Printing features

Changing the default print settings

Click the Windows Start menu.
Select Control Panel > Devices and Printers.
Right-click on your machine.

Select Printing preferences.


	If Printing preferences has a ▶, you can select other printer drivers connected to the selected printer.

Change the settings on each tab.
Click OK.


	If you want to change the settings for each print job, change it in Printing Preferences.

Setting your machine as a default machine

Click the Windows Start menu.
Select Control Panel > Devices and Printers.
Select your machine.

Right-click your machine and select Set as Default Printer.


	If Printing preferences has a ▶, you can select other printer drivers connected to the selected printer.

Using advanced print features

XPS printer driver: used to print XPS file format.

See Features by models.
The XPS printer driver can be installed only on Windows Vista OS or higher.
For models that provide XPS driver on the software CD:
- You can install the XPS printer driver when you insert the software CD into your CD-ROM drive. When the installation window appears, select Custom Installation. You can select the XPS printer driver in the Select Software window.
For models that provide XPS driver from the Samsung website, www.samsung.com > find your product> Support or downloads.

Printing to a file (PRN)

You will sometimes need to save the print data as a file.

Check the Print to file box in the Print window.
Click Print.

Type in the destination path and the file name, and then click OK.

For example, c:\Temp\file name.


	If you type in only the file name, the file is automatically saved in My Documents, Documents and Settings, or Users. The saved folder may differ, depending on your operating system or the application you are using.

Understanding special printer features

You can use advanced printing features when using your machine.

To take advantage of the printer features provided by your printer driver, click Properties or Preferences in the application’s Print window to change the print settings. The machine name, that appears in the printer properties window may differ depending on the machine in use.


	Some menus may not appear on the display depending on options or models. If so, it is not applicable to your machine. Select the Help menu or click the button from the window or press F1 on your keyboard and click on any option you want to know about (see Using help).

Item

Description

Multiple Pages per Side

Selects the number of pages to print on a single sheet of paper. To print more than one page per sheet, the pages will be reduced in size and arranged in the order you specify. You can print up to 16 pages on one sheet.

Poster Printing

Prints a single-page document onto 4 (Poster 2x2), 9 (Poster 3x3), or 16 (Poster 4x4) sheets of paper, for the purpose of pasting the sheets together to form one poster-size document.

Select the Poster Overlap value. Specify Poster Overlap in millimeters or inches by selecting the radio button on the upper right of Basic tab to make it easier to paste the sheets together.

Booklet Printing

Prints your document on both sides of a sheet of paper and arranges the pages so that the paper can be folded in half after printing to produce a booklet.

This option is available only when you use the PCL/SPL printer driver. This option is not available when you use XPS driver.
The Booklet Printing option is not available for all paper sizes. Select the available paper Size option under the Paper tab to see what paper sizes are available.
If you select an unavailable paper size, this option can be automatically canceled. Select only available paper (paper without or mark).

Double-sided Printing (Manual)

Print on both sides of a sheet of paper (duplex). Before printing, decide how you want your document oriented.


	This option is available only when you use the PCL/SPL printer driver. This option is not available when you use XPS driver. If your machine does not have a duplex unit, you should complete the printing job manually. The machine prints every other page of the document first. After that, a message appears on your computer. Skip Blank Pages feature does not work when you select the duplex option.

None: Disables this feature.
Long Edge: This option is the conventional layout used in bookbinding.
Short Edge: This option is the conventional layout used in calendars.
Reverse Double-Sided Printing: Check this option to reverse the print order when duplex printing. This option is not available when you use Double-sided Printing (Manual).

Paper Options

Changes the size of a document to appear larger or smaller on the printed page by entering in a percentage by which to enlarge or decrease the document.

Watermark

The watermark option allows you to print text over an existing document. For example, you use it when you want to have large gray letters reading “DRAFT” or “CONFIDENTIAL” printed diagonally across the first page or all pages of a document.

