Tektronix Phaser 840 setup guide Printer management

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Printer management

After your printer is up and running on the network, you can take advantage of the following features that aid you in managing your printer over the network:

■Job accounting. The printer stores a log ﬁle containing information about jobs printed. The ﬁle is a list of job accounting records. Each record contains ﬁelds such as user name, job name, pages printed, job times, and toner used. Job accounting is available through the PhaserShare Administrator and PhaserLink Printer Management software.

■PhaserLink Status Notiﬁcation. PhaserLink Printer Management Software provides PhaserLink Status Notiﬁcation, which allows the printer to automatically send email to the system administrator and others when the printer requires attention (for example, when printer errors, warnings, and alerts occur, or when service is required).

■Usage Proﬁle reports. The printer can generate reports detailing printer usage. These Usage Proﬁle reports include information on many aspects of printer usage, including ink or toner used, number of pages printed, and media types used. You can print these reports from the front panel or PhaserLink Printer Management software, or you can obtain them automatically via email.

■PhaserLink PDF Direct Printing. This feature provides drag-and-drop printing of PDF and PostScript ﬁles from your web browser in Windows 95 and Windows 98 environments. Just drag any hotlink for a PDF or PostScript ﬁle from the browser to the PhaserLink PDF Direct Printing icon on the desktop to print the ﬁle on your Tektronix printer. There is no need to access the URL or open the ﬁle.

■Intelligent Ready. With Intelligent Ready, the printer can monitor usage and automatically warm up when you are most likely to need it. You can turn Intelligent Ready on or off from the printer’s front panel. Using PhaserLink Printer Management Software, you can control when the printer automatically warms up.

For more information on these features, see the PhaserShare Networking Manual on the printer’s CD-ROM.

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Contents L O R P R I N T E R Page Phaser 840 Color Printer PhaserShare Networking Setup Guide Page Contents PhaserLink Printer Management Software Setting the Printer’s IP Addressing Parameters Windows NT IndexUnix IntroductionBefore you begin network conﬁguration Printing a ConﬁgurationPrinting a Conﬁguration Printer management If you need more information PhaserShare Series B Ethernet interface Connecting Your Printer to a NetworkBuilt-in Ethernet connector Ethernet connections and indicatorsPhaserShare Series B Ethernet card 10BaseT or 100BaseTx Twisted Pair Ethernet cables and termination10Base2 Thin Ethernet 10Base5 Thick EthernetPhaserShare Series B Token Ring card Token Ring connections and indicators Ring speed jumper Token Ring parameters Token Ring conﬁgurationConﬁguring Token Ring parameters Using the conﬁg-TokenRingscriptArp Using PhaserLink software to conﬁgure Token Ring Using the PhaserShare Administrator to conﬁgure Token RingPhaserShare Series B LocalTalk card LocalTalk card connections and indicatorsLocalTalk connection Connecting to a single computer LocalTalk connectors, cables, and terminatorsConnecting Your Printer to a Network PhaserShare Networking Conﬁguration overview EtherTalk, LocalTalk TokenTalk ConfigurationFinding the printer’s name in the Chooser Novell NetWare Configuration Installing the PhaserShare AdministratorInstallation Start the PhaserShare Administrator Using the Quick Conﬁguration WizardLog on to the ﬁle server Select a print serverLaunch the Quick Conﬁguration Wizard Conﬁgure the printer and set up queuesVerify information and ﬁnish the conﬁguration Setting IPX frame types from the front panelTCP/IP Configuration Unix Adding the printer to the host tableAssigning a print queue to the printer Assigning print queues with PhaserPrint for Unix Required remote printer queue namesUnix model ﬁles Example installation for a typical BSD Unix system Descriptions of printcap parameters Sample printcap ﬁlePrinter conﬁguration Listing the contents of unix.tar Extracting ﬁles from unix.tarExtracting the ﬁles TCP/IP conﬁguration for a PC Windows 95 PhaserPort SoftwareSetting the printer’s IP address PhaserPort software installationUsing the installer Create your ﬁrst port and install the driver Adding a port for a new printer Installation Completed dialog, click FinishAdding a port to an existing printer Changing a port’s IP address Windows NT Add the printer Click Start, Settings, and PrintersCreating an AppleTalk port Creating an LPR portInstall the driver Name the printer and set up sharingWindows NT creates the printer Adding a Windows NT 4.0 driver on an NT 3.51 server Select the port where the printer is connectedEnter the printer’s name and set up sharing Adding a Windows NT 3.x driver Creating an LPR port Set up sharing Windows NT PhaserShare Networking Setting the Printer’s IP Addressing Parameters Setting the Printer’s IP Addressing Parameters Setting IP parameters from the front panelSet the network mask Setting IP parameters Rarp or BootpT E Setting IP parameters Dhcp Installing the Dhcp serverSetting up a Dhcp server Open the Network Administration group Dhcp transactions Supported BOOTP/DHCP ﬁeldsSetting IP parameters PostScript utility ﬁle Unix only Conﬁg-IP ﬁlename Running the conﬁg-IPscriptSetting IP parameters PhaserLink Printer Management Software DNS Setting the Printer’s IP Addressing Parameters Accessing printer information from a browser PhaserLink Printer Management SoftwarePhaserLink Printer Management software help ﬁles Conﬁguring PhaserLink HelpAccessing PhaserLink Help Information Forwarding Setting printer parameters PhaserLink software pagesDisabling Information Forwarding Index With config-IP script With config-TokenRingscriptRarp Page Printed on recycled paper