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Printing features


	For basic printing features, refer to the Basic Guide (see Basic printing ). If you are a Mac, Linux or UNIX operating systems user, refer to the User Guide from the Samsung website, http://www.samsung.com > find your product > Support or Downloads or http://www.samsung.com/printersetup.

Changing the default print settings


	Most Windows applications will override settings you specify in the printer driver. Change all print settings available in the software application first, and change any remaining settings using the printer driver.

For Windows XP Service Pack 3/Server 2003, from the Start menu, select Printer and Faxes.

For Windows Server 2008/Vista, from the Start menu, select Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Printers.
For Windows 7, from the Start menu, select Control Panel > Devices and Printers.

For Windows 8, from the Charms, select Search > Settings > Control Panel > Devices and Printers.
For Windows Server 2008 R2, select Control Panel > Hardware > Devices and Printers.

For Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016

From task bar, type in Devices and Printers in Search input area. Press the Enter key.

From the Start () icon, select Settings > Devices > Printers & scanners >Devices and Printers.


	Right-click the Start () icon, you can select Control Panel > Devices and Printers.

Right-click on your machine.

For Windows XP Service Pack 3/Server 2003/Server 2008/Vista, select Printing Preferences.

For Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows Server 2008 R2/Windows 10/ Windows Server 2016, from context menus, 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

For Windows XP Service Pack 3/Server 2003, from the Start menu, select Printer and Faxes.

For Windows Server 2008/Vista, from the Start menu, select Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Printers.
For Windows 7, from the Start menu, select Control Panel > Devices and Printers.

For Windows 8, from the Charms, select Search > Settings > Control Panel > Devices and Printers.
For Windows Server 2008 R2, select Control Panel > Hardware > Devices and Printers.

For Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016

From task bar, type in Devices and Printers in Search input area. Press the Enter key.

From the Start () icon, select Settings > Devices > Printers & scanners >Devices and Printers.


	Right-click the Start () icon, you can select Control Panel > Devices and Printers.

Select your machine.

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


	For Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, if Set as default printer 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 model. The XPS printer driver can be installed only on Windows Vista OS or higher. Install optional memory when an XPS job does not print because the printer is out of memory. For models that provide XPS driver from the Samsung website, http://www.samsung.com > find your product> Support or downloads.

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 ^[a]

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.

If you want to make a booklet, you need to print on Letter, Legal, A4, US Folio, or Oficio sized print media.
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

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


	You can use this feature with Letter, Legal, A4, US Folio or Oficio sized paper

Double-sided Printing


	Some menus may not appear on the display depending on options or models. If so, it is not applicable to your machine.

Printer Default: If you select this option, this feature is determined by the settings you have selected on the control panel of the machine.
None: Disables this feature.
Long Edge: This option is the conventional layout used in book binding.
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.

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 ^[a]

This option is available only when you use the PCL/SPL printer driver.

An overlay is text and/or images stored in the computer hard disk drive 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 ^[a]

(Creating a new page overlay)

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

Create or open a document containing text or an image for use in a new page overlay. Position the exactly as you wish them to appear when printed as an overlay.
To save the document as an overlay, access Printing Preferences.
Click the Advanced tab, and select Create from the Overlay drop-down list.
In the Save As window, type a name up to eight characters in the File name box. Select the destination path, if necessary (The default is C:\Formover).
Click Save.
Click OK or Print until you exit the Print window.

When a confirming message window appears, click Yes.
The file is not printed. Instead, it is stored on your computer hard disk drive.

Overlay ^[a]

(Using a page overlay)

After an overlay has been created, it is ready to be printed with your document. To print an overlay with a document:

Create or open the document you want to print.
To change the print settings from your software application, access Printing Preferences.
Click Advanced tab.
Select the Print Overlay from the Overlay drop-down list.
If the overlay file you want does not appear in the Overlay File 1 or Overlay File 2 drop-down list, select Load from the Overlay List. 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 your wish to print 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.

The selected overlay prints on your document.

Overlay ^[a]

(Deleting a page overlay)

You can delete page overlays that you no longer use.

In the Printing Preferences window, click the Advanced tab.
Select Print Overlay from the Overlay drop-down list.
Select the overlay you want to delete from the Overlay List box.

If the overlay file you want does not appear in the Overlay List, select Load from the Overlay List. Select the overlay file you want to delete.
Click Delete.
When a confirming message window appears, click Yes.
Click OK or Print until you exit the Print window.

Job Accounting

This option allows you to print with the given permission.

User permission: If you check this option, only users with user permission can start a print job.
Group permission: If you check this option, only groups with group permission can start a print job.


	Select the Help menu or press F1 on your keyboard and click on any option you want to know about (see Using help). Administrators can enable job accounting and configure permissions in the control panel or SyncThru™ Web Admin Service.

^[a]This option is not available when you use XPS driver.

Using Direct Printing Utility


	Direct Printing Utility may not be available depending on model or optional goods (see About USB memory). Available for Windows OS users only.

What is Direct Printing Utility?

Direct Printing Utility is a program that sends the PDF files directly to your machine to print without having to open the file.

To install this program:

Download the software from the Samsung website then unpack and install it: (http://www.samsung.com > find your product > Support or Downloads).

You cannot print PDF files that are restricted. Deactivate the printing restriction feature and retry printing.
You cannot print PDF files that are restricted by a password. Deactivate the password feature, and retry printing.
Whether or not a PDF file can be printed using the Direct Printing Utility program depends on how the PDF file was created.
The Direct Printing Utility program supports PDF version 1.7 and below. For higher versions, you must open the file to print it.

Printing

There are several ways you can print using the Direct Printing Utility.

From the Start menu select Programs or All Programs > Samsung Printers.
- For Windows 8, from Charms, select Search > Apps.
- For Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016
  
  From task bar, type in Samsung Printers in Search input area. Press the Enter key.
  
  OR
  
  From the Start () icon, select All apps > Samsung Printers.
Press Direct Printing Utility.
Select your machine from the Select Printer drop-down list and click Browse.
Select the file you wish to print and click Open.

The file is added in the Select Files section.
Customize the machine settings for your needs.
Click Print. The selected PDF file is sent to the machine.

Using the right-click menu

Right-click on the PDF file to print and select Direct Printing.

The Direct Printing Utility window appears with the PDF file is added.
Select the machine to use.
Customize the machine settings.
Click Print. The selected PDF file is sent to the machine.