Contents

1 BEFORE USING THE MACHINE
PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS	4
● OPERATION PANEL	6
POWER ON AND OFF	8
● POWER ON	8
● POWER OFF	8
LOADING PAPER	9
● PAPER	9
● LOADING PAPER	10
● CHANGING A TRAY'S PAPER SIZE SETTING ....	12
OPERATION IN COPY, PRINTER, AND
SCANNER MODES	14
2 COPY FUNCTIONS
NORMAL COPYING	15
● MAKING A COPY DARKER OR LIGHTER ....	18
● SELECTING THE TRAY	18
● SETTING THE NUMBER OF COPIES	19
REDUCTION/ENLARGEMENT/ZOOM	19
● AUTOMATIC RATIO SELECTION	19
● MANUAL RATIO SELECTION	20
● SELECTING THE VERTICAL AND
HORIZONTAL COPY RATIOS SEPARATELY
(XY ZOOM Copying)	21
AUTOMATIC TWO-SIDED COPYING	23
● IMAGE ROTATION IN DUPLEX COPYING ...	25
TWO-SIDED COPYING USING THE BYPASS
TRAY	26
DUAL PAGE COPYING	27
INTERRUPTING A COPY RUN (Interrupt
Copying)	28
CONVENIENT COPY FUNCTIONS	29

●ROTATING THE IMAGE 90 DEGREES

(Rotation Copy)	29
● SORT COPY/GROUP COPY	29

●COPYING MULTIPLE ORIGINALS ONTO A SINGLE SHEET OF PAPER (2 IN 1 / 4 IN 1

Copy)

●CREATING MARGINS WHEN COPYING

(Margin Shift)

●ERASING SHADOWS AROUND THE EDGES

OF A COPY (Erase Copy)

3 PRINTER FUNCTIONS
BASIC PRINTING	35

●OPENING THE PRINTER DRIVER FROM THE

"Start" BUTTON	36
PRINTER DRIVER SETTING SCREEN	37

SETTING ADVANCED PRINT FUNCTIONS... 38

●PRINTING MULTIPLE PAGES ON ONE PAGE

(N-Up Printing)

●FITTING THE PRINTED IMAGE TO THE

PAPER (Fit To Paper Size)

●ROTATING THE PRINT IMAGE 180 DEGREES

(Rotate 180 degrees)

●ENLARGING/REDUCING THE PRINT IMAGE

(Zoom)

●PRINTING FAINT TEXT AND LINES IN BLACK

(Text To Black/Vector To Black)

●ADJUSTING THE BRIGHTNESS AND

CONTRAST OF THE IMAGE (Image
Adjustment)	41

●ADDING A WATERMARK TO PRINTED PAGES

(Watermark)	41
● TWO-SIDED PRINTING	42
SAVING FREQUENTLY USED PRINT
SETTINGS	43

●SAVING SETTINGS AT THE TIME OF

PRINTING (User Settings)	43
4 SCANNER FUNCTIONS
SCANNING OVERVIEW	44
OUTLINE OF SC-Scan A	45

●CONNECTING TO AND DISCONNECTING FROM THE SCANNER FUNCTION USING

SC-Scan A	46
SCANNING USING THE KEYS ON THE
MACHINE	47
● OUTLINE OF BUTTON MANAGER	48
● BUTTON MANAGER SETTINGS	49
SCANNING FROM YOUR COMPUTER	50

●SCANNING FROM A TWAIN-COMPLIANT

APPLICATION

●SCANNING FROM A WIA-COMPLIANT

APPLICATION (Windows XP/Vista)

●SCANNING FROM THE "Scanner and Camera

Wizard" (Windows XP)

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AR-5520N, AR-5516N specifications