Samsung SLM4025NX Users Manual

Using optional device features

For the model with a touch screen, select (Job Status) > on the touch screen.

Some menus may not appear on the display depending on options or models. If so, it is not applicable to your machine.

• Active Job: All of the print jobs waiting to be printed are listed in the active job queue in the order you sent them to the printer. You can delete a job

from the queue before printing, or promote a job to print sooner.

• Secured Job: You can print or delete a secured job. Shows the list of secured jobs the user has set in the printer driver. You need to enter the user name and password set in the printer driver.

• Stored Job: You can print or delete a stored job.

• Filing Policy: You can choose the file policy for generating file name before you proceed with the job through optional memory. If the optional memory already has the same name when you entered a new file name, you can

rename or overwrite it. (For M402xNX, select (Setup) > System > File

Policy on the touch screen)

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This chapter introduces management tools provided to help you make full use of your machine.

• Accessing management tools 232

• Easy Capture Manager 233

• Samsung AnyWeb Print 234

• Easy Eco Driver 235

• Using SyncThru™ Web Service 236

• Using Samsung Easy Printer Manager 240

• Using Samsung Printer Status 243

• Using Samsung Printer Experience 245

• Using the Linux Unified Driver Configurator 251

Accessing management tools

Samsung provides a variety of management tools for Samsung printers.

Make sure that the machine is connected to your computer and powered on.

From the Start menu, select Programs or All Programs.

• For Windows 8, from the Charms, select Search > Apps.

Find Samsung Printers.

Under Samsung Printers, you can see installed management tools.

Click the management tool you want to use.

• After installing the driver, for some management tools, you can access them directly from the Start menu > Programs or All Programs.

• For Windows 8, after installing the driver, for some management tools, you can access them directly from the Start screen by clicking on the corresponding tile.

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Easy Capture Manager

• This feature may not be available depending on model or optional goods (see "Software" on page 9).

• Available for Windows OS users only (see "Software" on page 9).

Capture your screen and launch Easy Capture Manager by simply pressing the Print Screen key. Now you can easily print your captured screen as captured or edited.

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Samsung AnyWeb Print

• This feature may not be available depending on model or optional goods (see "Software" on page 9).

• Available for Windows and Mac OS users only (see "Software" on page 9).

This tool helps you screen-capture, preview, scrap, and print Windows Internet Explorer pages more easily, than when you use an ordinary program.

Download the software from the Samsung website then unpack and install it: (http://www.samsung.com > find your product > Support or Downloads).

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Easy Eco Driver

• This feature may not be available depending on model or optional goods (see "Software" on page 9).

• Available for Windows OS users only (see "Software" on page 9).

With the Easy Eco Driver, you can apply Eco features to save paper and toner before printing. To use this application, Printer Properties > Basic tab > Start Easy Eco Driver before printing job checkbox should be checked.

If you did not check Start Easy Eco Driver before printing job checkbox in the printer properties but want to use Easy Eco Driver, select Eco Printing Preview in the Favorites tab each time you print.

Easy Eco Driver also allows you to do simple editing such as removing images and texts and more. You can save frequently used settings as a preset.

How to use:

1 Open a document to print.

2 Print the document.

A preview window appears.

3 Select the options you want to apply to the document.

You can see the preview of the applied features.

4 Click Print.

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Using SyncThru™ Web Service

• Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher is the minimum requirement for

SyncThru™ Web Service.

• SyncThru™ Web Service explanation in this user’s guide may differ from your machine depending on its options or models.

• Network model only (see "Software" on page 9).

Accessing SyncThru™ Web Service

Access a web browser, such as Internet Explorer, from Windows.

Enter the machine IP address of your printer (http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) in the address field and press the Enter key or click Go.

Your machine’s embedded website opens.

Click Login on the upper right of the SyncThru™ Web Service website.

Type in the ID and Password then click Login. Type in the below default

ID and password. We recommend you to change the default password for security reasons.

• ID: admin

• Password: sec00000

SyncThru™ Web Service overview

Some tabs may not appear depending on your model.

Logging into SyncThru™ Web Service

Before configuring options in SyncThru™ Web Service, you need to log-in as an administrator. You can still use SyncThru™ Web Service without logging in but you won’t have access to Settings tab and Security tab.

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Information tab

This tab gives you general information about your machine. You can check things, such as remaining amount of toner. You can also print reports, such as an error report.

• Active Alerts: Shows the alerts that have occurred in the machine and their severity.

• Supplies: Shows how many pages are printed and amount of toner left in the cartridge.

• Usage Counters: Shows the usage count by print types: simplex and duplex.

• Current Settings: Shows the machine’s and network’s information.

• Print information: Prints reports such as system related reports, e-mail address, and font reports.

Settings tab

Security tab

This tab allows you to set system and network security information. You need to log-in as an administrator to view this tab.

• System Security: Sets the system administrator’s information and also enables or disables machine features.

• Network Security: Sets settings for HTTPs, IPSec, IPv4/IPv6 filtering, 802.1x, and Authentication servers.

