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Konica Minolta Crown II System Features Manual

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Crown II Operating

System Features

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  • Page 1: System Features

    Crown Book 1— Crown II Operating System Features 1800732-001A...

  • Page 2: Copyright Notice

    This book provides an introduction to the powerful features of Crown II printers. It shows typical examples of how the Crown II Operating System features can help optimize your printing needs. By using these recommendations, you will experience the way Crown II technology provides the best price/performance of any printer available today.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    1. Crown II Technology ... 1 ...2 CROWN II CONFIGURATION ...3 CROWN II FIRMWARE ...5 SPOOLING ...6 INTERPRETATION ...8 RASTERIZATION ...10 PRINTING 2. Crown II Features ... 11 ...11 IMPORTANT NOTES ...14 SERVERLESS PRINTING ...14 AUTOMATIC JAM RECOVERY ...15 ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT COLLATION ...16...
  • Page 4 ...117 STARTUP OPTIONS ...119 MEMORY ...125 ENGINE ...129 CONSUMABLES ...130 MISCELLANEOUS ...132 DISK OPERATIONS ...136 OWNLOADING YSTEM OFTWARE Appendix A - Standard Interfaces... 141 A.1 P ...141 ARALLEL NTERFACE A.2 S ...142 ERIAL NTERFACE A.3 E ...143 THERNET NTERFACE A.4 USB...143 Appendix B - Crown Accounting...

  • Page 5: Crown Ii Technology

    Interpretation Rasterization Printing The illustration shows the internal structure of the Crown II printer. In this chapter we discuss the function of these segments. A serial interface may be an option. Refer to your Crown II printer documentation for the actual interfaces available.

  • Page 6: Crown Ii Configuration

    (if a duplex unit is available and installed). The submenus of the Operator Control menu may vary according to the specifications of the particular Crown II printer. 3. Administration Menu—Use this menu to configure default settings for printer emulations and printer interfaces, configure special pages, calibrate the print engine, and configure hard disks (if installed).

  • Page 7: Crown Ii Firmware

    When your Crown II printer is switched on, by default it prints a startup page. This page is generated internally by the Crown II Operating System. Below is a list of the Crown II information pages that may be printed by the Crown II Operating System.
  • Page 8 The network configuration page gives full information of the Network Configuration network interface setup. Up to two network interfaces may be installed (one is standard and one is optional) in a Crown II Print System and each network interface has its own network configuration page.

  • Page 9: Spooling

    Crown II printer for your specific environment. Crown II printers are shipped with all standard interfaces active. Crown II printers equipped with an internal hard disk may use a part of the hard disk as an overflow spool buffer.

  • Page 10: Interpretation

    1. Automatic Jam Recovery. If a media jam occurs, and if the printer power remains on, the Crown II printer is able to reprint the page or pages in the engine at the time of the jam after the jam has been cleared. This enables you to collect your document(s) from the printer without missing pages and without resending the print job.
  • Page 11 Crown II printer in a specific application. This allows the Crown II printer to receive and store many print jobs, and it allows print jobs to be spooled. The process of storing documents before printing is referred to as Compile-Ahead technology.

  • Page 12: Rasterization

    For monochrome Crown II printers, the Frame Buffer contains a black bitmap only. Crown II color printers translate the Display List blocks into either four separate bitmaps, (one for cyan, one for magenta, one for yellow, and one for black) or a black bitmap only for monochrome output.
  • Page 13 Crown II printer. Some Crown II printers also allow edge-to-edge printing, which means that the nonprintable area is zero. Refer to your Crown II printer documentation for the actual printable area(s). Minimum Frame Buffer size for single-sided media Resolution...

  • Page 14: Printing

    The printed media is then transported to the output area of the print engine. The various print engine units are controlled by the Crown II firmware. To detect the status of these modules, the print engine provides specific sensor signals.

  • Page 15: Crown Ii Features

    2. CROWN II FEATURES The previous chapter explained the Crown II printer and introduced some of the Crown II features. This chapter explains the Crown II features in more detail: Serverless Printing Automatic Jam Recovery Electronic Document Collation Emulation Context Switching...
  • Page 16 Internal hard disk-equipped Crown II printers may be used extensively for memory clients and printer-related files. A memory client is a Crown II memory function for one of its specific segments, like the Spool Buffer, Display List, Emulation, and Emulation Temp buffer.
  • Page 17 ABOUT THE FEATURES Some features of a Crown II printer depend upon the installation of a particular option. In addition, a certain option or environment may be recommended, although not absolutely necessary, to take full advantage of the feature. To clearly identify this, we use the following symbols.

  • Page 18: Serverless Printing

    Not only do you have to wait a relatively long time before the printer starts to process the job, but all other users on the network experience a slower response time as well.

  • Page 19: Electronic Document Collation

    When collate is not selected and the copy count is set to 3, the application sends the 4-page file once, with a copy count of 3 embedded in the data stream. A non-Crown II printer usually prints page 1 three times, followed by page 2 three times, page 3 three times, and page 4 three times.

  • Page 20: Emulation Context Switching

    This Crown II feature ensures the correct handling of any multi- environmental situation, utilizing multiple printer emulations. Although this feature is predominant in networked environments, the same situation occurs when using multiple Crown II interfaces, each receiving data with a different printer emulation. Part 1 Crown Book...

