User GuideIM 2500/3000/3500/4000/5000/6000 series

Tray/Paper Settings

This section describes the settings in [Tray/Paper Settings].

How to Use the "Settings"

For details about the tray configuration, see the following section:

Loading Paper into the Paper Tray.

Paper Size/Paper Type

Important

  • If the specified paper size differs from the actual size of the paper loaded in the paper tray, a misfeed might occur because the correct paper size was not detected.

Setting Items

Description

Bypass Tray

Paper Size: Printer

Specify the size of the paper loaded in the bypass tray. This setting is applied when printing with the printer driver.

  • Default: [Auto Detect]

Paper Type/Thickness

Specify the type and weight of the paper loaded in the paper tray.

  • Default

    • Paper Type: [Plain Paper]

    • Paper Thickness: [75-81 gsm (Plain Paper 2)]

Apply Duplex

Specify whether to apply duplex print.

  • Default: (Yes)

Apply Auto Paper Select/Auto Tray Select

Specify whether to apply Auto Paper Select.

  • Default: (No)

Tray 1

Tray 2

Tray 3

Tray 4

Paper Size

Specify the size of the paper loaded in the paper tray.

  • Default: [Auto Detect]

Paper Type/Thickness

Specify the type and weight of the paper loaded in the paper tray.

  • Default

    • Paper Type: [Plain Paper]

    • Paper Thickness: [75-81 gsm(Plain Paper 2)]

Apply Duplex

Specify whether to apply duplex print.

  • Default: (Yes)

Apply Auto Paper Select/Auto Tray Select

Specify whether to apply Auto Paper Select.

  • Default: (Yes)

Tray 3 (LCT)

LCT

Paper Type/Thickness

Specify the type and weight of the paper loaded in the paper tray.

  • Default

    • Paper Type: [Plain Paper]

    • Paper Thickness: [75-81 gsm (Plain Paper 2)]

Apply Duplex

Specify whether to apply duplex print.

  • Default: (Yes)

Apply Auto Paper Select/Auto Tray Select

Specify whether to apply Auto Paper Select.

  • Default: (Yes)

Note

  • The paper sizes for Tray 3 (LCT) and LCT are fixed as either A4Portrait or 81/2 × 11Portrait. Contact your service representative if you need to change the paper size.

Paper Tray Priority

Setting Items

Description

Paper Tray Priority: Copier

Paper Tray Priority: Fax

Paper Tray Priority: Printer

If multiple trays are listed for Auto Paper Select, specify which tray is used first.

Specify the paper tray to be used first for Copier, Fax, and Printer respectively.

  • Default: [Tray 1]

Common Settings/Others

Setting Items

Description

Narrow Paper Support

Specify whether to support printing on narrow paper.

  • Default: [Inactive]

Cover Sheet Tray

Slip Sheet Tray

Specify when you use the cover/slip sheet different from the main sheet.

  • Tray to Register

    Specify the tray for loading the cover/slip sheet.

    • Default: [Not Set]

When [Cover Sheet Tray] or [Slip Sheet Tray] is set to [Bypass Tray] or one of the paper trays, the following settings are available.

  • Display Time

    Specify and display the paper tray that is used for setting cover/slip sheets only when the Cover/Slip Sheet function is used.

    • Default: [At Mode Selected]

  • Apply Duplex

    Specify whether to print on the reverse side of the cover/slip sheet.

    • Default

      • Cover Sheet Tray: [No]

      • Slip Sheet Tray: [Yes]

Auto Detect: Switch Paper Size Detected Legal/Oficio

Specify which paper size the machine detects automatically, Legal or Oficio.

  • Default: [Legal (81/2×14)]

Size Entry Screen if Using Small Paper Unit

(Only when the one-pass duplex scanning ADF is installed)

When the optional small size paper unit is installed on the one-pass duplex scanning ADF, you can specify whether to enter the custom size easily. When you load an original on the small size paper unit, the screen to enter the custom size is displayed.

  • Default: [Display]

Copy

Setting Items

Description

Paper Display

You can specify whether to display or hide the Paper Type keys on the Copy screen (All View), Copy screen (Classic), and document print screen of the Document Server screen. The display shown below is an example when the setting is changed from [Display] to [Hide].

Copy screen (All View)

Operation panel screen illustration

Copy screen (Classic), document print screen of the Document Server screen

Operation panel screen illustration
  • Default: [Display]

Auto Tray Switching

When paper of the same size and type is loaded in two or more trays, the machine automatically shifts to the other tray when the first tray runs out of paper (Auto Tray Switching).

To enable Auto Tray Switching only when the paper of the same size and type is loaded in the same orientation, select [Without Image Rotation].

