tactio MICO-PS-3P User manual

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User’s Manual
3 Port Parallel Print Server
MICO-PS-3P
V.1.01

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COPYRIGHT .........................................................................................................................4
1. INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................5
PRODUCT OVERVIEW ...........................................................................................................5
COMPONENTS AND FEATURES...............................................................................................6
HARDWARE INSTALLATION ....................................................................................................6
NETWORK ENVIRONMENT .....................................................................................................7
WIRED NETWORK WITH PRINT SERVER:.................................................................................7
2. PRINT SERVER INSTALLATION....................................................................................8
PREPARATION......................................................................................................................8
CONFIGURATION SOLUTION TABLE ........................................................................................8
3. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION........................................................................................10
INSTALLING THE PSADMIN AND PRINT SERVER’SDRIVER ......................................................10
USING PSADMIN................................................................................................................19
WIZARD.............................................................................................................................20
MANUAL SETUP .................................................................................................................22
REFRESH ..........................................................................................................................24
MULTIPLE PRINT QUEUES CONFIGURATION ..........................................................................25
UNINSTALLING THE PSADMIN ON WINDOWS PC ...................................................................25
4. INTERNET PRINTER CONNECTION AND HP WEB JETADMIN.................................26
IPP OVERVIEW..................................................................................................................26
HP WEB JETADMIN OVERVIEW ...........................................................................................28
INSTALLING HP WEB JETADMIN ..........................................................................................29
REMOVING HP WEB JETADMIN UTILITY ...............................................................................29
5. CONFIGURATION FROM EMBEDDED WEB SERVER ...............................................30
OVERVIEW.........................................................................................................................30
USING EMBEDDED WEB SERVER.........................................................................................30
SETUP MENU.....................................................................................................................36
INSTALLING PRINT SERVER ON NETWARE 4.X/5.X.................................................................40
SETTING UP A MACINTOSH COMPUTER ................................................................................42
6. NETWORK PRINT MONITOR .......................................................................................46
PREPARATION....................................................................................................................46
TCP/IPPROTOCOL INSTALLATION.......................................................................................47
IPX/SPX-COMPATIBLE PROTOCOL INSTALLATION.................................................................47
NETBEUI PROTOCOL INSTALLATION....................................................................................48
WINDOWS 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 MANUAL INSTALLATION PROCEDURE........................48
UNINSTALLING NETWORK PRINT PORT ON WINDOWS 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003...............50
7. TCP/IP LPR PORT PRINTING INSTALLATION............................................................51
BASIC TCP/IPINSTALLATION OVERVIEW..............................................................................51
ASSIGNING AN IP ADDRESS.................................................................................................51
WINDOWS NT LPR PORT PRINTING INSTALLATION ...............................................................51
WINDOWS 2000/XP/2003 STANDARD TCP/IPPORT PRINTING INSTALLATION ........................53
UNIX INSTALLATION...........................................................................................................56
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8. UPGRADING PRINT SERVER ......................................................................................61
OVERVIEW.........................................................................................................................61
UPGRADING THE PRINT SERVER FROM PSADMIN...................................................................61
UPGRADING THE PRINT SERVER FROM WINDOWS NT/2000/XP/2003 (THROUGH TCP/IP).......61
UPGRADING THE PRINT SERVER FROM UNIX (THROUGH TCP/IP)..........................................62
UPGRADING THE PRINT SERVER FROM BROWSER..................................................................62
9. TROUBLESHOOTING ...................................................................................................63
GENERAL TROUBLESHOOTING OVERVIEW ............................................................................63
POWER RELATED PROBLEMS..............................................................................................63
PRINT PORT RELATED PROBLEMS .......................................................................................63
WINDOWS 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 TROUBLESHOOTING...............................................64
MOVING THE PRINT SERVER TO ANEW SEGMENT .................................................................65
MOVING YOUR COMPUTER TO ANEW SEGMENT...................................................................66
NOVELL NETWARE TROUBLESHOOTING...............................................................................66
TCP/IPTROUBLESHOOTING ...............................................................................................66
APPENDIX:........................................................................................................................68
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ........................................................................................73
ADDITIONAL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS............................................................................75