  • Page 21: Overlay Printing

    1. You do not need a stock of preprinted forms anymore. 2. You may modify forms whenever needed, without scrapping existing stock. 3. The overlays are printer resident and do not need to be transmitted from a workstation to the printer each time.
  • Page 22 The next step is to transfer this file to the internal hard disk of the Crown II printer. You can use the Download Manager application or FTP to transfer the files to the hard disk of the printer.

  • Page 23: Number - Up Printing ( N - Up Printing )

    NUMBER UP PRINTING UP PRINTING Multiple pages of a document may be printed onto one sheet. This is particularly useful for draft printing, layout control, and archiving of documents. The various Page Order possibilities when N-up printing four (logical) pages are shown below.

  • Page 24: Booklet Printing

    BOOKLET PRINTING Automatic production of booklets is an important Crown II feature. It allows you to print your document in a book format. This is of special interest to writers, allowing them to examine the final document immediately. A booklet is printed as four logical pages onto both sides of one physical sheet. All printed sheets are then folded into what looks like a book.

  • Page 25: Printer - Based Accounting

    PRINTER BASED ACCOUNTING Crown II printers with an internal hard disk may utilize Printer-Based Accounting. With Printer-Based Accounting, individual print job information is saved on the printer’s internal hard disk in an accounting file. This information can be retrieved from the printer, filtered in regards to the individual customer requirements and exported into a spreadsheet program in order to be analyzed.
  • Page 26 Priority This documents the document’s assigned priority. The default size for the accounting file on the printer’s internal hard disk is 1 MB, but you can reconfigured it when necessary (refer to entry has a size between 200 and 300 bytes. This means that the 1 MB default file size is sufficient for approximately 4,000 print jobs.

  • Page 27: Network Connectivity

    At the same time all users may also share specific devices attached to this network. Devices, like printers, must have excellent network capabilities. Crown II printers are equipped with very powerful network capabilities, making them ideal for attaching in most network environments.
  • Page 28 When the number of users increases, the data communication to locally attached printers can become a bottleneck, especially in the case when various users require specific printer features. In many situations a network is already available, allowing one or more network printers to be used by all workstations.
  • Page 29 Ethernet and Token-Ring are: a. TCP/IP The TCP/IP communication protocol is being used in almost every network architecture. Crown II printers support the following data transfer methods for this protocol: Transport1/status1 used by the TCP/IP Print Monitor software. FTP (FileTransferProtocol).
  • Page 30 Token-Ring interface or a (second) Ethernet interface. Both network interfaces may be configured separately from your printer’s control panel and are able to operate simultaneously. Additional interfaces may be standard on some models of KONICA MINOLTA printers. Thin Wire,...
  • Page 31 IMPLEMENTATION Implementing a Crown II printer in a network environment requires certain specifications. Network Connector Network Interface TCP/IP, NetWare, EtherTalk Spooler Settings Printer Driver Software Application Settings When attaching a printer to your network, the following information must be gathered:...

  • Page 32: Color Management

    COLOR MANAGEMENT This section starts with a brief introduction about color in general, and how a Crown II color laser printer processes color. Color is a visual perception involving: a. A light source. b. An object that absorbs, reflects, or transmits the light of the light source.
  • Page 33 A color laser printer, such as a Crown II color printer, ships with four toner cartridges: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Mixing equal amounts of cyan, magenta, and yellow produces black.
  • Page 34 There are many devices capable of producing colors, like a monitor, a color laser printer, a digital camera, and a scanner. To avoid a multitude of translation modules, we first need to define a standard for colors. Since color is defined as how the human eye perceives this, we introduce the CIE LAB color model (also called ‘color space,’...
  • Page 35 Simulation ICC profiles to make the printer behave like another printing device. The Crown II color ICC profile outputs the translated data as CMYK to the print engine. Downloading ICC profiles to a Crown II printer requires a hard disk (an internal hard disk is recommended).
  • Page 36 Profile Downloader utility shipped with earlier printer models. After downloading ICC profiles, reboot the printer to allow the Crown II Operating System to incorporate the profiles. Print a CMM-Profile status page to verify the successful downloading of the ICC profiles.
  • Page 37 THE COLORIFIC UTILITY The Colorific Utility is not shipped with all KONICA MINOLTA printers. Check your printer documentation to see if Colorific is supplied with your printer. Once you have selected or installed the ICC profiles, you may expect colors from your color laser printer matching the colors on your monitor.
  • Page 38 COLOR RENDERING DICTIONARIES In a previous paragraph we explained how Crown II color laser printers process color by means of ICC profiles. There is, however, another method, called Color Rendering Dictionary (CRD) color matching. Before ICC profiles were introduced, the CRD color matching was the standard color processing method, but it managed only RGB color.

  • Page 39: Proof Then Print

    Proof-Then-Print feature is grayed out in the driver (meaning unavailable) and your Crown II printer is equipped with an internal hard disk, open the ‘Settings’ tab and select ‘Fixed Disk Drive Installed,’ or add ‘Optional Hard Disk’ first. You must always ‘declare’...

