Supplied software, Printer driver features, Printer driver – Dell 2145cn Multifunction Color Laser Printer User Manual
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Introduction
SUPPLIED SOFTWARE
You must install the printer and scanner software using the supplied Drivers
and Utiltiies CD after you have set up your printer and connected it to your
computer. The CD provides you with the following software.
PRINTER DRIVER FEATURES
Your printer drivers support the following standard features:
•
Paper orientation, size, source and media type selection
•
Number of copies
In addition, you can use various special printing features. The following
table shows a general overview of features supported by your printer
drivers:
Printer driver
PostScript driver
CD
CONTENTS
Printer
software CD
Windows
•
Printer driver: Use this driver to take full
advantage of your printer’s features.
•
Postscript Printer Description (PPD) file:
Use the PostScript driver to print documents
with complex fonts and graphics in the PS
language.
•
Scanner driver: TWAIN and Windows
Image Acquisition (WIA) drivers are
available for scanning documents on your
printer.
•
Scan Manager: You can find out about
Scan Manager program information and
installed scan driver's condition.
•
Dell Toner Management System
TM
:
Displays the status of the printer and the
name of the job when send a job to print.
The Dell Toner Management System
TM
window also displays the level of toner
remaining and allows you to order
replacement toner cartridges.
•
Status Monitor: This program allows you to
monitor the printer’s status and alerts you
when an error occurs during printing.
•
SmarThru Office
a
: This is the
accompanying Windows-based software for
your multifunctional printer.
•
Printer Setting Utility: This program allows
you to set up printer’s other options from
your computer desktop.
•
Firmware Update Utility: This program
helps you to update printer’s firmware.
•
SetIP: Use this program to set your printer’s
TCP/IP addresses.
a. Allows you to edit a scanned image in many ways using a powerful image
editor and to send the image by email. You can also open another image
editor program, like Adobe
®
Photoshop
®
, from SmarThru. For details, refer
to the onscreen help supplied on the SmarThru program.
Linux
•
Postscript Printer Description (PPD)
file: Use this file to run your printer from a
Linux computer and print documents.
•
SANE: Use this driver to scan documents.
•
Printer Setting Utility: This program allows
you to set up printer’s other options from
your computer desktop.
Macintosh •
Printer driver: Use this driver to take full
advantage of your printer’s features.
•
Postscript Printer Description (PPD)
file: Use this file to run your printer from a
Macintosh computer and print documents.
•
Scanner driver: TWAIN driver is
available for scanning documents on your
printer.
•
Printer Setting Utility: This program allows
you to set up printer’s other options from
your computer desktop.
FEATURE
WINDOWS
LINUX
MACINTOSH
Color mode
O
O
O
Printer quality option
O
O
O
Poster printing
O
X
X
Multiple pages per sheet
(N-up)
O
O (2, 4)
O
Fit to page printing
O
X
O
a
a. This feature is not supported MAC OS X 10.3.
Scale printing
O
X
O
Different source for first
page
O
X
O
Watermark
O
X
X
Overlay
O
X
X
Duplex
O
X
O
FEATURE
WINDOWS
LINUX
MACINTOSH
Color mode
O
O
O
Printer quality option
O
O
O
Poster printing
X
X
X
Multiple pages per sheet
(N-up)
O
O (2, 4)
O
Fit to page printing
O
X
O
a
a. This feature is not supported MAC OS X 10.3.
Scale printing
O
X
O
Different source for first
page
X
X
O
Watermark
X
X
X
Overlay
X
X
X
Duplex
O
X
O