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| 1. To | select | a | new | value, Continue/Enterpress | the | key when the value is displayed |
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| 3. If you are unfamiliar with using | the | operator | panel to work with menus, please | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| “Using the Operator Panel Keys” on | page 10 | and | “Navigating | Menus” | on | page 12 |
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entire page without compression before it prints the page. This can help in the rare case where the printer compression scheme causes a loss of quality in complex graphics. This setting is available only when the printer has enough
memory. See “Memory Requirements” on page 3 for more information.
COPIES | nnn | Specifies | how | many copies | of | each | job | to | print. nnn can be from | |||
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PAGESIZE | LETTER* | Specifies | the | default | page | size | for | PCL5e | jobs. | |||
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ORIENTATION | P* | Specifies | the | default | page | orientation. |
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Chapter 5. Operator Panel Menus85
