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Remove the three screws of the ICU board cover which is mounted to
the expansion board mounting plate at the upper part of the right
side, and remove the ICU board cover.

Remove the connector which is connected to 40 pin and 60 pin of the
printer junction harness connected to the printer board.

Remove the two screws A and remove the printer board.

For the installing direction of the RAM, refer to the figure.

Insert the RAM into the socket and check that it is securely inserted.

Align the printer board along the guide rails of the expansion board
mounting plate of the copier and insert the board until the printer
junction harness connector can be connected.

Connect the 40-pin and 60-pin connectors of the printer junction har-
ness to those of the printer board.

Push the printer board fully to connect the printer board connector to
the copier connector.

Use the included two screws A to secure the printer board to the
expansion board mounting plate and insert the snap band on the
printer junction harness to secure the printer junction harness.

Replace the ICU board cover which has been removed in step 3 to its
original position and secure it with three screws.

At this time, check that the two pawls of the ICU board cover fit the
mounting positions between the frame and the upper right side panel
of the copier.

Replace the right side panel which has been removed in step 2 to its
original position and secure it with the three screws.

At this time, check that the right side panel fits securely the copier.

Close the toner collecting container cover, manual feed tray, and side
cover.

ICU board cover

Pawl

 Upper right side panel

Screws

Pawl

Printer board

Guide rail

Copier connector

Screws A

60-pin connector

 40-pin connector

Snap band

 Printer junction harness

 Guide rail

Printer board

Guide rail

Copier connector

Screws A

60-pin connector

 40-pin connector

Snap band

 Printer junction harness

 Guide rail

ICU board cover

Pawl

 Upper right side panel

Screws

Pawl

Right side panel

Manual feed tray

Toner collecting
container cover

Side cover

Screws

Screw

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Three diskettes are supplied with the AR-5132 printer. Refer to Table
1 to determine which driver or drivers are compatible with your
operating system.

1. The Sharp AR-5132 Windows PostScript® Driver diskette con-

tains the following printer drivers:

•

Windows PostScript® printer driver (Sharp AR-5132 PS)

•

Sharp-specific PostScript® PPD (Sharp AR-5132)

2. The Sharp AR-5132 Windows PCL5e Driver contains

•

Windows PCL5e printer driver (Sharp AR-5132 PCL)

3. The Sharp AR-5132 Macintosh driver diskette contains the Macin-

tosh PostScript® printer driver and the Sharp-specific PostScript®
PPD.

Refer to the table below for selecting the printer driver depending on
operating systems, i.e., WIN 3.1 or WIN 95.

WIN 3.1

WIN 95

WIN NT

MAC

Windows PCL5e
Driver

✕

✕

Windows PostScript
Driver

✕

✕

Sharp-Specific
PostScript PPD

✕

✕

✕

Macintosh
PostScript Driver

✕

NOTES: 1. Users of Windows 3.1x and Windows 95 will obtain

maximum functionality and best output quality by install-
ing the Windows PostScript Printer driver. In other
words, the preferred Windows printer driver is AR-5132
PS.

2. Users of Windows NT must install the Sharp-specific

PostScript PPD, which uses the standard Microsoft
PostScript printer drivers supplied with Windows NT.

3. For this manual, when we way Windows 3.1x, we are

including Windows 3.1x and Windows for Workgroup
3.1x. The term ‘Windows 3.1x’ means any version of
Windows 3.1, whether 3.10 or 3.11.

The AR-5132 printing system can be applied to any AR-5132 con-
figuration

The printing system prints documents in PostScript, and PCL5e

2 data inputs are available:

Data

Input Availability

IEEE-1284 compatible, nibble (plug and
play only)

Standard

Network Interface Card

Optional

The printing system is supplied with custom PostScript and PCL5e
drivers for Windows and Macintosh

The printing system and copier can be configured and monitored via
the copier front panel.

The printing function operates in single bit per pixel mode only.

400 dpi 1 bit/pixel

1200 dpi smoothing. Switch Selection on/off default is on

RET is a hardware system that operates on 400 

×

 400 dpi data.

Basic printing modes implement copier like features. Extended print-
ing modes depend on both printer and driver.

Duplex printing is a modifier to the printing modes.

Each of the basic printing modes identified in the table below can be
selected in conjunction with any of the other modes

Mode

Applied to

Control

Description

Print Groups,
Sets, Page

Page

Page

ordered-pages stacked in order
sent Face up, Group, no
separators, to standard tray or
top tray of sorter.

Groups

Group (single
side print)

all page 1 together
all page 2 together etc.

Group (duplex
print)

all page 1,2 together
all page 3,4 together etc.

Sets

Set

Pages print in order 1,2,3 etc. for
all pages repeat for additional sets

Insert Page
Separators

off

print pages as planned

on

print page from selected tray
print blank from interleave tray

print

print page as planned
print same page from interleave
tray

The characteristics below are Modifiers or explanations to all the modes above

Face

all

(none)

All sheets delivered to output with
odd face up

Duplex

all

off

All sheets printed on 1 side

on

all sheets printed on both sides

if the number of pages is odd
and greater than 1, a blank
page is added to the job
if the number of pages is 1
the job is printed with duplex
off.

