59380701.jpg Copyright Information Copyright © 2006 Sharp Electronics Corporation and its suppliers. Document Information ________________________________ Sharp AR-C265P User's Guide P/N 59380701, Revision 1.0 August, 2006 Disclaimer__________________________________________ Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this document is complete, accurate, and up-to-date. The manufacturer assumes no responsibility for the results of errors beyond its control. The manufacturer also cannot guarantee that changes in software and equipment made by other manufacturers and referred to in this guide will not affect the applicability of the information in it. Mention of software products manufactured by other companies does not necessarily constitute endorsement by the manufacturer . 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Regulatory Information _______________________________ As an ENERGY STAR® Program Participant, the manufacturer has determined that this product meets the ENERGY STAR guidelines for energy efficiency. This product complies with the requirements of the Council Directives 89/336/EEC (EMC), 73/23/EEC (LVD) and 1999/5/EC (R&TTE), as amended where applicable, on the approximation of the laws of the member states relating to Electromagnetic Compatibility, Low Voltage and Radio & Telecommunications Terminal Equipment. Sharp AR-C265P User's Guide 2 Contents Copyright Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Document Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Trademark Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Regulatory Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Notes, Cautions, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Parts of the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Rear. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Paper (Print Media). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 General Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Paper, US Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Paper, Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Letterhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Transparencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Paper Trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 General Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Select in the driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Paper Size, Feed, and Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Tray 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Tray 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Multi-Purpose Tray (MP Tray) [Manual Feed] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Auto Tray Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Auto Switching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Paper Size Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Paper Exit Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Face Down (Top Exit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Face Up (Rear Exit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Duplex Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Loading Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 Trays 1 and 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Sharp AR-C265P User's Guide 3 Multi-purpose Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Consumables and Replacement Supplies . . . . . . . . .72 Life Expectancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Part Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Replace a Toner Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Replace an Image Drum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Replace the Fuser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Printer Settings (Menu Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91 Print a list of the current settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Changing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Reset to Factory Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Replace the Belt Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Lists of Available Settings by Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Menu Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118 Additional Memory (RAM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Duplex Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Hard Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Second Paper Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124 General Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Display Panel Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Paper Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Print Quality Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 USB Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Application error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 General Protection Fault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Paper Size Change Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Printer does not go online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Printer makes a strange noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Printer takes a long time to start printing . . . . . . . . . 158 Printing cancels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Printing does not start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Printing is slow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Cleaning Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Printer Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162 General Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Which Printer Driver to Use? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Change Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Save Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Sharp AR-C265P User's Guide 4 Check to see if saved Driver Settings are used . . . . . 167 Restore Default Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Printer Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Banners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Black Finish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Black Overprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Black Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Booklets (Binding Print) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Collating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Color Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Custom Page Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Duplex Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Grayscale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 N-Up Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Posters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 Print Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Save as File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Toner Saving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Watermarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 Sharp AR-C265P User's Guide 5 Notes, Cautions, etc. Illustrations ______________________ Illustrations and components are representative only. Your unit may differ slightly from those pictured in this document. NOTE A note appears like this. A note provides additional information to supplement the main text which helps you to use and understand the product. Important! An important message appears like this. An important message provides supplemental information which can prevent potential problems. CAUTION! A caution appears like this. A caution provides additional information which, if ignored, may result in equipment malfunction or damage. WARNING! A warning appears like this. A warning provides additional information which, if ignored, may result in a risk of personal injury. Sharp AR-C265P User's Guide 6 Introduction Your new printer is designed with advanced features to give you clear, vibrant color printing and crisp black and white pages at high speed on a range of print media. Features _________________________ · · · · · Up to 26 pages per minute full color. Up to 32 pages per minute in black and white. 600 x 1200 dpi (dots per inch) print resolution. Single Pass Color Digital LED technology. 10 Base-T and 100 Base-TX network connection. Options __________________________ · · · Additional Memory: see page 118 256 MB or 512 MB Duplex Unit: see page 119 for automatic two-sided printing Hard disk drive: see page 120 allows you to use secure (confidential) printing, spool print jobs, and store print jobs for later use · Second Paper Tray: see page 121. capacity 530 sheets 20-lb. paper Sharp AR-C265P User's Guide 7 Parts of the Printer Front ____________________________ c53_01_printerfull.jpg 1. Output Stacker, face down Standard printed copy delivery point. Holds up to 250 sheets of 20-lb. (75 g/m²) paper. Operator Panel Menu driven operator controls and LCD display panel Paper Tray Standard paper tray. Holds up to 300 sheets of 20-lb. (75 g/m²) paper. Multi-Purpose Tray Used for feeding transparencies, heavier paper stocks, envelopes and other special media. Also for manual feeding of single sheets when required. 2. 3. 4. Sharp AR-C265P User's Guide 8 Rear ____________________________ c51_01_backview.jpg 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. On/Off Switch Socket for Power Cord USB Interface Network Interface Duplex Unit Rear Stacker (face up) Capacity 100 sheets When the rear paper stacker is folded down, paper exits the printer through the rear of the printer and is stacked face up. This is used for labels, heavy print media, envelopes and custom paper sizes. When used with the Multi-Purpose Tray, the paper path through the printer is essentially straight. This avoids bending the print media around curves in the paper path and makes paper feeding more reliable. Sharp AR-C265P User's Guide 9 Paper (Print Media) General Information _____________________ CAUTION! Print media must be able to withstand 446°F (230°C) for 0.2 second. You need to know three characteristics about any paper (print media) you want to use with your printer: · Type · Weight · Size The type, weight, and size ...