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Contents 1 Introduction ... 5 Introduction 6 System Requirements 7 About the Documentation 8 About This Manual 9 Conventions About Crown Print Monitor+ 10 Status Component Send Component Configuration Component 2 Installation ... 11 Preparing to Use Crown Print Monitor+ 12 Automatic Installation Manual Installation Step 1.
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Step 2. Adding a Printer Port 14 Windows XP/2000/NT4 Windows Me/98 Step 3. Configuring a Port — Automatic and Manual Installation 16 Port Configuration Options Port Configuration Steps Using Crown Print Monitor+ 19 Windows XP/2000/NT4 Windows Me/98 Uninstalling Crown Print Monitor+ 22 3 Troubleshooting ...
Crown Print Monitor+ uses TCP/IP protocol to transport print jobs and access printer status information. As shown in the illustration, Crown Print Monitor+ does more than just trans- port your print job to the printer. It also displays status information on that print job. Printer...
TCP/IP protocol Crown Print Monitor+ works with the KONICA MINOLTA printer it was shipped with. If you have other KONICA MINOLTA printers, check their documentation or our web site at www.konicaminolta.net/printer/ to see whether they use Crown technology.
If your printer has a network interface, Crown Print Monitor+ documentation came with your printer on CD-ROM. Crown Print You’re now looking at this manual. It Monitor+ contains detailed information on install- Administrator’s ing, using, and troubleshooting Crown Guide Print Monitor+. A more detailed expla- nation of this manual is provided in the “About This Manual”...
Text you type, and messages and information displayed on the screen. Variable text you type; replace the italicized word(s) with information specific to your computer, printer, or network. File and utility names. Variable information in the text. Press the Enter key...
Manager through the print queue status dialog box. Status information comes from the Windows XP/2000/NT4/Me/98 Print Spooler, Crown Print Monitor+, or the printer, depending on where the job is in the printing process. See chapter 3, “Troubleshooting,” and chapter 2, the “Using Crown Print Monitor+”...
Setup Type drop-down box select Custom. When prompted, select Crown Print Monitor+. Follow the instructions to install Crown Print Monitor+ and add a printer port. Skip to “Step 3. Configuring a Port — Automatic and Manual Installation”...
Windows XP/2000/NT4 You must be logged on as a member of the Administrator group to install Crown Print Monitor+. Also, the TCP/IP network protocol must be installed. Windows Me/98 The TCP/IP network protocol must be installed to install Crown Print Monitor+.
Click Next on the Welcome screen to continue. Crown Print Monitor+ setup begins. If you are prompted to add a new port, type the IP Address of your printer into both the Port Name and IP Address boxes. Then choose OK.
Windows Me/98 From the Start menu, choose Settings. From the Settings menu, choose Printers. In the Printers window, right-click on the new printer to display the pop-up menu. Choose Properties to display the Properties dialog box. Choose the Details tab and then choose Add Port.
After selecting the Manual button, type the port name and IP address in the appropriate text boxes. Select the Advanced button. The Configure Crown Port dialog box appears. Configure the Timers, the Port Setting, the Audible Alert and the Output Bin Notification.
When this option box is checked, print jobs are displayed in the Windows print job queue dialog box until they are delivered to the printer’s output bin. In addition, when this box is checked, print jobs submitted while another job is printing are not spooled to the printer.
Follow these steps to configure the port. From the Start menu, choose Settings. Choose Printers. In the Printers window, right-click on an existing printer to display the printer’s menu. Choose the Properties tab to display the Properties dialog box. Click the Details button.
Choose OK. Close the Print Servers Properties dialog box. Using Crown Print Monitor+ If you have installed Crown Print Monitor+, added a port for the printer, and configured the port settings, if necessary, you are ready to use Crown Print Monitor+.
To obtain status information on a print job, from the Start menu choose Set- tings and then Printers, then double-click on the printer you have selected. Whenever a print job is sent to that port, its status is reported in the sample status window shown below.
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A print job either proceeds in a normal error-free state, or it is in an error state. Error states can be nonvolatile like volatile like the inability to connect to a target printer (this state is displayed as Owner Lists the print job owner.
Print Monitor+. You need to select a different port because you can’t delete an active port. If yo have more than one printer using Crown Print Monitor+, repeat steps 3–4 for each additional printer. From the Settings menu, choose Control Panel.
Windows Me/98 One of the following messages displays via Print Manager in the printer status window when the Windows Me/98 Print Spooler is the originator of the status information: When this message displays in the Print Manager printer status window . . .
If the print job is spooled on a remote workstation, then the job is retried until it is either deleted or the printer becomes unavailable. Take this action . . . None None...
One of the following messages displays via Print Manager in the printer status window when Crown Print Monitor+ is the originator of the status information. Windows Me/98 When this message displays in the Print Manager printer status window . . .
It indicates . . . Crown Print Monitor+ can’t communicate with the printer. This message displays while the job is trans- ferred to the printer. The flag next to this mes- sage indicates spooling status: Green Flag Printer spooling is enabled.
Crown Print Monitor+ is displaying a message from the print device. Most of these messages are uppercase, and they may vary from one print device to the next. See your printer documentation for a complete list and description of these messages.
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