Maintaining the MFP

Conserving supplies

Several settings in your application software or through the touch screen let you conserve toner and paper. For more information on changing these settings, see the Menus and Messages Guide on the Software and Documentation CD.

Supply

Menu selection item

What the setting does

Toner

Toner Darkness; touch the

Lets you adjust the level of toner released on a sheet of print media.

 

Menus button Æ Printer

The values range from 1 (lightest setting) to 10 (darkest setting).

 

Settings Æ Quality Menu

Note: When toner is low, firmly shake the cartridge to redistribute

 

 

 

 

any remaining toner. See Ordering a toner cartridge or

 

 

photoconductor for more information.

 

 

 

Print media

Multipage Print; touch the Menus

Causes the MFP to print two or more page images on one side of a

 

button Æ Printer Settings Æ

sheet. Values for Multipage Print are 2 Up, 3 Up, 4 Up, 6 Up, 9 Up, 12

 

Finishing Menu

Up, and 16 Up. Combined with the duplex setting, Multipage Print

 

 

lets you print up to 32 pages on one sheet of paper (16 images on

 

 

the front and 16 on the back).

 

 

 

 

Duplex; touch the Menus

Duplex printing is available when you have a duplex unit. It lets you

 

button Æ Printer Settings Æ

print on both sides of a sheet of paper.

 

Finishing Menu

 

 

 

 

 

Use your software application or

Lets you examine the first copy of a multiple-copy job to be sure it is

 

MFP driver to send a Verify Print

satisfactory before you print the other copies. If the job is

 

job.

unsatisfactory, you can cancel the job.

 

 

See Printing and deleting held jobs for more information about a

 

 

Verify Print job.

 

 

 

Ordering supplies

To order supplies 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 the MFP.

Ordering a toner cartridge or photoconductor

When the Toner Low message appears, you should order a new toner cartridge.

When the PC unit life warning message appears, you should order a new photoconductor.

You need to have a new toner cartridge or photoconductor available when the current one no longer prints satisfactorily. The following table lists the part numbers for ordering these items.

Part number

Description

X850H21G

Toner cartridge

 

 

X850H22G

Photoconductor

 

 

Maintenance kit

80Scheduled Maintenance appears on the display after 300,000 pages have printed to let you know it is time to replace MFP maintenance items. Order a maintenance kit when 80 Scheduled Maintenance first appears on the display. The maintenance kit contains all the items necessary to replace the pick rollers, the fuser, and the transfer roller.

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