Understanding the operator panel

Finishing Menu

Use the Finishing Menu to define how the printer delivers the printed output.

Note: Values marked by an asterisk (*) are the factory default settings.

Menu item

Purpose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Values

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blank Pages

To specify whether to include

 

 

Do Not Print*

Does not print application-generated

 

application-generated blank pages as

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

blank pages as part of your job.

 

part of your printed output.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Print

 

 

 

Prints application-generated blank

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pages as part of your job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collation

To keep the pages of a print job

 

 

Off*

 

 

 

Prints each page of a job the number

 

stacked in sequence when printing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

of times specified by the Copies menu

 

multiple copies of the job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

item. For example, if you set Copies to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 and send three pages to print, the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

printer prints page 1, page 1, page 2,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

page 2, page 3, page 3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On

 

 

 

Prints entire job the number of times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

specified by the Copies menu item. For

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

example, if you set Copies to 2 and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

send three pages to print, the printer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

prints page 1, page 2, page 3, page 1,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

page 2, page 3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copies

To set the number of copies you want

 

 

1...999 (1*)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for the printer default value. (Set the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

number of copies required for a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

specific job from the printer driver.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Values selected from the printer driver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

always override values selected from

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the operator panel.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multipage

To print a border around each page

 

 

None*

 

 

 

Does not print a border around each

Border

image when using Multipage Print.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

page image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solid

 

 

 

Prints a solid line border around each

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

page image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multipage

To determine the positioning of

 

 

Horizontal*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Order

multiple page images when using

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vertical

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multipage Print. The positioning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

depends on the number of images and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rev Horizontal

 

 

 

 

 

 

whether the images are portrait or

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

landscape in orientation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rev Vertical

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For example, if you select 4-Up multipage printing and portrait orientation, the results differ

 

depending on the Multipage Order value you select:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horizontal Order

Vertical Order

 

Reverse

 

Reverse

 

 

Horizontal Order

 

Vertical Order

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

2

 

 

1

 

3

 

 

 

2

 

1

 

3

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

4

 

 

2

 

4

 

 

 

4

 

3

 

4

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lexmark 340, 342n manual Finishing Menu

342n, 340 specifications

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