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    Setup Guide Printed on recycled paper with at least 10% post-consumer content N ® Front.fm5 Page i Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:53 PM[...]

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    ii All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduce d, stored in a retrieval syst em, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, record ing, or otherwise, without the pr ior written permission of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION . The information contained her ein is designed only for use with this EPS[...]

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    iii Contents Using Your Software and Manuals 1 Setting Up Your Printer 2 Getting the Printer Ready 2 Installing the Ink Cartridges 4 Loading the Paper 7 Testing the Printer 8 Connecting the Printer to Your Network 8 Installing EPSON Net! 9 Installing in Windows 9 Installing in Macintosh 10 Configuring for NetWare 10 Defining Your Printer on a Print[...]

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    1 Setup Guide Congratulations on purchasing your new EPSON Stylus ® COLOR 800N printer. This guide summarizes the process of setting up your printer and configuring it to work with your network. For more information, see the User’s Guides for your printer, the Ethernet card, and EPSON Status Monitor 2. Using Your Software and Manuals Your printe[...]

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    2 Setup Guide ◗ EPSON Type B Ethernet Interface Card Supplement Contains instructions for configuring and using the Ethernet card with a Macintosh network, initializing the card, using the card with NetWare on a WAN, and using TCP/IP with Windows 95. ◗ EPSON Status Monitor 2 for Win dows Allows you to monitor your printer over the network and c[...]

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    3 Setup Guide You’ll find these items inside: 2. Place the printer flat on a stable desk near a grounded outlet. Leave plenty of roo m in back for the ca bles and enough room in front for opening the output tray. Do not put the printer: ◗ In an area with high temperature or humidity ◗ In direct sunlight or dusty conditions ◗ Near sources of[...]

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    4 Setup Guide 4. Before you plug in the printer, make sure the power is off. Check the P power button; it’s off when its surface is raised above the printer surface. 5. Plug the power cord into a properly grounded outlet. Installing the Ink Cartridges 1. Lower the output tray and raise the printer cover. 2. Press the P power butt on to turn on th[...]

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    5 Setup Guide 3. Lift up the black ink cartridge clamp. 4. Open the black ink cartridge package. Remove only the yellow part of the tape. Do not remove the white part. Also, do not remove the clear seal on the bottom of the cartridge. 5. Lower the ink cartridge into the holder with th e label face up and the arrow pointing toward the back of the pr[...]

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    6 Setup Guide 6. Push down the clamp until it locks in place. 7. Press the X color cleaning button. The print heads move to the left again so you can install the color ink cartidge. 8. Follow steps 3 through 6 to install the color ink cartridge. 9. Press the E load eject button. The printer moves the print heads and begins charging the ink delivery[...]

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    7 Setup Guide Loading the Paper 1. Slide the left edge guide all the way left and pull out the output tray extensions. 2. Fan a stack of plain paper and then even the edges. 3. Load a stack with the printable surface face up. Push the paper against the right edge guide. 4. Slide the left edge guide back against the stack of paper. Note: Don’t loa[...]

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    8 Setup Guide Testing the Printer If you want, you can run a test on your printer to see how it’s working. Follow the steps in Chapter 6 of your printer User’s Guide. Turn off the printer to stop test printing. Connecting the Printer to Your Network You can connect your Ethernet-ready printer to either an Ethernet Thin Coaxial (10BASE2) or an E[...]

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    9 Setup Guide You can now install the EPSON Net! utility software, which configures the Ethernet card. Installing EPSON Net! If you are using NetWare or TCP/IP, install EPSON Net! on a workstation in the same segment as the printer. If you are using AppleTalk, install EPSON Net! for Macintosh on a Macintosh computer on your network. Do not install [...]

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    10 Setup Guide Installing in Macintosh 1. Create a folder for EPSON Net! on your hard drive. 2. Insert the EPSON Net! for Macintosh installation diskette. 3. Copy the program from the disk to the folder. After you install EPSON Net!, you use it to configure your printer for AppleTalk. See page 22 for instructions. Configuring for NetWare With NetWa[...]

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    11 Setup Guide If you use NetWare 4.x, menus will differ slightly from the menus described in the following procedure, and you must select Bindery Emulation. Follow these steps: 1. At the DOS prompt, type PCONSOLE . 2. From the Avai lable Options menu, select Print Server Information. 3. Select the name of a print server from the Print Servers list[...]

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    12 Setup Guide Using EPSON Net! for NetWare Windows Follow these steps: 1. Start EPSON Net! for NetWare. After a few seconds, the following dialog box appears: 2. Highlight your EPSON Stylus COLOR 800N printer and click Open. The NetWare Status dialog box appears: QuikSet2.fm Page 12 Wednesday, October 15, 1997 3:49 PM[...]

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    13 Setup Guide 3. Click Edit to configure the printer. The NetWare Config dialog box appears: 4. Choose the operating mode you want to use: ◗ Print Server ◗ Remote Printer ◗ Auto PrintServer/Remote 5. Follow the instructions for the operating mode you chose: ◗ If you selected Remo te Printer , change the port number and enable or disable hu[...]

