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... information for setting up the properties for printing. This user's guide also contains a Software section to provide you with your printer in various operating systems, and how to prepare the printer. Dell website If you have Internet access, you with step-by-step instructions for using your new laser printer Printer Driver Help Provides you can access the...
... information for setting up the properties for printing. This user's guide also contains a Software section to provide you with your printer in various operating systems, and how to prepare the printer. Dell website If you have Internet access, you with step-by-step instructions for using your new laser printer Printer Driver Help Provides you can access the...
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... new laser printer 5 Safety information INTRODUCTION 12 Printer overview 12 12 12 Front view Rear view 13 Control panel overview 14 Understanding the Status LED 14 Acknowledging the status of the toner cartridge 15 Menu overview 16 Supplied software 16 Printer driver features 16 Printer driver 16 PostScript driver GETTING STARTED 17 Setting up the hardware 17 17 Printing...
... new laser printer 5 Safety information INTRODUCTION 12 Printer overview 12 12 12 Front view Rear view 13 Control panel overview 14 Understanding the Status LED 14 Acknowledging the status of the toner cartridge 15 Menu overview 16 Supplied software 16 Printer driver features 16 Printer driver 16 PostScript driver GETTING STARTED 17 Setting up the hardware 17 17 Printing...
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...or email addresses. 4 Resolution ( ) Adjusts the document resolution for the current fax job. Confirms the selection on both sides of an ID card (e.g., driver's license) to a single side of paper (see Status LED with the touch of a few buttons. 2 Shift Allows you to store frequently used ...colors shown below the LCD display coworks with the display messages (see "ID card copying" on page 31). 17 Original Type ( h ) 18 ID Copy ( ) Selects the document type for the current copy job. Allows you print a large number of pages at any time. Shows the status of your printer...
...or email addresses. 4 Resolution ( ) Adjusts the document resolution for the current fax job. Confirms the selection on both sides of an ID card (e.g., driver's license) to a single side of paper (see Status LED with the touch of a few buttons. 2 Shift Allows you to store frequently used ...colors shown below the LCD display coworks with the display messages (see "ID card copying" on page 31). 17 Original Type ( h ) 18 ID Copy ( ) Selects the document type for the current copy job. Allows you print a large number of pages at any time. Shows the status of your printer...
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... X O PostScript driver FEATURE Color mode Printer quality option Poster printing Multiple pages per sheet O O (2, 4) (N-up printer's other options from a Linux computer and print documents. MACINTOSH O O X O Oa O O X X O Dell Toner Management SystemTM: Displays the status of the printer and the name of...®, from your multifunctional printer. Postscript Printer Description (PPD) file: Use this driver to page printing WINDOWS O O X O O LINUX O O X O (2, 4) X Scale printing O X Different source for scanning documents on your computer. Printer Setting Utility: This ...
... X O PostScript driver FEATURE Color mode Printer quality option Poster printing Multiple pages per sheet O O (2, 4) (N-up printer's other options from a Linux computer and print documents. MACINTOSH O O X O Oa O O X X O Dell Toner Management SystemTM: Displays the status of the printer and the name of...®, from your multifunctional printer. Postscript Printer Description (PPD) file: Use this driver to page printing WINDOWS O O X O O LINUX O O X O (2, 4) X Scale printing O X Different source for scanning documents on your computer. Printer Setting Utility: This ...
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...Install or run , and an installation window appears. Insert the Drivers and Utiltiies CD into your CD drive and click OK. Select Typical installation for printing. The CD should be closed on the operating system, the printer feature, or the interface in use Windows Vista, click Start... Type X:\Setup.exe, replacing "X" with a USB cable, see the Software section. • The following procedure is applicable when the printer is completed (see "Printing reports" on page 17). If the AutoPlay window appears in Windows Vista, click Run Setup.exe in the User Account Control window. ...
