Canon iP3600 SERIES User manual

How to Use This Manual Printing This Manual
MC-2608-V1.00
Basic Guide
Describes the summary of
this product.
Advanced Guide
Describes the detailed
function of this product.
Troubleshooting
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How to Use This Manual
Printing This Manual
MP-2103-V1.10
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dvanced Guide
Contents
Overview of the Printer
Main Components
Printing
Printing Photos (Easy-PhotoPrint EX)
Printing Documents (Windows)
Printing Documents (Macintosh)
Other Usages
Printing Photos from a PictBridge Compliant
Device
Solution Menu and My Printer
Loading Paper
Loading Paper
Routine Maintenance
Replacing an Ink Tank
When Printing Becomes Faint or Colors Are
Incorrect
Cleaning the Paper Feed Roller
Cleaning the Pad in the Cassette
Opening the Maintenance Screens
Appendix
Safety Precautions
Legal Limitations on Use of Your Product and
Use of Images
Tips on How to Use Your Printer
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Advanced Guide Troubleshooting
Contents > Overview of the Printer
Overview of the Printer
This section shows the component names of the printer and describes their functions.
Main Components
Front View
Rear View
Inside View
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Advanced Guide Troubleshooting
Contents > Overview of the Printer > Main Components
Main Components
Front View
(1) Top Cover
Open it when replacing the ink tanks or removing jammed paper inside the printer.
(2) Paper Guides
Slide to align with both sides of the paper stack.
(3) Rear Tray
Load various sizes or types of paper which you can use on the printer. Two or more sheets of the same
size and type of paper can be loaded at the same time, and fed automatically one sheet at a time.
See Loading Paper.
(4) Paper Support
Open to pull out fully to support paper loaded in the Rear Tray.
(5) Cassette
Load A4, B5, A5, or Letter-sized plain paper and insert it into the printer. Two or more sheets of the same
size of paper can be loaded at the same time, and fed automatically one sheet at a time.
See Loading Paper.
(6) Direct Print Port
Connect a PictBridge compliant device such as a digital camera when printing directly.
See Printing Photos from a PictBridge Compliant Device.
Warning
Do not connect any equipment other than PictBridge compliant devices to the Direct Print
Port of the printer. This may cause fire, electric shock, or damage to the printer.
Caution
Do not touch the metal casing.
(7) Paper Output Tray
Printed papers are ejected. Open it fully before printing.
(8) Output Tray Extension
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Extend to open support the printouts.
(9) Power button
Turns the power on or off.
Note
Auto power on/off feature
You can set the printer to turn on or off automatically.
- Auto Power On: Automatically turns on the printer when print data is sent from the
computer.
- Auto Power Off: Automatically turns off the printer when no print data is sent for a
certain interval.
Specify this setting in the Maintenance sheet of the printer driver in Windows, or of the Canon
IJ Printer Utility in Macintosh. For details on the settings, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
Important
Disconnecting the power plug
When disconnecting the power plug after turning off the power, be sure to confirm that
the Power lamp is not lit. If the power plug is disconnected from the wall outlet while the
Power lamp is lit or flashing, the printer may become unable to print properly since the
Print Head is not protected.
(10) Power lamp
Lights green after flashing when the power is turned on.
(11) RESUME/CANCEL button
Press to cancel a print job in progress. You can press this button after resolving a printer error to dismiss
an error message and resume printing.
(12) Alarm lamp
Lights or flashes orange when an error, such as paper-out or ink-out, occurs.
Note
Power and Alarm lamps
You can check the status of the printer by the Power and Alarm lamps.
- Power lamp Off: The power is off.
- Power lamp lit green: The printer is ready to print.
- Power lamp flashing green: The printer is getting ready to print, or printing is in
progress.
- Alarm lamp flashing orange: An error has occurred and the printer is not ready to print.
For details, refer to "Troubleshooting " in the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
- Power lamp flashes green once and Alarm lamp flashes orange once alternately: An
error that requires contacting your Canon service representative may have occurred.
For details, refer to "Troubleshooting " in the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
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Rear View
(13) USB Port
Plug in the USB cable to connect the printer with a computer.
Caution
Do not touch the metal casing.
Important
Do not plug in or unplug the USB cable while the printer is printing from the computer.
(14) Rear Cover
Detach to remove jammed papers.
(15) Power Cord Connector
Plug in the supplied power cord.