  • Page 40: Printer Management -- Crown View

    The day-to-day management is more conveniently performed via a workstation that’s able to communicate with your Crown II printer configuration menu. Crown II printers offer a sophisticated remote configuration solution: CrownView.
  • Page 41 It is more convenient for you to use a name than the address. The IP address can be found on the startup page of your Crown II printer. The IP address of your Crown II printer is a unique number and, therefore, may be the preferred identification to enter, especially having more Crown II printers active in your network.
  • Page 42 7. Enter the printer name or IP address in the Go to: URL address box to access the printer home page. For Internet Explorer 1. Start your web browser. 2. Access the View menu and choose Options. 3. Select the Connection tab on the dialog box.
  • Page 43 PRINTER HOME PAGE The Home Page is the starting point for all access to the Crown II printer’s internal web pages. On this page you find printer status, printer identification, and links to all other Crown II web pages. The printer Home Page provides the following information: Item Identifies the type of Crown II printer that you are browsing.
  • Page 44 The Operator Control web page is functionally the same as the Operator Control Panel menu on the printer. Some Crown II Printers require you to enter a username and password before access is allowed to the Operator Control web page. If you are prompted to enter a username (‘operator’) and password, refer to the following table.
  • Page 45 (standard) cassette so the printer can optimize output for that media type. After you have made the appropriate selections, you may submit the settings to the printer by clicking on the Submit button. Be aware that by submitting Operator Control changes, these changes are permanent and may affect other users.
  • Page 46 GENERAL SETTINGS This page provides other links to several groups of printer configuration settings. You may view the settings only. PRINTER SETTINGS Item Identifies the PostScript emulation compatibility Compatibility Level level. It may show ‘Level 1,’ ‘Level 2,’ or ‘Level 3.’...
  • Page 47 Item Identifies the settings for the Serial interface. Serial I/F The serial interface may be an option. Refer to your Crown II printer documentation for the actual interfaces available. Identifies the settings for the Parallel interface. Parallel I/F Identifies the settings for the Parallel interface 2.
  • Page 48 System Use known as ’System Memory.’ This non-configurable memory client is the amount of memory needed to run the Crown II Operating System. Shows the size (in MB) of the total amount of Printer Memory memory of your Crown II printer.
  • Page 49 The Printer Jobs page contains information about the print jobs the Crown II printer is currently processing and information about the previous five jobs already printed. This feature is particular important if your Crown II printer is in a remote location. You are then able to verify the status of your print job.
  • Page 50 There are Preventive Maintenance (PM) services running inside your Crown II printer. When a certain usage of the printer is reached, the Crown II printer alerts you to perform this maintenance to keep your printer in a good condition. These cycles may differ between Crown II products.
  • Page 51 ACCOUNTING on page 73), you can't access the accounting data. Some Crown II Printers require you to enter a username and password before access is allowed to the Accounting web page. If you are prompted to enter a username (‘operator’) and password, refer to the following table.
  • Page 52 STATISTICS The Statistics page may be used to view current statistics about the consumables. A plane is defined as a one-color face, while a face is defined as a single side of a sheet of media. A color face is typically made of 4 color planes. Part 1 Crown Book...
  • Page 53 ‘User’ column may be reset to zero values from the control panel of the Crown II printer. Resetting the numbers in this column allows you to retrieve periodical statistics. The column ‘Service’ contains the data after each Preventive Maintenance Service.
  • Page 54 ROWN RINTER You may use the File Print utility to modify the Printer Name of your Crown II printer: 1. Create a file on the hard disk of your workstation, named PRNAME.PS. You may use a general edit utility, like Notepad. Enter the (PostScript) program lines exactly as printed below (it is case sensitive).
  • Page 55 RINTING The Internet Pull Printing page allows you to print a web-based file without requiring you to open the file using your web browser (the printer uses its built-in software to access and print the file). To perform Internet Pull Printing, enter the URL of the file to be printed in the text box provided and then select Pull File.
  • Page 56 Selecting the KONICA MINOLTA corporate link automatically causes a jump to the corporate Internet website. From here you may access general information about other Crown II printers, contact information, an Answer Base, drivers and documentation. In order to access the website, you must have a valid connection to the Internet.
  • Page 57 Email sent via Once you’ve made the necessary changes, choose Submit. If the time interval for page refresh rate is set to too small, you may lose your changes before you choose the Submit button. Crown Book email. The path email is sent (e.g., via Resident NIC) Part 1...

  • Page 58: Crown Ii Memory Management

    The family of Crown II Print Systems contains various products. Each product may have more than one model available. A model may be denoted by a suffix, like Crown II Model X or Crown II Model Y. A model introduces one or more additional features, like extra media cassettes, a duplexing unit, higher print resolution, larger media formats, etc.

  • Page 59: Virtual Memory

    The data is not lost when the power is turned off. Although a Crown II printer has a number of ROMs (usually with a loading function), it is of no concern for memory management. RAM (Random Access Memory). This kind of high-speed memory can be read from and written into.