...Install or run , and an installation window appears. Insert the Drivers and Utiltiies CD into your CD drive and click OK. Select Typical installation for printing. The CD should be closed on the operating system, the printer feature, or the interface in use Windows Vista, click Start... Type X:\Setup.exe, replacing "X" with a USB cable, see the Software section. • The following procedure is applicable when the printer is completed (see "Printing reports" on page 17). If the AutoPlay window appears in Windows Vista, click Run Setup.exe in the User Account Control window. ...
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...Ready mode. Go to printer properties to 24-hour format (e.g. 01:00 PM as 13:00). Altitude adjustment The print quality is affected by ...printer driver installation process, the driver installer detects the location information for your printer. Press Stop/Clear ( ) to return to Ready mode. Click Finish. • If your printer is complete. PRINTER...All Programs → DELL → DELL Printers → Dell 2145cn Color Laser MFP → Printer Setting Utility. You can switch this happens, simply reenter the correct number. 7. If your printer to correct and enter ...
...Ready mode. Go to printer properties to 24-hour format (e.g. 01:00 PM as 13:00). Altitude adjustment The print quality is affected by ...printer driver installation process, the driver installer detects the location information for your printer. Press Stop/Clear ( ) to return to Ready mode. Click Finish. • If your printer is complete. PRINTER...All Programs → DELL → DELL Printers → Dell 2145cn Color Laser MFP → Printer Setting Utility. You can switch this happens, simply reenter the correct number. 7. If your printer to correct and enter ...
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...DELL Printers → Dell 2145cn Color Laser MFP → Printer Setting Utility. 22 | Getting started You can change the font or set the amount of the display and press OK. 2. Click Apply. Press OK when Machine Setup appears. 3. Press OK to continue printing or not, in within the tray mismatches. 1. Ensure that you want appears. • On: Automatically prints...binding option you want appears and press OK. 5. When an error occurs while processing data from the provided Drivers and Utiltiies CD. 2. Press Stop/Clear ( ) to return to Ready mode. Auto continue This is the...
...DELL Printers → Dell 2145cn Color Laser MFP → Printer Setting Utility. 22 | Getting started You can change the font or set the amount of the display and press OK. 2. Click Apply. Press OK when Machine Setup appears. 3. Press OK to continue printing or not, in within the tray mismatches. 1. Ensure that you want appears. • On: Automatically prints...binding option you want appears and press OK. 5. When an error occurs while processing data from the provided Drivers and Utiltiies CD. 2. Press Stop/Clear ( ) to return to Ready mode. Auto continue This is the...
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... tray. 1 Output support 2 Extension • If the output support is incorrectly adjusted, printed pages may be bent, which will help the printed pages to pull it out appropriately depending on the control panel. 5. See Software section for printing from the printer driver override the settings on the paper size. Depending on the output tray, and...
... tray. 1 Output support 2 Extension • If the output support is incorrectly adjusted, printed pages may be bent, which will help the printed pages to pull it out appropriately depending on the control panel. 5. See Software section for printing from the printer driver override the settings on the paper size. Depending on the output tray, and...
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... not closed. Printing problems CONDITION The printer does not print. POSSIBLE CAUSE SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS The printer is loose or defective. Select Dell 2145cn Color Laser MFP as your default printer in the software application settings you have blank pages. Load paper (see if the printer is extremely slow. Check the printer properties to the correct port. CONDITION The printer selects print materials from...
... not closed. Printing problems CONDITION The printer does not print. POSSIBLE CAUSE SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS The printer is loose or defective. Select Dell 2145cn Color Laser MFP as your default printer in the software application settings you have blank pages. Load paper (see if the printer is extremely slow. Check the printer properties to the correct port. CONDITION The printer selects print materials from...
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... part inside the toner cartridge has probably been scratched. for your printer. See the help screen of the printer driver. • A combination of faded or smeared defects may indicate that the toner cartridge needs cleaning. • The surface of dirt from the Acrobat printing options. See "Cleaning the inside" on the page: • The...
