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OperationThis chapter provides a broad outline of how to operate your printer in the PCL
emulation from either a Windows or a Macintosh environment.
P
RINTER
SETTINGS
IN
W
INDOWS
The operator panel controlled menus provide access to many options.
The Windows printer driver also contains settings for many of these items. Where items
in the printer driver are the same as those in the operator panel, and you print
documents from Windows, the settings in the Windows printer driver will override those
settings in the operator panel.
P
RINTING
PREFERENCES
IN
W
INDOWS
APPLICATIONS
When you choose to print your document from a Windows application program a Print
dialog box appears. This dialog usually specifies the name of the printer on which you
will print your document. Next to the printer name is a Properties button.
When you click Properties a new window opens which contains a short list of the
printer settings available in the driver, which you can choose for this document. The
settings available from within your application are only those which you may want to
change for specific applications or documents. Settings you change here will usually
only last for as long as the particular application program is running.
The tabs available are the Setup Tab, the Job Options Tab and the Image Tab.
S
ETUP
TAB
1. Paper size should be the same as the page size of your document (unless you
wish to scale the printout to fit another size), and should also be the same as the
size of paper you will feed into the printer.
Note
The illustrations in this guide relate to Windows XP PCL emulation –
other operating system windows may appear slightly different but the
principles are the same.