  • Page 60: Evaluation For Optimization

    Virtual Memory is activated by enabling Disk Swap (see Crown II printer allows virtual memory for all memory clients, except for the Disk Cache and the Frame Buffer. VALUATION FOR OPTIMIZATION The first step in optimizing the Crown II memory clients is to define your printing needs.
  • Page 61 What resolution will you use? The value for each memory client must be divisible by 4 KB. If you, for instance, assign a value of 102 KB for a certain memory client, the Crown II Operating System automatically raises this to 104 KB.
  • Page 62 NPUT UFFERS Each active printer interface has an exclusive input buffer. The size of the input buffer should be dictated by the nature of that interface. A serial interface is a relatively slow device and, therefore, does not require a very large input buffer. An Ethernet interface, which may receive data at a high speed, may need a large input buffer.
  • Page 63 When your Crown II printer is equipped with a duplexer, the Frame Buffer needs enough memory to image 2 full faces at that resolution (twice the amount of memory as needed without a duplexer).
  • Page 64 Font Cache is immensely faster than printing characters not yet in the Font Cache. As the font cache memory fills, the printer makes room for new bitmapped characters by erasing those that have been in the Font Cache longest without being used. By increasing the memory allocated to this memory client, the printer can store more characters and spend less time erasing and replacing characters in the cache.

  • Page 65: Crown Ii Configuration

    USING THE CONTROL PANEL BUTTONS There are five buttons available to navigate through the Crown II menu. Most Crown II printers use special symbols identifying the menu buttons. This table shows these symbols and they are used throughout this book.

  • Page 66: Entering The Configuration Mode

    To return to the online mode without making any change in the menus, press the ONLINE button twice. Some Crown II printers require the insertion of a security key (optional) or password before being able to access the installation menu. The security key must be inserted before going into the configuration menu and removed after the printer is put back online again.

  • Page 67: Installation Menus

    5. INSTALLATION MENUS Installation or Security menus may differ per Crown II model. NSTALLATION MENU USING THE SECURITY KEY The illustration shows an overview of the available submenus. Installation Operator Passwrd Use Operator Pwd Admin Password Use Admin Pwd To return to the online mode without making any change in the submenus, press the ONLINE button twice.
  • Page 68 ADMINISTRATION PASSWORD Enter a password for access to the Administration menu. Function Choices Max. 16 characters [blanks] Default A maximum of 16 characters may be entered. If you need less than 16 Notes characters, you may end the string by pressing the MENU key after you entered the last character.

  • Page 69: Installation Menu ( With Software - Enabled Security )

    INSTALLATION MENU WITH SOFTWARE The illustration shows an overview of the available submenus. Security Operator Menu Admin Menu Security Password To return to the online mode without making any change in the submenus, you may press the ONLINE button twice. If you set either an Operator Menu or Admin Menu password, you should also set a Security Password.
  • Page 70 SECURITY PASSWORD Enter a password for access to the Control Panel menu. Function Choices Max. 16 characters [blank] Default A maximum of 16 characters may be entered. If you need less than 16 Notes characters, you may end the string by pressing the MENU key after you entered the last character.

  • Page 71: Operator Control Menu

    The illustration shows an overview of the available submenus. The Operator Control menu is a product specific Crown II menu. The menu of your Crown II printer may not show all submenus shown here (for example, for a monochrome printer, the various color submenus are not available).

  • Page 72: Copies

    Long Edge - Prints duplex pages so pages can be bound at the long edge. Short Edge - Prints duplex pages so pages can be bound at the short edge. Default If you want to print individual duplex jobs, leave the printer setting to ‘off’ Notes and choose duplex through your software application.

  • Page 73: Inputbin

    Choices Upper Default The actual number of choices depends on the particular Crown II printer and Notes optional media bins installed. The size of media in all inputbins (except the multipurpose bin) is automatically sensed by adjusting the cassette levers for the media installed.

  • Page 74: Chain Mail Bin Or Chain Output Bins

    Full Color, Monochrome Choices Full Color Default Since Crown II printers have separate color toner cartridges (including black), Notes selecting monochrome may be useful for printing color jobs for proofing. MEDIA MODE Allows proper media type access for special media, such as transparency, Function thick stock, and labels.

  • Page 75: Color Matching

    Trin G1.8 D50 - A widely available CRT found in many monitors. sRGB PrePress Max Gamut Apple RGB The number of choices depends on the particular Crown II printer. ICC SIMULATION Sets CMYK source profile for ICC color matching. Function None, SWOP, Inkjet Proofer, Eurocolor, CMYK Display, Commercial,...
  • Page 76 6x6), STD 1200x1200, PCL (RGB 12x12) Automatic Default Custom profiles that have been downloaded are also listed. Notes Availability of this option depends on the Crown II printer. ICC PCL SOURCE Sets PCL source profile for ICC color matching. Function sRGB, Disabled, Custom Link...

  • Page 77: Media

    For MPT For Optional Plain Paper for all supported cassettes. Default The availability of choices is dependent on the particular Crown II printer. Notes ACCOUNTING This submenu allows setting the items for electronic job accounting. For details, refer to PRINTER BASED ACCOUNTING on page 21.
  • Page 78 10 files of 1 MB each. If you dedicate 5.5 MB to accounting, the printer creates 5 files of 1 MB each and 1 of 500 KB. The job filenames are ACC1.JOB, ACC2.JOB, and so on.

