Panasonic KX-P8420 Features of the KX-P8420

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Before You Start

Features of the KX-P8420

The KX-P8420 Color Printer provides fast, high-quality color printing on

plain paper, plus the ease of operation and high performance you expect

from a laser printer, including the following.

•Resolution—maximum 1200 x 1200 dpi (with optional additional memory)

•Continuous printing on Letter or A4 size paper

Full-color mode—Maximum 3.5 ppm (pages per minute)

Three color mode—Maximum 4.7 ppm

Monochrome mode—Maximum 14 ppm

•Printer driver—easily prints full-color documents

•Supports AppleTalk (EtherTalk), TCP/IP, and IPX (Novell) protocols

simultaneously by installing optional Ethernet Card

•Supports thicknet, twisted pair, and thinnet (via transceiver) cabling

•Ethernet or Token Ring support by installing optional Ethernet or Token

Ring Card

•SMB (Microsoft®)

•IEEE 1284 compliant, Mini-Centronics type-C parallel connection based

on the IEEE P1284-C standard

NOTE:

•An ECP compatible parallel port is recommended for Windows® 95*1. To

turn on the ECP mode, use the computer’s BIOS setup. Refer to the

computer’s documentation for details.

*1Microsoft® Windows® 95 operating system (hereafter Windows 95)

