3D Nord QMS 1060 User manual

QMS 1060
Print System
Getting Started
®
1800327-001B
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description language and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Throughout this
manual, “PostScript Level 2” is used to refer to a set of capabilities defined by Adobe
Systems for its PostScript Level 2 page description language. These capabilities,
among others, are implemented in this product through a QMS-developed emulation
that is compatible with Adobe's PostScript Level 2 language. Adobe, Adobe PhotoShop,
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The digitally encoded software included with your QMS 1060 Print System is
Copyrighted © 1995 by QMS, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This software may not be
reproduced, modified, displayed, transferred, or copied in any form or in any manner or
on any media, in whole or in part, without the express written permission of QMS, Inc.
Copyright Notice
This manual is Copyrighted © 1995 by QMS, Inc., One Magnum Pass, Mobile, AL
36618. All Rights Reserved. This manual may not be copied in whole or in part, nor
transferred to any other media or language, without the express written permission of
QMS, Inc.
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Contents
1 Introduction
About the Printer ..........................................................................1-8
About the Documentation ...........................................................1-8
Standard Product Documentation 1-9
Other Relevant Documentation 1-11
About This Manual 1-12
Typographic Conventions 1-13
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QMS 1060 Print System Getting Startedii
Printer Features ......................................................................... 1-14
Media Flexibility 1-14
Toner Savings 1-14
Multiple Resolutions 1-15
Four Resident Emulations 1-15
Resident Fonts and Symbol Sets 1-16
QMS Crown Technology 1-16
Energy Star Compliance 1-19
Software Loadable System (SLS) 1-19
Remote Console 1-20
PCMCIA Card Slot 1-20
Printer Options 1-20
What's Next? .............................................................................. 1-23
2 Setting Up Your Printer
Introduction .................................................................................. 2-2
Finding a Good Location ............................................................ 2-2
Location Requirements 2-2
Power Requirements 2-4
Checking Shipment Contents .................................................... 2-4
Registering the Printer ................................................................ 2-5
Unpacking the Printer ................................................................. 2-5
Installing Consumables .............................................................. 2-9
Installing the Toner Cartridge 2-9
Loading the 500-Sheet Cassette 2-12
Connecting the Power Cord ..................................................... 2-17
Printing a Start-up Page ............................................................ 2-18
Enabling/Disabling the Start-up Page 2-19
Installing Options ...................................................................... 2-20
What's Next? .............................................................................. 2-20
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Contents iii
3 Connecting to a Macintosh
Introduction ..................................................................................3-2
Using an Optional Network Interfaces 3-2
Using the LocalTalk Interface .....................................................3-2
Interface 3-3
Macintosh Interface Cabling 3-3
Making the Connection 3-5
Macintosh Printing Software 3-5
Testing Macintosh Communication 3-11
Printing from the Macintosh 3-11
What Next? .................................................................................3-12
4 Connecting to a PC
Introduction ..................................................................................4-2
Interface 4-2
Optional Interfaces 4-2
Before Making the Connection ...................................................4-2
What You Need 4-3
Making the Connection ................................................................4-4
Testing Communication ..............................................................4-5
Creating the Test File 4-6
Sending the Test File 4-6
PC Printing Software .................................................................4-11
Installing PS Executive Series Printer Utility Software 4-11
Installing a PostScript Printer Driver 4-11
Printer Description Files 4-14
Printing from the PC ..................................................................4-14
What's Next? ..............................................................................4-15
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5 Control Panel
Introduction .................................................................................. 5-2
Control Panel Indicators ............................................................. 5-3
Message Window ......................................................................... 5-3
Setting the Message Window Language 5-4
Control Panel Keys ...................................................................... 5-5
Online/Offline, Tray Select, Status Page, and Cancel Keys 5-5
Menu, Select, Previous, and Next Keys 5-6
What's Next? ................................................................................ 5-8
A QMS Customer Support
Sources of Support .....................................................................A-2
Your QMS Vendor A-2
Your Application Vendor A-2
Q-FAX A-2
The QMS Corporate Bulletin Board System A-3
CompuServe A-3
Internet A-3
QMS Customer Response Center (CRC) A-4
QMS National Service A-5
QMS World-wide Offices .............................................................A-6
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Contents v
B Configuration
Menu
Introduction .....................................................................................8
Menu Chart Conventions 8
Configuration Menu ........................................................................9
Administration/Emulations Menu 10
Administration/Communications Menu 11
Index
v
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1-7Introduction
1
Introduction
In This Chapter . . .
n About the printer
n About the documentation
n About this manual
n Printer features and user benefits
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About the
Printer
QMS 1060 Print System Getting Started 1-8
About the Printer
The QMS 1060 Print System offers the unique QMS Crown multitask-
ing operating system, superior performance, extensive connectivity,
upgrade options, and flexible emulation support.
