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Setup Guide This Setup Guide summarizes the process of setting up your printer and configuring it to work with most networks. For more information about your printer and printer software, see your User’s Guide. For more information about your printer’s Ethernet card and networking, see the Administrator’s Guide. Using Your Software Your printer comes with the following software: ◗ Printer driver for Windows® and Macintosh® ◗ EPSON Net!2 utility (for Windows® 98, Windows® 95, Windows NT® 4.
Setup Guide: Setup Overview Setup Overview 4 Note: If you need to make diskettes and use them to install any software programs, see Appendix A in your Administrator’s Guide. 5 6 7 8 Follow the steps in this guide to set up the printer, install the ink cartridges, and connect your Ethernet card to the network. Install the Network Software See page 3 to determine whether you should install EPSON Net!2 and EPSON Status Monitor 2 for your protocol and operating system.
Setup Guide: Network Configurations Network Configurations See the table below to find your network configuration (operating system and protocol), and determine what to install and where to find instructions for configuring your network.* For many operating systems, you can change configuration settings using the Ethernet card’s internal home page. See the Administrator’s Guide for more information. Available Network Configurations Operating system Network protocol Windows NT 4.
Setup Guide: Network Configurations Available Network Configurations Operating system Network protocol Windows 98, Windows 95 TCP/IP What you need to install and configure 1. EPSON Net!2 (p.11) 2. EPSON Status Monitor 2 on each workstation (p. 13) 3. IP address for the Ethernet card (p. 28) 4. Printer driver on each workstation (p. 36) NetBEUI 1. EPSON Net!2 (p.11) (TCP/IP must 2. EPSON Status Monitor 2 (p.13) also be installed) 3. IP address for the Ethernet card (p. 28) 4.
Setup Guide: Set Up the Printer 1 Set Up the Printer Unpack the Printer Remove any packing material from the printer. See the Notice Sheet in the box for details. Make sure you’ve got all these items: Note: To connect your printer’s Ethernet card to the network, you need a twisted pair (10BaseT) cable with an RJ-45 connector.
Setup Guide: Set Up the Printer Attach the Paper Support Insert the paper support in the top slot on the back of the printer. Note: Follow all the safety instructions in the Introduction of your User’s Guide. Caution: Always use the P power button to turn the printer on or off. Never use the external switch on a power strip. Don’t use an outlet controlled by a wall switch or timer, or one that uses the same circuit as a large appliance.
Setup Guide: Set Up the Printer 2. Remove the ink cartridges from their foil packages. Then remove only the yellow part of the tape seal on the top of each one. Don’t pull off the white portion or try to remove the clear seal underneath the cartridge. Caution: To ensure the print heads charge correctly, install the ink cartridges that came with your printer. You must remove the yellow tape from the top of the cartridge or you will permanently damage it.
Setup Guide: Set Up the Printer 6. Now press the X color cleaning button to move the color ink cartridge holder into loading position. Caution: If the ink cartridge holder moves back to the right before you install the cartridge, don’t try moving it back by hand. Press the B black cleaning button and hold it down for 3 seconds to move the holder back into position. Never turn off the printer when the P power light is flashing, unless the printer hasn’t moved or made any noise for more than 10 minutes. 7.
Setup Guide: Set Up the Printer 2. Load a stack of plain paper with the printable side up and place it against the right edge guide. Then slide the left edge guide to the paper’s left edge, making sure the stack is not higher than the arrow mark on the guide.
Setup Guide: Set Up the Printer Connect the Printer to Your Network Connect your printer to an Ethernet twisted-pair (10BaseT) network connection. 1. Attach the network cable to the connector on the card. status sheet button twisted-pair (10BaseT) 2. To initialize the card, turn on the printer while pressing down the status sheet button. Continue pressing the status sheet button for five seconds.
Setup Guide: Install the Network Software 2 Install the Network Software To configure the Ethernet card, you only need to install the network software (EPSON Net!2) on one workstation or on the server, depending on your network. If you have a TCP/IP network, you need to install EPSON Status Monitor 2 on all your Windows 98 and Windows 95 workstations to use the EPSON TCP/IP Printing protocol. Log in as an Administrator (NT) or Supervisor (NetWare).
Setup Guide: Install the Network Software You see the EPSON Installation Program screen: If the screen does not appear, go to My Computer and double-click the Epson CD-ROM icon to start the EPSON Installation program. 2. Highlight Install EpsonNet! for Windows and click the right arrow button . 3. Follow the instructions on the screen to install EPSON Net!2.
Setup Guide: Install the Network Software Installing EPSON Net!2 on a Macintosh 1. Create a folder for EPSON Net!2 on your hard disk. 2. Insert the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850Ne CD-ROM in your drive. 3. Copy EPSON Net!2 to the folder you created. After you install EPSON Net!2, use it to configure your printer for AppleTalk, following the steps on page 32. Installing Status Monitor 2 EPSON Status Monitor 2 is a single utility that you install in two parts.
