Konica Minolta FIERY S300 50C-K User Manual

Release Notes

Fiery S300 50C-K, version 1.0

This document contains information about Fiery S300 50C-K™ software version 1.0. Before using Fiery S300 50C-K with version 1.0, make a copy of these Release Notes and distribute them to all users.

	NOTE: This document uses the term “Fiery S300” to refer to Fiery S300 50C-K.
Setup	Supported Domain Name characters
	The Domain Name may include the following letters, numerals, and characters in its name:
	•	The letters a-z and A-Z.
	•	The numbers 0-9.
	•	The hyphen (-) character.

The Domain Name does not support underscore (_) characters in its name. Host names may begin with a letter or a number but cannot be longer than 63 characters.

Changing the Server Name from the Control Panel

If you use a static IP for the Fiery S300, you cannot change the Server Name from the

Control Panel. Instead, select DHCP or change the Server Name from

Command WorkStation or WebSetup.

SNMP and Remote Setup

The SNMP dialog box always appears when accessing Setup from WebTools or Command

WorkStation. Disregard this dialog box and click OK to continue.

Fiery Advanced Controller Interface

From the Fiery Advanced Controller Interface, items under Accessories appear in English for French, Italian, German, and Spanish systems.

Mailbox setup

From remote setup, if an invalid character is typed for the Mailbox Account Name, you may need to restart your browser if Setup stops responding. Do not enter invalid characters for the Mailbox Account Name.

WebSetup

The SNMP Community Name dialog box truncates the word Community on Italian systems.

Color Setup option not in Control Panel Map

The Color Setup option, Use Media Deﬁned Proﬁles, is omitted from the Control Panel

Map but is available. For information about setting this option, see the Conﬁguration

Guide.

LPR port and printing queues

If you use LPR port, only the Hold and Print queues can be used.

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Installing Software

Scanning

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Ejecting the User Software CD

If you install Mac OS X printer drivers from the User Software CD, restart your computer to eject the CD.

Installing printer driver options via a network printer

To install options via a network printer with the Fiery Advanced Controller Interface from a client computer, do the following:

1.From a Windows 2000/XP client computer, create a local user with Administrator for the user setting and set the password to “Fiery.1”.

2.Restart the computer and log in as an Administrator with the Fiery.1 password.

3.Navigate to the Fiery S300 to install the printer driver and set the Two-Way Communication option to On.

4.Log out.

5.Log in to any computer as a user and navigate to the Fiery S300 and install the printer driver with PNP.

6.The driver is installed with the installable options.

This only needs to be done once by an administrator. After that, you can point to the Fiery S300 and the installable options will be transferred to the client computer.

Scan job rotation

The Rotation option is only applied to ﬁles saved as a PDF.

Scan initiation

Scanning can only be initialized from the copier display.

Scanning with the Zoom option

If you select Zoom when you scan from copier display, unexpected results may occur (if ﬁnal image is too large).

Scanned TIFF ﬁles

Scanned TIFF ﬁles can just be opened with Adobe Photoshop 6 as a single page or Omni Page 11 with multiple pages.

Scanning black-and-white jobs to e-mail

When you scan a black-and-white image to e-mail from the copier, select either PDF or TIFF. For black-and-white jobs scanned to e-mail, JPEG is not supported.

Scanned TIFF ﬁles in Illustrator 10

If you save a TIFF format ﬁle sent by Scan to Email on a Windows computer and open the ﬁle in Adobe Illustrator 10, the image may have a pinkish tone. Use Adobe Illustrator 9 or Adobe Photoshop 7 to open such ﬁles.

Scanning to the Hold queue

When you scan a job to the Hold queue and select either 200 dpi, 300 dpi, or 400 dpi, and then print the job, the message “Auto Select Tray Is Invalid” might display on the copier control panel.

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Printing	Booklet Mode
	Booklet Mode jobs with the Layout option—If you select Booklet Mode from the printer
	driver with the Layout option, your job may produce undesirable results.
	Booklet Mode jobs with the Image Order option—Printing Booklet Mode jobs with Image
	Order set to “N to 1” is not supported.
	Booklet Mode jobs with the Scaling option—Booklet Mode jobs with the Scaling option is
	not supported.
	Booklet jobs print stapled with a center fold—If you select Left Binding or Right Binding
	for the Booklet option, the job automatically outputs with Staple and Center Fold. This
	happens even though the Staple and Folding options are grayed out in the printer driver.
	Printing multiple copies
	If you print multiple copies of any job, set Collated in the printer driver and Collate in the
	application to Off. Otherwise, you may experience unexpected printing results.
	To change the setting for Collated/Collate:
	1.	Click Advanced in the Paper/Quality tab of the printer driver.
	2.	Click Copy Count and enter the number of copies.
	3.	Clear the Collated checkbox.
	4.	Also clear the Collate checkbox in the application’s Print dialog box.

Offset paper sizes

The following paper sizes are not supported for Offset Sort and Offset Group print jobs, even though they are selectable from the driver: A5R, B6R, A6R, PostCard, 5.5 x 8.5R, CustomSize, 12 x 18, 13 x 19, A4Tab, 8.5 x 11Tab, A6R, A5WR, 5.5 x 8.5WR.

Mixed Paper Sizes

When you print a mixed paper size job, check to make sure that the paper size can be printed to the output tray speciﬁed. Otherwise a paper jam may occur.

Stapling and Punch jobs with mixed paper sizes

Printing Stapling and Punch jobs with the Mixed Paper Size option set to a different orientation is not supported.

Printer driver constraints

Printer driver constraints in Mac OS X are controlled by Apple. In general, any invalid selection is selectable, but will be ignored by the Fiery S300 when processed.

Main Tray and A4R jobs

You cannot select A4R/A5R and Main Tray in the Mac OS 9 printer driver.

To resolve this, set not only the Page Size but also the Print Size to A4R/A5R.

Maximum Custom Paper Size of 330mm x 487mm prints blank pages

The maximum Custom Paper Size for the copier is 330mm x 487mm. However, the maximum printable area is 318mm x 480mm.

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