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OKI B4300/B4200(PCL) HELP Table of Contens
OKI B4300/B4200(PCL) Help Table of Contents

This printer driver has the tabs shown below that allow you to set various functions.

Click a tab name under which an item you want to know more about is located, or click the item.

Setup

The Setup tab allows you to select and set Size, Paper Source, Paper Type, Driver Settings, etc.

Job Options

The Job Options tab allows you to select and set Quality, Job Type, Orientation, Watermark, Overlay, etc.

Image

In the Image tab allows you to select and set Dithering Pattern, Lightness, Contrast, etc.

Device Options

In the Device Options tab, allows you to set items related to optional devices added to the printer and the information on the options installed in the printer is read, Printer driver version and copyright are displayed.


Setup

The Setup tab allows you to select and set Size, Paper Source, Paper Type, Driver Settings, etc.

Size

Source

Weight

Paper Feed Options

Finishing Mode

Driver Settings

About

Default

OK

Cancel

Apply


Paper Feed Options

The Paper Feed Options dialog allows you to set items related to paper feeding.

Paper Feed Options

Auto Tray Change

Paper Size Check

Custom Size

Default

OK

Cancel


Job Options

The Job Options tab allows you to select and set Quality, Job Type, etc.

Quality

Orientation

Print Mode

Toner save

Copies

Scale

Watermark

Font

Advanced

Default

OK

Cancel

Apply


Image

The Image tab allows you to select and set Dither, Lightness, Contrast, etc.

Dithering Pattern

Dithering Texture

Disable gray scale printing

Lightness

Contrast

Default

OK

Cancel

Apply


Device Options

In the Device Options tab, allows you to set items related to optional devices added to the printer and the information on the options installed in the printer is read, Printer driver version and copyright are displayed.

Available Options

Get Printer Settings

Setting Information

About

Default

OK

Cancel

Apply


Size

Select the paper size.

If the paper size can be set in an application, sometimes the Size setting in the printer driver becomes ineffective.  Generally, the paper set in Size becomes the paper size used for editing data created by the application.

If the paper loaded in the tray specified as the Source tray is smaller, the print image will be shrunk to fit the actual paper size.  If the paper loaded in the tray specified as Source is larger, the print image will be enlarged to fit the actual paper size.

If you select User Defined Size from the list, the Set Free Size dialog appears.  You may freely change the paper size for User Defined Size within the designated ranges for width and length.  First, select the dimensional Units you want to use-- either inch or mm-- then set the Width and the Length.  The value for Width must be equal to or shorter than the value for Length.


Paper Source
Source

Select the tray that will supply paper for the print job.

When Automatically Select is chosen Paper is loaded from the Tray that contains the paper size selected in the Size list box.

If you add a new tray, be sure to set the number of usable trays in the Device Options tab.


Weight

Specify the weight and the kind of paper you want to use.

Printer Setting	(uses the weight and media type set in the printer for the selected tray)

Light	(16-17 lbs.)

Medium Light	(18-19 lbs.)

Medium	(20-23 lbs.)

Medium Heavy	(24-27 lbs.)

Heavy	(28-32 lbs.)

Labels

Transparency

If you are printing on regular paper, do not select Labels or Transparency media types.  Doing so will cause toner smearing and paper jams.


 Orientation

Select the orientation for the document that is to be printed.

Portrait:

Your document will be printed across the width of the paper.

Landscape:

Your document will be printed across the length of the paper.

180:

The landscape image is rotated 180 degrees and printed.  If you change the Pages per Sheet settings, data that is laid out across the length of the paper will be rotated 180 degrees.


Copies

Enter the number of copies to be printed.

You can set it in the range from 1-999.


 Auto Tray Change

Check this item to enable Auto Tray Change.  The default for this option is ON.

When Auto Tray Change is enabled, the printer will switch to a secondary paper source (if the paper is the same) when the primary paper source runs out of paper.


Paper Check
Paper Size Check

If the box is checked, the printer displays an error message, when the size or type of the paper is different from the size or type of paper requested. The printer enters standby mode. Printing restarts when you load the paper according to the instruction and press ON-LINE switch.


Paper Feed Options

Paper Feed Options dialog.

