Konica Minolta IC-204 User manual

Chapter 1 : Overview

Chapter 2 : Installing the Printer Driver

Chapter 3 : Setting Up Network Printing

Chapter 4 : Various Printing Methods

IC-204

Quick Guide

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Welcome

Thank you for purchasing the Konica Minolta bizhub 500/420/360.

The bizhub 500/420/360 is equipped with an integrated print controller in the

copier which allows you to print directly from Windows-compatible comput-

ers or Macintosh computers by installing the IC-204 (controller release chip).

This User’s Guide describes the printing functions, operations, usage, and

safety precautions of the print controller. In order to ensure that this machine

is used efficiently, carefully read this manual before using the machine. In or-

der to ensure that this machine is used safely, carefully read “Installation and

Operation Precautions” in the User’s Guide [Copy Operations] before using

the machine.

The illustrations used in this User’s Guide may differ from the actual model.

Trademarks and Copyright

- KONICA MINOLTA, the KONICA MINOLTA logo, and The essentials of

imaging are registered trademarks of KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS,

INC.

- PageScope and bizhub are registered trademarks of KONICA MINOLTA

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES.

- Netscape Communications, the Netscape Communications logo, Net-

scape Navigator, Netscape Communicator, and Netscape are trade-

marks of Netscape Communications Corporation.

- Novell and Novell NetWare are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc.

- Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Mi-

crosoft Corporation.

- IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines, Inc.

- Apple, Macintosh, and Mac are registered trademarks of Apple Compu-

ter, Inc.

- Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat, the Acrobat logo, PostScript, and the

PostScript logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe

Systems Incorporated.

- Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox Corporation.

- PCL is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company Limited.

- Citrix, MetaFrame and MetaFrameXP are registered trademarks or trade-

marks of Citrix Systems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries.

- All other product and brand names are trademarks or registered trade-

marks of their respective companies or organizations.

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- In regard to the Citrix access Partner Network Premier

KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, Inc. is a member of the

Citrix access Partner Network.

The Citrix access Partner Network is a program that, in combination with

a solution of Citrix, promotes and develops solutions to provide the cus-

tomers with better solutions.

- PageScope Box Operator:

This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG

Group.

- Compact-VJE

- RC4

®

is a registered trademark or trademark of RSA Security Inc. in the

United States and/or other countries.

- RSA

®

is a registered trademark or trademark of RSA Security Inc. in the

United States and/or other countries.

OpenSSL Statement

OpenSSL License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modifica-

tion, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,

this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright no-

tice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documen-

tation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must

display the following acknowledgment:

“This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for

use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)”

4. The names “OpenSSL Toolkit” and “OpenSSL Project” must not be used

to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior

written permission. For written permission, please contact openssl-

[email protected].

5. Products derived from this software may not be called “OpenSSL” nor

may “OpenSSL” appear in their names without prior written permission

of the OpenSSL Project.

6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following ac-

knowledgment:

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“This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for

use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)”

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE OpenSSL PROJECT “AS IS” AND

ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-

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SEQENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCURE-

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PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON

ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,

OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY

WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE

POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young

([email protected]). This product includes software written by Tim Hud-

son ([email protected]).

Original SSLeay License

served.

This package is an SSL implementation written by Eric Young (eay@crypt-

soft.com).

The implementation was written so as to conform with Netscape’s SSL.

This library is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as the fol-

lowing conditions are aheared to. The following conditions apply to all code

found in this distribution, be it the RC4, RSA, Ihash, DES, etc., code; not just

the SSL code.

The SSL documentation included with this distribution is covered by the

same copyright terms except that the holder is Tim Hudson (tjh@crypt-

soft.com).

Copyright remains Eric Young’s, and as such any Copyright notices in the

code are not to be removed. If this package is used in a product, Eric Young

should be given attribution as the author of the parts of the library used. This

can be in the form of a textual message at program startup or in documen-

tation (online or textual) provided with the package.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modifica-

tion, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright notice, this list

of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright no-

tice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documen-

tation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must

display the following acknowledgement:

“This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young

([email protected])”

The word ‘cryptographic’ can be left out if the routines from the library

being used are not cryptographic related.

4. If you include any Windows specific code (or a derivative thereof) from

the apps directory (application code) you must include an acknowledge-

ment:

“This product includes software written by Tin Hudson (tjh@crypt-

soft.com)”

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY ERIC YOUNG “AS IS” AND ANY EX-

PRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,

THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A

PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AU-

THOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCI-

DENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES

(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE

GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS

INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILI-

TY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING

NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE

OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH

DAMAGE.