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    14 Setup Guide 6. Click Add at the bottom of the dialog box to assign a print queue to your print server. The Add Queue dialog box appears: 7. For Print Server mode, select the file server where the print queue will reside, then select a print queue from the list. You can create a new queue by entering its name in the Queue box. Then continue with [...]

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    15 Setup Guide Configuring for TCP/IP You can configure the Ethernet card for TCP/IP if you are using a UNIX TCP/IP network, a Windows 95 peer-to-peer network, or Windows NT. Installing TCP/IP in Windows 95 Windows 95 does not come with LPR, so in addition to installing TCP/IP, as described below, you need to install the EPSON TCP/IP printer protoc[...]

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    16 Setup Guide Assigning the IP Address For a Windows 95 peer-to-peer network you need to set the card’s IP address. Make sure the E thernet card and printer are on the same segment of the network as the computer you are using to configure the card. Also, find out the IP address for the computer and the IP address for the Ethernet card. Then, fol[...]

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    17 Setup Guide If you receive 4 lines that say “Request Timed Out,” the card is not set up correctly. Check to make sure the card is on the same segment of the network as the workstation you are using to configure it and that you typed in the correct IP and hardware addresses. Before you can print using TCP/IP, you still need to install the Sta[...]

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    18 Setup Guide 6. Follow the instructions on the screen, inserting the requested diskette or CD-ROM if necessary. When setup is complete, the Network Services tab or Network Settings dialog box reappears. 7. In Windows NT 4.x, make sure Microsoft TCP/IP Printing appears in the Network Services list, select it, and click Properties . The Microsoft T[...]

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    19 Setup Guide 3. Set the following options in the IP Config dialog box: ◗ IP address Determine and assign an IP address. Check with your network administrator or see the note below for information about assigning IP addresses. ◗ Subnet mask Assign the subnet mask. Check with your network administrator or see the note below for information abou[...]

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    20 Setup Guide Installing DLC in Windows NT Make sure Windows NT is running, and follow these steps to install DLC: 1. Open the Control Panel. 2. Double-click the Network icon. 3. In Windows NT 4.x, click the Protocols tab and then click Add . In Windows NT 3.5x, click the Add Software button. 4. In Windows NT 4.x, select DLC Protocol from the Sele[...]

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    21 Setup Guide 6. Type a name for the port in the Name box. Make sure the name is not the same as an existing port, such as LPT1. 7. Select the target node address from the Card Address list. Make sure this address matches the one listed under Node Number on the status sheet. 8. Click the Timers button and sel ect the Job Based option. Then click C[...]

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    22 Setup Guide 8. Click OK to exit the Create Printer dialog box. A dialog box from the selected model’s device driver appears. 9. Set any printer-specific options, and click OK. Configuring for AppleTalk To use your printer on an AppleTalk network, you need to configure the Ethernet card for AppleTalk. Follow these steps to configure your card u[...]

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    23 Setup Guide 3. Click a zone to select it. To select multiple zones, press and hold the Shift key while clicking the zones, or click Select All . Then click OK . EPSON Net! sends a packet to the selected zones a nd detects the current printer’s status. The EPSON Net! window shows the latest information about the printers located in that zone. 4[...]

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    24 Setup Guide 7. Set the following options in the AppleTalk Configuration dialog bo x: ◗ Available Zone Select the network zone where you want the printer to appear. ◗ Printer name You can use your printer’s default nam e or change it. If you have more than one printer of the same type on your network, be sure to give them unique names. ◗ [...]

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    25 Setup Guide In Windows NT 3.5x, choose Run from the File menu in the Program Manager. 3. Type A:SETUP and click OK . If you’re not using drive A, substitute the appropriate letter. 4. Read the on-screen instructions and click Next . 5. Click Next , or if you want to change the destination directory, click Browse and select your directory. If [...]

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    26 Setup Guide 10. Check the current settings and click Next . Follow the instructions on the screen. Select Yes and click Finish to restart Windows when you see the prompt. You now need to install the printer driver and set up your printer in Windows. Installing the Printer Driver Your driver software is on the EPSON printer software CD-ROM that c[...]

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    27 Setup Guide 3. If you inserted the CD-ROM and Windows starts the installation program automatically, go to step 4. If it doesn’t start automatically (or if you’re using Windows NT 3.5x), click Start , select Run , and type D:Setup (substitute the correct drive letter if necessary). Then click OK . Go to step 4. If you’re installing from d[...]

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    28 Setup Guide 5. Click Add Port . 6. In Windows 95, click Br owse and choose the ser ver or EPSON_TCPIP_Printer that your printer is set up on. Then click OK . In Windows NT 4.x, click LPR Port , then type in the printer’s IP address and the name you want to assign. Click OK , Close , and OK again. Installing on a Macintosh 1. Turn on your Macin[...]

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    29 Setup Guide Making Macintosh Diskettes from the CD-ROM Before you follow these steps, name the formatted diskettes you’ll use Disk1 and Disk2 (using a capital “D” and no space before the number). If they’re not named correctly, the diskettes won’t work. 1. Turn on the Macintosh and turn of f any virus protection programs you may have. [...]