Oki CX3641MFP User Manual

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Printing > 31RECOMMENDATIONSWhere you have the choice:> Use the PCL driver for everyday, text-based office documents.The PCL5c and PCL6 drivers supplied are very similar to each other. PCL6 producesbetter print quality but it does not allow poster printing or watermark printingwhereas PCL5c does.> Use the PS driver when printing PDF or image-heavy documents and when printingfrom graphic applications like Illustrator, Photoshop or Quark.HOW TO ACCESS THE DRIVER SCREENSHow you access the driver screens depends on your computer and its operating system.The driver screens are dialogue boxes offering a wide range of choices about how you wantto print your documents. Within Windows these dialogue boxes are tabbed, within Mac thedialogue boxes use pop-up menus.There are two ways to access the driver features from within Windows:1. Directly from the Windows “Printers” folder (“Printers and Faxes” folder inWindows XP).If you choose this method any changes you make will become the driver defaults. Thismeans they will remain active for all your applications unless you specifically changethem from within the application’s Print dialogue.2. From your application’s Print dialogue.If you choose this method any changes you make will usually only last for as long asthe particular application is running, or until you change them again. In most cases,once you quit the application the driver defaults will return.NOTEBoth PCL and PS drivers are provided for Windows environments while onlythe PS driver is provided for Mac environments.NOTESettings made from the printer’s own control panel are the printer defaults.They determine how your printer will behave unless you specify otherwisefrom your computer.The driver defaults override the printer defaults.Application Print settings override both the printer defaults and the driverdefaults.