In addition, it prints 10 pages per minute on letter/A4-size paper and
offers a choice of 300x300 or 600x600 dpi printing on letter, legal,
executive, A4, B5 ISO, or postcard-size paper. Its ability to handle
envelopes, transparencies, and labels makes it a great printer for
your day-to-day office needs.
About the Documentation
The documentation provides a window into the many capabilities of
your printer. The more familiar you are with the documentation, the
easier it’ll be for you to achieve the results you want from your printer.
Several pieces of standard documentation accompany your printer. If
you’ve ordered any printer options, you’ll have even more documen-
tation. But don’t worry—you don’t have to read them all tonight to be
able to use your printer. In fact, you may never need to use some of
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About the
Documentation
1-9
Introduction
them at all, depending on the type of documents you print and the
environment in which you print them.
This section will give you an idea of how we’ve organized information
and which documents you’ll probably refer to the most.
Standard Product Documentation
You received the following documentation with your product:
QMS 1060
Print System
Getting Started
You’re looking at this manual right now.
The section called “About This Manual”
later in this chapter tells you what’s
included in this manual.
QMS 1060
Print System
Operation
This manual guides you through the
day-to-day operation of your printer. It
includes information on replacing print
media and toner, using advanced
printing features, handling and cleaning
your printer, improving print quality, and
troubleshooting printer problems.
QMS 1060
Print System
Reference
This manual provides information you
may need only once in a while, such as
information on typefaces and fonts,
control panel configuration menu,
memory, end job mode, PS protocol,
HP-GL color encoding, and installing
and using printer options. This manual
also provides technical specifications, a
list of printer-supported QMS Document
Option Commands (DOC), character
tables, and a glossary of frequently
used terms.
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About the
Documentation
QMS 1060 Print System Getting Started 1-10
QMS Crown
Network Notes
Refer to this documentation for tips on using
your QMS 1060 Print System if you’re
connecting to a network through the serial or
parallel port. It discusses 3Com 3+Open,
Banyan VINES, LAN Manager-based LANs,
Novell NetWare, TCP/IP, UNIX, and VMS/
DECnet. In most cases, only advanced
network users and system administrators
need this information.
» Note: This manual is provided on
disk in encapsulated PostScript
(EPS) form. Refer to the README
file for information on printing a
hardcopy of the manual.
Printer Option
Documentation
If you purchased a printer option (for
example, a Kanji option kit), you received
separate documentation for it. See chapter
6, “Printer Options,” of the
QMS 1060 Print
System Reference
for additional option
information.
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About the
Documentation
1-11
Introduction
Other Relevant Documentation
Don’t forget that your application, host operating system, and
network documentation all contain useful information.:
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QMS Crown
Document Option
Commands
(This manual is
available from your
QMS vendor)
Document Option Commands (DOCs)
are software codes you insert in
documents to enable printer features
that cannot be accessed by your
application or page description
language. This manual lists and
explains all of the commands. The
DOCs supported by your printer are
listed in appendix C, “Document Option
Commands,” of the
Reference guide .
Using QMS DOC, you can develop
one driver to support all languages
and emulations for your printer.
Also, you can use host network
management software to create
customized network printer queues
for all users connected to the
printer. In most cases, only
advanced users and system
administrators need this
information.
PostScript Reference
Manuals Other manuals that contain
PostScript information are the
PostScript Language Reference
Manual
(Adobe Systems, Inc.,
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley,
1990 ISBN-0201-18127-4), and the
“PostScript Language Reference
Manual” (in
Supplement for Version
2011
Adobe Systems, Inc., January
24, 1992).
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About the
Documentation
QMS 1060 Print System Getting Started 1-12
About This Manual
This manual contains detailed, illustrated instructions to guide you as
you unpack and set up your printer and connect it to a host (such as
an Apple Macintosh or an IBM or compatible PC). In addition, it intro-
duces you to the printer’s control panel. This manual is divided as fol-
lows:
1
Introduction Presents an overview of the
documentation and of the printer’s
features.