• User Access Control: Classifies users into several groups according to each user’s role. Each user’s authorization, authentication and accounting will be controlled by the group’s role definition.

Maintenance tab

This tab allows you to maintain your machine by upgrading firmware and setting contact information for sending emails. You can also connect to Samsung website or download drivers by selecting the Link menu.

This tab allows you to set configurations provided by your machine and network. You need to log-in as an administrator to view this tab.

• Machine Settings tab: Sets options provided by your machine.

• Network Settings tab: Shows options for the network environment. Sets options such as TCP/IP and network protocols.

• Firmware Upgrade: Upgrade your machine’s firmware.

• Contact Information: Shows the contact information.

• Link: Shows links to useful sites where you can download or check information.

• License Management: License management provides settings for or settings of installed applications and application license.

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• Cloning: You can import or export (transfer) various settings (machine setting, network information, address book, etc.) between devices that have the Cloning feature in SyncThru™ Web Service.

E-mail notification setup

You can receive emails about your machine’s status by setting this option. By setting information such as IP address, host name, e-mail address and SMTP server information, the machine status (toner cartridge shortage or machine error) will be sent to a certain person's e-mail automatically. This option may be used more frequently by a machine administrator.

Some menus may not appear in the display depending on options or models. If so, it is not applicable to your machine.

If you have not configured outgoing server environment, go to Settings > Network Settings > Outgoing Mail Server(SMTP) to configure network environment before setting e-mail notification.

Select Enable check box to use the E-mail Notification.

Click Add button to add e-mail notification user.

Set the recipient name and e-mail address(es) with notification items you want to receive an alert for.

Click Apply.

If the firewall is activated, the e-mail may not be sent successfully. In that case, contact the a network administrator.

Start a web browser, such as Internet Explorer, from Windows.

Enter the machine IP address (http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) in the address field and press the Enter key or click Go.

Your machine’s embedded website opens.

From the Settings tab, select Machine Settings > E-mail Notification.

Setting the system administrator’s information

This setting is necessary for using the e-mail notification option.

Some menus may not appear in the display depending on options or models. If so, it is not applicable to your machine.

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Start a web browser, such as Internet Explorer, from Windows.

Enter the machine IP address (http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) in the address field and press the Enter key or click Go.

Your machine’s embedded website opens.

From the Security tab, select System Security > System Administrator

Enter the name of the administrator, phone number, location, and email

address.

Click Apply.

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Using Samsung Easy Printer Manager

• This feature may not be available depending on model or optional goods (see "Software" on page 9).

• Available for Windows and Mac OS users only (see "Software" on page 9).

• For Windows, Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher is the minimum requirement for Samsung Easy Printer Manager.

Samsung Easy Printer Manager is an application that combines Samsung machine settings into one location. Samsung Easy Printer Manager combines device settings as well as printing environments, settings/actions and launching. All of these features provide a gateway to conveniently use your Samsung machine. Samsung Easy Printer Manager provides two different user interfaces for the user to choose from: the basic user interface and the advanced user interface. Switching between the two interfaces is easy: just click a button.

The Samsung Easy Printer Manager interface is comprised of various basic sections as described in the table that follows:

The screenshot may differ depending on the operating system you are using.

Understanding Samsung Easy Printer Manager

To open the program:

For Windows,

Select Start > Programs or All Programs > Samsung Printers > Samsung Easy Printer Manager > Samsung Easy Printer Manager.

For Mac,

Open the Applications folder > Samsung folder > Samsung Easy Printer Manager.

Printer list The Printer List displays printers installed on your computer

and network printers added by network discovery (Windows only).

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Printer information

Application information

This area gives you general information about your machine. You can check information, such as the machine’s model name, IP address (or Port name), and machine status.

You can view the online User’s Guide.

Troubleshooting button: This button opens the Troubleshooting Guide when an error occurs. You

can directly open the necessary section in the user’s guide.

Includes links for changing to the advanced settings(switching UI), refresh, preference setting, summary, help, and about.

The button is used to change the user interface to the advanced settings user interface (see "Advanced settings user interface overview" on page 241).

Quick links Displays Quick links to machine specific functions. This

section also includes links to applications in the advanced settings.

If you connect your machine to a network, the SyncThru™ Web Service icon is enabled.

Contents area Displays information about the selected machine,

remaining toner level, and paper. The information will vary based on the machine selected. Some machines do not have this feature.

Order supplies Click on the Order button from the supply ordering window.

You can order replacement toner cartridge(s) from online.

Select the Help menu from the window and click on any option you want to know about.

Advanced settings user interface overview

The advanced user interface is intended to be used by the person responsible for managing the network and machines.

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Some menus may not appear in the display depending on options or models. If so, it is not applicable to your machine.

Device Settings

You can configure various machine settings such as machine setup, paper, layout, emulation, network, and print information.

Alert Settings (Windows only)

This menu includes settings related to error alerting.

• Printer Alert: Provides settings related to when alerts will be received.

• Email Alert: Provides options relating to receiving alerts via email.

