Sharp MX-4501N User Manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS MANUAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

• MANUALS PROVIDED WITH THE MACHINE . . . 3

BASIC PROCEDURE FOR MAKING
COPIES

BASE SCREEN OF COPY MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

COPYING SEQUENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

MAKING COPIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

• USING THE AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT

FEEDER TO MAKE COPIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

• MAKING A COPY USING THE DOCUMENT

GLASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

AUTOMATIC 2-SIDED COPYING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

• USING THE AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT

FEEDER TO MAKE 2-SIDED COPIES . . . . . . . . 15

• AUTOMATIC 2-SIDED COPYING USING THE

DOCUMENT GLASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

COPY COLOUR MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

• SELECTING THE COLOUR MODE . . . . . . . . . . . 21

CHANGING THE EXPOSURE AND EXPOSURE
MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

• AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF THE

EXPOSURE AND EXPOSURE MODE . . . . . . . . 23

• SELECTING THE EXPOSURE MODE AND

MANUALLY ADJUSTING THE EXPOSURE
LEVEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

REDUCTION/ENLARGEMENT/ZOOM . . . . . . . . . . . 26

• AUTOMATIC RATIO SELECTION (Auto

Image) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

• MANUALLY SELECTING THE RATIO (Preset

ratios/Zoom) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

• ENLARGING/REDUCING THE LENGTH AND

WIDTH SEPARATELY (XY Zoom) . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

ORIGINAL SIZES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

• CHECKING THE ORIGINAL SIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
• SPECIFYING THE ORIGINAL SIZE . . . . . . . . . . 35
• STORING FREQUENTLY USED ORIGINAL

SIZES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

OUTPUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

• OUTPUT MODES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

MAKING COPIES USING THE BYPASS TRAY
(Copying on special papers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

INTERRUPTING A COPY RUN (Interrupt copy) . . . 48

JOB STATUS SCREEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

• JOB QUEUE SCREEN AND COMPLETED

JOB SCREEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

• WHEN THE DOCUMENT FILING FUNCTION

IS USED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

CONVENIENT COPY FUNCTIONS

SPECIAL MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

• [Image Edit] KEY AND [Colour Adjustments] KEY. . 57

ADDING MARGINS (Margin Shift) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

ERASING PERIPHERAL SHADOWS (Erase) . . . . . . . . 61

COPYING EACH FACING PAGE OF A BOUND
DOCUMENT (Dual Page Copy). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

MAKING COPIES IN PAMPHLET FORMAT
(Pamphlet Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

COPYING A LARGE NUMBER OF ORIGINALS
AT ONCE (Job Build) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

USING TWO MACHINES TO COPY A LARGE
NUMBER OF ORIGINALS (Tandem Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . 71

USING A DIFFERENT PAPER TYPE FOR
COVERS (Covers/Inserts). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

• INSERTING COVERS IN COPIES (Cover

Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

• INSERTING INSERT SHEETS IN COPIES

(Insert Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

• CHANGING COVER/INSERT SETTINGS

(Page Layout) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

ADDING INSERTS WHEN COPYING ON
TRANSPARENCY FILM (Transparency Inserts) . . . 85

COPYING MULTIPLE PAGES ONTO ONE
SHEET OF PAPER (Multi Shot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

COPYING A PAMPHLET (Book Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . 91

COPYING CAPTIONS ONTO TAB PAPER (Tab
Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

• RELATION BETWEEN THE ORIGINALS AND

THE TAB PAPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

COPYING BOTH SIDES OF A CARD ON ONE
SHEET OF PAPER (Card Shot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

PRINTING THE DATE AND A STAMP ON
COPIES (Stamp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

• ADDING THE DATE TO COPIES (Date) . . . . . . 103
• STAMPING COPIES (Stamp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
• PRINTING PAGE NUMBERS ON COPIES

(Page Numbering) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

• PRINTING TEXT ON COPIES (Text) . . . . . . . . . 116