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Printer menus
The printer menu gives you many print options, allows you to change the printer defaults, provides
maintenance and troubleshooting tools, and provides how-to information for common printing tasks.
This section gives a complete listing of the items available on the printer menu.
Printer menus
Printer menu structure
● Print Options
– Panoramic photos: Select to turn panoramic printing On or Off (default). Select On to
print all selected photos with a 3:1 aspect ratio; load 10 x 30 cm (4 x 12 inch) paper before
printing. When a photo is selected, a green crop box shows the area to be printed. Other
Print Options menu choices are disabled when this option is turned on. Select Off to print
with a normal 3:2 aspect ratio. Panoramic printing mode is not supported when printing
directly from a PictBridge camera using a USB cable.
– Photo stickers: Select to turn sticker printing On or Off (default). Select On to print 16
photos per page; load special sticker media. Other Print Options menu choices are
disabled when this option is turned on. Select Off to print using one of the normal layout
options.
– Print passport photos: Select to turn passport printing On or Off (default). Passport
printing tells the printer to print all selected photos in the passport photo size. Each
selected photo prints on one page. If you selected multiple copies of the same photo, the
printer prints as many copies on one page as possible. Other Print Options menu choices
are disabled when this option is turned on.
● Tools
– Print sample page: Select to print a sample page, which is useful for checking the print
quality of the printer.
– Print test page: Select to print a test page containing information about the printer that
can help in troubleshooting problems.
– Clean cartridge: Select to clean the print cartridge. After cleaning, you will be asked if
you want to continue to a second-level cleaning (select Yes or No). If you select Yes,
another cleaning cycle will be completed. Next you will be asked if you want to continue
to a third-level cleaning (select Yes or No).
– Align cartridge: Select to align the print cartridge.
● Bluetooth
– Device address: Some devices with Bluetooth wireless technology require you to enter
the address of the device they are trying to locate. This menu option shows the printer
address.
– Device name: You can select a name for the printer that appears on other devices with
Bluetooth wireless technology when they locate the printer.
– Passkey: When the Bluetooth Security level of the printer is set to High, you must enter
a passkey to make the printer available to other Bluetooth devices. The default passkey
is 0000.
– Visibility: Select Visible to all (default) or Not visible. When Visibility is set to Not
visible, only devices that know the printer address can print to it.
– Security level: Select Low (default) or High. The Low setting does not require users of
other devices with Bluetooth wireless technology to enter the printer passkey. High
requires users of other devices with Bluetooth wireless technology to enter the printer
passkey.
– Reset Bluetooth options: Select to reset all items in the Bluetooth menu to their default
values.
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