  • Page 79: Proof - Then - Print

    Identifies all ‘Proof-Then-Print’ jobs waiting for either printing or cancelling. Function Print, Cancel Choices Last ‘Proof-Then-Print’ job sent to the printer shows. Default You may scroll through the print job names (using the ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ Notes keys) until the required name appears. By pressing the ‘Return’ key, you may select either ‘Print’...

  • Page 80: Consumables

    The consumables statistics page allows you to check the amount of usage for Notes printer consumables and other printer statistics, such as the number of sheets, faces, and planes printed as well as the average coverage of each color toner.
  • Page 81 EPLACED Allows you to specify that one of the consumables have been replaced, which Function resets the consumables usage monitoring system. This applies to each of the Toner Cartridges (cyan, magenta, yellow and black), Waste Toner Box, Cleaning Roller, Fuser Oil Roller (or Bottle) and OPC Belt. When one of the items needs replacement or maintenance, the message window shows the relevant message to alert you.

  • Page 82: Administration Menu

    The illustration shows an overview of the available submenus. The Administration menu is a standard Crown II menu. The menu of your Crown II printer may not show all submenus shown here. For example, when no internal hard disk is installed, the submenu ‘Disk Operations’...

  • Page 83: Communications

    COMMUNICATIONS TIMEOUTS The Timeouts options limit the amount of time the printer waits on transmission from the host for various types of data or sets maximum values for the execution of a print job. There are four types: one for print data for PostScript and one for other emulations, a timeout for an active print job and one for ESP (Emulation Sensing Processor).
  • Page 84 S A serial interface may be an option. If the interface is not installed, this menu is not available. Refer to your Crown II printer documentation for the actual interfaces available. MODE Enables or disables the serial port.
  • Page 85 (If the value is set to 00000, the printer calculates the Min K Spool automatically at initialization). The printer must be restarted for changes to the Min K Spool menu to take effect. You can either let the printer restart automatically after you save the change and exit the Configuration menu, or you can wait for the change to take effect the next time you manually turn on the printer.
  • Page 86 Function None, Odd, Even Choices None Default The printer’s parity setting must match that of the host or application. Use the Notes Administration/Communications/Serial/Ignore Parity menu to specify how the printer handles parity errors. IGNORE PARITY Specifies how the printer should handle parity errors.
  • Page 87 - Off If the host uses hardware flow control, set this option to match the type used Notes by the host. However, to download printer system software via the serial port, RTS and CTS must be set to On. PS PROTOCOL...
  • Page 88 Disabled Noninteractive Default The printer must be restarted for changes to the menu to take effect. You can Notes either let the printer restart automatically after you save the change and exit from the Configuration menu, or you can wait for the change to take effect the next time you manually turn on the printer.
  • Page 89 Enables (and identifies an end-of-job sequence) or disables data stream Function sensing for the end-of-document (EOD) command. None - The printer recognizes only the PostScript ^D command in Choices - PostScript files. DOC EOD - The printer recognizes only the DOC %%EndOfDocument - The printer recognizes only the HP <ESC>%-12345X...
  • Page 90 Common EtherTalk All Crown II printers have a resident NIC, which supports transmission speeds of 10/100 MB. Optionally, a second NIC may be installed. The menu structure of the optional NIC is similar to the resident NIC menu. (For hardware information, refer to on page 143).
  • Page 91 DEF JOB PRIO EFAULT Allows you to specify which jobs are printed first, according to the interface Function through which they are received, when jobs are received simultaneously. 001-100 (highest-lowest priority) Choices 001 (highest priority) Default For example, you can give jobs received via the network interface priority Notes over jobs received via the parallel and serial interfaces.
  • Page 92 This paragraph describes the options available for the common network configurations. You may select: Spooling - to control how print jobs accepted over the CrownNet interface are spooled and sent to the printer. HW Address - to override the factory-default hardware address. Config Page - to print the CrownNet interface configuration page.
  • Page 93 Function Choices No, Yes Default The configuration page is printed when the printer is put back on line again. Notes Crown Book - Print jobs are accepted and spooled to memory. Several print jobs may be active at one time.
  • Page 94 Function CrownNet interface configuration changes into effect. No, Yes Choices Default The changes take effect as soon as the printer goes idle. Notes 6.1.1.1.1.6 Ethernet Speed (resident or optional) Allows you to set the Ethernet transmission speed. Function Auto, 10MB Half, 100MB half, 10MB full, 100MB full...
  • Page 95 - to select the appropriate Connection type of connection between the Macintosh and the printer. Zone Name - to display and set the EtherTalk zone. 6.1.1.1.2.1 Protocol (resident or optional) Allows you to enable or disable the EtherTalk protocol.
  • Page 96 6.1.1.1.2.4 Zone name (resident or optional) Allows you to set the EtherTalk zone name that you want the printer to show Function up in. There are 3 parts, part 1 and 2 are identical in that you may enter up to 16 alphabetical characters in each part (total 32 characters).
  • Page 97 This section describes the configuration options available in the TCP/IP menu. You may select: -to enable the TCP/IP Protocol protocol. - to assign a network Internet Address address to the printer. - to set a subnet mask. Subnet Mask - to specify the Internet Default router address for the default router.
  • Page 98 The CrownNet interface must be reset or power cycled for changes to take Notes SOFT RESET effect (see 6.1.1.1.3.2 Internet Address (resident or optional) This menu allows you to set the printer's network Internet address. Function xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (each triplet can have a value of 000-255) Choices (Crown II printer-dependent)
  • Page 99 005-600 (sec.) Choices 15 (sec.) Default Changes to this menu take effect as soon as you put the printer back on line Notes again. 6.1.1.1.3.10 Port Assignment (resident or optional) Allows you to assign a port number to the interface to provide compatibility Function with some applications that have identical port assignments.
  • Page 100 -xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx for the NMS (each triplet may have a value of 000-255) -None, Read, Read-Trap, Trap, Write, Write-trap - 000.000.000.000 (= wildcard, allowing any host to connect to the printer using the defined community name) - Write Part 1 Crown Book...
  • Page 101 Notes None Read Read-Trap Trap Write Write-Trap - The CrownNet interface must be reset or the printer restarted for changes to take effect (see 6.1.1.1.3.15 DHCP Allows you to enable or disable DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Function Protocol). Enabled, Disabled...
  • Page 102 RESIDENT OR OPTIONAL The Config PServer menu provides information about the printer’s internal print server. The printer’s internal print server can be configured as a NetWare binary print server and as a NetWare NDS print server. The following options are available:...
  • Page 103 Be aware that the longer the delay, the longer the time that a queued job is Notes released for printing and the time a Print Server begins to print the job. Changes in this menu take effect as soon as the printer is put back on line. Crown Book SOFT RESET on page 90).
  • Page 104 Default A selection of 0 means disabled. Notes Changes in this menu take effect as soon as the printer is put back on line. 6.1.1.1.5.7 Burst Mode (resident or optional) Allows you to enable or disable the NCP burst mode.
  • Page 105 N PRINTER RESIDENT OR OPTIONAL The R/N Printer menus allow you to configure the remote/network printers. The CrownNet interface supports up to eight remote/network printers. Therefore, eight menus are available: R/N Printer 1 through R/N Printer 8. Each menu has identical configuration options: Printer Slot - to identify the printer slot number.
  • Page 106 The printer automatically detects the frame types used on the network. However, if you do not want the printer to see all of them, you may disable one or more in the appropriate menu. 6.1.1.1.8.1 802.3 IPX Addr (resident or optional) Enable or disable the 802.3 IPX address for Ethernet...
  • Page 107 Function Choices Enabled, Disabled Enabled Default The CrownNet interface must be reset or the printer restarted for changes to Notes take effect (see 6.1.1.1.8.3 802.2 IPX Addr (resident or optional) Enable or disable the 802.2 IPX address for Ethernet Function...
  • Page 108 The CrownNet interface must be reset or the printer restarted for changes to Notes take effect (see 6.1.1.1.10 P RINTER NAME RESIDENT OR OPTIONAL Allows you to provide a printer name that is broadcast to the network for Function printer identification. String (max. 16 characters) Choices hwaddress (the hardware address set).
  • Page 109 END JOB MODE Enables (and identifies an end-of-job sequence) or disables data stream Function sensing for the end-of-document (EOD) command. - The printer recognizes only the PostScript ^D command in None Choices DOC EOD - The printer recognizes only the DOC %%EndOfDocument HP EOD - The printer recognizes only the HP <ESC>%-12345X...

