Konica Minolta PagePro 1300W User manual

PagePro 1300W
User’s Guide
®
4136-7746-01A

Contents
Contents i
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1
Getting Acquainted with Your Printer 2
Printer Parts 2
Front View 2
Rear View 2
About the Indicator Functions 3
Indicator Functions 3
Continuing a Print Job after an Error Message 3
Cancelling a Print Job 3
Status Message 4
2 Software Installation ......................................................................................... 7
Installing the USB Device Driver 8
Installing the USB Device Driver under Windows Me and 98 8
Installing the Printer Driver 9
Installing from the CD-ROM 9
3 Working with the Printer Driver ..................................................................... 11
Displaying Printer Driver Settings 12
Displaying Settings under Windows XP 12

Contentsii
Displaying Settings under Windows 2000/Me/98 12
Using the Printer Driver 13
Common Buttons 13
OK 13
Cancel 13
Apply 13
Help 13
Easy Set 13
Page Layout 13
Printer Figure 13
Setup Tab 14
Paper Tab 14
Quality Tab 14
Device Options Setting Tab 14
4 Working with the Status Display ....................................................................15
Working with the Status Display 16
Introduction 16
Environment 16
Opening the Status Display and Showing the Supplies Status 16
Altering the Size of the Status Display Window 16
Using the Status Display 16
Recognizing Status Display Alerts 17
Recovering from a Status Display Alert 17
Closing the Status Display 18
5 Using Media .....................................................................................................19
About Media 20
What sizes/weights of media can I use? 20
What type and amount of media can I load? 21
Media Storage 21
Media Not Suitable for Printing 22
What Is the guaranteed imageable (printable) area? 23
Page Margins 23
Loading Media 24
How do I refill Tray 1? 24
Printing on Media 25
How do I load and print custom media? 25
How do I load and print envelopes? 25
How do I load and print labels? 27
How do I load and print postcards? 28
How do I load and print thick stock? 29
How do I load and print transparencies? 30
Manual Duplexing 31
How do I manually duplex? 31

Contents iii
6 Replacing Consumables ................................................................................ 33
Replacing the Toner Cartridge 34
Replacing the Drum Cartridge 38
7 Maintaining the Printer ................................................................................... 43
Cleaning the Printer 44
Exterior 44
Pick-up Roller 45
8 Troubleshooting .............................................................................................. 47
Indicator Messages 48
Error Messages 48
Service Messages 49
Clearing Jams 50
Solving Problems-Printing Quality 53
A Appendix .......................................................................................................... 57
Safety Specifications 58
Technical Specifications 58
Printer 58
Parallel Interface Connectors and Cable 60
USB Interface Connectors and Cable 60
Consumables Life Expectancies Chart 60
Our Concern for Environmental Protection 61
What is an ENERGY STAR product? 61
CE Marking (Declaration of Conformity) 61
For European Users 61
CISPR 22 and Local Rules 61
Acoustic Noise 62
Safety Information 62
Warning and Precaution Symbols 62
Meaning of Symbols 62
WARNING 63
CAUTION 65
Working Safely with your Laser Printer 66
Notes on your Safety and Operating Safety 66
Laser Safety 68
Internal Laser Radiation 68
Laser Safety Label 69
For United States Users 69
For Users in All Countries 70
For Denmark Users 70
For Norway Users 70
For Finland, Sweden Users 70

Contentsiv

1
Introduction

Getting Acquainted with Your Printer2
Getting Acquainted with Your Printer
Printer Parts
The following drawings illustrate the parts of your printer referred to through-
out this guide, so please take some time to become familiar with them.
Front View
1—Top cover
2—Output tray
3—Control panel
4—Imaging cartridge
(Toner cartridge plus Drum car-
tridge)
5—Front cover
6—Tray 1
7—Front cover grip
8—Paper guide stopper
9—Paper guides
10—Ventilation grilles
11—Power switch
Rear View
1—AC power connection
2—Parallel port
3—USB port
1 2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Imaging
Drum cartridge
Toner cartridge
cartridge
1
2
3

About the Indicator Functions 3
About the Indicator Functions
Indicator Functions
The control panel has two indicators
and one button. The control panel
indicators provide information on the
status of the printer.
1—Ready indicator
2—Error indicator
3—Cancel button
The Cancel button allows you to:
!Continue a print job after an
error message
!Cancel a print job
Continuing a Print Job after an Error Message
You can continue the print job after correcting the following types of errors:
!When the print job is too complex and the memory capacity of the printer
is inadequate
!When there is no more paper in the tray
!When paper of a different format than that set in the printer driver was fed
into the printer
1Check that one of the above errors has occurred.
2Perform the remedial action according to the error.
3Press the Cancel button to operate the media feed.
The print job continues.
For details on the error messages, refer to chapter 8, “Troubleshooting” on
page 47.
Cancelling a Print Job
You can cancel a print job that is currently being processed.
1While data is being processed or printed (the green “Ready” indicator is
blinking), hold down the Cancel button for more than 5 seconds.
2Release the Cancel button after both indicators light up.
The current print job has now been cancelled.
1
2
3

