Konica minolta Ip-511 User manual

IP-511

Print Controller

Printer

Read this manual before printing.

Keep readily available for reference.

Thank you very much for purchasing the IP-511.

This INSTRUCTION MANUAL includes instructions for making prints, correct handling of the machine, and precau-

tions for safety. Please read this manual before printing.

In order to maintain a satisfactory printing performance, please keep this INSTRUCTION MANUAL readily available

for reference.

SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT

This package contains the following materials provided by Konica Corporation (Konica): software included as part

of the printing system, the digitally-encoded machine-readable outline data encoded in the special format and in the

encrypted form ("Font Programs"), other software which runs on a computer system for use in conjunction with the

Printing Software ("Host Software"), and related explanatory written materials ("Documentation").

The term "Software" shall be used to describe Printing Software, Font Programs and/or Host Software and also in-

clude any upgrades, modified versions, additions, and copies of the Software.

The Software is being licensed to you under the terms of this Agreement.

Konica grants to you a non-exclusive sublicense to use the Software and Documentation, provided that you agree

to the following:

1. You may use the Printing Software and accompanying Font Programs for imaging to the licensed output de-

vice(s), solely for your own internal business purposes.

2. In addition to the license for Font Programs set forth in Section 1 ("Printing Software") above, you may use Ro-

man Font Programs to reproduce weights, styles, and versions of letters, numerals, characters and symbols

("Typefaces") on the display or monitor for your own internal business purposes.

3. You may make one backup copy of the Host Software, provided your backup copy is not installed or used on

any computer. Notwithstanding the above restrictions, you may install the on any number of computers solely

for use with one or more printing systems running the Printing Software.

4. You may assign its rights under this Agreement to an assignee of all of Licensee's right and interest to such

Software and Documentation ("Assignee") provided you transfer to Assignee all copies of such Software and

Documentation Assignee agrees to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

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6. You agree that you will not attempt to alter, disassemble, decrypt, reverse engineer or decompile the Software.

7. Title to and ownership of the Software and Documentation and any reproductions thereof shall remain with

Konica.

8. Trademarks shall be used in accordance with accepted trademark practice, including identification of the trade-

mark owner's name. Trademarks can only be used to identify printed output produced by the Software. Such

use of any trademark does not give you any rights of ownership in that trademark.

9. You may not rent, lease, sublicense, lend or transfer versions or copies of the Software Licensee does not use,

or Software contained on any unused media, except as part of the permanent transfer of all Software and Doc-

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profits or lost saving, even if Konica has been advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by

any third party. Some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental, consequential

or special damages, so the above limitations may not apply to you.

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2.101, consisting of "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation," as

such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212. Consistent with 48 C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 through

227.7202-4, all U.S. Government End Users acquire the Software with only those rights set forth herein.

Macintosh®is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

Windows®is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

CONTENTS

■Introduction ........................................................................................................................... iv

●Package Contents ...................................................................................................................................... v

●System Requirements ............................................................................................................................... v

●About this Manual ..................................................................................................................................... vi

●Conventions Used in this Manual .......................................................................................................... vii

●Folder structure on the CD-ROM ............................................................................................................. ix

Chapter 1 Overview

■Overview of the Print Controller ........................................................................................ 1-2

●Print Controller and Main Body Printer ................................................................................................1-2

●Print Data Flow ........................................................................................................................................ 1-4

●Hardware Configuration .........................................................................................................................1-5

●Interface ...................................................................................................................................................1-5

●Printer Driver ...........................................................................................................................................1-6

●Page Description Language ...................................................................................................................1-6

●Memory .................................................................................................................................................... 1-7

Chapter 2 Printer Driver Setup

■Installation of the Printer Driver ........................................................................................ 2-2

●Before Installation ...................................................................................................................................2-2

●Installing to Windows 95/98/Me .............................................................................................................2-3

●Installing to Windows NT4.0/2000 ......................................................................................................... 2-7

●Uninstalling the Printer Driver (Windows 95/98/Me) ..........................................................................2-12

●Uninstalling the Printer Driver (Windows NT4.0) ...............................................................................2-13

●Uninstalling the Printer Driver (Windows 2000) .................................................................................2-15

■Test Page Print .................................................................................................................. 2-17

Chapter 3 Printer Driver Functions

■Printer Driver Functions ..................................................................................................... 3-2

●Compliant OS ..........................................................................................................................................3-2

●Properties ................................................................................................................................................ 3-3

●Function List ...........................................................................................................................................3-7

●Description of Functions ......................................................................................................................3-13

Chapter 4 Control Panel Setup

■Control Panel ...................................................................................................................... 4-2

