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EPSON

Ethernet Card Supplement

This guide includes new information about your EPSON

multiprotocol Ethernet interface card and software.

If you are using the card with Apple

Macintosh

computers on

AppleTalk

or TCP/IP networks, please disregard the Macintosh

section in your EPSON Type B Ethernet Interface Card

User's

Guide

and follow the steps in this supplement.

In addition to the operating systems mentioned in the Ethernet card

User’s Guide, the card also supports Windows 95 and Windows NT

4.x.

You’ll find the following information in this Supplement:

Initializing the Ethernet card

Using the Ethernet Card with NetWare

on a WAN

Using Macintosh with the Ethernet Card

Using TCP/IP with Windows 95

CPD5719

Summary of content (12 pages)

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EPSON® Ethernet Card Supplement This guide includes new information about your EPSON® multiprotocol Ethernet interface card and software. If you are using the card with Apple® Macintosh a computers on AppleTalk ® or TCP/IP networks, please disregard the Macintosh section in your EPSON Type B Ethernet Interface Card User's Guide and follow the steps in this supplement. In addition to the operating systems mentioned in the Ethernet card User’s Guide, the card also supports Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.x.
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Using Macintosh with the Initializing the Ethernet Card After you install the Ethernet card in a printer or reinstall it in a new printer, plug in the printer while pressing down the status sheet button for at least three seconds to initialize the card. I I 0: ,.Ds @ I I I I status sheet button You can print a status sheet after you finish initializing the card. Turn on the printer and press the status sheet button.
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Using Macintosh with the Ethernet Card Before configuring the Ethernet card, check to see if the correct printer driver is installed in the Macintosh. Make sure the printer is turned on and the Ethernet card is connected to the network. (See your Ethernet card User’s Guide and your printer User’s Guide for more information.
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To check the status of all printers that are turned on and enabled for a protocol, follow the steps below: 1. Open the EPSON Net! folder and click the EPSON Net! icon. The following window appears: 2. Click a zone to select it clicking multiple zones 3. Click O K . EPSON Net! sends a packe, current printer’s status. The latest information about the Sorting the Printers Follow these steps to sort tl 1.
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2. Click a zone to select it, press and hold the Shift key while clicking multiple zones to select them, or click Select All. 3. Click O K . EPSON Net! sends a packet to the selected zones and detects the current printer’s status. The EPSON Net! dialog box shows the latest information about the printers located in that zone. Sorting the Printers Follow these steps to sort the printers in the EPSON Net! dialog box: 1. With the EPSON Net! dialog box open, choose Sort from the Options menu bar. 2.
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Setting the Refresh lnterval Follow these steps to set the refresh interval for the settings in the EPSON Net! dialog box: 1. 2. Highlight the printer y 3. Click Open.You see th 4. Click the AppleTalk ice your Ethernet card is c 5. Set the following optic With the EPSON Net! dialog box open, choose Preferences from the Options menu bar. Refresh interval (sec) pq (DKI [Cancel) 2. Type any value from 5 (default) to 90 seconds and click OK.
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2. Highlight the printer you want to configure in the list. 3. Click Open. You see the Configuration dialog box: 4. Click the AppleTalk icon. Make sure the correct serial number of your Ethernet card is displayed. 5. Set the following options in the AppleTalk Configuration box: CL Available Zone: Select the network zone that you want the printer to appear in. Ll Printer Name: The default printer name appears. You can rename it.
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6. Click OK to send the new settings to the Ethernet card and return to the EPSON Net! dialog box. Click Update to send the new settings to the card without closing the Configuration dialog box. 4. Click the TCPAP icon. shows the correct serk 5. Set the following optic box: Caution: Once you make changes to the Ethernet card, wait at least five minutes before turning off or restarting your printer. 7. Cl II’ address: Deter Ethernet card. Click Exit to exit EPSON Net! for Macintosh.
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4. Click the TCP/IP icon. Make sure the Configuration dialog box shows the correct serial number of the target Ethernet card. 5. Set the following options in the TCP/IP Configuration dialog box: U IP address: Determine and assign an IP address for the Ethernet card. Q Subnet mask: Assign the subnet mask. tl Auto IP set: Click Off. 6. Click Update to send the new settings to the Ethernet card without closing the Configuration dialog box.
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4. Click Protocol and then the Add button. 5. Select Microsoft from the Manufacturers list and TCP/IP from the Network Protocols list. Then click OK. 6. Click OK again and follow any on-screen instructions to enable TCP/IP. Configuring the Ethernet Card for TCP/IP and Windows 95 Make sure that the Ethernet card installed in the printer is on the same network segment as the computer you are using to configure the card.
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ping for example: ping 127.0.1.200 You see a message similar to the following: Reply Reply Reply Reply from from from from 127.0.1.200: 127.0.1.200: 127.0.1.200: 127.0.1.200: bytes=32 bytes=32 bytes=32 bytes=32 time<10ms time<10ms time
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