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Turning on/off Printer Automatically

You can enable the printer to turn on/off automatically considering the environment

Turning on Printer Automatically

You can enable the printer to turn on automatically when you perform printing or scanning operations from the computer.

  1. Make sure that the printer is turned on.

  2. Press and hold the Stop button until the Alarm lamp flashes 14 times.

  3. Release the Stop button.

  4. Press the Color button.

    To disable the function, press the Black button in step 4.

    Note

    • You can select whether you turn the printer on automatically from the operation panel of the printer, the printer driver, or ScanGear (scanner driver). No matter how you set the quiet mode, the mode is applied when you perform printing or scanning operations from the computer.

Turning off Printer Automatically

You can enable the printer to turn off automatically when no operation is made or no printing data is sent to the printer for a specified period of time.

  1. Make sure that the printer is turned on.

  2. Press and hold the Stop button until the Alarm lamp flashes 13 times.

  3. Release the Stop button.

  4. Press the Color button.

    To disable the function, press the Black button in step 4.

    Note

    • You can select whether you turn off the printer automatically from the operation panel of the printer, the printer driver, or ScanGear (scanner driver). From the printer driver or ScanGear (scanner driver), you can specify the time before turning off the printer.