Xerox 4050 IPS, 4090 IPS User Manual
Xerox DocuPrint 4050/4090 IPS
Guide to Configuring and Managing
the System
Version 7.1
August 2000
721P89030
Xerox Corporation
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Laser safety
Warning: Adjustments, use of controls, or performance of
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procedures other than those specified herein may result in
hazardous light exposure.
The Xerox DocuPrint printers are certified to comply with the
performance standards of the U.S. Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare for Class 1 laser products. Class 1 laser products do not
emit hazardous radiation. The DocuPrint printers do not emit
hazardous radiation because the laser beam is completely enclosed
during all modes of customer operation.
The laser danger labels on the system are for Xerox service
representatives and are on or near panels or shields that must be
removed with a tool. DO NOT REMOVE LABELED PANELS OR
PANELS NEAR LABELS. ONLY XEROX SERVICE
REPRESENTATIVES HAVE ACCESS TO THESE PANELS.
Ozone information
This product produces ozone during normal operation. The amount
of ozone produced depends on copy volume. Ozone is heavier than
air. The environmental parameters specified in the Xerox installation
instructions ensure that concentration levels are within safe limits. If
you need additional information concerning ozone, call 1-800-8286571 to request the Xerox publication 600P83222, OZONE.
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Operation safety
Your Xerox equipment and supplies have been designed and tested
to meet strict safety requirements. They have been approved by
safety agencies, and they comply with environmental standards.
Please observe the following precautions to ensure your continued
safety.
• Always connect equipment to a properly grounded electrical
outlet. If in doubt, have the outlet checked by a qualified
electrician.
Warning: Improper connection of the equipment grounding
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conductor may result in risk of electrical shock.
• Never use a ground adapter plug to connect equipment to an
electrical outlet that lacks a ground connection terminal.
• Always place equipment on a solid support surface with
adequate strength for its weight.
• Always use materials and supplies specifically designed for
your Xerox equipment. Use of unsuitable materials may result in
poor performance and may create a hazardous situation.
• Never move either the printer or the Printer Controller without
first contacting Xerox for approval.
• Never attempt any maintenance that is not specifically
described in this documentation.
• Never remove any covers or guards that are fastened with
screws. There are no operator-serviceable areas within these
covers.
• Never override electrical or mechanical interlocks.
• Never use supplies or cleaning materials for other than their
intended purposes. Keep all materials out of the reach of
children.
• Never operate the equipment if you notice unusual noises or
odors. Disconnect the power cord from the electrical outlet and
call service to correct the problem.
If you need any additional safety information concerning the
equipment or materials Xerox supplies, call Xerox Product Safety at
the following toll-free number in the United States:
1-800-828-6571
For customers outside the United States contact your local Xerox
representative or operating company.
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Table of contents
Laser safety iii
Ozone information iii
Operation safety iv
Introduction ix
About this guide ix
Contents ix
Conventions x
Related publications xi
1. Introduction to the graphical user interface 1-1
The graphical user interface screen 1-1
Using the user interface screens 1-3
Pull-down menus 1-3
Buttons 1-5
Moving a window or icon 1-6
Reducing a window 1-6
Entering text 1-7
Exiting a window 1-8
IPS main window 1-9
Menus 1-10
Configuration menu 1-10
Diagnostics menu 1-12
Administration menu 1-13
System Options menu 1-14
Input Configuration section 1-15
Output Configuration section 1-16
Setup and status information 1-18
Host Job Control section 1-20
Subwindow buttons 1-21
2. Starting and stopping the system 2-1
Powering on the IPS system 2-1
Powering off the IPS system 2-3
In routine operation 2-3
After a power outage 2-4
Communicating with the host computer 2-5
Placing the IPS online 2-5
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Taking the IPS offline 2-5
Printer status 2-5
Starting a print job 2-6
Stopping the printer 2-6
Resuming printing 2-6
Automatic print job recovery 2-7
Rebooting the Printer Controller 2-7
Exiting power saver mode 2-7
Removing media from the processor 2-8
3. Setting up the Printer Controller 3-1
Selecting a language 3-2
Specifying the system interface 3-3
Selecting channel interface 3-4
Selecting TCP/IP interface 3-5
Enabling or disabling the modem 3-6
Allocating memory for resources 3-7
Displaying and adding resident fonts 3-8
Displaying resident fonts 3-8
