Epson Stylus C80N Operating and safety instructions

EPSON Stylus C80N
Getting Started
Setup and Installation Guide
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Contents
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
EpsonNet External Print Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How To Use Your Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Warnings, Cautions, and Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Viewing Your Electronic Manuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Opening the Printer Reference Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Navigating the Reference Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Opening the Administrator’s Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
SETTING UP YOUR PRINTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Unpacking the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Attaching the Paper Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing the Ink Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Loading Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing the Print Server Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Status Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
INSTALLING THE PRINT SERVER SOFTWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Where To Get More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
EpsonNet WinAssist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing EpsonNet WinAssist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
EpsonNet MacAssist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing EpsonNet MacAssist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
EpsonNet WebAssist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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EpsonNet WebManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
EpsonNet WebManager Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Setting Up EpsonNet WebManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Installing and Starting EpsonNet WebManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Uninstalling EpsonNet WebManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER ON WORKSTATIONS . . 23
Installing the Printer Driver in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Changing the Printer Port Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing the Printer Driver on a Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Printing a Test Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
MONITORING YOUR PRINTER IN WINDOWS . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Selecting a Printer to Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Turning Monitoring On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Starting Monitoring from the Properties Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Turning On Monitoring from a Shortcut Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Disabling Background Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
WHERE TO GET HELP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
EPSON Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Identifying Printer Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
REQUIREMENTS AND NOTICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Windows System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Macintosh System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
ENERGY STAR Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Important Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Ink Cartridge Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
FCC Compliance Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Declaration of Conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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Limited Warranty for the EPSON Stylus C80N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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Introduction
Your EPSON Stylus®C80N printer is the ideal output device for business graphics,
digital photographs, documents, and more. It includes an EpsonNet External Print
Server that you connect to the printer’s parallel port. With the print server, EpsonNet
configuration software, and additional utilities, you can monitor printer status,
manage your printer and other network printers, and print across the Internet.
You can print to the EPSON Stylus C80N through the network from Microsoft®
Windows,® Apple®Macintosh,®UNIX,®and IBM®OS/2.®
EpsonNet External Print Server
The EpsonNet External Print Server is a combination of hardware and software that
makes your EPSON Stylus C80N printer available on your network without having
to connect it to a workstation.
The print server hardware supports IEEE 802.2, IEEE 802.3, Ethernet II, and
Ethernet SNAP protocols. It also supports TCP/IP, Novell®NetWare,®AppleTalk,®
NetBEUI, the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), and SNMP.
How To Use Your Documentation
To set up your EPSON Stylus C80N printer and install the network software needed
for printing, see the following chapters:
Setting Up Your Printer explains how to physically set up the printer, install the print
server, and connect the printer to the network.
Installing the Print Server Software describes the EpsonNet software utilities for
Windows and Macintosh. Follow these instructions to install the software and
configure your printer for protocols including TCP/IP, Novell NetWare, and
AppleTalk.

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Installing the Printer Driver on Workstations tells you how to install the printer
driver on individual network workstations. The printer driver runs the printer,
controls how documents look, and lets you configure the port settings so each
workstation can see the printer over the network.
Monitoring Your Printer in Windows tells you how to monitor a printer over the
network to check for low ink levels and other possible problems. Status Monitor 3
also lets you use TCP/IP for printing in Windows peer-to-peer networks.
After you’ve set up your printer as described in this book, see the Administrator’s
Manual for additional network, configuration, and print server information. The
PDF-format Administrator’s Manual is included on the Printer Software CD-ROM,
along with the EPSON Stylus C80 Reference Guide, which contains detailed
instructions on using your printer. For instructions on viewing these guides, see
“Viewing Your Electronic Manuals” on page 3.
If you need to contact EPSON for help or for parts and accessories, see “Where To
Get Help” on page 39.
Warnings, Cautions, and Notes
The following symbols are used in this book:
Warnings must be followed carefully to avoid bodily injury.
Cautions must be observed to avoid damage to your equipment.
Notes contain important information about your printer.

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Viewing Your Electronic Manuals
Follow the instructions below to view the EPSON Stylus C80 Reference Guide and the
Administrator’s Manual from your Printer Software CD-ROM or to copy the manuals
to your hard drive and view them from there.
Opening the Printer Reference Guide
The EPSON Stylus C80 Reference Guide is an HTML document, so you need a
browser—such as Netscape®Navigator®3.0 or later or Microsoft Internet Explorer
3.0 or later—to view it.
Windows
1. Insert the CD-ROM in your drive. You see the following window:
If this window does not appear, run the SETUP.EXE program in the root directory
of the Printer Software CD-ROM.
2. Double-click View Printer Reference Guide (you may have to scroll down the
menu list to see it).

