Oki proColor Pro510DW Configuration guide

pro510DW
Printing Guide

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pro510DW Printing Guide
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Revision 1.0
March, 2010
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Contents > 3
C ONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notes, cautions and warnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
About this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What this book describes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
How to access the driver screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
PCL or Postscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Printing preferences in Windows applications . . . . . . . . 8
PCL saved driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Setting the driver device options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Mac OS X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Blacks and greys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Black overprint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Black printing (black generation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Fine lines enhancement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Greyscale printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Color printing (basics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Factors that affect the appearance of prints. . . . . . . . 22
Tips for printing in color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Accessing the color matching options . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Setting the color matching options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using the color swatch feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the Color Correct Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Color matching (advanced). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
What this guide describes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Printer color management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Office color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Graphic pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Overlays and macros (windows only). . . . . . . . . . . . 53
What are overlays and macros? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Creating PostScript overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Printing with PostScript overlays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Creating PCL overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Printing with PCL overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

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Finishing options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Booklet printing (imposition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Collating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Color separation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Separating queued print jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Cover print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Banner printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Custom page size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Duplex (double-sided) printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Printing multiple pages on one sheet (n-up) . . . . . . . 83
Poster printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Scale to page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Watermarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Trapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Secure printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Sending the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Printing the document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Deleting a secure print document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Store to hard disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Sending the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Printing the document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Deleting a stored document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Encrypted secure printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Sending the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Printing the document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Notes, cautions and warnings > 5
N OTES , CAUTIONS AND WARNINGS
Specifications subject to change without notice. All trademarks
acknowledged.
NOTE
A note provides additional information to supplement the
main text.
CAUTION!
A caution provides additional information which, if
ignored, may result in equipment malfunction or
damage.
WARNING!
A warning provides additional information which, if
ignored, may result in a risk of personal injury.

Introduction > 6
I NTRODUCTION
A BOUT THIS BOOK
This book is delivered as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
There are many cross-references within this book, each
highlighted as blue text. When you click on a cross-reference
within Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader (also supplied on the
Manuals CD) the display will instantly jump to the part of the
manual containing the referenced material.
By using the button in Adobe Reader, you can navigate directly
back to where you were before.
If you need to print a part of this manual, use Adobe Reader’s
print command, and choose which pages you want to print. Some
pages are deliberately left blank so that the page format is
appropriate for duplex (double-sided) printing if you wish.
W HAT THIS BOOK DESCRIBES
This book provides a convenient on-screen reference to the many
features of the driver software supplied with your machine.
Where possible the instructions for both Windows and Mac
operating systems have been combined, where there is a
significant difference these have been split out and described
individually.
NOTE
This guide is written to cover a number of products and as
such may contain information about features that your
product does not have installed or does not support.
NOTE
Terminology may vary between operating systems. Windows
2000, XP and Vista use tabbed dialog boxes, whereas Mac OS
X uses pop-up menus. For consistency throughout this
manual we will refer to tabs.

How to access the driver screens > 7
H OW TO ACCESS THE DRIVER SCREENS
Most of the features described are accessed via the printer driver
screens. How you access them depends on your computer and its
operating system.
The driver windows are dialogue boxes offering a wide range of
choices about how you want to print your documents. Within
Windows these dialog boxes are tabbed, within Mac the dialog
boxes use pop-up menus.
There are two ways to access the driver features from within
Windows:
1. Directly from the Windows “Printers” folder (“Printers and
Faxes” folder in Windows XP).
If you choose this method any changes you make will
become the driver defaults. This means they will remain
active for all your applications unless you specifically
change them from within the application’s Print dialogue.
2. From your application’s Print dialogue.
If you choose this method any changes you make will
usually only last for as long as the particular application is
running, or until you change them again. In most cases,
once you quit the application the driver defaults will return.
NOTE
Example driver screenshots are used throughout this manual
and as such may not represent the driver screens for your
machine. Some of the features shown on the example
screenshots may not be available on your machine.
NOTE
Settings made from the printer’s own control panel are the
printer defaults. They determine how your printer will
behave unless you specify otherwise from your computer.
The driver defaults override the printer defaults.
Application Print settings override both the printer
defaults and the driver defaults.

