Lexmark Monochrome Laser Complete Printer Reference (1.7 MB) - Page 121

Staple position When you print a staple job, your printer staples it in the upper-left corner, the customary location for staples in portrait orientation. If you are printing on larger paper sizes or if your print job is in landscape, reverse landscape, or reverse portrait orientation, and you want the staple to appear in the customary location, you need to either reformat your print job from the software application or rotate your print job using the printer driver. The following diagram shows the fixed staple position for the different paper sizes and orientations. A4, A5, B5, executive, and letter Portrait Landscape ABC A3, B4, legal, and 11x17 Portrait Landscape ABC ABC ABC Stapling in conjunction with other settings Collation setting If you set both Staple Job and Collation to On, the printer staples each copy set when you send a job to print. If you do not select collation and are printing multiple copies of a job, the printer staples each set of individual pages. For example, if you send four copies of a three-page job and do not set Collation to On, page 1 prints four times and then is stapled, then page 2 prints four times and is stapled, and so on. Job Offset setting You cannot both staple and offset a print job at the same time. If you select both settings, the printer staples the job and ignores your request for offsetting the job. See page 122 for more information about offsetting jobs. Output bins and bin linking Send staple jobs to bin 2 only. If you select bin 1, the printer ignores your request and sends the job to bin 2. If you link the two bins together and send a staple job, the printer Output options 121