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Back to Contents Page Printing Tips for Successful Printing Sending a Job to Print Canceling a Print Job Printing a Report Page Using the Print and Hold Function This chapter covers tips for printing, how to print certain lists of information from your printer, and how to cancel a job. Tips for Successful Printing Tips on Storing Print Media Store your print media properly. For more information, see "Storing Print Media". Avoiding Paper Jams NOTE: It is recommended that you try a limited sample of any print media you are considering using with the printer before purchasing large quantities. By selecting appropriate print media and loading it properly, you can avoid paper jams. See the following instructions on loading print media: "Loading Print Media in the Standard and Optional Trays" (which includes the tray 1 and the optional 550 sheet feeder) "Loading the MPF" "Avoiding Jams" If you experience a jam, see "Clearing Jams" for instructions. Sending a Job to Print To support all of the printer features, use the printer driver. When you choose Print from a software program, a window representing the printer driver opens. Select the appropriate settings for the specific job you are sending to print. Print settings selected from the driver override the default menu settings selected from the operator panel or Tool Box. You may need to click Preferences from the initial Print box to see all of the available system settings you can change. If you are not familiar with a feature in the printer driver window, open the online Help for more information. To print a job from a typical Windows® application: 1. Open the file you want to print. 2. From the File menu, select Print. 3. Verify that the correct printer is selected in the dialog box. Modify the printer settings as appropriate (such as the pages you want to print or the number of copies). 4. Click Preferences to adjust system settings not available from the first screen, and then click OK. 5. Click OK or Print to send the job to the selected printer.

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Back to Contents Page
Printing
Tips for Successful Printing
Sending a Job to Print
Canceling a Print Job
Printing a Report Page
Using the Print and Hold Function
This chapter covers tips for printing, how to print certain lists of information from your printer, and how to cancel a job.
Tips for Successful Printing
Tips on Storing Print Media
Store your print media properly. For more information, see
"Storing Print Media"
.
Avoiding Paper Jams
NOTE:
It is recommended that you try a limited sample of any print media you are considering using with the
printer before purchasing large quantities.
By selecting appropriate print media and loading it properly, you can avoid paper jams. See the following instructions on
loading print media:
"
Loading Print Media in the Standard and Optional Trays
" (which includes the tray 1 and the optional 550 sheet
feeder)
"
Loading the MPF
"
"
Avoiding Jams
"
If you experience a jam, see
"Clearing Jams"
for instructions.
Sending a Job to Print
To support all of the printer features, use the printer driver. When you choose
Print
from a software program, a window
representing the printer driver opens. Select the appropriate settings for the specific job you are sending to print. Print
settings selected from the driver override the default menu settings selected from the operator panel or Tool Box.
You may need to click
Preferences
from the initial
Print
box to see all of the available system settings you can change.
If you are not familiar with a feature in the printer driver window, open the online Help for more information.
To print a job from a typical Windows
®
application:
1. Open the file you want to print.
2. From the
File
menu, select
Print
.
3. Verify that the correct printer is selected in the dialog box. Modify the printer settings as appropriate (such as the
pages you want to print or the number of copies).
4. Click
Preferences
to adjust system settings not available from the first screen, and then click
OK
.
5. Click
OK
or
Print
to send the job to the selected printer.