  • Default: [With Image Rotation]

Display Bypass Tray Paper Settings

You can specify whether to display the Paper Setting screen for the bypass tray when you select the bypass tray in [Tray/Paper Settings][Paper Size/Paper Type].

  • Default: [Display Automatically]

Display Paper Settings for Bypass Tray

You can specify whether to display the Paper Selection screen for the bypass tray when you load paper into the bypass tray.

  • Default: [Display Automatically]

Letterhead Setting

You can specify whether to use letterhead paper.

When you specify [Yes], the paper is not rotated to prevent copying onto the letterhead paper in an incorrect orientation.

  • Default: [No]

Printer

Setting Items

Description

Sub Paper Size

You can specify whether A4 and 81/2 × 11 paper is treated as the same size.

  • Default: [Auto]

Letterhead Setting

To print onto paper that has a fixed print side or print direction (letterhead paper, for example), make the settings for image rotation and print side correctly. Set the paper so that the paper orientation and print side are placed correctly.

  • Default: [Auto Detect]

Loading Orientation-fixed Paper or Two-sided Paper

Tray Setting Priority

Paper Confirmation for Bypass Tray

Specify whether to display the confirming screen of the paper size, type, and feed direction on the control panel when feeding paper from the bypass tray. If [Display] is specified, you can check the print settings for the bypass tray before printing starts.

This setting is available when Bypass Tray is set to [Driver/Command].

  • Default: [Do not Display]

Tray Setting Priority

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Bypass Tray

Tray 1

Tray 2

Tray 3

Tray 3 (LCT)

Tray 4

LCT

You can specify whether to give priority to the settings specified by the printer driver or the print command, or to the ones specified on the control panel for each tray when the machine receives print data. Only the trays attached to the machine appear.

For the bypass tray, you can specify the following settings. For the trays 1 to 4, tray 3 (LCT), and LCT, you can specify either [Driver/Command] or [Machine Setting(s)].

  • Driver/Command

    When a paper tray is specified for a print job, the paper settings such as paper size, type, and orientation specified by the printer driver or the print command are applied, regardless of the settings for [Tray/Paper Settings][Paper Size/Paper Type].

    When Bypass Tray is set to [Driver/Command], the paper orientation specified by [Tray/Paper Settings][Paper Size/Paper Type] is applied. Load paper in the same orientation as the orientation specified by [Paper Size/Paper Type]. When a custom size is specified by the printer driver or the print command, the paper orientation specified in the printer driver or command is applied.

Tray Setting Priority

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  • Use Driver/Command (Enable Discord Alert)

    When the bypass tray is specified as the paper source, the paper type, paper type, and orientation specified by the printer driver or the print command are applied to the print job, regardless of the settings for [Tray/Paper Settings][Paper Size/Paper Type].

    When the specified paper size and the size of the paper loaded in the bypass tray do not match or the bypass tray runs out of paper, an alert appears on the control panel before the paper is fed.

  • Machine Setting(s)

    The paper settings specified on the control panel are applied to all print jobs. An error occurs when the paper settings specified by the printer driver or the print command do not match the ones specified on the control panel.

  • Default

    • Bypass Tray: [Use Driver/Command (Enable Discord Alert)]

    • Tray 1 – 4, Tray 3 (LCT), LCT: [Machine Setting(s)]

Tray Switching

This is the setting item to specify when you print by specifying the tray on the printer driver. You can specify whether to switch to Auto Paper Select when the paper set in the tray is different from the settings specified on the printer driver. If the same paper is set on another tray, the paper is fed from the tray.

  • Default: [Off]

Extended Auto Tray Switching

This is the setting item to specify when you print by specifying the paper tray. You can specify whether to use the same paper set on another tray when the paper set in the designated tray runs out.

If Auto Tray Switching for Print Settings of emulation is disabled, printing continues by Auto Tray Switching.

  • Default: [Off]

Job Separation

Specify whether to shift the position of ejected sheets for each job alternately. You can sort the output sheets per job automatically when printing a large number of sheets from multiple jobs.

  • Default: [Off]

Rotate Sort: Auto Paper Continue

Specify whether to cancel rotate sort and continue printing when paper in landscape or portrait orientation runs out and rotate sort becomes impossible.

  • Default: [Off]

Rotate by 180 Degrees

You can specify when you rotate the print image 180 degrees relative to the paper orientation. Use this function to print onto paper whose orientation is fixed such as a letterhead.

  • Default: [Off]

Fax

Setting Items

Description

Paper Tray

Specify the tray to feed paper on which received fax documents are printed. A paper tray is not specified when [Auto Select] is selected.

  • Default: [Auto Select]