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SUPER SCRIPT COLOR
LASER
NETWORK GUIDE
October, 1999
703-A0368-001
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Microsoft, Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98, Proprietary Notice and Liability Disclaimer Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups, and MS-DOS are The information disclosed in this document, including all registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. designs and related materials, is the valuable property of ® Adobe PostScript 3 is a trademark of Adobe Systems NEC Technologies and/or its licensors, as appropriate, Incorporated. reserve all patent, copyright and other proprietary rights t
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Chapter 5 Windows Setup 21 TABLE OF CONTENTS Windows Peer-to-Peer 21 Chapter 1 Introduction 1 IP vs. IPX Peer-to-Peer Printing 21 Overview 1 Installing Peer-to-Peer Software 21 Network Setup Tasks 1 Adding the Peer-to-Peer Printer 22 Moving a Peer-to-Peer Printer 24 Typical Network Setups 2 Removing Peer-to-Peer Software 24 Types of Network Topologies 2 Setting Up Windows NT 24 Chapter 2 NIC Installation 5 Setting LPR Printing on an NT Network 24 Overview 5 Share
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Adding the Peer-to-Peer Printer 36 Copying the Files 61 Resetting Web JetAdmin Discovery 62 Chapter 8 UNIX Setup 37 Appendix C Safety Information 65 Setting Up on a Unix System 37 Ozone Emission 65 Configuring the IP Address on the Printer 37 Laser Safety 65 Setting Up Your Printing Mode 37 CDRH Regulations 65 chapter 9 Web Printing Setup 39 FCC Statement 66 Overview 39 PrintAgent Remote Printing 39 NEC PrintAgent Pull Printing 39 Remote Printing 40 System Requirements 40 Pr
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CHAPTER 1 NETWORK SETUP TASKS To begin using the SuperScript Color Laser Printer as a INTRODUCTION network printer follow these tasks: 1. Connect the printer to your network. note: If there is an N in the model number on the OVERVIEW SuperScript printer, such as 4600N, it already has a The main purpose of this book is to help the network network interface card (NIC) installed. If it is a printer like administrator integrate SuperScript Color Laser printers into
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From Windows NT 4.0 10 or fewer computers because peer-to-peer networking software limits the number of users attached to any one • If you have a NetWare network, see Chapter 6 for shared resource. Netware 5.x, 4.x, and 3.x configuration information. • In a Windows NT network you can use LPR printing. See In this scenario, print clients use the network to send print Chapter 5. jobs directly to the printer. There is no intermediary computer (server) that gets involve
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INTRODUCTION The printer and each print client use their own network cable Printer Server Topology to connect to the network. An Ethernet LAN is used to interconnect the printer, printer server, and print clients. Print clients send their print jobs to Print jobs sent by clients must not pass through a router to the printer server where they are queued. The server then get to the printer. sends the jobs to the printer. The server also controls access to the printer. Printer Se
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Microsoft Printer Sharing Topology Printer Sharing Topology Microsoft Printer Sharing topology involves a LAN that A LAN is used to interconnect the print clients. One print client interconnects the print clients. The printer is directly is connected to the printer using a parallel cable, and is also connected to one print client using a parallel cable. The client configured to share it with other print clients. The sharing client then is configured to share its printer. Clients that wan
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CHAPTER 2 INSTALLING THE NETWORK INTERFACE CARD (NIC) NIC INSTALLATION Order # 4010 What You Will Need You will need to provide the following hardware to install OVERVIEW the NIC in your printer and connect it to your network: If you have an NEC SuperScript™ printer already equipped with a Network Interface Card (NIC) there is an N in the • A phillips-head screwdriver model number. For example, the SuperScript 4600N. If you have a printer without a NIC, such as the Su
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Preparing the Printer Installing the NIC 1. Turn off the printer, remove the power cord from the rear These steps are illustrated on the opposite page. of the printer, and disconnect the printer cable from the 4. Two posts are used for fastening the NIC to the port (A). Position the printer so you are facing the side Controller Board. Remove the screw from the lower one, and back corner where the cable port is located. Make loosen the screw of the upper one and rotate
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NIC INSTALLATION Installing the NIC D F E Bracket G H Installing the Network Interface Card (NIC) 7
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2. Turn on the printer (C). It may take up to 90 seconds to TESTING THE NIC warm up, and then it prints a Network Settings page Follow these steps to verify that the NIC is installed and with NIC status information. operating properly. note: Keep the Network Settings page. You will need 1. Connect the network’s twisted pair cable with RJ-45 this information when configuring the NIC for your connectors to the new network port on your printer (A). network. Reattach the power
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NIC INSTALLATION The Network Settings Page NETWORK SETTINGS PAGE Each time you turn on the networked printer, it prints a - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Unit Serial No: 992048 Version: 05.20 Network Settings page. The Network Settings page provides Network Address: 00:40:af:79:19:80 information about the network printer settings and network Network Topology: Ethernet Connector:RJ45 Network Speed: 10 Megabits connections.
