MF Digital DirectorEC OP OptiEC Printer User Manual

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Director EC Office Publisher with

Document Revision: 11/4/04

OptiEC Printer Installation Guide

DIRECTOR EC OFFICE PUBLISHER INSTALLATION GUIDE

Minimum System Requirements for Director EC Office Publisher

• Minimum Pentium® 4 or compatible personal computer @ 2 GHz or faster

• Windows 2000 Professional (service pack 4.0 or higher) or Windows XP Professional

(service pack 1.0a or higher)

• 1 GB RAM

• 1 Hard Disk Controller Adaptec Brand Ultra 26160

• 1 18 GB SCSI 15,000 rpm Ultra 160 SCSI Hard Drive (formatted NTFS) as follows:

• 1 Basic Partition for System (C:) & 2 5GB NTFS Partitions (D:)(E:) – Temp folder in root on

each partition

• 2 Free PCI Slots

• 1 Free USB Internal Connection

• 1 Firewire B 1394 Card (Supplied by MD Digital)

• 1 Software Identifier Card (Supplied by MD Digital) Computer needs 3.5” power connector.

• 1 external Com port (COM1 or COM 2) – 2 ports needed if using Prism Plus or Spectrum 2

• Network 100/10Mbs on Board

• Video 1024 X 768

• One Parallel Port

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* A USB to Serial Converter can be used if no COM port is available.

THE DIRECTOR EC LOADER MUST BE INSTALLED ON COM PORT 2

THE DIRECTOR EC SOFTWARE MUST BE INSTALLED ON C:\ DRIVE

MF DIGITAL

121 Carolyn Blvd.

Farmingdale, NY 11735

001 631 249 9393

www.mfdigital.com

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Installing the Firewire Adapter &

Installing the Firewire Card

The DirectorEC Office Publisher requires one IEEE-1394 card.

1. Shut down the PC.

2. Turn the PC’s power off.

3. Unplug the PC.

4. Remove the PC’s cover as indicated in

5. Locate an empty PCI slot, as seen in

6. Install the firewire adapter card (fig. 2).

You should never attempt to service a unit without ensuring proper anti-static protection. The use of a grounding strap, or other such grounding device, is advised. In addition, the internal configuration of your computer may be different from the computer pictured below.

the PC’s manual.

(fig.1).

Software Identifier Cards

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Installing the Software Identifier Card

1. If your PC is not OFF, perform the Windows shutdown now.

2. Turn-off powers switch and unplug AC power from the wall.

3. If the PC’s cover has been re-installed, remove it now.

4. Locate an Empty slot, Mount the Software Identifier card in slot as illustrated (fig. 3).

5. Connect the 3.5” Floppy type power cable such that the yellow wire is facing out.

6. Using a 40 Pin EIDE cable, connect the card to the Secondary IDE Channel on your PC mother- board.

7. Be sure PIN 1(red wire) if facing AWAY from the motherboard, and next to the power connector on software identifier card (fig. 3).

(fig. 3)

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Making the Connection

PC Connection

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Installing the Director EC Office Publisher Software [1]

Note:

When installing the Director EC software on Windows XP you MUST install ODBC FoxPRo drivers. See step #2 bellow.

1. Insert the Director EC Publisher software CD.

2. From the CD ROM drive of

the computer, click

Director 3.0

3. Click Next (fig. 1).

4. You MUST accept default folder and click Next (fig. 2).

5. Confirm Installation and click Next (fig. 3).

6. Installation completed click

Close (fig. 4).

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Installing the Director EC Office Publisher Software [2]

Note:

Windows XP MUST install ODBC FoxPRo drivers before running Director 3.0

1. After installation of the Director EC software go to “c:\cdDirector\ODBC FoxPro Driver” folder. (fig. 1)

2. Double click the VFPODBC

file. (fig.2)

3. Congratulations you have

successfully installed Director EC Office Publisher software.

(fig. 1)

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Selecting system drives for Director EC

1. Open Director EC software.

Director EC software might

prompt a message “System Drives Missing” click OK.

2. Go to “System Setup” tab

and select system drives “D and E” (fig. 1)

System Setup tab

(fig. 1)

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Turning OFF Auto RUN on CD-ROM.

3. Go to “Start”.

4. Go to “Run”

5. Type in “regedit” then click OK (fig.1)

6. Navigate to “Autorun” registry following the path “My

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL _MACHINE\SYSTEM\Cu rentControlset\Services\Cd rom” (fig. 2)

7. Set value in “Autorun” registry to zero if different.

(fig. 1)

Value in Autorun is set to zero.