How to access the driver screens > 8
PCL OR P OSTSCRIPT
Three printer drivers are supplied with your printer: one for
PCL5c emulation, one for PCL6 emulation, and the other for
PostScript 3 emulation.
If you print mainly from general “Office” applications choose one
of the PCL drivers. For faster printing of PDF documents, choose
PostScript. If you print mainly from professional DTP and
graphics applications, choose PostScript.
P RINTING PREFERENCES IN W INDOWS APPLICATIONS
When you choose to print your
document from a Windows
application program a print
dialogue box appears. This
dialogue usually specifies the
name of the printer on which
you will print your document.
Next to the printer name is a
Properties button.
When you click Properties a new window opens which contains
a short list of the printer settings available in the driver, which
you can choose for this document.
The window which opens when you click Properties depends on
which printer driver has been installed. The PostScript driver
offers different choices to the PCL driver.

How to access the driver screens > 9
P OSTSCRIPT EMULATION
1. Page orientation sets
portrait (tall) or
landscape (wide) page
orientation. The
“rotated” rotates the
paper through 90
degrees anticlockwise.
2. When printing double
sided pages (duplex unit
required). You can flip
the paper either on its
long edge or short edge.
3. Pages can be printed in forward or reverse order. If using
the face down (top) paper stacker, forward order is
usually appropriate to ensure that pages are stacked in
numerical order. If using the face up (rear) paper stacker,
reverse order would normally stack your pages in
numerical order.
4. You can specify how many pages to print on a sheet.
Pages will be scaled to fit the number you choose. If you
choose booklet printing (requires duplex unit) two pages
will automatically be set, and pages will be printed with
the correct pages opposite one another so that folding the
stacked printout produces a booklet.
5. Advanced options are also available, such as how to
download TrueType fonts, and whether advanced options
such as booklet printing are available.
The printer driver contains extensive on-line help for these items
to help you make the most appropriate choices.
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How to access the driver screens > 10
PCL EMULATION
When you click the Properties button from your application’s
Print dialogue, the driver window opens to allow you to specify
your printing preferences for this document.
1. Paper size should be the
same as the page size of
your document (unless
you wish to scale the
printout to fit another
size), and should also be
the same as the size of
paper you will feed into
the printer.
2. You can choose the
source of the paper to
feed. You can also click
on the appropriate part of
the screen graphic to select your preferred tray.
3. If applicable, the setting for paper weight should match
the type of paper on which you intend to print.
4. A variety of document finishing options can be selected,
such as normal one page per sheet, or N-up (where N can
be any number up to 16) for printing scaled down pages
at more than one page per sheet. Booklet printing prints
two pages per sheet on each side of the paper so that
when folded they make up a booklet. Booklet printing
requires the duplex unit to be installed in your printer.
Poster printing will print large pages as tiles spread over
multiple sheets.
5. For two-sided printing, you can choose to flip the page by
the long edge or the short edge. Of course, this requires
that a duplex unit be installed in your printer.
6. If you have changed some printing preferences before and
saved them as a set, you can recall them to avoid having
to set them individually each time you need them.
7. A single on-screen button restores the default settings.
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How to access the driver screens > 11
C HANGING THE DRIVER DEFAULTS
Windows XP/2000
1. Click Start > Settings > Printers and Faxes to open
the Printers and Faxes window.
2. In the Printers and Faxes window, right-click on the
appropriate printer driver icon, and choose Printing
Preferences from the context menu.
Windows Vista
1. Click Start > Control Panel > Printers to open the
Printers and Faxes window.
2. In the Printers and Faxes window, right-click on the
appropriate printer driver icon, and choose Printing
Preferences from the context menu.
C HANGING THE APPLICATION ’ S DRIVER SETTINGS
Windows
1. In your application, open the file you want to print.
2. On the File menu, choose Print….
3. In the application’s Print dialogue, make sure the printer
shown is the appropriate one, and click Properties.
Mac
1. In your application, open the file you want to print.
2. On the File menu, choose Print….
3. In the application’s Print dialogue, make sure the printer
shown is the appropriate one, and click Printer:.

How to access the driver screens > 12
PCL SAVED DRIVER SETTINGS
This feature, unique to the Windows PCL drivers, allows you to
save the printer driver settings and reuse them later. This could
be useful if you frequently print many different types of
document that require different printer driver settings.
Recalling saved settings in the PCL drivers is a simple task that
must be done first, before any job-specific changes are made.
Rather than repeat the procedure throughout this manual, it is
described here.
S AVING A SET OF DRIVER SETTINGS
1. Make any changes to the driver settings you want, as
described in the relevant section of this manual.
2. In the driver’s Setup tab, click Save….
3. Enter a meaningful name for the settings you are saving,
and click OK.
R ECALLING SAVED DRIVER SETTINGS
1. In the driver’s Setup tab, choose any previously saved
driver settings you need.
2. Proceed to make any other adjustments for this job, as
described in the relevant section in this manual.