Watermark

(Creating a watermark)

To change the print settings from your software application, access Printing Preferences.
Click the Advanced tab, select Edit from the Watermark drop-down list. The Edit Watermarks window appears.
Enter a text message in the Watermark Message box.

You can enter up to 256 characters. The message displays in the preview window.

Watermark

(Editing a watermark)

To change the print settings from your software application, access Printing Preferences.
Click the Advanced tab, select Edit from the Watermark drop-down list. The Edit Watermarks window appears.
Select the watermark you want to edit from the Current Watermarks list and change the watermark message and options.
Click Update to save the changes.
Click OK or Print until you exit the Print window.

Watermark

(Deleting a watermark)

To change the print settings from your software application, access Printing Preferences.
Click the Advanced tab, select Edit from the Watermark drop-down list. The Edit Watermarks window appears.
Select the watermark you want to delete from the Current Watermarks list and click Delete.
Click OK or Print until you exit the Print window.

Overlay

This option is available only when you use the PCL/SPL printer driver. This option is not available when you use XPS driver

An overlay is text and/or images stored in the computer hard disk drive (HDD) as a special file format that can be printed on any document. Overlays are often used to take the place of letterhead paper. Rather than using preprinted letterhead, you can create an overlay containing exactly the same information that is currently on your letterhead. To print a letter with your company’s letterhead, you do not need to load preprinted letterhead paper in the machine: just print the letterhead overlay on your document.

To use a page overlay, you must create a new page overlay containing your logo or image.


	The overlay document size must be the same as the document you print with the overlay. Do not create an overlay with a watermark. The resolution of the overlay document must be the same as that of the document you will print with the overlay.

Overlay

(Creating a new page overlay)

To save the document as an overlay, access Printing Preferences.
Click the Advanced tab, and select Edit from the Text drop-down list. Edit Overlay window appears.
In the Edit Overlay window, click Create.
In the Save As window, type a name in the File name box. Select the destination path, if necessary (The default is C:\Formover).
Click Save. The name appears on the Overlay List.
Click OK or Print until you exit the Print window.

The file is not printed. Instead, it is stored on your computer hard disk drive.

Overlay

(Using a page overlay)

Click the Advanced tab.
Select the desired overlay from the Text drop-down list.
If the overlay file you want does not appear in the Text drop-down list, select Edit... from the list and click Load. Select the overlay file you want to use.

If you have stored the overlay file you want to use in an external source, you can also load the file when you access the Open window.

After you select the file, click Open. The file appears in the Overlay List box and is available for printing. Select the overlay from the Overlay List box.
If necessary, check Confirm Page Overlay When Printing box. If this box is checked, a message window appears each time you submit a document for printing, asking you to confirm printing an overlay on your document.

If this box is not checked and an overlay has been selected, the overlay automatically prints with your document.
Click OK or Print until you exit the Print window.

Overlay

(Deleting a page overlay)

In the Printing Preferences window, click the Advanced tab.
Select Edit in the Text drop down list.
Select the overlay you want to delete from the Overlay List box.
Click Delete.
When a confirming message window appears, click Yes.
Click OK or Print until you exit the Print window. You can delete page overlays that you no longer use.

Mac printing


	Some features may not be available depending on models or options. It means that the features are not supported.

Printing a document

When you print with a Mac, you need to check the printer driver settings in each application you use. Follow the steps below to print from a Mac:

Open the document to print.
Open the File menu and click Page Setup (Document Setup in some applications).
Choose your paper size, orientation, scaling, other options, and make sure that your machine is selected. Click OK.
Open the File menu and click Print.
Choose the number of copies and indicate which pages to print.
Click Print.

Changing printer settings

You can use advanced printing features when using your machine.

Open an application and select Print from the File menu. The machine name, which appears in the printer properties window, may differ depending on the machine in use. Except for the name, the composition of the printer properties window is similar to the following.

