen reference to the many features of the driver software supplied with your printer. There are many cross-references within this book, each highlighted as blue text.

  • Page 6: Changing The Driver Defaults

    If you choose this method any changes you make will usually only last for as long as the particular application is running, or until you change them again. In most cases, once you quit the application the driver defaults will return. MPORTANT Settings made from the printer’s own control panel are the printer defaults.

  • Page 7: Changing The Application's Driver Settings

    Windows 98/Me Click [Start] → [Settings] → [Printers] to open the Printers window. In the Printers window, right-click on the appropriate printer driver icon, and choose [Properties] from the context menu. Changing the application’s driver settings In your application, open the file you want to print. On the [File] menu, choose [Print…].

  • Page 8: Recalling Saved Driver Settings

    Saving a set of driver settings Make any changes to the driver settings you want, as described in the relevant section of this manual. In the driver’s [Setup] tab, click [Save…]. Enter a meaningful name for the settings you are saving, and click [OK].

  • Page 9: Setting The Driver Device Options

    Setting the driver device options This section explains how to ensure that your printer driver can utilize all of the hardware features installed in your printer. Accessories such as hard disk, duplex unit (two sided printing), additional paper trays, etc., will only be usable if the printer driver on your computer knows they are there.

  • Page 10: Printing Black

    Chapter 2: Printing black Black generation You can specify whether black graphics in color documents are printed using: > Composite Black > Pure Black Pure Black is the default setting. Composite black The cyan, magenta, yellow, and black toners are combined to create composite black.

  • Page 11: Pcl

    How to choose composite black or pure black On the [color] tab select [Manual Settings] and click [Options...]. Select or deselect [Pure Black Graphics]. If Pure Black Graphics is not selected, prints will use composite black. ES3640e MFP Printing Guide - 11...
  • Page 12 PCL 6 On the [color] tab select [Manual Settings] and click [Options...]. From the [Pure Black Graphics] drop-down list, select [On] or [Off]. If Pure Black Graphics is [Off], prints will use composite black. ES3640e MFP Printing Guide - 12...

  • Page 13: Color Matching

    Chapter 3: Color matching Factors that affect color printing There are many factors that affect color printing. Some of the most important factors are: > the differences between the range of colors a monitor can reproduce versus the range of colors that a printer can reproduce (See page 13).

  • Page 14: Monitor Settings

    > A monitor uses Red, Green and Blue (RGB) phosphors (or LCDs). > A printer uses Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black (CMYK) toner or ink. Very vivid colors (such as intense reds and blues) can be displayed on a monitor. These same colors cannot be easily produced on any printer using toner or ink.

  • Page 15: How The Application Displays Color

    The application settings may override the settings in the printer driver. Please refer to the documentation for your software application for details on that particular program’s color management functions. How the application displays color ® ® Some graphics applications such as Adobe Photoshop , or ®...

  • Page 16: How To Perform Color Matching

    How to perform color matching There are several ways to achieve color matching with your printer. The range of options available varies according to your computer platform, operating system, color production method, and printer driver type. Descriptions The following table provides a brief description of the available settings for color matching: ETTING ESCRIPTION...

  • Page 17: Brightness And Saturation

    intents are essentially a set of rules that determine how this color conversion takes place. ETTING ESCRIPTION Auto Best choice for printing general documents. This setting is used by default. Perceptual Best choice for printing photographs. Compresses the source gamut into the printer's gamut while maintaining the overall appearance of an image.

  • Page 18: Matching Specific Colors

    Before printing a document, you can adjust the brightness and saturation settings: ETTING ESCRIPTION Brightness Determines the total amount of light (white) in the color. Zero brightness is black. 100% Brightness is white. Intermediate values are "light" or "dark" colors. Saturation The degree of saturation of a color is its relative purity, or intensity.

  • Page 19: Print Resolution

    Chapter 4: Print resolution The resolution for a print job controls the print speed and print quality of a job. Raising the print resolution can maximise the image quality of a print job. You usually do this for final versions of documents or when printing images (photographs).

  • Page 20: Finishing Options

    Chapter 5: Finishing options Your printer has many features that help control the form of your printed document. > “Booklet printing” on page 21 > “Collating” on page 23 > “Separating queued print jobs” on page 25 > “Cover print” on page 26 >...

  • Page 21: Activating Booklet Printing

    Booklet printing Booklet printing allows printing of multipage documents with their pages ordered and arranged so that final printed output can be folded into a booklet. Typically, letter (or tabloid) pages would be reduced to half-letter (or letter) and printed side by side on both sides of letter (or tabloid) paper, so that the paper can be folded into a booklet.
  • Page 22 Click [Options...]. In the Booklet window you can set the [signature] size, the number of [pages] per side of paper, the [binding margin], and if the booklet will be read [Right to Left] or Left to Right. The graphic in this window shows the effect of each choice you make.

  • Page 23: Collating

    Collating This feature allows multiple copies of a multipage document to be printed with the pages of each copy in sequence. Uncollated pages print like this: Collated pages print like this: Application collate—Some application programs have a collate feature in their print options. In this case the application performs the document collation and may send the job multiple times to the printer.

  • Page 24: Printing Collated Documents

    Printing collated documents On the [Job Options] tab, choose how many [Copies] you want to print from the scrolling list. Click the [Collate] checkbox (a checkmark appears). Click [OK]. ES3640e MFP Printing Guide - 24...

