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Print Error Report

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

Default: [Off]

Auto Continue

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", Basic Operations.

Default: [Off]

Store and Skip Errored Job

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", Basic Operations.

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", Basic Operations.

The storage method differs depending on the type of the specified document. For details, see "Storing jobs with errors automatically", Basic Operations.

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.

Memory Overflow

Select this to have a memory overflow error report printed.

Default: [Do not Print]

Error Display Setting

Specify which types of errors to display while the machine is processing data.

  • Only important ones

  • All

Default: [All]

Auto Cancel Conf. for PDL Error Job

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]

Auto Cancel for Print Job(s) on Error

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", Basic Operations.

Default: [Off]

Job Separation

You can enable Job Separation.

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

Default: [Off]

Rotate Sort: Auto Paper Continue

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 source 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.

Rotate by 180 Degrees

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

Default: [Off]

Print Compressed Data

Specify whether or not to uncompress and extract compressed job data before printing it.

The supported compression format is GZIP.

Default: [Off]

Memory Usage

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

Default: [Frame Priority]

Duplex

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

Default: [Off]

Copies

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 9,999 by increments of one.

Default: "1" copies

Blank Page Print

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.

Toner Saving

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

Default: [Off]

Spool Image

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]

Reserved Job Waiting Time

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]

Printer Language

Specify the printer language.

Default: [Auto]

Sub Paper Size

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]

Page Size

You can select the default paper size.

Default:

  • Region A icon (mainly Europe and Asia)

    A4

  • Region B icon (mainly North America)

    81/2 × 11

The paper size you can select is as follows:

  • A3, A4, A5, B4 JIS, B5 JIS, SRA3, SRA4, 310 × 432 mm, 226 × 310 mm, 13 × 18, 12 × 18, 11 × 17, 11 × 15, 11 × 14, 10 × 15, 10 × 14, 81/2 × 14, 81/2 × 131/2, 81/2 × 132/5, 81/2 × 13, 81/2 × 11, 81/4 × 14, 81/4 × 13, 8 × 13, 8 × 10, 71/4 × 101/2, 51/2 × 81/2, 8K, 16K, Custom Size

Note

  • 13 × 191/5, 13 × 19, 123/5 × 191/5, 123/5 × 181/2, A6, and B6 JIS will also be displayed when an optional large capacity tray is attached.

Letterhead Setting

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.

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.

Tray Setting Priority

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.

  • Tray 1 to 6, Tray T1 to T4, Tray A

    Default: [Machine Setting(s)]

    • 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 the [Tray Paper Settings] specified on the machine.

      When [Driver / Command] is selected on the Tray A, 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.

Edge to Edge Print

You can specify whether or not to expand the print area. For details about the print area, see "Print Area", Basic Operations.

Default: [Off]

Default Printer Language

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

Default: [PCL]

Tray Switching

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]

Extended Auto Tray Switching

You can specify 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 will be selected regardless of the printer driver settings.

Default: [Off]

Jobs Not Printed As Machn. Was Off

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.

Restrict Direct Print Jobs

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", Basic Operations.

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", Basic Operations.

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.

Auto Store Jobs without User Authent. Info

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

Switch Initial Screen

Select the screen to be displayed when [Printer] 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.

Auto Cancel Print if Card Removed/No Units

Specify whether or not to display the confirmation screen before printing starts when the key card is inserted.

  • On

    The machine asks for confirmation to use the inserted key card. Job reset occurs if the key card is removed while printing is in progress.

  • Off

Default: [Off]

You can select this setting when:

  • The key card is inserted

  • The administrator authentication is set to [On]

    For details about the administrator authentication, see "Configuring Administrator Authentication", Security Guide.

When Excdd Max. No. of Sheets for Stapling

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.

When Excdd Max. No. of Sheets for Booklet

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: [Suspend (Display Alert Screen)]

  • 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.

Note

  • For details about how to change the Printer Features, see "Accessing User Tools", Device Management.