Konica PAGEPRO 1300W, PAGEPRO 1350W User Manual
PagePro 1300W/1350W
™
User’s Guide
4136-7747-02A
Contents
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1
Getting Acquainted with Your Printer 2
Printer Parts 2
Front View 2
Rear View 2
About the Indicator Functions 3
Indicator Functions 3
Continuing a Print Job after an Error Message 3
Cancelling a Print Job 3
Status Message 4
2 Software Installation ......................................................................................... 7
Installing the USB Device Driver 8
Installing the USB Device Driver under Windows Me and 98 8
Installing the Printer Driver 9
Installing from the CD-ROM 9
3 Working with the Printer Driver .....................................................................11
Displaying Printer Driver Settings 12
Displaying Settings under Windows XP 12
Contents
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Displaying Settings under Windows 2000/Me/98 12
Using the Printer Driver 13
Common Buttons 13
OK 13
Cancel 13
Apply 13
Help 13
Easy Set 13
Page Layout 13
Printer Figure 13
Setup Tab 14
Paper Tab 14
Quality Tab 14
Device Options Setting Tab 14
4 Working with the Status Display ....................................................................15
Working with the Status Display 16
Introduction 16
Environment 16
Opening the Status Display and Showing the Supplies Status 16
Altering the Size of the Status Display Window 16
Using the Status Display 16
Recognizing Status Display Alerts 17
Recovering from a Status Display Alert 17
Closing the Status Display 18
5 Using Media .....................................................................................................19
About Media 20
What sizes/weights of media can I use? 20
What type and amount of media can I load? 21
Media Storage 21
Media Not Suitable for Printing 22
What Is the guaranteed imageable (printable) area? 23
Page Margins 23
Loading Media 24
How do I refill Tray 1? 24
Printing on Media 25
How do I load and print custom media? 25
How do I load and print envelopes? 25
How do I load and print labels? 27
How do I load and print postcards? 28
How do I load and print thick stock? 29
How do I load and print transparencies? 30
Manual Duplexing 31
How do I manually duplex? 31
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6 Replacing Consumables ................................................................................33
Replacing the Toner Cartridge 35
Replacing the Drum Cartridge 40
7 Maintaining the Printer ................................................................................... 45
Cleaning the Printer 46
Exterior 46
Pick-up Roller 47
8 Troubleshooting .............................................................................................. 49
Indicator Messages 50
Error Messages 50
Service Messages 51
Clearing Jams 52
Solving Problems-Printing Quality 55
A Appendix ..........................................................................................................59
Safety Specifications 60
Technical Specifications 60
Printer 60
Parallel Interface Connectors and Cable 62
USB Interface Connectors and Cable 62
Consumables Life Expectancies Chart 62
Our Concern for Environmental Protection 63
What is an ENERGY STAR product? 63
CE Marking (Declaration of Conformity) 63
For European Users 63
CISPR 22 and Local Rules 63
Acoustic Noise 64
Safety Information 64
Warning and Precaution Symbols 64
Meaning of Symbols 64
WARNING 65
CAUTION 67
Working Safely with your Laser Printer 68
Notes on your Safety and Operating Safety 68
Laser Safety 70
Internal Laser Radiation 70
Laser Safety Label 71
For United States Users 71
For Users in All Countries 72
For Denmark Users 72
For Norway Users 72
For Finland, Sweden Users 72
Contents
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Contentsiv
Introduction
Getting Acquainted with Your Printer
Printer Parts
The following drawings illustrate the parts of your printer referred to throughout this guide, so please take some time to become familiar with them.
Front View
1—Top cover
2—Output tray
3—Control panel
4—Imaging cartridge
(Toner cartridge plus Drum cartridge)
5—Front cover
6—Tray 1
7—Front cover grip
8—Paper guide stopper
9—Paper guides
10—Ventilation grilles
11—Power switch
1 2
11
10
Drum cartridge
9
8
Toner cartridge
3
4
5
6
7
Imaging
cartridge
Rear View
1—AC power connection
2—Parallel port
3—USB port
3
1
2
Getting Acquainted with Your Printer2
About the Indicator Functions
Indicator Functions
The control panel has two indicators
and one button. The control panel
indicators provide information on the
status of the printer.