Inside View
(16) Ink lamp
Lights or flashes red to indicate the ink tank status.
See Checking the Ink Status.
(17) Print Head Lock Lever
Locks the Print Head into place.
Important
Do not raise this lever after installing the Print Head.
(18) Print Head Holder
Install the Print Head.
Note
For details on installing the Print Head and ink tanks, refer to the printed manual: Getting
Started.
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Advanced Guide Troubleshooting
Contents > Printing
Printing
This section describes how to print documents or photos.
You can easily print photos taken with your digital camera by using Easy-PhotoPrint EX supplied with
your printer.
Printing Photos (Easy-PhotoPrint EX)
Using Various Functions of Easy-PhotoPrint EX
Printing Documents (Windows)
Printing Documents (Macintosh)
For Mac OS X v.10.5.x
For Mac OS X v.10.4.x or Mac OS X v.10.3.9
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Contents > Printing > Printing Photos (Easy-PhotoPrint EX)
Printing Photos (Easy-PhotoPrint EX)
Print image data saved on your computer by using Easy-PhotoPrint EX supplied with your printer.
This section describes the procedure, using print setting for borderless photo print on 4" x 6" / 10 x 15 cm
photo paper as a sample.
For details on Easy-PhotoPrint EX, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
Note
The screens used in this section are for printing with Windows. The operations are also the same
for printing with Macintosh.
Install Easy-PhotoPrint EX from the Setup CD-ROM when it has not been installed or has been
uninstalled. To install Easy-PhotoPrint EX, select Easy-PhotoPrint EX in Custom Install.
1. Prepare for printing.
(1) Make sure that the printer is turned on.
See Front View.
(2) Load paper.
See Loading Paper.
Here we load 4" x 6" / 10 x 15 cm photo paper in the Rear Tray.
Note
Load A4 or Letter-sized plain paper in the Cassette and other sizes or types of paper
such as photo paper in the Rear Tray.
(3) Open the Paper Output Tray gently, and extend to open the Output Tray
Extension.
2. Start Easy-PhotoPrint EX, and select Photo Print.
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(1) Start Easy-PhotoPrint EX.
Double-click (Easy-PhotoPrint EX) on the desktop.
Click Here: Easy-PhotoPrint EX
Select the Go menu, Applications, Canon Utilities, Easy-PhotoPrint EX, then double-click Easy-
PhotoPrint EX.
Note
To start Easy-PhotoPrint EX from Solution Menu, double-click (Solution Menu) on the
desktop and click (Print photos or albums, etc.).
See To Start Solution Menu.
To start Easy-PhotoPrint EX from the Start menu, select All Programs (Programs in
Windows 2000), Canon Utilities, Easy-PhotoPrint EX, then Easy-PhotoPrint EX.
To start Easy-PhotoPrint EX from Solution Menu, click (Solution Menu) in the Dock and
click (Print photos or albums, etc.).
See To Start Solution Menu.
(2) Click Photo Print.
Note
You can select Album, Calendar, Stickers, etc., besides Photo Print.
See Using Various Functions of Easy-PhotoPrint EX .
3. Select a photo to print.
(1) Select the folder in which images are saved.
(2) Click the image to print.
The number of copies appears as "1", and the image you selected appears in the selected image area (A).
You can select two or more images at the same time.
Note
To print two or more copies, click (Up arrow) to change the number of copies.
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To cancel the selection, click the image to cancel in the selected image area and click
(Delete Imported Image). You can also use (Down arrow) to change the number of
copies to zero.
You can also correct or enhance the selected image.
See Using Various Functions of Easy-PhotoPrint EX .
(3) Click Select Paper.
4. Select the loaded paper.
(1) Make sure that your printer's name is selected in Printer.
(2) Make sure that Automatically Select is selected in Paper Source.
Note
For details on other paper feeding, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
(3) Select the size and type of the paper to print in Paper Size and Media Type.
Here we select 4"x6"/10x15cm in Paper Size and the type of the loaded photo paper in Media Type.
Note
If you select A4 or Letter-sized plain paper when Automatically Select is selected in Paper
Source, the printer feeds the paper from the Cassette. If you select other sizes or types
of paper such as photo paper, the printer feeds the paper from the Rear Tray.
If you select the wrong page size or media type, the printer may feed the paper from the
wrong paper source or may not print with the proper print quality.
(4) Click Layout/Print.
5. Select a layout and start printing.
(1) Select the layout of the photo.
