TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS MANUAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

MANUALS PROVIDED WITH THE MACHINE . . . 3

BASIC PROCEDURE FOR MAKING

1 COPIES

BASE SCREEN OF COPY MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 COPYING SEQUENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 MAKING COPIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

USING THE AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER TO MAKE COPIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

MAKING A COPY USING THE DOCUMENT GLASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

AUTOMATIC 2-SIDED COPYING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

USING THE AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER TO MAKE 2-SIDED COPIES . . . . . . . . 15

AUTOMATIC 2-SIDED COPYING USING THE DOCUMENT GLASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

COPY COLOUR MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

SELECTING THE COLOUR MODE . . . . . . . . . . . 21

CHANGING THE EXPOSURE AND EXPOSURE MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF THE EXPOSURE AND EXPOSURE MODE . . . . . . . . 23

SELECTING THE EXPOSURE MODE AND MANUALLY ADJUSTING THE EXPOSURE LEVEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

REDUCTION/ENLARGEMENT/ZOOM . . . . . . . . . . . 26

AUTOMATIC RATIO SELECTION (Auto

Image) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

MANUALLY SELECTING THE RATIO (Preset

ratios/Zoom) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

ENLARGING/REDUCING THE LENGTH AND

WIDTH SEPARATELY (XY Zoom). . . . . . . . . . . . 30

ORIGINAL SIZES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

CHECKING THE ORIGINAL SIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

SPECIFYING THE ORIGINAL SIZE . . . . . . . . . . 35

STORING FREQUENTLY USED ORIGINAL SIZES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

OUTPUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

OUTPUT MODES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

MAKING COPIES USING THE BYPASS TRAY (Copying on special papers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

INTERRUPTING A COPY RUN (Interrupt copy) . . . 48

JOB STATUS SCREEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

JOB QUEUE SCREEN AND COMPLETED

JOB SCREEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

WHEN THE DOCUMENT FILING FUNCTION

IS USED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

2 CONVENIENT COPY FUNCTIONS

SPECIAL MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

[Image Edit] KEY AND [Colour Adjustments] KEY. . 57

ADDING MARGINS (Margin Shift) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

ERASING PERIPHERAL SHADOWS (Erase) . . . . . . . . 61

COPYING EACH FACING PAGE OF A BOUND DOCUMENT (Dual Page Copy). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

MAKING COPIES IN PAMPHLET FORMAT (Pamphlet Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

COPYING A LARGE NUMBER OF ORIGINALS

AT ONCE (Job Build) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

USING TWO MACHINES TO COPY A LARGE

NUMBER OF ORIGINALS (Tandem Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . 71

USING A DIFFERENT PAPER TYPE FOR

COVERS (Covers/Inserts). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

INSERTING COVERS IN COPIES (Cover

Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

INSERTING INSERT SHEETS IN COPIES

(Insert Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

CHANGING COVER/INSERT SETTINGS

(Page Layout) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

ADDING INSERTS WHEN COPYING ON TRANSPARENCY FILM (Transparency Inserts) . . . 85

COPYING MULTIPLE PAGES ONTO ONE

SHEET OF PAPER (Multi Shot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

COPYING A PAMPHLET (Book Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . 91

COPYING CAPTIONS ONTO TAB PAPER (Tab Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

RELATION BETWEEN THE ORIGINALS AND THE TAB PAPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

COPYING BOTH SIDES OF A CARD ON ONE

SHEET OF PAPER (Card Shot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

PRINTING THE DATE AND A STAMP ON

COPIES (Stamp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

ADDING THE DATE TO COPIES (Date) . . . . . . 103

STAMPING COPIES (Stamp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

PRINTING PAGE NUMBERS ON COPIES

(Page Numbering) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

PRINTING TEXT ON COPIES (Text) . . . . . . . . . 116

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