Panasonic KXPS8000 Operating instructions

Utilities and Drivers

Model No. KX-PS8000

Reference Guide

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This manual explains how to use the Digital Duplicator Utility, Scanner and Printer features.

It consists of three parts:

■ Part 1 Digital Duplicator Utility (

☞

P.3)

This part explains how to use the Digital Duplicator Utility, which lets you adjust the appearance of your

document before duplicating. For example, you can enlarge or reduce the size of the image, change the color,

or select an area. This utility also provides a variety of duplicating functions.

■ Part 2 Scanner Function (

☞

P.65)

This part explains how to use the scanner driver, which lets you adjust the appearance of your document

before scanning. For example, you can enlarge or reduce the size of the image, change the contrast or

brightness, or perform other enhancement selections to improve the final image, making it better than the

original.

■ Part 3 Printer Function (

☞

P.97)

This part explains how to use the print features through the printer drivers (Windows® 95

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/ Windows 3.1

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2

/

Windows NT® 4.0

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3

).

■ Appendix (

☞

P.134)

This section consists of Troubleshooting (

☞

P.135), Print Quality and Required Memory (

☞

P.150) and

Index (

☞

P.152).

Introduction

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All other acknowledgements are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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Microsoft® Windows® 95 operating system (hereafter Windows 95)

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Microsoft® Windows® operating system Version 3.1 (hereafter Windows 3.1)

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Microsoft® Windows NT® Workstation operating system, and Microsoft® Windows NT® Server network

operating system Version 4.0 (hereafter Windows NT 4.0)

It is granted from Microsoft Corporation to use Microsoft® Windows® Screen Shot(s).

Any details given in this manual are subject to change without notice.

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Digital Duplicator
Utility
Displaying the Digital Duplicator Utility Window . . . . . . . . . . 5
Names and Functions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Option Buttons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using the Print Preview Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Reducing or Enlarging the Output (Zoom) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Displaying the Zoom Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Changing the Zoom Value  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Printing an Enlarged Image on Multiple Pages . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Shifting an Image  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Displaying the Shift Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Background Reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Selecting Print Quality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Creating a Mirror/Negative Image  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Creating a Mirror Image  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Creating a Negative Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Double Side Printing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Saving, Loading or Deleting a Setting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Saving the Current Settings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Loading a Saved Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Deleting a Setting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Changing the Unit of Measurement (mm or inch)  . . . . . . . . . 38
Enabling Jam Recovery ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Digital
Duplicator 
Utility Window
Overview
Table of Contents

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Adjusting the Overall Color of an Image  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Adjusting a Specific Color of an Image  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Modifying Color Data  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Deleting the Stored Color Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Area Duplicate Function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Displaying the Area Duplicate Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Pasting an Area of an Image in the Layout Box  . . . . . . . . . . 51
Moving a Selection Area in the Original Box  . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Resizing a Selection Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Canceling a Selection Area  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Moving an Image in the Layout Box  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Resizing an Image in the Layout Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Creating a Mirror or Negative Image in the Layout Box . . . . 59
Creating Multiple Images in the Layout Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Duplicating an Image in the Layout Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Enlarging an Image to Fit on Paper  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Deleting an Image in the Layout Box  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Area Duplicate
Adjusting 
Colors
Table of Contents

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Digital Duplicator Utility Window

Overview

To display the Digital Duplicator Utility main window, perform either of the following

steps.

■

For Windows 95 / Windows NT 4.0

Click Start .

Select Programs, select KX-PS8000 Utilities then click Digital

Duplicator Utility.

The Digital Duplicator Utility main window appears.

■

For Windows 3.1

From the Program Manager, double-click the

KX-PS8000 Utilities

icon.

Double-click the

Digital Duplicator Utility

icon.

The Digital Duplicator Utility main window appears.

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2

Displaying the Digital Duplicator Utility Window

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2

No. Name Function

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1

Displays the status of the printer and the scanner.

Ready will be displayed when you open the main

window. If not, refer to Troubleshooting (

☞

P. 135).

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

Names and Functions

Status display

Displays the zoom value currently set. When the

zoom values of the height and the width are the

same, one value is displayed. If they are different, two

values such as 100 x 50% are displayed.