  • Page 110: Emulations

    Notes than other color devices (such as your monitor), it is necessary to tell the printer how to print colors out of its gamut. A color rendering dictionary is software that translates device-independent color to its corresponding device- dependent color value. For details, refer to paragraph DICTIONARIES on page 34.
  • Page 111 PCL font selection mechanism is used to locate a font that matches the selected symbol set. With the standard set of fonts distributed for your printer, this matches the Times* font, but other user- installed fonts could change this result.
  • Page 112 Default A retained state is cleared if you do any of the following: Notes Explicitly clear the PCL state by sending an <ESC>E or Printer Job Language. - Resets PCL to its default state at the end of each PCL print job. Temporary fonts, macros, and patterns from previous PCL jobs are retained in memory after the print job has completed.
  • Page 113 If this option is set to Disk and no hard disk is installed, memory is used as the default storage location. If the Crown II printer has both a hard disk and a large amount of memory, setting this option to Memory enhances printer performance.
  • Page 114 The HPGL menu is divided in seven submenus normally used for HP-GL plotters. LOTTER Identifies the HP-GL plotter type. Function 7550A, Draftmaster, 7475A, 7470A, ColorPro Choices 7550A Default DraftMaster supports architectural and engineering paper sizes (for example, Notes A to E and Arch A to Arch E). These paper sizes describe a mapping to the physical paper.
  • Page 115 The available range of plotter units for a particular media size is only partially Notes determined by setting the Expand Mode to On. When the printer/plotter senses the media size it automatically sets the hard clip limit to 15 mm on three sides and 39 mm on the fourth.
  • Page 116 You may, however, use this emulation in case your document is designed for a generic kind of printer. In general, the output simulates what you may expect printing to a Lineprinter product. The following submenus allow you to define the conditions your document must be printed to.
  • Page 117 CRLF Stipulates whether each carriage return (CR) in the print job is translated to a Function carriage return/line feed (CRLF) combination. On - Translate all carriage returns to CRLFs. Choices Off - Use carriage returns only as carriage returns. Default CRFF Stipulates whether each form feed (FF) in the print job is translated to a Function...

