Navigating the control panel menus

Use the control panel buttons to enter and exit menus, perform functions, or set or change default settings.

1. Press or repeatedly until the function you want is highlighted on the control panel display.

2. Press .

   The menu that matches the function you selected appears.

   Within each of these menus are menu items or submenus. For instance, the Copy Mode menu has a menu item called Color.

   Within each menu item or submenu, there are choices called values. For instance, the Color menu item has values of Color and Black & White.

   • Press or repeatedly to scroll through menu items or submenus.

   • Press or repeatedly to scroll through values.

   • In some menus, you can press to see a preview of the job before you start it. A job could be a print job, copy job, fax job, or scan job. The control panel menu screen indicates when you can press for a preview.

   • Before starting a job, if you want to make a change after you see the preview, press to adjust any choices or settings for this one job. It returns you to the menu so you can make changes. For example, if you were in the Copy Mode menu, press for the preview. Press to return to the Copy Mode menu to make additional changes.

   • Press repeatedly to return to previous menus.

     Pressing in some menus, such as the Change Default Settings menu, causes the values you selected to be saved.

Understanding and using default settings

Saved settings are called user default settings because you, the user, selected the values and saved them. The control panel refers to them as default settings.

Notes:

• An asterisk (*) appears next to a default setting. You may notice this when you scroll through the values in menus.
• Default settings remain in effect until you change them. To change them, access the Setup menu and select Change Default Settings.

If you want to start a job without making any changes, press . The job prints based on the default settings. This is an easy and quick way to start printing any job.

Note:

If you do not want to use the default settings, you can enter the menu, make different choices for the values in the submenus, and then press . Your job starts using the values you chose for the particular job.