Printing multiple pages on one sheet

You can print more than one page on a single sheet of paper. This feature provides a cost-effective way to print draft copies.

Open an application, and select Print from the File menu.
Select Layout from the drop-down list under Orientation. In the Pages per Sheet drop-down list, select the number of pages you want to print on one sheet of paper.
Select the other options to use.
Click Print.

The machine prints the selected number of pages to print on one sheet of paper.

Printing on both sides of the paper


	Some features may not be available depending on models or options. It means that the features are not supported (see Variety feature).

Before printing in the duplex mode, decide on which edge you will be binding your finished document. The binding options are, as follows:

Long-Edge Binding: This option is the conventional layout used in book binding.
Short-Edge Binding: This option is the type often used with calendars.

From your Mac application, select Print from the File menu.
Select Layout from the drop-down list under Orientation.
Select a binding orientation from the Two-Sided option.
Select the other options to use.
Click Print and the machine prints on both sides of the paper.


	If you print more than 2 copies, the first copy and the second copy might print on the same sheet of paper. Avoid printing on both sides of paper when you are printing more than 1 copy.

Using help

Click the question mark on the bottom-left corner of the window and click on the topic you want to know about. A pop-up window appears with information about that option's feature, which is provided from the driver.

Linux printing


	Some features may not be available depending on models or options. It means that the features are not supported.

Printing from applications

There are a lot of Linux applications that allow you to print using Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). You can print on your machine from any such application.

Open an application, and select Print from the File menu
Select Print directly using lpr.
In the LPR GUI window, select the model name of your machine from the printer list and click Properties.

Change the print job properties using the following four tabs displayed at the top of the window.

General: Changes the paper size, the paper type, and the orientation of the documents. It enables the duplex feature, adds start and end banners, and changes the number of pages per sheet.


	Automatic/manual duplex printing may not be available depending on models. You can alternatively use the lpr printing system or other applications for odd-even printing.

Text: Specifies the page margins and set the text options, such as spacing or columns.
Graphics: Sets image options that are used when printing image files, such as color options, image size, or image position.
Advanced: Sets the print resolution, paper source, and destination.

Click Apply to apply the changes and close the Properties window.
Click OK in the LPR GUI window to start printing.
The Printing window appears, allowing you to monitor the status of your print job.

To abort the current job, click Cancel.

Printing files

You can print many different types of files on your machine using the standard CUPS, directly from the command line interface. The CUPS lpr utility allows you to do that, but the driver’s package replaces the standard lpr tool by a much more user-friendly LPR GUI program.

To print any document file:

Enter lpr <file_name> from the Linux shell command line and press Enter. The LPR GUI window appears.

When you type only lpr and press Enter, the Select file(s) to print window appears first. Just select any files you want to print and click Open.
In the LPR GUI window, select your machine from the list, and change the print job properties.
Click OK to start printing.

Configuring Printer Properties

Using the Printer Properties window provided by the Printers configuration, you can change the various properties for your machine as a printer.

Open the Unified Driver Configurator.

If necessary, switch to Printers configuration.
Select your machine on the available printers list and click Properties.
The Printer Properties window appears.

The following five tabs display at the top of the window:
- General: Allows you to change the printer location and name. The name entered in this tab displays on the printer list in Printers configuration.
- Connection: Allows you to view or select another port. If you change the machine port from USB to parallel or vice versa while in use, you must re-configure the machine port in this tab.
- Driver: Allows you to view or select another machine driver. By clicking Options, you can set the default device options.
- Jobs: Shows the list of print jobs. Click Cancel job to cancel the selected job and select the Show completed jobs check box to see previous jobs on the job list.
- Classes: Shows the class that your machine is in. Click Add to Class to add your machine to a specific class or click Remove from Class to remove the machine from the selected class.
Click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties window.


	For basic printing features, refer to the Basic Guide (see Basic printing ). This feature may not be available depending on model or optional goods (see Features by models).