Understanding and using tray linking

If your printer has the optional Tray 2 installed, there is a feature called tray linking that lets the printer select paper from one tray until it becomes empty, and then automatically begin feeding paper from the other tray. You must load the same size and same type of media in both trays.

When the trays are linked, the printer has a total paper capacity of 300 sheets of plain paper, since Tray 1 and Tray 2 each hold 150 sheets of plain paper.

When you are using tray linking, it is very important that you load the same size and type of paper in both trays. The paper sizes you can load are letter, A4, or legal. You can load plain or photo paper.

Notes:

• If both trays do not have the same type of paper when they are linked, a job could mistakenly print on the wrong paper type.
• Never mix paper sizes or types in a tray.

Enabling tray linking

1. Load Tray 1 and Tray 2 with the same size and type of paper.

2. From the control panel, press or repeatedly until Setup is highlighted.

3. Press .

   The Setup menu appears with Paper Handling highlighted.

4. Press .

   The “Size - Tray 1” menu appears.

5. Press or until you reach the paper size loaded in Tray 1.

6. Press or repeatedly until Type - Tray 1 is highlighted.

7. Press or until you reach the paper type loaded in Tray 1.

   If you want, you can select Auto Detect.

8. Press or repeatedly until Size - Tray 2 is highlighted.

9. Press or until you reach the paper size loaded in Tray 2. The size should be the same as the size loaded into Tray 1.

10. Press or repeatedly until Type - Tray 2 is highlighted.

11. Press or until you reach the paper type loaded in Tray 2. The type should be the same type loaded into Tray 1.

    If you want, you can select Auto Detect.

12. Press or repeatedly until Tray Linking is highlighted.

13. Press or until you reach Auto.

    Tray linking is now set only if you press ; however, you still need to define the default tray for each of the following submenus, so continue with the following steps.

    Note:

    Defining the tray tells the printer which tray it will feed paper from when it prints a copy, photo, print, fax, PictBridge, or Bluetooth job.

14. Press or repeatedly until Copy Source is highlighted.

15. Press or to specify the tray you want as the copy source.

16. Press or repeatedly until Photo Source is highlighted.

17. Press or to specify the tray you want as the photo source.

18. Press or repeatedly until Print Files Source is highlighted.

19. Press or to specify the tray you want as the source for printing files.

20. Press or repeatedly until Fax Source is highlighted.

21. Press or to specify the tray you want as the fax source.

22. Press or repeatedly until PictBridge Source is highlighted.

23. Press or to specify the tray you want as the PictBridge source.

24. Press or repeatedly until Bluetooth Source is highlighted.

25. Press or to specify the tray you want as the Bluetooth source.

26. Press to save the values as settings.

    The message New Default Settings Saved appears.

    The control panel display returns to Setup.

Disabling tray linking

To disable tray linking, set Tray Linking to Off.