System

Select this to have an error report printed when a printer or memory error occurs.

Default: [Off]

Select whether or not the printer automatically continues to print after a system error occurs. For details about how to configure this function, see Executing form feed when print settings do not match.

Default: [Off]

A document is automatically stored in the printer if a print job is suspended due to an error. Despite this error, the next document can be printed. This function can be used for Normal Print, Sample Print, and Stored Print files. The job type can be specified in the "Job Type:" list of the printer driver. For details, see Printing Stored Documents.

Printing of the document that is stored in the printer can be resumed by operating the control panel. For details, see Printing of documents stored when print configuration errors occur.

The storage method differs depending on the type of the specified document. For details, see Storing documents whose printing has been canceled due to errors.

You can specify the number of pages to check for errors. Enter the number of pages between 1 to 999.

When two or more pages is specified, the first page of a document may take longer to print.

Default: [Off]

Select this to have a memory overflow error report printed.

Default: [Do not Print]

Specify whether or not to cancel printing and display confirmation screen when an error occurs because of restrictions related to the printer language, options, or security settings.

Default: [Off]

When an error occurs, the printer cancels the print job with an error and the jobs received before the error occurs. For details about setting this function, see Canceling print jobs with errors automatically.

Default: [Off]

You can enable Job Separation.

This menu can be selected only when an optional finisher is installed.

Default: [Off]

Specify whether to rotate the print image 180 degrees relative to the paper orientation.

Default: [Off]

Specify whether to uncompress and extract compressed job data before printing it.

The supported compression format is GZIP.

Default: [Off]

You can select the amount of memory used in Font Priority or Frame Priority, according to paper size or resolution.

Default: [Frame Priority]

You can select to have print on both sides of each page.

Default: [Off]

You can specify the number of print sets. This setting is disabled if the number of pages to print has been specified with the printer driver or another command.

The number of copies can be specified from 1 to 999 by increments of one.

Default: "1" copies

You can select whether or not to print blank pages.

Default: [On]

Pages that match one of the following conditions are identified as blank.

• There are no images.

• There are images but they are outside the printable area.

• There are only blank characters.

Select whether or not to smooth the edges of texts and images when printing. When this setting is enabled, gradation in images may be degraded.

Default: [On]

Reduces toner consumption when printing. When this setting is enabled, print quality may be degraded.

Default: [Off]

Specify whether or not to complete spooling before starting to print. Spooling stores a sent print job temporarily in the printer, and then prints it. This function is available only if the hard disk is installed on the printer.

Default: [Off]

You can select whether or not to print Hold Print files whose specified print time has already passed when the printer's main power switch is turned on.

• Print When Machine On

  When the printer's main power is turned on, the printer automatically prints all the Hold Print files stored in the printer whose specified print time has already passed.

• Do not Print

  If there are Hold Print files whose specified print time have already passed when the printer's power is turned on, their specified print time will be canceled and they will be deleted [Auto Delete Temporary Print Jobs] setting. For details about [Auto Delete Temporary Print Jobs], see Data Management.

Default: [Off]

When a print job is sent to the printer, you can specify whether to always store the document in the printer without printing it or cancel printing it. The documents that have been stored automatically in the printer are not printed unless you use the control panel to print them, so that unattended documents on the tray are prevented.

If a document is a Normal Print, Sample Print, or Stored Print file, it can be printed physically. The job type can be specified in the "Job Type:" list of the printer driver. For details, see Printing Stored Documents.

If [Automatcly. Store Jobs] is selected, the storage method differs depending on the type of the specified document. For details, see Preventing Documents from Being Left Unattended.

• Off

• Automatcly. Store Jobs

  Documents are automatically stored in the printer without being printed regardless of their print settings.

• Cncl All Direct Prt Jobs

  Printing is always canceled regardless of the print settings.

Default: [Off]

Select the screen to be displayed when [Printer] is pressed in the Home screen.

• Job List

  Displays the list of jobs.

• Print Jobs

  Displays the lists of the document stored in the printer and the User IDs.

Default: [Job List]

Specify the printer language.

Default: [Auto]

You can set the default printer language if the printer cannot find the printer language automatically.

Default: [PCL]

You can specify whether A4 or Letter (8¹/₂ 11) size paper is automatically selected as the default size when the job-specified size is unavailable.

