Printer Help Contents

Help Topics

Color

Copies

Fonts Button

Graphics Resolution

Ordering Accessories

Options

Orientation

Overlay

Paper Sizes

Paper Source

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PCL is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company.


Color

The Color dialog box allows you to select the following:

Print Mode

Color Registration

Color Correction

Finish Quality

Contone

Defaults

Advanced Settings , which allow you to select the following:

    Halftone Rendering

    Brightness

    Saturation

    Gamma Correction

    Defaults


Copies

The Copies selection tells Windows how many uncollated copies you want to print from a software application. This setting is independent of the "copies selection" that may be available within the print menus of your software application.

Do not use the two selections simultaneously.

As a general rule:  Set the number of copies in the printer driver window when you want to print uncollated copies.  When you want sets of collated copies, select the number of copies from within your software application.

You should experiment to determine which selection works best for the jobs you print.


Fonts Button

By clicking on the Fonts button you can access the Font Installer where you can install new printer fonts or, if you have Intellifont-for-Windows scalable typefaces.  Step-by-step procedures for installing fonts can be found in the Font Installer help screens.

You can install any PCL® compatible printer fonts with the Font Installer.

Ordering Scalable Typefaces and Fonts

Compatible Fonts


Graphics Resolution

The Graphics Resolution setting in the printer setup dialog box affects the resolution of both graphic images and text. Graphics resolution is measured in dots per inch (dpi). Choosing the highest dpi will produce finer, higher-quality output.  The output quality decreases as the resolution decreases. However, higher resolution output will take longer to print.

If the printer does not print the entire graphic image on one page and displays a Memory Full message, then most likely you either need to install more memory in your printer or choose a lower graphics resolution setting.

Ordering Memory

Memory


Orientation

Print orientation can be Portrait or Landscape. Portrait orientation means the page is taller than it is wide when you view the printed text upright. Landscape orientation means the page is wider than it is tall when you view the printed text upright.


Paper Source

If you are unsure about which paper source is used in your printer, you can run a Print Menus printout on your printer.

Auto Select

Update

Ordering Paper Trays


Paper Size

If you are unsure about which paper size is used in your printer, you can run a Print Menus printout on your printer.

The printer driver lets you select the following paper sizes.

Paper

  Letter	8.5 x 11 inches

  Legal	8.5 x 14 inches

  A4	210 x 297 mm

  B5	182 x 257 mm


Options

The Options dialog box allows you to select the following:

Page Protection

Memory

Direct to Port

NPA BiDi

Screen Font Substitution

Update

Defaults


Ordering Accessories

To order additional printer memory, paper trays, and font  or typeface products, check with your authorized Lexmark or IBM dealer.

To locate your nearest Lexmark dealer call:

USA	1-800-438-2468

Canada	1-800-663-7662

Other countries	Contact a Lexmark or IBM sales office

In the USA, to order a Lexmark Business Product Catalog, or to place an order, call Lexmark directly at: 1-800-438-2468


Overlay

By clicking on the Overlay button you can access Overlay Management, where you can store information in the printer, in the form of an overlay, and then use the overlay you stored.

Overlay Management


To print the printer's menu settings, using the front panel (starting from the READY screen):

1) select MENUS,

2) select TESTS MENU,

3) select MORE until Print Menus is displayed,

4) select Print Menus.


AutoFont Support files are provided with some font and typeface products. These files contain font metric (width) information used by the Font Installer.  AutoFont Support files are usually shipped with special installation utilities that must be run prior to using the Font Installer.


WYSIWYG is an acronym for "What You See Is What Your Get." The screen fonts that appear on your display match the fonts used in your printer.


The term scalable describes products that can be reduced or enlarged (scaled) to virtually any point size that your Windows application will support.

Conversely, bitmapped fonts are limited to an exact point size.  A bitmapped font can not be reduced or enlarged (non-scalable).


A  driver is a portion of software code that controls commands sent to a device such as a printer or screen.  Drivers work automatically so that you don't have to enter programming codes.  Drivers allow you to select fonts, set margins, number of copies, etc.


In multiple page jobs that are uncollated, several copies of page One are printed followed by several copies of page Two, followed by several copies of page Three, etc.


In multiple page jobs that are collated, a complete set of pages in a job are printed followed by another complete set of pages.   For example:  One copy of Page 1, then Page 2, then Page 3; followed by another copy of Page 1, then Page 2, then Page 3.


Intellifont-for-Windows is a software program that includes a special screen font driver.  With Intellifont-for-Windows loaded, scalable typeface products can be directly installed to produce both printer fonts and screen fonts.


Manual feed is often used for printing non-standard sizes of paper, envelopes, labels and transparencies.  Also, when an occasional page of special paper, such as letter-head or color paper, is wanted without having to open and load a paper tray.