  • Page 118: Special Pages

    Notes each of the process colors on the page. This page always prints at 600x600 dpi regardless of the printer resolution currently set. Color marks going around the outside of the page demonstrate horizontal and vertical color registration. Circles in the center of the page demonstrate cyan, magenta, and yellow color mixtures and red, green, and blue color mixtures.
  • Page 119 Upper Default The actual number of media cassettes from which a header page can be pulled Notes depends on the type of Crown II printer. TRAILER INPUTBIN Selects the cassette from which the printer pulls media when printing trailer Function pages.
  • Page 120 Function Page 2 prints grayscales. Choices Yes, No Default ALIBRATION Prints a page used to configure the calibration of a color Crown II printer. Function Yes, No Choices Default The color calibration requires special calibration cards for each color. After...

  • Page 121: Startup Options

    Do Start Page Do Sys Start Do Error Handler DO START PAGE A startup page lists basic information about the printer, such as its name, the Function number of pages printed to date, the PostScript version, and various printer settings.
  • Page 122 PostScript file named Sys/Start and executes this file. Yes - Check the hard disk for and execute the Sys/Start file when the printer Choices is turned on.

  • Page 123: Memory

    The flexibility of defining memory available to clients allows experienced users to optimize the printer's performance according to a given set of conditions. Print a status page to find out how the memory is currently allocated. Before attempting to make modifications, always...
  • Page 124 If you add the Input Buffer Sizes allocated to each interface and the Shared Spooling Space, the result should equal Host Input. If you change the ‘K Mem for Spool’ value, the printer automatically restarts after you save your changes and exit from the configuration menu.
  • Page 125 It is recommended that you should add at least 1 MB of physical RAM to your printer and increase this memory client in increments of 1 MB until this error goes away. If the ‘Enable Disk Swap’ option is turned on, then you can increase the emulation memory client using this memory.
  • Page 126 Choices (product and model dependent) Default If you change the ‘K Mem for HP Pool’ value, the printer automatically Notes restarts after you save your changes and exit from the configuration menu. The maximum value listed depends on the amount of memory installed and whether a hard disk is present.
  • Page 127 If no hard disk is installed, the Disk Cache is set to the minimum value Notes (00000). The printer then reallocates the released memory to other clients that need additional memory. The amount of memory needed for this memory client depends on the size and number of hard disks, the number of sub directories on each disk, and the amount of memory dedicated to caching.
  • Page 128 As the physical RAM fills, the printer can swap the contents to the hard disk file to allow more space. This file swapping between disk and RAM occurs at various times throughout the printing process and is completely transparent.

  • Page 129: Engine

    ENGINE This submenu allows you to assign defaults to the printer’s engine. IMAGE ALIGNMENT In the Image Alignment menu you may adjust two values for the horizontal and vertical alignment and two more similar values in case a duplex unit is installed.
  • Page 130 ERTICAL OFFSET Adjusts the vertical placement of the image on the page. Function 000-300 (0.00"/0 mm-1.00"/25.4 mm) Choices 100 (0.33"/0.84 mm) Default Values above 100 move the image up. Notes Values below 100 move the image down. UPLEX HORIZONTAL OFFSET Adjusts the vertical placement of the image on the back of the sheet.
  • Page 131 (different) name. RESOLUTION DEFAULT RESOLUTION Sets the default printer resolution. Function 300 dpi, 600 dpi, 1200 dpi and 2400 dpi (Crown II printer dependent) Choices (product and model dependent) Default The default resolution is automatically set to the highest resolution available Notes for the amount of RAM installed in the printer.
  • Page 132 Specifies whether or not the printer changes to a low-power state (the engine Function remains on, but the fuser turns off) after the printer is inactive for a user- defined length of time (chosen in the Energy Saver menu). On (the Energy Saver menu is enabled) or Off (the Energy Saver menu is Choices disabled, and the printer uses normal power all of the time).

  • Page 133: Consumables

    CONSUMABLES This menu is intended for maintenance service, allowing you or a service technician to ‘inform’ the printer that a consumable has been replaced, a Preventive Maintenance cycle has been performed, or a start user period has been initiated. Consumables...

  • Page 134: Miscellaneous

    54. REBOOT SYSTEM Allows you to restart your printer. Function Choices Yes, No Default Some changes in the configuration menu require rebooting of the printer in Notes order to take effect. Yes, No Factory Defaults, Custom Defaults Yes, No Yes, No <languages>...
  • Page 135 Notes seconds. Adjusting may performed from -155 to +155 seconds/month in steps of 5 seconds. This requires the installation of a Time-of-Day clock. Refer to your Crown II printer documentation for the availability. Crown Book on page 3. Part 1...

