General Settings menu

Display Language

• English
• Francais
• Deutsch
• Italiano
• Espanol
• Dansk
• Norsk
• Nederlands
• Svenska
• Portuguese
• Suomi
• Russian
• Polski
• Greek
• Magyar
• Turkce
• Cesky
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese
• Korean
• Japanese

Set the language of the text appearing on the display.

Show Supply Estimates

• Show estimates
• Do not show estimates

View the estimates of the supplies on the control panel, Embedded Web Server, menu settings, and device statistics reports.

Eco-Mode

• Off
• Energy
• Energy/Paper
• Paper

Minimize the use of energy, paper, or specialty media.

Note:  Off is the factory default setting. This resets the printer to its factory default settings.

Quiet Mode

• Off
• On

Minimize the printer noise.

Note:  Off is the factory default setting.

Run Initial setup

• Yes
• No

Run the setup wizard.

Paper Sizes

• US
• Metric

Specify the unit of measurement for paper sizes.

Notes:

• US is the factory default setting.
• The initial setting is determined by your country or region selection in the initial setup wizard.

Timeouts

• Sleep Mode
• Disabled
• 1–120

Set the amount of time in minutes the printer waits after a job is printed before it goes into a reduced power state.

Notes:

• 20 is the factory default setting.
• Disabled appears only when Energy Conserve is set to Off.
• The maximum amount of time is increased to 240 minutes when Energy Conserve is set to Off.
• Lower settings conserve more energy, but may require longer warm‑up times.
• Select a high setting if the printer is in constant use. Under most circumstances, this keeps the printer ready to print with minimum warm‑up time.

Timeouts

• Print with Display Off
• Allow printing with display off
• Display on when printing

Print a job with the display turned off.

Note:  Display on when printing is the factory default setting.

Timeouts

• Hibernate Timeout
• Disabled
• 1–3 hours
• 6 hours
• 1–3 days
• 1–2 weeks
• 1 month

Set the amount of time the printer waits before it enters Hibernate mode.

Note:  3 days is the factory default setting.

Timeouts

• Hibernate Timeout on Connection
• Hibernate
• Do Not Hibernate

Set the printer to Hibernate mode even if there is an active Ethernet connection.

Note:  Do Not Hibernate is the factory default setting.

Timeouts

• Screen Timeout
• 15–300

Set the amount of time in seconds before returning the control panel to a Ready state.

Note:  30 is the factory default setting.

Timeouts

• Print Timeout
• Disabled
• 1–255

Set the amount of time in seconds the printer waits to receive an end‑of‑job message before canceling the rest of the job.

Notes:

• 90 is the factory default setting.
• When the timer expires, any partially printed page still in the printer is printed, and then the printer checks to see if any new print jobs are waiting.
• Print Timeout is available only when using PCL emulation. This setting has no effect on PostScript emulation print jobs.

Timeouts

• Wait Timeout
• Disabled
• 15–65535

Set the amount of time in seconds the printer waits for additional data before canceling a print job.

Note:  40 is the factory default setting.

Error Recovery

• Auto Reboot
• Reboot when idle
• Reboot always
• Reboot never
• Max Auto Reboots
• 1–20

Set the printer to restart when an error occurs.

Notes:

• Reboot always is the factory default setting for Auto Reboot.
• 2 is the factory default setting for Max Auto Reboots.

Print Recovery

• Auto Continue
• Disabled
• 5–255

Let the printer automatically continue printing from certain offline situations when these are not resolved within the specified time period.

Note:  Disabled is the factory default setting.

Print Recovery

• Jam Recovery
• On
• Off
• Auto

Specify whether the printer reprints jammed pages.

Note:  Auto is the factory default setting. The printer reprints jammed pages unless the memory required to hold the pages is needed for other printer tasks.

Print Recovery

• Jam Assist
• On
• Off

Set the printer to automatically check for jammed paper.

Notes:

• On is the factory default setting. This sets the printer to automatically dump blank pages or partially printed pages to the standard bin after a jammed page has been cleared.
• Off requires the user to remove all pages from all possible jam locations.

Print Recovery

• Page Protect
• Off
• On

Successfully print a page that may not have printed otherwise.

Notes:

• Off is the factory default setting. This prints a partial page when there is not enough memory to print the whole page.
• On sets the printer to process the whole page so that the entire page prints.

Press Sleep Button

• Do nothing
• Sleep
• Hibernate

Determine how the printer, while in idle state, reacts to a short press of the Sleep button.

Note:  Sleep is the factory default setting.

Press and Hold Sleep Button

• Do nothing
• Sleep
• Hibernate

Determine how the printer, while in idle state, reacts to a long press of the Sleep button.

Note:  Do nothing is the factory default setting.

Factory Defaults

• Do Not Restore
• Restore Now

Use the printer factory default settings except the Network/Ports menu settings.

Notes:

• Do Not Restore is the factory default setting.
• Restore Now deletes all downloads stored in RAM. Downloads stored in the flash memory are not affected.

Custom Home Message

• Off
• IP Address
• Hostname
• Contact Name
• Location
• Zero Configuration Name
• Custom Text 1

Select a custom home message that appears as an alternating display of the printer status.

Note:  Off is the factory default setting.