Olivetti PG L8L 2 User Manual

User Guide

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Introduction ................................................................................i

What This Manual Contains...................................................... ii

Manual Conventions ................................................................ iii

Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Selecting a Location..................................................................2

Unpacking .................................................................................3

Control Locations and Functions ..............................................4

Setting Up Your Printer .............................................................8

Chapter 2: Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Selecting Print Media ..............................................................18

Loading Print Media................................................................19

Using the Status Monitor.........................................................25

Using the Windows Remote Control Panel (RCP)........... .......27

Front Vi e w. .. ............... .. ... ....... .. ............... ... .. ....... ... ............4

Rear View ..........................................................................5

Inside .................................................................................5

Operator Panel ..................................................................6

Installing the Image Cartridge............. .......... .....................8

Attaching the Power Cord................................................10

Connecting the Printer to Your Computer........................10

Installing the Printer Driver ..............................................11

Installing the RCP and SM Programs ..............................14

Setting the PG L8L as the Default Printer........................16

Media Selection ...............................................................18

Media Guidelines .............................................................18

Using the Multipurpose Paper Feeder (MPF)....... .. .........19

Using the Manual Feeder ............ .. .......... .................. ......22

Using the Face-up Stacker ..............................................23

Loading Envelopes..... .. .......... .. .......... .......... .. .......... .......24

Accessing the Status Monitor ..........................................25

Status Monitor Mes sages................... .................. ...........26

Accessing Windows RCP ................................................27

Using the Buttons on the RCP.........................................28

Using the Tabs on the RCP.............................................29

Using RCP for DOS.........................................................30

Chapter 3: Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Clearing Paper Jams ..............................................................32

Printer Problems .....................................................................35

Print Quality Problems ............................................................39

Chapter 4: Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Cleaning the Print er.................. ............ ...................... ............42

Cleaning the Outside....... .......... .......... .. .......... .......... .. ....42

Cleaning the Inside................................ .. ............ ............43

Replacing the Image Cartridge ...............................................44

Chapter 5: Adding Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Installing a SIMM ....................................................................48

Removing a SIMM ..................................................................51

Appendix A: Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Appendix B: Safety Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Laser Sa fe ty............ ... .. ....... ... .............. ... .. ........ .. ............... .. .. .58

Ozon e Safety ... ....... ... .. ....... ... .............. ... .. ........ .. ............... .. .. .59

Electrical Safety ......................................................................60

Disconnect Devi ce...... ................... .. .......... .................. .. .........62

Radio Frequency Emissions ...................... .......... .. .......... .......63

Quality Standards ...................................................................64

Energ y Sta r ...... .. ............... .. ... ....... .. ............... ... .. ....... ... .. ....... .6 5

Operational S a fe ty ............ .. ... ....... .. ............... ... .. ....... ... .. ....... .6 6

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing this laser printer. The PG L8L is a desktop laser printer specially designed for the

demanding small office and home office users. It uses a highly innovative printing technology, which provides all the performance and power you need for your business, small workgroup and personal printing.

In this manual you will find all the information essential for the operation and care of your laser printer. So, do keep it handy should you experience any difficulties with the printer.

What This Manual Contains

This manual consists of the following five chapters and three appendices:

Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Printer

Covers the setup and basic operations of the printer. Read this chapter before attempting to print.

Chapter 2: Printin g

Gives you guidelines for selecting and handling/storing media products as well as detailed specifications for print materials. Also, this chapter instructs you on how to load print media.

Chapter 3: Troubleshooting

Describes procedures to help isolate and solve print quality and printer problems. Read this chapter when a problem occurs, before calling for service.

Chapter 4: Maintenance

Discusses how to handle and use the printer supplies and maintain the printer. Read this chapter before attempting to use the supplies or performing any maintenance.

Chapter 5: Adding Memory

Describes how to install (and remove) a memory SIMM to increase printer memory.

Appendix A: Printer Specifications Appendix B: Safety Notes

Describes the precautions required to prevent personal injury and equipment damage. Read this section before installing the printer.

Manual Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this manual:

Provides information r equired to successfully complete an operation or procedure.

Cautions you not to overlook the mentioned points .

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1Setting Up Your Printer

Setting Up Your Printer•1

1-1 Selecting a Location

Place your printer on a flat, hard, stable surface near your computer. Leave enough space around the printer, so that you can easily:

• Open the printer cover.

• Load the paper.

• Retrieve the paper.

