Control Panel Tutorial

Message Display (LCD)

The message display uses a liquid-crystal display representing status and errors by two lines of sixteen characters. In operating mode, it may show:

•What the printer is doing

•Whether the printer is ready to print

•When paper should be added

•When paper should be manually inserted

•When the toner bottle needs to be replaced

•When the print unit needs to be replaced

•An error message condition such as paper jam

Important:

✍ A "Ready" message means the printer has no data to print without

any errors and the button is not pressed. "Not Ready"

means the printer detected an error or the button was pressed in the Ready state.

Error messages inform you of conditions requiring your attention, such as TRAYn PAPER OUT, COVER OPEN n, or PAPER JAMn. They also warn you of hardware problems, such as FUSER FAILURE or BD CYCLE ERROR. The TONER LOW message informs you that the toner bottle needs replacement. See Chapter 6 for a complete list of messages and explanations.

In tray select mode or MFF paper size mode, the message display shows the selected tray or the selected paper size respectively. In menu mode, the message display shows menu items and option selections. These modes are explained later in this chapter.

PRINTING AND PAPER HANDLING

Buttons

One or two functions are assigned to a button. To use the functions represented by the top labels, simply press the button. To use the functions represented by the bottom labels, press and hold down the button for five or more seconds. The following tables summarizes the functions.

User’s Manual

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