Sharp MX-5500N Operating Guide

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS MANUAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

• MANUALS PROVIDED WITH THE MACHINE . . . 5

BEFORE USING THE MACHINE AS A
COPIER

BASE SCREEN OF COPY MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

COPYING SEQUENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

ORIGINALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

• CHECKING THE ORIGINAL SIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

PAPER TRAYS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

BASIC PROCEDURE FOR MAKING
COPIES

MAKING COPIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

• USING THE AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT

FEEDER TO MAKE COPIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

• MAKING A COPY USING THE DOCUMENT

GLASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

AUTOMATIC 2-SIDED COPYING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

• USING THE AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT

FEEDER TO MAKE 2-SIDED COPIES . . . . . . . . 19

• AUTOMATIC 2-SIDED COPYING USING THE

DOCUMENT GLASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

COPY COLOR MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

CHANGING THE EXPOSURE AND ORIGINAL
IMAGE TYPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

• AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF THE

EXPOSURE AND ORIGINAL TYPE . . . . . . . . . . 26

• SELECTING THE ORIGINAL TYPE AND

MANUALLY ADJUSTING THE EXPOSURE . . . . 26

REDUCTION/ENLARGEMENT/ZOOM . . . . . . . . . . . 28

• AUTOMATIC RATIO SELECTION (Auto

Image) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

• MANUALLY SELECTING THE RATIO (Preset

ratios/Zoom) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

• ENLARGING/REDUCING THE LENGTH AND

WIDTH SEPARATELY (XY Zoom) . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

ORIGINAL SIZES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

• SPECIFYING THE ORIGINAL SIZE . . . . . . . . . . 32

• STORING FREQUENTLY USED ORIGINAL

SIZES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

OUTPUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

• OUTPUT MODES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

MAKING COPIES USING THE BYPASS TRAY . . . . 41

SPECIAL MODES

SPECIAL MODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

ADDING MARGINS (Margin Shift) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

ERASING PERIPHERAL SHADOWS (Erase) . . . . . . . 49

COPYING EACH FACING PAGE OF A BOUND
DOCUMENT (Dual Page Copy). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

MAKING COPIES IN PAMPHLET FORMAT
(Pamphlet Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

COPYING A LARGE NUMBER OF ORIGINALS
AT ONCE (Job Build) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

USING TWO MACHINES TO MAKE A LARGE
NUMBER OF COPIES (Tandem Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

USING A DIFFERENT PAPER TYPE FOR
COVERS (Covers/Inserts). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

• INSERTING COVERS IN COPIES (Cover

Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

• INSERTING INSERT SHEETS IN COPIES

(Insert Settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

• CHANGING COVER/INSERT SETTINGS

(Page Layout) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

ADDING INSERTS WHEN COPYING ON
TRANSPARENCY FILM (Transparency Inserts) . . . 72

COPYING MULTIPLE ORIGINALS ONTO ONE
SHEET (Multi Shot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

COPYING A PAMPHLET (Book Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . 76

COPYING CAPTIONS ONTO TAB PAPER (Tab
Copy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

• RELATION BETWEEN THE ORIGINALS AND

THE TAB PAPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

COPYING BOTH SIDES OF A CARD ON ONE
SHEET OF PAPER (Card Shot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

PRINTING THE DATE AND A STAMP ON
COPIES (Stamp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

• GENERAL PROCEDURE FOR USING

STAMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

• ADDING THE DATE TO COPIES (Date) . . . . . . . 90

• STAMPING COPIES (Stamp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

• PRINTING PAGE NUMBERS ON COPIES

(Page Numbering) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

• PRINTING TEXT ON COPIES (Text) . . . . . . . . . . 98

• CHECKING THE STAMP LAYOUT (Layout) . . . 102