NEC 4600N manual

UPER

CRIPT 4600N

USER’S GUIDE

October, 1999

703-A0364-001

Contents

Main Proprietary Notice and Liability Disclaimer THIS USERS GUIDE Page CONTENTS Page Page Page CHAPTER 1 Assumptions Printer Options SuperScript 4600N Enhancements FEATURES System Requirements Energy Saving Hardware Requirements Supported Printing Environments Printing Software for Mac OS Printing Software for Windows 4600N CD 4600N P AGES P EB P EDIA M PECIAL AND ANDLING H SUPERSCRIPT 4600N SETTINGS Printer Settings Using the Printers Operator Panel Using Printer Drivers POSTSCRIPT 3 FEATURES Watermarks Paper Handling Graphics PostScript Options Device Options PCL5 E F WORKING WITH FONTS IN W PostScript 3 Font Settings PCL5e Font Settings CHAPTER 2 GETTING STARTED S SELECTING A LOCATION U Caution! CHECKING PRINTER CONTENTS I Front View Front Internal View Back View Back Internal View Important Printer Parts INSTALLING THE BELT CARTRIDGE INSTALLING THE FUSER C INSTALLING THE TONER MODULES LOADING THE PAPER TRAY PRINTING A STARTUP PAGE 4600N CONNECTING THE PRINTER Connecting the 4600N Printer Locally Connecting the 4600N to a Network PRINTING WITH THE 4600N P Local Setup for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Driver Setup for Windows 3.1x Printing from Your Application QUICK WEB PRINTING WITH THE 4600N Setting the Printers IP Address Easy Remote Printing Setup PRINTING ENVELOPES PRINTING ON THICK PAPER PRINTING TRANSPARENCIES PRINTING LABELS Page CHAPTER 3 PRINTER OPTIONS ADDING THE PAPER TRAY 2 UNIT PRINTER OPTIONS INSTALLING THE LEGAL PAPER TRAY PRINTER OPTIONS ADDING MEMORY (SIMM) 4600N Installing SIMM CHAPTER 4 PRINTER DRIVERS When to Use the PostScript 3 or PCL5e Printer Driver Installation Options WINDOWS 95/98 About Color Control Options Installing Printer Software Accessing a Printer Driver Windows NT Shared Printer Driver Using the Windows 95/98 Printer Drivers Windows 95/98 Printer Driver - System Tabs Details Tab General Tab NEC Features Tab Paper Tab Windows 95/98 Printer Driver - PostScript 3 Tabs (I) Watermarks T ab PostScript Tab Fonts Tab Device Options Tab Windows 95/98 Printer Driver - PostScript 3 Tabs (II) Graphics Tab Page WINDOWS NT 4.0 Installing Printer Driver Software Accessing Printer Properties Accessing Document Properties PRINTER DRIVERS WINDOWS NT 4.0 Using the Windows NT 4.0 Printer Driver Windows NT 4.0 Printer Properties Installing Options Page PRINTER DRIVERS WINDOWS NT 4.0 WINDOWS 3.1X Installing the Printer Driver Software Accessing the Printer Driver Page Page PRINTER DRIVERS WINDOWS 3.1X Windows 3.1x - PCL5e Printer Driver Properties MAC OS Installing Printing Software Choosing the Printer Conguring the PPD Renaming Your Printer PRINTER DRIVERS MAC OS Mac OS -Print Dialog Box Page CHAPTER 5 OPERATOR PANEL OPERATOR PANEL FEATURES Indicator Lights The Message Display Operator Panel Buttons USING THE MENU TREE An Example of Using the Menu Tree Using the Operator Panel Menu Tree Operator Panel Menus Page Page OPERATOR PANEL TASKS Taking the Printer Ofine and Online Setting Media Type Stopping a Job Clearing the Print Buffer Printing 4600N Information Pages Resetting Usage Reports TCP/IP Setup CHAPTER 6 ADVANCED FEATURES FROM THE PRINTERS HOME PAGE SPOOLING OPTIONS Print Queue Status Job Priority Banner Pages Job Hold Job Preview Collation EXTERNAL ZIP DRIVE FEATURE Connecting the Zip Drive Caution! To Print From the Web To Print From the Operator Panel To Eject Zip Disk SCANNER COPY FEATURE Setting Up the Scanner Caution! Accessing the Scanner Scanner Support Features Previewing a Scanned Image CHAPTER 7 MAINTAINING YOUR PRINTER P Maintenance Schedule Service Visit Schedule REPLACING THE TONER MODULES REPLACING THE FUSER OIL BOTTLE REPLACING THE FUSER CLEANING R CLEANING THE BELT CARTRIDGE REPLACING THE BELT CARTRIDGE INSIDE THE BACK COVER REPLACING THE FUSER UNIT CLEANING THE LASER LENS REPLACING THE OZONE FILTER REPLACING THE TONER COLLECTOR CLEANING THE OUTSIDE OF THE P CHAPTER 8 TROUBLESHOOTING Print Quality Maintenance Simple Troubleshooting Printer Messages Page PREVENTING PAPER JAMS Understanding the Paper Path REMOVING PAPER JAMS Misfeed Jams Inner Jams Outer Jams Drum Jams PRINT QUALITY Background is Smeared Image Edges are Missing or Peeling Horizontal Jitter Horizontal Ribbing Black Line Vertical Line Image Staggered Vertically Horizontal Banding Horizontal White Band Color Misregistration Toner Streak Mottled Image Shadowing Insufcient Gloss Parallel Printing Problems Nothing Printed Nonsense is Printed Error Messages with Little or Nothing Printed CHAPTER 9 TECHNICAL SUPPORT ASSISTANCE NEARBY Help From Within Your Company Help From Your Dealer NEC T ECHNICAL S ORDERING SUPPLIES TECHNICAL SUPPORT NEC W ARRANTY AND S NEC Service Contracts SUPERSCRIPT 4600N PRINTER L Warranty Period Warranty Coverage Warranty Support Obtaining Warranty Service Limitation of Damages APPENDIX A PRINTER SPECIFICATIONS OPERATING SPECIFICATIONS Paper Handling APPENDIX B MEDIA SPECIFICATIONS Page APPENDIX C SAFETY INFORMATION Ozone Emission Laser Safety CDRH Regulations Caution! FCC Statement APPENDIX D MOVING YOUR PRINTER MOVING YOUR PRINTER LOCALLY Page MOVING YOUR PRINTER SHIPPING THE PRINTER Page MOVING YOUR PRINTER Page I