OKI C5600N User Manual

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TIPS FOR PRINTING IN COLOUR
The following guidelines may help you to achieve good colour 
output from your printer.
PRINTING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES
Use the Monitor (6500k) Perceptual setting. 
If the colours look too dull, try the Monitor (6500k) Vivid or 
Digital Camera settings.
PRINTING FROM OFFICE APPLICATIONS
Use the Monitor (9300k) setting. This may help if you are having 
problems with specific colours from applications such as Microsoft 
Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint.
PRINTING SPECIFIC COLOURS (E.G. A COMPANY LOGO)
There are 2 utilities on your printer driver CD-ROM that can help 
match specific colours:
Colour Correct Utility 
Colour Swatch Utility 
ADJUSTING THE BRIGHTNESS OR INTENSITY OF A PRINT
If the print is too light/dark, you can use the Brightness control 
to adjust it. 
If the colours are too intense/not intense enough, use the 
Saturation control.
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ACCESSING THE COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS
The colour matching options in the printer driver can be used to 
help match your printed colours to the ones displayed on your 
monitor or from some other source, such as a digital camera.
To open colour matching options 
from the Windows Control Panel:
1.Open the Printers window 
(called “Printers and Faxes” 
in Windows XP).
2.Right-click the printer name 
and choose Properties.
3.Click the Printing 
Preferences button (1).
To open colour matching options from within a Windows 
application:
1.Choose File—Print… from the application’s menu bar.
2.Click the Properties button next to the printer name.
SETTING THE COLOUR MATCHING OPTIONS
1.On the Colour tab select Advanced Colour for colour 
matching.
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2.Choose the Natural colour setting and select from the 
following options:
(a)Monitor (6500k) Perceptual
Optimised for printing photographs. Colours are 
printed with emphasis on saturation.
(b)Monitor (6500k) Vivid
Optimised for printing photographs, but with even 
more saturated colours than the Monitor (6500k) 
Perceptual setting.
(c)Monitor (9300k)
Optimised for printing graphics from applications 
such as Microsoft Office. Colours are printed with 
emphasis on Lightness. 
(d)Digital Camera
Optimised for printing photographs taken with a 
digital camera. 
Your results will vary depending on the subject and 
the conditions under which the photograph was 
taken.
(e)sRGB
The printer will try to reproduce the sRGB colour 
space. This may be useful if colour matching from an 
sRGB input device such as a scanner or digital 
camera.
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USING THE COLOUR SWATCH FEATURE
To use the Colour Swatch feature, you must install the Colour 
Swatch Utility. This is supplied on the CD-ROM that was supplied 
with your printer.
The Colour Swatch function prints charts which contain a range 
of sample colours. Note that this is not the full range of colours 
that the printer can produce. Listed on each sample colour are 
the corresponding RGB (Red, Green, Blue) values. This can be 
used to pick specific colours in applications that allow you to 
choose your own RGB values. Simply click the Colour Swatch 
button (1) and choose from the options available.
An example of using the colour swatch function:
You wish to print a logo in a particular shade of red. The steps 
you would follow are:
1.Print a colour swatch, then select the shade of red that 
best suits your needs. 
2.Take a note of the RGB value for the particular shade that 
you liked.
3.Using your program’s colour picker, enter these same RGB 
values, and change the logo to that colour.
The RGB colour displayed on your monitor may not necessarily 
match what was printed on the colour swatch. If this is the case, 
it is probably due to the difference between how your monitor 
and printer reproduce colour. Here, it is unimportant since your 
primary objective is to print the required colour.
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USING THE COLOUR CORRECT UTILITY
The Oki Colour Correct Utility is provided on your printer driver 
CD-ROM. You must install it separately since it is not installed 
along with the printer driver.
The Colour Correct utility has the following features:
>Microsoft Office palette colours can be individually 
adjusted. This is useful if you want to change how a 
specific colour is printed.
>Colours can be adjusted by changing Hue, Saturation and 
Gamma. This is useful if you wish to change the overall 
colour output. 
Once these colour adjustments have been made, the new 
settings can be selected from the printer driver Colour tab.
To select adjustments made with the Colour Correct 
Utility:
1.From your application program, click File and point to 
Print.
2.Click Properties. This displays the printer driver options.
3.Click the Colour tab.
4.Click Advanced Colour.
5.Click User Defined.
Select the colour adjustment you made with the Colour Correct 
Utility.
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MENU FUNCTIONS
This sections lists the menus accessed via the controls on the 
printer’s operator panel and displayed in the LCD window.
It should be noted that many of these settings can be, and often 
are, overridden by settings in the Windows printer drivers. 
However, several of the driver settings can be left at “Printer 
Setting”, which will then default to the settings entered in these 
printer menus.
Where applicable, factory default settings are shown in bold type 
in the following tables.
In the normal operating condition, known as “standby,” the 
printer’s LCD window will show “ONLINE.” In this condition, to 
enter the menu system, press the +/– keys on the operator panel 
to move up and down through the list of menus until the menu 
you wish to view is displayed. Then proceed as follows:
1.Press ENTER to enter the menu.
2.Use the +/– keys to move up and down through the items 
in the menu. When the item you want to change is 
displayed, press ENTER to edit that item. An asterisk (*) 
appears next to the setting currently in effect.
3.Use the +/– keys to move up and down through the 
available settings for this item, and press ENTER when 
the setting you want is displayed. An asterisk (*) will 
appear next to the setting, indicating that this setting is 
now in effect.
