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CONVENIENT PRINTER FUNCTIONS

SAVING AND USING PRINT FILES (RETENTION)

This function stores a print job as a file on the machine's memory, allowing the job to be printed from the operation panel when needed. Setting a password (4 to 32 characters, numbers and symbols) when printing from a computer enhances the confidentiality of stored data.
When a password is set, the password must be entered when printing stored data from the machine.

Print data exceeding 1 GB cannot be saved.

Windows

  1. Click the [Job Handling] tab.
  2. Select "Retention".
    3. To enter a password (4 to 32 characters, numbers and symbols), click the [Password] checkbox so that the checkmark appears.

macOS

  1. Select [Job Handling] from the "Printer Options".
    2. In macOS 12 and earlier, select [Job Handling].
  2. Select [Retention].
  3. Select how to save the print data in "Retention".
    4. If necessary, you can enter a password (4 to 32-digit number).

Printing retentioned data

When retention is performed, the touch panel will display the following.

Tap the data you want to print, and the print settings screen appears.
[Delete after Printing] deletes the data after printing. Tap [Change No. of Copies] to change the number of sheets to be printed. To delete the data without printing, tap . After setting, tap the [Start] key.

For data for which a password has been set, the password entry screen will appear before the print settings screen.

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