Auto Select can also be used if you store different size paper (for example, letter-size paper in one tray and legal-size paper in the other).


Symbol sets are unique groupings of characters in a font.  Each symbol set is defined with a specific set of applications in mind.  WN: Windows is the default symbol set.  Other symbol sets are used for math and multi-language purposes.  Refer to your printer user's manual for charts showing all the characters in symbol sets.


To receive font files for your printer Font Cards, contact your Lexmark dealer, point of purchase or your country Lexmark representative.


Contents for Options Help

Help Topics

Page Protection

Defining Printer Memory

Direct to Port

NPA BiDI

Screen Font Substitution

Update

Defaults

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Page Protection

"Page Protection" refers to a setting that reserves additional memory for the creation of page images.  The page protection feature allows the printer to create an entire page image in memory before physically moving the paper through the printer. This process ensures that the entire page will be printed and helps eliminate the Complex Page error that can sometimes appear on the printer's display.

Ordering Additional Memory


To set the printer's Page Protect, using the front panel (from the READY screen):

1) select MENUS,

2) select SETUP MENU,

3) select MORE until Page Protect is displayed,

4) select Page Protect,

5) select either Off or On,

6) press READY.


Defining Printer Memory

The Memory selection, which defines the amount of memory installed in a printer, should be configured to match your printer.  Windows uses this information to determine the amount of memory you have available for printing.

If you are unsure how much memory is installed in your printer, you can run Print Menus  using your printer's front panel to obtain a printout with this information.

Additional printer memory can eliminate Memory Full and Complex Page errors if you print complex forms, full-page graphics and/or download many fonts.

Update

Ordering Additional Printer Memory


Compatible Fonts and Typefaces

Fonts installed through the Font Installer must be in one of the following forms:

*   Bitmapped printer (soft) fonts -- disk-based

Disk-based (soft) bitmapped printer fonts must be in PCL® format.  These fonts have various file extensions.  For example,  .SFP and .SFL.

*   Fonts installed through the AutoFont Support Utility

AutoFont Support uses a file typically called GLUE.TXT

Additionally, if you have Intellifont-for-Windows  you can also use the Font Installer to install

*   Scalable typeface products --

Scalable typeface products must be in AGFA Compugraphics'c FAIS format.  All other font products require AutoFont Support files or PCM files.

Ordering Additional Fonts and Typefaces


Direct to Port

Direct to Port uses enhanced parallel interface protocols to transfer data to the printer.  These protocols allow for faster data transfer.  To get the maximum benefit, the printer's Parallel Protocol should be set to Fastbytes and NPA Mode should be set to Auto.

Note: This option is available only for local printers and with Windows in Enhanced (386) Mode.


To set the printer's Parallel Protocol, using the front panel (from the READY screen):

1) select MENUS,

2) select SETUP MENU,

3) select MORE until Parallel Setup is displayed,

4) select Parallel Setup,

5) select MORE until Parallel Protocol is displayed,

6) select Parallel Protocol,

7) select Fastbytes,

8) press READY.


To set the printer's NPA Mode, using the front panel (from the READY screen):

1) select MENUS,

2) select SETUP MENU,

3) select MORE until Parallel Setup is displayed,

4) select Parallel Setup,

5) select MORE until Parallel Mode is displayed,

6) select NPA Mode,

7) select Auto.


NPA BiDi

NPA BiDi uses enhanced parallel interface protocols to transfer data to the printer.  These protocols allow for bi-directional communication.  To get the maximum benefit, the printer's Parallel Protocol should be set to Fastbytes and NPA Mode should be set to Auto.

Note: This option is available only for local printers and with Windows in Enhanced (386) Mode.


Update

Update uses the bi-directional communication capability of the printer to update the information that the printer driver maintains about the printer's configuration. Some of the items set in this fashion are: installed memory and optional paper sources installed.

This option is only available when the printer is able to respond to the printer drivers's request.  For example, the printer must be turned on.  If the printer is attached through a network, bi-directional communication between the printer driver and the printer must be supported over that network.


Screen Font Substitution

The Screen Font Substitution check box controls the way the printer driver lists printer resident fonts that have corresponding TrueType screen fonts. Normally this box should be checked.

When Screen Font Substitution is on, the printer driver does not list the printer resident fonts which have corresponding TrueType screen fonts installed.  Instead, only the screen font is listed. For example, Arial will only appear in an application's font selection dialog box once. When the document is printed, the printer driver uses the printer resident font in place of the matching screen font. A document that uses Arial will be printed with the printer resident Arial font.