Default: [Auto]

You can select the default paper size.

The paper size you can select is as follows:

• A3, A4, A5, A6, B4JIS, B5JIS, B6JIS, C5 Env, C6 Env, DL Env, 12 18, 11 17, 11 15, 11 14, 10 15, 10 14, 8¹/₂ 14, 8¹/₂ 13, 8¹/₂ 11, 8¹/₄ 14, 8¹/₄ 13, 8 13, 8 10¹/₂, 8 10, 7¹/₄ 10¹/₂, 5¹/₂ 8¹/₂, 4¹/₈ 9¹/₂, 3⁷/₈ 7¹/₂, Custom Size

Default:

• (mainly Europe and Asia)

  A4

• (mainly North America)

  8¹/₂ 11

Select whether or not to print on paper that has a fixed print side or print direction (letterhead paper, for example). For details, see Loading Orientation-Fixed Paper or Two-Sided Paper.

• Off

  Not printing with the letterhead printing mode.

• Auto Detect

  Select whether or not to print using letterhead mode whenever a page that has a fixed print side or print direction is specified as the first page.

• On (Always)

  Print with the letterhead printing mode regularly.

Default: [Auto Detect]

You can specify whether to give priority to the settings made in the printer driver or commands, or to the ones made on the control panel for each tray when the printer receives print data. Only the trays attached to the printer appear.

• Ppr. Conf. for Bypass T.

  Select whether or not to display the confirming screen of the paper size, type and feed direction on the control panel when feeding paper from the bypass tray. If [Display] is specified, you can check the print settings for the bypass tray before printing starts.

  • Display

  • Do not Display

  Default: [Do not Display]

• Bypass Tray

  • Driver/Command

    When the paper tray is specified for a print job, the paper settings specified in the printer driver or in the print command are applied, regardless of the printer's settings.

  • Machine Setting(s)

    The paper settings configured on the printer's control panel are applied to all print jobs. An error occurs when the paper settings specified by the printer driver or the print command do not match the printer's settings.

  • Any Type

    If this setting is selected for a print job and the type of the document for the print job does not need to be specified, you can proceed with printing only if the paper size matches the job's print setting. For details about this function, see Preventing Paper Setting Mismatch Errors.

  Default: [Driver/Command]

• Tray 1 to 4, LCT

  • Driver/Command

  • Machine Setting(s)

  Default: [Machine Setting(s)]

You can specify the weight for letterhead paper, label paper, and envelopes.

When [Tray Setting Priority] is set to the options other than [Machine Setting(s)], the paper weight settings you specify here have priority over the ones specified in [Tray Paper Settings] in [System Settings].

The paper weight settings in [PprThknssIfComSel forTraySetPrio] are applied to print jobs when specifying a paper tray and selecting letterhead paper, label paper, or envelopes for the paper type using the printer driver.

• Letterhd: Bypass Tray, Tray 1-4, LCT

  The available options are as follows:

  Plain Paper 60–81 g/m2, Middle Thick 82–105 g/m2, Thick Paper 1 106–160 g/m2

  Default: [Plain Paper 60–81 g/m2]

• Label Paper

  The available options are as follows:

  Thick Paper 1 106–160 g/m2, Thick Paper 2 161–216 g/m2

  Default: [Thick Paper 1 106–160 g/m2]

• Envelope

  The available options are as follows:

  Middle Thick 82–105 g/m2, Thick Paper 1 106–160 g/m2, Thick Paper 2 161–216 g/m2

  Default: [Thick Paper 1 106–160 g/m2]

You can select whether or not to expand the print area.

Default: [Off]

You can specify whether or not the printer automatically switches paper trays if paper of the specified size and type is not loaded in the driver-specified tray.

Default: [Off]

If the hard disk is not installed for PDF Direct Print, select a value of 2 MB or higher. This function is displayed only if no hard disk is installed.

Default: [4 MB]

You can select whether or not to automatically switch to a suitable tray when the current tray runs out of paper.

When [On] is set, the extended auto tray switching is priority, regardless of the printer driver settings.

Default: [Off]

You can set the size of the I/O Buffer. Normally it is not necessary to change this setting.

Default: [128 KB]

You can set how many seconds the printer should wait before ending a print job. If data from another port usually arrives in the middle of a print job, you should increase this timeout period.

Default: [15 seconds]