1—Ready indicator
2—Error indicator
3—Cancel button
The Cancel button allows you to:
Continue a print job after an
error message
Cancel a print job
Continuing a Print Job after an Error Message
You can continue the print job after correcting the following types of errors:
When the print job is too complex and the memory capacity of the printer
is inadequate
When there is no more paper in the tray
When paper of a different format than that set in the printer driver was fed
into the printer
1 Check that one of the above errors has occurred.
2 Perform the remedial action according to the error.
3 Press the Cancel button to operate the media feed.
The print job continues.
For details on the error messages, refer to chapter 8, “Troubleshooting” on
page 49.
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2
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Cancelling a Print Job
You can cancel a print job that is currently being processed.
1 While data is being processed or printed (the green “Ready” indicator is
blinking), hold down the Cancel button for more than 5 seconds.
2 Release the Cancel button after both indicators light up.
The current print job has now been cancelled.
About the Indicator Functions
3
The indicators may show five types of signals:
Off
On
Slow blinking—1 blink every 2 seconds
Blinking—1 blink per second
Rapid blinking—2 blinks per second
Status Message
Status messages indicate the current condition of the printer. The printer status also can be checked on the Status Display. (Refer to the “Working with
the Status Display” on page 16.)
Ready
indicator
(green)
Off Off Power off None
On Off Ready to print None
Rapid blink-
ing
Blinking Off Processing data None
On On Initializing (power on) None
Slow blinking Off Power save mode None
Error
indicator
(orange)
Off Warming up None
Condition Action
Printing
Canceling a print job
About the Indicator Functions4
Ready
indicator
(green)
On Slow blinking Toner near empty Prepare the new
On Blinking Toner empty Replace the toner
On Rapid blink-
Error
indicator
(orange)
ing
Condition Action
toner cartridge.
cartridge.
Toner cartridge end Replace the toner
cartridge.
No toner cartridge is
installed.
The installed toner cartridge is an unapproved type.
Install the toner cartridge.
Install a
KONICA MINOLTA
toner cartridge.
Note
If a toner cartridge for a different region, an unapproved toner cartridge,
or a toner cartridge that is at the end of its life is used, cleaning will be
performed after each page is printed, which will reduce the printing
speed.
About the Indicator Functions
5
About the Indicator Functions6
Software
Installation
Installing the USB Device Driver
When connecting the printer to your computer with a USB cable, install the
USB device driver according to the following instructions before installing the
printer driver.
Note
In Windows 2000/XP, you do not have to install the USB device driver.
When the “Found New Hardware” wizard dialog box appears, cancel it.
Installing the USB Device Driver under Windows Me and 98
1 Turn on your computer.
2 Turn on the printer.
3 When Windows and the printer are both ready, insert the CD-ROM,
included with your printer, into your computer’s CD-ROM drive.
4 Connect the printer to the computer with the USB cable. The Add New
Hardware Wizard dialog box appears.
Follow the instructions on the screen.
" Browse the printer driver CD-ROM and navigate to:
“drivers\English\Win9x” (for Windows Me and 98).
5 Click Finish. This completes the installation of the USB device driver.
6 When the Add New Hardware Wizard dialog box appears after clicking
Finish, click Cancel.
Installing the USB Device Driver8
Installing the Printer Driver
Note
Do not use the “Found New Hardware” or “Add New Hardware” wizard
to install the PagePro 1300W/PagePro 1350W driver and utilities.
Installing from the CD-ROM
1 Insert the CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive of your computer. The CD-ROM
installer automatically starts.
If not , browse with the Windows Explorer to the CD-ROM and double-click on setup.exe.
2 Follow the instructions on the screen.
" For a USB connection, select “USBxxx” as the printer port.
For a Parallel connection, select “LPTx” as the printer port.
Installing the Printer Driver
9
Installing the Printer Driver10
Working with the
Printer Driver
Displaying Printer Driver Settings
Displaying Settings under Windows XP
1 From the Start menu, click Control Panel.
2 In Pick a category, click Printers and Other Hardware.
3 In Pick a task…, click View installed printers or fax printers.
4 In the Printers and Faxes directory, select the KONICA MINOLTA
PagePro 1300W/PagePro 1350W printer icon.
5 To display the printer driver settings, from the File menu, click Printing
Preferences....
Displaying Settings under Windows 2000/Me/98
1 From the Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Printers to display
the Printers directory.
2 Select the KONICA MINOLTA PagePro 1300W/PagePro 1350W printer
icon.
3 Display the printer driver settings:
Windows 2000—From the File menu, click Printing Preferences....
Windows Me/98—From the File menu, click Properties, and then
click the Printer Properties tab.
