PP016M

Changing the Machine Operation Mode

If necessary, switch between various modes of machine operation.

The procedure for configuring Custom Settings is as follows:

  1. Make sure that the machine is on, and then select Custom Settings from the pop-up menu on the Canon IJ Printer Utility

    Note
    • If the computer is unable to communicate with the machine, a message may be displayed because the computer cannot access the function information that was set on the machine.
      If this happens, click Cancel to display the most recent settings specified on your computer.

  2. If necessary, complete the following settings:

    Ink Drying Wait Time

    You can set the length of the machine rest time until printing of the next page begins. Moving the slider to the right increases the pause time, and moving the slider to the left decreases the time.
    If the paper gets stained because the next page is ejected before the ink on the printed page dries, increase the ink drying wait time.
    Reducing the ink drying wait time speeds up printing.

    Display Guide Message

    Displays a guide when you perform operations in which the paper setting procedure is complicated.

    Hagaki Printing

    Displays the guide message before the machine begins hagaki printing.
    To hide the guide messages starting from the next execution of other than plain paper printing, select the Do not show again check box in the displayed dialog.
    To display the guide messages again, display the Canon IJ Printer Utility pop-up menu, select Custom Settings, and then check the Hagaki Printing check box.

    Important
    • With Mac OS X v10.8 or Mac OS X v10.7, you cannot use Display Guide Message.
      Therefore, if you check the Do not show again check box when a guide message is displayed before printing starts, this will stop any more guide messages from being displayed.

    Detects a printable disc in the disc tray

    Detects whether a printable disc is loaded on the disc tray during disc label printing and displays a message if a disc is not loaded.

    Check this check box to print with detecting whether a printable disc is loaded.
    Uncheck this check box to print without detecting whether a printable disc is loaded.

    Important
    • If you leave this check box unchecked, the printer may print to the disc tray even if a printable disc is not loaded on the disc tray. Therefore, you should check this check box under normal circumstances.

    • If you load a printable disc that has already been printed onto the disc tray, the printer may detect that no printable disc is loaded on the disc tray. In this case, uncheck this check box.

    Prevent paper abrasion

    The machine can increase the gap between the print head and the paper during high-density printing to prevent paper abrasion.
    Check this check box to prevent paper abrasion.

    Align heads manually

    Usually, the Print Head Alignment function of Test Print on the pop-up menu in the Canon IJ Printer Utility is set to automatic head alignment, but you can change it to manual head alignment.
    If the printing results of automatic print head alignment are not satisfactory, perform manual head alignment.
    Check this check box to perform the manual head alignment. Uncheck this check box to perform the automatic head alignment.

    Detect the paper width when printing from computer

    When you print from the computer, this function identifies the paper that was loaded into this machine.
    When the paper width detected by the machine differ from the width of the paper specified in Paper Size on the Print dialog, a message is displayed.
    To use paper width detection when printing from the computer, select the check box.

    Important
    • When you use a custom page size, correctly set the size of the paper loaded in the machine in the Custom Paper Sizes dialog.
      If an error message is displayed even though paper of the same size that was specified is loaded, uncheck the Detect the paper width when printing from computer check box.

  3. Apply the settings

    Click Apply and when the confirmation message appears, click OK.

    The machine operates with the modified settings hereafter.

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