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EPSON Ethernet Card Supplement
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This guide includes new information about your EPSON
multiprotocol Ethernet interface card and software.
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If you are using the card with Apple Macintosh computers on
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AppleTalk or TCP/IP networks, please disregard the Macintosh
section in your EPSON Type B Ethernet Interface Card User's Guide
and follow the steps in this supplement.
In addition to the operating systems mentioned in the Ethernet card
User’s Guide, the card also supports Windows 95 and Win
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Using Macintosh with the Initializing the Ethernet Card Before configuring the Eth After you install the Ethernet card in a printer or reinstall it in a new printer driver is installed i printer, plug in the printer while pressing down the status sheet turned on and the Etherne button for at least three seconds to initialize the card. your Ethernet card User's ( more information.) I I The information on Macin sections: @ Cl Installing EPSON Net! I I I CL Monitoring the Printer I status sheet bu
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Using Macintosh with the Ethernet Card Before configuring the Ethernet card, check to see if the correct printer driver is installed in the Macintosh. Make sure the printer is turned on and the Ethernet card is connected to the network. (See your Ethernet card User’s Guide and your printer User’s Guide for more information.) The information on Macintosh is explained in the following sections: Ct Installing EPSON Net! Ll Monitoring the Printers on Your Network Ll Configuring the Ethernet Card for
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2. Click a zone to select it To check the status of all printers that are turned on and enabled for clicking multiple zones a protocol, follow the steps below: 3. Click OK . 1. Open the EPSON Net! folder and click the EPSON Net! icon. The following window appears: EPSON Net! sends a packe, current printer’s status. The latest information about the Sorting the Printers Follow these steps to sort tl 1. With the EPSON Net! ( Options menu bar. Note: If you don‘t see any printers in the list, try se
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2. Click a zone to select it, press and hold the key while clicking multiple zones to select them, or click Select All. 3. Click OK . EPSON Net! sends a packet to the selected zones and detects the current printer’s status. The EPSON Net! dialog box shows the latest information about the printers located in that zone. Sorting the Printers Follow these steps to sort the printers in the EPSON Net! dialog box: 1. With the EPSON Net! dialog box open, choose Sort from the Options menu bar. 2. Click a
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2. Highlight the printer y Setting the Refresh lnterval Follow these steps to set the refresh interval for the settings in the 3. Click Open.You see EPSON Net! dialog box: 1. With the EPSON Net! dialog box open, choose Preferences from the Options menu bar. Refresh interval (sec) pq (DKI [Cancel ) 2. Type any value from 5 (default) to 90 seconds and click 4. Click the AppleTalk ice EPSON Net! monitors the printers by polling the network at the your Ethernet card is c intervals you specified. 5
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2. Highlight the printer you want to configure in the list. 3. Click Open. You see the Configuration dialog box: 4. Click the AppleTalk icon. Make sure the correct serial number of your Ethernet card is displayed. 5. Set the following options in the AppleTalk Configuration box: CL Available Zone: Select the network zone that you want the printer to appear in. Ll Printer Name: The default printer name appears. You can rename it. If the same types of printers are connected to the network, be sure
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6. Click to send the new settings to the Ethernet card and 4. Click the icon. return to the EPSON Net! dialog box. Click Update to send the shows the correct serk new settings to the card without closing the Configuration dialog box. 5. Set the following optic box: Caution: Once you make changes to the Ethernet card, wait at least five Cl II’ address: Deter minutes before turning off or restarting your printer. Ethernet card. 7. Click to exit EPSON Net! for Macintosh. Ll Subnet mask: Ass Config
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4. Click the icon. Make sure the Configuration dialog box shows the correct serial number of the target Ethernet card. 5. Set the following options in the TCP/IP Configuration dialog box: U IP address: Determine and assign an IP address for the Ethernet card. Q Subnet mask: Assign the subnet mask. tl Auto IP set: Click Off. 6. Click Update to send the new settings to the Ethernet card without closing the Configuration dialog box. Or, click OK to send the new settings and return to the EPSON Net!
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4. Click Protocol and then the button. for 5. Select from the Manufacturers list and from the Network Protocols list. Then click You see a message sim Reply from 6. Click again and follow any on-screen instructions to enable Reply from 127.0.1.2 TCP/IP. Reply from 127.0.1.2 Reply from 127.0.1.2 Configuring the Ethernet Card for TCP/IP and Windows 95 This shows that the Etherne Make sure that the Ethernet card installed in the printer is on the same network segment as the computer you are usin
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You see a message similar to the following: Reply from 127.0.1.200: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=30 Reply from 127.0.1.200: bytes=32 time
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