• Alert History: Provides a history of device and toner related alerts.

Job Accounting

Provides querying of quota information of the specified job accounting user. This quota information can be created and applied to devices by job accounting software such as SyncThru™ or CounThru™ admin software.

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The Samsung Printer Status is a program that monitors and informs you of the machine status.

Icon Mean Description

• The Samsung Printer Status window and its contents shown in this user’s guide may differ depending on the machine or operating system in use.

• Check the operating system(s) that are compatible with your machine (see "Specifications" on page 111).

• Available for Windows OS users only (see "Software" on page 9).

Samsung Printer Status overview

If an error occurs while operating, you can check the error from the Samsung Printer Status. Samsung Printer Status is installed automatically when you install the machine software.

You can also launch Samsung Printer Status manually. Go to the Printing Preferences, click the Basic tab > Printer Status button.

Normal The machine is in ready mode and experiencing no

errors or warnings.

Warning The machine is in a state where an error might occur

in the future. For example, it might be in toner low status, which may lead to toner empty status.

Error The machine has at least one error.

These icons appear on the Windows task bar:

Toner Level You can view the level of toner remaining in each

toner cartridge. The machine and the number of

toner cartridge(s) shown in the above window may differ depending on the machine in use. Some machines do not have this feature.

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2 Option You can set printing job alert related settings.

Order Supplies You can order replacement toner cartridge(s) from

User’s Guide You can view the online User’s Guide.

5 Close Close the window.

online.

This button opens the Troubleshooting Guide when an error occurs. You can directly open the troubleshooting section in the user’s guide.

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Using Samsung Printer Experience

Samsung Printer Experience is a Samsung application that combines

Samsung machine settings and machine management into one location. You can set device settings, order supplies, open troubleshooting guides, visit Samsung’s web site, and check connected machine information. This application will be automatically downloaded from the Windows Store if the machine is connected to a computer with an Internet connection.

Understanding the Samsung Printer Experience

To open the application,

From the Start screen, select the Samsung Printer Experience () tile.

The Samsung Printer Experience interface comprises various useful features as

The screenshot may differ depending on the model you are using.

described in the following table:

Printer Information

This area gives you general information about your machine. You can check information, such as the machine’s status, location, IP address, and remaining toner level.

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2 User Guide You can view the online User’s Guide. You need to be

connected to the Internet to use this feature.

This button opens the Troubleshooting Guide when an error occurs. You can directly open the troubleshooting section in the user’s guide.

Adding/Deleting Printers

If you do not have any printer added to the Samsung Printer Experience, or if you want to add/delete a printer, follow the instructions below.

Order

Supplies

Visit Samsung Links to Samsung printer website. You need to be

Printer Settings You can configure various machine settings such as

Device List & Latest Scanned Image

Click on this button to order replacement toner cartridges online. You need to be connected to the Internet to use this feature.

connected to the Internet to use this feature.

machine setup, paper, layout, emulation, networking, and print information through SyncThru™ Web Service. Your machine needs to be connected to a network. This button will be disabled if your machine is connected via USB cable.

The scan list displays devices that supports Samsung Printer Experience. Under the device, you can see the

latest scanned images. Your machine needs to be connected to a network to scan from here.

This section is for the users with multi-functional printers.

You can only add/delete network connected printers.

Adding a printer

From the Charms, select Settings.

Or, right-click the Samsung Printer Experience page and select Settings.

Select Add Printer

Select the printer you want to add.

You can see the added printer.

If you see mark, you can also click mark to add printers.

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Deleting a printer

From the Charms, select Settings.

Or, right-click the Samsung Printer Experience page and select Settings.

Select Remove Printer

Select the printer you want to delete.

Click Yes.

You can see that the deleted printer is removed from the screen.

Printing from Windows 8

Select the printer settings, such as the number of copies and orientation.

Click the Print button to start the print job.

This section explains common printing tasks from the Start screen.

Basic printing

Open the document to print.

From the Charms, select Devices.

Select your printer from the list

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Cancelling a print job

If the printing job is waiting in the print queue or print spooler, cancel the job as follows:

• You can access this window by simply double-clicking the machine icon

( ) in the Windows task bar.

• You can also cancel the current job by pressing (Stop/Clear) button on the control panel.

Opening more settings

The screen may appear somewhat different depending on the model or options.

Basic tab

Basic

This option allows you to choose the basic printing settings such as copies, orientation, and document type.

You can set up more printing parameters.

Open the document you want to print.

From the Charms, select Devices.

Select your printer from the list

Click More settings.

Eco settings

This option allows you to choose multiple pages per side to save media.

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Advanced tab

Paper settings

This option allows you to set the basic paper handling specifications.

Layout settings

Security tab

Some features may not be available depending on the model or options. If this tab is not shown or disabled, it means that this features are not supported.

This option allows you to set the various ways to layout your documents.

Job Accounting

This option allows you to print with the given permission.

Confidential Printing

This option is used for printing confidential documents. You need to enter a password to print using it.

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