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Xerox 700 Digital Color Press with Integrated
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Fiery Color Server
Printing from Windows
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© 2008 Electronics for Imaging, Inc. The information in this publication is covered under Legal Notices for this product. 45072733 21 April 2008
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CONTENTS 3 C CONTENTS ONTENTS INTRODUCTION 5 Terminology and conventions 5 About this document 6 Setting up printing 6 User software 7 System requirements 7 INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS 8 Installing printer drivers by Point and Print 8 Downloading printer drivers using WebTools 10 Installing printer drivers 12 Installing and connecting to a virtual printer 15 Uninstalling printer drivers 16 SETTING UP PRINTING CONNECTIONS 18 Printing connections 18 Completing the SMB printing connection 18 Complet
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CONTENTS 4 PRINTING UTILITIES 26 Configuring the connection for Job Monitor 26 E-mail Service 27 Printing using an e-mail client 28 Managing print jobs with e-mail commands 30 Printing from a USB device 31 FTP printing 32 PRINTING 33 Printing from applications 33 Setting options and printing 33 Using presets 40 Customizing the Basic icon 44 Retrieving secure print jobs on the digital press control panel 45 Defining and printing custom page sizes 47 Custom page sizes for Windows PostScript printe
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INTRODUCTION 5 INTRODUCTION This document describes how to install the printer drivers and printer description files for the Xerox 700 Digital Color Press with Integrated Fiery Color Server and how to set up printing from Microsoft Windows computers. It also describes several printing utilities and how to print to the Xerox 700 Digital Color Press with Integrated Fiery Color Server. For information about setting up network servers and clients to use the Xerox 700 Digital Color Press with In
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INTRODUCTION 6 About this document This document covers the following topics: • Installing printer files on Windows computers � Setting up printing connections on Windows computers � Installing Integrated Fiery Color Server printing utilities � Printing from Windows computers Setting up printing The following table lists the procedures for installing printer drivers and setting up the printing connections for each Windows platform supported by the Integrated Fiery Color Server. Action Referenc
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INTRODUCTION 7 User software The following table lists the user software that is described in this document. This is the user software you need for setting up basic printing on the Fiery. Other documents may describe other user software depending on what you are trying to accomplish. User Software Description PostScript Printer Description These files provide information about the Integrated Fiery Color (PPD) file and associated files Server and your particular digital press model to your app
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INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS 8 INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS This chapter describes the procedures for installing printer drivers on a computer using a supported version of Windows. For the Windows versions supported, see “Terminology and conventions” on page 5. Installing printer drivers and printer description files is the first step in setting up the Integrated Fiery Color Server as a PostScript or PCL printer. Install printer drivers as follows: � From the Integrated Fiery Color Server through
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INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS 9 BEFORE YOU BEGIN Ask your Integrated Fiery Color Server administrator to do the following in Setup on the Integrated Fiery Color Server: • Assign the Integrated Fiery Color Server a valid IP address. Ask the administrator for the IP address or DNS name because you need it in the following procedure. � Configure the Integrated Fiery Color Server for SMB printing. NOTE: SMB printing is referred to as Windows Printing in Setup and on the Configuration page. � Specif
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INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS 10 You must now create a printer port and install the printer driver from the User Software DVD. NOTE: You cannot use Point and Print to install the driver and configure the printing connection to the Integrated Fiery Color Server in a single procedure. 4 Windows 2000: Click Start, choose Settings, and then choose Printers. Windows XP: Click Start and choose Printers and Faxes. Windows Server 2003: Click Start, choose Control Panel, and then choose Printers and Fax
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INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS 11 TO DOWNLOAD PRINTER DRIVER FILES WITH WEBTOOLS 1 Start your Internet or intranet browser and type the DNS name or IP address of the Integrated Fiery Color Server. 2 Click the Downloads tab. 3 Click the link for the item that you want to install. For Windows printer drivers, click the Printer Files link under the Windows heading. 4 If a dialog box prompts you to either open the file or save it to disk, choose to save it to disk. 5 Browse to the location where you
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INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS 12 For instructions on installing the printer driver for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista, see “To install and complete the print connection for Windows” on page 12. For more information, see WebTools Downloads Help. Installing printer drivers The following procedures describe installing the printer driver from the User Software DVD. The procedures for configuring the options for the PostScript and PCL printer drivers are similar. The following illustrations show th
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INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS 13 � Integrated Fiery Color Server is not configured properly. � IP address is not correct. If you encounter one of the situations mentioned, you can continue to set up the port by configuring the port manually. See “To set up Standard TCP/IP Port (Raw or LPR) for Windows” on page 19 and follow steps 10 through 13 before proceeding step 8. 8 Click Have Disk in the dialog box displaying lists of manufacturers and printers. The Install From Disk dialog box prompts you
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INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS 14 13 Type a name for the Integrated Fiery Color Server in the Printer name field, indicate whether you want to make it the default printer, and click Next. This name is used in the Printers window and the queues window. 14 Follow the on-screen instructions. Do not share the printer and do not print a Test Page at this time. Continue with the printer driver installation and at the last screen, click Finish. The necessary files are installed on your hard disk. When in
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INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS 15 Installing and connecting to a virtual printer A virtual printer allows you to print to the Integrated Fiery Color Server using a predefined set of job settings. You do not have to set print options manually. Before you can print to a virtual printer, the administrator must create and configure the virtual printer using Command WorkStation. After the virtual printer is set up, you can install the printer driver and printer description files on your computer from
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INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS 16 10 Type the name of the DVD drive and browse to the Prntdrvr\Ps_drvr\Win_2K_XP_VISTA folder. 11 Make sure “Oemsetup.inf” or “Oemsetup” is selected and click Open. 12 Verify that the path is correct in the Install From Disk dialog box and click OK. 13 Follow the on-screen instruction. The virtual printer is displayed in the Printers or Printers and Faxes window. You can print to a virtual printer as you would print to the Integrated Fiery Color Server, as described
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INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS 17 3 To delete a printer, select the check box next to the printer name and click Delete the Selected Printers. To delete all the installed printer drivers, select the Delete All Printer Drivers check box. 4 Click OK to delete the selected printer driver(s). 5 When you finish deleting printer drivers, click Exit and restart your computer.
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SETTING UP PRINTING CONNECTIONS 18 SETTING UP PRINTING CONNECTIONS To print from Windows computers, you or the administrator must perform the following tasks if you want to set up a connection other than port 9100: � Set up network servers, if any. � Set up the Integrated Fiery Color Server to accept print jobs from your computer. � Configure a port on each Windows computer for the network type. Printing connections The Integrated Fiery Color Server supports the following printing connections:
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SETTING UP PRINTING CONNECTIONS 19 Completing Standard TCP/IP Port (Raw or LPR) printing connections After you install the PostScript and printer driver files, you can add or configure the setup for the Standard TCP/IP Port (Raw or LPR) connection as follows: � Prepare the Integrated Fiery Color Server to accept print jobs using Standard TCP/IP Port (Raw or LPR) protocols. For details, see Configuration and Setup. � Enable LPD or Port 9100 on the Integrated Fiery Color Server. For details, see
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SETTING UP PRINTING CONNECTIONS 20 4 To add a new port, click Add Port. To change the port settings, proceed to step 10. 5 Windows 2000/XP/Server2003: Select Standard TCP/IP Port from the list of Available port types and click New Port Type. Windows Vista: Double-click Standard TCP/IP Port from list. The Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard dialog box appears. 6 Click Next. 7 Type the Integrated Fiery Color Server IP address. 8 Click Next. 9 Click Finish to close the Add Standard TCP/IP