• Open the front single sheet output tray and retrieve the paper in the front output tray.

Be sure to allow air circulation around the vents to prevent the printer from overheating.

Do not place the printer:

• In direct sunlight.

• Near heat sources or air conditioners.

• In dusty or dirty environments.

The printer should not be placed in a location where there could be abrupt temperature or humidity changes.

2 • Chapter 1

1-2 Unpackin

Remove the printer and all accessories from the packing carton. Save the carton and packing materials in case you need to repack the printer.

Make sure you have the following items:

1Printer 2Power Cord 3 Starter Image Cartridge 4 CD-ROM 5 Quick Reference Card

You need an IEEE 1284-compliant parallel printer cable. The printer cable may not be included with your printer, in which case you can purchase one from your dealer or ret ailer.

Setting Up Your Printer • 3

1-3 Control Locations and

Functions

1-3-1 Front View

1 Face-up Stacker

Holds a single sheet of special print media (transparency, label, envelope, and heavy weight paper) with print side facing up.

2 Face-down Stacker

Holds printed documents. If printed on plain paper, a maximum of 100 sheets can be held.

3 Stacker Extender

Supports paper stacked in the paper output bin.

4 Manual Feeder

Used to feed a single sheet of paper. Also used to print envelopes and special print media.

5 Multipurpose Paper Feeder

Holds 150 sheets of plain paper.

6 Tray Extender

Supports paper stacked in the multipurpose paper feeder.

7 Paper Guides

Adjusts to the width of paper in the multipurpose paper feeder.

8 Paper Guides

Supports paper for the manual feeder.

9 Operator Panel

4 • Chapter 1

1-3-2 Rear View

1-3-3 Inside

1 Printer Cable Connector 2 Power Cord Connector 3 Power Switch

1 Image Cartridge 2Front Cover

Setting Up Your Printer • 5

1-3-4 Operator Panel

The operator panel has three indicator lights and 1 button.

1 ERROR light 2 PAPER light 3 READY light 4 On/Off-line button

Indicator Lights:

Indicator

Light

ERROR (on) • There is no image cartridge.

• The cover is open.

• There is a paper jam (if PAPER light is also on).

• Other error condition (requires servicing)

ERROR (blink) • Printer memory is insufficient for print job.

Chapter 3: Troubleshooting

See

PAPER (on) • The paper tray is empty.

• There is a paper jam (if ERROR light is also on).

PAPER (blink) • The printer is in manual feed mode.

Push On/Off-line button to feed paper from

manual feeder. READY (on) • The printer is ready to receive and process data. READY (blink) • The printer is receiving or processing data. READY (off) • The printer is off-line. ALL (blink) • Possible printer failure.

Chapter 3: Troubleshooting

See

Indicates

6 • Chapter 1

On/Off-line Button Function:

Function Usage

On-line/Off-line Pressing the button toggles the printer between

Manual Feed To print a manual feed job:

Reset To clear all data from the printer’s memory except

Self-Test To perform a printer self-test:

on-line (READY light on) and off-line (READY light off) status.

When the PAPER light blinks, press the butto n to print (required for each page of the print job).

permanent fonts and macros, and then restore the user default settings: Press the button to turn the printer off-line. With the READY light off, press and hold down the button until all lights are blinking (approximately four seconds), then release the button.

While the printer is on-line (READY light on), press and hold down the button until all three lights are blinking (approximately four seconds), then release the button. A one-page printer status sheet will be printed.

Image Cartridge Cleaning

To remove excess toner from the image cartridge: While the printer is on-line (READY light on), press and hold down the button until all three lights remain lit (not blinking; approximately seven seconds) and the printer begins to cycle up (starts feeding paper), then release the button. One sheet will be printed.

Setting Up Your Printer • 7

1-4 Setting Up Your Printer

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1-4-1 Installing the Image Cartridge

To open th e f ront cover, grasp both si des of the cov er and pull it down.

Unpack the image cart ridge and sh ake it from si de-to- side fi ve or six times to distribute the toner.

8 • Chapter 1

Do not expose the image cartridge to sunlight. Do not move the

cartrid

hotoelectric drum.

Carefully remove the sealing tape by pulling on the sealing tape tab

which is m uc h longer than the ca rt ridge).

e, which will expose the light-sensitive green

lastic shutter on the bottom of the image

Locate the cartridge guide rails inside the printer (one on each side) and locat e th e guide pins on each side of th e c artridge.

