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Setting up the Pi5500
Personality
Auto/PCL/PostScript [Auto]
In PCL or PostScript mode, the Pi5500 is restricted to PCL or PostScript jobs,
respectively. Jobs sent to the Pi5500 that do not match the personality selected on the
Pi5500 are not printed. In Auto mode, the Pi5500 switches to the appropriate page
description language for each job. For more information, see “PCL Setup options” on
page 2-44, “PS Setup options” on page 2-42, and the
Printing Guide.
Save Changes
Yes/No [Yes]
Select Yes to activate any changes made in the Printer Setup; select No to return to the
main Setup menu without making any changes.
PS Setup options
PS (PostScript) Setup options allow you to set defaults for Pi5500 behavior. Most of
these defaults can be overridden from within an application.
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OPTIONS
1.
In the main Setup menu, choose PS Setup.
2.
Enter the options appropriate to the printing requirements at the site.
3.
When you have finished, save changes.
In the list of options that follows, default values, where applicable, appear in square
brackets.
Default Paper Sizes
US/Metric [US in the United States, Metric elsewhere]
Specify whether to print on US paper sizes (for example, Letter, Legal, Tabloid), or
Metric paper sizes (for example, A4 or A3) by default. When no page size is defined
within a PostScript file, jobs are printed on Letter paper if you selected US; A4 paper if
you selected Metric.