The licence and distribution terms for any publically available version or de-

rivative of this code cannot be changed. i.e. this code cannot simply be cop-

ied and put under another distribution licence [including the GNU Public

Licence.]

All other product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks

of their respective companies

COPYRIGHT

Note

- This User’s Guide may not be reproduced in part or in full without permis-

sion.

- Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. will not be held liable for any

incidents caused by using this printing system or User’s Guide.

- Information included in this User’s Guide is subject to change without no-

tice.

- Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. maintains the copyright of

the printer drivers.

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SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT

This package contains the following materials provided by Konica Minolta

Business Technologies, Inc. (KMBT): software included as part of the printing

system, the digitally-encoded machine-readable outline data encoded in the

special format and in the encrypted form (“Font Programs”), other software

which runs on a computer system for use in conjunction with the Printing

Software (“Host Software”), and related explanatory written materials (“Doc-

umentation”). The term “Software” shall be used to describe Printing Soft-

ware, Font Programs and/or Host Software and also include any upgrades,

modified versions, additions, and copies of the Software.

The Software is being licensed to you under the terms of this Agreement.

KMBT grants to you a non-exclusive sublicense to use the Software and

Documentation, provided that you agree to the following:

1. You may use the Printing Software and accompanying Font Programs for

imaging to the licensed output de-vice(s), solely for your own internal

business purposes.

2. In addition to the license for Font Programs set forth in Section 1 (“Print-

ing Software”) above, you may use Roman Font Programs to reproduce

weights, styles, and versions of letters, numerals, characters and sym-

bols (“Typefaces”) on the display or monitor for your own internal busi-

ness purposes.

3. You may make one backup copy of the Host Software, provided your

backup copy is not installed or used on any computer. Notwithstanding

the above restrictions, you may install the on any number of computers

solely for use with one or more printing systems running the Printing Soft-

ware.

4. You may assign its rights under this Agreement to an assignee of all of

Licensee’s right and interest to such Software and Documentation (“As-

signee”) provided you transfer to Assignee all copies of such Software

and Documentation Assignee agrees to be bound by all of the terms and

conditions of this Agreement.

5. You agree not to modify, adapt or translate the Software and Documen-

tation.

6. You agree that you will not attempt to alter, disassemble, decrypt, re-

verse engineer or decompile the Software.

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productions thereof shall remain with KMBT and its licensor.

8. Trademarks shall be used in accordance with accepted trademark prac-

tice, including identification of the trademark owner’s name. Trademarks

can only be used to identify printed output produced by the Software.

Such use of any trademark does not give you any rights of ownership in

that trademark.

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9. You may not rent, lease, sublicense, lend or transfer versions or copies

of the Software Licensee does not use, or Software contained on any un-

used media, except as part of the permanent transfer of all Software and

Documentation as described above.

10. IN NO EVENT WILL KMBT OR ITS LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR

ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL INDIRECT, PUNITIVE OR SPE-

CIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS OR LOST SAVING,

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LICENSOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THE

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THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL

OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT AP-

PLY TO YOU.

11. Notice to Government End Users: The Software is a “commercial item,”

as that term is defined at 48 C.F.R.2.101, consisting of “commercial com-

puter software” and “commercial computer software documentation,” as

such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212. Consistent with 48 C.F.R.

12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 through 227.7202-4, all U.S. Govern-

ment End Users acquire the Software with only those rights set forth

herein.

12. You agree that you will not export the Software in any form in violation of

any applicable laws and regulations regarding export control of any

countries.

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Contents

1 Overview

1.1 Print Controller CD-ROM Configuration ......................................... 1-1

1.2 Print Controller ................................................................................. 1-4

Role of the Print Controller ............................................................. 1-4

Available Print Controller Functions ............................................... 1-4

Machine Modes ............................................................................. 1-5

Printing Flow .................................................................................. 1-6

1.3 Operation Environment .................................................................... 1-8

OS in compliance with printer driver .............................................. 1-8

KONICA MINOLTA PCL Driver ...................................................... 1-8

KONICA MINOLTA PS Driver (PostScript3) ................................... 1-8

PostScript PPD Driver (PostScript3) .............................................. 1-8

PageScope Web Connection ......................................................... 1-9

Compatible Interfaces .................................................................... 1-9

1.4 Setting Up the System .................................................................... 1-12

To set up the printing system ...................................................... 1-12

2 Installing the Printer Driver

2.1 Printer Drivers and Supported Operating Systems ....................... 2-1

2.2 When Used With Windows ............................................................... 2-2

Automatic Installation Using the Installer ....................................... 2-3