The Paper Feed Options dialog box allows you to set items related to feed of printer.


Finishing Modet
Finishing Mode

In the Options dialog, you can set items related to page layout.

Standard / N-up

  2-up:	Prints 2 pages on one sheet of paper.

  4-up:	Prints 4 pages on one sheet of paper.


Finishing Mode

You can set items related to page layout.

  Standard / N-up: Prints 1 pages on one sheet of paper.

  2-up: Prints 2 pages on one sheet of paper.

  4-up: Prints 4 pages on one sheet of paper.

In the Options dialog, you can set option items related to page layout.


Default

Returns the Printer Driver settings to the default values within the tab that is displayed.  Values that have been changed in other Printer Driver tabs are not affected.


OK

Saves the contents of the change and closes the dialog box.


Cancel

Closes the dialog box without saving the contents of the changes.


Apply

Saves the contents of the changes and keeps the dialog box open.

The Apply button is not available on Windows NT4.0.


Click this is display an overview of this dialog box.


Standard / N-up

This allows you to print multiple pages in one sheet, with each page image reduced in size.

Pages per Sheet:

This function reduces the image size of each page so that the desired number of pages will fit on a single page.

  1:	Prints one page on one sheet of paper (default)

  2:	Prints 2 pages on one sheet of paper.

  4:	Prints 4 pages on one sheet of paper.

With each selection, the preview area will change.  Please confirm the page layout in the preview area.

Note:  Data is not laid out centered on the page.  The reduced image for the first page will be pasted to the upper left corner of the actual page. Use the Preview area to check the effects of your changes.

Border:

For N-up selections other than 1, you may select a page border to surround each individual page image that will be printed on the single sheet of paper.

Page layout:

You can set the page order, if select multiple page.

Bind Margin:

Reduces the size of the image to be printed and adds a margin for binding the document.


Scale

This allows you to set a rate to enlarge or reduce your printed image.

The image size may be adjusted over a range of 25%-400%.


Bind Margin

Reduces the size of the image to be printed and adds a margin for binding the document.

(None): 	No bind margin.

Left: 	Adds a margin for binding at the left side of the paper.

Upper: 	Adds a margin for binding at the upper (top) side of the paper.

Right: 	Adds a margin for binding at the right side of the paper.

Lower: 	Adds a margin for binding at the lower (bottom) side of the paper.

The width of the bind margin is defined as a length (in inches or mm) from the circumference margin that is fixed for each paper size.  This is not a distance from the edge of the paper.  The bind margin can be from 0 to 1.18 inches (0 to 30 mm.)  When a bind margin is set, the whole page is reduced to achieve the specified bind margin.  Therefore, the margins of the remaining sides of the document will be larger than the margins that the application would designate by default for that paper size.


Paper Layout Preview

Preview displays settings, such as Pages per Sheet and Bind Margin, according to the currently selected paper size and paper orientation.


Displays images that reflect the effects of the current settings for contrast and lightness adjustment.


Lightness

Adjusts the lightness of the print.

Default value is 0.  The range for Lightness is from  -50 to +50.

The larger the value is, the lighter the printed result will become.  The smaller the value is, the darker the printed result will become.


Contrast

Adjusts the density of the print.

Default value is 0.  The settings for Contrast range from -50 to +50.

If you set a large value, the colors in the printed result will become more vivid.  If you set a small value, the printed result will be duller.


Quality

Use this dialog to select the resolution for printing.

If Quality is chosen, the highest resolution available for the printer will be used.

If Fast is chosen, the lowest printer resolution will be used.

If Normal is chosen the document will print faster, using an intermediate resolution.

The Quality choice will generate the best graphic images, but it creates a larger

spool file and takes longer to print.


Toner save

Set the toner save mode.

None	100% density: darkest printing. Use this setting for printing final documents.

MediumLower toner density: lighter printing. Use for drafts and for routine documents that do not require optimum printing.

Light	Lowest toner density: lightest printing. Use for drafts and proofs to conserve toner.


Advanced

When you do not like the print result, changing the following settings may help.

Increase brush density

Reduce a spooling file size.

Monochrome dithering by driver.

Printer darkness

OK

Cancel

Default


Advanced

When you do not like the print result, press a button to open a dialog and change a setting in the dialog. This may help.


