Lexmark MX510 Series User manual

Copy Guide
Note: You can load paper sizes in a short‑edge‑first orientation. For more information, see the “Supported paper sizes, types,
and weights” section of the User's Guide.
Making a quick copy
1Load an original document faceup, short edge first into the ADF tray or facedown on the scanner glass.
Notes:
•Do not load postcards, photos, small items, transparencies, photo paper, or thin media (such as magazine clippings)
into the ADF tray. Place these items on the scanner glass.
•The ADF indicator light comes on when the paper is loaded properly.
2If you are loading a document into the ADF tray, then adjust the paper guides.
Note: To avoid a cropped image, make sure the size of the original document and the size of the copy paper are the same.
3From the printer control panel, press .
Copying using the ADF
1Load an original document faceup, short edge first into the ADF tray.
Notes:
•Do not load postcards, photos, small items, transparencies, photo paper, or thin media (such as magazine clippings)
into the ADF tray. Place these items on the scanner glass.
•The ADF indicator light comes on when the paper is loaded properly.
2Adjust the paper guides.
3From the home screen, navigate to:
Copy > specify the copy settings > Copy It
Copying using the scanner glass
1Place an original document facedown on the scanner glass in the upper left corner.
2From the home screen, navigate to:
Copy > specify the copy settings > Copy It
If you have more pages to scan, then place the next document on the scanner glass, and then touch Scan the next page.
3Touch Finish the Job.
Understanding the copy options
Copy from
This option opens a screen where you can select the paper size of the original document.
•Touch the paper size that matches the original document.
•To copy an original document that contains mixed paper sizes with the same width, touch Mixed Sizes.
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•To set the printer to automatically detect the size of the original document, touch Auto Size Sense.
Copy to
This option opens a screen where you can enter the paper size and type on which your copies will be printed.
•Touch the paper size and type that matches the paper loaded.
•If the settings for “Copy from” and “Copy to” are different, then the printer automatically adjusts the Scale setting to
accommodate the difference.
•If the paper type or size that you want to copy onto is not loaded in one of the trays, then touch Manual Feeder, and manually
load the paper in the multipurpose feeder.
•When “Copy to” is set to Auto Size Match, each copy matches the paper size of the original document. If a matching paper
size is not in one of the trays, then Paper size not found appears and prompts to load a paper in a tray or multipurpose
feeder.
Scale
This option lets you create an image from your original document that is proportionally scaled anywhere between 25 and 400
percent. You can also set automatic scaling.
•When copying to a different paper size, such as from legal‑size to letter‑size paper, set the “Copy from” and “Copy to” paper
sizes automatically to scale the scan image to fit the size of the paper onto which you are copying.
•To decrease or increase the value by one percent, touch or on the printer control panel. To make a continuous
decrease or increase in value, hold the button for two or more seconds.
Darkness
This option lets you adjust how light or dark the copies are in relation to the original document.
Sides (Duplex)
This option lets you make one- or two-sided copies from one- or two-sided original documents.
Collate
This option keeps the pages of a print job stacked in sequence when printing multiple copies of the document.
Copies
This option lets you set the number of copies to be printed.
Content
This option lets you set the original document type and source.
Select from the following content types:
•Graphics—The original document is mostly business‑type graphics such as pie charts, bar charts, and animations.
•Photo—The original document is mostly a photo or an image.
•Text—The content of the original document is mostly text or line art.
•Text/Photo—The original document is a mixture of text, graphics, and photos.
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Select from the following content sources:
•Black/White Laser—The original document was printed using a mono laser printer.
•Color Laser—The original document was printed using a color laser printer.
•Inkjet—The original document was printed using an inkjet printer.
•Magazine—The original document is from a magazine.
•Newspaper—The original document is from a newspaper.
•Other—The original document was printed using an alternate or unknown printer.
•Photo/Film—The original document is a photo from film.
•Press—The original document was printed using a printing press.
Advanced Duplex
This option lets you specify the document orientation, whether documents are one-sided or two-sided, and how documents are
bound.
Save As Shortcut
This option lets you save the current settings by assigning a shortcut number.
Margin Shift
This option lets you increase or reduce the size of the margin of a page by shifting the scanned image. Touch or to set
the margin you want. If the additional margin is too large, then the copy will be cropped.
Edge Erase
This option lets you remove smudges or marks around the edges of a document. You can choose to remove an equal area around
all four sides of the paper, or pick a particular edge. Edge Erase also removes whatever is within the area selected, leaving nothing
on that portion of the scan.
Overlay
This option lets you create a watermark (or message) that overlays the content of your copy. You can choose from Confidential,
Copy, Draft, Urgent, and Custom. You can type a custom message in the ”Enter the Custom Text Overlay and press OK” field. The
message will appear, faintly, in large print across each page.
Cover Page Setup
This option lets you set up the cover page of copies and booklets.
Separator Sheets
This option lets you place a blank sheet of paper between copies, prints, pages, print jobs or copy jobs. The separator sheets can
be drawn from a tray that contains a type or color of paper that is different from the paper your copies are printed on.
Header/Footer
This option lets you insert a header or footer and specify its location on a page.
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Select one of the following:
•Bates number
•Custom text
•Date/Time
•Page number
Paper Saver
This option lets you print two or more pages of an original document on the same page. Paper Saver is also called N-up printing
where Nstands for the number of pages. For example, 2-up would print two pages of your document on a single page, and 4-
up would print four pages of your document on a single page.
Advanced Imaging
This option lets you change or adjust Auto Center, Background Removal, Color Balance, Color Dropout, Contrast, Mirror Image,
Negative Image, Scan Edge to Edge, Shadow Detail, and Sharpness settings before you copy the document.
Create Booklet
This option lets you create a sequence of printed and collated pages that, when folded, forms a booklet half the page size of the
original document and with all the pages in order. You can choose between one‑sided and two‑sided.
Note: This option appears only when a printer hard disk is installed.
Custom Job
This option lets you combine multiple scan jobs into a single job and appears only when a working printer hard disk is installed.
Fix Scan Skew
This option lets you straighten scanned images that are slightly skewed when received from the ADF tray.
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