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Trademarks
NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell Inc and Windows 95/98/Me and Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. All other brands and product
names are trademarks of their respective companies.
Copyright
No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make
any derivative (such as translation, transformation or adaptation) without the express written
consent of the manufacturer as stipulated by the United States Copyright Act of 1976.
FCC Warning
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital
device, pursuant to subpart J of Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to
provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated
in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio
frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual,
may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a
residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which the user will be required to
correct the interference at their own expense.
All contents are subject to change without prior notice.
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1. Introduction
Product Overview
The MICO-PS-3P is an effective and convenient solution to improve network printing
efficiency. It is perfect for SOHO users and offices, supports need of multiple users share one
printer, and one user needs to use multiple printers, including laser, inkjet, and dot matrix, for
different purposes. The MICO-PS-3P features ease of use and administration, flexibility, and
cost-effectiveness. It connects up to three parallel printers to a network, allows multiple users
from anywhere in the network to share those printers without printer-dedicated computers.
With the MICO-PS-3P, your printers become fully functional networked print stations.
Product Benefits
Ease of use
MICO-PS-3P allows you to quickly and simply add up to three printers into your network just
in minutes. Multiple users can easily print their document from their computer anywhere in
the network, no more hassle from transfer files to a dedicated computer acted as the print
server.
Improve overall printing performance
Locally attaching a printer to a server acted PC, print jobs from all users on the network are
sent to the PC, the overall printing activities slows down as the load on the PC increases.
Ease of administration
The MICO-PS-3P reduces the trouble of network administration by letting you easy
configuration via a Web browser and utility. The Windows-based PSAdmin utility which help
administrator to setup print server environment. The print server also supports support the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) which allows you simply manage the print
server remotely. A standard SNMP agent is permanent on these print servers. Moreover, any
standard SNMP-based application can be used to access and manage these print servers.
Flexible
The MICO-PS-3P supports various versions of Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, NetWare
and Mac. It works transparently with multi-OS network workstations. MICO-PS-3P is
compatible with most parallel port printers, including laser, inkjet, and dot matrix.
Convenient
Connecting the MICO-PS-3P into your network lets users can directly send a print job to the
print server, no need for always-on dedicated PCs acted as a print server. Moreover, send
and receive a document between offices over a WAN or the Internet becomes much easier.
The MICO-PS-3P combines with the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). This allows you and a
remote user directly send a print job to a printer from one office to another via the Internet
without the degradation of image and text quality that fax machine produce.

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Cost-effective
The MICO-PS-3P saves you the cost of high performance PCs acted as a print server and
eliminates the need for fax
Please note that the print server does not support printing with host-based printers,
e.g. CAPT, GDI, PPA.
Products Features
Support Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/NT, Mac OS 8.0 or higher, UNIX/Linux, Netware
Support ICP/IP, IPX, NetBEUI, AppleTalk, LPR, SMB
Support IPP (Internet Printing Protocol)
Configure by WEB browser and Utility Program
Can upgrade via TFTP, WEB browser and Utility Program
Components
MICO-PS-3P 3 Parallel port
One Setup CD for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003, User’s Guide
One external AC power adapter
One Quick Installation Guide
LED Indicators
LED State Indication
Status Blinking for POST
(Green) When power switched on, the Status indicator will flash five times, and then on.
Link On (Green) LAN Port has a valid network connection.
Power On (Red) Print server’s power is on.
Before you start, you should prepare the following items:
One Windows-based computer with print server setup CD
One printer
One printer cable
Hardware Installation
To install the MICO-PS-3P, you need to complete these steps:
Confirm that your printer parallel port works well.
Connect the print server to the network and printer, and plug in the print server.
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Follow these instructions to install the MICO-PS-3P, please refer to any peripheral
you are connecting to the print server:
1. Turn off the printer’s power.
2. Connect the print server to your printer with printer cable.
3. Turn the printer’s power on.
4. Plug the AC power adapter into the power connector on the print server.
5. Wait 10 seconds until all the LEDs have stopped flashing.
Note: The Status LED should be flash five times when POST. If not, please contact your
local dealer for repair or replacement.
Reset Button
LINK
POWER
Network Environment
Wired Network with Print Server:
Printer Print Server
Computer Computer Computer
HUB

