Utilities Menu
Use the Utilities Menu to print a variety of listings relating to available printer resources, printer settings, and print jobs. Other menu items let you set up printer hardware and troubleshoot printer problems.
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Color | To print a color alignment test page, | 0...20 (10*) | Used to indicate which line is most | |
Alignment | which can be used to properly align |
| acceptable for alignments A...L. | |
| how colors are printed. |
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| You are prompted to enter alignment |
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| values for each setting (A...L). |
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Coverage | Provides an estimate of the percent | Off* | Percent coverage is not printed. | |
Estimator | coverage of cyan, magenta, yellow, |
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On | Prints the estimated percentage of | |||
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| coverage for each color on the page. | ||
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Defragment | To retrieve storage area lost when | Yes | Printer transfers all resources stored in | |
Flash | resources are deleted from flash |
| flash memory to printer memory and | |
| memory. |
| then reformats the flash memory | |
| Warning: Do not turn off the printer |
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| complete, the resources are loaded | ||
| while the flash is defragmenting. |
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| back into flash memory. | ||
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| No | Printer cancels the request to | |
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| defragment the flash memory. | |
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Factory | To return your printer settings to the | Restore | • All menu items are returned to the | |
Defaults | factory default values. |
| factory default values except: | |
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| Serial Menu, Network Menu, and | |
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| USB Menu. | |
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| • All downloaded resources (fonts, | |
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| macros, and symbol sets) in printer | |
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| memory (RAM) are deleted. | |
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| memory or on the hard disk are | |
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Format Disk | To format the printer hard disk. | Yes | Deletes any data stored on the hard | |
| Warning: Do not turn off the printer |
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| receive new resources. | ||
| while the hard disk is formatting. |
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| No | Cancels the request to format the hard | |
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| disk and leaves current resources | |
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| stored on the disk. | |
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Format Flash | To format the flash memory. | Yes | Deletes any data stored in flash | |
| Warning: Do not turn off the printer |
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| memory to receive new resources. | ||
| while the flash is formatting. |
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| No | Cancels the request to format the flash | |
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| memory and leaves current resources | |
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| stored in flash memory. | |
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Hex Trace | To help isolate the source of a print job problem. With Hex Trace selected, all data sent to the | |||
| printer is printed in hexadecimal and character representation. Control codes are not executed. | |||
| To exit Hex Trace, turn the printer off or reset the printer from the Job Menu. | |||
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