Displaying Printer Driver Settings12
Using the Printer Driver
" Refer to the printer drivers online help for information on all of the
functions.
Common Buttons
The buttons described below appear on each tab.
OK
Click to exit the Properties dialog box, saving any changes made.
Cancel
Click to exit the Properties dialog box without saving any changes made.
Apply
Click to save all changes without exiting the Properties dialog box.
Help
Click to view online help.
Easy Set
To save the current settings, click Save.... Afterward, the saved settings can
be selected from the drop-down list.
Select Default from the drop-down list to reset the functions of the tab to their
original values.
Page Layout
Check this option button to display a sample of the page layout in the figure
area.
Printer Figure
Check this option button to display an image of the printer in the figure area.
Using the Printer Driver
13
Setup Tab
The Setup tab allows you to
Print several pages of a document on the same page (n-up printing)
Provide a watermark on printed documents
Design custom watermarks
Specify manual duplex printing
Specify the paper source
Define the type of media
Print using a form overlay
Create/edit a form overlay
Paper Tab
The Paper tab allows you to
Specify the size of the original document
Define custom media sizes
Fit printed documents to a specified media size
Select the output media size
Scale (enlarge/reduce) documents
Adjust the printing position
Specify the number of copies
Turn on/off the printer’s sorting function
Turn on/off the Proof Print function
Specify the orientation of the media
Rotate the print image 180° to the media orientation
Quality Tab
The Quality tab allows you to
Specify the resolution
Adjust the contrast and brightness of the printed document
Turn on/off Toner Save mode
Device Options Setting Tab
The Device Options Setting tab allows you to
View version and copyright information about the printer driver
Using the Printer Driver14
Working with the
Status Display
Working with the Status Display
Introduction
The Status Monitor shows information about the current status of the computer’s local printer.
Environment
The Status Display can be used with Windows XP, 2000, Me, and 98 connected via a parallel cable or USB cable.
Opening the Status Display and Showing the Supplies Status
Use one of the following steps to open the Status Display.
Windows XP—Choose Start, All Programs, then KONICA MINOLTA
PagePro 1300W/PagePro 1350W Utilities, and then KONICA MINOLTA
PagePro 1300W/PagePro 1350W Status.
Windows Me/2000/98—From the Start menu, choose Programs, then
KONICA MINOLTA PagePro 1300W/PagePro 1350W Utilities, and then
KONICA MINOLTA PagePro 1300W/PagePro 1350W Status.
Altering the Size of the Status Display Window
From the Display menu, choose Status (Reduce) to decrease the size of
the window, or
From the Display menu, choose Status (Expand) to increase the size of
the window.
Using the Status Display
When the background of the right-hand printer graphic is green, the
printer is in standby mode or a job is printing normally.
When the background of the right-hand printer graphic is red, there is an
error and the job has been interrupted. The status of the printer and the
error message are shown in the dialog boxes on the left.
The function areas include:
Printer status—Displays text messages that describe the current opera-
tional status of the printer.
How to recover—Provides you with explanations of what you need to do
in order to correct problems and recover from error conditions.
Working with the Status Display16
Warning status—Displays text messages that alerts you of such condi-
tions as low toner.
Printer status figure—Shows a graphic representation of the printer and
indicates where the problem is.
Printing status—Displays the status of the current print job.
Select popup message—Allows you to choose which message(s) you
want to bring to the foreground when that particular condition occurs with
the printer.
Maintenance—Allows you to specify the Midnight Mode functions and
Auto Continue functions.
Supplies status—Displays consumables usage statuses (percentage
remaining) of the toner cartridge.
Refer to the online help for information on all of its functions.
Recognizing Status Display Alerts
When the Status Display detects a printing problem, several actions occur at
the same time, depending on your settings. First, the icon changes from
green to yellow or red, depending on the severity of the printer problem.
Refer to the online help for further information on these settings.
Recovering from a Status Display Alert
When the Status Display notifies you of a printing problem, double-click on its
icon to open the Status Display. The Status Display identifies which printer
has an error and what type of error has occurred.
Refer to the online help for further information on these settings.
Recognizing Status Display Alerts
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Closing the Status Display
To close the Status Display from the File menu, choose Exit.
" If you click the X button in the upper-right corner of the Status Display
window to close the window, the Status Display remains available at
the bottom right of the taskbar. Double-click the icon to open it again.
Closing the Status Display18
Using Media
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