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2. Print Server Installation
Preparation
To meet users’ network printing needs in today’s heterogeneous and multiple protocol
networking environments, the print server supports industrial standard protocols, including
TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI and AppleTalk. This means that the print server supports the
most popular network operating systems today, including NetWare, Windows
95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003, UNIX systems and Macintosh computer. As such, there might
be several ways to deploy the print server on your network.
Supported Networks
The MICO-PS-3P supports a variety of network protocols, including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX,
NetBEUI and AppleTalk. In addition, we provide software for network configuration on the
following networks:
Novell NetWare 3.12, 4.x, 5.x (Bindery and NDS)
Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me
Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
Apple EtherTalk
UNIX /Linux system
Internet (via Internet Printer Connection software)
Configuration Solution Table
Setup Operating
System Function Remarks
PSAdmin utility / Setup Wizard
Windows
95/98/Me
Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003
Install a single
network on a
peer-to-peer or
client-server
network
Easy printer installation runs from print server setup CD
Embedded Web server
Windows
95/98/Me
Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003
Mac OS, Linux…
Remote setup
print server from
private LAN
Follow standard browse, e.g. IE or Netscape
HP Web JetAdmin
Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 Remote management of
print server,
include
alert and
consumables
Print server solution for continual management of
multiple printers- anywhere on your LAN
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Internet Printing Protocol
Windows
NT/2000/XP/2003 Printing via the internet to
Internet Printing
Protocol-
enabled print
server
Allows saving distribution of HQ hardcopy document
over Internet, replacing fax, mail
Comment
Configuration solution Table has many installations way to setup Windows 95/98/Me,
Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, NetWare, UNIX / Linux system and Mac computer. Firstly, we
introduce PSAdmin utility, HP Web JetAdmin program and Internet Printing Protocol solution.
Then we will discuss Embedded Web Server Installation with print server.

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3. Software Installation
The PSAdmin is a proprietary Windows-based management program that can assist you in
configuring and managing your print server in NetWare environments. The program can be
installed from the setup CD of print server.
Installing the PSAdmin and Print Server’s Driver
1. To enable network communication with MICO-PS-3P, your computer must have a
proper IP address, e.g. 192.168.0.100 (the print server’s default IP is 192.168.0.10)
2. Insert the setup CD into your CD-drive, and the following message appears:
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3. Choose Setup Wizard to install the print server and configure the connected printer.
Note:
The setup CD will install the print server’s driver,PSAdmin and Setup Wizard into your
computer. The default installation directory will be C:\Program files\Network Print Monitor.
4. Click Next, the wizard will automatically discover the print server.

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5. From the Select A Print Sever screen, select the print server and its port number that
you want to configure and click Next.
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6. On the Change Settings screen, select No or Yes:
Click No if you want the print server to keep using the default IP address and keep the default
settings:
IP address: 192.168.0.10
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Click Yes if you want change IP address to the print server, and then click Next.
Note:
The IP address of print server must be within the same subnet as your network adapter.

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7. In the setup wizard, select an already configured printer from the list, click Next,Next
and then Finish to complete the installation.
or
Select Add New Printer if the print server is connected to a printer that hasn’t been
installed before and does not appear in the list.
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8. Click Add New Printer to launch Windows Add Printer Wizard.
9. Click Next and select Local Printer, make sure the Automatically detect and install
my Plug and Play printer check box is NOT checked. Then click Next.

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10. Make sure the Use the following port radio-button is clicked and select LPT1:
(recommended Printer Port) from the pull-down list. Then click Next.
11. Select Manufacturer and Printer from the lists of printer’s driver. Then click Next.
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12. If youalready have the printer’s driver installed, you will be asked whether to keep it or to
replace it. Click Next. Supply a name for the printer and choose whether you want to
make it your default printer. Then click Next.
13. Then, choose whether you want to share the printer with other network user, print a test
page (please select No.), etc. Select the appropriate radio-button and click Next and
Finish.
14. In the setup wizard, finish the installation by highlighting the installed printer in the
Select a Printer list and click Next, NEXT -> Finish.

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15. From Windows system, go to start -> Printers and Faxes and highlight your newly
installed printer.
16. Right-click, select Properties -> Ports and verify that the print server’s port appears.
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17. Go to General; click Print Test Page to verify the configuration.
18. Done.
Note:
If you want to install more print servers, start setup wizard from your Windows Start menu:
start -> All Programs -> Network Print Server -> PSWizard and repeat the installation
procedure.
Using PSAdmin
After the software of setup CD is successfully installed, starts PSAdmin utility from your
Windows Start menu: start -> All Programs -> Network Print Server -> PSAdmin. The
screen will then appear as follow picture.
All print server(s) feature Novell NetWare function on the LAN will be displayed along with
their respective device name, MAC Address, print server name, firmware version, and status.
The terms are defined as follows:
Device Name: The name of the print server hardware used for identification purposes.
MAC Address: The Ethernet address of the print server.
Print server Name: The print server to which the device is attached.
Version: The firmware version of the print server.
Status: To come up a Printer’s status presently.