Setting the driver device options > 13
S ETTING THE DRIVER DEVICE OPTIONS
This section explains how to ensure that your printer driver can
utilize all of the hardware features installed in your printer.
Accessories such as hard disk, duplex unit (two sided printing),
additional paper trays, etc., will only be usable if the printer
driver on your computer knows they are there.
In some cases the hardware configuration of your printer is
automatically detected when the driver is installed. However, it is
advisable to at least check whether all of the available hardware
features are listed in the driver.
This procedure is essential if you subsequently add extra
hardware features to your printer after the drivers have been
installed and set up.
W INDOWS
1. Access the driver’s Properties window. (See “Changing
the driver defaults” on page 11.)
2. Select the Device Options tab.
In the Windows XP PostScript driver the tab may be called
“Device Settings”.
3. Set the options for any devices you have installed,
including the correct number of paper trays, high capacity
feeder, duplex unit, etc.
4. Click OK to close the window and save your changes.
M AC OS X
1. Open the Printer Setup Utility and ensure that your printer
model is selected.
2. Choose Printers > Show Info > Installable Options.
3. Select all hardware options appropriate to your printer,
and click Apply Changes.

Blacks and greys > 14
B LACKS AND GREYS
B LACK OVERPRINT
Black overprint eliminates the white edge between the printed
fonts and the colored background.
Black overprint can only be used when printing 100 percent black
text over a background color.
Black Overprint may not be available with some software
applications.
W INDOWS
1. On the Job Options tab, click Advanced.
2. Check Black Overprint.
NOTE
1. The Black Overprint feature is not included in the
Windows PCL 6 driver.
2. When the background color is very dark, the toner may
not fuse correctly. Change the background to a lighter
color.

Blacks and greys > 15
M AC OS X
1. From the Color menu, click Advanced.
2. Check Black Overprint checkbox.
B LACK PRINTING ( BLACK GENERATION )
To use Black Generation, Office Color or Graphic Pro must be the
selected Print Mode.
Your printer prints the color black in one of two ways:
Composite Black or True Black.
C OMPOSITE BLACK
The cyan, magenta, yellow, and black toners are combined to
create composite black.
This will sometimes give a glossier finish, due to the increased
amount of toner. It can also sometimes appear as a slightly
brownish black.
Use composite black when printing photographs.
T RUE ( PURE ) BLACK
Only black toner is used to print true black.
Use True Black when printing a combination of text and graphics.
If you use True Black to print photographs, dark sections of the
photos may appear black.

Blacks and greys > 16
Office Color
1. On the driver’s Color tab, select Office Color (1) and
click the Options button.
2. On Black Finish (2), make your selection: Auto (allow
printer to choose the best method depending on page
content), True Black or Composite Black.
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Graphic Pro
1. On the driver’s Color tab, select Graphic Pro (1) and
click the Options button.
2. From the Black Finish menu (2), choose your preferred
setting.
MAC
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Blacks and greys > 18
F INE LINES ENHANCEMENT
This feature can be used to emphasize the pen width of very fine
lines (minimum line width).
With some software applications, if this feature is turned ON, the
spaces in bar codes may become too narrow. If this happens,
turn Adjust Ultra Fine Lines OFF.
W INDOWS
1. In the driver’s Job Options tab, click Advanced.
2. Click the checkbox to turn on Adjust Ultra Fine Lines.
If the option is turned on, a check mark appears in the box.
NOTE
This is a feature of the Windows PCL 5c and Mac drivers only.

Blacks and greys > 19
M AC
1. Select Printer features.
2. Select Image Options.
3. Click the checkbox to turn on Adjust Ultra Fine Lines.
If the option is turned on, a check mark appears in the box.
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Blacks and greys > 20
G REYSCALE PRINTING
If you select Greyscale, the printer converts all colors into
shades of grey, and prints using only black toner.
Use Greyscale to speed up printing of proof copies or when you
do not need to print a color document in color.
W INDOWS PCL AND M AC
1. If using the PCL driver, in the driver’s Setup tab, choose
any previously saved driver settings you need. See
“Recalling saved driver settings” on page 12.
2. On the driver’s Color tab, click Greyscale, then click
Advanced.
WINDOWS
MAC