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1 Introduction
Congratulations on the purchase of your printer!
This chapter includes:
• Special features
• Printer overview
• Finding more information
Special features
Your new printer is equipped with several special features that improve
the print quality. You can:
Print with excellent quality and high speed
• You can print up to 1200 x 1200 dpi effective
output. See the Software Section.
• Your printer prints A4-sized paper at up to 33 ppma
and letter-sized paper at up to 35 ppm.
• For duplex printing, your printer prints A4-sized
paper at up to 17 ipmb and letter-sized paper at up
to 18 ipm.
a. pages per minute
b. images per minute
Handle paper flexibly
• The multi-purpose tray supports letterheads,
envelopes, labels, transparencies, custom-sized
materials, postcards, and heavy paper. The multi-
purpose tray holds up to 50 sheets of plain paper.
• The 250-sheet tray 1 and 250-sheet optional tray 2
support plain paper in various sizes.
• Two output trays; select either the output tray (face-
down) or the rear cover (face-up) for the most
convenient access.
• Straight-through paper path capability from the
multi-purpose tray to the rear cover.
Create professional documents
• Print Watermarks. You can customize your
documents with words, such as “Confidential.” See
the Software Section.
• Print Booklets. This feature enables you to easily
print a document to create a book. Once printed, all
you have to do is fold and staple the pages. See the
Software Section.
• Print Posters. The text and pictures of each page of
your document are magnified and printed across
the sheet of paper and can then be taped together
to form a poster. See the Software Section.
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• This printer allows you to use toner save mode to
save toner. See page2.5.
• You can print on both sides of the paper to save
paper. See the Software Section.
• You can print multiple pages on a single sheet of
paper to save paper. See the Software Section.
• You can use preprinted forms and letterhead with
plain paper. See the Software Section.
• This printer automatically conserves electricity
by substantially reducing power consumption
when not in use.
Expand the printer capacity
• ML-3470D has 32 MB of memory which can be
expanded to 288 MB. ML-3471ND has 64 MB of
memory which can be expanded to 320 MB. See
page 10.1.
• ML-3471ND comes with a built-in network
interface, 10/100 Base TX.
• You can also add an optional wireless network
interface card to ML-3471ND only.
• You can add a 250-sheet optional tray 2 to your
printer. This tray lets you add paper to the printer
less often.
• A PostScript 3 Emulation* (PS) enables PS
printing.
* Zoran IPS Emulation compatible with PostScript 3
• © Copyright 1995-2005, Zoran Corporation.
All rights reserved. Zoran, the Zoran logo,
IPS/PS3 and OneImage are trademarks of
Zoran Corporation.
* 136 PS3 fonts
• Contains UFST and MicroType from Monotype Imaging Inc.
Print in various environments
• You can print with various operating system such as Windows, Linux
and Macintosh systems.
• Your printer comes with both Parallel and USB interfaces.