Setup Guide: Install the Network Software Follow these steps to install EPSON Status Monitor 2: 1. Insert the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850Ne CD-ROM. You see the following screen: Note: You may not see screens for all the steps here, depending on your computer’s configuration. Write down your settings in the spaces provided as you install the first part of Status Monitor 2. You need to select the same settings for the second part.
Setup Guide: Install the Network Software 6. Select the type of printer(s) you want to monitor and click Next. Caution: If you have dial-up routers in a NetWare environment, they may automatically dial up the next hop and you may be charged for the line connection depending on the number of hops you set. To prevent this and to keep network traffic to a minimum, set hops carefully. Monitor: EPSON TCP/IP printers______ Windows shared printers _____ NetWare printers______ local printers_______ 7.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 3 Configure the Printer Configuring for NetWare You can configure the printer for NDS or bindery with NwAdmin and EPSON Net!2. (If you want to use PCONSOLE, see Chapter 4 in your Administrator’s Guide.) Before you follow the steps in the sections below, check whether you want to use the printer as a dedicated print server or as a remote printer. (See page 4-1 in your Administrator’s Guide for details.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 3. Create a printer: Click the directory context icon (or Bindery context), and select Object, then Create, and then Printer. Type the printer name and click Create. 4. Create a print server: Click the directory context icon (or Bindery context), and select Object, then Create, and then Print Server. Type the print server name and click Create. 5.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 6. The objects you have just created are added to the NDS tree (or Bindery). 7. Double-click the Printer Object icon on the NetWare Administrator screen.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 8. The Printer dialog box appears. Click Assignments and then click Add. 9. From the print queue list, select the queue you want to assign and click OK. 10. For Print Server mode, go to step 11. For Remote Printer mode, click Configuration, select Other/Unknown for the Printer type box and click OK.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 11. Double-click the Print Server Object icon on the NetWare Administrator screen. 12. The Print Server dialog box appears. Click Assignments and then click Add. 13. From the printer object list, select the printer object you want to assign and click OK.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 14. For Print Server mode, go to step 15. For Remote Printer mode, go back to the screen in step 12 and click the Printer Number button to set up the printer number from 0 to 254. 15. Double-click the Print Queue Object icon on the NetWare Administrator screen.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 16. The Print Queue dialog box appears. Click Assignments. Check if the print server and the printer are assigned to the queue. You now need to use EPSON Net!2 to configure the card: ◗ For Print Server mode, see the section below. ◗ For Remote Printer mode, go to page 25.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer Using EPSON Net!2 to Configure the Card in Print Server Mode Follow these steps: 1. Start EPSON Net!2. The following screen appears: Note: If the Status Monitor 2 program is open, or if background monitoring is turned on, it may interfere with EPSON Net!2. Close Status Monitor 2 if it is running and turn off background monitoring, following step 13 on page 15.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer Frame Type You can select from one of the following: Auto, Ethernet 802.2, Ethernet 802.3, Ethernet II, or SNAP. Mode Select Print Server. NDS Select Enable or Disable. NDS Tree Name If you are using NDS mode, type the same name as you used in NwAdmin (up to 31 characters). Note: See your NetWare manual for the available characters and number of characters you can use. NDS Context NDS context is the Object rank in the Directory tree.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer Print server name Type any new name up to 47 characters. The default name is shown below. (Printer name) - (last 6 digits of the serial number) Polling interval Set the polling time from 5 to 90 seconds. Caution: Once you make changes to the Ethernet card, you must wait until it registers the settings before you turn off the printer. 5. Click OK to save your changes. If the message “Configuration successfully done” appears on your screen, the update is complete. 6.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 2. Start EPSON Net!2. The following screen appears: Note: If the IP address is set to the default IP address, the printer model might not appear. 3. Highlight your printer and click Configuration. 4. Click the NetWare Basic tab and make the following settings. Frame type Select one from the following: Auto, Ethernet 802.2, Ethernet 802.3, Ethernet II, Ethernet SNAP. Mode Select Remote Printer.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer NDS Select Enable or Disable. NDS Tree Name If you are using NDS mode, type the same name (up to 31 characters) as you set in NwAdmin. Note: See your NetWare manual for the available characters and number of characters you can use. NDS Context NDS context is the Object rank in the Directory tree. Type the container object (up to 255 characters) from the Object to the Root. Do not type the “.” at the top. 5. Click the Remote Printer tab and make the following settings.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 7. Select Printer Status from the Console screen of the print server. Then check the status. 