4.Press BACK to move back to the list of menu items.
5.Do one of the following:
• Press BACK again to move up to the list of menus;
or…
• Press ON LINE to exit from the menu system and 
return to standby.
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PRINT JOBS MENU
This menu only appears when the hard disk drive is installed. It 
is used for printing of documents stored on the internal hard disk. 
These will be stored using either the secure printing feature or 
the proof and print feature. Please refer to these features 
elsewhere in this manual for instructions on how to use.
You will be prompted for your password or personal identification 
number (PIN). The +/– keys are used to enter each digit and the 
ENTER key to advance from one digit to the next.
INFORMATION MENU
This menu provides a quick method of listing various items stored 
within the printer.
SHUTDOWN MENU
This menu only appears if the hard disk drive is installed. This 
item should always be selected before switching the 
printer off, to ensure that no hard disk data is lost.
ITEMACTIONEXPLANATION
PRINT MENU 
MAPEXECUTE Prints complete menu listing with current 
settings shown.
NETWORKEXECUTEPrints Network configuration information.
DEMO1 EXECUTE Prints demonstration page containing 
graphics and text in colour and 
monochrome.
ITEMSETTINGSEXPLANATION
SHUTDOWN 
STARTEXECUTE Performs controlled shutdown of the printer, 
ensuring that all files on the internal hard 
disk are closed before power is turned off. 
Only power the printer off when the display 
indicates that shutdown is complete.
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PRINT MENU
This menu provides adjustment of various print job related 
functions.
ITEMSETTINGSEXPLANATION
COPIES1-999 Enter the number of copies of a 
document to be printed from 1 to 
999.
DUPLEXON/OFFTurns the duplex (2-sided) printing 
function on or off if this feature is 
installed.
PAPER FEEDTRAY1
TRAY2
MP TRAYSelects the default tray for paper 
feed, Tray 1 (upper), Tray 2 (lower, if 
installed) or MP Tray (multi purpose 
tray).
AUTO TRAY 
SWITCHON
OFFIf two trays contain identical paper, 
the printer can switch to an 
alternative source when the current 
tray runs out in the middle of a print 
job.
TRAY SEQUENCEDOWN
UP
PAPER FEED 
TRAYDetermines tray sequence order 
when automatically switching.
MP TRAY USAGEDO NOT USE
WHEN 
MISMATCHIf a document to be printed demands 
a paper size not installed in the 
selected tray, the printer can 
automatically feed from the multi 
purpose tray instead. If this function 
is not enabled, the printer will stop 
and request the correct size of paper 
to be loaded.
MEDIA CHECKENABLE
DISABLEDetermines whether the printer 
check the size of paper loaded 
matches that required for the 
document sent to print.
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MONO-PRINT 
SPEEDAUTO SPEED
NORMAL 
SPEED
COLOR SPEED If the first page of a print job is black 
and white, the printer runs at 32ppm 
(pages per minute). When a colour 
page is detected the printer slows 
down to 20ppm (C5600) or 26ppm 
(C5800) for the rest of that job.
This setting operates in the same 
way as AUTO SPEED, except that the 
printer runs at 32ppm until a colour 
page is detected. To achieve this 
speed the printer requires an 
additional 10 – 20 seconds to warm 
up and 30 –60 seconds to cool down 
when switching to 20ppm (C5600) or 
26ppm (C5800) for colour pages. 
This setting is therefore most 
appropriate when the majority of 
print jobs are entirely black and 
white.
The printer runs at 20 ppm (C5600), 
26ppm (C5800)for all print jobs. This 
setting is most appropriate when the 
majority of print jobs are in colour.
ITEMSETTINGSEXPLANATION
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MEDIA MENU
This menu provides adjustment to suit a wide range of print 
media.
ITEMSETTINGSEXPLANATION
TRAY1 
PAPERSIZEA4 / A5 / A6 / 
B5
LEGAL14
LEGAL13.5
LEGAL13
LETTER
EXECUTIVE
CUSTOMSelects the size of paper loaded in 
Tray 1 (upper tray if both trays 
installed). For CUSTOM setting see 
X-DIMENSION and Y-DIMENSION 
later in this table.
TRAY1 
MEDIATYPEPLAIN
LETTERHEAD
BOND
RECYCLED
ROUGH
GLOSSYSelects the type of media loaded in 
this tray. This will help the printer to 
adjust its internal operating 
parameters, such as engine speed 
and fusing temperature, to better 
accommodate the media to be fed. 
For example, letterhead may benefit 
from a slightly lower fusing 
temperature to ensure that its ink 
does not offset.
TRAY1 
MEDIAWEIGHT
LIGHT 
(64~74g/m²)
MEDIUM 
(75~90g/m²)
HEAVY 
(91~105g/m²)
Adjusts the printer for the weight of 
paper stock loaded in thus tray.
TRAY2 
PAPERSIZEA4 / A5 / B5 / 
LEGAL14
LEGAL13.5
LEGAL13
LETTER
EXECUTIVE
CUSTOMSelects the size of paper loaded in 
Tray 2 (lower) if installed. For 
CUSTOM setting see X-DIMENSION 
and Y-DIMENSION later in this table.
TRAY2 
MEDIATYPEPLAIN
LETTERHEAD
BOND
RECYCLED
ROUGHSelects the type of media loaded in 
this tray (if installed).
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