High quality

High speed

Easy operation

Networking and

client capabilities

Contents

Main Page Page EFI STANDARD SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Page Page FOR USERS IN UNITED STATES Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Printer Setup Connecting the Printer to a Network Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 4 Completing setup from Fiery WebSetup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Setup from the Front Panel and WebSetup Installing Macintosh Software Chapter 8 Appendix Maintenance Care and Chapter 9 Options Chapter 7 For Your Safety General Power source Laser safety Ozone release Page For Your Safety Caution labels N52 This mark shows that the product complies with AS/NZS 3548. FOR USERS IN AUSTRALIA ATTENTION: For Your Safety FOR USERS IN U.K. Chapter 1 Before You Start Cautions Page CD-ROM Page Features of the KX-P8420 High quality High speed Easy operation Networking and client capabilities Color capabilities Color management Fiery WebTools System requirements With a Windows With a Macintosh Page Unpacking Operating Instructions Drivers and Utilities Reference Guide Part names Front side view Rear side view Front panel overview Buttons Printer Setup Setting up the printer Page Page Page Loading media Page Connecting the printer to a Using a parallel interface cable Page Margins and print area a) Open the left side door. b) Move the switch to the desired setting. Loading media in the multi-purpose tray Page Page Page Page Using the front panel Status messages Drivers and Utilities Reference Guide Drivers and Utilities Reference Guide Page Turn on the printer and allow it to warm up. From the Ready screen, press the Menu/Exit button on the printers front panel. Press the Enter button. Press the Continue/Forward button until you see Test Print and then press the Enter button. Printing pages from the front panel To print a Configuration Page or PostScript Font List: Configuration Page PostScript Font List Ready From the button. Enter Cancel/Left button on the front panel. button to display a list of available pages. ) button until you see Conguration Page or PS Font List in the window and press the The KX-P8420 prints a Conguration Page or PostScript Font List. Chapter 3 Connecting the Printer to a Network Network connections Ethernet network connections Page Token Ring network connections Parallel cable connection Setting up TCP/IP printing Setting up the printing environment Page Log in to your UNIX host as the root user. Edit your /etc/hosts le to include the printer as a network device. Save and exit the hosts le. Conrm the connection using the ping command. UNIX server print queues If your UNIX system uses SunOS 4 or another BSD- based variant, go to the next section. On each workstation that will print to the printer, log in to your UNIX host as the root user. Create an entry for the printer in your /etc/printcap le. Page To see if the printer responds to its address, use the ping command. Verifying the TCP/IP network connection Page Drivers and Utilities Reference Guide On a UNIX system running Solaris 2, use the cancel command to remove jobs from the queue. On a UNIX system running Solaris 2, use the lpstat command to see printer jobs in the queue. Printing and administering print jobs Setting up IPX (Novell) printing Overview of IPX printing to the KX-P8420 Conguring the NetWare server Page Page Page Page Page Page Using AppleTalk with Macintosh computers on an IPX (Novell) network Setting up NetWare Windows clients Setting up Fiery WebTools IMPORTANT: Drivers and Utilities Reference Guide. NOTES:NOTES:NOTES: Page Page Setting up Windows 95 clients for SMB printing Expand the levels to locate your printer and the queue you want to print to. Under the printers name, select the queue you wish to print to and click OK. Page Page Chapter 4 Installing Software for Windows General steps Installing the PostScript printer driver for Windows Installing the PostScript printer driver for Windows 95 Page Completing the connection for Windows 95 Page Click the printer icon labeled with the NetWare print queue you will use and click OK. In the Add Port dialog box, verify that the network path is updated, and click OK. Click the General tab in the Properties dialog box, and click Print Test Page. Setting up PostScript printing with Windows NT 4.0 Installing the PostScript printer driver for Windows NT 4.0 Page Completing the connection for Windows NT 4.0 Page Page Page Installing the PostScript printer driver for Windows 3.1 Page Completing the connection for Windows 3.1 Page Page Installing additional software for Windows users Drivers and Utilities Reference Guide PostScript and TrueType fonts ATM (Windows 95 and Windows 3.1) Page CMYK Color Reference Drivers and Utilities Reference Guide. PANTONE Coated Color Reference Color reference pages Drivers and Utilities Reference Guide. Page Page Chapter 5 Installing Macintosh Software General steps for installing Macintosh software Installing Macintosh printing software Page Page Page Installing additional software for Macintosh users Chapter 6 Setup from the Front Panel and WebSetup Initial Setup from the front panel E NERGY S TAR Parallel Port Setup A) When the Ethernet card is installed in the printer: B) When the Token Ring card is installed in the printer: A) When you select TCP/IP Setup: Network Protocol Setup B) When you select AppleTalk Setup: C) When you select IPX/SPX Setup: Language Setup Reset Queues Hard Disk Completing setup from Fiery WebSetup Accessing Fiery WebSetup Page Click the System Setup button. System Setup System Setup tab Page Page Page Protocol Setup tab PServer Setup tab Select the current NDS tree and click Remove. A) PServer Setup (NDS Conguration) Check the Enable NDS check box. Click Change Trees to open the Add NDS Tree window. Page B) PServer Setup (Bindery Setup) Page Service Setup tab Click the Printer Setup Button. Page Chapter 7 Color Calibration Bias adjustment Press the Menu/Exit button on the printer panel. Press the Continue/Forward button. Press the Continue/Forward button 5 times. Page Page 1a 1b Page VisualCal, 30% match calibration VisualCal Limits and 30% Match page 0123456789 Print: 1 Calibrating the printer using VisualCal VisualCal Limits and 30% Match 0123456 789 Page VisualCal Gray Balance page To print the Gray Balance page, press the Enter The Gray Balance page is printed and Best Patch (row) appears. VisualCal Page Page Page Color adjustment To print a Color Test that uses the new values, press the Enter button. Color Adjust Test pages that use the previous value and the new values are printed. Color Adjustment: Before Color Adjustment: After The Apply Changes menu appears. Panasonic KX-P8420 Page Chapter 8 Care and Maintenance Cleaning Page Page Page Page User replaceable components alternates with Page Displaying the life of supplies and coverage of toner Maintenance Clearing media jams Image Area Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Troubleshooting Page Page Page Page Page If you cant make a print: Media problem Problems with image size and position Print quality problems Page Front Panel Messages Front panel status and error messages Page Page Page Page Page Front panel service calls Repacking Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Chapter 9 Options Upgrade options Removing and replacing the printer controller board Page Page Installing a hard disk drive Page Page Installing additional memory Initializing the hard disk Installing SDRAM DIMMs Page Installing network cards Page Page Appendix Printer Specifications Media sizes Media Paper weight Margins and print area P Page Page Page Page Specifications Pin configuration Bidirectional Parallel Interface Parallel Interface connector (printer side) Controller Index Numerics See also A B F H I J L M see see N O P Q R S T U V W Z