Lexmark M3150 Tech Note

March 2004
Your Lexmark
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Printer Driver
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Note
Using your printer driver:
creating custom forms
The ability to associate a friendly name with a
group of frequently used, personalized
document settings can be a welcome
timesaver in your printing environment. The
Custom forms feature allows administrators
to save a uniquely-named collection of
document settings that may include:
• paper size.
• paper type.
• watermark selections.
• overlay selections.
• position and placement of watermark
items on the printed page.
• position and placement of overlay
items.
This feature lets you configure your custom
form once and then make it available for
selection, editing, or deletion with the press of
a button. This way, you don't have to manually
select your desired settings every time you
want to use them.
For example, if you print a daily report that
requires a particular paper size, an overlay,
and a watermark, you can make the
appropriate paper size, overlay, and
watermark selections (if supported by your
printer driver's datastream; this will be
covered in a subsequent section) and
associate those settings with a name such as
My_Report. When you select My_Report
from the Paper size drop-down list on the
Paper tab, the configuration you set up is
used when the document prints.
Let's take a look at the individual steps you
need to take in order to configure, save, and
select a custom form for printing. These
methods differ slightly between the PostScript
emulation and PCL emulation driver
datastreams, so they will be listed separately.
Creating a custom form
using the PCL emulation
driver
In Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows
Server 2003, you must be an administrator to
access this feature. To access this feature,
you must open the Printers folder to begin:
1 Open the Printers folder by clicking
Start
à
àà
à Settings à
àà
à Printers.
2 Right-click the printer object, and select
Properties.
3 Click the Forms tab. (See Figure 1.)
4 Click the New… button from the Custom
forms options to display the New Custom
Form dialog box. (See Figure 2 on the
next page.)
5 Enter a name for the new form in the
Custom form name field.
Figure 1

Lexmark M3150 Specifications

General

Color	No
Duplex printing	Yes
Print technology	Laser
Time to first page (black, normal)	6.5 s
Print speed (black, normal quality, A4/US Letter)	47 ppm
Printing colors	Black
Maximum duty cycle	150000 pages per month
Recommended duty cycle	3000 - 16000 pages per month
Number of print cartridges	1
Paper input type	Paper tray
Total input capacity	650 sheets
Total output capacity	250 sheets
Maximum input capacity	2300 sheets
Multi-Purpose tray input capacity	100 sheets
Envelopes sizes	7 3/4, 9, 10, DL
Maximum print size	210 x 297 mm
Paper tray media types	Card stock, Envelopes, Labels, Plain paper, Transparencies
Non-ISO print media sizes	Executive (184 x 267mm), Folio (media size), Letter (media size), Oficio (media size), Statement (140 x 216mm), Legal (media size)
ISO A-series sizes (A0...A9)	A4, A5, A6
JIS B-series sizes (B0...B9)	B5
Maximum ISO A-series paper size	A4
Wi-Fi	-
Mobile printing technologies	Not supported
Standard interfaces	Ethernet, USB 2.0
Optional connectivity	Parallel, Serial (RS-232), Wireless LAN
USB 2.0 ports quantity	3
Processor model	2-Core
Processor frequency	800 MHz
Maximum internal memory	2560 MB
Sound pressure level (printing)	55 dB
Display	LCD
Control type	Touch
Product color	Black, White
Display diagonal	4.3 \
Power consumption (printing)	- W
Sustainability certificates	ENERGY STAR
Operating altitude	0 - 2896 m
Operating temperature (T-T)	16 - 32 °C
Operating relative humidity (H-H)	8 - 80 %

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	396.5 mm
Width	399 mm
Height	306 mm