●Names and Functions of the Control Panel .........................................................................................4-2

●LCD Touch Screen .................................................................................................................................. 4-4

●Job Status Screen ...................................................................................................................................4-6

●Printer Mode Basic Screen ....................................................................................................................4-8

■Configuration of Printer Setting Menu ............................................................................ 4-10

■Functions of the Printer Setting ...................................................................................... 4-11

CONTENTS

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●Test Print Menu .....................................................................................................................................4-11

●Controller Set ........................................................................................................................................4-12

●Set Default ............................................................................................................................................. 4-14

●PCL Setup ..............................................................................................................................................4-16

■Print Job ............................................................................................................................ 4-17

●Cancel .................................................................................................................................................... 4-17

●Check ..................................................................................................................................................... 4-18

●Interrupt / Reserve ................................................................................................................................4-20

●Forced Output .......................................................................................................................................4-21

●Password Print (Confidential Output) .................................................................................................4-22

●Job Combination ...................................................................................................................................4-25

Chapter 5 Printer EKC

■Overview of the Printer EKC .............................................................................................. 5-2

●Setting of Printer EKC ............................................................................................................................5-2

●Printing with Printer EKC .......................................................................................................................5-2

●EKC Limit .................................................................................................................................................5-3

Appendix A Troubleshooting

■Basic Troubleshooting ..................................................................................... Appendix A-2

■General Problems of Printing .......................................................................... Appendix A-3

●The Print Controller does not respond to the Print command. ........................................ Appendix A-3

●A message requesting a paper size you do not use is displayed. ...................................Appendix A-3

●You cannot print the test print. ............................................................................................ Appendix A-4

●The print setting of a job does not correspond to the result of printing. ........................Appendix A-4

●Memory Overflow ..................................................................................................................Appendix A-4

●HD Full ...................................................................................................................................Appendix A-5

■Troubles Concerning the Scanner .................................................................. Appendix A-6

●Cannot connect to the scanner ...........................................................................................Appendix A-6

■Checking on Non complete job ....................................................................... Appendix A-7

Appendix B Product Specifications

■Product Specifications ..................................................................................... Appendix B-2

Appendix C Font List

■Internal Font List ............................................................................................... Appendix C-2

Introduction

■Introduction

The Konica IP-511 is a print controller designed to be a built-in type server for the Konica 7155 / 7165 printer/

copier. It enables direct printing from Windows-compliant computers. It can also enable use of the copier as

a network printer when an internal network interface card is used.

For guidance in setting up the copier, configuring the settings for networks, and a description of the scanning

features available, refer to the corresponding separate manuals.

Registered Trademarks

Microsoft, MS and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States.

IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines, Inc. in the United States.

WindowsTM is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

HP and PCL are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company.

Agfa Microtype font is a registered trademark of Agfa Corporation.

PEERLESS is a registered trademark of PEERLESS SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Adobe, Adobe Logo, Acrobat, Acrobat Logo, PostScript and PostScript Logo are registered trademarks

or trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc.

Other company names and product names used in this manual are the registered trademarks or trade-

marks of their respective companies.

Patent Notice

The product includes an implementation of LZW licensed under U.S.Patent 4,558,302.

Built-in Fonts

The print controller includes support for PCL5e Language (HP PCL clone) and includes the 80 built-in

Agfa Microtype fonts. For a complete list, see "Appendix C Font List"(p.Appendix C-1).

•A part or all of this INSTRUCTION MANUAL may not be used or copied without permission.

•Konica will have no liability for any influences caused by using the printing system and this manual.

•Information written in this INSTRUCTION MANUAL is subject to change without notice.

•Konica Corporation maintains the copyright of this printer driver.

Introduction

●Package Contents

The following items are supplied with the IP-511:

•Notice Sheet

•Interface Board

•Board Cover

•Board Protector Cover

•TP screw (M3 x 6)

•TP screw (M4 x 6)

•User Software CD

(Windows)

•Printer Driver

•Scanner Driver (compatible with TWAIN)

•Network Connection Utilities

•BOOTP

•IP-P2P

•MAP

•NW Setup

•UNIX

•Adobe Acrobat Reader

•INSTRUCTION MANUAL (this manual, Network Setup manual and Network Scanner manual)

•Release Note (describes the latest information as well as limits of the system and the

user software.)

•Screenfonts

(Macintosh)

•Adobe Acrobat Reader

•INSTRUCTION MANUAL (this manual, Network Setup manual and Network Scanner manual)

●System Requirements

Windows

The following are required to print from Windows-compliant computers to the printing system:

•Computers on which Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000 can run

•CD-ROM drive (necessary to install the printer driver or the scanner driver)

Using Windows 95/98/Me

•Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me

•32 MB RAM or more

Using Windows NT4.0/2000

•Microsoft Windows NT4.0/2000

•32 MB RAM or more

Parallel Port

The following are required to print to the print controller by way of the parallel port:

•Windows-compliant computers

•IEEE 1284 parallel cable

One end of the cable is required to have a DB 36 pin male connector (connected to the print control-

ler).

