Lexmark C524 Maintaining the printer, Determining the status of supplies, Conserving supplies

8 Maintaining the printer

The following sections deal with topics for a network administrator in charge of the printer.

Periodically, certain tasks need completion to maintain optimum print quality. These tasks are covered in this chapter.

If several people are using the printer, designate a key operator to do the setup and maintenance of the printer. Refer printing problems and maintenance tasks to this key operator.

In the U.S., contact Lexmark at 1-800-539-6275 for information about Lexmark Authorized Supplies Dealers in your area. In other countries or regions, visit the Lexmark Web site at www.lexmark.com or contact the place where you bought your printer.

Determining the status of supplies

To determine the status of all of the consumables installed in the printer, print the menu settings page.

See Printing the menu settings page for detailed instructions.

One or more pages print, depending on the number of menu settings the printer has. Look for “Consumable Status” on the page; the percentage of life remaining for each of the items is indicated.

Conserving supplies

Several settings in the application software or on the display conserve toner and paper:

Supply	Setting	What the setting does	Other resources
Toner cartridge	Toner Darkness in	Allows adjustment of the level of toner	Toner Darkness in the
	the Quality Menu	released on a sheet of media. The values	Menus and Messages Guide
	in Settings	range from 1 (lightest setting) to 5 (darkest	on the publications CD
		setting).
Paper and specialty	Multipage Print in	Causes the printer to print the two or more	Multipage Print in the Menus
media	the Finishing	page images on one side of a sheet. Values	and Messages Guide on the
	Menu in Settings	for Multipage Print are 2 Up, 3 Up, 4 Up, 6	publications CD
		Up, 9 Up, 12 Up, and 16 Up. Combined with
		the duplex setting, Multipage Print allows up
		to 32 pages to print on one sheet of paper
		(16 images on the front and 16 on the back).
	Duplex in the	Duplex (two-sided) printing allows printing on	Duplex in the Menus and
	Finishing Menu	both sides of a sheet of paper.	Messages Guide on the
	in Settings		publications CD
	Use the software	Allows time to examine the first copy of a	See Verify Print
	application or	multiple-copy job to be sure it is satisfactory	See Canceling a print job
	printer driver to	before printing the other copies. If the job is
			Held Jobs in the Menus and
	send a Verify Print	unsatisfactory, cancel the job.
	job.		Messages Guide on the
	Use Held Jobs to		publications CD
			See Using the Print and
	access a Verify
	Print job.		Hold function

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