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IP CONNEXION™ SNMP

SNMP Enabled Network Print Manager

Printer Monitor User’s Guide

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Disclaimer Notice

Konica Business Technologies, Inc. has made every effort to ensure that information in this manual is complete and accurat e. However, constant efforts are also being made to improve and update the product. T herefore, Konica Business Tec hnologies, Inc. shall not be liable for errors in this manual or for any consequential damages resulting from the use of this manual. Information contained herein is subject to change without notice.

Printer Monitor User’s Guide

Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................... 2

Installed and Non-installed Printers.................................................................................2

Network Traffic and Timely Information........................................................................3

Tandem Printing...............................................................................................................3

Requirements ................................................................................................................... 3

Chapter 2: Installing Printer Monitor............................................................................4

Chapter 3: Starting and Stopping Printer Monitor ......................................................5

Chapter 4: Quick Tour of Printer Monitor.................................................................... 6

Menu Commands............................................................................................................. 6

What You Can Do With Printer Monitor......................................................................... 7

Chapter 5: Quickly Checking a Printer’s Status........................................................... 8

Determining Whether a Printer Is Ready.........................................................................9

Determining How Busy a Printer Is................................................................................. 9

Determining Whether You Can Fix an Error................................................................... 9

Chapter 6: Checking a Printer’s Features and Detailed Status................................. 10

Determining the State of the Printer .............................................................................. 11

Chapter 7: Checking Print-related Information..........................................................12

Determining Whether the Printer Has The Features Needed for Your Job ................... 13

Determining Whether the Printer Has Enough Paper for Your Job ..............................13

Chapter 8: Managing Print Jobs...................................................................................14

Determining How Many Jobs Are Queued For a Printer .............................................. 15

Deleting, Pausing, or Resuming a Job........................................................................... 15

Chapter 9: Opening a Web Page...................................................................................16

Chapter 10: Updating the List of Installed Printers..................................................17

Chapter 11: Viewing a List of Non-installed Printers............................................... 18

Glossary 19

Index 20

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Printer Monitor allows you to monitor printing activities for the Konica 7060 printers in your network. You can:

• View a printer’s features, including paper types, engine resolution, languages

supported (PCL, PS, etc.), and finishing options available

• View a printer’s status, including error conditions, memory and disk space available

• View a printer’s queue, and pause or delete print jobs

A companion product, Profile Editor, allows administrative users to adjust the way Printer Monitor displays certain information. For details, see the Profile Editor User’s Guide.

Installed and Non-installed Printers

In the context of Printer Monitor, an installed printer is one that you can print to from your computer. The Printer Monitor finds installed, networked printers that are being printed to via IP or IPX as follows:

• NT - LPD port local or LPD port remote with a share

• 95/98 - LPD port remote with a share on a Win NT Server or Win NT

Workstation

• IPX - If multiple printers are attached to a queue, first printer server attached to

the queue is shown only

In discovering installed printers on Win 95/98 that are connected to a LPD remote share on Win NT an additional step must be taken. This step is only required for Win 95/98 clients and not for Win NT clients. After the time the printer is installed and shared on the Win NT machine the administrator is required to enter the IP address of the printer in the comment field for the driver. This comment field is accessible via the General page of the Properties dialog for the printer driver. The IP address that is entered in the comment field must be the same IP address that was entered for the LPR port at the time the printer was installed. This step must be executed before any Win 95/98 printers are connected to this share. If this step is not completed before the printer is installed on the Win 95/98 client, it will not be visible to the Port Monitor executing on that Win 95/98 client. In this case the user must enter the IP address on the Win NT machine where the printer share exists and re-install the driver on the Win 95/98 client.

Additional printers may be present in your network, but software required for you to use those printers might not be installed and configured on your computer. Printer Monitor can display limited information about these non-installed printers, possibly including information about how to install them.

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Network Traffic and Timely Information

As communication among computers, printers, and other devices in the network increases, the speed of the communication tends to decrease. Therefore, Printer Monitor includes features to minimize the network traffic required for gathering the large amount of information it needs from printers.

For example, Printer Monitor checks the amount of paper in a printer’s input trays, which can change rapidly, much more frequently than it checks the location of the printer, which does not generally change. If a printer is slow in providing Printer Monitor with information about paper levels, Printer Monitor continues to display the most recent levels available

Tandem Printing

Konica 7060 printers support tandem printing, whereby two physical printer engines can be attached to the same controller. These printers therefore have the same network address and appear as one printer to the Windows printing system. They can share tasks, optimizing their processing of print jobs.

Printer Monitor can display information about two printers in tandem.

Requirements

Printer Monitor has the following requirements:

• Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT 4.0, or a more recent compatible version

• Processor as required by the operating system

• RAM as required by the operating system

• 10 Mb of available hard disk space

• Network:

! TCP/IP network with a Windows NT 4.0 server or ! IPX network with a Novell NetWare server

Novell NetWare Client for Windows is required for using IPX networks with the Printer Monitor.

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Chapter 2: Installing Printer Monitor

To install Printer Monitor:

1. Insert the CD.

2. Run \somewhere\setup.exe from the CD.

3. If you have Novell Client for Windows installed, choose Custom Installation and

specify whether you want support for IP, IPX, or both. The default installation assumes that you have a TCP/IP network.

4. Follow the Setup program’s prompts.

Installation details will be updated in the next release.

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Chapter 3: Starting and Stopping Printer Monitor

To start Printer Monitor: " Double click the Printer Monitor icon in the system tray. The Printer Monitor window includes a Close button. Choosing this button does not stop

Printer Monitor, which continues to monitor the controller status (see the table on page 9) of the printer that was selected when the Printer Monitor was closed. The system tray icon changes to reflect the controller status.

To stop Printer Monitor: " Right-click the icon in the system tray, and choose Exit.

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