Automatic Installation Using the installer (PCL) ............................. 2-4

Automatic Installation Using the Installer (KONICA MINOLTA PS) 2-8

Installing the Printer Driver Using the Add Printer Wizard ........... 2-11

For Windows XP/Server 2003/XP x64/Server 2003 x64 .............. 2-11

For Windows 98SE/Me/NT 4.0/2000 ........................................... 2-14

Installation using USB cable ........................................................ 2-16

For Windows 98SE/Me ................................................................ 2-16

For Windows 2000 ....................................................................... 2-21

For Windows XP/Server 2003/XP x64/Server 2003 x64 .............. 2-24

Uninstalling the Printer Driver ...................................................... 2-26

Deletion of printer driver with installer (PCL) ................................ 2-26

Deletion of printer driver with installer (PS) .................................. 2-28

Uninstalling the Printer Driver manually ....................................... 2-30

2.3 When Used With Macintosh .......................................................... 2-31

Installing the Printer Driver ........................................................... 2-31

For Mac OS X ............................................................................... 2-31

Selecting a Printer ........................................................................ 2-33

For Mac OS X ............................................................................... 2-33

For Mac OS 9 ............................................................................... 2-36

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Uninstalling the Printer Driver .......................................................2-38

For Mac OS X ...............................................................................2-38

For Mac OS 9 ................................................................................2-39

3 Setting Up Network Printing

3.1 Overview of Network Functions .......................................................3-1

Network Functions ..........................................................................3-1

Features of the Network Functions .................................................3-2

Network Connection Methods

That Can Be Selected in Each Windows Operating System ......3-3

Network Printing from a Windows Operating System ....................3-3

Network Printing in a NetWare Environment ..................................3-4

3.2 Setting the IP Address for This Machine .........................................3-5

Setting the IP Address ....................................................................3-5

3.3 Accessing PageScope Web Connection .........................................3-7

To access PageScope Web Connection ........................................3-7

3.4 SMB Printing ......................................................................................3-8

Operations on This Machine ...........................................................3-8

Printer Driver Settings .....................................................................3-9

For Windows 98SE/Me ...................................................................3-9

For Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/

Server 2003/XP x64/Server 2003 x64 ........................................3-9

3.5 Raw/LPR Printing ............................................................................3-10

Operations on This Machine .........................................................3-10

Printer Driver Settings ...................................................................3-10

For Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/XP x64/Server 2003 x64 ......3-10

For Windows NT 4.0 (When setting the LPR printing) ..................3-12

3.6 IPP Printing (Windows 2000/XP/

Server 2003/XP x64/Server 2003 x64) .......................................3-13

Operations on This Machine .........................................................3-13

Installing the Printer Driver ............................................................3-15

3.7 Printing With NetWare .....................................................................3-17

Network Printing in a NetWare Environment ................................3-17

For Remote Printer Mode With NetWare 4.x Bindery Emulation ..3-17

For Print Server Mode With NetWare 4.x Bindery Emulation .......3-19

For NetWare 4.x Remote Printer Mode (NDS) ..............................3-20

For NetWare 4.x/5.x/6 Print Server Mode (NDS) ..........................3-22

For NetWare 5.x/6 Novell Distributed Print Service (NDPS) .........3-23

Setting Up a Client (Windows) Settings

When Using the NetWare Server .............................................3-24

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3.8 Printing With Macintosh ................................................................. 3-26

Operations on This Machine ........................................................ 3-26

Specifying the AppleTalk Settings ............................................... 3-26

Specifying the Bonjour Settings ................................................... 3-28

Setting the Macintosh computer .................................................. 3-30

For Mac OS X ............................................................................... 3-30

For Mac OS 9 ............................................................................... 3-31

4 Various Printing Methods

4.1 Printing Operations .......................................................................... 4-1

For Windows .................................................................................. 4-1

Test Printing ................................................................................... 4-2

For Macintosh ................................................................................ 4-3

For Mac OS X ................................................................................. 4-3

For Mac OS 9 ................................................................................. 4-4

4.2 Setting the Printing Functions ......................................................... 4-5

Function List ................................................................................... 4-5

Function Overview ......................................................................... 4-7

Orientation ...................................................................................... 4-7

Original Size and Output Size ........................................................ 4-8

Zoom (Enlargement and Reduction) .............................................. 4-9

Input Tray (Paper Source) ............................................................ 4-10

Paper Type (Media) ...................................................................... 4-10

Print Type (Duplex Printing/Booklet Printing) ............................... 4-11

