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Maintaining Your Printer
Periodically, your printer requires you to complete certain tasks to maintain optimum print quality. If several people
are using the printer, you may want to designate a key operator to maintain your printer. Refer printing problems and
maintenance tasks to this key operator.
NOTE: The images used in this manual are those of the Dell™ C1760nw Color Printer unless otherwise mentioned.
Determining the Status of Supplies
If your printer is connected to the network, the Dell Printer Configuration Web Tool can provide instant feedback
on remaining toner levels. Type the IP address of your printer in your web browser to view this information. To use
the E-Mail Alert feature that notifies you when the printer requires new supplies, type your name or the name of the
key operator in the e-mail list box.
On the operator panel, you can also confirm the following:
• Any supply or maintenance items that require attention replacing (However, the printer can only display
information about one item at a time).
• Amount of toner remaining in each toner cartridge.
Conserving Supplies
You can change several settings in your printer driver to conserve toner cartridge and paper.
Storing Print Media
To avoid potential paper feeding problems and uneven print quality, you need to consider the following points:
• To achieve the best possible print quality, store print media in an environment where the temperature is
approximately 21°C (70°F) and the relative humidity is 40%.
• Store cartons of print media on a pallet or shelf, rather than directly on the floor.
• If you store individual packages of print media out of the original carton, ensure that they rest on a flat surface so
the edges do not buckle or curl.
• Do not place anything on top of the print media packages.
Supply Setting Function
Toner cartridge Toner Saver in the
Others tab of the printer
driver
This drop-down menu allows the users to select a print mode that uses less toner.
When this feature is used, the image quality will be lower than when it is not
used.
Print media Multiple Up in the
Layout tab of the printer
driver
The printer prints two or more pages on one side of a sheet. The available
numbers that each printer driver can print one sheet of paper are as follows:
• Printer driver for Microsoft
®
Windows
®
: 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32 pages
• Printer driver for Macintosh: 2, 4, 6, 9, or 16 pages
Combined with the duplex setting, Multiple Up allows you to print up to 64
pages on one sheet of paper. (32 images on the front and 32 on the back)