Oki CX2731 User manual

Basic User Guide
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CX2731 MFP

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CX2731 MFP Basic User’s Guide
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Copyright © 2010 by Oki Data. All Rights Reserved
CX2731 MFP Basic User’s Guide
P/N 59101701, Revision 1.0
November, 2010
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Emergency First Aid _____________
Take care with toner powder:
If swallowed, give small amounts of cold water and seek
medical attention. DO NOT attempt to induce vomiting.
If inhaled, move the person to an open area for fresh air.
Seek medical attention.
If it gets into the eyes, flush with large amounts of water
for at least 15 minutes keeping eyelids open. Seek medical
attention.
Spillages should be treated with cold water and soap to
help reduce risk of staining skin or clothing.
Note
Images used in this manual may include optional features that
your product does not have installed.

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CX2731 MFP Basic User’s Guide
Contents
About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Notes, Important, Cautions and Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Conventions Used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Names of Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Interior View: Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Interior View: Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Rear View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Turning Off Your Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Power Save Mode and Sleep Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Power Save Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Sleep Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Returning to the Standby Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Control Panel Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Control Panel Middle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Control Panel Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Control Panel Qwerty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Default Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Entering Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Entering Text using the Entry Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Entering Text using the Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Entering Text using the Qwerty Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Deleting Entered Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using the <CLEAR> key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using [BS] on the Screen Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Print Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Supported Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Recommended Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Standard Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Unsupported Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Unsupported Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Unsupported Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Storing Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Printable Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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Usable Media Sizes, Types and Weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Available trays: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Selectable Weight Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Loading Paper in Tray 1 and Optional Tray 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Loading Paper in the MP Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Configuring the Tray Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Printing The Configuration Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Registering Standard Size Media in the Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Registering Custom Sizes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Print Exits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using the Top (Facedown) Stacker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using the Rear (Face Up) Stacker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Opening the Rear Stacker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Loading Documents for Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Scannable Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
The Auto Document Feeder (ADF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Loading Documents on the ADF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
The Document Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Loading Documents on the Document Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
The Phone Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Speed Dial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Registering and Editing Speed Dial Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Registering Speed Dial Numbers Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Registering Speed Dial Numbers From History . . . . . . . . . 62
Deleting Speed Dial Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Group Dial (Group Number). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Registering and Editing Group Numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Deleting Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
The One-Touch Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Copying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Default Copy Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Basic Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Canceling a Copy Job in Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Configuring Copy Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Changing the Scan Size for the Document
(Scan Size) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Changing the Paper Tray (Paper Feed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Changing Image Orientation of Document (Direction) . . . . . . . . 74
Making Enlarged or Reduced Copies (Zoom) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Setting the Zoom Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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Continuous Scan Mode (Continue Scan). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Enabling Continuous Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Using Continuous Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Making Duplexed Copies (Duplex Copy). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Duplex Copy Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Enabling Duplex Copies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Changing The Document Type (Document Type) . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Adjusting Copy Density (Density) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Resetting Copy Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Auto Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Using the <RESET/LOGOUT> key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Faxing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Basic Faxing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Sending a Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Specifying a Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Direct Input: Using the Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Dialing Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Using Speed Dial List and Group List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Using Transmission and Reception History. . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Using The One-Touch Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Deleting Specified Destinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Configuring Fax Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Changing Scan Size (Scan Size) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Setting the Scan Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Adjusting Density (Density) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Printing the Sender Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Checking and Canceling Fax Transmissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Canceling a Fax Transmission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Canceling During a Real Time Transmission. . . . . . . . . . . 91
Canceling a Reserved Fax Job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Checking Transmission and Reception History . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Printing a Reserved Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Fax Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Specifying Reception Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Reception Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
When Receiving Calls and Faxes
(Tel/Fax Ready Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
When Connected To An Answering Machine
(Ans/Fax Ready Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
When Using The Telephone Frequently
(Tel Ready Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
When Forwarding Received Faxes (Forward Mode) . . . . . . 99
Using Distinctive Ring Detection (DRD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

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Printing Received Faxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Selecting the Tray to Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
When Unable to Print Received Faxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Phone Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Speed Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Registering and Editing Speed Dial Numbers . . . . . . . . . 101
Registering Speed Dial Numbers From History . . . . . . . . 103
Deleting Speed Dial Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Group Dial (Group Number) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Registering and Editing Group Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Deleting Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
One-Touch Keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Basic Procedure for Internet Faxing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Sending an Internet Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Specifying a Destination for Internet Faxing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Using the Address Book and Group List. . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Using the Transmission History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Direct Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Using LDAP Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Checking, Deleting, and Changing Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Checking a Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Deleting a Destination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Changing the Destination Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Canceling an Internet Fax Transmission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Receiving Internet Faxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Scanning Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Scan to E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Specifying a Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Scan to USB Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Scan to Network PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Scan to Local PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Scan to Remote PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Simple Scan Mode (for Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Secure Scan Mode (for Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Canceling the Current Scan Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Registering Address Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Address Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Registering and Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Registering From Transmission History . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Group List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Registering and Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

