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Chapter 4. Paper Handling
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Selecting Paper and Other Printable Material
© Copyright IBM Corp. 1998, 1999
This chapter describes how to:
v Select print media
v Load print media into the following:
– 500-sheet A4/Letter tray
– 500-sheet A3/Ledger (11 x 17) tray
– 150-sheet auxiliary tray
– Envelope tray
– 2000-Sheet Input Drawer
v Use the Paper Menu to turn tray switching on or off, or to specify default trays
and paper sizes for your printer.
Notes:
1. Printer menus refer to trays as follows:
v Tray 1 is the standard 500-sheet input tray. 500-sheet trays can be A4/Letter
size or A3/Ledger (11 x 17) size.
v Tray 2 and Tray 3 are optional input trays; you can install one or two
additional 500-sheet trays, one additional 500-sheet tray and the 2000-Sheet
Input Drawer, or just the 2000-Sheet Input Drawer. If you install one
additional tray, it is Tray 2. If you install two additional trays, the middle tray is
Tray 2 and the lower tray is Tray 3. The 2000-Sheet Input Drawer must be
the lowest tray.
v AUXTRAY is the flip-down tray in the front of the printer.
v If you replace a paper tray with an envelope tray, the printer refers to the
envelope tray as Tray 1, Tray 2, or Tray 3, depending on which paper tray the
envelope tray replaces.
2. Values specified in your print jobs normally override defaults set at the printer.
For example, if a print job requests the main paper tray (Tray 1), the printer will
use the main paper tray, even if the default tray is set to something else.
3. If the TRAY SWITCH item in the Paper Menu is ON, the printer automatically
looks for the correct paper in another tray when the current tray is empty. The
printer automatically looks in other trays when the specified tray contains the
wrong size of paper. See "Turning Tray Switching On or Off" on page 48.
Important
Please use print materials that conform to the specifications listed in the
following sections. Using non-conforming print materials can decrease page
yield, cause jams, and damage your printer.
The following sections contain information about selecting print materials, including:
v "Selecting Labels and Transparencies" on page 26
v "Auxiliary Tray Paper Specifications" on page 27
v "A4/Letter Tray Paper Specifications" on page 28
v "A3/Ledger (11 x 17) Tray Paper Specifications" on page 29
v "Envelope Tray Paper Specifications" on page 29
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