Printing Multiple Pages on One Page .......................................... 4-12

File Margin .................................................................................... 4-13

Stapling and Hole Punching ........................................................ 4-14

Output Method (Job Management) .............................................. 4-15

Sorting (Collating) and Classifying (Offset) .................................. 4-15

Skip Blank Pages (Saving Paper) ................................................. 4-16

Front Cover, Back Cover, and Interleaf Settings ......................... 4-16

Chapter ........................................................................................ 4-17

Combination ................................................................................. 4-18

Fold .............................................................................................. 4-19

Image Shift ................................................................................... 4-20

Overlay ......................................................................................... 4-21

Watermark .................................................................................... 4-21

Quality Adjustment ....................................................................... 4-22

Use Printer Fonts (Substitute Fonts) ............................................ 4-22

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User Authentication/Account Track ..............................................4-22

FAX Transmission .........................................................................4-23

For Windows .................................................................................4-24

For Macintosh ...............................................................................4-27

Check the job ................................................................................4-29

Displaying the print list ..................................................................4-29

Checking the Rx/User Box ...........................................................4-30

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About this User’s Guide

This User’s Guide contains information for using the printing functions of the

Konica Minolta print controller. For details on the copy functions, scanning

functions and box functions, refer to the respective User’s Guide.

This User’s Guide is aimed at users who already have a basic knowledge of

computer and copier operations. For Windows or Macintosh operating sys-

tem and application operations, refer to the operation manual of the respec-

tive product.

Composition of User’s Guide

The User’s Guides for this machine are divided by function and consist of the

following:

Notations

Screen Images in This User’s Guide

Unless stated otherwise, the printer driver functions are described using the

printer driver for Windows XP.

User’s Guide Details

IC-204 User’s Guide This User’s Guide. Read this guide when using this ma-

chine as a printer.

IC-204 Quick Guide Read this guide when using this machine as a printer.

Facsimile Operations Read this guide when using this machine as a Fax.

Network Scanner Operations Read this guide when using this machine as a scanner.

Box Operations Read this guide when using this machine’s box functions.

Product Name Description in this manual

bizhub 500/420/360

Copy machine

machine

Integrated network controller Network controller

Print controller, including this ma-

chine, and printing system

Printing system

Microsoft Windows Windows

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Using This User’s Guide

(The page shown above is an example only.)

Various Printing Methods

4

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4 Various Printing Methods

4.1 Printing Operations

For Windows

Data can be printed from an applic ation.

Print jobs are specified from the application software.

1 Open the data in the application , “File”, an d then click “Pri nt”.

2 Check that the printer name has been selected.

If the printer is not selected, click the [

] and select the printer.

3 Specify the page range and the number of copies to print.



Note

The Print dialog box differs d epending on the applicat ion.

Subject titles

Explains the operation

procedure.

Windows, dialog boxes,

icons, and function names

displayed on the screen

are enclosed in .

Button names displayed

on the screen are

enclosed in .

Contents displayed on

a screen.

Additional explanation

of the text is given.

Overview

1

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1Overview

1.1 Print Controller CD-ROM Configuration

The print controller CD-ROMs consist of the following:

- User Software CD-ROM (Windows/Macintosh)

- PageScope Utilities CD

Each CD-ROM contains printer drivers (for Windows and for Macintosh) and

utilities as well as screen fonts and documentation, such as the User’s

Guides and release notes.

The configuration of the printer drivers on the CD-ROM is shown below.

Browse through the CD-ROMs for the desired folders and files.

- The folder and file names may not be listed below starting from the root

directory.

- Use all of the files in the EN (English) folder.

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User Software CD-ROM: For Windows

Drivers KonicaMinoltaPCL

bizhub500_420_360

EN Win9X_Me (For Windows 98/Me)

WinNT (For Windows NT4.0)

Win2000_XP (For Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003)

FR

IT

DE

ES

JA

KO

ZH-CN

ZH-TW

Lang

P2P

KonicaMinoltaPS

en

AddType

NT4 (For Windows NT4.0)

W2K (For Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003)

Setup

fr

it

de

es

ja

ko

zh-cn

zh-tw

PPD

en Win9xMe (For Windows 98/Me)

WinNT (For Windows NT4.0)

Win2kXP (For Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/XP x64/Server 2003 x64)

fr

it

de

es

ja

ko

zh-cn

zh-tw

PPD_PageMaker

en KO500U.ppd (PPD file for Adobe PageMaker)

fr

it

de

es

ja

ko

zh-cn

zh-tw

DirectP

J2RE

Manual EN 500_420_360_prt_ug_eng_vxx.pdf

JA 500_420_360_prt_ug_jpn_vxx.pdf

KO 500_420_360_prt_ug_kor_vxx.pdf

ZH-CN 500_420_360_prt_ug_scn_vxx.pdf

ZH-TW 500_420_360_prt_ug_tcn_vxx.pdf

PSNCPlugin

Readme EN

JA

KO

ZH-CN

ZH-TW

ScreenFont

Setupini

User Software CD

Overview

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User Software CD-ROM : For Macintosh

* The folders and files for languages other than English and Japanese are

structured in the same way.

