Kyocera TASKalfa 520i 420i/520i Printer Driver User Guide Rev-10.5 - Page 25

KX DRIVER Device Settings PCL 5e Fully compatible with earlier PCL versions Bidirectional communication support Wide selection of fonts for use with Microsoft Windows applications Complex graphics might not print as well KPDL KPDL is used when printing from applications that support PostScript 2 or 3. An emulation of PostScript printing Strong graphics reproduction Print speeds may be slower than PCL 5e Requires more printing system memory than PCL 5e Enables native TrueType font downloading Supports most Graphics settings options PDF Output to PDF is a plug-in that lets you print or save documents from multiple sources to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). The PDF format is independent of the operating system and application software used to create documents. Note: With PDF selected as the PDL, only a limited set of driver options is available. Use as an alternative to existing commercial applications for creating PDF documents. Documents saved as PDF retain their original appearance, and can be viewed and printed with the free Adobe Reader on Windows, Mac OS, and UNIX platforms. Selecting PDL Options You can select a page description language from PDL options. 1 In Device Settings > PDL, select the desired page description language from the Select PDL list. 2 Select the GDI compatible mode option to improve the output quality of graphics created by your application. 3 Settings is available when the PDL is set to KPDL or PDF. If you select KPDL as the PDL, you can click Settings to open the KPDL Settings dialog box. Select the Allow data passthrough check box to reduce errors when printing complex jobs from applications that use PostScript formatting. Note that if you select Allow data passthrough, EMF spooling is not available in the Advanced tab. If you select PDF as the PDL, you can click Settings to open the PDF Settings dialog box. 4 Click OK in the PDL Settings dialog box. 2-11