4-532-sided PrintingLoading and Outputting Paper42-sided PrintingYou can perform 2-sided printing with the standard equipment of this printer. Plainpaper, heavy paper (106 to 120 g/m2 ), and coated paper (105 to 120 g/m2 ) at sizesof A4, Legal, Letter, and Foolscap can be used for automatic 2-sided printing.IMPORTANT• You cannot perform automatic 2-sided printing on heavy paper (121 to 220 g/m2),transparencies, labels, coated paper (121 to 160 g/m2), and envelopes.• When 2-sided printing is specified, and a job with odd number of pages is printed, theprinting surface of the last page are as follows according to the setting for ALT.METHOD(See p. 6-34) or the paper source.- When printing from the paper cassetteIf ALT.METHOD is set to ON, the printer prints on the upper side of the loaded paper.If ALT.METHOD is set to OFF, the printer prints on the underside of the loaded paper.- When printing from the multi-purpose trayIf ALT.METHOD is set to ON, the printer prints on the underside of the loaded paper.If ALT.METHOD is set to OFF, the printer prints on the upper side of the loaded paper.• Set ALT.METHOD to OFF when you want to match the setting of the orientation orprinting side for the last page with those for its previous page, such as when you want toprint previously printed paper etc. whose printing orientation or printing side is fixed.• During automatic 2-sided printing, do not touch the paper until it is output to the outputtray completely. In automatic 2-sided printing, the paper is partially output once afterprinted on its surface and is fed again to be printed on its reverse side.• When performing manual 2-sided printing, flatten curls of the paper, and then load onesheet at a time in the multi-purpose tray.NOTEDepending on the capacity of the RAM in the printer, the print quality may deteriorate, orthe printer may not be able to print, displaying <39 SPL MEM.FULL> when performingautomatic 2-sided printing on documents that make heavy use of lines or containcomplicated diagrams, charts, or graphs. In this case, you need to print again withGRADATION LEVEL (See p. 6-35) set to HIGH 1 or install an optional expansion RAMmodule (See p. 1-14).
