
Getting to Know the Printer
About Your Printer 1-7
About Your
Printer
Front and Right Side of the Printer
In Figure 1-3, starting at the Control Panel at the top left and reading clockwise, refer to the
following points of interest.
• Control Panel: Consists of function buttons and a liquid crystal display (also referred to
as the LCD panel) that presents messages about printer activity.
• Screen contrast control: Allows you to adjust the contrast of the display.
• Ejection unit: Deposits paper to the output tray.
• Standby switch: Powers the printer on and off.
• Output tray: Holds printed pages.
• Upper right cover: Provides access to add toner and developer.
• Lower right cover: Provides access to the paper path (for jam clearing) from the paper
trays.
• Paper indicators: Provide a visual gauge for the size and relative amount of paper in each
tray.
• Main power switch: Applies line voltage to the printer.
• Trays 1, 2, and 3: These are the input paper trays for standard size media. You can also
obtain and install optional adjustable custom trays that hold custom (or standard) sizes of
paper.
• Front door: Provides access to the printer’s interior.
• Front cover: Provides access to the printer’s floppy disk drive for installing PostScript
and PCL code updates.