Making Settings For Printing Faxes; Print Reduction Rate - Pitney Bowes 4100 Operator's Manual

Making settings for printing faxes

You can set three parameters for printing received fax messages:

• Print reduction rate

• Reduction margin
• Half-page reception
You set all three in the same operation, but each deserves its own brief
explanation.
Print reduction rate
Print reduction lets you set the machine to reduce a large incoming
document to a size which will fit on your paper. This setting doesn't affect
copies you may make with your machine. Fortunately, however, it also has
copy reduction (see "Setting of enlargement and reduction for copying,"
page 74).
Here are the options for print reduction setting:
• Auto: Automatically reduces printouts at variable rates down to a
minimum of 50%. Tries to reduce printout to fit on one sheet of your
selected paper size; if it can't, it prints the image at 100% size on
two or more pages.
• 100%: Performs no reduction. (Due to the sender's TTI, this may
print two pages when receiving a one-page fax document. See "97%"
below.)
• 97%: Reduces an original so that the final printout of a one-page
document (if the original isn't larger than the paper in your
machine) will be only one page long, despite the TTI.
• 91%: Provides slightly more reduction.
• 81%: Provides even greater reduction. Helpful for certain
international stationery sizes, as well as special applications.
• 75%: Turns legal-sized originals into letter-sized printed copies.
But, of course, be sensible...
While handy, the reduction feature can't solve every situation.
(Also, the printout may omit a small bit of the image at the page
break if the machine tries to reduce a legal-sized page onto letter-
sized paper at any setting other than 75%.) So, whenever possible,
load the correct size of paper before receiving a fax (or making a
copy) of that size.
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