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Content Overview Preface How Much of This Book Do I Have to Read? xix Part I Guide for Printer Administrators 1 Setting Up the LaserWriter 12/640 PS 1 2 Setting Up the Printer for Mac OS Users 29 3 Setting Up the Printer for Windows, DOS, and NetWare Users 63 4 Setting Up the Printer for UNIX Users 107 5 Installing Options 133 Part II Guide for Users 6 Mac OS Users 165 7 Windows 3.1 and DOS Users 197 8 Windows 95 Users 225 9 UNIX Users 253 10 Loading Paper 255 11 Maintenance 277 iii Part III Troubleshooting 12 Fixing Paper and Image Problems 289 13 Fixing Other Problems 301 Part IV Appendixes Appendix A Administrator Tools Quick Reference 315 Appendix B Setting Up the Printer as an ATPS Remote Printer 323 Appendix C Using Fonts With the Printer 329 Appendix D Technical Information 345 Index 357 iv Contents Detailed Contents Communications regulation information xvi Laser information xvii Preface How Much of This Book Do I Have to Read? xix Printer administrators and users: Who does what xx What the printer administrator should know xx Getting new users started xx Which chapters should I read? xxi Part I Guide for Printer Administrators 1 Setting Up the LaserWriter 12/640 PS 1 Main features of the LaserWriter 12/640 PS 1 Choosing a place for the printer 2 Important safety instructions 3 Unpacking the printer 5 Installing the first toner cartridge 8 Wait to install the LaserWriter 12/640 PS options 11 Loading paper into the cassette 12 v Connecting the printer 16 Connecting to a LocalTalk network 17 Connecting directly to a single Mac OS computer 19 Connecting to an Ethernet network 20 Connecting to a Windows or DOS computer with a parallel cable 22 Connecting the power and turning on the printer 24 Saving energy 26 Adjusting communication settings 27 Why customize communication settings? 27 How to customize communication settings 28 What to do next 28 2 Setting Up the Printer for Mac OS Users 29 Before you begin 30 System requirements 30 Initial AppleTalk setup 30 Step 1: Installing the printer software 31 Step 2: Choosing the printer 35 Step 3: Naming the printer and setting its zone 36 Step 4: Making sure everything is working 36 What to do next 37 Configuring the printer 37 Using the Apple Printer Utility 37 Opening the Apple Printer Utility 39 Quitting the Apple Printer Utility 41 Viewing printer information 41 Naming the printer 42 Downloading fonts to the printer 43 Removing fonts 44 vi Contents Printing font samples 44 Turning the startup page on or off 45 Setting the print density 46 Setting paper-handling options 47 Selecting imaging options 49 Setting up job handling 51 Setting the printer’s network zones 52 Viewing and changing the communication settings 54 Sending PostScript files to the printer 57 Restarting the printer 57 Printing a configuration page 58 Getting Mac OS users started using the printer 58 Installing onto a server 59 Installing the printer software from the server 60 What to do next 61 3 Setting Up the Printer for Windows, DOS, and NetWare Users 63 System requirements for Windows 95 63 System requirements for Windows 3.1 64 Before you begin 64 Setting up for DOS-based printing 64 Setting up for parallel port printing 65 Installing the printer software for Windows 95 and Windows 3.1 65 Installing from the CD-ROM disc 65 Installing onto a server 70 Creating floppy disks from the CD-ROM disc 71 Installing from the floppy disks 72 Installing the printer software for Windows NT 77 Contents vii Initial Novell NetWare setup 78 Step 1: Choosing an operating mode 79 Step 2, Option A: Setting up the printer as a print server (using PCONSOLE) 82 Step 2, Option B: Setting up the printer as a remote printer (RPRINTER mode) 87 Step 3: Assigning a password for the print server (optional) 92 Step 4: Setting up the PostScript printer driver for NetWare 93 Step 5: Making sure everything is working 94 What to do next 94 Setting Additional Parameters with the Apple LaserWriter Utility for Windows 94 Installing the Apple LaserWriter Utility for Windows 95 Opening and quitting the Apple LaserWriter Utility for Windows 95 Naming the printer on AppleTalk networks 96 Turning the startup page on or off 96 Setting paper-handling options 97 Printing a list or samples of printer fonts 99 Viewing or changing communication settings 99 Configuring TCP/IP 101 Printing the Ethernet address 102 Sending PostScript files to the printer 102 Setting imaging options 102 Printing the configuration page 104 Setting the print density 104 Printing the page count 104 Specifying a font symbol set 104 Restarting the printer 105 Connecting to a network printer manually 105 Installing Type 1 fonts and Adobe Type Manager 106 What to do next 106 viii Contents 4 Setting Up the Printer for UNIX Users 107 Before you begin 107 Initial TCP/IP setup 108 Background information 108 Step 1: Installing the printer software 108 Step 2: Obtaining an IP address for the printer 108 Step 3: Assigning an IP address to the printer 109 Step 4: Configuring users’ workstations 113 Configuring Sun Solaris 113 Configuring Sun OS version 4.1, Ultrix, A/UX, or other BSD systems 114 Configuring HP-UX version 8.07 117 Configuring HP-UX version 9.x 120 Configuring SCO UNIX 123 Configuring IBM AIX version 3.x 125 Configuring Silicon Graphics IRIX 127 Configuring the printer 127 Using the TCP/IP Printer Configuration Utility 128 Using the Apple and Windows utilities to configure the printer 132 What to do next 132 5 Installing Options 133 Installing the duplex printing unit 134 Installing the 500-sheet cassette and feeder 142 Removing the 500-sheet cassette and feeder 145 Installing the envelope cassette 146 Installing the face-up output tray 147 Installing the face-up output tray on the optional duplex printing unit 148 Removing the face-up output tray 150 Contents ix Increasing the printer RAM 150 Installing RAM 151 Configuring your printer software for new options 159 Configuring the printer from a Mac OS computer 159 Configuring the printer from a Windows 3.1 computer 161 Configuring the printer from a Windows 95 computer 162 Part II Guide for Users 6 Mac OS Users 165 System requirements 165 Before you install the printer software 166 Installing the printer software 166 Installing from the CD-ROM disc 166 Installing from the floppy disks 168 Selecting and setting up the printer 170 Making changes to the printer setup 172 Printing 173 Selecting page setup options 173 Printing documents 175 Printing a cover page automatically 177 Printing grayscale documents 178 Printing with FinePrint or PhotoGrade 179 Printing on both sides of the paper 181 Printing to a file 182 Background printing and setting the print time 183 Selecting the output tray 184 Reporting errors 185 Printing with a desktop printer 187 x Contents Switching between printers 188 Drag the document you want to print to a desktop printer icon 188 Select the printer using its desktop printer icon 189 Select a new printer using the Chooser 189 Select a new printer from the Printer icon in the desktop menu 189 Working with desktop printer icons 190 Determining the status