Here we select Borderless [full].
The preview appears in the selected layout for confirmation of the required print result.
Note
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You can change the direction of photo or crop a part of photo (trimming) to print.
For details on the operation, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
(2) Click Print.
Note
To cancel a print job in progress, press the RESUME/CANCEL button on the printer or click
Cancel Printing on the printer status monitor. After canceling the print job, blank sheets of
paper may be ejected.
To display the printer status monitor, click Canon XXX (where "XXX" is your printer's
name) on the taskbar.
Click the printer icon in the Dock to display the list of print jobs in progress.
To cancel a print job in progress, select the desired job in the Name list and click Delete.
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fter canceling the print job, blank sheets of paper may be ejected.
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Advanced Guide Troubleshooting
Contents > Printing > Printing Photos (Easy-PhotoPrint EX) > Using Various Functions of Easy-PhotoPrint EX
Using Various Functions of Easy-PhotoPrint EX
This section describes a few of the useful functions of Easy-PhotoPrint EX.
For details on the operation, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
Creating Your Own Prints
You can create an album or calendar using your photos.
Album Calendar
Stickers Layout Print
Correcting Images
You can use Red-Eye Correction, Face Sharpener, Digital Face Smoothing, Brightness, Contrast, etc. to
adjust, correct, or enhance images automatically or manually.
Sample of the correction
Brightness
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Advanced Guide Troubleshooting
Contents > Printing > Printing Documents (Windows)
Printing Documents (Windows)
Note
Operations may vary depending on your software application. For details on the operation, refer to
the instruction manual of your application.
The screens used in this section are for printing with Windows Vista operating system Ultimate
Edition (hereafter referred to as "Windows Vista").
1. Make sure that the printer is turned on.
See Front View.
2. Load paper.
See Loading Paper.
Note
Load A4, B5, A5, or Letter-sized plain paper in the Cassette and other sizes or types of paper
such as photo paper in the Rear Tray.
3. Open the Paper Output Tray gently, and extend to open the Output Tray Extension.
4. Create (or open) a document to print using an appropriate software application.
5. Open the printer properties dialog box.
(1) Select Print on the File menu or the command bar in your software application.
The Print dialog box appears.
(2) Make sure that your printer's name is selected.
Note
If another printer's name is selected, click and select your printer's name.
(3) Click Preferences (or Properties).
6. Specify the required print settings.
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(1) Select the media type of the paper to print in Media Type.
Note
If you select A4, B5, A5, or Letter-sized plain paper when Automatically Select is selected
in Paper Source, the printer feeds the paper from the Cassette. If you select other sizes or
types of paper such as photo paper, the printer feeds the paper from the Rear Tray.
If you select the wrong page size or media type, the printer may feed the paper from the
wrong paper source or may not print with the proper print quality.
(2) Make sure that Automatically Select is selected in Paper Source.
Note
For details on other paper feeding, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
(3) Specify the print quality, etc. in Print Quality and Color/Intensity as required.
Note
For details on the print settings, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
(4) Click OK.
Note
To confirm the page size, click the Page Setup tab. If the setting does not match the
document's page size already set in the software application, you need to reset the page size,
or otherwise use Scaled Printing or Fit-to-Page Printing.
For details, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
For details on the printer driver functions, click Help or Instructions to view the online help or
the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide. The Instructions button appears on the Main and
Maintenance sheets if the on-screen manual is installed on your computer.
To display the preview to confirm the print result, select the Preview before printing check box
on the Main sheet. Some software applications may not have a preview function.
7. Start printing.
Click Print (or OK) to start printing.
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Note
To cancel a print job in progress, press the RESUME/CANCEL button on the printer or click
Cancel Printing on the printer status monitor. After canceling the print job, blank sheets of
paper may be ejected.
To display the printer status monitor, click Canon XXX (where "XXX" is your printer's name) on
the taskbar.
If printed ruled lines are misaligned or print results are unsatisfactory, adjust the print head
position. See
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ligning the Print Head.
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Advanced Guide Troubleshooting
Contents > Printing > Printing Documents (Macintosh)
Printing Documents (Macintosh)
Note
Operations may vary depending on your software application. For details on the operation, refer to
the instruction manual of your application.
For Mac OS X v.10.5.x
1. Make sure that the printer is turned on.
See Front View.
2. Load paper.
See Loading Paper.