8. Select Queues serviced. Check if the print queue name which you set in step 5 on page 17 under “Using NwAdmin to Set Up Your Printer” exists in the Print Queues Serviced By Printer box. Configuring for TCP/IP For a Windows 98, Windows 95, or Windows NT network with TCP/IP, you need to set the card’s IP address.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 3. Click the printer where you want to set the IP address, and then click the Configuration button. Note: If you have connected more than one printer with the same type of Ethernet card to the network, you can distinguish the cards by their MAC addresses. Press and hold the card’s status sheet button for three seconds. See page 10 for details. click here 4. Click the TCP/IP tab to display the TCP/IP menu.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 6. Assign the IP address, the Subnet mask, and the Default gateway. If you use DHCP to acquire an IP address, you can’t assign these items; they are assigned by the server. 7. Click OK to save the new settings. The update is complete when the message “Configuration is successfully done” If you will use the card’s appears. (After you click OK, wait a few minutes before internal home page, assign an IP address manually.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 4. Click OK to close the TCP/IP dialog box and then click OK to close the network settings dialog box and save your settings. Click Yes to restart your computer. 5. Find the MAC address (hardware address) for the Ethernet card on the status sheet (see page 10). 6. Click Start, point to Programs, then click the MS-DOS Prompt icon to open a DOS window. 7. Type in the following command to set up the routing table: ping 11.22.33.44 8.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer Before you can print using TCP/IP, you still need to do the following on each computer that will use the printer: ◗ Install the printer driver (see page 36) ◗ Add a printer port (see page 38) 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 using EPSON Net!2: 1. Open the EPSON Net!2 utility.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 2. Highlight the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850 printer and click Configuration. The IP Address Configuration and AppleTalk Configuration dialog box appears. 3. Make the following settings in the AppleTalk Configuration box. Printer Name Type the printer name (up to 31 characters). The default name is shown: (Printer name)-(last 6 digits of the serial number) Entity Type You do not have to set this option.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer Network Number for Manual Mode The default number is 65535. If you have selected Auto for the Network Number Set, you can’t type the network number manually. 4. Click the Send button to save the new settings to the Ethernet card. If the message “Configuration is successfully done” appears, the update is complete. Configuring for NetBEUI You can use NetBEUI in Windows 98, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0 networks to print to your EPSON Stylus COLOR 850Ne.
Setup Guide: Configure the Printer 2. Click NetBEUI under Network on the Configuration menu. The NetBEUI setting screen appears. Note: If Disable is on, all NetBEUI related functions stop. The NetBIOS name is the name of your computer on the network. Make sure to give the printer a unique name for the network. For the workgroup name, type the domain name or the workgroup name used in the Windows network. 3. Select Enable in order to use NetBEUI. 4.
Setup Guide: Set Up the Workstations 4 Set Up the Workstations For most workstations, you need to install the printer driver before you can print. Note: If you are using only Windows 98 and/or Windows 95 on a TCP/IP network, you must install EPSON Status Monitor 2 on each workstation. If you don’t have a CD-ROM drive, you can create diskettes from the CD-ROM using another computer. Run the Make Diskettes program on the CD. For details, see page A-1 of the Administrator’s Guide.
Setup Guide: Set Up the Workstations Installing in Windows 98, Windows 95, or Windows NT 4.0 1. Insert the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850Ne CD-ROM. You see the EPSON Installation Program screen: If you do not see the screen, click Start, then click Run and type D:\EPSETUP (where D: is the drive letter of your CD-ROM) and click OK. 2. Highlight Install Printer Driver and click the right arrow button . 3. Click OK to install the printer driver. Your printer is automatically set to your local port, LPT1.
Setup Guide: Set Up the Workstations Changing Your Port Setting In Windows NT 4.0, make sure the TCP/IP Print Server service is running before you start. Then follow these steps to change to the correct port: 1. Point to Start, Settings, and click Printers. 2. Highlight the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850 printer and right-click the icon. 3. Select Properties. 4. In Windows 98 or Windows 95, click the Details tab. In Windows NT 4.0, click the Ports tab. 5. Click Add Port. 6.
Setup Guide: Set Up the Workstations 6. Click OK to install the software. Your printer is automatically set to your local port, LPT1. You need to change it to follow the network path to your printer. See the section below. Changing Your Port Setting Follow these steps to change to the correct port under Windows 3.1x: 1. Open the Print Manager and select EPSON Stylus COLOR 850 from the list of printers. 2. Select Network Connections from the Options menu. 3.
Setup Guide: Print a Test Page 5 Print a Test Page Follow the steps on a Windows 98, Windows 95, or Windows NT workstation to test the printer and make sure that the network is working correctly. Make sure the printer is turned on and a sheet of letter-sized paper is loaded, then follow these steps to print a test page: 1. Point to Start, Settings, and click Printers. 2. Right-click the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850 icon and click Properties. You see the printer driver screen.
