User's Manual

4-4 Problem Solving
Microsoft Applications
Excel
 To change the job type options for any individual document, you must set the job type from within
Microsoft Excel (Page Setup dialog). Job type changes for an individual document will not take
effect if you invoke the CentreWare printer driver from the Printers folder.
 Excel will generate multiple print jobs instead of multiple copies of a single document. This
behavior can result in performance degradation, as well as inoperability of features, such as Sample
Set, which depend on multiple set printing. In Excel, deselect the Collate option. This allows the
driver settings to collate correctly.
 Excel may have occasional problems with documents that contain a mix of portrait and landscape
pages. Selecting a different printer driver, then reselecting the original printer driver may help to
resolve this problem.
PowerPoint
The Microsoft PowerPoint feature that optimizes black and white printing will produce undesired results
when Raster output is selected as the Graphics Mode in the CentreWare PCL printer driver. Do not
choose the black and white option in PowerPoint if Raster output is required.
PCL Printer Driver
Raster Mode
Use the PCL Raster Mode option to print the following document types with the PCL5c printer driver:
 Web pages with animated images
 Printing Corel Draw documents. Corel Draw may generate an excessive number of Vector
commands, which may result in large amounts of processing time for each job.
Print Colored Text in Black
This feature may not work with some applications, or you may have to select the option from within the
application if it is supported. Certain applications, such as WordPerfect and MS Publisher, always print
text as graphics or may default to the graphics mode when memory is low or when the text is very
complex. When these circumstances occur, the Print Colored Text in Black feature in the CentreWare
PCL printer drivers will not work.
Watermarks
The Watermark preview image in the printer drivers may not provide an exact replica of the printed
watermark under all conditions. This is primarily due to font and/or resolution differences between the
display monitor and the printer. Using equivalent TrueType fonts instead of printer resident fonts will
help minimize the differences.
With some applications, the CentreWare PCL drivers may appear to print watermarks in the foreground
even when the background printing option is selected in the driver. This is due to the different methods
that applications use to send data to the printer.