Setting the pen colours and patterns
The pen colour menu becomes available on the control panel, when you set the
colour mode to 'full colour'. When you set the colour mode to 'monochrome',
the pen pattern menu becomes available.
Setting pen colours
You can set the 999 pens to any colour from the 256 in the Océ colour palette.
Assign each pen a colour value from 0 to 255, to correspond to the Océ pen
palette colours.
To set pen colours
Press the 'down' arrow once to enter the menu.
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Follow the flowchart path to get to 'pen number' and press 'enter' to select the
2
pen.
Follow the flowchart path to get to 'pen colour' and select the colour.
3
Press 'enter'.
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Saving pen user configurations
The printer saves the pen colours that you assign to the first 16 pens, when you
switch it off. Pens 17 to 999 revert to the factory settings each time you switch
on the printer.
See 'Pen attributes' on page 182 for a list of the default pen settings.
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Configuration
Media type
Pen menu
Pen number
0 - 999
Pen colour
0 - 255