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ONTENTS

Chapter 1: Introduction .........................................................5

About this book ....................................................5
How to access the driver screens ............................6

Windows drivers...............................................6
PCL saved driver settings...................................8

Setting the driver device options.............................9

Windows .........................................................9
Mac OS9 .........................................................9
Mac OS X in Classic Mode ................................ 11
Mac OS X ...................................................... 11

Chapter 2: Blacks and greys ................................................ 13

Black overprint ................................................... 13
Black printing (black generation) .......................... 15

Composite black ............................................. 15
True (pure) black ........................................... 15

Fine lines enhancement ....................................... 19
Greyscale printing............................................... 20

Chapter 3: Colour matching ................................................. 25

Basics ............................................................... 25
What this guide describes .................................... 26
Printer colour management .................................. 27

Introduction................................................... 27
About RGB and CMYK colour ............................ 28

Office colour....................................................... 29

Office colour - RGB options .............................. 30
Customising RGB office colour

with the colour correct utility (Windows) .......... 35

Graphic pro........................................................ 36

Types of ICC profile supported ......................... 37
Graphic pro workflow – overview ...................... 38
Matching the colour of

a monitor, scanner or camera......................... 41

Simulating another printer – RGB source

data............................................................ 48

CMYK ink simulations – CMYK source data ......... 56
Rendering intents ........................................... 62
Pure black text / graphics ................................ 63
Colour match precision.................................... 63
Printer driver settings for

ICC profile creation or no colour matching........ 64

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Page 1: ...PRINTING GUIDE C9600n C9600dn C9600hdn C9600hdtn C9600 C9000...

Page 2: ...ressed or implied as to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained herein The most up to date drivers and manuals are available from the OKI Printing Solutions website http www okiprint...

Page 3: ...matching 25 Basics 25 What this guide describes 26 Printer colour management 27 Introduction 27 About RGB and CMYK colour 28 Office colour 29 Office colour RGB options 30 Customising RGB office colou...

Page 4: ...m page size 82 Duplex double sided printing 88 Mac OS X 91 Printing multiple pages on one sheet N up 92 Poster printing 95 Scale to page 96 Watermarks 97 Chapter 5 Secure printing 101 Sending the docu...

Page 5: ...on a cross reference within Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader also supplied on the Manuals CD the display will instantly jump to the part of the manual containing the referenced material By using the but...

Page 6: ...ecome the driver defaults This means they will remain active for all your applications unless you specifically change them from within the application s Print dialogue 2 From your application s Print...

Page 7: ...inters window 2 In the Printers window right click on the appropriate printer driver icon and choose Properties from the context menu CHANGING THE APPLICATION S DRIVER SETTINGS Windows 1 In your appli...

Page 8: ...st before any job specific changes are made Rather than repeat the procedure throughout this manual it is described here SAVING A SET OF DRIVER SETTINGS 1 Make any changes to the driver settings you w...

Page 9: ...driver This procedure is essential if you subsequently add extra hardware features to your printer after the drivers have been installed and set up WINDOWS 1 Access the driver s Properties window See...

Page 10: ...ly 4 Click OK to save your settings CONFIGURING HARDWARE OPTIONS FROM CHOOSER APPLETALK ONLY Use this method if you do not use Deskop Printing 1 In the Apple menu select Chooser 2 Select the printer d...

Page 11: ...automatically detected Printers connected via USB It is not possible to change printer hardware options for printers connected via USB in Classic Mode If you change the hardware configuration of your...

Page 12: ...12 Setting the driver device options 2 Choose Printers Show Info Installable Options 3 Select all hardware options appropriate to your printer and click Apply Changes...

Page 13: ...printing 100 percent black text over a background colour Black Overprint may not be available with some software applications NOTES 1 The Black Overprint feature is not included in the Windows PCL 6...

Page 14: ...er model 3 Select Colour Options 2 4 Select the Black Overprint checkbox 3 MAC OS X 1 Choose File Print 2 From the Printer menu 1 select your printer model 3 Select Printer Features 2 4 From the Featu...

Page 15: ...genta yellow and black toners are combined to create composite black This will sometimes give a glossier finish due to the increased amount of toner It can also sometimes appear as a slightly brownish...

Page 16: ...Options button 2 On Black Finish 2 make your selection Auto allow printer to choose the best method depending on page content True Black or Composite Black WINDOWS GRAPHIC PRO 1 On the driver s Colour...