Note
Load A4, B5, A5, or Letter-sized plain paper in the Cassette and other sizes or types of paper
such as photo paper in the Rear Tray.
3. Open the Paper Output Tray gently, and extend to open the Output Tray Extension.
4. Create (or open) a document to print using an appropriate software application.
5. Open the Print dialog box.
Select Print on the File menu in your software application.
The Print dialog box appears.
Note
If the dialog box below appears, click (Down arrow).
6. Specify the required print settings.
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(1) Make sure that your printer's name is selected in Printer.
(2) Select the page size of the paper to print in Paper Size.
(3) Select Quality & Media in the pop-up menu.
(4) Select the media type of the paper to print in Media Type.
Note
If you select A4, B5, A5, or Letter-sized plain paper when Automatically Select is selected
in Paper Source, the printer feeds the paper from the Cassette. If you select other sizes or
types of paper such as photo paper, the printer feeds the papers from the Rear Tray.
If you select the wrong page size or media type, the printer may feed the paper from the
wrong paper source or may not print with the proper print quality.
(5) Make sure that Automatically Select is selected in Paper Source.
Note
For details on other paper feeding, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
(6) Select the print quality in Print Quality.
Note
For details on the print quality, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
Note
For details on the printer driver functions, click (Question) on the Quality & Media, Color
Options, Borderless Printing, or Margin screen to view the on-screen manual:
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dvanced
Guide. If the on-screen manual is not installed, it does not appear even if (Question) is
clicked.
The preview appears on the left of the dialog box to confirm the print result. Some software
applications may not have a preview function.
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7. Start printing.
Click Print to start printing.
Note
Click the printer icon in the Dock to display the list of print jobs in progress.
To cancel a print job in progress, select the desired job in the Name list and click Delete. After
canceling the print job, blank sheets of paper may be ejected.
To temporarily stop a job in progress, click Hold. To temporarily stop all the jobs in the list, click
Pause Printer.
If printed ruled lines are misaligned or print results are unsatisfactory, adjust the print head
position. See
A
ligning the Print Head.
For Mac OS X v.10.4.x or Mac OS X v.10.3.9
Note
The screens used in this section are for printing in Mac OS X v.10.4.x.
1. Make sure that the printer is turned on.
See Front View.
2. Load paper.
See Loading Paper.
Note
Load A4, B5, A5, or Letter-sized plain paper in the Cassette and other paper such as photo
paper in the Rear Tray.
3. Open the Paper Output Tray gently, and extend to open the Output Tray Extension.
4. Create (or open) a document to print using an appropriate software application.
5. Specify the page size.
(1) Select Page Setup on the File menu in your software application.
The Page Setup dialog box appears.
(2) Make sure that your printer's name is selected in Format for.
(3) Select the page size of the paper to print in Paper Size.
(4) Click OK.
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6. Specify the required print settings.
(1) Select Print on the File menu in your software application.
The Print dialog box appears.
(2) Make sure that your printer's name is selected in Printer.
(3) Select Quality & Media in the pop-up menu.
(4) Select the media type of the paper to print in Media Type.
Note
If you select A4, B5, A5, or Letter-sized plain paper when Automatically Select is selected
in Paper Source, the printer feeds the paper from the Cassette. If you select other sizes or
types of paper such as photo paper, the printer feeds the paper from the Rear Tray.
If you select the wrong page size or media type, the printer may feed the paper from the
wrong paper source or may not print with the proper print quality.
(5) Make sure that Automatically Select is selected in Paper Source.
Note
For details on other paper feeding, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
(6) Select the print quality in Print Quality.
Note
For details on the print quality, refer to the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide.
Note
For details on the printer driver functions, click (Question) on the Quality & Media, Color
Options, Special Effects, Borderless Printing, or Margin screen to view the on-screen manual:
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dvanced Guide. If the on-screen manual is not installed, it does not appear even if
(Question) is clicked.
To display the preview to confirm the print result, click Preview. Some software applications
may not have a preview function.
7. Start printing.
Click Print to start printing.
Note
Click the printer icon in the Dock to display the list of print jobs in progress.
To cancel a print job in progress, select the desired job in the Name list and click Delete. After
canceling the print job, blank sheets of paper may be ejected.
To temporarily stop a job in progress, click Hold. To temporarily stop all the jobs in the list, click
Stop Jobs.
If printed ruled lines are misaligned or print results are unsatisfactory, adjust the print head
position. See
A
ligning the Print Head.
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