Tektronix Phasershare Printer manual

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Main Page Page Page Contents Page v 12 PhaserLink Printer Management Software 15 Disabling Protocols 14 Getting Help 13 Printer Management Page Network Printing with Tektronix Color Printers Key components for networking Tektronix color printers PhaserShare Series B network interface PhaserShare cards Recognizing PhaserShare Series B interfaces and earlier PhaserShare cards Environments supported Supported PC platforms 5 Network Printing with Tektronix Color Printers Workstations Server Clients Network installation overview The printers Conguration Page Printing a Conguration Page: Phaser 840 front panel Printing a Conguration Page: Phaser 740 and 360 front panels Printing a Conguration Page: Phaser 780 front panel Printing a Conguration Page: PhaserLink Printer Management Software How to tell which protocols are enabled The printers networking software Obtaining networking software for Phaser 840, 740, and 780 printers Obtaining networking software for Phaser 360 printers When you are prompted to select Easy Install or Custom Install, select Custom Install. Network administration software Support for DOS systems Tektronix PhaserPrint for UNIX software 11 2 Network Interfaces PhaserShare Series B Ethernet interface Ethernet connections and indicators The printers built-in Ethernet connector PhaserShare Series B Ethernet card Ethernet cables and termination 10BaseT or 100BaseTx (Twisted Pair) 10Base2 (Thin Ethernet) 10Base5 (Thick Ethernet) PhaserShare Series B Token Ring card Token Ring connections and indicators Ring speed jumper Token Ring conguration Setting the Frame Routing from the Phaser 740 and 360 front panels Setting Frame Routing from the Phaser 780 printer front panel PhaserShare Series B Network Interfaces Token Ring parameters xx.xx.xx.xx.xx Details Adapter status xx.xx.xx.xx.xx How to congure Token Ring parameters: cong-TokenRing Using the script Using the PhaserShare Administrator to congure Token Ring Using PhaserLink Printer Management Software to congure Token Ring PhaserShare Series B LocalTalk card LocalTalk connection LocalTalk connectors and cables Connecting to a single computer Page 3 TokenTalk Configuration Before you begin Conguration overview Finding the printers name in the Chooser Changing the printers name (optional) Notes regarding printer names Changing the printers name: Apple Printer Utility Changing the printers name: PhaserLink Printer Management Software Changing the printers EtherTalk/TokenTalk zone (optional) Changing the printers zone: PhaserLink Printer Management Software Troubleshooting 4 Configuration The printers NetWare interface Bindery mode and NDS (NetWare Directory Services) supported Supported NetWare versions Supported NetWare protocols Before beginning the conguration procedure Conguration software for NetWare NetWare conguration for Windows environments Printing the Conguration Page Using the PhaserShare Administrator Quick Conguration Wizard Log on to the le server Start the PhaserShare Administrator Select a print server Launch the Quick Conguration Wizard Congure the printer and set up queues Verify information and nish the conguration Troubleshooting Windows congurations Printer does not appear in the Main window printer list Testing from the PhaserShare Administrator Testing the le server-to-printer connection Cannot submit job to a queue Job appears in queue, but printer does not service it Job is serviced, but does not print Setting IPX frame types from the front panel Setting IPX frame types: Phaser 840 Setting IPX frame types: Phaser 740 and Phaser 360 printer Setting IPX frame types: Phaser 780 printer Page 43 5 Job accounting. Network conguration. Administrator Software for NetWare Networks Introduction to the PhaserShare Administrator NetWare conguration with the PhaserShare Administrator Installation System requirements Installation methods Installation procedure Installation for Phaser 840, 740, and 780 printers Installation for Phaser 360 printers Using the PhaserShare Administrator Launching the PhaserShare Administrator Page Specifying search options: the Search Options dialog box Information Not Available in the Printer List Printer Not Responding dialog box PhaserShare Administrator on-line help 6 Overview Before you begin Extracting les from Listing the contents of unix.tar unix.tar Extracting the les Printing the Conguration Page TCP/IP Configuration Overview TCP/IP conguration overview OR Page 7 Configuration (All Platforms) Setting the printers IP addressing parameters Page General information on setting IP parameters (front panel) Printer defaults for network mask and broadcast address Setting IP parameters: Phaser 840 printer front panel Setting IP parameters: Phaser 740 printer front panel Page Setting IP parameters: Phaser 780 printer front panel Page Page Setting IP parameters: Phaser 360 printer front panel Page Setting IP parameters: RARP or BOOTP Setting IP parameters: DHCP Installing the DHCP server Setting up a DHCP server DHCP transactions TCP/IP Printer Configuration (All Platforms) Supported BOOTP/DHCP elds The printer recognizes the BOOTP/DHCP elds listed in the following table. Enabling and disabling RARP and BOOTP/DHCP (front panel) Phaser 740 and 360 printers Phaser 780 printer 71 8. Setting IP parameters: PostScript utility le (UNIX only) TCP/IP Printer Configuration (All Platforms) When prompted by the script, enter the information. Run the script cong-IP: Type the name of the script, redirecting the output to a le. Type: IP parameters Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management address gleaning Setting IP parameters: arp table entry ( ) Domain Name Services (DNS) Setting up the printer for DNS using PhaserLink Printer Management Software Controlling host access LPR (BSD