When Screen Font Substitution is off, the printer driver lists both the TrueType screen fonts and the printer resident fonts. For example, Arial will appear in an application's font selection dialog box twice, once as a screen font and a second time as a printer font. When the document is printed, the printer driver uses the font that was selected.  If a TrueType screen font is used in the document, that screen font will be downloaded to the printer and used to print the document. If the printer resident font is used in the document, it will be used to print the document.

There might be unique situations where it is desirable to create a document that specifies the the printer resident font rather than the screen font.  Or, it may be desirable to force the screen font to be downloaded for printing.  In either of these cases, Screen Font Substitution should be turned off.


Contents for Color Help

Help Topics

Print Mode

Color Registration

Color Correction

Finish Quality

Contone

Defaults

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Print Mode

Print Mode is used to choose between color or monochrome printing.  If Color is selected, your output will be in color.  If Monochrome is selected, your output will be a grayscale representation of your output.


Color Registration

Color registration affects how many times the transfer drum will rotate when transferring the toner to the paper.  High Quality will rotate the transfer drum an extra revolution compared to High Speed.  This reduces throughput, but will optimize registration of the magenta plane with the other planes resulting in higher quality.

Note: When Monochrome is selected in the Print Mode setting, this option has no effect.


Color Correction

Color correction allows you to have the printer modify the colors which were used in your job.

Select Off to print without color correction.  This is the recommended setting when you are using a software application that does its own color correction.

Select Display to print colors that approximate the colors on a standard computer display screen.

Vivid adds black and causes the blues and purples printed in your document to contain less magenta, resulting in more saturated, or darker, colors.


Finish Quality

This feature sets the type of finish of the output.

Select Medium Gloss for a normal finish.

Select High Gloss for a shiny, bright finish.

Select Low Gloss for a dull finish.


Contone

Select Contone to print with a 200 line per inch continuous tone mode.  If Contone is turned off, then the Halftone Rendering setting in the Advance Settings will be used to determine the screening algorithm used.


Contents for Advanced Settings Help

Help Topics

Halftone Rendering

Brightness

Saturation

Gamma Correction

Defaults

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Halftone Rendering

Halftone rendering chooses the algorithm that is used to mix the toners to produce the output colors.

Select ColorGrade to produce uniformly distributed color mixing.

Select Stochastic to produce a random distribution of dots.


Brightness

The brightness control affects the brightness of output.  Negative values darken the text, graphic, or image.  Positive values lighten the text, graphic, or image.


Saturation

The saturation control affects the mixture of toners for the text, graphic, or image.  Negative values desaturate the text, graphic, or image color.  Positive values increase the amount of saturation, making the output more vivid.


Gamma Correction

Gamma correction adjusts the amount of toner that is placed on the page to darken or lighten the output in order to more closely match the screen.  Decreasing the gamma correction will cause more toner to be placed on the page and will darken the output.  Increasing the gamma correction will cause less toner to be placed on the page and will lighten the output.


Defaults

Defaults returns the items set from the current dialog window to the settings they had immediately after installing the printer driver.


Overlay Management

This dialog box contains options that let you store information in the printer and then use the information you stored.

Overlays

An overlay is a template that can be defined and then printed as a background on a form before the data from the current job is printed. The overlay can be an image, such as the background of a preprinted form or a company letterhead. This is sometimes referred to as "watermarking."

See Also

Overlay Order and Overlay Selections

Download Overlay

Update List

Overlay Creation


Overlay Order and Overlay Selections

The Overlay Selections list boxes let you select overlays that have been stored in the printer. Up to two overlays can be used in each job. If None is selected, no overlay will be used. Use the Overlay Order area to determine how the overlays will be used.

Selecting First Page/Other Pages:

Use the First Page list box to select the overlay to be used on the first printed page.

Use the Other Pages list box to select the overlay to be used on all pages of the job after the first page.

Selecting Odd Pages/Even Pages:

Use the Odd Pages list box to select the overlay to be used on all odd pages of the job.

Use the Even Pages list box to select the overlay to be used on all even pages of the job.

Note: The odd/even page numbers refer to the order in which the pages are actually printed, and not to any page numbers which your application may generate and print on the page.


Overlay Download
Download Overlay

Choose the Download Overlay button to bring up a dialog which will allow you to store an overlay file in the printer. You must specify the file name of the overlay file you want to store and a descriptive name for the overlay. You can download the overlay to flash, disk (if available), or memory in the printer.


Update List

Choose the Update List button to bring up a dialog which will allow you to edit the list of available overlays in the Overlay Selections list boxes. This will not in any way change what is actually in the printer; it will only change the list maintained by the driver. You may want to use this option to delete overlay names from the list if you have deleted the overlays from the printer by reformatting the flash or disk (if available).


Overlay Creation

Choose the Create an Overlay checkbox when you want to create an overlay from your document instead of printing it.