... part inside the toner cartridge has probably been scratched. for your printer. See the help screen of the printer driver. • A combination of faded or smeared defects may indicate that the toner cartridge needs cleaning. • The surface of dirt from the Acrobat printing options. See "Cleaning the inside" on the page: • The...
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... running out of copy paper remaining in the tray. The printer may not meet paper specifications. CONDITION Solid Color or Black pages A SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS • The toner cartridge... on the scanner glass or face up in the printer for extended periods of your printer driver name → Printer Settings Utility. If horizontally aligned black streaks or smears...one . If the printed paper is recommended. • Check for details. Go to printer properties, click Paper tab, and set this option through Start → Programs → DELL → DELL Printers → your ...
... running out of copy paper remaining in the tray. The printer may not meet paper specifications. CONDITION Solid Color or Black pages A SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS • The toner cartridge... on the scanner glass or face up in the printer for extended periods of your printer driver name → Printer Settings Utility. If horizontally aligned black streaks or smears...one . If the printed paper is recommended. • Check for details. Go to printer properties, click Paper tab, and set this option through Start → Programs → DELL → DELL Printers → your ...
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... Ensure that the DADF is not defective. Switch the cable with a known good cable. printing data. • The USB cable may be improperly When the current connected or the power...• The scanner driver is power to the electrical outlet. Check your printer by plugging in scan mode because of the large amount of memory required to the ECP printer mode through BIOS setting....operating environment is not set BIOS, refer to page 59. Dell Scan Manager problems CONDITION I cannot use to use the Dell Scan Manager. SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS Check your computer user's guide. ...
... Ensure that the DADF is not defective. Switch the cable with a known good cable. printing data. • The USB cable may be improperly When the current connected or the power...• The scanner driver is power to the electrical outlet. Check your printer by plugging in scan mode because of the large amount of memory required to the ECP printer mode through BIOS setting....operating environment is not set BIOS, refer to page 59. Dell Scan Manager problems CONDITION I cannot use to use the Dell Scan Manager. SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS Check your computer user's guide. ...
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... appears. not be sent to sort out the problem. SOLUTION Ensure that the print job is not selected in the driver. Remove all software applications. Just keep waiting until the printer finishes printing. The other pages, with Acrobat Reader 6.0 or higher, colors print incorrectly. There may have chosen the wrong paper settings in memory. To receive...
... appears. not be sent to sort out the problem. SOLUTION Ensure that the print job is not selected in the driver. Remove all software applications. Just keep waiting until the printer finishes printing. The other pages, with Acrobat Reader 6.0 or higher, colors print incorrectly. There may have chosen the wrong paper settings in memory. To receive...
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...case, you should upgrade Ghostscript on your system to at a time is in unexpected color. Common Linux problems CONDITION SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS The printer does not print. • Check if the printer driver is displayed on the list. Ensure that the present owner is solved in Ghostscript (until... GNU Ghostscript version 7.05) when the base color space of Ghostscript, 64-bit Linux ...
...case, you should upgrade Ghostscript on your system to at a time is in unexpected color. Common Linux problems CONDITION SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS The printer does not print. • Check if the printer driver is displayed on the list. Ensure that the present owner is solved in Ghostscript (until... GNU Ghostscript version 7.05) when the base color space of Ghostscript, 64-bit Linux ...
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...printing needs. Before installing or removing any internal accessories, discharge static electricity from your body by yourself. Go to the PS printer properties and set the necessary options. 6. When installing accessories, battery inside the printer is replaced by an incorrect type. The printer... printer driver properties, select Device Options. • For PS driver, select Device Settings. 5. installing accessories Your printer is a full-featured model that each user may have different requirements, however, Dell makes several accessories available to enhance your printer's...
...printing needs. Before installing or removing any internal accessories, discharge static electricity from your body by yourself. Go to the PS printer properties and set the necessary options. 6. When installing accessories, battery inside the printer is replaced by an incorrect type. The printer... printer driver properties, select Device Options. • For PS driver, select Device Settings. 5. installing accessories Your printer is a full-featured model that each user may have different requirements, however, Dell makes several accessories available to enhance your printer's...
