Basic setup

After installation is complete, you may want to set the machine’s default settings. Refer to the next section if you would like to set or change values. This chapter gives you step-by-step instructions for setting up the machine.

Altitude adjustment

The print quality is affected by atmospheric pressure, which is determined by the height of the machine above sea level. The following information will guide you on how to set your machine to the best print quality or best quality of print.Before you set the altitude value, determine the altitude where you are.

  1. High 3

  2. High 2

  3. High 1

  4. Normal

  1. Ensure that you have installed the printer driver with the provided Printer Software CD.

  2. Double-click the Smart Panel icon on the Windows task bar (or Notification Area in Linux). You can also click Smart Panel on the status bar in Mac OS X.

  3. Click Printer Setting.

  4. Click Setting > Altitude Adjustment. Select the appropriate value from the drop-down list, and then click Apply.

[Note]
  • If your machine is connected to a network, SyncThru™ Web Service screen appears automatically. Click Settings > Machine Settings > System > Setup > Altitude Adj.. Select the appropriate altitude value, and then click Apply.

  • If your machine is connected via a USB cable, set the altitude in Altitude Adj. option on the machine’s display (See System Setup).

Changing the display language

To change the language that appears on the display, follow the steps below:

  1. Press on the control panel.

  2. Press left/right arrow until System Setup appears and press OK.

  3. Press left/right arrow until Language appears and press OK.

  4. Press left/right arrow to display the language you want.

  5. press OK to save the selection.

  6. Press to return to ready mode.

Setting job timeout

When there is no input for a certain period of time, the machine exits the current menu and goes into the default settings. You can set the amount of time the machine will wait.

  1. Press on the control panel.

  2. Press left/right arrow until System Setup appears and press OK.

  3. Press left/right arrow until Job Timeout appears and press OK.

  4. Press left/right arrow to select the time you want.

  5. press OK to save the selection.

  6. Press to return to ready mode.

Using the power saving feature

When you are not using the machine for a while, the machine turns to the power save mode. Use this feature to save power.

  1. Press on the control panel.

  2. Press left/right arrow until System Setup appears and press OK.

  3. Press left/right arrow until Power Save appears and press OK.

  4. Press left/right arrow to select the time you want.

  5. press OK to save the selection.

  6. Press to return to ready mode.

Setting the default tray and paper

You can select the tray and paper you would like to keep using for printing job (See Paper).

In the control panel

  1. Press on the control panel.

  2. Press left/right arrow until Paper appears and press OK.

  3. Press left/right arrow to select the paper tray you want and press OK.

  4. Press left/right arrow until Paper Size appears and press OK.

  5. Press left/right arrow to select the paper size you want.

  6. Press OK to save the selection.

  7. Press left/right arrow until Paper Type appears and press OK.

  8. Press left/right arrow to select the paper type you want.

  9. Press OK to save the selection.

  10. Press .

  11. Press left/right arrow until Paper Source appears and press OK.

  12. Press left/right arrow to select the paper tray you want.

  13. press OK to save the selection.

  14. Press to return to ready mode.

In the computer

Windows

  1. Click the Windows Start menu.

  2. For Windows 2000, select Settings > Printers.

    • For Windows XP/2003, select Printer and Faxes.

    • For Windows 2008/Vista, select Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Printers.

    • For Windows 7, select Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers.

    • For Windows Server 2008 R2, select Control Panel > Hardware > Devices and Printers.

  3. Right-click your machine.

  4. For Windows XP/2003/2008/Vista, press Printing Preferences.

    For Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, from context menus, select the Printing Preferences.

    [Note]

    If Printing Preferences item has ► mark, you can select other printer drivers connected with selected printer.

  5. Click Paper tab.

  6. Select tray and its options, such as paper size and type.

  7. Press OK.

[Note]

If you want to use special-sized paper such as a billing paper, select Paper tab > Size > Edit... in the Printing Preferences (See Opening printing preferences).

Macintosh

Macintosh does not support this function. Macintosh users need to change the default setting manually each time they want to print using other settings.

  1. Open a Macintosh application and select the file you want to print.

  2. Open the File menu and click Print.

  3. Go to Paper Feed Pane.

  4. Set appropriate tray from which you want to print.

  5. Go to Paper Pane.

  6. Set paper type to correspond to the paper loaded in the tray from which you want to print.

  7. Click Print to print.

Linux

  1. Open Terminal Program

  2. When the Terminal screen appears, type in the following: [root@localhost root]# lpr <FileName>

  3. Select Printer and click Properties…

  4. Click Advanced tab.

  5. Select tray(source) and its options, such as paper size and type.

  6. Press OK.

Changing font setting

Your machine has preset font setting depending on your region or country.

If you want to change the font or set the font for special condition, such as the DOS environment, you can change the font setting as follows:

  1. Turn your networked computer on and open the web browser.

  2. Enter your machine's IP address as the URL in a browser.

  3. Click Go to access the SyncThru™ Web Service.

  4. Click Settings > Machine Settings > Printer > PCL.

  5. Select your preferred font in the Symbol Set list.

  6. Click Apply.

[Note]

Following information shows the proper font list for corresponding languages.

  • Russian: CP866, ISO 8859/5 Latin Cyrillic

  • Hebrew: Hebrew 15Q, Hebrew-8, Hebrew-7 (Israel only)

  • Greek: ISO 8859/7 Latin Greek, PC-8 Latin/Greek

  • Arabic & Farsi: HP Arabic-8, Windows Arabic, Code Page 864, Farsi, ISO 8859/6 Latin Arabic

  • OCR: OCR-A, OCR-B