Sharp AJ-2200 Setup guide

Contents
Contents
How to Control the Online Manual 1
How to Print Out the Online Manual 1
Outline of the Printer Driver 2
"Paper Settings" Dialog Box 3
Printer Driver Functions 7
"Main" Menu Settings 8
"Output" Menu Settings 11
"Quality" Menu Settings 13
"Function" Menu Settings 14
"Watermark Settings" Dialog Box 16
"Version" Menu Settings 18
"Maintenance" Dialog Box 19
Printing Overview 20
Using the Chooser 21
Basic Printing 22
Printing a Watermark 23
Enlarge/Reduce the Printed Image 24
Printing Multiple Pages on One Page 25
Make a Poster 26
Printing a Photograph 27
Background Printing 28
Print Monitor 29
Print Monitor Functions 30
Time to Change the Ink Tank 31
Changing the Ink Tank 32
Test Print Head 35
Cleaning the Print Head 36
Changing the Print Head 37
Aligning the Print Head 40
Keeping the Printer Clean 42
Identifying Printer Problems 43
Paper is not Fed into the Printer 44
Paper Jam 46
Printer Inoperative 47
Nothing Prints 48
Uninstalling the Printer Driver
Faint, Uneven or Smeared Print Output 51
Characters or Graphics are not Printed in Correct Position 52
Printed Lines are not Straight, or Have Blank Spaces 53
Unit does not Print in Colour 54
Printing is too Slow 55
How to Use the Online Manual
Printer Properties
Print
Maintenance
Troubleshooting

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How to Use the Online Manual
How to Use the Online Manual
This Online Manual provides instruction for the operation of your new printer. It is designed to assist you in the operation
of the Online Manual and provide you with all relevant information.
For more information about computers, operating systems and Acrobat Reader, please refer to the relevant manual or
help file.
How to Control the Online Manual
How to Print Out the Online Manual
In order to print out a hard copy of the Online Manual for your reference, go to Acrobat Reader, click the "File" menu, and select
"Print". After specifying the printer setting, click the "Print" button to print.
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Takes you back page by page.To return to the previous link, click the ( ) button on the menu bar
of the Acrobat Reader.
Click this button to display the Index of the Online Manual.From the Index you
can jump to various pages.
Takes you forward page by page.
Click this button to display theTable of Contents of the Online Manual.
From the Table of Contents you can jump to various pages.
Click the listed
items to display
the header of
that section.
Following links
Links can connect parts of a document to other parts for further information. In this document, green coloured letters are linked areas.
To follow a link, select the hand tool ( ), a zoom tool, or a selection tool. Position the pointer over the linked area on the page until the pointer
changes to a hand with a pointing finger ( ). Then click the link.
Inthisonlinemanual,screenimagesandoperatingproceduresare mainlyfor Mac OS 9.x. With otherversionsof Mac OS,some
screen images may be different from those in this manual.

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Printer Properties
Outline of the Printer Driver
What is the Printer Driver?
A printer driver is a program designed to convert print data from any application into data understandable by the printer
so that the printer can quickly and efficiently print out the data.
Starting the Printer Driver
The printer driver setup screen includes the "Paper Settings" dialog box and "Print" dialog box. On the "Paper Settings"
dialog box, you can specify values related to paper including paper size. Open the dialogs by following the steps shown
below.
Follow the steps shown below to open the printer driver setup screen through any application on your computer such as
SimpleText or Microsoft Word. First, activate any application on your computer.
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Go to "File" menu, and select "Page Setup".
A "Paper Settings" dialog box of the printer driver will
appear.
Reference:"Paper Settings" Dialog Box
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After setting preferences on the "Paper Settings"
dialog box, select "Print" from "File" menu.
A "Print" dialog box of the printer driver will appear. To
switch the dialog box, click the ( ) button.
You can jump to the detailed information by
clicking each menu on the screen above.
Main
Output
Quality
Function
Version

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"Paper Settings" Dialog Box (part 1)
The following dialog box will appear when you select "Page Setup" from "File" menu of your application. You have
to specify preferences on this dialog box before printing.
Reference:Quality guaranteed area and printable area
The settings you
made for "Orientation"
and "Image Rotation"
are shown in this
image.
Click this button to save your
settings, and exit the dialog box.
Click this button to exit the dialog
box without making any changes to
the settings.
Click this button to show the
information on this dialog box.
Enable/disable "Image Rotation"
which rotates the printed image by
180 degree.This function is available
if landscape is selected for the
"Orientation".
Select the orientation
for your documents.
Select the paper size
for your document.
Allows you to reduce
or enlarge the size of
the print. On the above screen, click on options shown in the green boxes
to make additional changes.
The dialog box for your application may look slightly different. For details, refer to the operation manual or the help file of your
application.

