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Epson Stylus Color 850Ne Setup Manual

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  • Page 1: Setup Guide

    Setup Guide Printed on recycled paper with at least 10% post-consumer content...
  • Page 2 SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION General Notice: Other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. disclaims any and all rights in those marks. EPSON Copyright © 1998 by Epson America, Inc. CPD 7450 10/98...

  • Page 3: Using Your Software

    Novell ® NetWare, TCP/IP, and AppleTalk. EPSON Status Monitor 2 for Windows that allows you to monitor your printer over the network and use TCP/IP for printing in Windows 98/Windows 95 peer-to-peer networks. EPSON Driver Disk Creation Utility that lets you create diskettes for systems that don’t have CD-ROM drives.

  • Page 4: Setup Overview

    Set Up the Workstations For most networks, you need to install the printer driver on each Windows or Macintosh workstation that uses the printer. If you like, you can also install EPSON Status Monitor 2 on Windows workstations. Print a Test Page You can print a test page in Windows 98, Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0.

  • Page 5: Network Configurations

    NetBEUI (TCP/IP must also be installed) Novell NetWare 1. EPSON Net!2 (p.11 and p. 16) 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.*...
  • Page 6 , version 3.0 or later. 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) 1.

  • Page 7: Set Up The Printer

    One color and one black ink cartridge package The EPSON Stylus ® COLOR 850Ne CD-ROM The EPSON Media Pak containing sample ink jet paper Your User’s Guide and Administrator’s Guide A network cable (not supplied) Setup Guide: Set Up the Printer...

  • Page 8: Attach The Paper Support

    Near sources of heat or electromagnetic interference, such as loudspeakers or cordless telephone base units Install the Ink Cartridges 1. Make sure the printer is turned off (the P power button should be up). Then plug the printer’s power cord into a grounded outlet.
  • Page 9 Don’t remove the white portion 3. Press the P power button to turn on the printer. The P power light flashes and the B and I ink out lights come on. The black ink cartridge holder moves into loading position.

  • Page 10: Load Paper

    The printer moves the print heads and begins charging the ink delivery system. The P power light flashes, and the printer makes various sounds. Charging takes up to 4 minutes. Don’t turn off the printer or interrupt this important process or you’ll use up more ink than necessary.
  • Page 11 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 don’t load paper above the arrow...

  • Page 12: Connect The Printer To Your Network

    1. Attach the network cable to the connector on the card. status sheet button 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. Printing a Status Sheet: To print a status sheet, press the status sheet button and hold it for about three seconds.

  • Page 13: 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.
  • Page 14 EPSON Installation program. 2. Highlight Install EpsonNet! for Windows right arrow button 3. Follow the instructions on the screen to install EPSON Net!2. When you are finished, you can install Status Monitor 2 to monitor status information about your printer including ink level information and printer errors.

  • Page 15: Installing Epson Net!2 On A Macintosh

    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. These two parts work together to allow you to see your printer’s specific status information over the network.
  • Page 16 Follow these steps to install EPSON Status Monitor 2: 1. Insert the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850Ne CD-ROM. You see the following screen: If the screen does not appear, type is the drive letter of your CD-ROM) and click the EPSON Installation program.
  • Page 17 User’s Guide or page 3-8 in your Administrator’s Guide to turn on background monitoring later.) After you install the network software, configure the printer’s Ethernet card for TCP/IP (page 28), or use EPSON Net!2 to configure your printer for NetWare (page 16). Do not Next .

  • Page 18: 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.
  • Page 19 Click the directory context icon (or Bindery context), and select , then Object Create the print queue name and select the print queue volume. Then click Create Setup Guide: Configure the Printer , and then . Type the Printer , and then . Type Print Server Create , and then .
  • Page 20 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 Administrator screen. icon on the NetWare...
  • Page 21 8. The Printer dialog box appears. Click then click 9. From the print queue list, select the queue you want to assign and click 10. For Print Server mode, go to step 11. For Remote Printer mode, click for the Printer type box and click...
  • Page 22 11. Double-click the Print Server Object NetWare Administrator screen. 12. The Print Server dialog box appears. Click and then click 13. From the printer object list, select the printer object you want to assign and click icon on the Assignments...
  • Page 23 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 NetWare Administrator screen.
  • Page 24 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.

  • Page 25: Using Epson Net!2 To Configure The Card In Print Server Mode

    Using EPSON Net!2 to Configure the Card in Print Server Mode Follow these steps: 1. Start EPSON Net!2. The following screen appears: 2. Highlight your EPSON Stylus COLOR 850Ne printer and click Configuration. 3. Click the NetWare Basic settings.
  • Page 26 Setup Guide: Configure the Printer Note: See your NetWare manual for the available characters and number of characters you can use. Frame Type You can select from one of the following: Ethernet 802.2 Ethernet 802.3 Mode Select Print Server Select...
  • Page 27 Ethernet card has been logged in to the Active Connections list. It takes up to five minutes to complete this. Using EPSON Net!2 to Configure the Card in Remote Printer Mode Follow these steps: 1. From the System Console of the file server where you set...
  • Page 28 Note: If the IP address is set to the default IP address, the printer model might not appear. 2. Start EPSON Net!2. The following screen appears: 3. Highlight your printer and click 4. Click the NetWare Basic settings. Frame type Select one from the following: Ethernet 802.3...
  • Page 29 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. Primary print server name Select the print server name you have created.

  • Page 30: 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. You can use EPSON Net!2 or the arp command to do this, as described in the sections below. Windows 98 and Windows 95 do not come with the TCP/IP...
  • Page 31 See your network operating system documentation for the settings. 3. Click the printer where you want to set the IP address, and then click the Configuration 4. Click the tab to display the TCP/IP menu.
  • Page 32 Also, you need to know the IP address for the computer and the IP address you will assign to the printer’s Ethernet card. Follow these steps to assign the IP address: 1.
  • Page 33 IP and MAC addresses. Setup Guide: Configure the Printer , then click the MS-DOS : bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=30 : bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=30...

  • Page 34: Configuring For Appletalk

    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.
  • Page 35 Entity Type You do not have to set this option. Zone Name Select the network zone in which you want the printer to appear. If the zone has not been set, “ ” appears. Network Number Set Select the network number setting. In most cases, you...

  • Page 36: Configuring For Netbeui

    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. You configure the card for NetBEUI using the card’s internal home page.
  • Page 37 6. If the message “Configuration change is complete!” appears on your screen, the update is complete. Enable the changes by pressing or turning your printer off and on. RESET Setup Guide: Configure the Printer on the Configuration...

  • Page 38: Install The Printer Driver

    Macintosh computers, you need to select the printer in the Chooser. Install the Printer Driver Your printer driver is on the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850Ne CD-ROM that came with your printer. If you have a Windows NT Server 4.0 network, you don’t need to install the driver on each workstation.

  • Page 39: Installing In Windows 98, Windows 95, Or Windows Nt

    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 type...

  • Page 40: Installing In Windows 3.1X

    Close Installing in Windows 3.1x 1. Make sure Windows Program Manager is running and exit any open application programs. 2. Insert the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850Ne CD-ROM. 3. Open the File menu and select 4. Type (where D:\EPSETUP CD-ROM) and click screen (shown on page 12).

  • Page 41: Installing On A Macintosh

    Installing on a Macintosh 1. Turn on your printer and your Macintosh and turn off any virus protection programs you may have. 2. Insert the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850Ne CD-ROM. 3. Double-click the Installer 4. Follow the instructions on the screen and restart your computer.

  • Page 42: 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.

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