Oki C5700 User manual

User’s Guide
C5700 / C5900
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Preface> 2
P REFACE
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this
document is complete, accurate, and up-to-date. The manufacturer
assumes no responsibility for the results of errors beyond its control.
The manufacturer also cannot guarantee that changes in software and
equipment made by other manufacturers and referred to in this guide
will not affect the applicability of the information in it. Mention of
software products manufactured by other companies does not
necessarily constitute endorsement by the manufacturer.
While all reasonable efforts have been made to make this document
as accurate and helpful as possible, we make no warranty of any kind,
expressed or implied, as to the accuracy or completeness of the
information contained herein.
The most up-to-date drivers and manuals are available from the Oki
Europe website:
http://www.okiprintingsolutions.com
Copyright © 2006. All rights reserved.
Oki and Microline are registered trademarks of Oki Electric Industry
Company, Ltd.
Energy Star is a trademark of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency.
Hewlett-Packard, HP, and LaserJet are registered trademarks of
Hewlett-Packard Company.
Microsoft, MS-DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation.
Apple, Macintosh, Mac and Mac OS are registered trademarks of
Apple Computer.
Other product names and brand names are registered trademarks or
trademarks of their proprietors.
As an Energy Star Program Participant, the
manufacturer has determined that this product meets
the Energy Star guidelines for energy efficiency.
This product complies with the requirements of the
Council Directives 89/336/EEC (EMC) and 73/23/EEC
(LVD) as amended where applicable on the
approximation of the laws of the member states relating
to electromagnetic compatibility and low voltage.
Please note that Microsoft Windows XP was used to produce all
screenshots in this manual. These screenshots may vary if you are
using any other operating system, but the principle is the same.
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Emergency First Aid> 3
E MERGENCY F IRST A ID
Take care with toner powder:
If swallowed, induce vomiting and seek medical
attention. Never attempt to induce vomiting if person is
unconscious.
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.
I MPORTER TO THE EU
Oki Europe Limited (trading as OKI Printing Solutions)
Central House
Balfour Road
Hounslow
TW3 1HY
United Kingdom
For all sales, support and general enquiries contact your local
distributor.
E NVIRONMENTAL I NFORMATION
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Contents> 4
C ONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Emergency First Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Importer to the EU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Environmental Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notes, Cautions and Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Printer overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Changing the display language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Paper recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Cassette trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Multi purpose tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Face down stacker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Face up stacker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Duplex unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Loading paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Cassette trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Printer settings in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
PCL or PostScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Printing preferences in Windows applications. . . . . 21
Secure printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Store to hard disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
A Guide to printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
How to access the driver screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Changing the driver defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Changing the application’s driver settings . . . . . . . 31
PCL saved driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Setting the driver device options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Configuring hardware options from the desktop . . . 33
Configuring hardware options from chooser
(AppleTalk only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Blacks and Greys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Black printing (black generation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Fine lines enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Greyscale printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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Colour matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
What this guide describes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Printer colour management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
About RGB and CMYK colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Office colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Office colour - RGB options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Customising RGB office colour
with the colour correct utility (Windows) . . . . . . . 56
Graphic pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Types of ICC profile supported. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Graphic pro workflow – overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Matching the colour of a monitor, scanner
or camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Simulating another printer - RGB source data . . . . 68
CMYK ink simulations - CMYK source data . . . . . . . 76
Rendering intents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Pure black text / graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Colour match precision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Printer driver settings for ICC profile creation or
no colour matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Finishing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Collating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Colour separation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Separating queued print jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Cover print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Custom page size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Duplex (double-sided) printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Printing multiple pages on one sheet (N-up) . . . . .109
Poster printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Scale to page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Watermarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Menu functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Print jobs menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Information menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Shutdown menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Print menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Media menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Colour menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
System configuration menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
PCL emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
PPR emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
FX emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
USB menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
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Network menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Maintenance menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Usage menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Job Log Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Overlays and Macros (Windows only) . . . . . . . . 139
What are overlays and macros? . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139
Creating PostScript overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
Printing with PostScript overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Creating PCL Overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
Printing with PCL overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Replacing consumable items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Consumable order details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151
Toner cartridge replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152
Image drum replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Replacing the belt unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161
Fuser replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164
Cleaning the LED head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
Installing upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Duplex unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167
Memory upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Additional paper tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
Adjusting Windows printer drivers . . . . . . . . . . . .176
Clearing paper jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Oki contact details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
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Notes, Cautions and Warnings> 7
N OTES , C AUTIONS AND W ARNINGS
NOTE:
A note appears in this manual like this. A note provides
additional information to supplement the main text which
may help you to use and understand the product.