Clicking on the displayed zoom value opens the

Zoom window (

☞

P. 15).

Zoom Value

display

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13

16

15

14

9

11

10

8

3

6

7

5

4

2

1

18

12

19

17

Page Mode

No. Name Function

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7

Printing density can be adjusted by clicking

H

or

M

or by pressing + or – keys on the keyboard.

Note: If the Color Adjustment functions ( , )

are used, you cannot adjust the density.

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

7 Density

8

To open or close the option buttons (

☞

P. 9) click

G

Option , or press the Page up key on the

keyboard.

Option tab

(

G

Option )

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Tray Selection

button

( )

Allows you to select an installed tray by clicking this

button or by pressing F12 on the keyboard. The

indicator of the selected tray will be illuminated in the

tray display (

☞

No. 19).

Paper Size

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Allows you to select a media type loaded in the multi-

purpose tray by clicking

G

. This is effective only

when the multi-purpose tray is selected. Plain Paper,

Transparency, Label, Coated paper or Paper 2nd

Side can be selected.

Media Type

Allows you to select a paper size loaded in the multi-

purpose tray by clicking

G

, or displays the paper size

of the selected media tray. This is effective only when

the multi-purpose tray is selected. Letter, Legal or A4

can be selected.

Used to select an image type from the following

selection.

B

Color Printed Photo:

Select for color printed materials such as a

catalog.

B

Color Glossy Photo:

Select for color photos such as a glossy

photo.

B

B/W Text:

Select for text.

The monochrome color is selected in the

Monochrome Color (

☞

No. 18).

B

B/W Halftone, Photo:

Select for monochrome Photo or halftone

original. The monochrome color is selected

in the

Monochrome Color (

☞

No. 18).

The image can be viewed in the Print Preview

window

(

☞

P. 11).

Original Image

Type

9

Allows you to select a page mode by clicking

G

.

B

All page- All documents will be duplicated.

B

Even page

S

- Only even pages will be duplicated.

B

Odd page

S

- Only odd pages will be duplicated.

This function is used for double side printing

(

☞

P. 31)

S

When Even page or Odd page is selected, the

Output Order selection (

☞

No. 10) is not effective

and the documents are automatically printed face

up.

Stops printing by clicking .

Starts printing by clicking or by pressing the S

key on the keyboard. It is also used to resume

printing after loading media, or after clearing a media

jam when the Jam Recovery ON is selected

(

☞

P. 39).

When the Energy Star is set to ON if the printer is idle

for 30 minutes, the printer will enter the Sleep Mode.

The status display in the Digital Duplicator Utility

window shows the message Ready (Sleep). While

the printer is in the Sleep Mode, a document cannot

be duplicated. To release the Sleep Mode, click the

Start button ( ). The message Ready will appear

in the status display.

No. Name Function

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Specifies whether your document prints face up or

face down in the printer’s output tray by clicking

G

.

Note: This selection is not effective when the MPT

(Multi-Purpose Tray) is selected. When the

MPT is selected, Face up is automatically

selected.

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18

Displays the status of the selected tray. If the

selected tray has paper installed, the green indicator

will be illuminated. Otherwise, the red indicator will be

illuminated.

Tray display

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

Numeric keypad17

Used to enter the number of duplicates (1-999).

Clicking or pressing C key on the keyboard

resets the duplicate count to 1.

Output Order

C

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Start button

( )

Monochrome

Color

Used to select a monochrome color from Black,

Yellow, Magenta or Cyan by clicking

G

. This is

effective when B/W Text or B/W Halftone, Photo is

selected in the Original Image Type (

☞

No. 3).

13

Resets all settings to default settings by clicking

or by pressing the Home key on the keyboard. If you

press while printing, the printer stops printing.

Reset button

( )

B/W Text Start

button

( )

14

Clicking or pressing the Ctrl + S keys on the

keyboard forces a document to print in black and

white regardless of the color settings.

