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Oki. Copyright 1998 by Oki. All rights reserved. First edition 08/1998. Written and produced by the Oki Documentation Dept. Oki is a registered trademark of Oki Electric Industry Company Ltd. is a trademark of the United States Environmental NERGY Protection Agency.
Safety Instructions Your Oki printer has been carefully designed to give you years of safe, reliable performance. As with all electrical equipment, however, there are a few basic precautions you should take to avoid hurting yourself or damaging the printer: •...
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• Do not make any adjustments other than those outlined in the handbook you may cause damage requiring extensive repair work. • It is recommended that the printer be switched off prior to opening or removing covers. If anything happens that indicates that your printer is not working properly or has been damaged, unplug it immediately and contact your dealer.
Brown — Live If the colours of the wires in the power cable of this printer do not correspond with the markings of the terminals of your plug, proceed as follows: • Green and Yellow must be connected to the terminal marked with the letter E (or the safety earth symbol) or the terminal coloured Green or Green &...
• When you need to add paper or change consumables. • When there is something wrong with the printer. Printer Buttons These allow the user to access, view and change printer settings. Quick menus are also available from the panel to allow rapid access to more frequently used functions.
When the display shows FONTS HP PCL6, press ENTER. FORM FEED/Print Demo Press to print all the remaining data in the printer buffer and eject the page. When the printer is off-line: press and hold to print the Demo page. When the display shows DEMO HP PCL6, press ENTER.
ENTER If your software can control a feature that is also controlled in the printer menu, the software will override the menu setting. Use your software to control printer features whenever possible. User’s Guide Viewing and Modifying Menu Settings...
Level 1 Menu Category Items PERSONALITY EMULATE TRAY SELECT MANUAL PAPER IN AUTO TRAY EDIT SIZE EDT SIZE PAPER SIZE TRAY 1 MANUAL TRAY 2 FEEDER MEDIA TYPE TRAY1/TRAY 2 FEEDER MANUAL Parameters AUTO, HP PCL 6, EPSONFX, IBM PPR, ADOBE PS OFF, ON TRAY 1, TRAY 2 OFF, ON...
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Category Items PAPER SIZE CHK SIZE CHK COPIES COPIES FONTS & SYMBOLS FONT SRC DLLSOFT FONT NO. FONT CPI FONT HGT SYMBOL PAGE LAYOUT 1 A4 WIDTH BLNKSKIP CR FUNCTION LF FUNCTION PAGE LAYOUT 2 ORIENT LINES/PG HOST I/F PARALL (OKIPAGE 12i/n) NETWORK User’s Guide...
• Media must be specifically made for laser printers or photocopiers. • Must be able to withstand 200°C for 0.1 sec. • Labels should cover entire carrier sheet. • Carrier sheet or adhesive must not be exposed to any part of the printer. Paper Sizes LETTER COM-9 EXEC...
Installing Paper 1. Remove the paper tray from the bottom of the printer and place plain paper in the tray, carefully keeping the level of the paper in the tray below the guide marks (1). Adjust the rear paper support (2) to the size of paper you are using by lifting up and sliding forwards or backwards as necessary.
Pull down the manual feed tray and adjust the paper guides. 2. Insert the envelope, flap down and to the left, until the printer grips it. 3. Set envelope size and landscape orientation in your software, then issue the print command.
100 more pages, then display TONER EMPTY and stop printing. Printing will resume after a new toner cartridge has been installed. The use of OKI toner is highly recommended. Using compatible or counterfeit toners can seriously damage your printer. Toner Cartridge Life How long your toner cartridge lasts depends on the print density;...
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Unwrap the new cartridge. Remove the tape. Insert the cartridge into the printer, left end first as illustrated. Push the coloured tab forward to release the toner into the toner hopper. Close the printer cover. OKIPAGE 10ex, 12i/n...
When to Replace the Image Drum Cartridge When the drum reaches 90% of its life, the CHG DRUM message will display in the printer control panel window. Change the image drum cartridge when the print becomes faint or begins to deteriorate. Ideally you should keep a new cartridge on hand.