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3. On the next screen, click either View Reference Guide (to view the guide) or
Install Reference Guide (to copy it to your hard drive).
If you copied the manual to your hard drive, you can access it at any time. Click Start,
point to Programs, point to EPSON, and then click ES C80 Guide.
Macintosh
1. Insert the CD-ROM in your drive.
2. Open the Manuals folder, then open the Printer Reference Guide folder, and then
double-click Stylus C80N Manual.
3. On the next screen, click either View Reference Guide (to view the guide) or
Install Reference Guide (to copy it to your hard drive).
If you copied the manual to your hard drive, you can access it at any time. Open the
Epson Stylus C80 folder and double-click View Reference Guide.
Navigating the Reference Guide
When you first open the EPSON Stylus C80 Reference Guide, you see this screen:

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Click a topic on the left to expand the table of contents, then click a topic you want to
view. If there’s a right arrow , click it to expand the list, then click a topic to go to it.
If you see an icon in place of a graphic when viewing your Reference
Guide in Netscape Navigator, click the Reload button to load the
graphic.
Opening the Administrator’s Manual
The Administrator’s Manual is a PDF file, so you need to use Adobe®Acrobat®
Reader™to view it. If you don’t have Reader, you will be prompted to install it from
the CD-ROM that came with your printer.
Closed lists;
click to
expand
Click to go
to a topic

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Windows
1. Insert the CD-ROM in your drive. You see the following screen:
2. Double-click View Administrator’s Manual.
3. On the next screen, double-click Administrator’s Manual. The manual opens in
the Adobe Acrobat Reader window. (If Reader is not already installed, follow the
on-screen instructions to install it and then open the manual.)
If you wish to copy the Administrator’s Manual to your hard drive, use Windows
Explorer to open the PDF_FILE folder on the Printer Software CD-ROM, then copy
the file named C82378.PDF to your hard drive.
Macintosh
1. Insert the CD-ROM in your drive.
2. Open the Manuals folder, open the Administrator’s Manual folder, and then
double-click C82378.PDF. The manual opens in Reader. (If Reader is not already
installed, follow the on-screen instructions to install it, and then open the
manual.)
If you wish to have the Administrator’s Manual on your hard drive, copy the file
named C82378.PDF to your hard drive.

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Setting Up Your Printer
This chapter describes how to unpack and set up your printer, and how to connect it
to your network. For more information on using and maintaining the printer, see the
EPSON Stylus C80 Reference Guide as described on page 3.
Unpacking the Printer
Remove any packing material from the printer as described on the unpacking sheet in
the printer box. Then make sure you have the following items:
Printer Software
CD-ROM
paper support
You’ll also need a Category 5 twisted pair network cable with
RJ45 connectors to connect the printer to a hub or switch. If
you’ll be connecting a computer directly to the printer (without a
hub or switch), you’ll need a “crossover” network cable.
AC adapter and power
cord for print server
printer
power cord
print server
ink
cartridges
Getting Started
(this book)
Printer
Basics

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Attaching the Paper Support
Insert the paper support into the slots at the back of the printer’s sheet feeder.
Put the printer near an available grounded outlet, but avoid areas:
■With high temperature or humidity
■In direct sunlight or dusty conditions
■Near sources of heat or electromagnetic interference, such as loudspeakers or
cordless telephone base units
Also be sure to check safety requirements and follow all the safety
instructions in the Notices section of this manual.

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Installing the Ink Cartridges
1. Make sure the printer is turned off (the Ppower button should be up), then plug
the printer’s power cord into the AC inlet on the back of the printer. Then plug
the power cord into a grounded electrical outlet.
Don’t use an outlet controlled by a wall switch or timer, or one that
uses the same circuit as a large appliance. This may disrupt the power,
which can erase memory or even damage the power supply.
Always use the Ppower button to turn the printer on or off. Never use
the external switch on a power strip.
2. Press the Ppower button to turn on the printer. The Ppower light flashes and
the ink cartridge holders begin to move.
3. Lower the printer’s output tray and open the cover.
Keep ink cartridges out of the reach of children. If ink gets on your skin,
wash the area thoroughly with soap and water. If ink gets in your eyes,
flush them immediately with water.
4. Shake each ink cartridge four or five times, then unwrap it.
Don’t remove the cartridge labels, or ink may leak.
Don’t shake cartridges after you unwrap them, or they may leak.

