Apple 12/640PS Connecting to a network printer manually, Click Restart

Restarting the printer

You may need to restart the printer to clear its memory if you have any problems printing. For information on troubleshooting printing problems, see Chapters 11 and 12.

1 Choose Restart Printer from the Utilities menu.

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A dialog box appears, asking you to confirm that you want to restart the selected printer.

Click Restart.

It takes a few minutes for the printer to restart and be ready to print.

The same effect can be achieved by turning the printer off and then on again.

IMPORTANT If the LaserWriter 12/640 PS is on a network shared by other users, make sure that no one is attempting to use the printer before you restart it.

Connecting to a network printer manually

In certain situations you may need to connect to your printer manually before you can configure it. For example,

mthe printer is on a different network segment than the file server

mthe printer’s Ethernet frame type is not the frame type that your want to use (See the “Novell Netware Troubleshooting” section in Chapter 13 for more information.)

To connect to a network printer manually, follow these steps:

Start Windows.

Start the Apple LaserWriter Utility for Windows.

In the Printer Selection window that appears, select the LaserWriter 12/640 PS printer. Choose “Connect to Network Printer” from the Network menu.

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