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Resetting the NIC NIC FEATURES If you change network settings, you may need to reset the NIC Status Lights NIC for the new settings to take effect.Turn the printer off When the NIC is installed, its two status lights, amber and and then on again, or: green, are located on the Interface Panel on the back of the 1. Go to the URL Configuration Page, the URL is printer. Light patterns for normal operation are: http:///configure.html. Green light is on solid: This shows normal operati
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Selecting an IP Address Assignment Method CHAPTER 3 If a DHCP server is not present, there are several ways to IP ADDRESS assign a TCP/IP address to your printer. Operator Panel Use the printer’s Operator Panel to assign the IP address to the printer. OVERVIEW To take advantage of the many SuperScript network features, you must assign an IP address to the printer network interface card or NIC. This chapter explains several ways of assigning an IP address. ASSIGNING THE IP ADDRESS Obtaining
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Using the Operator Panel You can use the Operator Panel to enable and set up the TCP/IP networking parameters for the printer. This is particularly useful for setting the network IP address so you can use it as the printer’s URL in Web-based printing (see Power Warning Online Chapter 9). Also, use the Operator Panel to set the IP address on a UNIX system. Follow these steps: Menu OnLine 1. Press the Online button of the Operator Panel. OFFLINE Data OHT Label appears on the display. Feed It
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IP ADDRESS The unit listing will be divided by TCP/IP units and Using MAP IPX/SPX units. See the illustration below. The Management Access Program (MAP), runs only under Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0. You use MAP to list note: If a unit is enabled for both IP and IPX, it will SuperScript network printers connected to your network. appear in both lists. Then you select one to go to its Network Administration 4. Click on a unit under IPX/SPX in the list to display its page for network ad
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c. When Select Network Protocol dialog box is Using BOOTPL32 displayed, select Microsoft and TCP/IP and click OK First follow these directions to set up TCP/IP in Windows button. 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0: Installing the TCP/IP Protocol 1. In Windows, open the Network control panel. 2. If TCP/IP Protocol is not installed, install it in the following step (in Windows 95). a. Select Configuration Tab in the Network control panel and click Add button. d. Then, TCP/IP Protocol is installed. e. R
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IP ADDRESS 3. Select Configure from the Admin menu. Using ARP a. Enter the IP address to assign to the printer. You can use the following procedure to set the IP address on the printer. Then, you can set the other IP parameters from b. Enter the subnet mask. the Network Administration page. The network printer must c. Enter the default gateway address (if applicable) or be on the same network segment as the workstation that you leave blank. are using to configure it. The TCP/IP stack must be
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Using DHCP The Network Settings Page Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) allows - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - automatic assignment of IP address and other IP parameters Unit Serial No: 992048 Version: 05.20 Network Address: 00:40:af:79:19:80 for attached devices. The SuperScript color laser printer Network Topology: Ethernet Connector:RJ45 works with DHCP in the following way. Network Speed: 10 Megabits Novell Network Information enabled P