Introduction

●About this Manual

This manual is used only for the IP-511 Print Controller.

This manual describes how to operate the IP-511 Print Controller when the Konica 7155 / 7165 Copier is

used as a printer by connecting it to computers.

This manual assumes you are familiar with the basic operation of Windows and Copier.

For guidance in setting up the copier, configuring the settings for networks, and a description of the scan-

ning features available, we suggest you refer to the corresponding separate manuals.

The main body printer (copier) and the internal network interface card are separately supplied with

instruction manuals. Refer to these manuals as needed.

For detailed operations of Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT4.0/2000, refer to the operating

manuals for each operating system. For application operations, refer to the operating manuals pro-

vided with each application.

This manual is composed of the following five chapters and appendices:

Chapter 1: Overview

Chapter 1 describes the print controller hardware and the overview of its functions, and briefly explains

how to connect the parallel ports of computers to the print controller and the main body printer (copier).

Chapter 2: Printer Driver Setup

Chapter 2 describes how to install the printer driver (user software included on the user software CD)

to Windows-compliant computers.

It enables printing from each application of Windows-compliant computers to the main body printer by

way of a parallel port/network.

Chapter 3: Printer Driver Functions

Chapter 3 describes various functions of the printer driver installed on Windows-compliant computers.

Chapter 4: Control Panel Setup

Chapter 4 describes the layout of the control panel of the main body printer and explains how to oper-

ate and set functions on the control panel.

Chapter 5: Printer EKC

Chapter 5 describes how to set and use Printer EKC.

Appendices

•Appendix A describes troubleshooting tips for the print controller.

•Appendix B describes product specifications.

•Appendix C lists the built-in printer fonts included with the print controller.

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●Conventions Used in this Manual

Notation of each product

The following abbreviations are used in this manual:

(1) IP-511 Print Controller: print controller

(2) Konica 7155 / 7165 Printer/Copier: main body printer or copier

(3) Internal Network Interface Card: network interface card

(4) A printing system that combines the above

(1), (2) and (3) products: printing system

(5) Microsoft Windows 95: Windows 95

Microsoft Windows 98: Windows 98

Microsoft Windows Me: Windows Me

Microsoft Windows NT4.0: Windows NT4.0 or Windows NT

Microsoft Windows 2000: Windows 2000

Above OSs: Windows 95/98/Me

Windows NT4.0/2000

Windows NT/2000

Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000

Notation of cautions in this manual are shown with the caution symbol.

Each mark used in this manual has the following meaning.

Things important in operating hardware and software were described.

Precautions and limits at the time of operating hardware and software were written.

Limitations imposed by a combined use of features offered by hardware and software were

described.

Hints, advice, confirming items, etc. at the time of operating hardware and software were written.

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Notation of names shown on the screen are written within square brackets

e.g., "click the [OK] button."

Notation of folders

Folders are referred to in upper-to-lower sequence.

For example:

Select the [Printer.inf] file in the "PCL\English\Win9X" folder of the User Software CD.

Notation of the reference in this manual is written within quotation marks

e.g., "Chapter 1 Overview."

Indicates where to be referred to for information concerned

e.g., " (p.1-1)."

When you click page number, move reference page.

Introduction

●Folder structure on the CD-ROM

English

User Software CD

Windows

Japanese

French

Acroread (Acrobat Reader 5.0)

English

Macintosh

Japanese

Acroread (Acrobat Reader 4.05)

French

Driver

Italian

Driver

German

Driver

Spanish

Driver

Screen Fonts

NetUtil

BOOTP (IP address assign program)

Printer

Scanner (Scanner Driver (compatible with TWAIN))

ip511prn_int_vxxx.pdf (IP-511 Print Controller INSTRUCTION MANUAL

for non-USA)

ip511net_int_vxxx.pdf (IP-511 Network Setup

INSTRUCTION MANUAL for non-USA)

ip511scn_int_vxxx.pdf (IP-511 Network Scanner INSTRUCTION MANUAL

for non-USA)

Screenfonts

UserGuide

IP-P2P (IP base - Peer to Peer program)

IPX-P2P (IPX base - Peer to Peer program)

MAP (Management Access program)

NWSetup (NetWare Setup Program)

Unix (Utilities for Unix)

Win9x_Me (Printer Driver for Windows 95/98/Me)