Page 17: ...printer 3 In the next menu 2 select Colour Office Colour 4 For Black Finish menu choose your preferred setting MAC OS 9 GRAPHIC PRO 1 From the File menu select Print 2 From the Printer menu 1 select...

Page 18: ...om the Feature Sets menu 3 select Colour Office Colour 5 For Black Finish menu 4 choose your preferred setting MAC OS X GRAPHIC PRO 1 From the File menu select Print 2 From the Printer menu 1 select y...

Page 19: ...applications if this feature is turned ON the spaces in bar codes may become too narrow If this happens turn Adjust Ultra Fine Lines OFF NOTE This is a feature of the Windows PCL 5c driver only 1 In t...

Page 20: ...p tab choose any previously saved driver settings you need See Recalling saved driver settings on page 8 2 On the driver s Colour tab click Greyscale then click Advanced Some applications will attempt...

Page 21: ...Greyscale printing 21 3 On the Colour tab click Greyscale and then click Options if you want to adjust brightness and contrast...

Page 22: ...ct Colour Options 4 From the Colour Mode menu 3 select Greyscale 5 Select Always Use Printer Halftone checkbox 4 This ensures best quality when using greyscale 6 From the menu below Printer 5 select J...

Page 23: ...Printer Features 4 From the Feature Sets menu 3 select Colour Options 5 From the Colour Mode menu 4 select Greyscale 6 Select Always Use Printer Halftone checkbox 5 This ensures best quality when usi...

Page 24: ...24 Greyscale printing...

Page 25: ...ir own built in colour management systems See page 64 Most applications do not have these colour management features and rely instead on the printer or operating system 2 Operating System Colour Manag...

Page 26: ...e see the documentation that was supplied with your application software or computer IMPORTANT Only use one colour management system if you want the best results from your printer If you wish to use y...

Page 27: ...ur but want good results when printing from programs such as Microsoft Office Graphic Pro 3b See page 36 This is a powerful colour management system based on ICC colour profiles Profiles can be downlo...

Page 28: ...lour you should assume that it only supports RGB The RGB colour model is based on the three primary colours of light Red Green and Blue This model is used by scanners digital cameras and computer moni...

Page 29: ...ngly recommended that you use the Graphic Pro options instead If you are printing CMYK data the Graphic Pro options provide more power and flexibility RGB OPTIONS CMYK OPTIONS POSTSCRIPT ONLY Monitor...

Page 30: ...for printing photographs Colours are printed with emphasis on saturation Monitor 6500K Vivid Optimized for printing photographs and for office graphics The printer uses even more saturation than the M...

Page 31: ...DOWS This information applies to the Windows PCL 5c PCL 6 and PostScript drivers 1 On the printer driver Colour tab select Office Colour 1 and click the Options button 2 Select a preset from Colour ma...

Page 32: ...File Print 2 From the Printer menu 1 select your printer model 3 Select Colour Options 2 4 From the Colour Mode menu 3 select Office Colour 5 Select Colour Office Colour 4 6 Select the Office Colour...

Page 33: ...r IMPORTANT When printing from some applications on Mac OS X these RGB colour match options may not affect the colour of your print If you discover that the colour of your print has not changed after...

Page 34: ...34 Office colour 6 From the Feature Sets menu 5 select Colour Office Colour 7 Select the Office Colour Preset 6 you wish to use 5 6...

Page 35: ...orrect utility provides two methods for adjusting the Office Colour settings 1 You can adjust the overall appearance of the print by modifying Hue Saturation and Gamma 2 You can adjust the specific pa...

Page 36: ...flexible Here are some examples of how the Graphic Pro colour matching system can be used MATCHING PRINTER COLOUR TO AN RGB INPUT DEVICE By using the ICC profiles of a scanner digital camera or monito...

Page 37: ...put Profile may also be your monitor profile if you are trying to match to your screen CMYK Simulation CMYK input These profiles describe the CMYK device whose colours you are trying to simulate Typic...

Page 38: ...2 Select a printer If this is the first time you have used Profile Assistant you should allow the utility to search for compatible printers PROFILE TYPE WHERE TO GET PROFILES RGB Source RGB Input Obt...

Page 39: ...profile from your computer s hard disk c Once you have selected a profile you can add it to the printer as one of the 4 profile types RGB Source CMYK Simulation Printer or Linked The options availabl...

Page 40: ...ES IN THE PRINTER DRIVER What you select in the printer driver depends on the colour matching task that you wish to perform Examples of selecting ICC profiles for different colour matching tasks are s...