Note: When the B/W Text is selected in the Original

Image Type (

☞

No. 3) and Black is selected

in the Monochrome Color (

☞

No. 18),

pressing the Start button ( ) prints a

document in black and white.

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Stop button

( )

11 Views the help information by clicking Help .

Help button

( Help )

12

Exits the Digital Duplicator Utility window by

clicking Exit .

Exit button

( Exit )

No. Button Name
Function
9
Various options for editing an image can be selected by clicking G Option . The
following option buttons appear. 
To close the option buttons, click F Option .
Option Buttons
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3
2
4
Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview
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8
9
10
11
12
Creates a mirror image of the original
( 
☞
P.29).
B
To return to the original, click this
button.
6
Reduces the visibility of a reverse side
print and can reduce background stains
( 
☞
P.25).
Background
Reduction button
7
Changes the resolution setting 
( 
☞
P.27).
Quality button
8
Mirror button
9
Creates a negative image of the original
( 
☞
P.30).
B
To return to the original, click this
button.
Negative/Positive
button
1
Adjusts the overall color of an image
( 
☞
P.40).
Color Adjust
Entire Image
button
2
Adjusts a specific color of an image
( 
☞
P.42).
Color Adjust
Specific Point
button
3
Allows you to select and edit an area of
an image ( 
☞
P.48).
Area Duplicate
button
4
Enlarges or reduces an image ( 
☞
P.15).Zoom button
5
Shifts an image ( 
☞
P.23).Shift button
10
Saves, loads, or deletes the settings
made in this utility ( 
☞
P.33).
Memorize
Settings button
Indicators

No. Button Name

Function

10

Print Preview

button

Allows you to preview the print image by

clicking this button, or by pressing the

Page down key. The Print Preview

window also shows immediately how

your changes affect the image

(

☞

P. 11).

11

Used to select a unit of measurement

(inch or mm) (

☞

P. 38) and enable or

disable the Jam Recovery function

(

☞

P. 39).

Other Settings

button

12

Digital Duplicator Utility Window Overview

■ Indicators

When an option button indicator is illuminated, it indicates that the default setting

has been changed.

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Make sure that your document has been inserted in the ADF tray or placed on the

scanner glass.

Click

G

Option .

The option buttons appear.

Click the Print Preview button ( ).

The scanner starts prescanning the document. During prescanning the

document the Scanning Progress window appears, then the prescanned

image appears in the Print Preview window.

Basic Tasks

Using the Print Preview Window

The Print Preview window allows you to preview the print image of the document.

Before sending it to the printer, all adjustments are shown immediately.

It is helpful to open this window when you adjust an image using Zoom, Shift, Mirror

or Negative/Positive functions.

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Note:

BThe Print Preview will not automatically prescan documents if a

document has already been prescanned. To represcan your

document, click the Prescan button ( ) in the Print Preview

window

.

When the Prescan button is pressed, the Area Duplicate and Color

adjustment settings will be reset to the default settings.

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Basic Tasks

#

Prescan button

Prescans a document and resets the Area Duplicate and the Color

Adjustment settings to the default settings.

If a document is duplicated from the ADF tray, the document is fed out

completely. However, if a document is prescanned from the ADF tray but

not duplicated, it will remain in the ADF tray. To eject the document, press

the Feed Out button (

☞

$

).

$

Feed Out button

Ejects the document that remains in the ADF tray.

%

Preview Zoom

Sets the zoom value (100, 75, 50 and 30%) of the displayed image in the

Print Preview window.

&

Close button

Closes the Print Preview window.

'

Help button

Displays help information on the Print Preview window.

#

$

'

&

%

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■ Changing the size of the Print Preview window

Position the cursor on the edge of the window until the mouse pointer changes

into a double-ended arrow, press and hold the mouse button, then drag.

Reduced window

Enlarged window

Basic Tasks

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■ Simultaneously viewing the enlarged and divided

image

When the Segment is selected for the enlarged image (

☞

P.19), the divided

multiple images will be displayed in the Print Preview window.