Remove the protective paper. Install the new image drum cartridge into the printer placing the alignment pins on each end into the slots in the printer. Remove the shipping insert from the toner well and discard. Reset the drum counter (see below), and install a new toner cartridge following the instructions in the previous section.
(or outline) fonts. Bitmap fonts are made up of a pattern of dots (at the printer resolution) to form the image of each printable character. These are of a fixed size, and scaling makes them look ragged.
= multi media feeder » Indicates that the second line is a scrolling display. Message Status Indicates the printer is in ON LINE mode. ON-LINE Ready XXX = HP PCL6, FX, PPR, WIN, AUTO. Indicates the printer is in OFF-LINE mode.
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The printer is asking you to insert requested 1 2 3 #REQUEST size paper. # = Paper Size. CLEANING Ready The printer is requesting # size paper to be MANUAL # inserted for cleaning process. tttttt Ready Indicates that the paper tray is empty.
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The receive buffer memory has overflowed. REC BUF Ready Press RECOVER to continue. The PC OVERFLOW ignores printer busy signal in the interface, check cable pin assignments. Print processing speed could not follow the Ready PRINT paper feed speed. Press RECOVER to OVERRUN continue.
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EEPROM to factory default. RESETING Abnormality found in the printer. Switch ERROR nn Ready printer off then on again to clear, if problem persists, contact service representative. Abnormality found in the controller. Switch ERROR 0n Ready printer off then on again to clear, if problem aaaaaaaa persists, contact service representative.
MENU RESET Reset Level 1 menu to factory settings. HEX DUMP Print a hexadecimal dump of received data for diagnostics. To exit, turn off the printer. DRUM CNT RESET Reset the drum counter after replacing the image drum cartridge. OP MENU...
Generating a Cleaning Page If your printer shows signs of fading, streaking or erratic marks, you may be able to clear the problem by generating a drum cleaning page as follows: Press the ON-LINE button to take the printer off line.
Cleaning the LED Array Clean the LED array • whenever you install a new toner cartridge. • if you see faded vertical areas or light printing down a page. Wipe the LED array (1) gently with the cleaning pad that came with your toner cartridge.
Basic Trouble Shooting Paper Jams Your printer may experience a paper jam in one of three areas. The display message will indicate which area has caused the jam: INPUT JAM Paper has failed to leave the selected tray and enter the printer’s internal paper path.
4. Remove any jammed sheets from the paper path. 5. Re-install the image drum cartridge, ensuring that it correctly locates into the slots on each side of the printer. 6. Close the top cover and press down to latch it closed.
Print Quality Problems Before consulting a service representative regarding a print quality problem, check the table below to see if there is a solution, or something you might have overlooked. Symptom Problem Blank sheets printed. Image drum cartridge not properly installed. Empty or missing toner cartridge.
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Paper path, lamp assembly, or fusing unit problem. Faded print. Toner cartridge is not correctly installed. Smeared or blotched print. Dirty rollers; toner dropped inside printer or image drum problem. Solution Change paper stocks, check paper storage environment or use a dehumidifier; check toner level.
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Symptom Problem Printed page is light/blurred. Is toner low? Is paper meant for laser printers? LED array is dirty. Bold characters and dark lines Toner is low. are smeared. Print is darker than usual. Darkness setting is too high. Pages curl excessively. Printing on wrong side of paper.
Software Problems Your software (operating environment, applications and printer drivers) controls the printing process. Make sure you have selected the right driver for use with your printer. See your software documentation for more information. Symptom Problem Printing is “garbled”. Incorrect driver is installed.
“Garbage” prints. Incorrect cable configuration. (Also, see “Software Problems.”) Printer freezes or displays Booting the computer while the printer is on can error message when computer cause a communications error. is rebooted. Odours. Gases are given off by forms or adhesives passing through the hot fusing unit.
Specifications Printing Process: LED array imaging to organic photoconductive drum. Power Supply: Voltage: 230V+6%,-14% — 240V ±10% AC Frequency: 50/60Hz ±2% Power Cable: 1.8m separate cable, terminated with country specific plug. Physical: Dimensions: 200 × 330 × 377mm (H × W × D) Weight: 10 kg with legal/universal cassette installed.