SATO GL 4xxe User Manual

1 General

1.1 Important information

LAN CARD INSTALLATION GUIDE

Read this Installation Guide before and during the installation
of the above accessory. Keep this Installation Guide handy for
future reference.

For printer models:

GL 4xxe Series

This quick guide provides important information on how to setup your
new SATO product.

LAN Card Installation Guide

Be sure to read th is quick guide thoroughl y befor e using t his pri nter. It
is an integral pa rt of the product and sho uld be ke pt in the immed iate
vicinity of the device and available to the ope r ating staff.

1.2 Limitation of liability

All information in this manual have been compiled under due
consideration of federal standards and regulations.

The manufac turer will not be held liable for damage resulting fro m :

z Disregarding these instructions
z Unintended use of the printe r
z Unauthorized technical modifications
z Use of unapproved spare parts
z Use of unapproved consumables

FCC WARNING

Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for
compliance cou ld void the user’s authority to operate the equip m ent.

NOTICE

This equipment has been test ed and found t o comply with the lim its for
a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These
limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful
interference in a residential installation.

This equipmen t gene r at es, use s and ca n ra dia te ra di o frequ e ncy energy
and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may
cause harmful i nterference to radio communications. However, there is
no guarantee that int erference will not occur in a particular inst allat io n.

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1.3 Explanation of symbols

This instruction manual uses various warning icons to help you

understand the safe operation of your printer. Explanations of the
icons are below.

WARNING!

Indicates neglectful or erroneous use may cause
irreparable damage to the product, serious injury to
the operator, or worse.

CAUTION!

Indicates a specific point where caution should be
used. The graphic within the triangle will indicate the
specific issue, i.e.; the sign on the left indicates a
caution for potential electrical shock.

CAUTION!
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which,

if not avoided, may result in damage to your
product or host equipment.

NOTE!

Emphasizes useful tips or recommendations for
efficient and smoo th oper at ion of your pr int er.

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1.4 Contact and Document Information

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Leuvensesteen weg 369, 1932 Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Brussels, Belgium

Parc D'Activities - Rue Jacques Messager - 59175 Templemars, France

438A Alexandra Road #05-01/04, Alexandra Technopark, Singapore 119967

Extensive contact information of worldwide SATO operations can be found on the Internet at

www.satoworldwide.com

Version: SI-GL4xxe-01rA-05-06-07-NICIG © Copyright 1994 – 2007

All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or issued to third parties in an y fo rm
whatsoever without the express permissi on of SAT O. The materials in this docum ent are provided for
general information and are subject to change without notice. SATO assumes no responsibilities for any
errors that may appear.

Internat io nal Headquarters

SATO INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD

438A Alex andra Road #05-01/04 ,

Technopark, Singapore 119967

Alexandra

Phone: [phone] Fax : [phone]

Email: sale s@sato -int.com

Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]

SATO AMERICA, INC.

10350 Nations Ford Road Suite A,

Charlotte, NC

Email: sa tosales @satoa merica .com

SATO INTERNATIONAL E UROPE N .V.

Phone: 32(0 )-2-788-80-00 Fax: [phone]

Email : info@b e.sat o-eu rope. com

SATO LABELLING SOLUTIONS EUROPE GmbH

Phone: [phone] Fa x: 49-6272-9201-39 9

Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]

SATO INTERNATIONAL ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD.

438A Alex andra Road #05-01/04 ,

Alexandra

Phone : [phone] Fax : [phone]

SATO ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD .

Phone: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

SATO SHANGHAI CO., LTD.

307 Hainin g Road, ACE Bldg, 10th Floor,

Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]

PO Box 305-031, North Shore , Auckland, New Ze aland

30 Apollo Drive, Mairangi Bay

Phone: [phone] Fax:

ional H Q)

Ershei mer Straße

69434 Hirschhorn, German y

SATO FRANCE SAS

(Regional HQ)

Technopark, Singapore 119967

Email: sale s@sato -int.com

Hongkou Area ,

Shanghai, China 200080

SATO NEW ZEALAND LTD

SATO GROUP OF COMPANIES

mericas

28273

Europe

71,

Fax: [phone]

64-9-477-222

Asia Pacific & Oceania

mericas

SATO INTERNATIONAL AMERICA, INC.

Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]

SATO LABELING SOLUTIONS AMERICA, INC.

1140 Windham Parkway, Romeoville, Illinois 60446

Phone: [phone] Fax : [phone]

Phon e: 1-3 86-2 74-5 566 F ax: 1-386-274-5599

(Regional HQ)

10350 Nations Ford Road Suite A,

Charlotte, NC 28273

Email: [e-mail]

Email: [e-mail] m

Horticultu ral Division

930 Jimmy Ann Drive

Daytona Beach, FL 32117

ValleyRoad, Harwich , Essex England Co12 4 RR,

Phone: [phone]

Ul. Wroclawska 123, 55-015 Radwani ce

Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]

Dels Corrals Nous, 35-39, Pol. Can Roqueta,

Phone: [phone] Fax : [phone]

No.25, Jalan Pemb erita U1/49, Temasya

Phone: [phone] F ax: 60-3-5569-4977

SATO AUTO-ID (THAILAND ) CO., LTD.

292/1 Moo 1 Thepa rak Road, Tumbol Theparak,

Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]

1/1 Nursery Avenue, Clay ton Business Park (150 8 Centre Road) Clayton

Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]

SATO UK LTD

United Kingdom

Email : [e-mail]

SATO POLSKA SP Z O.O.

K/Wroclawia, Poland

Email: [e-mail]

SATO IBERIA S.A.

08202 - Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain

SATO AUTO-ID MALAYSIA SDN. BH D.

Indus trial Park

Section U1, 40150 S hah Alam ,

Selangor

Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

Email: sales@ satosm s.com. my

Amphur M uang, Samutpraka rn 10270

SATO AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.

VIC 3168, Melbourne, Australia

For a full list of all SATO offices,

refer to ww

Fax : [phone]

.satoworldwide.com

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Before installing the LAN card, make sure the print er is OFF and disconnected from
the power supply.

1. Use a Phillips head screwdriver to remove the two screws that secure the
Cover Plate to the LAN Card slot. Set the plate and screws aside.

2. Make sure you have discharged any static electricity (by touching a
grounded component on the printer) and plug the LAN card into the slot so
that it snaps into place. Hold the LAN card by the mounting plate only.

3. Secure the LAN card with the two screws removed in Step 1.

4. Connect the printer to the AC outlet and to the host computer with the
relevant cables and turn the printer ON.

5. Refer to the Operator’s Manual for the procedure to configure the LAN
settings. A summary of this procedure is reproduced on the following page,
but the Operator’s Manual contains further details in the section on
Interfaces Mode (See page 4-52 and subsequent pages).

GL4exe LAN Card Installation

Figure 1. Re moving the interface cover plate and inst alling the LAN interface card

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LAN CONFIGURATION FOR ETHERNET CONNECTION

Once the LAN card is installed, you can access the Ethernet settings in the GL’s
Interfaces Mode menu. An overview of the LAN options is listed below, followed
by explanations of relevant LCD menu options in the following pages.

POWER

ONLINE
PARL / SBPL

OFFLINE

LINE

INTERFACES
Host Interface*

Host Interface
Auto Switching*

INTERFACES
Host Interface*

Host Interface
Ethernet*

Screens
only display if
Admin User is

enabled wi thin

the Advanced

Mode

ENTER

INTERFACES

Interface

Mode

ENTER

INTERFACES
Ignore CR/LF

Item No. Check
BCC Check
History Buffer
Comm. Protocol
Host Interface
ETHERNET PORT
ETHERNET ADDRESS
ETHERNET SETTING
Parallel Port
USB Port
Serial Port
Printer Mgt