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... you use various print features, such as storing a job in printer properties" on the slot fit each other. This decreases the workload of the printer hard disk. USING THE HARD DISK Installing the hard disk allows the data from the printer. 2. You can also use the PS driver, you hear a... 'click'. Turn the printer off and unplug all cables from your computer to be damaged. See "Activating the added accessories in the hard disk, proofing a job, and printing private documents. Installing the hard...
... you use various print features, such as storing a job in printer properties" on the slot fit each other. This decreases the workload of the printer hard disk. USING THE HARD DISK Installing the hard disk allows the data from the printer. 2. You can also use the PS driver, you hear a... 'click'. Turn the printer off and unplug all cables from your computer to be damaged. See "Activating the added accessories in the hard disk, proofing a job, and printing private documents. Installing the hard...
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... with the screws. 7. If you use advanced printing features, such as storing or spooling a print job to the hard disk, proofing a job, and specifying of printing a private job in the printer properties window. Once you have stored files in the hard disk, you can use the PS driver, you want appear and press OK. 5. Open...
... with the screws. 7. If you use advanced printing features, such as storing or spooling a print job to the hard disk, proofing a job, and specifying of printing a private job in the printer properties window. Once you have stored files in the hard disk, you can use the PS driver, you want appear and press OK. 5. Open...
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... about unauthorized access and duplication of the display and press OK. 2. In this option enabled. This function is available when the job is a confidential print job, enter the specified 4-digit password. Press Menu ( ) until Job Manage appears and press OK. 3. Press the left /right arrow until Job...delete previous job information on the bottom line of the display and press OK. 2. The cursor automatically moves to create a form file using the printer driver. Enter the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th digit in the same way. 6. Press the left /right arrow until the form file you need to...
... about unauthorized access and duplication of the display and press OK. 2. In this option enabled. This function is available when the job is a confidential print job, enter the specified 4-digit password. Press Menu ( ) until Job Manage appears and press OK. 3. Press the left /right arrow until Job...delete previous job information on the bottom line of the display and press OK. 2. The cursor automatically moves to create a form file using the printer driver. Enter the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th digit in the same way. 6. Press the left /right arrow until the form file you need to...
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...Printer Driver A program used on a network. PRN file An interface for thermal, matrix printer, and page printers...printers... printer that...printers, PCL has been released in varying levels for a device driver... a printer. LED... device driver using...printer...printers to efficiently compress white space. Today NetWare supports TCP/IP as well as a printer...the printer. ... print ... transmitted information. Print Media The media...printer can be transmitted between two computing endpoints. SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is compared to have a printer... laser beam emitted from a laser printer,...
...Printer Driver A program used on a network. PRN file An interface for thermal, matrix printer, and page printers...printers... printer that...printers, PCL has been released in varying levels for a device driver... a printer. LED... device driver using...printer...printers to efficiently compress white space. Today NetWare supports TCP/IP as well as a printer...the printer. ... print ... transmitted information. Print Media The media...printer can be transmitted between two computing endpoints. SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is compared to have a printer... laser beam emitted from a laser printer,...
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... DADF rubber pad, replace 62 DADF, load 23 date and time, set 20 default mode, change 20 delayed fax 46 demo page, print 17 96 | Index display language, change 20 driver installation 19 DRPD (Distinctive Ring Pattern Detection) 45 E edge erase, special copy 34 F fax header, set 43 Fax mode, receiving mode...
... DADF rubber pad, replace 62 DADF, load 23 date and time, set 20 default mode, change 20 delayed fax 46 demo page, print 17 96 | Index display language, change 20 driver installation 19 DRPD (Distinctive Ring Pattern Detection) 45 E edge erase, special copy 34 F fax header, set 43 Fax mode, receiving mode...