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®
Phaser 5500
laser printer
User Guide
Guide d’utilisation
Guida dell'utente
Benutzerhandbuch
Guía del usuario
Guia do Usuário
Gebruikershandleiding
Användarhandbok
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Copyright © 2004 Xerox Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Unpublished rights reserved under the copyright laws of the United States. Contents of this publication may not be reproduced in any form without permission of Xerox Corporation. Copyright protection claimed includes all forms of matters of copyrightable materials and information now allowed by statutory or judicial law or hereinafter granted, including without limitation, material generated from the software programs which are displaye
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Contents 1 Features Printer Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Printer Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Available Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-21 Types of Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-21 Resident Printer Fonts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-21 Viewing a List of Resident Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Labels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-54 Guidelines for Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-54 Printing Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-54 Specialty Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Windows NT 4.x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20 Preliminary Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20 Quick CD-ROM Install Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20 Other Methods of Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-
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Contents Paper Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 Jam at A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4 Jam at B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Jam at B and C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents A User Safety BWarranty C Printer Specifications D Regulatory Information E Material Safety Data Sheet F Product Recycling and Disposal G Original SSLeay License Index Phaser® 5500 Laser Printer vi
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Phaser® 5500 Laser Printer Features This section includes: ■ "Printer Tour" on page 1-2 ■ "Front Panel" on page 1-6 ■ "Printer Drivers" on page 1-9 ■ "Managing Your Printer" on page 1-11 ■ "Printer Settings" on page 1-13 ■ "Fonts" on page 1-21 ■ "Registering Your Printer" on page 1-24 Copyright © 2004 Xerox Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 1-1
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Phaser® 5500 Laser Printer Printer Tour This topic includes: ■ "Printer Features" on page 1-2 ■ "Available Configurations" on page 1-3 ■ "Front View" on page 1-4 ■ "Rear View" on page 1-4 ■ "Internal Components" on page 1-4 ■ "Printer Options and Upgrades" on page 1-5 ■ "Resources" on page 1-5 Printer Features The Phaser 5500 Laser Printer embodies many features to meet your print needs: Great performance and superior print quality ■ 50 pages per minute (ppm) (Letter and A4) ■ True 1200 dpi at f
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Printer Tour Available Configurations The Phaser 5500 Laser Printer is available in five configurations. Features Printer Configuration 5500B 5500N 5500DN 5500DT 5500DX Maximum Print Speed 50 50 50 50 50 (Pages Per Minute) Standard Memory 128 128 128 128 256 (MB) PostScript and PCL Standard Standard Standard Standard Standard Fonts 1000-Sheet Feeder Optional Optional Optional Standard Standard 2000-Sheet Feeder Optional* Optional* Optional* Optional* Standard # # # # 3500-Sheet Stacker N/A Optio
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E Printer Tour Front View 1. Standard Output Tray 10 8 1 4 2. Front Door 3. Two 500-Sheet Feeders (Trays 2 and 3) 4. Optional Duplex Unit 5 5. Tray 1 (MPT) 9 6. Optional 2000-Sheet Feeder (Tray 6) 7. Optional 1000-Sheet Feeder (Trays 4 and 5) 3 8. Optional 3500-Sheet Finisher or Stacker 9. Optional Stacker Lower Tray (3000 Sheets) 10. Optional Stacker Upper Tray (500 Sheets) 7 2 5500-107 6 Rear View 1. Parallel connection 2. Ethernet 10/100 Base-T connection 3. USB connection 4. Configuration c
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Printer Tour Printer Options and Upgrades Printer options and an upgrade are available for the Phaser 5500 Laser Printer. Options ■ 128 MB and 256 MB memory cards for two RAM slots ■ 1000-Sheet Feeder ■ 2000-Sheet Feeder ■ 3500-Sheet Stacker ■ 3500-Sheet Finisher (with stapler and hole puncher) ■ Internal Hard Drive ■ 16 MB Flash Memory ■ Duplex Unit ■ Envelope Tray Upgrades ■ Phaser 5500B to Phaser 5500N upgrade kit For more information on printer options and upgrades, go to www.xerox.com/of
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Phaser® 5500 Laser Printer Front Panel This topic includes: ■ "Front Panel Description" on page 1-6 ■ "Front Panel Layout" on page 1-7 ■ "Error and Warning Messages" on page 1-7 ■ "Print Icon" on page 1-8 ■ "Menu Map" on page 1-8 ■ "Information Pages" on page 1-8 ■ "Sample Pages" on page 1-8 Front Panel Description The front panel: ■ Displays the printer’s operating status (for example, Printing, Ready to Print, printer errors and warnings). ■ Prompts you to load paper (if enabled; Tray 1 MPT e
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Front Panel Front Panel Layout 1. Status Indicator LED: Blinking green = Printer is busy or in Power 46 Saver mode Steady green = Ready to print Blinking yellow = Warning condition READY TO PRINT. READY TO PRINT. Information Information Walk-Up Features Walk-Up Features Blinking red = Error condition Printer Setup Printer Setup Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Shutdown Shutdown Steady red = Startup sequence 2. Graphic display shows status messages and menus. 1 2 35 7 8 9 3. Toner Gas Gauge indi
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Front Panel Print Icon There are a number of information pages accessible through the front panel. When the print icon appears before a title on the front panel display, press the OK button to print that page. Menu Map The “Menu Map” is a visual representation of the front panel settings and information pages. To print the “Menu Map”: 1. At the printer’s front panel, select Information, then press the OK button. 2. Select Menu Map, then press the OK button to print. Information Pages Your pri
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Phaser® 5500 Laser Printer Printer Drivers This topic includes: ■ "Available Printer Drivers" on page 1-9 ■ "Printer Driver Features" on page 1-10 Printer drivers enable your computer and printer to communicate and provide access to your printer features. Xerox makes driver installation easy with its Walk-Up Technology. For more information about printer drivers, see the video at www.xerox.com/office/drivers. Available Printer Drivers Xerox provides drivers for a variety of page description la
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Printer Drivers Printer Driver Features The following table displays the Xerox driver features that are available with specific operating systems. Windows, Macintosh Macintosh Windows Windows 2000, XP, Feature 1 1 98, Me NT4 Server OS 9.x OS X 10.x 2003 Separation Pages ● ●●● ● Cover Pages ● ●●● ● Pages per Sheet (N-Up) ● ●●● ● Booklet ■■ ■ 2-Sided Printing ■■ ■■ ■ Edge-to-Edge Printing ● ●●● ● 1 1 1 1 1 Image Smoothing ● ● ● ● ● Scaling ● ●●● ● Mirror Images ● ●●● Watermarks ●● Negative Im
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Phaser® 5500 Laser Printer Managing Your Printer This topic includes: ■ "Printer’s IP Address" on page 1-11 ■ "CentreWare Internet Services (IS)" on page 1-11 ■ "PhaserSMART" on page 1-12 ■ "PrintingScout" on page 1-12 When your printer is connected to your computer over a network, there are a number of resources available to help you manage your printer. Note The information in this section applies only to network printers. Printer’s IP Address You need your printer’s IP address to change prin
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Managing Your Printer PhaserSMART PhaserSMART Technical Support is an automated, Internet-based support system. Use your default web browser to send diagnostic information from your printer to our web site for analysis. PhaserSMART Technical Support examines the information, diagnoses the problem, and proposes a solution. If the problem is not resolved with the solution, PhaserSMART Technical Support assists you in opening a Service Request with Xerox Customer Support. Launching PhaserSMART
