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Before You Start
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Features and Benefits
■ Energy Saving
The on-demand fusing technology of the printer provides improved energy efficiency.
Because of this power saving feature, the printer meets the guidelines for the International
Energy Star Program.
■ Reducing Toner Consumption
To save toner, you can select toner save to print rough drafts using less toner. The printed
page is much lighter, similar to the toner save mode found on many dot matrix printers.
■ Interface Features
The printer uses a USB port that supports Microsoft Plug & Play technology. It also comes
with a print server as standard, being used as a network printer for Ethernet.
■ Typefaces
The printer comes with 80 scalable typefaces in 27 typeface families (Agfa 80 MicroType
fonts), all compatible with application software supporting Microsoft Windows. In addition,
10 bitmapped typefaces of the Line Printer family are also included. The printer uses the
Universal Font Scaling Technology (UFST) for outline fonts, provided under license from
Agfa Monotype Corporation. 31 TrueType screen fonts are also included along with Canon
Font Manager for easy management of installed fonts in Microsoft Windows 98/Me and
Windows NT/2000/XP.
■ Printer Drivers and Utilities
LBP3460 is provided with the printer driver for PCL 5e/PCL 6 that supports Windows 98/
Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista and UFR II Printer Driver that supports Windows
2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista and Mac OS X, allowing you to print from a various kinds of
system environment.
Also, NetSpot Device Installer supplied with LBP3460 simplifies the management and
settings of the printer on a network environment.
■ Remote UI Support
The printer supports a Remote UI function that allows you to control or monitor the status
of the printer from a computer. (See the Remote UI Guide.)