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Introduction
Congratulations on the purchase of your printer!
This chapter includes:
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Special features
Your new printer is equipped with several special features that improve
the print quality. You can:
Print with excellent quality and high speed
• You can print up to
1200 x 1200 dpi
effective
output. See the
Software Section
.
• Your printer prints A4-sized paper at up to 28 ppm
a
and letter-sized paper at up to 30 ppm. If you use
the ML-3051ND, for duplex printing, your printer
prints A4-sized paper at up to 19 ipm
b
and letter-
sized paper at up to 21 ipm.
a. pages per minute
b. images per minute
Handle paper flexibly
• The multi-purpose tray supports letterheads,
envelopes, labels, transparencies, custom-sized
materials, postcards, and heavy paper. The multi-
purpose tray holds up to 50 sheets of plain paper.
• The
250-sheet
tray 1 and
250-sheet
optional tray 2
support plain paper in various sizes.
• Two output tray; select either the output tray (face-
down) or the rear cover (face-up) for the most
convenient access.
•
Straight-through paper path
capability from the
multi-purpose tray to the rear cover.
Create professional documents
• Print
Watermarks
. You can customize your
documents with words, such as “Confidential.” See
the
Software
Section
.
• Print
Booklets
. This feature enables you to easily
print a document to create a book. Once printed, all
you have to do is fold and staple the pages. See the
Software Section
.
• Print
Posters
. The text and pictures of each page of
your document are magnified and printed across
the sheet of paper and can then be taped together
to form a poster. See the
Software Section
.
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Save time and money
• This printer allows you to use toner save mode to
• You can print on both sides of the paper to save
paper (
double-sided printing
) if you use the ML-
3051ND.
• You can print multiple pages on a single sheet of
paper to save paper (
2-Up printing
). See the
Software Section
.
• You can use preprinted forms and letterhead with
plain paper. See the
Software Section
.
• This printer automatically
conserves electricity
by substantially reducing power consumption
when not in use.
Expand the printer capacity
• The ML-3050 has 16 MB of memory which can be
expanded to
272 MB
. The ML-3051N or ML-
3051ND has 64 MB of memory which can be
expanded to
320 MB
• A
Network interface
enables network printing.
• You can also add an optional wireless network
interface card to the ML-3051N and ML-3051ND.
• You can add a 250-sheet optional tray 2 to your
printer. This tray lets you add paper to the printer
less often.
• A PostScript 3 Emulation* (PS) enables PS
printing (ML-3051N, ML-3051ND).
* Zoran IPS Emulation compatible with PostScript 3
• © Copyright 1995-2005, Zoran Corporation.
All rights reserved. Zoran, the Zoran logo,
IPS/PS3 and OneImage are trademarks of
Zoran Corporation.
* 136 PS3 fonts
• Contains UFST and MicroType from Monotype Imaging Inc.
Print in various environments
• You can print in
Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003
.
• Your printer is compatible with
Linux
and
Macintosh
.
• Your printer comes with both
Parallel
and
USB
interfaces.
• You can also use a
network interface
. The ML-3051N and
ML-
3051ND come with a built-in network interface, 10/100 Base TX.