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"Paper Settings" Dialog Box (part 2)
Paper Size
Select an appropriate paper size for your document from menu. Custom Paper Size
When "(Custom)" is selected for "Paper Size" setting, the
following dialog box will appear, and you can specify the
desired paper size.
Width
Enter a number to customize the width to the custom paper you
wish to use.
Length
Enter a number to customize the length to the custom paper you
wish to use.
millimetres / inches
Select the units of measurement for paper size settings: either
"millimetres" or "inches".
!Generally, load the paper whose size corresponds to the
size you select for the "Paper Size". If you set different
size of paper into the tray, you may fail to print
successfully. For the detail of paper setting, refer to
"LOADING PAPER" in the Setup Guide and Operation
Manual.
!"Fit to Page" is automatically enabled when "Ledger (Fit
to Page)", "A3 (Fit to Page)" or "B4 (Fit to Page)" is
selected.
Size
8.5" x 11"
8.5" x 14"
7.25" x 10.5"
210mm x 297mm
148mm x 210mm
8.5" x 11"
210mm x 297mm
4.375" x 5.75"
3" x 5"
4" x 6"
5" x 8"
Min. : 76.2mm x 127.0mm (3.00" x 5.00")
Max. : 215.9mm x 355.6mm (8.50" x 14.00")
Paper
Letter 11" x 17"
Ledger (Fit to Page)
Legal
Executive 297mm x 420mmA3 (Fit to Page)
A4
A5
Banner Letter
Banner A4
Invitation A2
Index card 3" x 5"
Index card 4" x 6"
Index card 5" x 8"
105mm x 148mm
A6
(Custom)
4.125" x 9.5"
110mm x 220mm
114mm x 162mm
257mm x 364mmB4 (Fit to Page) 182mm x 257mmB5
COM10
DL
C6

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"Paper Settings" Dialog Box (part 3)
Orientation
Set the orientation for your documents either to portrait or
landscape.
Zoom[%]
Allows you to reduce or enlarge the size of the print from 25%
to 400% in 1% increments.
"100%" button
Click to return to 100% (default setting).
This option prints your document in portrait format.
This option prints your document in landscape format.
If "COM10", "DL", "C6", or "Invitation A2"
is selected for the "Paper Size" and set to
landscape, the paper will be output in the
orientation shown in the right illustration.
!When "COM10", "DL", "C6", "Invitation A2", "Banner
Letter" or "Banner A4" is selected for "Paper Size",
"Zoom[%]" setting is disabled.
!When "Fit to Page" is checked or "N-Up/Poster"
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"Paper Settings" Dialog Box (part 4)
Quality guaranteed area and printable area
This printer can print onto the following area of the paper. It is
recommended that you specify margins from your application
to fit within the quality guaranteed area.
Quality guaranteed area
Guaranteed area is inside 19mm from the top / bottom edge of
the paper, and 10mm from the right / left edge of the paper.
Printable area
The void area of the printer driver is 3mm from the paper edges.
The print quality may be degraded outside the guaranteed area
according to the contents of your document.
19mm
Quality
guaranteed area
Printable area
Printable area
3mm
3mm
3mm
3mm
19mm
10mm
10mm

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Printer Driver Functions
When either of "Banner
A4", or "Banner Letter" is
selected for "Paper Size",
you cannot specify any
value for "Copies"
setting.
Specify the pages to be printed here.
To print all the pages, select "All".To select
some of the pages, specify the first and
the last page to be printed.
Displays important print
settings.
"Maintenance" button
Click to access maintenance
options.
Reference: "Maintenance"
Dialog Box
Check button
Allows you to select one
item from a list of options.
Copies
Set the number of copies
between 1 - 50.
Menu
Index which allows you to
switch between the various
setup screens.
"Help" button
The information on the currently
open dialog box will appear by
clicking this button.
"Cancel" button
Click this button to close the dialog box
without printing.
"Print" button
Click this button to start
printing.
When using the "Multiple Users"
function of Mac OS 9.x, click
this button to specify the spool
files and the collation files.
Check box
Click this option to
activate/deactivate each
function.
The dialog box for your application may look slightly different. For details, refer to the operation manual or the help file of your
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"Main" Menu Settings (part 1)
On this screen, you can select the print quality, paper size, and the tray.
Select the paper source.
Select the type of paper.
This option sets printing
quality.
Check this box when not
printing in colour.
Click this button to change
the default setting value of
"Print Quality".
On the above screen, click on options shown in the green boxes to
make additional changes.
To provide the highest possible printquality when printing in the "Best" mode, aspecial printingtechnique isused which requires
the print medium to move through the machine at a uniform speed. As a result, the time to make a print in this mode will be
approximately the same for all files regardless of the area being printed. This is also true for "Normal" mode printing on photo
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"Main" Menu Settings (part 2)
Print Quality
This option sets printing speed and quality. You can trade off
speed for quality. "Draft" is the fastest and lowest quality,
"Best" is the slowest and best quality.
"Default settings" button
Select the default print quality. This decides the print quality
when "Plain" is selected as "Media".
!If lines are broken when printing with "Draft", change
the setting to any other option.
!Some of the settings cannot be selected depending
on the "Media".
Draft
Sharp Rapid
Normal
Best
Select this option when you want to print text data
with high speed. If you print graphics, illustrations, or
lines with this option, the print quality is low.
Select this option when you want to print a document
containing graphics or illustrations with high speed.
This option provides a lower print quality than
"Normal" or "Best".
This option offers you normal print quality with normal
print speed.
Select this option when you want to get high print
quality for photographs or images.
* The print quality also depends on the specified (loaded) paper type.

