Samsung SF-5100P User manual

Laser Printer,
Scanner, PC-Fax
User’s Guide
SF-5100P

Trademarks
• SmarThru 2, MailBox, Image Manager, Scan Manager, Copy Manager, Image Viewer, and
AnyPage Lite are trademark of Samsung Electronics.
• Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000 are trademarks of
Microsoft corporation.
• Acrobat Reader is a trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.
• IBM is a trademark of International Business Machines.
• Centronics is a trademark of Centronics Data Computer.
• Other names and trademarks mentioned in this manual are trademarks of their respective
holders.
About user’s guides
Your machine is packaged with two user guides:
• This user’s guide, which provides you with information on installing the supplied CD-ROM to
use your machine as a printer and scanner. This guide also provides the basic description on
using the supplied multi-function application, Samsung SmarThru 2, allowing you to scan and
edit images, scan to copy, PC fax, send e-mail on your computer. You will also find a brief
description on automatic text recognition program, AnyPage Lite.
• Laser facsimile user’s guide, which provides you with all of the detailed information you will
need to install, send and receive a fax, maintain and troubleshoot your machine.

Contents
Samsung SmarThru
About Samsung SmarThru Software ––––––––––––––––––– 1.1
System Requirements –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1.2
Hardware Requirements –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1.3
Installing the Samsung Software –––––––––––––––––––––– 1.4
Configuring the Fax Gate on Your PC –––––––––––––––––– 1.6
Configuring the Internet Gate on Your PC –––––––––––––– 1.9
Installing Bonus Software ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 1.13
Making Installation Diskettes –––––––––––––––––––––––– 1.13
Installing Software from Diskettes ––––––––––––––––––– 1.14
Uninstalling Samsung Software –––––––––––––––––––––– 1.15
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Printing
Printing a Document ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2.1
Loading Paper ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2.2
Paper Guidelines ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2.6
Printer settings –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2.9
Canceling a Print Job –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 2.10
Printing
2
Installing Samsung software
1
Introducing Samsung SmarThru 2 –––––––––––––––––––––––– 3.1
Running Scan Wizard
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 3.3
Running SmarThru 2
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 3.5
Getting Help in the SmarThru 2 Program
–––––––––––––––––– 3.7
Getting Started
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Scanning
Overview
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 4.1
Loading Documents for Scanning
–––––––––––––––––––––––– 4.2
Scanning a Document with the Scan Manager
–––––––––––––– 4.3
Features of the Scan Manager Window
–––––––––––––––––––– 4.6
Selecting Scan Manager Options
––––––––––––––––––––––––– 4.7
Samsung TWAIN for Scan Window
––––––––––––––––––––––– 4.8
Copying
Copying a Document
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 4.9
Scanning to PC Fax
Scanning a Document, then Sending it by PC Fax
–––––––––– 4.13
Scanning to E-mail
Scanning a Document, then Sending it by E-mail
–––––––––– 4.17
Scanning to OCR
Scanning for Automatic Text Recognition
––––––––––––––––– 4.20
Configuring Automatic Text Recognition
–––––––––––––––––– 4.23
4
Scan Wizard
Working with Image Manager
Overview –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.1
Opening the Image Manager Window ––––––––––––––––––––– 5.2
Using Programs Bar in the Image Manager––––––––––––––––– 5.4
Image Manager Toolbar Overview –––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.6
Editing Images ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.8
Working with Images In Browse Mode –––––––––––––––––––– 5.12
Image Viewer
Overview –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.16
Associating File Types with the Image Viewer ––––––––––––– 5.16
Viewing Images with the Image Viewer ––––––––––––––––––– 5.18
SmarThru 2
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Contents (continued)
Mailbox
Overview ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.19
Features of the Mailbox Window ––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.20
Working with Fax Messages
Overview –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.22
Creating and Sending a PC Fax –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.23
Browsing Fax Messages ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.29
Sending a PC Fax from a Windows Application –––––––––––– 5.31
Reading Incoming Fax Messages ––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.32
Using Fax Cover Page Editor ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.35
Working with E-mail Messages
Creating and Sending E-mail Messages ––––––––––––––––––– 5.38
New Message Toolbars –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.41
Delivering a Mail ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.42
Browsing E-mail Messages –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.43
Finding Messages –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.45
Using Address Book
Overview –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.46
Opening the Address Book –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.47
Adding Contact Information to Your Address Book ––––––––– 5.48
Organizing Address Book Items –––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.50
SmarThru Configuration
Opening the SmarThru Configuration Dialog Box –––––––––– 5.51
Configuring the Fax Gate –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.53
Configuring the Internet Gate ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.54
Configuring Service ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 5.55
SmarThru 2 (continued)
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Overview ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 6.1
Running AnyPage Lite
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 6.2
How To Recognize a Text or Table
–––––––––––––––––––––––– 6.3
AnyPage Lite Window Overview
––––––––––––––––––––––––– 6.10
Using AnyPage Lite OCR Application
6
Overview ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 7.1
Printer problems
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 7.1
Print quality problems
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 7.3
Scanning problems
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 7.5
PC-fax problems
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 7.8
OCR problems
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 7.9
Index
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– A.1
Troubleshooting
7
Appendix