2
Setting Up
Your Printer
Guides you in selecting a location
for your printer and explains how to
unpack and set up your printer.
3
Connecting to
a Macintosh
Explains how to connect the printer
to an Apple Macintosh and then
discusses Simultaneous Interface
Operation (SIO) and Emulation
Sensing Processor (ESP)
technology.
4
Connecting to
a PC
Explains how to connect the printer
to an IBM PC or compatible
computer using the parallel or serial
interface.
5
Using the
Control Panel
Introduces the parts of the printer
control panel.
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Documentation
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Introduction
Typographic Conventions
The following typographic conventions are used in this manual:
» Note:
Notes contain tips, extra information, or important information
that deserves emphasis or reiteration.
▲Caution : Cautions present information that you need to know to avoid
equipment damage, process failure, or extreme annoyance.
A
QMS Customer
Support
Provides product sales and support
telephone numbers and describes
how to communicate with QMS
through the QMS
Bulletin Board, CompuServe, the
Internet, and Q-FAX.
B
Configuration
Menu
Provides a menu chart that shows a
Configuration menu option’s tree.
Mixed-Case Courier Text you type, and messages and information
displayed on the screen
Mixed-Case
Italic Courier
Variable text you type; replace the italicized word(s)
with information specific to your printer or computer
UPPERCASE
COURIER Information displayed in the printer message window
lowercase bold PostScript operators and DOS commands
lowercase italic Variable information in text
UPPERCASE File and utility names
↵Press the Enter key (PC) or Return key (Macintosh)
^ Press and hold down the Ctrl key (PC)
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Printer
Features
QMS 1060 Print System Getting Started 1-14
M WARNING! Warnings indicate the possibility of personal injury if a
specific procedure is not performed exactly as described in the
manual.
ACHTUNG! Bitte halten Sie sich exakt an die im Handbuch
beschriebene Vorgenhensweise, da sonst Verletzungsgefahr
bestehen könnte.
Printer Features
This brief overview will acquaint you with your printer’s major features
and how they can benefit you. Specific chapters throughout the three
volumes of the user’s guide (this manual, the
Operation manual, and
the
Reference manual) contain more information on each feature.
Consult the index or the table of contents in each manual for guid-
ance in locating this information.
Media Flexibility
The printer supports print media in five different sizes (legal, letter,
executive, A4, B5 ISO) in both portrait and landscape orientations. It
also supports envelopes, postcards, and other custom print media.
User Benefit—You have the option of printing on a variety of stan-
dard and non-standard media sizes in both portrait and landscape ori-
entations, as well as printing on envelopes, postcards, and other
custom print media.
Toner Savings
The printer provides toner savings with the Conserve Toner option.
User Benefit—A choice of printing modes allows you to lower print-
ing costs by reducing the amount of toner on the printed page when
printing draft copies of documents.
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Introduction
Multiple Resolutions
Two printer resolutions are available: 300x300 and 600x600 dots per
inch.
» Note:
With the standard 8 MB of RAM on the QMS 1060 printer
300x300 dpi is available for all media sizes and 600x600 dpi is
available for all media sizes except legal which requires additional
memory.
User Benefit—A choice of print resolutions allows you to customize
the quality of your output according to its use: 300x300 dpi for most
hardcopy needs or 600x600 dpi for camera-ready output (depending
on your application and requirements).
Four Resident Emulations
Your printer supports printing in HP PCL 5, HP-GL, Lineprinter, and
PostScript emulations.
User Benefit—Most applications can print directly to the printer.
HP PCL 5 Emulation
The printer simultaneously emulates the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet
IIISi and the HP PaintJet XL300 Color Printer (the output is gray-
scaled on your QMS 1060 Print System). These printers are emu-
lated at both 300x300 dpi (bitmap and scalable fonts) and 600x600
dpi (scalable fonts only).
» Note:
Using 600x600 dpi resolution with the legal media size requires
additional memory. Only 300x300 dpi resolution is available for HP-
GL/2.
HP-GL Emulation
The printer provides HP-GL plotter emulation (7470A, 7475A, 7550A,
and ColorPro) at 300x300 dpi and 600x600 dpi.
» Note:
Using 600x600 dpi resolution with the legal media size requires
additional memory.
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Lineprinter Emulation
The Lineprinter emulation prints simple, unformatted text files at
300x300 and 600x600 dpi.