  • Page 136: Disk Operations

    Choices Default DSK7 (internal hard disk) Formatting the internal hard disk erases the Crown II firmware if the Notes firmware is located on the hard disk. This action should only be performed if an existing hard disk is replaced or a new hard disk is installed as an option.
  • Page 137 Only one internal IDE hard disk is supported. However, you can add up to three external SCSI hard disks, Jaz drives, and/or Zip drives to your Crown II printer. You must have an optional SCSI interface board installed before you can attach an external SCSI hard disk, Jaz drive, or Zip drive.
  • Page 138 FORMAT A HARD DISK Attach the external storage device, such as a hard disk, Jaz drive, or Zip drive, to the printer's SCSI interface or SCSI chain. This may require the installation of an optional SCSI interface. To format the external storage device, access the Disk Operations menu and then press the control panel keys in the order shown in the following table.
  • Page 139 ESTORE THE INTERNAL HARD DISK Using a Zip or Jaz drive connected to the printer’s SCSI port or SCSI chain, insert the disk containing the backup data to be restored. Access the Disk Operations menu and then press the control panel keys in the order shown in the following table. The printer responds by displaying a status message in the message window (DSK refers to the device, and # is the device number).

  • Page 140: Ownloading Ystem Oftware

    OWNLOADING YSTEM The system software in your Crown printer is stored in flash ROM, read-only memory that can be erased and rewritten to “in a flash.” Updated system software allows you to take advantage of future enhancements to the printer.
  • Page 141 If the printer connection is working correctly, your screen displays printer information similar to the following: If your screen displays information similar to the following, you may have bad network cabling or connectors attached to the printer. Crown Book Part 1...
  • Page 142 “put” the system code to the printer. We assume that you have a system file, for example “system.ps” on your workstation’s hard disk, and that you are in the directory where this file resides. We also assume the printer is in an “idle” state.
  • Page 143 Choices No—Don’t download new system code Default 2. Select Yes in the New System Image menu. The printer automatically reboots and waits for the new system software (image) to be sent via your PC’s parallel port. Crown Book —P ARALLEL...
  • Page 144 Downloading image via parallel port 5. After the new system software has been written to ROM, the printer reboots to activate the new system software. The old image isn’t erased until the printer verifies that the new image is valid.

  • Page 145: Appendix A - Standard Interfaces

    Ground Vcc Test ‘Direction’ refers to the direction of signal flow as viewed from the printer. ‘Return’ denotes “twisted-pair return” and is to be connected at signal-ground level. When wiring the interface, be sure to use a twisted-pair cable for each signal and never fail to complete connection on the return side.

  • Page 146: Serial Interface

    Make sure that pins 4 and 5 on the 25-pin serial cable and pins 7 and 8 on the 9-pin serial cable are criss-crossed as shown in the illustrations above. Direction The illustration shows the front view of the serial interface receptacle on the interface panel of the printer. 9-pin female Part 1 9-pin female Crown Book...

  • Page 147: Ethernet Interface

    A.3 Ethernet Interface The standard Crown II Ethernet interface is an RJ45 type of connector, capable of transmission speeds from 10 Mbit/s up to 100 Mbit/s. The illustration shows the receptacle of the Ethernet interface on the interface panel of the printer.

  • Page 148: Appendix B - Crown Accounting

    Information in this file is kept intact after the printer is turned off and back on again. b. Paper Accounting File (ACC.PAP) This file contains descriptions of the paper types supported on your Crown II printer. Status Accounting File (ACC.STA) This file stores configuration information about accounting.

  • Page 149: Accounting File Format Description

    A.6 Accounting File Format Description Accounting files are recorded in ASCII format in a series of tagged fields. Because each field is tagged, new fields can be added without losing backward compatibility. A version field is included in the ACC.STA file to identify the supported fields as the system evolves. When you access the accounting files using CrownPrint Auditor and/or CrownView, the tags are automatically converted into a format that is easier to use.

  • Page 150: Job Accounting File Records

    Priority 1, the highest, has been assigned to this job. 2: { 8h 5m52} Printer received job at 8:05:52 Verify your Crown II printer documentation for the availability of a Time-Of-Day clock. 3: {10/ 9/97} Printer received job on October...
  • Page 151 The Header Count field indicates how many images comprise the document header page(s) subjob. An image equals one page face.
  • Page 152 The Jam field indicates how many times the printer jammed while printing the document. The Paper Types Count field indicates how many different types of paper were used in the document...
  • Page 153 The Index field represents the record number in the Paper Accounting file that contains the description for the preceding paper count. A <CR> follows each occurrence of this field. The Connection field indicates the I/O port in which the job arrived. The Cyan Count indicates the percentage of the printable area covered with...

  • Page 154: Paper Accounting File Records

    The Normalized Black Count field indicates the percentage of the printable area covered with black toner. A <CR> follows this field before the index entries. The Monochrome Faces field displays the number of faces printed using black toner. The Color Faces field displays the number of faces printed using a combination of cyan,...

  • Page 155: Status Accounting File Records

    74993 bytes. 34: 1 There can be only 1 job accounting file. Although the printer is configured for multiple files (see field 37) there is only one because only 1 MB is dedicated to accounting. 35: 1 The most recently used file is File 1.
  • Page 156 By comparing this with Field 33, you can determine which file is current and how much space is left in it. The Number of Jobs field indicates how many documents are accounted for in the Job Accounting file(s). A value of 0 can mean that no jobs have been printed or that accounting is disabled.
  • Page 157 The Host field indicates the maximum character length of the Host Name field in the Job Accounting file. Host names are assigned with DOC. The File field indicates the maximum character length of the File Name field in the Job Accounting file. File names are assigned with DOC.

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