Xerox Document HomeCentre User manual

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Chapter 1
Introduction
Introduction
Finding your way around the HomeCentre
What do the buttons and lights do?
The buttons
The LEDs
Using the HomeCentre software
Choosing the HomeCentre as your default printer
Changing your printer settings
From a Windows application:
From Windows 95:
Specifying print quality
Selecting and ordering supplies
Cartridges and print heads
Paper and media
HomeCentre Specifications
Safety and Legal Requirements

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Introduction
Your Xerox Document HomeCentre is a dependable and
efficient multifunction PC companion that handles your
home computing tasks with ease. With your HomeCentre
and the software that comes with it, you can work quickly
to create quality projects for work, school, orhome. Here’s
what you can do with the HomeCentre:
• Scan art, graphics, photographs, or text
• Make color copies of documents
• Print directly from your PC
The HomeCentre does all this in color or black and white.
You can scan or make copies with the scanner attached by
feeding individual pages into the HomeCentre. You can
also detach the scanner if you want to scan or make copies
of books, magazines, or other bound and large documents.
The HomeCentre CD-ROM includes Pagis Pro97 and
TextBridge© Pro 96 software. Pagis is the scanning
softwarethatalso letsyouedit,organize, and fileall of your
scanned images and documents.

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Award-winning TextBridge optical character recognition
software lets you easily convert your paper documents to
electronic documents, while retaining text formatting and
pictures. Once you have scanned a document, you can edit
it to fit your project needs.
The HomeCentre is easy-to-use, and makes scanning,
copying, and printing words and pictures simple and fun
with just a few mouse clicks. The HomeCentre’s unique
designand compact size lets itfit easily inyour home office
environment.

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Finding your way around the
HomeCentre
You’ll need to know your way around the HomeCentre as
you perform your scanning, copying, and printing tasks.
Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the
HomeCentre.
Rear view of the HomeCentre showing cables and PC connection

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Open cover showing printhead and ink cartridges
What do the buttons and lights do?
The control panel on the front of the printer is how the
HomeCentre communicates with you. Notice that there are
three buttons with lights (LEDs).
When you are working with the HomeCentre you may need
touse the buttonstodo oneormore tasks. You may alsowant
to keep an eye on the LEDs—the HomeCentre is trying totell
you something when the LEDs are lit or blinking.

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The buttons
Use the buttons to do the following:
The LEDs
Each LED means something different, depending on
whether the light is steadily lit or blinking:
Yellow LED—When lit, you need to change or clean the
ink cartridge.
Green LED—When lit, the HomeCentre is online and
ready to print. When blinking, the HomeCentre is
processing data.
Left button—Press and quickly release this button
to clean the cartridge, or move the print head into
position before you change an ink cartridge or
remove the print head. When the left button is
pressed and held, the cartridge is primed.
Center button—Press and release this button to
reset the HomeCentre if a fault occurs. Pressing the
center button also toggles the HomeCentre between
the on-line and off-line states.
Right button—Press and quickly release this button
to clear a paper jam, eject paper, or clear other
errors. Pressing and holding the right button prints
the demo page.

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Note If you press the green LED button during the
print cycle, the HomeCentre completes the current
line before it stops printing.
Red LED—When lit, an error has occurred. For example,
you stopped or suspended printing, the paper has jammed,
or the HomeCentre has run out of paper.
Using the HomeCentre software
TheHomeCentre includesTWAIN-compliantPCscanning
software that is compatible with most scanning
applications. Included on your HomeCentre CD-ROM is
Pagis and TextBridge Pro 96 software.
Pagis and TextBridge Pro 96 are the scanning and optical
character recognition (OCR) software you need to convert
paper documents to electronic documents, then edit and
save them on your PC.
You use the Pagis software on your PC to work with the
HomeCentre and perform your printing, copying, and
scanning tasks. With the Pagis software, you control the
image quality, edit the scanned material, and save images
for future use.

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For more information on how to use the Pagis software,
refer to the Pagis tutorial, the Pagis online documentation
documentation or the Pagis software application online
help.
Choosingthe HomeCentreas your
default printer
You should choose the HomeCentre as your default printer
during installation. Refer to your Windows documentation
or online help for information on how to choose and set up
the default printer.
To use the HomeCentre, do one of the following:
• To use the scanning software, double-click the Pagis
icon on your desktop.
• From the Start menu, select Programs, then select
the HomeCentre application.

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Changing your printer settings
You can change your printer settings from the Windows
Printer driver dialog. You access the HomeCentre printer
driver in one of two ways:
• From a Windows application, select Print or Print
Setup from the File menu, then select Setup.
• From Windows 95 select Start, Settings, then
Printers. Highlight the HomeCentre printer and
select Properties, Details, then Setup.