TABLE OF C ONTENTS ABOUT THIS GUIDE .................................................................................. 4 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 5 PACKAGE CONTENTS .................................................................................... 6 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ............................................................................... 6 GENERAL FEATURES ...............................................................
5. WEB CONFIGURATION...................................................................... 30 WEB CONFIGURATION UTILITY ................................................................... 30 MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................ 31 Management J System ........................................................................... 32 Management J Wireless ........................................................................
1 I NTRODUCTION Package Contents Unpack the package and check all the items carefully, and be certain that you have: ♦ One Wireless Print Server. ♦ One AC Power Adapter suitable for your country’s electric power service. Congratulations on purchasing your Wireless Print Server, the easiest and fastest way to deploy printers on your network.
General Features Product View ♦ Equipped with 1 parallel port and 2 USB ports allows user to share three printers on LAN simultaneously. ♦ Compliant with USB 2.0 High-speed printing. ♦ Equipped one 10/100 auto-MDIX Fast Ethernet LAN port. ♦ Multi protocol support is ideal for shared printing in mixed-LAN environments. ♦ Windows-based administrative program makes it possible to set up in a few steps. ♦ Latest MIB-II (RFC 1213) for SNMP standard management.
LEDs 2 Description Power Steady light confirms that the Print Server is powered on. USB1 When it blinks, the printer connected is printing. USB2 When it blinks, the printer connected is printing. LPT When it blinks, the printer connected is printing. LAN Steady light confirms that the print server has a good connection to your network. H ARDWARE I NSTALLATION When it blinks (briefly dark), the print server is receiving/ transmitting data from/to the network.
3 Installing the Print Server Follow these steps for a trouble-free start of print server operations with your Wireless Print Server. 1. Confirm proper operation of the printer to be connected to the print server. 2. When you have confirmed proper operation of the printer, turn off the power. U SING T HE U TILITIES 4. Connect the print server to the network (through the RJ-45 connector of the print server).
• User's Guide – click to preview the User's Guide in PDF format for detailed information of the Wireless Print Server. • Install Utility – click to install PS-Utility. Please refer to the next section for detailed information on installing the utility. • PS Wizard – click to launch the Printer Wizard program, which is helpful to set up the printer configuration easily and quickly.
3. The InstallShield Wizard starts to install the software, and the Progress bar indicates the installation is proceeding. 2. The main screen will appear as below, and it starts to search the connected print server within the network. 4. When completed, click Finish. Your print server After installing the utility, the application program for the print server is automatically installed to your computer, and creates a folder in Start\Programs\PS-Utility.
- - Show Web Setup: Click this button to open your web browser and launch the Configuration Utility. Alternately, you can double-click the print server in the Device List to launch the Configuration Utility. Factory Reset: Click this button to reload the factory settings of the print server. Discover Device: Click this button to search the connected print server again. About: Click this button to bring up a window containing the basic information of PS-Utility. Close: Click this button to exit PS-Utility.
2. In the following window, select one printer in the Printer List to set up port connection, and then click Next >. 4. The configuration is completed, click Reboot and then Yes to restart the system. Choose one connected printer within the network. 3. Select one printer port in the Print Server List, and click Next >. After rebooting, PS Wizard will help you to complete the port connection automatically. You can start your printing task without any complex configuration.
4 1. Launch Print Center. Add button. Press and hold the Option key, click the P RINTING IN MAC OS 2. Select Rendezvous from the pop-up menu. Rendezvous Uses in MAC OS 10.2 The latest version of MAC OS provides a new feature that is called Rendezvous. Rendezvous is a revolutionary networking technology standard that lets you create an instant network of computers and devices, which can be used throughout Mac OS 10.
4. Select the desired printer, and the following pop-up menu displays the printer’s manufacturer. Select Generic. Setting Up Apple Talk/LPR Printing For MAC OS X User With MAC OS X, you can use AppleTalk or LPR printers to print through the print server. Follow the instructions below for setting up the print server: 1. After attaching the print server to your network, change the IP Address of your Macintosh computer to access the print server’s web configuration.
3. To print, open a document and select File > Print from the menu. Select this option. 4. Select Edit Printer List from the Printer dialog box. Select this option. - AppleTalk: After selecting AppleTalk, the Port Name of the print server will be displayed. Select the Port to which the post-script printer is connected. Then, select the printer model from the dialog box. Click Add Printer to complete the Printer Port configuration. Select the Printer Port just configured in the Print window.
For MAC OS 9 User To print from MAC OS Client Workstations: If you use MAC OS 9, you can use the AppleTalk network protocol for network communications over standard Ethernet or Fast Ethernet using the EtherTalk transport, or over a proprietary low-speed LocalTalk transport. Your print server can be used for network printing to PostScript printers.
5 4. If you have not previously set this printer as the default, your computer will prompt you for a PostScript Printer Description file. Choose Select PPD. W EB C ONFIGURATION 5. Select the appropriate printer description file for your printer. Click Open. (If your printer is not listed, click Generic to use a generic printer description.) You can access and manage the Wireless Print Server through: 1) the enclosed software PS-Utility, and 2) a web browser.