PageScope Utilities CD-ROM

Driver

OS10_2_x KONICAMINOLTA_500_102.pkg (Printer Driver for Mac OS X v10.2)

OS10_3_x KONICAMINOLTA_500_103.pkg (Printer Driver for Mac OS X v10.3/v10.4)

OS9_x en KONICAMINOLTA500UVxxx.ppd (Printer Driver for Mac OS 9.x)

ja

fr

it

de

es

ko

zh-cn

zh-tw

PPD_PageMaker

en KO500U.ppd (PPD file for Adobe PageMaker)

ja

fr

it

de

es

ko

zh-cn

zh-tw

Manual EN 500_420_360_prt_ug_eng_vxx.pdf

JA 500_420_360_prt_ug_jpn_vxx.pdf

KO 500_420_360_prt_ug_kor_vxx.pdf

ZH-CN 500_420_360_prt_ug_scn_vxx.pdf

ZH-TW 500_420_360_prt_ug_tcn_vxx.pdf

Screenfonts

User Software CD

NDPSGW

Manual

Readme

setup.exe

PSNC

Manual

Readme

setup.exe

PSNS

Manual

Readme

setup.exe

PageScope Utilities CD-ROM

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1.2 Print Controller

The print controller is a device for performing printing functions and network

printing functions with this machine.

Role of the Print Controller

The print controller has been integrated with this machine, which allows you

to print by installing the IC-204.

You can print from applications on the computer connected to the printing

system. When using this machine as a network printer, you can print from

applications on the computer.

Available Print Controller Functions

The print controller provides the following functions.

- Printing from a computer (using the PCL printer driver or PS printer driver)

- Support of network protocols including TCP/IP, NetBEUI, IPX/SPX, Ap-

pleTalk and Bonjour/Rendezvous

- Direct printing over a network using SMB (Windows), LPR, and IPP print-

ing

- Access to settings for this machine and the print controller from a client

computer over the network (using a Web browser)

- Control of the number of pages printed (“User Authentication” and “Ac-

count Track” functions)

Printing system

Machine

Print

controller

Computer

Overview

1

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Machine Modes

The printer driver settings are mainly set using a computer, however, the font

list can be printed, and the print controller settings and default print settings

can be set using the control panel of this machine. In addition, scanning op-

erations can be used by switching the mode.

Copy mode

This machine can be used as a copier.

Fax mode

This machine can be used as a facsimile.

Scan mode

This machine can be used as a scanner.

Box mode

This machine can be used to store jobs and as a document folder for for-

warding data to a computer over the network.

2

Note

You can use this machine as a printer in all modes.

Change the default print settings in the Utility mode.

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Overview

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Printing Flow

When using this printing system as a printer, the flow of the main process is

described below.

Print commands transmitted from the application are received by the printer

driver.

Data is transmitted to this machine over a parallel interface (IEEE 1284) when

this machine is used as a local printer, over a USB interface when this ma-

chine is used as a USB printer, or over an Ethernet interface (TCP/IP, IPX/

SPX, NetBEUI, AppleTalk or Bonjour/Rendezvous) when this machine is

used as a network printer. The data is then delivered to the printing system,

which performs image rasterization (development of output characters and

images to bitmap data). Finally, this data is printed from this machine.

2

Note

The Ethernet, parallel and USB interfaces can be used simultaneously.

The copy functions can be used while the printing functions are being used.

To use this machine as a copier, press the [Copy] key on the control panel.

Computer

Used as a local

printer

Used as a USB

printer

Application Application Application

Used as a network

printer

Printer driver Printer driver Printer driver

Parallel interface

(IEEE 1284)

USB

Ethernet (TCP/IP, IPX/

SPX, or AppleTalk)

Printing System

Print

Hard Disk

PDL processing (rasterizing)

Secure Print

Save in User Box

Image processing

Overview

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When a print job is received during copying, the data is stored in the memory

of this machine. When copying is complete, the print job is automatically

printed.

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