Adding resident fonts 3-9
Loading the IPS software license text string 3-11
Switching modes (Dual Mode) 3-13
4. Setting the system configuration 4-1
Privilege Modes 4-2
Changing the Privilege Mode 4-3
Changing the password for a Privilege Mode 4-4
Accessing configuration tasks 4-5
Configuration menu tasks 4-5
Indicating the input resolution 4-6
Specifying the maximum simplex value 4-7
Rotating the page origin 4-8
Specifying the media units 4-10
Setting optional processing parameters 4-11
Diagnostics menu tasks 4-13
Printing samples 4-13
Capturing and executing a trace 4-18
Capturing a trace 4-18
Executing a captured trace 4-20
Printing a trace file 4-21
Setting of the debug level 4-22
Updating the software using a CD or a diskette 4-23
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Updating the software remotely 4-24
System Options menu tasks 4-25
Specifying the input configuration 4-26
Example of an input configuration 4-27
Selecting simplex or duplex printing 4-28
Setting up margin values 4-29
Setting up the Media Library 4-30
Creating a media icon 4-31
Changing a media icon 4-36
Deleting a media icon 4-36
Editing the media defaults 4-36
Adding a new input configuration 4-38
Changing an input configuration file 4-44
Deleting an input configuration file 4-45
Correcting a feeder tray mismatch error 4-46
Specifying the output configuration 4-47
Example of an output configuration 4-48
Creating a new output configuration 4-49
Changing an output configuration 4-56
Deleting an output configuration 4-56
Adding a DFA profile 4-57
Changing a DFA profile 4-61
Deleting a DFA profile 4-61
Backing up and restoring configuration files 4-62
Saving configuration files to diskette 4-63
Restoring configuration files from diskette 4-64
Index INDEX-1
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About this guide
Introduction
This Xerox DocuPrint 4050/4090 Guide to Configuring and Managing
the System provides information on how to perform DocuPrint
system administration tasks for the DocuPrint 4050 or 4090 IPS.
This guide is intended for system administrators who are responsible
for setting up and maintaining DocuPrint printers.
Users should have an understanding of Printer Controller operations
and be familiar with SunOS and basic UNIX commands.
Some of the procedures described in this guide may be performed by
the printer operator. For more information on printer operator tasks,
refer to the other documents listed in the "Related publications"
section.
Contents
Before using this guide, become familiar with its contents and
conventions.
This section lists the contents of this guide:
• Chapter 1, “Introduction to the graphical user interface,” gives
an overview of IPS user interface system of windows and
menus, and provides instructions on interacting with the
screens.
• Chapter 2, “Starting and stopping the system,” describes how
to power on and off the system, how to start and stop job
processing, and how to stop and restart the system.
• Chapter 3, “Setting up the Printer Controller,” provides
information on how to use the user interface to set up the
Printer Controller to print your jobs.
• Chapter 4, “Setting the system configuration,” provides
information on how to use the user interface to configure
various features of your IPS, including input and output trays.
An index is provided at the back of the guide.
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Conventions
This guide uses the following conventions:
• All caps and angle brackets — Within procedures, the names of
keys are shown in all caps within angle brackets (for example,
press <ENTER>).
• Bold — Within procedures, text and numbers that you enter are
shown in bold (for example, enter cmd tool).
• “Enter” — Within procedures, the two-step process of keying in
data and pressing <RETURN> (for example, enter y).
• Italics — Document and library names are shown in italics (for
example, the Xerox DocuPrint 4050/4090 IPS Guide to
Configuring and Managing the System).
• Capitalization of graphical user interface (GUI) window titles
matches the titles as they appear on the screen. In cases where
a window does not have a title, it is referenced using all lower
case. For example:
— At the graphical user interface, use the Output
Configuration window to group the trays.
— The main window displays the current system status.
Note: Notes are hints that help you perform a task or understand
the text.
Caution: Cautions alert you to an action that could damage
hardware or software.
Warning: Warnings alert you to conditions that could affect the
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safety of people.
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Related publications
Xerox documents Following is a list of all Xerox DocuPrint IPS documents. For a
INTRODUCTION
This document is part of the Xerox DocuPrint IPS publication set.
complete list and description of available Xerox documentation, refer
to the Xerox Customer Documentation Catalog (publication number
610P17517), or call your service representative.
