System

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

Default: [Off]

Specify whether or not the machine automatically continues to print after a system error occurs. For details about how to configure this function, see Executing Form Feed When an Error Occurs.

Default: [Off]

A document is automatically stored in the machine 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 Storing Documents in the Hard Disk Drive and Printing Them.

Printing of the document that is stored in the machine 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 Jobs with Errors Automatically.

Default: [Off]

If you select [On], you can specify the number of pages to check for errors. Enter the number of pages between 1 and 999.

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

Select this to have a memory overflow error report printed.

Default: [Do not Print]

Specify whether or not to display the error which occur during the machine processing data.

• Only important ones

• All

Default: [All]

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: [Do not Display]

When an error occurs, the machine automatically cancels the print job with an error and the jobs received before the error occurs. For details about setting this function, see Canceling Printing of 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 or not to continue printing when rotating collate is specified and the paper tray runs out of paper that is loaded in the landscape or portrait orientation.

Default: [Off]

• On

  Continues printing from the paper tray loaded with the paper in a different orientation than the specified setting when the specified tray runs out of paper.

• Off

  Stops printing and displays a warning message on the control panel when the source tray runs out of paper. You can continue printing after loading paper or cancel printing.

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

Default: [Off]

Specify whether or not 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 specify 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]

You can select to print spool images. The print job transmitted from the computer is temporarily stored on the machine's hard disk as bitmap images that can be printed when transmission is complete. If more than one print job is transmitted, a spool image is printed for each.

Default: [Off]

You can specify how long the machine waits to receive a print job before allowing other functions such as the copier and scanner functions to interrupt it.

Default: [Short Wait]

Specify the printer language.

Default: [Auto]

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

Default: [Auto]

You can select the default paper size.

Default:

• (mainly Europe and Asia)

  [A4]

• (mainly North America)

  [8¹/₂ × 11]

The paper size you can select is as follows:

• A3, A4, A5, A6, B4 JIS, B5 JIS, B6 JIS, 210 × 340mm, 182 × 210mm, 170 × 210mm, 11 × 17, 11 × 15, 11 × 14, 10 × 15, 10 × 14, 8¹/₂ × 14, 8¹/₂ × 13²/₅, 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, 8K, 16K, Custom Size

Specify 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", Paper Specifications and Adding Paper.

Default: [Auto Detect]

• Off

  Not printing with the letterhead printing mode.

• Auto Detect

  Specify 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.

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 machine receives print data. Only the trays attached to the machine appear. For details, see Applying the Settings Specified in the Printer Driver or Commands When Printing.

• Paper Confirmation for Bypass Tray

  Specify 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.

  This setting is available when [Bypass Tray] is set to [Driver/Command].

  Default: [Do not Display]

  • Display

  • Do not Display

• Paper Mismatch Alert for Bypass Tray

  Specify whether or not to display an alert on the control panel of the machine when the bypass tray is specified as the paper source and the paper size or type does not match the specified one or no paper is loaded in the bypass tray.

  This setting is available when [Bypass Tray] is set to [Machine Setting(s)] or [Machine Setting(s): Any Type].

  Default: [Display]

  • Display

  • Do not Display

• Bypass Tray

  Default: [Machine Setting(s): Any Type]

  • Driver / Command

    When a paper tray is specified for a print job, the paper settings such as paper size, type, and orientation specified in the printer driver or in the print command are applied, regardless of [Tray Paper Settings] specified on the machine.

    When [Driver / Command] is selected on the Bypass Tray, the paper orientation specified in [Tray Paper Settings] on the machine is applied. Select [Auto Detect] in [Tray Paper Settings], or load paper in the same orientation as the orientation specified in [Tray Paper Settings]. When a custom size is specified in the printer driver or command, the paper orientation specified in the printer driver or command is applied.

  • Machine Setting(s)

    The paper settings configured on the machine'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 machine's settings.

  • Machine Setting(s): Any Type

    When the paper size specified on the machine's control panel matches that specified using the printer driver or a print command, then the paper type specified using the printer driver or print command is applied to the print job.

    To use this function:

    • Specify [Bypass Tray] for the input tray using the printer driver.

    • Specify the same paper size in the [Tray Paper Settings] on the machine's control

      panel by the printer driver or print command.

• Tray 1 to 3, LCT

  Default: [Machine Setting(s)]

  • Driver / Command

  • Machine Setting(s)

This setting is not available on this machine.

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

Default: [PCL]

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

Default: [Off]

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

Default: [Off]

When [On] is set, the extended auto tray will be selected regardless of the printer driver settings.

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

Default: [Do not Print]

• Print When Machine On

  When the machine's main power is turned on, the machine automatically prints all the Hold Print files stored in the machine 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 machine'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.

When a print job is sent to the machine, you can specify whether to always store the document in the machine without printing it or cancel printing it. The documents that have been stored automatically in the machine 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 Storing Documents in the Hard Disk Drive and Printing Them.

If [Automatclly. 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 or Taken By Mistake.

Default: [Off]

• Off

• Automatclly. Store Jobs

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

• Cncl All Direct Prt Jobs

  Printing is always canceled regardless of the print settings.

When user authentication is enabled via Basic, Windows, or LDAP authentication, and [Restrict Direct Print Jobs] is set to [Automatclly. Store Jobs], print jobs without user authentication enabled will be automatically stored as guest jobs in the machine.

Default: [Off]

• On

• Off

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

Default: [Job List]

• Job List

  Displays the list of jobs.

• Print Jobs

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

Specify the machine's behavior when the number of pages in a document exceeds the maximum number of pages that can be stapled together. This setting is applicable to staple settings other than the center staple setting.

Default: [Continue Printing]

• Continue Printing

  Cancel stapling but continue printing the job.

• Cancel Printing

  Cancel the print job.

• Suspend (Display Alert Screen)

  The machine stops printing so you can choose whether to continue printing or to cancel the print job. If you choose to continue printing, the staple setting is canceled.

Specify the machine's behavior when the number of pages in a document exceeds the maximum number of pages that can be stapled together. This setting is only applicable to the center staple setting.

Default: [Continue Printing]

• Continue Printing

  Cancel the center staple setting but continue printing the job.

• Cancel Printing

  Cancel the print job.

• Suspend (Display Alert Screen)

  The machine stops printing so you can choose whether to continue printing or to cancel the print job. If you choose to continue printing, the center staple setting is canceled.