Page 41: ...profile and printer profile optional to the printer hard disk using Profile Assistant See Using Profile Assistant on page 38 Once the profile s have been downloaded make the appropriate selections in...

Page 42: ...he following selections in the printer driver 1 On the printer driver Colour tab select Graphic Pro 1 and click Options 2 Select ICC Profile Colour Matching 2 3 Select the ICC profile that corresponds...

Page 43: ...have created a printer profile yourself using profile creation software select it here Tip If you have selected your own printer output profile 4 you will also be able to adjust the rendering intent...

Page 44: ...your monitor scanner or digital camera 6 Remember that the names RGB Source 1 RGB Source 2 and so on relate to the number assigned to the profile using Profile Assistant See Using Profile Assistant o...

Page 45: ...elect it here and choose a rendering intent see page 62 MAC OS X 1 Choose File Print 2 From the Printer menu 1 select your printer model 3 Select Printer Features 2 4 From the Feature Sets menu 3 sele...

Page 46: ...hic pro 6 From the Feature Sets menu 5 select Colour Graphic Pro 1 7 From the Colour Matching Task menu 6 select ICC Profile Colour Matching 8 From the Feature Sets menu 7 select Colour Graphic Pro 2...

Page 47: ...assigned to the profile using Profile Assistant See Using Profile Assistant on page 38 10 From the Feature Sets menu select Colour Graphic Pro 3 9 11 From the Printer Output Profile menu select your p...

Page 48: ...1 RGB data 4 Printed document 2 RGB source profile 5 Scanner monitor camera etc 3 Printer output profile 6 Leave on Auto or select your custom profile IMPORTANT Be aware that if the device you are try...

Page 49: ...selections in the printer driver 1 On the printer driver Colour tab select Graphic Pro 1 and click Options 2 Select Printer Simulation 2 3 Select the ICC profile that corresponds to the device used t...

Page 50: ...printed using only black toner enable the Preserve Black option Although this produces a better quality print the black and grey colours will not be simulated accurately 5 Select your printer output...

Page 51: ...her printer by making the following selections in the printer driver 1 Choose File Print 2 From the Printer menu 1 select your printer model 3 Select Colour Options 2 4 Choose Colour Mode Graphic Pro...

Page 52: ...ce 2 and so on relate to the number assigned to the profile using Profile Assistant See Using Profile Assistant on page 38 If you wish to produce black and grey colours that are printed using only bla...

Page 53: ...de menu 4 select Graphic Pro 6 From the Feature Sets menu 5 select Colour Graphic Pro 1 7 From the Colour Matching Task menu 6 select Printer Simulation If you wish to produce black and grey colours t...

Page 54: ...er that the names RGB Source 1 RGB Source 2 and so on relate to the number assigned to the profile using Profile Assistant See Using Profile Assistant on page 38 10 From the Simulation Target Profile...

Page 55: ...ter Output Profile menu 11 select your printer profile If Auto is selected the factory default profiles that are embedded in the printer will be used If you have created a printer profile yourself usi...

Page 56: ...K ink simulations using the Office Colour options in the printer driver we recommend that you use the Graphic Pro colour matching system to perform CMYK ink simulations as this provides additional con...

Page 57: ...elect the CMYK Input profile 3 that corresponds to the device you are trying to match such as a SWOP or Euroscale Press If you have another CMYK Ink profile that you wish to use select it here as the...

Page 58: ...a printer profile yourself using profile creation software select it here If you have selected a profile other than Auto select the Rendering Intent 5 See Rendering intents on page 62 MAC OS 9 CLASSI...

Page 59: ...te to the number assigned to the profile using Profile Assistant See Using Profile Assistant on page 38 Use the Preserve Black option to keep the original grey component K channel information If Prese...

Page 60: ...Feature Sets menu 3 select Colour Options 5 From the Colour Mode menu 4 select Graphic Pro 6 From the Feature Sets menu 5 select Colour Graphic Pro 1 7 From the Colour Matching Task menu 6 select ICC...

Page 61: ...as the appropriate CMYK Source x profile Remember that the names CMYK Source 1 etc relate to the number assigned to the profile using Profile Assistant See Using Profile Assistant on page 38 11 From...

Page 62: ...nto the printer s range whilst keeping the relationships between the colours the same SATURATION This option is recommended for printing business graphics if you want vivid colours This will not neces...