Push the image cartridge into plac e by pressing down on th e handle. T he cartridge guide pins sh ould slide alo ng the guide rail s .

Close the f ront cover gently. Do not force the cove r cl os ed in case the image cartridge is not seat ed properly.

Setting Up Your Printer • 9

1-4-2 Attaching the Power Cord

1 2

1-4-3 Connecting the Printer to Your Computer

1 2

Make sure t he printer’s power switch is in the OF F position.

Plug one end of the power cord into the connector at the back of the printer and the other end into a w all outlet.

Power OFF your comp uter.

Plug the parallel inte rfa c e c able into th e c onnector on the back o f the printe r. Pus h the clips at each end of t he connec t or into the notches on the printer cable to se c ure the cable. T he clips snap when pus hed into the notches in the printer c able conne c to r.

10 • Chap ter 1

3 4

Attach the ot her end of the parallel ca ble to your com put er.

Turn on your printer and then your com puter.

1-4-4 Installing the Printer Driver

Windows 95/98 Driver:

1 2 3 4

Start Windows. If Windows detects new hardware, click

Insert the PG L8L CD-ROM into your compu t er’s C D drive.

From the

In the Run dialog box, type ROM drive) and confirm with OK.

Follow the on-screen instructions to com plete the ins t allation.

Start

menu, select

Run

d:\setup.exe

(assuming d: is your CD-

Cancel

Setting Up Your Printer • 11

Windows 3.x Driver:

)

1 2 3 4

Start Windows.

Insert the PG L8L CD-ROM into your compu t er’s C D drive.

From the

In the Run dialog box, type ROM drive

Follow the on-screen instruc t ions to com plete the ins t allation.

Program Manager

d:\setup.exe

and confirm with OK.

, select

Run

from the

(assuming d: is your CD-

File

menu.

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Windows NT 4.0 Driver:

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Start Windows.

Insert the PG L8L CD-ROM into your compu t er’s C D drive.

From the Windows NT

Double-c lic k on the

Click on

Select the port you are using, typically

The computer will list dif f erent print er manufac t urers and models. Click on

In the Install from Disk dialog box, in the input box m ark ed “Copy Manufacturer’s Files From:”, type

assuming d: is your CD-ROM drive) and conf irm w it h OK.

My Computer

Have Disk

Start

menu, select

Add Printer

and

icon.

d:\english\win_nt\driver

Settings

LPT1:

Printers

then

then click on

Olivetti PG L8L wi ll be listed. C lic k on

Follow the on-screen instructions to com plete the ins t allation.

You also have the option of installing the Windows Remote Control Panel (RCP) pro the next pa

ram from the CD-ROM. If you wish to do so , see the procedure on

Setting Up Your Printer • 13

1-4-5 I nsta llin g th e RCP and SM Pr ogr ams

The Windows Remote Control Panel (RCP) program allows you to set printer defaults for documents printed from Windows applications and from DOS applications running inside the Windows MS-DOS Prompt. Be aware that DOS programs may override these settings by using their own built-in drivers.

The Status Monitor is a program that runs in the background and automatically displays messages on your computer screen whenever the printer status changes. It is not available for Windows NT 4.0.

Windows 3.x/95/98 Remote Control Panel & Status Monitor:

1 2

Insert thePG L8L CD-ROM into your comp ut er’s CD drive.

Windows 3.x: File

menu.

Windows 95/98:

d:\setup.exe

Type confirm with OK. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

From the Pro

From the

(assuming d: is your CD-ROM drive) and

ram Manager, select

Start

menu, select

Run

from the

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Windows NT 4.0 Remote Control Panel:

(

)

(

)

1 2 3

DOS Remote Control Panel & Status Monitor:

1 2

Insert the PG L8L CD-ROM into your compu t er’s C D drive. From the Type

confirm with OK. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

Insert the PG L8L CD-ROM into your compu t er’s C D drive. At the DOS prompt C:\>, enter the following commands:

md dosrcp cd dosrcp copy d:\english\dos_rcp\*.* dospgl8l.bat

Start

menu, select

d:\setup.exe

(assuming d: is your CD-ROM drive) and

Run

creates a dos rcp direct or changes to the dos rcp direct or copies files installs RCP&SM

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Olivetti PG L8L 2 User Manual

Table of Contents

Introduction

What This Manual Contains

Manual Conventions

1-1 Selecting a Location

1-4 Setting Up Your Printer