(fig. 2)

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Installing the Director EC Publisher Alignment Utility for aligning the Drive Tower and Printer

1. Insert the Director EC Office Publisher CD into the CD-ROM drive of your PC.

2. Click on setup.exe utility and Click OK (fig. 1).

3. Click Next button to install complete version (fig. 2).

4. Click Install to start installation (fig. 3)

of the alignment

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Installing the Director EC Publisher Alignment Utility for aligning the Drive Tower and printer (cont.)

5. A progress bar will appear (fig. 4).

6. Click Finish to finish installation.

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Installing the OptiEC Printer Driver

1. Click Start-> Settings-> Printers

2. Click Add New Printer

3. The “Welcome to the Add Printer

Wizard” window will appear (fig 1). Click Next.

4. In the “Local or Network Printer”

window, uncheck the “Automatically detect installed printer” option , leaving the “Local printer attached to computer” option (fig 2) and click Next..

5. In the “Select a Printer Port” window,

leave the default as LPT1 (fig 3) and click Next.

6. In the “Install Printer Software”

window, click the “Have Disk” button (fig 4). You will then be prompted to “Install from Disk”, click the “Browse” button (fig 5). Select the location of the printer driver from your CD-ROM drive in the PC (fig 6).

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Installing the MF Digital OptiEC Printer Driver (cont.)

7. After specifying the driver for the MF Digital OptiEC printer, the printer “MF Digital OptiEC” will appear in the “Add Printer Window” (fig 7). Click Next to continue.

8. In the “Name your Printer” window, leave the printer as the default name, and select the printer to be the default printer (fig 8) and click Next.

9. In the “Printer Sharing” window, select “Do Not Share the Printer” (fig 9) and click Next.

10. Say No to “Print Test Page” (fig 10) and click next.

11. The “Completing the Add Printer Wizard” window will appear (fig 11). Click Finish. After clicking finish, the MF Digital OptiEC printer driver will be installed. You will be asked to accept that the printer driver is not digitally signed by Microsoft, click Continue (fig 12). You have now successfully installed the printer.

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Adjusting the MF Digital OptiEC Printer Driver Settings

Printer Spooling

It is important to disable printer spooling on the MF Digital OptiEC printer. To do so, please follow the steps below:

1. Go to Start-> Settings -> Printers

2. Right-click on the MF Digital OptiEC

printer in the Printers Folder

3. Go to Properties

4. Go to the Advanced Tab

5. For the Director Office Publisher Program

to use the printer effectively, please match the settings of your printer driver to the example on the right-side of this page.

6. To save settings, Click Apply and OK to

exit.

***NOTE: Any changes made to the printer driver settings, require a NEW PRN file to be made. If you change one of the settings, be sure to create a NEW PRN file.***

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Aligning the Drive Tower

1. From your Start Menu Open the EC Alignmen Utility (fig. 1). It will be located in the folde

designated when you installed the alignmen utility. Choose COM Port 2, which the Director EC Loader is installed. Select all other printer types and drive bay Perform Test.

Follow the instructions by opening the top

CD/DVD drive tray, and Clicking Yes (fig. 2). The picker arm will hover a disc over the drive tray, observe the discs position and make the appropriate adjustments to the drive tower (fig.

3).

Click Yes when you are satisfied with you

adjustment (fig. 4).

4. The picker arm will then place the disc onto the drive tray. Follow the on screen instructions and click OK (fig. 5).

5. Once you are satisfied with the drive towe alignment, tighten the thumb-screws locate on both sides of the drive tower (fig. 6).

. Click on

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Aligning the MF Digital OptiEC Printer

Alert:

Before starting the Alignment Utility,

osition the front end of the printer on the

dotted line on the top of the drive bay.

1. From your Start Menu Open the EC Alignmen Utility (fig. 1). It will be located in the folde designated when you installed the alignmen utility. Select OptiEC printer type. Click on Start Test.

Follow the instructions by opening the OptiEC

printer tray, and Clicking Yes (fig. 2). The picker arm will hover a disc over the printe tray, observe the discs position and make the adjustments to the printer (fig. 3).

Click Yes when you are satisfied with you

adjustment (fig. 4).

4. The picker arm will then place the disc onto the printer tray. Follow the on screen instructions and click OK (fig. 5).

5. Once you are satisfied with the printer tra alignment, tighten the thumb-screws locate on both sides of the printer.

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