Panasonic KX-PS8100

Before You Start

•Directly in front of air conditioning vents

•Liquids near the equipment

•Liquid spills can cause severe damage.

•Too much media/document which exceeds the limit mark ( ) on the

guide of the tray.

•Front/right/left doors opened while the printer is operating; it may cause a

media jam.

•Any toner other than genuine Panasonic toner. It may damage the printer.

Contents

Main Page Page EFI STANDARD SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Page Page End-User License Agreement Page FOR USERS IN UNITED STATES Technical Support Calls Helpful Phone Numbers Contents Chapter 1 Before You Start Chapter 2 Setup Chapter 3 Connecting the Printer to a Network Installing Software for Windows Setup from the Printer Panel and WebSetup Chapter 5 Installing Software for Macintosh Chapter 7 Color Calibration Chapter 8 Basic Operations Chapter 9 Care and Maintenance Page For Y our Safety General Power source Laser safety Ozone release Page For Your Safety Caution labels CAUTION: HOT SURFACE INSIDE CAUTION: ATTENTION: VORSICHT: ATENCION: ATTENTION: VORSICHT: For Your Safety FOR USERS IN U.K. N52 FOR USERS IN AUSTRALIA Chapter 1 Before You Start Cautions Page Page Page Features Scanner function Printer function Page Digital duplicator function Page System requirements With a Windows With a Macintosh Minimum space requirements Power source Unpacking Printer box Page Rear side view Front side view Scanner panel overview LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) Activity light Buttons Page Printer panel overview Utilities and Drivers Reference Guide Buttons Setup Setting up the printer Page Page Page Setting up the scanner Unlocking the scanner Page Page Page Loading media Page Page Slide the media tray completely into the slot. When using transparency with leading tape: Remove the tape after printing. Margins and print area a a) Open the left side door. b) Move the switch to the desired setting. Loading media in the multi-purpose tray b Page Page Page Page Connecting the system Network port or local port of a Windows PC Connecting the scanner to a computer Digital Color Imaging System (DCIS) standard system Page Page Digital Color Imaging System (DCIS) standard system Page Connecting the scanner to a 4a 4b Connecting the printer to a local port of a PC DCIS stand alone system Setting the SCSI ID number Setting the SCSI ID number and terminator Page Power on Printing a Test Print from the printer panel Chapter 3 Connecting the Printer to a Network Network connections Ethernet network connections Page Page Setting up TCP/IP printing Setting up the printing environment Page Setting up NIS server Add the KX-PS8100 to the networks IP host table. Activate the printer connection. Print queues UNIX server print queues Page 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. Create a spool directory for the printer in the /var/spool directory. Page To see if the printer responds to its address, use the ping command. Verifying the TCP/IP network connection Page 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-PS8100 Conguring the NetWare server Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Setting up Windows 95 clients for SMB printing Page Page Installing Software for Windows General steps Installing the software for Windows 95 Insert the KX-PS8100 CD-ROM Disc1 in your CD-ROM drive. In the Setup Type window, select the Typical, Compact, or Custom installation option. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen. Installing the PostScript printer driver for Windows 95 Page Completing the connection for Windows 95 Page Installing the scanner driver and utilities for Windows 95 Page Page Page Installing the software to Windows 98 Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Installing the software for 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 Installing the scanner driver and utilities for Windows NT 4.0 Page Page Page Page Completing the connection for Windows 3.1 Page Page Installing the scanner driver and utilities for Windows 3.1 Page Installing additional software for Windows users PostScript and TrueType fonts ATM (Windows 95 and Windows 3.1) Page CMYK color reference Utilities and Drivers Reference Guide PANTONE coated color reference Utilities and Drivers Reference Guide Color reference pages Page Page Page Chapter 5 Installing Software for Macintosh General steps for installing Macintosh software Installing Macintosh printing software Setting up the KX-PS8100 in the Chooser Installing the KX-PS8100 ColorSync profile Page Installing the scanner driver About the TWAIN scanner driver About the Photoshop Plug-in scanner driver Page Page Installing additional software for Macintosh users Setup from the Printer Panel and WebSetup Initial Setup from the printer panel Power Saver Parallel Port Setup Network Port 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 Utilities and Drivers Reference Guide IMPORTANT: Setting up Fiery WebTools Page Page 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 Page Click [Save]. Service Setup tab Page Click the [Printer\Setup] Button. Printer Setup PS Setup tab Page Chapter 7 Color Calibration Bias adjustment Press the MENU/EXIT button on the printer panel. Press the /CONTINUE button. Press the /CONTINUE 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-PS8100 Page Basic Operations Before operation Page Scanning documents Page Page Page Page Page Duplicating documents Using the Digital Duplicator Utility Page Page The printer panel functions and menus Printers status messages Printers error messages Printers main menus Utilities and Drivers Utilities and Drivers Page Page Turn on the printer and allow it to warm up. From the Ready screen, press the MENU/EXIT button on the printer panel. Examine the quality of the Test Print. Press the ENTER button. Printing pages from the printer To print a Configuration Page or PostScript Font List: From the Ready screen, press the MENU/EXIT button on the printer panel. Press the ENTER button to display a list of available pages. The KX-PS8100 prints a Conguration Page or PostScript Font List. PostScript Font List Configuration Page The scanner panel functions and menus * Page Chapter 9 Care and Maintenance Scanner Cleaning Page Page Page Life of components User replaceable components Page alternates with Displaying the life of supplies and coverage of toner Maintenance Image area Clearing media jams Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page b Page Page Page Page Page Page Troubleshooting Utilities and Drivers S canner Page Page Page Page Page Page Page If you cant make a print: If you cant make a duplicate: Media problems Problems with image size and position Setup Manual Print quality problems LCD panel messages Setup Manual Scanner LCD Page Printer LCD Page Page Page Page Page LCD panel service calls Status display program for Windows Page Page Page Page Repacking Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Removing and replacing the printer controller board Page Installing a hard disk drive Kit contents Page Page Kit contents Installing additional memory Initializing the hard disk Installing SDRAM DIMMs Page Installing network cards Page Page Appendix Scanner Specifications Page Page Duplicate Windows version Macintosh version Software Media sizes Media Margins and print area Page P Transparencies and labels Page Page Bidirectional parallel interface Pin configuration Parallel Interface connector (printer side) SCSI interface SCSI interface Pin configuration Specification Controller SCSI connector (printer and scanner side) Index Numerics E D C F L J I M see See P R S T W V U Z