The Management screen displays the basic information of the print server, including the following four categories: z System z Wireless z Network z User Management Management J System As shown above, the System displays the status of your print server, printer, and network. Clicking Refresh will update the information. Device Status The information about the print server, including the firmware version, MAC/IP address, and up time, can be found in this field.
Management J Wireless Click the Wireless item in the left column to display the information of the wireless LAN. Clicking Refresh will update the information. Management J Network Click the Network item to display the information of the LAN. Clicking Refresh will update the information. Wireless Status The items in this field display the information of the wireless LAN, such as the connection mode (Infrastructure or Ad-Hoc), SSID, channel, data transfer rate, WEP encryption, and the packets status.
Auto IP Management J User This field contains the current settings of TCP/IP, including DHCP/BOOTP, UPnP, and MAC Rendezvous. The items in this field are configured in Configuration > Network > TCP/IP. Click the User item in the left column to display the user(s) information. TCP/IP Printing In this field, you can monitor the status of your printing tasks through TCP/IP. Microsoft Network Printing In this field, you can monitor the status of your printing tasks through Microsoft Network.
- Configuration - Configuration J System Admin Contact (optional): Assign the Admin Contact’s name for the print server. Password: Enter the Administrator password (3-8 characters). To set up the password, please enter the password in the New Password box, and then enter the same one again in the Confirm Again box. Port Settings In this field, you can assign the Port Name for the print server, and the description for the USB port. It also allows you to select the PJL Printer setting (Yes or No).
Configuration J Wireless - available wireless AP within the network, click the Site Survey button. Wireless Channel: Select the channel from the pull-down menu. The default setting is 11. Transmission Rate: Select the data transmit rate from the pulldown menu. The default setting is Fully Automatic. WEP Encryption This field allows you to configure the settings of data encryption. Please remember that the WEP key must be set before the data encryption is enforced.
Configuration J Network TCP/IP This field contains three options that allow you to configure the TCP/IP setting: IP Address, UPnP, and MAC Rendezvous. - - IP Address: This option allows you to set the IP address manually or automatically. When you choose Manually Assign, you should enter the related information in the following boxes, including IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway. UPnP: This option allows you to enable or disable UPnP mode.
Configuration J User Configuration J E-mail Printing Control By configuring the Enable User Printing Control option (Yes or No), the user in the User List is permitted to access the print server or not. For the user(s) who is not in the User List, you can also limit the access right by setting the Allow Undefined Users Printing option to Yes or No. Define Users You can add/delete the user(s) to/from the User List.
E-mail Notification Configuration J SNMP You can set the print server to send an alter message when the printer status changes through E-mail. To enable this function, set the Enable e-mail notification for printer status changing option to Yes. Then, input the administrator’s E-mail address in the Admin Email Address box. E-mail Printing - E-mail Printing (ASCII Text Only): Select Enable to enable the E-mail printing function.
Tool J E-mail Tools Tool J Print Test Test E-mail Account Click Test to send a test E-mail to the given administrator’s E-mail address. Print Test Receive E-mail Choose one of the print ports and click Test to print a test page. Click Yes to immediately check and receive E-mail, and then print out the mail when available.
Tool J Reset Tool J Factory Reset Reset Factory Reset Click Yes to immediately reset the print server. Click Yes to reload the factory settings of the print server.
Tool J Firmware Upgrade Tool J Backup Backup Device Configuration to File Firmware Upgrade When a new version of firmware is available (e.g. downloading from the manufacturer’s website), you can upgrade the firmware of your print server. Click Browse to point to the firmware file, and then click Upgrade. Click Backup to backup your current configuration of the print server to file and then save in the computer. Restore Device Configuration from File You can reload a configuration that you saved before.
6 Help P RODUCT S PECIFICATIONS Printer Connection Printer Interface: Two USB ports, compliant with USB 2.0 Hi-speed standard. Network Connection This screen displays the information of the print server. Wireless Networking Network Standards: Wireless LAN standard IEEE802.11g. Network Data Transfer Rate: 54Mbps with fallback to 48, 36, 24, 18, 12, 11, 9, 6, 5.5, 2, and 1Mbps. Network Mode: Support both Infrastructure and Ad-hoc mode.
Network Protocol Support LEDs Transport Protocols: TCP/IP, SMB, NetBEUI, and AppleTalk. Power, LAN, WLAN, USB1, USB2, LPT. TCP/IP Protocols Support: BOOTP, SNMP, Telnet, FTP, LPD, DHCP, and IPP. Environmental and Physical Power Supply: 5VDC. Hardware Operating Temperature: 0°C to 50°C. SDRAM: 8MB. Storage Temperature: -25°C to 55°C. Flash ROM: 2MB. Humidity: 5% to 95%, non-condensing at 30°C. Operating System Support - Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000/XP/2003; - NetWare 5.
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