AR-C170 (serv.man31). Printer controller section - Sharp Copying Equipment Service Manual (repair manual). Page 4

AR-C170M  PRINTER CONTROLLER SECTION  14 - 4

*1: When OS is set as Inch system: displayed as “12 x 18”.

Showing of Status, Job End Notification (NJR v2.0), Auto
Configuration, Get Tray Status, Printing start notification * It
means that the driver sends notification of print start to Smon.

∗

Heavy Paper-1 is 106 – 200g/m

2

 (28 + lbs – 54 lbs) paper and

Heavy Paper-2 is 201 – 300g/m

2

. (54+lbs – 80 lbs)

∗

The number of selectable paper cassettes varies with model of
paper stand installed.

a) If the printer is kept waiting, the engine keep processing the

job as far as the memory has space.

When the memory has become full, the process is suspended.

b) Even if the memory has space, the engine does not process

next job. But the data reception is available.

✕

: 4-bit print disabled with the standard memory. (No selection allowed in the driver menu.)

❍

: Some data cannot be printed.

∗

Optional PS3 Expansion kit needs 256MB x 2 (512MB) memory.

Job 
Control

Normal Print

Yes

Hold After Print

Yes

Hold Before Print Yes
Sample Print

Yes

PIN

Yes

Account Control

Yes

Others

Fit to Page

On/Off

Overlays

Yes

Watermarks

Yes

Page Protection

On/Off

Save User 
Settings

Yes

Auto 
Configuration

Yes

Update Tray 
Status

Yes

Printer status 
check at the time 
of print

Yes

PS Pass-through N/A

PS specific 
function

Job Compression N/A

Bitmap 
Compression

N/A

Color 
Settings

Color Mode

Automatic, Color, Grayscale

Print Priority

Quality, Speed

Original Type

Standard, Photos, Graphics, 
Drawing (Thin Line), Web Pages, 
Custom

Color Rendering

CMM Off, Perceptual Match 
(Photo), Colorimetric Match, 
Saturation Match, SHARP Color, 
Perceptual Match (Web)

UCR Selection

Low Black, Standard, High Black

Black Overprint

On/Off

Screening

Automatic, Photo, Text/Graphics

Pure Black Text

On/Off

All Text to Black

On/Off

Color Adjustment Color Balance, Image
Pantone

N/A

Gamma 
adjustment

N/A

Ink simulation

N/A

Color Profile 
Support

N/A

Function

PCL5-c

Printer 

specifications

Printer controller PWB

Combination

Standard

Expansion-1 Expansion-2 Expansion-3

Standard (Onboard)

128MB

128MB

128MB

128MB

Expansion memory (Slot-1)

—

128MB

256MB

256MB

Expansion memory (Slot-2)

—

—

—

256MB

Total memory capacity

128MB

256MB

384MB

640MB

Print

4-bit

 (Image quality mode)

Single face

to A4

✕

❍

❍

❍

B4, A3

✕

❍

❍

❍

Duplex

to A4

✕

❍

❍

❍

B4, A3

✕

❍

❍

❍

1-bit

 (Image quality mode)

Single face

to A4

❍

❍

❍

❍

B4, A3

❍

❍

❍

❍

Duplex

to A4

❍

❍

❍

❍

B4, A3

❍

❍

❍

❍

With PS3 Expansion kit.

✕

✕

✕

❍