systems) Controlling host access using PhaserLink Printer Management Software Controlling host access using a PostScript utility le AppSocket (TCP Sockets) Controlling Host Access using PhaserLink Printer Management Software Controlling host access using a PostScript utility le Receiving printer status Email notication through PhaserLink Printer Management Software Syslog (UNIX systems only) Setting Syslog priorities using PhaserLink Printer Management Software Setting Syslog priorities using a PostScript utility le SNMP (UNIX systems only) Setting SNMP parameters using PhaserLink Printer Management Software Setting SNMP parameters using a PostScript utility le 8 Configuration (UNIX) Conguring a host Adding the printer to the host table Assigning a print queue to the printer Assigning print queues with PhaserPrint for UNIX Required remote printer queue names Using PostScript utility les to control printer features from queues UNIX model les Example installation for a typical BSD UNIX system 86 TCP/IP Host Configuration (UNIX) /etc/hosts /dev/null printcap Conguration procedures for common System V UNIX hosts Sun Solaris Adding an LPD queue in Solaris If Solaris 2.2/2.3 print jobs get stuck in the queue SGI IRIX 5.3 and 6.x IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.x with Impressario Client IRIX 6.x with Impressario Server IBM AIX 3.x and 4.x AIX 3.x AIX 4.x Hewlett-Packard HP-UX 9.x and 10.x 93 8. 11. 10. 9. Troubleshooting Testing the network connection 9 (OS/2 Warp/LAN Server) Setting the printers IP addressing parameters Creating an LPR queue in OS/2 Warp Connect (direct LPR connection to the printer) OS/2 client-to-server setup Warp Server 4.0/Warp Connect 10 Setting the printers IP address Adding the Windows NT 4.0 driver on a Windows NT 4.0 server or workstation Add the printer Creating an LPR port Creating an AppleTalk port Install the driver Name the printer and set up sharing Windows NT creates the printer Adding the Windows NT 4.0 driver on a Windows NT 3.51 server Add the printer Page Install the driver Enter the printers name and set up sharing Windows NT creates the printer Adding a Windows NT 3.x driver Creating an LPR port Creating an AppleTalk port Set up sharing Windows NT network communication TCP/IP connection Basic concepts of TCP/IP printing Windows NT network troubleshooting Error messages in Print Manager Printer PS on host is rejecting your request printer-name on host Printer PS on host Printer is rejecting your request Page Printing from the command line via lpr Checking the IP address of the Windows NT server 11 Windows 98: PhaserPort Software TCP/IP conguration for the PC Setting the printers IP address PhaserPort software installation Using the installer Create your rst port and install the printer Adding a port for a new printer Adding a port to an existing printer Changing a ports IP address 12 Management Software System requirements Multiple language support Accessing printer information from a browser Printer information pages PhaserLink Printer Management Software PhaserLink Printer Management Software navigation links Printer status display PhaserLink Printer Management Software help les To congure PhaserLink Printer Management Software Help To access PhaserLink Printer Management Software Help Setting printer parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software pages Information Forwarding Disabling Information Forwarding 13 Job accounting Job accounting: PhaserShare Administrator Job accounting: PhaserLink Printer Management Software PhaserLink PDF Direct Printing Phaser 840 Intelligent Ready Enabling and disabling Intelligent Ready from the front panel Setting up Intelligent Ready using PhaserLink Printer Management Software PhaserLink Status Notication (Email Notication) To display the View and Congure PhaserLink Status Notication (Email Notication) Settings page Usage Prole reports (Phaser 840, 740 and 780 printers only) Printing Usage Prole reports from the front panel Printing verbose Usage Prole reports from the front panel Printing Usage Prole reports from PhaserLink Printer Management Software Sending Usage Prole reports via email from the front panel Page Sending Usage Prole reports via email: PhaserLink Printer Management Software Controlling Usage Prole email reporting Specifying when reports are to be sent and specifying the report format Specifying who receives reports Email to Tektronix To enable email to Tektronix Reading Usage Prole reports Full report format Email report format Printer Management Report elds The next two tables describe the report elds. Usage prole job report Usage prole full report - some elds not supported by all printers page-count range number of days number of jobs unique-page-count range Page Page Page Logs Advanced Features and Troubleshooting Manual Engine Error Log (Phaser 840 printer) Printer Management Engine Error Log (Phaser 740 and 780 printers) Postscript Error Log (Phaser 840, 740 and 780 printers) Engine Error Log (Phaser 740 and 780 printers) (cont'd.) Printer Management Postscript Error Log (Phaser 840, 740 and 780 printers) (cont'd.) Last jam logs Last Jam Log - Phaser 840 printer Printer Management Last Jam Log - Phaser 740 printer Last Jam Log - Phaser 780 printer Page 14 If you need help from Tektronix Page 155 Using the automated fax systems Use EuroHAL to order a catalog or individual documents in Europe Receiving email update notices 15 Disabling protocols: front panel Phaser 840 printer Phaser 740 printer Page Phaser 780 printer Page Phaser 360 printer Page If the front panel is locked Phaser 360 printer Disabling protocols: PhaserShare Administrator Disabling protocols: PhaserLink Printer Management 16 Resetting the printer: PhaserLink Printer Management Software Resetting your printer using the Apple Printer Utility 17 Page Index A B C D G H I J L Q R S T U V W