Chapter 5 Status Monitor and Control Panel

Status Monitor and Control Panel

The Printer Tools is the generic name of two programs, “Status Monitor” and “Control Panel” which are used on computers connected to the Konica 7020 series +IP-011 system.

About the Status Monitor

The Status Monitor is a program which enables you to monitor the printer status from computers connected to the Konica 7020 series+IP-011 system.

In the case that you set the Status Monitor to automatically start at the time of installing the Printer Tools, the Status Monitor automatically starts and the Status Monitor icon is displayed on the task bar when a computer is started.

The Status Monitor displays information about the printer status which has been received from the IP-011 in the form of easy-to-understand images and messages. Additionally, in the case that any problems occur on the printer side, the method of recovery is displayed on the Status Monitor.

Moreover, background colors of the Status Monitor icon on the task bar change in accordance with the printer status.

Printer is ready / Printing / Canceling printing / Setting printer: Blue

Error: Red

No paper, Warming up: Yellow

About the Control Panel

The Control Panel is a program to set the printer and used on computers connected to the Konica 7020 series +IP-011 system.

Select [Printer Setting] by clicking it on the [setup] menu of “Status Monitor” to start the Control Panel.

The Control Panel is made of the [Paper] tab, [Printer Setting] tab, [Test Print] tab and [Configurations] tab.

[Paper] tab

Sets Paper Size, Paper Tray, Output Tray, Orientation (Portrait / Landscape) and Copies.

[Printer Setting] tab

Sets Page Protection, I/O Timeout, Line/Page, Language and Smoothing.

[Test Print] tab

Prints the Print Demo/Configuration Page or the Print NIC Status Page.

[Configuration] tab

Check the setting status of the printer name, free memory, option, etc.

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Konica Minolta IP-011 manual Status Monitor and Control Panel, Printer Setting tab, Test Print tab, Configuration tab