About the Indicator Functions4
The indicators may show five types of signals:
!Off
!On
!Slow blinking—1 blink every 2 seconds
!Blinking—1 blink per second
!Rapid blinking—2 blink per second
Status Message
Status messages indicate the current condition of the printer. The printer sta-
tus also can be checked on the Status Display. (Refer to the “Working with
the Status Display” on page 16.)
Ready
indicator
(green)
Error
indicator
(orange)
Condition Action
Off Off Power off None
On Off Ready to print None
Rapid blink-
ing
Off Warming up None
Blinking Off Processing data None
Printing
On On Initializing (power on) None
Canceling a print job
Slow blinking Off Power save mode None

About the Indicator Functions 5
Note
If the toner cartridge that is used is not genuine, cleaning will be
performed after each page printed, which will reduce the printing speed.
On Slow blinking Toner near empty Prepare the toner
cartridge.
On Blinking Toner empty Replace the toner
cartridge.
On Rapid blink-
ing
Toner out Replace the toner
cartridge.
No toner cartridge is
installed.
Install the toner car-
tridge.
A toner cartridge other
than a genuine
KONICA MINOLTA
toner cartridge has
been detected.
Install a genuine
KONICA MINOLTA
toner cartridge.
Ready
indicator
(green)
Error
indicator
(orange)
Condition Action

About the Indicator Functions6

2
Software
Installation

Installing the USB Device Driver8
Installing the USB Device Driver
When connecting the printer to your computer with a USB cable, install the
USB device driver according to the following instructions before installing the
printer driver.
Note
In Windows 2000/XP, you do not have to install the USB device driver.
When the “Found New Hardware” wizard dialog box appears, cancel it.
Installing the USB Device Driver under Windows Me and
98
1Turn on your computer.
2Turn on the printer.
3When Windows and the printer are both ready, insert the CD-ROM,
included with your printer, into your computer’s CD-ROM drive.
4Connect the printer to the computer with the USB cable. The Add New
Hardware Wizard dialog box appears.
Follow the instructions on the screen.
"# Browse the printer driver CD-ROM and navigate to:
“drivers\english\Win9x” (for Windows Me and 98).
5Click Finish. This completes the installation of the USB device driver.
6When the Add New Hardware Wizard dialog box appears after clicking
Finish, click Cancel.

Installing the Printer Driver 9
Installing the Printer Driver
Note
Do not use the “Found New Hardware” or “Add New Hardware” wizard
to install the PagePro 1300W driver and utilities.
Installing from the CD-ROM
1Insert the CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive of your computer. The CD-ROM
installer automatically starts.
If not , browse with the Windows Explorer to the CD-ROM and dou-
ble-click on setup.exe.
2Follow the instructions on the screen.
!" For a USB connection, select “USBxxx” as the printer port.
For a Parallel connection, select “LPTx” as the printer port.

Installing the Printer Driver10

3
Working with the
Printer Driver

Displaying Printer Driver Settings12
Displaying Printer Driver Settings
Displaying Settings under Windows XP
1From the Start menu, click Control Panel.
2In Pick a category, click Printers and Other Hardware.
3In Pick a task…, click View installed printers or fax printers.
4In the Printers and Faxes directory, select the KONICA MINOLTA
PagePro 1300W printer icon.
5To display the printer driver settings, from the File menu, click Printing
Preferences....
Displaying Settings under Windows 2000/Me/98
1From the Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Printers to display
the Printers directory.
2Select the KONICA MINOLTA PagePro 1300W printer icon.
3Display the printer driver settings:
!Windows 2000—From the File menu, click Printing Preferences....
!Windows Me/98—From the File menu, click Properties, and then
click the Printer Properties tab.

Using the Printer Driver 13
Using the Printer Driver
"# Refer to the printer drivers online help for information on all of the
functions.
Common Buttons
The buttons described below appear on each tab.
OK
Click to exit the Properties dialog box, saving any changes made.
Cancel
Click to exit the Properties dialog box without saving any changes made.
Apply
Click to save all changes without exiting the Properties dialog box.
Help
Click to view online help.
Easy Set
To save the current settings, click Save.... Afterward, the saved settings can
be selected from the drop-down list.
Select Default from the drop-down list to reset the functions of the tab to their
original values.
Page Layout
Check this option button to display a sample of the page layout in the figure
area.
Printer Figure
Check this option button to display an image of the printer in the figure area.

Using the Printer Driver14
Setup Tab
The Setup tab allows you to
!Print several pages of a document on the same page (n-up printing)
!Provide a watermark on printed documents
!Design custom watermarks
!Specify manual duplex printing
!Specify the paper source
!Define the type of media
!Print using a form overlay
!Create/edit a form overlay
Paper Tab
The Paper tab allows you to
!Specify the size of the original document
!Define custom media sizes
!Fit printed documents to a specified media size
!Select the output media size
!Scale (enlarge/reduce) documents
!Adjust the printing position
!Specify the number of copies
!Turn on/off the printer’s sorting function
!Turn on/off the Proof Print function
!Specify the orientation of the media
!Rotate the print image 180° to the media orientation
Quality Tab
The Quality tab allows you to
!Specify the resolution
!Adjust the contrast and brightness of the printed document
!Turn on/off Toner Save mode
Device Options Setting Tab
The Device Options Setting tab allows you to
!View version and copyright information about the printer driver