Page 63: ...nted using pure black toner This means that the following colours in your documents will be printed using only 100 black toner RGB Red 0 Green 0 Blue 0 CMYK Cyan 0 Yellow 0 Magenta 0 Black 100 COLOUR...

Page 64: ...are using your application colour matching select Use Application Colour Matching This option switches off all printer colour management Mac OS 9 page 65 Mac OS X page 66 WINDOWS 1 On the printer driv...

Page 65: ...raphic Pro 5 Select Colour Graphic Pro 1 4 6 From the Colour Matching Task menu 5 select Disable Colour Matching for Profile Creation if you are creating an ICC profile using third party profile creat...

Page 66: ...nu 4 select Graphic Pro 6 From the Feature Sets menu 5 select Colour Graphic Pro 1 7 From the Colour Matching Task menu 6 select Disable Colour Matching for Profile Creation if you are creating an ICC...

Page 67: ...pling and hole punching It can also print posters as a series of tiles that can be joined together to make a large poster or print on very long media for banner displays For detailed information on fi...

Page 68: ...t do 3 This feature is not available in the Macintosh drivers 4 This feature is not available in the Windows 98 PostScript driver When using the PostScript driver if you plan to print a long document...

Page 69: ...In the driver s Layout tab choose Booklet from the Pages Per Sheet drop down list 2 Check that the duplex option is set to Flip on Short Edge NOTE If the Booklet choice is not shown check that the Du...

Page 70: ...ick Options 3 In the Options window you can set the signature size see page 68 the number of pages per side of paper and the binding margin if your document is going to be thick The graphic in this wi...

Page 71: ...d may send the job multiple times to the printer Generally this method is slower but can be more reliable Printer collate This section describes the collate function built into the printer driver In t...

Page 72: ...er on the Setup tab first choose any saved driver settings that you wish to use See Recalling saved driver settings on page 8 2 In the Job Options tab choose how many copies you want to print from the...

Page 73: ...Enter the number of copies 3 you wish to print 5 Select Job Options 4 6 Select the Collate checkbox 5 to enable printer collate NOTE The illustrations here show the Apple LaserWriter driver which use...

Page 74: ...t Copies Pages 2 The Collate option in the Copies Pages dialogue is for application collate See page 71 4 Enter the number of copies 3 you wish to print 5 Select Printer Features 4 6 From the Feature...

Page 75: ...ng facility that indicates the relative densities of each of the four toner colours in your print document The darker an area appears the more of the corresponding toner colour will be used when print...

Page 76: ...Colour separation MAC OS9 1 Choose File Print 2 From the printer menu 1 select your printer model 3 Select Colour Options 2 4 From the Separations menu 3 select the separations you wish to print 1 2...

Page 77: ...Choose File Print 2 From the printer menu 1 select your printer model 3 Select Printer Features 2 4 From the Feature Sets menu 3 select Colour Options 5 From the Separations menu 4 select the separat...

Page 78: ...when the first page cover of a print job is fed from one paper tray and the remaining pages of the print job are fed from a different tray See Cover print on page 80 WINDOWS SEPARATOR PAGE The separa...

Page 79: ...ter menu 1 select your printer model 3 Select Cover Page 2 4 Select the required options for the cover page 3 MAC OS X COVER PAGE The cover page is accessed from your application s print dialogue 1 Ch...

Page 80: ...th Cover Page A Cover Page is an identification sheet inserted between the print jobs of a network printer See Separating queued print jobs on page 78 WINDOWS PCL 1 In the Setup tab choose any saved d...

Page 81: ...4 From Paper Source 3 select the trays or paper types you wish to use for the first page and remaining pages MAC OS X 1 Choose File Print 2 From the Printer menu 1 select your printer model 3 Select P...

Page 82: ...ctual limits vary slightly depending on which printer driver you use and your computer s operating system Some applications software may not produce the desired results with non standard print media s...

Page 83: ...e to perpendicular direction adds to your left margin Offset relative to parallel direction adds to your top margin normal feed or bottom margin flipped feed 5 Click OK to close the PostScript Custom...

Page 84: ...list choose one of the available custom paper sizes 2 If this is a previously saved custom size that you wish to use click OK to close the Printer Properties window 3 To create a new custom size a Cl...

Page 85: ...ed Options window click Custom Size If you have previously saved any special custom sizes they will be listed in the Custom Size window 4 To use a previously saved custom size click its name in the li...