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5. Wait for the ink cartridge holders to move into loading position, then lower each
ink cartridge into its holder. The color of the cartridge label should match the
sticker on the holder.
Install all four ink cartridges, and leave them installed for all types of
printing, or the printer won’t work.
6. Gently push each cartridge down until it clicks into place.
7. Press the Hink button and close the printer cover.
Ink charging takes about 90 seconds. You see the Ppower light flash and hear the
printer charging your ink. Don’t turn off the printer during this process or you’ll
waste ink.
Never turn off the printer when the Ppower light is flashing, unless the
printer hasn’t moved or made any noise for more than 5 minutes.

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Loading Paper
1. Open the output tray extensions. Slide the left edge guide so it’s a little wider than
your paper.
2. Load a stack of plain paper with the printable side up and place it against the right
edge guide. Then slide the left edge guide to the paper’s left edge. Don’t load
paper higher than the arrow, as shown below.
left edge guide
output tray
extensions
Don’t load
paper higher
than this arrow

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Installing the Print Server Hardware
The print server hardware is a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet adapter that supports several
network protocols. Follow the instructions below to install it on your EPSON Stylus
C80N printer.
Do not place anything on top of the print server after it is installed in the
printer.
Leave adequate room around the print server for easy operation.
1. Make sure the printer and the print server are powered off.
2. Plug the print server into the printer’s parallel port. Squeeze the wire clips
together until they lock in place on either side of the connector.
3. Connect the network cable to the RJ-45 connector on the print server, then
connect the other end to a hub or switch.
Use Category 5 twisted pair cable to prevent malfunctions.
By default, when the print server is turned on it will try to obtain an IP
address automatically using DHCP. If it cannot get an IP address
through DHCP, it will use the private IP address of 192.168.192.168.
Make sure this address is not already used on your network before
connecting the print server to the network. For information on changing
the IP address, see the PDF-format Administrator’s Manual on the
Printer Software CD-ROM.
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4. Plug the AC adapter into the DCIN connector on the print server. Use only the
AC adapter that is included with the print server.
Before you install or uninstall the print server, always turn off the printer
and unplug the AC adapter from the wall outlet to prevent electric
shock.
5. Plug the power cord of the AC adapter into a properly grounded wall outlet.
6. While holding down the status sheet button on the print server, turn on the
printer. Continue to hold down the status sheet button for about 5 seconds. This
initializes the print server.
It can take up to one minute to initialize the print server. When it is
done initializing, its STATUS light will be green or orange (but not red).
7. After the print server is initialized, press the status sheet button for about two
seconds to print a report (a “status sheet”) on the configuration of the print server.
The status sheet is two pages long. If a status sheet prints, the print server has been
installed correctly.
After turning off the printer, wait until its Ppower light goes out before
turning it back on, or before disconnecting the print server from the
printer. Otherwise, the print server might not work correctly.
The Status Sheet
Save the status sheet. It gives information you will need later to configure the print
server and workstations. It includes the IP address and MAC address of the print
server, as well as configuration information for several other network protocols
including NetBEUI, Novell NetWare, AppleTalk, IPP, and SNMP.
status sheet button
print server

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Installing the Print Server Software
The installation and setup of the print server hardware is covered in the previous
chapter. This chapter describes the print server software and its installation.
The following utilities are included on the Printer Software CD-ROM:
■EpsonNet WinAssist or MacAssist
Use this to configure the print server for TCP/IP, NetWare, NetBEUI, or
AppleTalk. See page 16 or 17 for installation instructions.
■EpsonNet WebAssist
WebAssist lets you configure the print server using a browser. You don’t have to
install it because it resides on the print server hardware. See page 18 for a list of
supported browsers.
■EpsonNet WebManager (Windows only)
Provides printer management and monitoring features using your browser, across
the Internet or on your intranet. See page 18 for details.
■EpsonNet Direct Print Utility
Enables TCP/IP (LPR) printing in Windows 95, 98, and Me.
■EpsonNet Internet Print Utility
Offers printing across the Internet and intranets for Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0,
Me, 2000, and XP.
See the Administrator’s Manual on the Printer Software CD-ROM for more
information about these utilities.