CAUTION!
A caution appears in this manual like this. A caution
provides additional information which, if ignored, may
result in equipment malfunction or damage.
WARNING!
A warning appears in this manual like this. A warning
provides additional information which, if ignored, may
result in a risk of personal injury.
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Introduction> 8
I NTRODUCTION
Congratulations on buying this Oki Printing Solutions colour
printer. Your new printer is designed with advanced features to
give you clear, vibrant colour prints and crisp black and white
pages at high speed on a range of print media for the office.
Your printer includes these features:
>Multi-level technology produces subtler tones and
smoother gradations of colour to lend photographic
quality to your documents;
>Up to 20 (C5700) or 26 (C5900) pages per minute in full
colour for fast printing of high impact colour presentations
and other documents;
>Up to 32 pages per minute in black and white for fast and
efficient printing of all general purpose documents not
requiring colour;
>600 x 600, 1200 x 600 dpi (dots per inch) and 600 x 600
x 2 bit print resolution for high quality image production
showing the finest detail;
>Single Pass colour Digital LED technology for high speed
processing of your printed pages;
>New Profile Assistant utility allows you to download ICC
profiles to the hard disc (Hard Disc Drive required);
>PostScript 3, PCL 5C, PCL 6 and Epson FX emulations for
industry standard operation and wide compatibility with
most computer software;
>10Base-T and 100Base-TX network connection lets you
share this valuable resource among users on your office
network;
>Photo Enhance mode to improve printouts of photographic
images (Windows PCL driver only);
>“Ask Oki” – a user-friendly function for Windows that gives
a direct link from your printer driver screen to a dedicated
web site specific to the exact model you are using. This is
where you’ll find all the advice, assistance and support
you could need to help you get the best possible results
from your Oki printer;
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>“WebPrint Internet Explorer plugin” - another brand new
function for Windows that enables you to print web pages
properly;
>Internal hard disk drive (standard on “h” models, optional
on others) for storage of overlays, macros and
downloadable fonts, and automatic collation of multiple
copies of multipage documents and the download of ICC
Profiles;
>Template Manager 2006 utility for Windows enables the
design and print of Business cards, banners, labels with
ease.
Additionally, the following optional features are also available:
>External Wireless Print server available - eliminating the
need for network cabling;
>Automatic two-sided (duplex) printing for economical use
of paper and compact printing of larger documents
(standard on dn models);
>Additional paper tray for loading a further 530 sheets to
minimise operator intervention, or different paper stocks
for letterhead stationery, alternative paper sizes or other
print media;
>Additional memory allows printing of more complex
pages. For example, high resolution banner printing;
>Internal hard disk drive for storage of overlays, macros
and downloadable fonts, and automatic collation of
multiple copies of multipage documents (standard on h
models);
>Storage Cabinet.
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Introduction> 10
P RINTER OVERVIEW
F RONT VIEW
The LCD display language can be changed to show different
languages. (see “Changing the display language” on page 12).
1. Output stacker, face
down.
Standard printed copy
delivery point. Holds
up to 250 sheets at
80g/m².
2. Operator panel.
Menu driven operator
controls and LCD
display panel.
3. Paper tray.
Standard blank paper
tray. Holds up to 300
sheets of 80g/m²
paper.
4. Multi purpose tray (80g/m²).
Used for feeding heavier paper
stocks, envelopes and other special
media. Also for manual feeding of
single sheets when required.
5. ON/OFF switch.
6. Front cover release lever.
7. Multi-purpose tray release lever
8. Top cover release button.
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