To view them simultaneously, select the smaller zoom value by clicking ▼ of the

Preview Zoom.

Basic Tasks

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Click

G

Option .

The option buttons appear.

Click the Zoom button ( ).

The Zoom window appears.

The zoom function reduces or enlarges the output on the printed page. For your

convenience, open the Print Preview window to view changes to your image.

Basic Tasks

Reducing or Enlarging the Output (Zoom)

Displaying the Zoom Window

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2

(

%

&

'

#

$

#

Zoom Value box

Displays the current zoom value. It also allows you to select a zoom value

by clicking

G

(

☞

P. 17). Choosing a selection maintains the proportional

relationship of the height and width of an image.

$

Width Zoom Value box

Set the zoom value of the width by clicking

F

or

G

.

Note:

BWhen using the ADF tray, you cannot print an image enlarged

more than 100%.

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Basic Tasks

%

Height Zoom Value box

Set the zoom value of the height by clicking

F

or

G

.

&

W-H Uniform

Clicking on this check box allows you to set height and width

simultaneously by entering zoom value in either of their box. To set them

independently, click off this check box.

'

Segment

Divides the enlarged image. (

☞

P. 19)

(

Default button

Resets the settings to the default settings.

Selections FunctionZoom value

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100%

Duplicates an entire letter size document on A4

size paper.

Basic Tasks

Changing the Zoom Value

Change the zoom value by selecting an option from the Zoom Value box or by

entering it in the Width or Height Zoom Value box.

■ Using the Zoom Value box

Click

G

of the Zoom Value box.

The zoom value selections appear (

☞

table below).

Click the desired selection.

The selected zoom value will be displayed in the Zoom Value, Width Zoom

Value and Height Zoom Value boxes. You can see the result of the selection in

the Print Preview window.

Click OK to make the selection effective.

The Zoom window is closed.

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2

400%

300%

200%

50%

Custom

A5->A4 (fit)

A4->A4 (fit)

A4->Letter (fit)

Letter->Letter (fit)

Letter->A4 (fit)

Letter ->Legal (fit)

Legal->Legal (fit)

100%

Duplicates the same size as the original.

If the document size is the same as paper size,

the edges of the document will not be printed.

Duplicates 4 times the original.

Duplicates 3 times the original.

Duplicates twice the original.

Duplicates at 50% of the original.

This option is automatically selected when the

zoom value of width and height are set using the

Width or Height Zoom Value box.

Enlarges to fit the A5 size document on A4 size

paper.

Duplicates an entire A4 size document on A4 size

paper.

Duplicates an entire A4 size document on Letter

size paper.

Duplicates an entire letter size document on Letter

size paper.

Duplicates an entire letter size document on Legal

size paper.

Duplicates an entire Legal size document on Legal

size paper.

400%

300%

200%

50%

—

135%

95%

90%

96%

92%

96%

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■ Using the Width / Height Zoom Value boxes

Enter the zoom value in either the Width or Height Zoom Value

box by clicking

F

or

G

.

You can see the result of the selection in the Print Preview window.

B

To set each value independently, click off the W-H Uniform check box.

Click OK to make the selection effective.

The Zoom window is closed.

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Basic Tasks

F : increases the number of the zoom value (maximum 400%).

G : reduces the number of the zoom value (minimum 20%).

Holding down the mouse sequentially changes the zoom value.

Note:

BThe zoom value range available in the Digital Duplicator Utility is

from 20 to 400% . If you have used 200% for Area Duplicate

function (

☞

P.57), you can set the percentage up to 200%.

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Height Zoom Value box

Width

Zoom

Value

box

Output

size

Paper

size

(Example: 70%)

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Basic Tasks

Printing an Enlarged Image on Multiple Pages

You can enlarge the image and print it on multiple pages. Each divided image

overlaps 0.5 inch.

Note:

BThe ADF tray cannot be used when performing a multi-page print.

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■ Example: Enlarging a Letter size document to 140% and printing it on

multiple pages

Click

G

Option .

The option buttons appear.

Click the Zoom button ( ).

The Zoom window appears.

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