chapter
1
1
This chapter provides information on installing the supplied
Samsung software. You MUST install the Samsung software to
use your machine as a printer and scanner.
The topics included in this chapter are:
Samsung SmarThru 2
◆ About Samsung SmarThru 2 Software
◆ System Requirements
◆ Hardware Requirements
◆ Installing the Samsung Software
◆ Configuring the Fax Gate on Your PC
◆ Configuring the Internet Gate on Your PC
◆ Installing Bonus Software
◆ Making Installation Diskettes
◆ Installing Software from Diskettes
◆ Un-installing Samsung Software

1.1
Installing SmarThru software
About Samsung SmarThru 2 software
You must install the SmarThru CD-ROM after you setup your machine and
connected it to your computer. The SmarThru CD-ROM includes the
following:
• MFP Driver
• SmarThru Software
• OCR software (AnyPage Lite)
• Acrobat Reader (Bonus Software)
MFP driver
To use the machine as printer, scanner, or to send and receive electronic
faxes, you MUST install the MFP driver.
SmarThru software
SmarThru consists of several components, each of which provides a
particular function:
MailBox - Work with e-mail and fax messages, you can create, send,
browse and store messages.
Image Manager - Working with images, you can import, export, store
and operate on images.
Scan Manager - Working with docments or images, you can scan to
Image Manager, scan to OCR doftware, or to a fax.
Copy Manager - Working with documents or images, you can control a
copying process. You can also save a copy of the image
or document to Image Manager.
Image Viewer - Working with documents or imahes, you can view images
in a variety of graphical formats.
Samsung SmarThru 2

1.2 Installing SmarThru software
OCR software (AnyPage Lite)
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the software that has the ability to
recognize most character formats, so that a scanned document can be
read and edited on your word processor.
Acrobat Reader
This bonus program allows you to view and print Adobe PDF files on all
major computer platforms.
System requirements
Before you begin, ensure you have the following computer setup:
Minimal requirements:
• Operating system: Windows 95 OSR2/Windows 98/Windows 98 SE/
Windows 2000/Windows Me/Windows NT 4.0
Workstation or Server with Service Pack 3
• Disk space: 120 MB for installation
• Memory: 32 MB
• CPU: Pentium 133
• Required software: Internet Explorer 4.01
•User rights: Admininstrative rights should be set for installation on
Windows NT and Windows 2000.
Recommended:
• Operating system: Windows 98/Windows 98 SE/Windows 2000/
Windows Me/Windows NT 4.0 Workstation or Server
with Service Pack 3
• Disk space: 120 MB for installation, 100MB for message/image
database.
• Memory: 32 MB for Windows 9x/Windows Me
64 MB for Windows NT/Windows 2000
• CPU: Pentium II 200
• Required software: Internet Explorer 4.01 or 5.0
• User rights: Admininstrative rights should be set for installation on
Windows NT and Windows 2000.
NNootteess::
• Windows NT Service Pack 6 is not recommended for SmarThru 2.
• Windows 95 versions prior to OSR2 are not recommended due to
compatibility with OLE/COM libraries.

1.3
Installing SmarThru software
Hardware requirement
1. Turn off both your machine and PC.
2. Connect your machine and PC with the printer cable (IEEE-1284
compatible).
3. Connect one end of the telephone line cord supplied to the LINE jack on
the rear of the machine, then connect the other end of the cord to the
standard phone wall jack.
4. If your computer modem uses the same phone line, connect one end of
the supplied saperated telephone line cord to the EXT. jack on the rear
of your machine, then connect the other end to the line jack of the
internal/external PC modem.
5. Turn on all the machines.
NNootteess::
• You must use the internal computer modem or an external modem for
sending or receiving E-mail. You can connect to the Internet using an
Internet Service Provider (ISP) or through one of several online services,
such as the Microsoft Network or America Online.
• If Windows 95/98 users see the “New Hardware Found” screen when your
computer turns on, close it by clicking CCaanncceell.
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