Ignore CR/LF

ENTER

Ignore CR/LF
No*

Item No. Check
Disable*

BCC Check
Disable*

History Buffer
Temporary*

Comm. Protocol
Status 5*

Host Interface
Auto Switching*

ETHERNET ADDRESS
IP Address

Subnet Mask
Gateway Address
MAC Address
DHCP

IP Address
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Subnet Mask
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Gateway Address
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

MAC Address
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

DHCP
Disable*

INTERFACES
ETHERNET PORT

ETHERNET PORT
Timeout

Timeout
10 sec*

Switch Out On
Data Timeout*

INTERFACES
ETHERNET SETTING

ETHERNET SETTING
NetBIOS Protocol

NetBIOS Protocol
Enable*

ASCII Data Port
1024*

Keep Alive Timer
3 minutes*

Ethernet Speed
Auto Select*

Job Control
Standard*

Offline Process
Disable*

Figure 2. Overview of the Interfaces Mode menu for LAN configuration

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The following tables explain the relevant options available via the LCD screen in Interfaces Mode.

Menu screen What the opti ons mean

Is the menu selection screen for the H ost Interface option of the INTERFACES mode.

INTERFACES
Host Interface*

Host Interface
Auto Switching*

CES

INTERF
ETHERNET PO RT

ETHERNET PO RT
Timeout

Timeout
10 sec*

Switch Out On
Data Timeout*

INTERF

CES

ETHERNET SETTING

ETHERNET SETTING
NetBIOS Pr oto c ol

NetBIOS Pr oto c ol
Enable*

SCII Data Port

1024*

There ar e only two options relative to the serial interface, ignore all ot hers.

• Aut o Sw i tchi n g - t he printer aut om at i ca l ly swi t ches t o t he re lat i ve i n ter f a ce type and mov es
into the applicable menus.

• Ethernet - factory default. Allows the operator to select the interface and the relative menus
will follow.

Is the menu selection screen for the Ethernet Port option of the INTERFACES mode.

Is a menu subset of the Ethernet Port o

This is the value used by the printer to time out from the current port and check the other selected
Port Types for data print. When the print er has not r eceived data fro m the host after a certain
period of time, it must timeout in order to service other ports.

The factory default of 10 seconds with an allowable rangeof1 to 60 seconds.

Determines when other ports are active and able to communicate with the printer when the
Ethernet interface is not in use.

• Data Timeout - factory default. T h e oth er ports (Par all el, Ser ial , US B) a r e able to se nd data
to the printer when the timeout setting has been reached. This setting is adjustable via the
display menu item T i m eo ut.

• Session Close - the other ports (Parallel, Serial, USB) ar e able to send data to the pr inter
when the port has been cl osed. Examp le: If a RAW por t of 9100 is open, the pri nter will not
accept data from another inte rface u ntil t hat port is closed by the host.

Is the menu selection screen for the Ethernet Settingoption of the INTERFACES mode.

Is a t ransitional scre en that allows entr

llows determination of if the NIC will recognize the NetBIOS protocol.

• Enable - factory defa ult. Will recognize.

• Disable - will not recognize.

This options allows for the port number to be set for ASCII print jobs. The data port numb er must
match the host computer setting.

The allowable range is 0 to 65535, and the factorydefault is 9100.

tion. Willmo v einto the Timeout menu.

into the Net BIOS Protocol menu.

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Menu screen What the opti ons mean

Keep Alive Timer
3 minutes*

Ethernet Speed
Auto Select*

Job Control
Standard*

Offline Proce ss
Disable*

Determines the amount of time that the tcp connection will remain connected after the print job
has terminated.

The allowable range is 2 to 10 minutes, and the factorydefault is 3 minutes.

This menu appear s only if a 10/100B ase-t Network Interf ace Card ( NIC) i s install ed. Ther e are
five different s peed modes to allow compatibility wit h different systmes and networks.

• Auto Select - factory default. Tells the 10/100Base-T NIC to perform an a utomatic detection
scheme and configure itself to be one of the other allowable options .

• 10 Half Duplex - communicates at 10 megabytes per second using half duplex.