Extended printing modes require interaction by the printer driver.

Caution: Extended printing modes N-1, N-up and Booklet may not

function correctly when invoked from applications that use
PostScript passthrough or direct modes.

Up to 2 paper sources can be selected within a job. Sources can be
selected by location or by size.

If duplex printing is selected, selecting a new paper source empties
the duplex unit and printing resumes on the next odd face.

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Long document printing is not a separate mode in AR-5132. 

Since there is no tray full detection; documents longer than the
selected tray capacity will cause a jam. 

The longest reverse order (N-1) printing job is 500 pages, supported
in the driver. 

Booklet Mode Printing is supported in the Macintosh and Windows
drivers. Booklet mode requires duplex, which is supplied in the base
configuration 

Booklet mode is supported by PostScript and PCL in Windows
drivers. 

Booklet prints 4 sides of a job per page. The sides are automatically
ordered to present sides in order as the booklet is read. 

Physical Sheet

Application Page

Sheet 1 back

blank and 1

Sheet 1 front

2 and 7

Sheet 2 back

6 and 3

Sheet 2 front

4 and 5

Note: While this example is for 7 application pages on 2 sheets,

there is no limit to the number of application pages that can be
made into a booklet.

The process of ordering the application pages to produce a proper
booklet is called imposition.

Visually sheets printed as:

[Note] Print order in booklet printing. 

In booklet printing, the sheet with first page and last page (cover and
back cover) is printed first. 

After this documentation, figure may incorrect. Above print order is
correct. 

Selection

Application

page size

Page

scaling

Border

WYSIWYG
Booklet on A4

A5

100%

No

WYSIWYG
Booklet on Letter

5.5 

×

 8.5 in

100%

No

WYSIWYG
Booklet on 11 

×

 17

Letter

100%

No

WYSIWYG
Booklet on A3

A4

100%

No

2up Booklet A4

A4

66%

Option

2up Booklet Letter

Letter

62%

Option

2up Booklet 11 

×

 17

Ledger 11 

×

 17

62%

Option

2up Booklet A3

A3

66%

Option

The printed pages are placed on one sheet of paper in Z order from
left to right on the upper side of page and from left to right on the next
line, based on the direction of the printed image. See the page layout
below. 

N-Up printing is supported in PostScript and PCL5e 

N-up printing is supported for the page sizes identified in the paper
size table (Refer to[3]-(5)-B ) 

N-up printing is supported for Portrait and Landscape. 

N- up printing is supported with and without borders. 

N can be 2,4,9,16 pages per page. 

The N-up pages are:                             With Border:

Duplex printing requires that the duplex hardware is installed. Duplex
hardware is standard. 

In duplex printing there are 2 faces defined for each piece of paper.
The faces are: 

odd face 

the face printed for single side printing as seen at the
output 

even face  opposite the odd face 

The selectable duplex parameters and their values are: 

Parameter

Default

Range 

Duplex

Off

On/Off 

Binding

Long Edge (Book)

Long Edge/Short Edge 

Binding Side

Left Side

Left Side /Right side (No
right side binding in AR-
5132) 

All these parameters are selected for an entire print job.

The first face data is printed on the odd face of a
page. The next face data is printed on the even face,
and so on. 

All faces of data are printed on the odd face of the
page. All even sides are blank.

Sheet 1

Back

Blank

1

Front

2

7

Sheet 2

6

3

4

5

Paper Path

Paper Path

Paper Path

Paper Path

1

2

2

3

1

4

12

3

45

6

78

9

12

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

101112

1314

1516

1 2

1 2

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There are a total of 4 binding and printing combinations. Unfortunate-
ly the verbal description of these combinations is not consistent. The
table below gives a complete list of known words for describing the
available styles. 

Book Figure

Binding Type

This Document

1

Portrait Long
Edge

2

Portrait Short
Edge

3

Landscape
Long Edge

4

Landscape
Short Edge

In long edge or Book binding successive faces are
arranged to print: 

Short Edge:  In short edge or Tablet binding successive faces are

arranged to print: 

AR-5132 supports only Left side binding. 

In general both left and right binding are needed. Left binding is
required for Latin languages. 

Left Binding:  In left Binding the binding of a set is on the left or top

of the first face. It appears as: 

Right Binding:  In right Binding the binding of a set is on the right of

the first face. It appears as: 

Shown below is the staple location and the page orientation for the
possible output combinations 

Only face up delivery is supported. Face up delivery means the
printed face of simplex documents is up in the tray, and that the odd
face of duplex documents is up in the tray. 

Only face up printing in N-1 order is supported 

The maximum number of copies is 20 in set mode 

The maximum job length is equal to the longest N-1 print job 

Collation for sets and groups is accomplished by the sorter. 

The non-sort outputs are the standard tray and the top tray of the
sorters. 

The non-sort trays support page, group, and set output 

text

Text

Text

Text

Text

Text

text

Text

Text

Even

Text

Odd

Text

Even

Text

Odd

Text

Page 1

Text

Page 1

Text

Page 1

Normal

Rotated

Portrait

Landscape

Paper Path

Paper Path

Paper Path

Paper Path

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