» Note:
Using 600x600 dpi resolution with the legal media size requires
additional memory.
PostScript Level 2 Emulation and Level l
Compatibility
The QMS 1060 Print System’s Level 2 emulation allows you to take
full advantage of your printer’s high print resolution. The Level 2 emu-
lation is compatible with Adobe’s PostScript Level 2 language while
providing additional capabilities. The Level 2 emulation supports
extensive graphics capabilities to control the appearance of text, geo-
metric shapes and images, and improves memory and resource man-
agement. Full support for PostScript Level 1 files is also included.
Resident Fonts and Symbol Sets
Your printer comes with 12 PostScript typeface families containing 39
licensed fonts, and it provides support for any TrueType font that’s in
the format required for PostScript. All resident PostScript typeface
families have multilingual character sets. The printer also has 7 resi-
dent bitmap PCL 5 fonts in 25 symbol sets each, 12 resident scalable
PCL 5 fonts in 35 symbol sets each, 1 resident scalable PCL 5 font in
5 symbol sets, and 40 resident HP-GL symbol sets.
User Benefit—With so many resident fonts and symbol sets, there is
less need for time-consuming downloading.
QMS Crown Technology
The QMS Crown multitasking operating system provides fast pro-
cessing speeds, networking capability, and higher printer perfor-
mance while maintaining outstanding print quality.
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Introduction
Multitasking and Compile-Ahead Technology
Your printer receives, compiles, processes, and prints multiple docu-
ments at the same time—true multitasking. The printer has a variety
of resources that it uses to print the page. Memory, emulations, and
the laser printer engine (the mechanical parts that actually put toner
on the page) are all resources of the printer.
Compile-ahead technology is the temporary storage of page images
in a proprietary compressed data format. It makes maximum use of
the memory resource. While the engine is busy printing a page, com-
pile-ahead technology uses the available printer memory to prepare
the subsequent pages of the document (or the next job). These page
images are available as soon as the current page is printed. For
example, while the QMS 1060 Print System is actually printing the
third page of a five-page document, pages four, five, and the next job
in the queue are already compiled into the compressed data format.
User Benefit—With multitasking, your jobs are printed more quickly,
and the host is free sooner. With compile-ahead technology you
spend less time waiting for documents to print. This improves printer
throughput and increases your productivity.
Simultaneous Interface Operation (SIO)
Although many other printers have multiple interface ports and auto-
matically designate a “hot port,” only one port actively receives data
at a time. Your QMS 1060 Print System is unique because SIO allows
all of its interface ports—LocalTalk, parallel (Centronics and bidirec-
tional IEEE 1284), serial, and two optional network interfaces—to be
active at the same time.
The standard interfaces let you connect to any Macintosh or IBM PC
or compatible. The printer also works in many minicomputer, main-
frame computer, and network environments.
User Benefit—You can have more than one computer sending print
jobs to the printer. Each interface has an input buffer (which may be
expanded with additional memory or an optional hard disk) that
receives data while another interface is being used to print.
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Emulation Sensing Processor (ESP) Technology
Most printers can recognize only their native command language.
However, ESP technology, which works with most popular commer-
cially available applications, uses a form of artificial intelligence to
analyze incoming file data and select the appropriate printer emula-
tion from those installed on the printer, and processes the print job.
User Benefit—When your printer is in ESP mode, you can easily
print PostScript, HP PCL 5, HP-GL, or Lineprinter documents without
changing printer switch settings or sending software commands to
accommodate different printer languages.
The QMS 1060 Print System prints almost any file sent in a language
ESP technology understands, whether you have one, two, or more
hosts, and whether you are communicating through an LocalTalk,
Centronics or bidirectional IEEE 1284 parallel, serial, or optional net-
work interface. Most users never have to change from ESP mode to
another mode.
Context Switching
After its initial use, the state of an emulation and downloaded data
(such as fonts, macros, and overlays when changing emulations) is
preserved for as long as the printer power is on.
User Benefit—Repetitive downloading of emulations, fonts, macros,
and overlays is unnecessary.
Compressed Data Formats
Crown printers convert data received from the input buffers into inter-
mediate, compressed blocks until the data is needed for printing.
These compressed blocks of data are designed to be processed rap-
idly by the printer, and many more can be stored in memory at one
time than can traditional bitmapped images.
User Benefit—This allows and increases the speed of such printer
features as collation and automatic jam recovery, if enabled.
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