• 10 Full Duplex - communicates at 10 megabytes per second using full duplex.

• 100 Half Duplex - communicates at 100 megabytes per second using half duplex.

• 100 Full Duplex - communicates at 100 megabytes per second usin g full duplex. Determines

how the printer and/or NIC card respond when a job has been completed. The definition of
a complete job is also determined by this setting.

• Standard - fac tor y def aul t. T h e NIC card responds to the h os t t hat t he j ob is c ompl ete when
the entire print job has been accepted by the printer.

• Enhanced - the NI C ca rd r espon ds to t he ho st t hat the job is c omple te when t he ent ire j ob
has not only been accepted by the print er, but also completely printed.

• Off - without synchronization between the NIC and the printer. The NIC card is simply a
pass-trough and the p rinter tells the host when the job is complete.

Determines whether the printer processes incoming data when it is in an offl ine state.

• Disable - factory default. The printer does not process data while offline.

• Enable - continues to process (but not print) the current network/parallel job while the printer
is offline until in a buffer-near-full state.

ETHERNET ADDRESS
IP Address

Subnet Mask
Gateway Addr e ss
MAC Address
DHCP

IP Address
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Subnet Mask
XXX.XXX.X

.XXX

Is the menu selection screen for the Ethernet Address option of the INTERFACES mode. Its
menu o

tions are e

lained in the following five menu scr een descriptions.

This m enu allows the IP Address to be set for the TCP/IP p rotocol in four three-digit segments
(SEG1 through SEG4). If the IP Address is assigned by Bootp, ARP, or DHCP it is dynamic and
read only.

The factory defaults for SEG1 through SEG4 are 000, 000, 000, and 000.
Note: W hen changi ng the I P Addres s, the printer resets the Networ k Inter face Car d (NI C) when

the print er is pl aced on li ne. W he n t he pr in ter res ets the NI C, the LCD displ ays DO N OT POW ER
OFF. After the NIC has completed initialization, the LCD displays E-NET INIT to signal that the
NIC andd printer are in initialization process. When both the NIC and printer have completed the
initialization, theLCD dis p lays E-NET READY.

Allows the Subnet Mask to be set for the TCP/IP protocol in four three-digit segments (SEG1
through SEG4). If the Subnet Mask is assigned by Bootp, Arp or DHCP, it is dynamic and read
only.

The defaults for the SEG1 through SEG4 are 000, 000, 000, and 000.
Note: W hen changing the Subne t Mask, the pr inter resets the NI C when the pri nter is placed

online. W hen the printer res ets the NIC, the LCD displays DO NO T POWER OFF. After the NIC
has completed its initializat ion, the LCD di splays E-NET INIT to signal that the NIC and printer are
in the init ializat ion proces s. When both th e NIC and pri nter hav e complet ed init ilizatio n, the LCD
displays E-NET READY.

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Menu screen What the options mean

Allows the Gatew ay Address to be set for the TCP/IP p rotocol in four three-digit segments ( SEG1

Gateway Address
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

MAC Address
XXX.XXX.X

.XXX

through SEG4) . If the Gateway Addre ss is assigned by Bootp, ARP, or DHCP, it is dynam ic and
read only.

The defaults for the SEG1 through SEG4 are 000, 000, 000, and 000.
Note: W hen chang ing the G atewa y Addr ess, the prin ter r esets th e NIC when t he pr inter is plac e

online. W hen the printer resets the NIC, the LCD displays DO NOT POWER OFF. After the NIC
has completed its initialization, the LCD displays E- NET INIT to signal that the NIC and printer are
in the initialization process. When both the NIC and printer have completed initialization, the LCD
displays E-NET READY.

This is an informational screen that displays the manufacturer’s assigned number. This number is
unique for each NIC.

DHCP
Disa b le*

Allows the DHCP protocol t o be enabled or disabled through this menu.
The factory default is Disable.

Note: Consult with your systems administrator for the appropriate setting.

Once the LAN settings are correct for your requirements, the installation of the LAN interface can be
considered complete.

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