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"Main" Menu Settings (part 3)
Media
Select the type of paper to be used. Select from "Plain",
"Coated", "Photo", "Transparency", "T-shirt transfer", and
"Card Stock". Insert the paper that was selected into the tray.
For more information on various paper types, refer to the
following table.
Paper Selection
Select "Tray" or "Bypass" for your print job.
Tray
Paper is fed to the printer from the paper tray.
Bypass
Paperwillbe fed totheprinterfromthe bypass tray.Only one sheetcan
be loaded into the bypass tray.To load paper into the bypass, align the
paper with the right side of the bypass and press the paper button.
When printing one page:
Load paper into the bypass then start printing from your computer. If
paper is not loaded before printing is started, the paper lamp on the
printer will blink and the message "Please set a sheet of paper on
bypass" will appear on the screen of the computer.
When printing more than one page:
Repeat as above for each page.
Media Description Media Usage
Plain Normal office paper
(copier paper and high
quality paper)
Corporate documents
Coated The print side of coated
paper is whiter. Graphics, Images
Photo The printsideofphotopaper
is glossy. Photographs
Transparency Overhead presentation on
clear film. The print side of
transparency film is rougher.
Overhead
presentations
T-shirt transfer This media is to be
transferredtocloth materials
by an iron.
T-shirt, Place mat
Card Stock Thick plain paper Card printing
!Be sure touse Sharp recommendedOHP films whenyou
select "Transparency".
!If you select "T-shirt transfer", the original image will be
reversedonthe printedmediato makea properimage on
the T-shirt.
!When "Card Stock" is selected, be sure to turn the paper
knob to ( ) setting to feed the thicker card stock.
!Depending on this "Media" setting, some of the "Print
Quality" settings cannot be selected.
If the "Tray" is selected from this menu and paper is placed
in the bypass tray, the paper in the bypass tray will be fed
first, and then paper will be fed from the paper tray.
Make sure to insert "Banner Letter" and "Banner A4"
through the bypass tray. Max. 5 sheets of banner paper can
be set to the bypass tray.

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"Output" Menu Settings (part 1)
Use this screen when you intend to print multiple pages in the reverse order or change the size of the output
image to fit to the paper in the printer.
When multiple copies are
printed, this setting allows
you to set the order.
Enlarges/reduces the
image to fit to the size of
paper in the printer.
On the above screen, click on options shown in the green boxes to
make additional changes.

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"Output" Menu Settings (part 2)
Order
Allows you to change the print out order of your documents.
Collate
When multiple copies are printed, this setting places each copy
in numerical order.
Reverse Order
Check this box to print documents in reverse order.
For more detailed information, refer to the table below.
Example: When printing out two copies of a three-page document.
Fit to Page
Check this box to fit the document size to the paper size in the
printer automatically.
Output Paper
Select the size of paper loaded in the printer after checking the
"Fit to Page" box.
Collate Reverse Order Output Result
!When "COM10", "DL", "C6", "Invitation A2", "Banner
Letter" or "Banner A4" is selected for "Paper Size",
"Fit to Page" setting is disabled.
!When"N-Up/Poster"settingisenabled,"FittoPage"
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"Quality" Menu Settings
Set the colour matching as well as the brightness, contrast and colour balance of an image.
Check your colour image preferences using this screen.
Set the brightness, contrast and colour balance level of
your print job here.
Directly enter the figure or move the scroll bar.
Returns all user modified settings back to default settings
of this dialog box.
Brightness: 50%
Contrast: 50%
Saturation: 50%
Red: 50%
Green: 50%
Blue: 50%
Allows you to select the Colour Management System.
The Colour Management System enables you to adjust the image colour on your
display to the result of the print job.
SHARP Colour matching
Select this option to utilise SHARP's original Colour Management System.
ColorSync
Select this option to utilise Macintosh standard Colour Management System.
Click this button to adjust brightness, contrast, or colour balance.The dialog box
below will appear.
0% 100%