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Registering Network Scan Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Registering and Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Deleting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Printing From a USB Memory Device. . . . . . . . . . . 141
Starting a Print Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Canceling a USB Memory Print Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
User Authentication and Access Control . . . . . . . . 145
General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
What is User Authentication? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
What is Access Control? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Operation When PIN Authentication Is Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Walk-Up Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Logging Into the Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Logging Out of the Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Operation from a Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Printing from Your Computer: Windows or Macintosh . . . 148
Faxing from Your Computer: Windows Only. . . . . . . . . . 148
Operation When User Name and Password Authentication
is Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Walk-Up Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Logging Into the Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Logging Out of the Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Operation from a Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Printing from Your Computer: Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Printing from Your Computer: Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Faxing from Your Computer: Windows Only. . . . . . . . . . 154
Paper Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Paper Jam Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Document Jam Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Clearing Paper Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Error Code 370, 371 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Error Code 372 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Error Code 380, 390 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Error Code 381, 382, 385 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Error Code 389 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Error Code 391, 392 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Document Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
In the Duplex Paper Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Inside the ADF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

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Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Conventions Used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
General Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Toner Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Image Drum Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Belt/Fuser Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Tray Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Memory Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Miscellaneous Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Error Messages: USB Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Error Messages: Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Replacing Consumables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Consumable Order Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Replacing Toner Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Replacing the Image Drum Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Replacing the Image Drum Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Replacing the Transfer Belt Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Replacing the Fuser Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Replacing Paper Feed Rollers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Replacing Rollers, Tray 1 and Tray 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Replacing Rollers, MP Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Cleaning the Surface of the Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Cleaning the Document Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Cleaning Rollers in the ADF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Cleaning The Feed Rollers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
For Tray 1 and Tray 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
For MP Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Cleaning the LED Heads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Moving Your Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265
Transporting Your Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
General Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Copier Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Fax Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
PC Fax Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Internet Fax Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Scanner Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

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Scan To E-mail Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Scan To Network Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Scan To USB Memory Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Scan To Local PC Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Printing Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Print From USB Memory Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Network Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

11 – About This Guide
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About This Guide
Notes, Important, Cautions and
Warnings___________________
Note
Provides additional information to supplement the main text to
help you use and understand the product.
Important!
Indicates important information which you should read.
CAUTION!
Provides information which, if ignored, may result in
equipment malfunction or damage.
WARNING!
Provides information which, if ignored, may result in a risk
of personal injury.

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Conventions Used ____________
The following symbols are used in this guide:
•[ ]
Placed around display screen menu items.
•< >
Indicates the name of a button on the control panel.
•“ ”
Placed around messages which appear on the display screen

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Getting Started
Names of Components _________
Front View
No. Description
1Facedown stacker (default)
2Top cove r
3Top cov e r o p e n b u t t o n
4Paper tray (tray 1)
5Multi purpose (MP) tray (closed)
6USB port
7Control panel
8Document glass cover
9Auto document feeder (ADF) cover
10 Document tray
11 Scanner unit

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Interior View: Scanner
No. Name
1Document glass
2Glass for scanning documents from ADF tray.

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Interior View: Printer
No. Name
1LED heads (four)
2Fuser unit
3Toner cartridge Y: yellow
4Toner cartridge M: magenta
5Toner cartridge C: cyan
6Toner cartridge K: black
7Image drum unit (underneath toner cartridges)

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Rear View
No. Name
1Power switch
2Side cover
3Interface connections
1USB
2SD Card
3Ethernet
4AC power socket
5Rear Exit (Face up stacker)
6LINE connection
7TEL connection

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Turning Off Your Machine ______
Be sure to follow the procedure below every time you turn off the
machine.
1Press <SETTING> on the control panel.
2Press the down arrow key repetitively to select [Shutdown].
Press <OK>.
3When the confirmation message appears, press then the left or
right arrow key to select [Yes], then press <OK>.
CAUTION!
Do not turn off the power switch suddenly as this may
damage your machine. Always follow the correct
procedure to ensure that no data is lost.

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4When the screen prompts you to, press the off (O) side of the
power switch.
Power Save Mode and Sleep Mode
The two-phase power saving mode enables you to reduce the power
consumption of the machine.
Power Save Mode
When your machine is not used for a period of time (the default is 30
minutes), it automatically enters the power save mode to reduce
power consumption.
You can enter the power saving mode manually by pressing <POWER
SAVE> on the control panel. The <POWER SAVE> key lights up while
in this mode.

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Note
The unit comes from the factory set to enter Power Save mode
after 30 minutes of idle time.
To change the interval:
1. Press <SETTING>.
2. Select [Admin Setup] > [Management] > [Power Save] >
[Power Save Time].
To disable (or enable) Power Saving mode:
1. Press <SETTING>.
2. Select [Admin Setup] > [User Install] > [Power Save] >
[Power Save Enable].
Sleep Mode
When it is connected to a network, your machine goes from the
power saving mode into the sleep mode after a set period of time
(the default is 10 minutes). In the sleep mode, the status of your
machine is almost the same as when it is turned off.
The <POWER SAVE> key lights up while in the sleep mode.
Important!
The machine does not enter the sleep mode if an error
occurs.
Returning to the Standby Mode
To return the machine to the standby mode from the power saving or
sleep mode, press the <POWER SAVE> key on the control panel.
Note
When the unit receives a print job, it automatically returns to the
standby mode.

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The Control Panel
This chapter explains the control panel, as well as how to enter text.
1 = Left panel
2 = Middle panel
3 = Right panel
4 = Qwerty Pad, underneath the One Touch keypad