Page 86: ...inter s actual paper size from the Conversion drop down list MAC OS 9 NOTE The illustration in this procedure shows the Apple LaserWriter driver The procedure is almost identical in the Adobe PostScri...

Page 87: ...se File Page Setup 2 Select Custom Page Size 1 3 Click the New button 2 to define a new paper size and enter a name for the paper size 4 Enter the Width and Height 3 of your paper 5 Specify paper marg...

Page 88: ...ock of 75 120 g m If you experience excessive curling with 75 90 g m paper use 105 g m Use standard sized paper stock only e g A4 A3 Letter etc Load the paper print side up Ream wrappers are usually m...

Page 89: ...he usual choice is Short Edge Choosing Off turns off duplex printing and your document will be printed single sided WINDOWS PCL 1 In the driver s Setup tab under 2 Sided Printing select the binding ed...

Page 90: ...out 2 4 Select the Print on Both Sides checkbox 3 5 Select the binding edge 4 that you want The graphic shows how you paper will be flipped either on the short or the long edge Which choice you make w...

Page 91: ...select your printer model 3 Select Layout 2 4 From the Two Sided Printing options 3 select either Long Edge Binding or Short Edge Binding Which choice you make will usually depend on whether your pag...

Page 92: ...ant to proof your page layout or distribute your document in a more compact format It saves paper bulk weight and cost If you have a duplex unit installed you can even combine this feature with duplex...

Page 93: ...es N up you want to print on each sheet 1 up is normal 16 up is maximum 2 Click Options to choose from the available options for this feature From here you can choose the page printing order the page...

Page 94: ...ion 4 the document pages are laid out on each sheet of paper MAC OS X 1 In your application program choose File Print 2 From the Printer menu 1 select your printer model 3 Select Layout 2 4 From the P...

Page 95: ...parate sheets to create a poster Poster Print is only available with the Windows PCL printer drivers WINDOWS PCL 1 In the driver s Setup tab under Finishing Mode choose Poster Print 2 Click Options to...

Page 96: ...lows you to print data formatted for one size page onto a different size page without modifying the print data This feature is only available with the Windows PCL drivers 1 In the driver s Setup tab c...

Page 97: ...is can used to indicate that the document is Draft or perhaps Confidential This feature is not available on Mac OS X The illustration below shows the Windows PostScript driver The PCL driver is very s...

Page 98: ...Y CREATED WATERMARK 1 In the Watermarks window click the watermark in the list TO EDIT AN EXISTING WATERMARK 1 In the Watermarks window click the watermark s name in the list 2 Click Edit 3 Make any a...

Page 99: ...ur application program choose File Page Setup 2 Select Watermarks 1 3 Select which pages you want to print watermarks on 2 None no watermarks First or All 4 Choose the type of watermark data to use 3...

Page 100: ...100 Watermarks...

Page 101: ...er driver See Setting the driver device options on page 9 The secure printing feature is not available for Mac OS X If there is not enough hard disk space for the spooled data a Disk Full message disp...

Page 102: ...Identification Number window opens If the PIN window does not open click the PIN button 3 In the Job PIN window enter a name for this print job The name may be up to 16 alpha numeric characters If yo...

Page 103: ...ill not print at this time MAC OS 9 If you use the Apple LaserWriter driver the printing plug in for secure printing must first be enabled in the printer driver This step is not necessary for the Adob...

Page 104: ...n this printer Each user should be allocated a PIN by the system administrator PRINTING THE DOCUMENT Your secure print job is printed using the Printer Control Panel on the front of the printer 1 When...

Page 105: ...ally deleted from the printer s hard disk It is also possible to print and delete secure documents remotely from your PC using the Storage Device Manager utility DELETING A SECURE PRINT DOCUMENT If yo...

Page 106: ...106 Deleting a secure print document...

Page 107: ...nd is available only in the Windows PostScript and PCL drivers The difference with job spooling is that the document is not automatically deleted from the printer s hard disk after printing It remains...

Page 108: ...edures as described in the section starting on page 104 in Chapter 5 for printing a secure document In this case the document will not be deleted from the hard disk after it has been printed DELETING...

Page 109: ...inting black 16 17 18 Composite black 15 Cover page 78 Windows PCL 80 Cover print different cover page 80 Custom page size general 82 Windows 98 Me PS 84 Windows XP 2000 PCL 85 Windows XP 2000 PS 82 G...

Page 110: ...110 Index S Secure documents printing 104 sending 102 Separator page 78 T Toner Black 15 True pure black 15 True black 16 17 18...

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