Reduce a spooling file size

Selecting EMF (Enhanced Metafiles) as a spooling file format reduces the time that the printer needs to return processing to the application after it starts printing. With some applications, the size of spooling file becomes huge when EMF is selected as a spooling file format. In that case, select this setting.

This setting is disabled because spooling in EMF format is not available in the following cases:

- When you select Print directly to the printer

- When you select Always spool RAW data type

- When you print from a client side with print server in network environment

This setting is valid only with Windows XP/2000/NT4.0.

Windows Me/98/95: If you cannot print due to a too large spooling file, do the following:

Properties -> Details tab -> Press Spool Setting button. -> Spool Data Format: Change the setting from EMF to RAW.


Monochrome dithering by driver

When printer color processing capabilities cannot be adjusted and color processing cannot be accomplished through the application, the dithering used for data displayed in color may be expressed with a different pattern. For example, even though accounting applications automatically assign patterns to the graphs that are created and display them in red, the printed graph will be printed in black. Also, letters that appear in color in word processing and desktop publishing applications will not be dithered and will be printed in black.


Printer darkness

Controls the print darkness in five steps from Light to Dark,


Open the watermark dialog.


Watermark

In the Watermark dialog, you set watermark print related items.

If you use the Watermark function, you can print the characters on top of the data you have created in an application program.

Watermark List

New

Remove

Edit

First Page Only

Add/Edit Watermark

Default

OK

Cancel

Apply


Watermark List

Select a watermark from the list.

The selected watermark can be edited.

When (None) is selected, no watermark will be printed.


Add
New

Create a new watermark and add it to the list.

The added watermark has information such as Color, Size, and Font.


Edit

The item chosen by the Watermark list is edited.

Edit button becomes invalid when Watermark is not registered.


Remove

Removes the selected item from the Watermark list.


Text

Enter characters for the watermark in the Text edit box.

The maximum number of characters you can enter is 31 double-byte characters or 63 single-byte characters on WindowsMe/98/95, and 63 characters in single-byte or double-byte on WindowsXP/2000/NT4.0.  In practice, using the default Font size of 72 points, a letter-sized document, and a 45 degree angle, 20 upper-case letters or 26 lower-case letters will stretch from the lower left corner of the document to the upper right corner.

The Text that you have entered will be reflected in the preview area on the right.


Size

Specify the size of the watermark.

The size will be displayed on the left of the scroll bar.  The default value is a font size of 72 points.  The range that can be set is from 1 to 600 points.

The watermark size will be reflected in the preview area on the right.


Angle

Specify an angle to rotate the watermark.

The angle is displayed to the left of the scroll bar.  Default value is 45 degrees.  The range that can be set is from -180 to +180 degrees.

The watermark angle will be reflected in the preview area on the right.


Font

Specify the font to be used for the watermark.

If you press the Font button, the Font  dialog appears.  In this dialog, you can set Font Name, Style and Size.

The Font settings for the watermark will be reflected in the preview area on the right.


Color

Specify the color of the watermark.

If you press the Color button, the Color dialog appears.  Select the color from the standard colors provided.  You may create a color by adding colors.

The watermark color will be reflected in the preview area on the right.


Watermark Trim

Watermark Trim is setup.

None:

No watermark trim.

Circle:

Circles watermark text.

Single Frame:

Single-frames watermark text by a box.

Double Frame:

Double-frames watermark text by a box.

A setup is reflected in a right-hand side preview.


Position

This allows you to set the watermark print position.

You can also set the watermark print position by entering numbers from -1000 to +1000 for X and Y.

Positive x-values are to the right of the origin, and positive y-values are below the origin.  Negative x-values are to the left of the origin and negative y-values are above the origin.  The default position for the origin of the watermark is centered on the page.

The watermark print position will be reflected in the preview area on the right.


First Page Only

A watermark may be printed on each page of a document or only on the first page.

This check box lets you specify that the watermark be printed on the First Page Only of the document being printed.


Displays the current Watermark setting.


Open the Font dialog.


Font tab
Font

In the Font dialog, you set TrueType font and printer font related items.

