Kyocera ECOSYS P5021cdw ECOSYS M5526/M5521/P5021/P5026 Series Printer Driver U - Page 35

Units, Selecting a Unit of Measurement, Language Preference, Description Languages (PDL)

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Device Settings Units You can set Inches or Millimeters as the unit of measurement. This is used for the following settings: Page Sizes settings in the Basic tab. Spacing setting in the Add Watermark and Edit Watermark dialog boxes in the Advanced tab. Poster settings and Gutter settings in the Layout tab. Selecting a Unit of Measurement 1 In Device Settings > User, select Inches or Millimeters. 2 Click OK in all dialog boxes. Language Preference The Language preference option specifies the user interface language of Device Settings in Properties and all tabs of Printing Preferences. Available languages vary depending on your locale and your computer settings. Setting Language Preference 1 In Device Settings > User, select the desired language from the Select language list. 2 Click OK in all dialog boxes. Page Description Languages (PDL) With Page Description Languages (PDL), you can specify the contents and layout of a printed page. In Device Settings, you can choose from PCL XL (Printer Command Language XL), PCL 5c, KPDL (Kyocera Page Description Language), or PDF (Portable Document Format). To add PDF to the list of PDL choices, you must install the Output to PDF plug-in. The printer default is PCL XL, which is suitable for most printing purposes. After you select a PDL, the selection appears in the lower corner of the overview image in Device Settings and in all Printing Preferences tabs. You can change the PDL temporarily from any Printing Preferences tab. In GDI compatible mode, vector graphics are rasterized for printing as bitmap images. Use the GDI compatible mode option to improve the output quality of the graphic created by the application. In a client/server environment, this feature is unavailable to a client logged in as a restricted user. If your application supports the XML Print Specification, then XPS printing can be performed after installing the XPS driver. With the XPS driver, the only available PDL is XPS. PDL Options The PDL options, available in the Page Description Languages (PDL) dialog box, are accessed in Device Settings. Printer Driver 3-15

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Device Settings
Printer Driver
3-15
Units
You can set
Inches
or
Millimeters
as the unit of measurement. This is used for
the following settings:
Page Sizes
settings in the
Basic
tab.
Spacing
setting in the
Add Watermark
and
Edit Watermark
dialog boxes in
the
Advanced
tab.
Poster
settings and
Gutter
settings in the
Layout
tab.
Selecting a Unit of Measurement
1
In
Device Settings
>
User
, select
Inches
or
Millimeters
.
2
Click
OK
in all dialog boxes.
Language Preference
The
Language preference
option specifies the user interface language of
Device Settings
in
Properties
and all tabs of
Printing Preferences
.
Available languages vary depending on your locale and your computer settings.
Setting Language Preference
1
In
Device Settings
>
User
, select the desired language from the
Select
language
list.
2
Click
OK
in all dialog boxes.
Page Description Languages (PDL)
With
Page Description Languages (PDL)
, you can specify the contents and
layout of a printed page. In
Device Settings
, you can choose from
PCL XL
(Printer Command Language XL),
PCL 5c
,
KPDL
(Kyocera Page Description
Language), or
PDF
(Portable Document Format). To add
PDF
to the list of PDL
choices, you must install the
Output to PDF
plug-in. The printer default is
PCL
XL
, which is suitable for most printing purposes.
After you select a PDL, the selection appears in the lower corner of the overview
image in
Device Settings
and in all
Printing Preferences
tabs. You can
change the PDL temporarily from any
Printing Preferences
tab.
In
GDI compatible mode
, vector graphics are rasterized for printing as bitmap
images. Use the
GDI compatible mode
option to improve the output quality of
the graphic created by the application.
In a client/server environment, this feature is unavailable to a client logged in as
a restricted user.
If your application supports the XML Print Specification, then XPS printing can
be performed after installing the XPS driver. With the XPS driver, the only
available PDL is
XPS
.
PDL Options
The PDL options, available in the
Page Description Languages (PDL)
dialog
box, are accessed in
Device Settings
.