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Front.fm5 Page ii Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:53 PM All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. The information contained herein is designed only for use with this EPSON printer. EPSON is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to other printers.
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QuikSet2TOC.fm Page iii Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:55 PM Contents Using Your Software and Manuals 1 Setting Up Your Printer 2 Getting the Printer Ready 2 Installing the Ink Cartridges 4 Loading the Paper 7 Testing the Printer 8 Connecting the Printer to Your Network 8 Installing EPSON Net! 9 Installing in Windows 9 Installing in Macintosh 10 Configuring for NetWare 10 Defining Your Printer on a Print Server 10 Using EPSON Net! for NetWare Windows 12 Configuring for TCP/IP 15 Installing TCP
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QuikSet2.fm Page 1 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide ® Congratulations on purchasing your new EPSON Stylus COLOR 800N printer. This guide summarizes the process of setting up your printer and configuring it to work with your network. For more information, see the User’s Guides for your printer, the Ethernet card, and EPSON Status Monitor 2. Note: The Stylus COLOR 800 User’s Guide contains some information that Using Your Software and Manuals does not apply to your Ether
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QuikSet2.fm Page 2 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide ◗ EPSON Type B Ethernet Interface Card Supplement Contains instructions for configuring and using the Ethernet card with a Macintosh network, initializing the card, using the card with NetWare on a WAN, and using TCP/IP with Windows 95. ◗ EPSON Status Monitor 2 for Windows Allows you to monitor your printer over the network and configures Windows 95 peer-to-peer printing environments (2 diskettes). ◗ EPSON Status Monitor
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QuikSet2.fm Page 3 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide You’ll find these items inside: paper support color ink cartridge black ink cartridge 2. Place the printer flat on a stable desk near a grounded outlet. Leave plenty of room in back for the cables and enough room in front for opening the output tray. Do not put the printer: ◗ In an area with high temperature or humidity Note: Be sure to follow the ◗ In direct sunlight or dusty conditions Safety Instructions in the Intro
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QuikSet2.fm Page 4 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide 4. Before you plug in the printer, make sure the power is off. Check the Ppower button; it’s off when its surface is raised above the printer surface. power Caution: Do not plug the printer into an outlet controlled by a wall switch or timer, or on the same 5. Plug the power cord into a properly grounded outlet. circuit as a large appliance. This may disrupt the power, which can erase Installing the Ink Cartridges me
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QuikSet2.fm Page 5 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide 3. Lift up the black ink cartridge clamp. 4. Open the black ink cartridge package. Remove only the yellow part of the tape. Do not remove the white part. Also, Note: do not remove the clear seal on the bottom of the cartridge. It’s OK if the tape does not completely tear off along the dotted line. color ink black ink cartridge cartridge 5. Lower the ink cartridge into the holder with the label face up and the arrow poi
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QuikSet2.fm Page 6 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide 6. Push down the clamp until it locks in place. 7. Press the X color cleaning button. The print heads move to the left again so you can install the color ink cartidge. black load/eject cleaning button button color cleaning button 8. Follow steps 3 through 6 to install the color ink cartridge. 9. Press the E load eject button. Caution: Never turn off the printer when the P power light The printer moves the print heads
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QuikSet2.fm Page 7 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide Loading the Paper 1. Slide the left edge guide all the way left and pull out the output tray extensions. 2. Fan a stack of plain paper and then even the edges. 3. Load a stack with the printable surface face up. Push the paper against the right edge guide. arrow mark Note: Don’t load paper above the arrow mark inside the left edge guide. 4. Slide the left edge guide back against the stack of paper. 7
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QuikSet2.fm Page 8 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide Testing the Printer If you want, you can run a test on your printer to see how it’s working. Follow the steps in Chapter 6 of your printer User’s Guide. Turn off the printer to stop test printing. Connecting the Printer to Your Network You can connect your Ethernet-ready printer to either an Ethernet Thin Coaxial (10BASE2) or an Ethernet Twisted-Pair (10BASE-T) network connection. You can only attach one cable at a time.
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QuikSet2.fm Page 9 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide You can now install the EPSON Net! utility software, which configures the Ethernet card. Installing EPSON Net! If you are using NetWare or TCP/IP, install EPSON Net! on a workstation in the same segment as the printer. If you are using AppleTalk, install EPSON Net! for Macintosh on a Macintosh computer on your network. Do not install EPSON Net! if you are using DLC with Windows NT. Installing in Windows 1. Insert the EPS
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QuikSet2.fm Page 10 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide Installing in Macintosh 1. Create a folder for EPSON Net! on your hard drive. 2. Insert the EPSON Net! for Macintosh installation diskette. 3. Copy the program from the disk to the folder. After you install EPSON Net!, you use it to configure your printer for AppleTalk. See page 22 for instructions. Configuring for NetWare With NetWare, you can configure the printer as a print server, remote printer, or have it switch autom
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QuikSet2.fm Page 11 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide If you use NetWare 4.x, menus will differ slightly from the menus described in the following procedure, and you must select Bindery Emulation. Follow these steps: 1. At the DOS prompt, type PCONSOLE. 2. From the Available Options menu, select Print Server Information. 3. Select the name of a print server from the Print Servers list and press Enter. 4. From the Print Server Information list, select Print Server Configura
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QuikSet2.fm Page 12 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide Using EPSON Net! for NetWare Windows Follow these steps: 1. Start EPSON Net! for NetWare. After a few seconds, the following dialog box appears: 2. Highlight your EPSON Stylus COLOR 800N printer and click Open. The NetWare Status dialog box appears: 12
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QuikSet2.fm Page 13 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide 3. Click Edit to configure the printer. The NetWare Config dialog box appears: 4. Choose the operating mode you want to use: ◗ Print Server ◗ Remote Printer ◗ Auto PrintServer/Remote 5. Follow the instructions for the operating mode you chose: ◗ If you selected Remote Printer, change the port number and enable or disable hunting if you want. Then click Save to complete the configuration process. ◗ If you selected Auto, en
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QuikSet2.fm Page 14 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide 6. Click Add at the bottom of the dialog box to assign a print queue to your print server. The Add Queue dialog box appears: This list indicates which queues are available on this NetWare file server. 7. For Print Server mode, select the file server where the print queue will reside, then select a print queue from the list. You can create a new queue by entering its name in the Queue box. Then continue with step 8. Fo
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QuikSet2.fm Page 15 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide Configuring for TCP/IP You can configure the Ethernet card for TCP/IP if you are using a UNIX TCP/IP network, a Windows 95 peer-to-peer network, or Windows NT. Installing TCP/IP in Windows 95 Windows 95 does not come with LPR, so in addition to installing TCP/IP, as described below, you need to install the EPSON TCP/IP printer protocol. The EPSON Status Monitor 2 installer program automatically prompts you when to inst
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QuikSet2.fm Page 16 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide Assigning the IP Address For a Windows 95 peer-to-peer network you need to set the card’s IP address. Make sure the Ethernet card and printer are on the same segment of the network as the computer you are using to configure the card. Also, find out the IP address for the Note: If you don’t know what computer and the IP address for the Ethernet card. Then, IP address to use for the follow these steps: computer or the E
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QuikSet2.fm Page 17 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM Setup Guide If you receive 4 lines that say “Request Timed Out,” the card is not set up correctly. Check to make sure the card is on the same segment of the network as the workstation you are using to configure it and that you typed in the correct IP and hardware addresses. Before you can print using TCP/IP, you still need to install the Status Monitor (see page 24) and add a printer port (see page 27). Installing LPR Software in W