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"Function" Menu Settings (part 1)
Specify the details of "Watermark" or "N-Up/Poster" settings through this screen.
Click this button to set the details when you intend to add
a watermark on your document.
Check this button when not using "N-Up/Poster" settings.
The settings you made at "N-Up" and "Poster" are shown in this image.
Set this feature to place multiple reduced pages onto a single page.
Enables you to print an enlarged image of one-page document onto
separated multiple sheets (4, 9, or 16 sheets).
Guides you to specify the preferences for "N-Up/Poster"
settings.Click this button to show the dialog box below.
On the screen below, click on options shown in the
green boxes to make additional changes.

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"Function" Menu Settings (part 2)
N-Up
Set this feature to place multiple reduced pages onto a single
page. Select "Print two pages on one sheet" or "Print four
pages on one sheet".
Poster
Select the number of sheets for "Poster". "Print one page on four
sheets" (4 sheets), "Print one page on nine sheets" (9 sheets), and
"Print one page on 16 sheets" (16 sheets) are available.
Overlap
Check this option to print overlapped images on multiple sheets. Use
this setting when you intend to paste the sheets without any space on
the joint.
Border
The border of each sheet is printed as shown in the illustration below
when this option is checked. This setting is useful for cropping margins
or pasting the sheets to each other.
The illustrations above assume that the paper size
selected for "Paper Size" setting corresponds to the
size of paper in the tray.
Orientation
Portrait Landscape
N-Up
Print four pages
on one sheet Print two pages
on one sheet
When "Ledger (Fit to Page)", "A3 (Fit to Page)", "B4 (Fit to
Page)", "COM10", "DL", "C6", "Invitation A2", "Banner
Letter", "Banner A4" or "(Custom)" is selected for "Paper
Size", "N-Up/Poster" settings are not available.
The same portion
of the image is
printed on both
sheets.
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"Watermark Settings" Dialog Box (part 1)
The dialog box shown below will appear when you select "Function" from the menu and then click the
"Watermark" button. Use this screen to set preferences for watermarks.
Use this screen to view
how the watermark will
appear on your
document.
You can drag the
watermark to your
favourite place by using
the mouse.
Use the scroll bar or enter a
figure to set the font size of a
watermark from 6 to 300 points.
Type the original text.
Click this box to uncheck
when you do not add any
watermark on your
document.
Use the scroll bar to set the
print angle of a watermark from
-90 to 90 degree.
(The angle can be set in 1
degree multiples.)
Open to adjust the font style.
Click this button to
centre a watermark in
the middle of the
document.
Check this box to print
watermark only on the first
page.
Select the desired watermark from "TOP SECRET",
"CONFIDENTIAL", "DRAFT", "ORIGINAL" and "COPY".
On the above screen, click on options shown in the green boxes
to make additional changes.
If you set the size of your
watermark rather large, it
may not appear on the
preview image shown in
the left.This will not lead
to any trouble with
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"Watermark Settings" Dialog Box (part 2)
Text
To create your own Watermark, type in the desired text
overwriting the original characters, and then click the "Add"
button.
"Edit Fonts" button
To adjust the font style of a watermark, click this button to display
the "Edit Fonts" dialog box.
On First Page Only
Check this box to ensure a watermark is printed only on the first
page of the document. By leaving this box unchecked, the
watermark will appear on every page of the printed document.
"Add" button
Enter your text over the currently displayed text and click this
button to add a new watermark.
After selecting a watermark from the menu and setting its size
and angle, click this button to add new changes.
"Update" button
Selectyour originalwatermarkfrom themenu.After adjustingthe
size and angle to suit yourpreferences, click the "Update" button
to save.
"Delete" button
To remove your original watermark from the menu, select it and
click this button.
Some applications may print the watermark on the last
page only.
You can select Italic, Bold, and Bold
Italic for your font style.
You can confirm the
specified settings here.
Select the desired font type. Select the desired colour. You cannot permanently save changes to the size and
angle of a default watermark using this button. To
permanently save all new changes use the "Add"
button.
Default watermarks cannot be deleted.

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"Version" Menu Settings
Information about the printer driver version is shown on this screen.
"About" button
Click this button to display the "About" dialog box for information on the
driver name and version.