TrueType Font Output Type

Font Substitution

Font Substitution Table

Default

OK

Cancel

Apply


TrueType Font Output Type

Download as Outline Font:

TrueType font is downloaded to the printer as outline font and the font image is created inside the printer.  Using this option, the processing load in the Windows operating system, in general, becomes small, and the processing load in the printer becomes large.  Certain TrueType fonts, however, are downloaded as bitmap fonts, regardless of this setting.

Download as Bitmap Font:

TrueType font is downloaded as a bitmap font to the printer.  In this case, the font image is created in Windows and sent to the printer.  In general, this increases the processing load in Windows and decreases the processing load in the printer.


Font Substitution

With this checked, the Font Substitution Table becomes available.


Font Substitution Table

Substitutes Printer Fonts for TrueType Fonts.

A printer font is selected on the Printer Font list that substitutes for a font selected on the TrueType font list.

This is enabled only when Font Substitution is checked.


Available Options

The Available Options allows you to set items related to optional devices added to the printer.

Check the options that have been added to your printer.


Setting Information

When the Get Printer Settings button is pressed, the Setting Information box displays printer information.


Get Printer Settings

When the Get Printer Settings button is pressed, the information on the options installed in the printer is read, and the available Options will be automatically set up, with the available port (LPR Port).


Custom Size

If you click the Custom Size... button, the Custom Size dialog box appears.

The custom paper sizes that you create will appear in the Size menu and can be selected just as you select existing paper sizes.

Use the following steps to define a custom size paper:

1)	Press the Custom Size... button.  The Custom Size dialog box appears.

2)	Enter a name for the paper size that you are going to add in the Name edit box.

3)	Select the desired dimensional Units, either mm or inch, then enter the width and the length of the paper in the Width and Length edit boxes.

4)	Press the Add>> button to add this paper to the list of custom paper sizes.  The name will be added to the list box on the Custom Size dialog box and to the Size menu.

5)	Press the OK button to close the dialog box.

The paper size defined here is added to the end of the Size menu, below the User Defined Size entry.

The maximum number of Custom paper sizes that can be defined is 32.

The maximum number of characters that can be used for the custom paper name is 6 double-byte characters or 12 single-byte characters in Windows Me/98/95 and 12 single- or double-byte characters in Windows XP/2000/NT4.0.


About

The Printer driver version and copyright are displayed.


Displays the current printer status


Driver Settings

Save the settings on this driver.

Driver Settings:

Select a Setting Name to restore a saved setting.

Add:

Displays the dialog to enter the set name and saves the driver settings under the set name. Check the Form information is kept check box to save the Media settings in the Setup Tab.

Remove:

Removes the selected Set Names from the list.


It is the display of LOGO.


Dithering Pattern

Dithering produces an intermediate color by adjusting the combination of dots used in printing. Selection of the dithering setting determines the degree of detail with which a graphics image will be printed.

Mesh	      Size of the 45° pitch dots that form the halftone screen used for dithering.

Line Art	Thickness of the 45° pitch lines used for dithering.

Printed output is the result of the resolution settings, dithering, and contrast control. To obtain the most suitable printed results, you may need to adjust one or more of these settings.


Dithering Texture

Dithering produces an intermediate color by adjusting the combination of dots used in printing. Selection of the dithering setting determines the degree of detail with which a graphics image will be printed.

Fine	Fine dots form the halftone screen used for dithering.

Normal	Normal dots form the halftone screen used for dithering.

Coarse	Coarse dots form the halftone screen used for dithering.

Overall print results for the graphics of a manuscript are determined by the resolution setting and the dithering and contrast controls. A trial of the settings for these items is urged for obtaining the most suitable print results.


Disable gray scale printing

For text and graphics created with a color other than white, this will cause the image to print in black without dithering.


Increase brush density

The brush density can be used to improve the printing of patterns that have fine differences, especially when high-resolution printing is selected.


Print Mode

Sets the form of print data.

Vector:	Creates print data as meta data.  This setting enables the printer font to be used.

Raster:	Creates print data as image data.


Add/Edit Watermark

Sets the Watermarks feature. You can create a custom watermark, or edit an existing watermark and save it for future use.

Text

Size

Angle

Font

Color

Trim

Position