Direct Print Setting

About Direct Print Setting

This screen is displayed if you select Direct Print Setting in the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen. For details about how to display the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen, refer to Overview of Controller.

Tips
  • When printing, the settings that are set with the printer driver or Hot Folder are prioritized over the settings that are done with Direct Print Setting.
    If the settings that are set with Direct Print Setting should be prioritized, the setting change of Software Switch Setting No.66 is required. For details, refer to [Software Switch Setting].

  • Upgrade Kit UK-104 and Upgrade Kit UK-218 are required to display APPE Setting.

Name

Description

Setting Number(1-6)

Selects the setting number (1 to 6). This selection is reflected to the port selected in Select Printer Setting.

Basic Settings

Specifies default settings for the functions such as Simplex/Duplex, Paper Tray Setting, and Output Tray Setting.

PCL Setting

Specifies default settings for the functions such as Font Setting and Symbol Set.

PS Setting

Specifies whether to apply PS Error Print or Grayscale Overprint.

TIFF/JPEG Setting

Specifies default settings for the functions such as Auto Paper Select and Image Position.

PPML Setting

PPML (Personalized Print Markup Language) is a description language to perform variable printing. Specifies default settings for the functions such as Image Size Setting and Character Code.

APPE Setting

Specifies default settings for the functions such as Print PDF Errors and APPE.

Basic Setting

This screen is displayed if you select Direct Print Setting - Basic Settings in the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen. For details about how to display the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen, refer to Overview of Controller.

Name

Description

PDL

Specifies the default page description language (PDL) such as PCL and PS.

Paper Tray Setting

Specifies the default paper tray setting. Setting options vary with the optional configuration.

Output Tray Setting

Specifies the default output tray setting. Setting options vary with the optional configuration.

Simplex/Duplex

Specifies the default Simplex (1-Sided)/Duplex (2-Sided) print setting.

Binding Position

Specifies the default Binding Position.

Staple

Specifies whether to use stapling functions such as Left Corner and 2 Positions.

Punch

Specifies whether to use punching functions such as 2-Hole.

Fold/Trimming

Specifies whether to use fold/trimming functions such as Z-Fold and Fold & Staple/Trim. Setting options vary with the optional configuration.

Offset

Specifies whether to offset the output sheets.

Face

Specifies whether to output data using Face Up or Face Down.

Order

Specifies whether to output sheets in the forward or reverse direction.

Sets

Specifies the default Sets setting.

Sort/Group

Specifies whether to print all pages of the first copy followed by all pages of the next (Sort) or to print all copies of page 1, then all copies of page 2 and so on (Group) when printing multiple sets.

Paper Size

Specifies the default for Paper Size.

Orientation

Specifies the default for Orientation.

Banner Option

Specifies whether to print the banner page (cover page) showing the sender or title of the print job.

Banner Tray

Specifies the paper tray used to print banner pages.

Convert Paper Size

Specifies the converting paper size when the paper size that is specified by the Direct Print Setting is not set in the tray.

Combine Originals/Image Repeat

Specifies whether to use functions such as 2-in-1 and 2 Repeat.

Booklet Pagination

Specifies whether to print in the booklet mode.

Adhesive binding

Specifies whether to print using the adhesive binding method.

Image Pos.

Specifies the default of image position.

Pile Permission

Specifies whether to permit piling up on the large capacity stacker.

When selected On, other jobs can be printed and are permitted to be piled up on the large capacity stacker.

When turned Off, the next job cannot be printed until the current job is removed from the large capacity stacker.

Quality

Specifies the default for Resolution.

Feed Direction

Select the paper feeding direction from landscape (LEF), portrait (SEF), or automatic detection (Auto).

Full Bleed

Specifies whether to perform full bleed printing.

Print in the original image without blank borders.

180°Rotate

Specifies whether to print data by rotating it by 180 deg.

Switch Over 9 11 / 8 1/2 11 Tab

For direct printing of 8.5 11 tab with PDF, TIFF, or PPML, this option specifies whether to output it in 9 11 tab or 8.5 11.

Wait

Stores a print job as a reserved job. To output such a print job, press Start on the control panel of this machine.

External Finisher

Select whether to apply External Finisher.

Auto Image Adjustment

Performs automatic image adjustment depending on the setting you selected when printing.

PCL Setting

This screen is displayed if you select Direct Print Setting - PCL Setting in the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen. For details about how to display the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen, refer to Overview of Controller.

Name

Description

Font Setting

Specifies the default font settings.
(Default: Courier)

Symbol Set

Specifies the default font symbol set.
(Default: ROMAN8)

Line/Page

Specifies the number of lines per page when printing text.
(Default: 64 lines)

Points

Specifies the proportional font size in points. (Default: 12.00)

Pitch

Specifies the width of fixed-width font in pitch.
(Default: 10.00)

CR/LF Mapping

Specifies how to replace CR (Carriage Return), LF (Line Feed) and FF (Form Feed) when printing text data.
(Default: Off)

PS Setting

This screen is displayed if you select Direct Print Setting - PS Setting in the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen. For details about how to display the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen, refer to Overview of Controller.

Name

Description

PS Error Print

Sets whether to print error information when an error occurs during printing.

Grayscale OverPrint

Select whether to use the overprint function for Grayscale Print,

TIFF/JPEG Setting

This screen is displayed if you select Direct Print Setting - TIFF/JPEG Setting in the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen. For details about how to display the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen, refer to Overview of Controller.

Name

Description

Auto Paper Select

Sets whether to print automatically on appropriate paper size in accordance with size of the image.

Image Position

Sets the print position for the image.
Select Left or Center.

PPML Setting

This screen is displayed if you select Direct Print Setting - PPML Setting in the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen. For details about how to display the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen, refer to Overview of Controller.

Name

Description

Image Size Setting

Specifies whether to prioritize attribute or resolution to determine the image size in PPML data.

Character Code

PPML files are usually written in the UTF-8 character encoding. However, some applications use an encoding other than UTF-8. This may cause file names or other characters to be garbled.

To resolve the issue of garbled characters, this option enables you to select the character encoding to be converted into UTF-8.

The following five types of character encoding can be selected:

Shift_JIS
windows-1252
x-mswin-936
x-windows-949
x-MS950-HKSCS

APPE Setting

This screen is displayed if you select Direct Print Setting - APPE Setting in the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen. For details about how to display the Controller Machine Setting Menu screen, refer to Overview of Controller.

Tips
  • Upgrade Kit UK-104 and Upgrade Kit UK-218 are required to display APPE Setting.

Name

Description

Print PDF Errors

Sets whether to print error information when an error occurs.

APPE

Specifies whether or not to use APPE.