  • Page 25: Separating Queued Print Jobs

    Separating queued print jobs When you share a printer with other users it can be useful to print a special page between print jobs to help locate each user’s job in a paper stack at the printer. The separator page is set from the printer driver’s default properties window.

  • Page 26: How To Use Cover Print

    Cover print Cover print is when the first page (cover) of a print job is fed from one paper tray, and the remaining pages of the print job are fed from another paper tray. How to use cover print On the [Setup] tab, click [Paper Feed Options...]. Under [Cover Printing], select [Use different source for first page].

  • Page 27: How To Create, Edit, And Delete A Custom Page Size

    Custom page size This feature enables printing on non-standard sized print media. The multipurpose tray is used for feeding non-standard media sizes. Print media width can be from approximately 51mm to 328mm, and its length can be from 128mm to 1200mm. Actual limits vary slightly depending on which printer driver you use and your computer’s operating system.

  • Page 28: Selecting A Custom Page Size

    a. Click its name in the list and edit its dimensions and/or name. b. Click [Modify]. To delete a previously saved custom size: a. Click its name in the list. b. Click [Delete]. Click [OK] to accept your changes and close the Custom Size window.

  • Page 29: Duplex (Double-Sided) Printing

    Duplex (double-sided) printing If your printer has a duplex unit installed you can print on both sides of the paper, to save paper, weight, bulk and cost. > Only paper can be used for duplex printing, not transparencies or other media. >...

  • Page 30: Activating Duplex Printing

    Activating duplex printing On the driver’s [Setup] tab, under [2-Sided Printing], select the binding edge you want. WINDOWS XP WINDOWS 98 For portrait (tall) page layout the usual choice is [Long Edge]. For landscape (wide) page layout the usual choice is [Short Edge].

  • Page 31: How To Print Multiple Pages On One Sheet

    Printing multiple pages on one sheet (N- This feature scales the page size of your document for printing and reproduces several pages per sheet. This is useful when you simply want to proof your page layout, or distribute your document in a more compact format. It saves paper, bulk, weight and cost.
  • Page 32 Click [Options...] to choose from the available options for this feature. From here you can choose the page printing order, the page layout, whether you want printed page borders, and a binding margin if you need it. Click [OK]. ES3640e MFP Printing Guide - 32...

  • Page 33: Printing Posters

    Poster printing Note Poster printing is not available with the PCL 6 driver. This option allows you to print posters by dividing a single document page into multiple pieces (sometimes called “tiles”). Each piece prints, enlarged, on a separate sheet. Then, you combine the separate sheets to create a poster.

  • Page 34: Fit To Page

    a. Choose the [enlargement] required for your document to fill the poster. b. [Registration marks] can be printed if required so that your printed pages (tiles) can be trimmed exactly to the edge of the image. c. An [overlap] may help you to match adjacent tiles when making up your final poster.

  • Page 35: How To Create A New Watermark

    Watermarks Note This feature is not available with the PCL 6 driver. A watermark is typically faint text that is superimposed on a printed document. This can be used to indicate that the document is “Draft”, or perhaps “Confidential”. How to create a new watermark On the [Job Options] tab click [Watermarks...].

  • Page 36: How To Edit An Existing Watermark

    Click [OK]. How to edit an existing watermark On the [Job Options] tab click [Watermarks...]. Select the watermark you want to edit, then click [Edit...]. Modify the text for your watermark. Modify the attributes (font, color, size, angle) for your watermark and click [OK] to accept your changes.

  • Page 37: Secure Printing

    Chapter 6: Secure printing Secure printing allows you to print confidential documents on printers that are shared with other users in a network environment. The document does not print until a PIN (Personal Identification Number) is entered through the Printer Control Panel. You must go to the printer and enter the PIN.

  • Page 38: Sending The Document

    Sending the document In the driver’s [Job Options] tab, click [Secure Print]. The Job PIN (Personal Identification Number) window opens. If the PIN window does not open, click the [PIN] button. In the Job PIN window, enter a [Job Name] for this print job.

  • Page 39: Printing The Document

    Click [OK] to accept your changes. Click [OK] to close the Printer Properties window. Print your document. The print job will be sent to the printer, but will not print at this time. Printing the document Your secure print job is printed using the Printer Control Panel on the front of the printer.

  • Page 40: Deleting A Secure Print Document

    Use the ▲ and ▼ buttons to select the number of collated copies you require. Press [ENTER] to print your document. When all required copies have been printed your document is automatically deleted from the printer’s hard disk. It is also possible to print and delete secure documents remotely from your PC using the Storage Device Manager utility.

  • Page 41: Font Substitution

    Chapter 7: Font Substitution This advanced feature allows you to substitute printer fonts for TrueType fonts. This may be useful if you have a document formatted with a font that is not installed on your system, but the font is built in to the printer. When using Font Substitution, the general layout of a document does not change, but accurate font design is lost.

  • Page 42: Index

    NDEX Application collate 23 Glossy paper 15 Graphics applications vs. ’office’ applications 15 Black Graphs printing black 10 colour matching 17 Booklets Greyscale printing 16 printing 21 Labels Charts exit path colour matching 17 face up (stacker) 27 CMYK vs. RGB 14 Lighting Collating 23 sunlight vs.
  • Page 43 Print quality problems Secure documents output doesn’t match monitor printing 39 sending 38 Printer collate 23 Separator page 25 Printer drivers Software applications colour settings 15 colour settings 14 Printing how colour is displayed 15 face up 27 Stacker output capacity 27 Straight through paper feed path Recycled paper 15 Rendering Intents...

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