Application Programmer/System Administrator Quick Reference
Card
Customer Information Quick Reference Card
Generic MICR Fundamentals Guide
Glossary
Guide to Configuring and Managing the System
Guide to Performing Routine Maintenance
Helpful Facts About Paper
Installation Planning Guide
Master Index
Messages Guide
Solutions Guide
System Overview Guide
Troubleshooting Guide
Xerox Standard Font Library Font User Guide
The documentation set also includes an electronic version, the
DocuPrint IPS Interactive Customer Documentation CD.
IBM documents Following are related IBM documents. Contact your local IBM
representative for ordering instructions for IBM AFP/PSF manuals
that might be useful for your specific installation.
IBM 3825 Page Printer Product Description
IBM Intelligent Printer Data Stream Reference
IBM Advanced Function Presentation Printer Summary
IBM ITSC Distributing AFP Printing from a Host System
IBM Advanced Function Printing Data Stream Reference
IBM Data Stream and Object Architectures: Mixed Object Document
Content Architecture Reference
Guide to Advanced Function Presentation
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1. 1Introduction to the graphical
This chapter gives an overview of the graphical user interface (GUI)
and provides instructions on how to use it to interact with the system.
With the user interface you perform operator and system
administration tasks through a dynamic set of windows. Either a
mouse or certain keyboard combinations are used to move between
windows and select options. You enter commands through windows
on the display screen.
The graphical user interface screen
After you power on the Host Channel Unit (HCU), if appropriate, and
the Sun workstation, the Printer Controller monitor displays three
windows:
user interface
• IPS main window
• IPS Console window
• IPS Print Engine Monitor window.
The IPS main window is the largest window on the screen. The main
window displays the current system setup, the current system status,
and any jobs that are running. This window also provides access to
menus and subwindows from which you can configure and operate
your system.
The IPS Console window displays messages that warn you of
Printer Controller problems. The window also indicates the host job
name as it is started and received by the system. This window initially
displays below the IPS main window on the left, but it can be moved
where desired.
Note: High frequency service indicator (HFSI) messages may
appear occasionally in this window. These messages do not indicate
any problem, merely that you should advise your service
representative to check the indicated areas during the next service
call.
The IPS Print Engine Monitor window shows printer error
messages, indicates the printer status and displays printer and DFA
messages. (This window initially displays below the IPS main window
on the right, but it can be moved where desired.)
Figure 1-1 shows these windows on the screen of the Printer
Controller monitor.
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Figure 1-1. Printer Controller monitor with IPS main window,
IPS Console window, and IPS Print Engine Monitor
window
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Using the user interface screens
The graphical user interface screens contain various combinations of
pull-down menus and dropdown lists, selection buttons, incremental
spin boxes, and text fields by which you can interact with the system.
The following describes how to use these screen features.
Pull-down menus
A pull-down menu or list is indicated by an inverted triangle within the
menu title box or oval, to the right of the menu name.
Figure 1-2. Example of a pull-down menu title button from the
Types of pull-down menus You will encounter two types of pull-down menus on the IPS
windows:
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IPS main window
• File pull-down menus. These menus contain options that are
actually files. When you select an option, the system retrieves
that file. The top line of a file pull-down menu displays the
directory path the system takes to retrieve the file you select.
Examples of this type of pull-down menu include Input and
Output Group Name menus and DFA Profile menus.
Figure 1-3. Example of a file pull-down menu
• Standard pull-down menus display the options to be selected.
Figure 1-4. Example of a standard pull-down menu
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Selecting from a pull-down menu There are two methods of accessing items from a pull-down menu:
• Click method:
1. Position the cursor over the menu box or oval and click the
right mouse button. The menu options display.
2. With either mouse button, click the option you want. The
menu disappears and the screen for your selection is
displayed.
• Drag method:
1. Position the cursor over the menu box or oval and hold
down the right mouse button. The menu options display.
2. Continue to hold down the right mouse button while you
drag the cursor to the option you want.
3. Release the mouse button when the cursor is on your
selection. The menu disappears and the screen for your
selection is displayed.
Notes on pull-down menus Here are a few things to remember about pull-down menus:
• Clicking a pull-down menu with the left mouse button selects
the first option on the menu/list. (Clicking with the right button
displays the entire menu.)
• Only one menu item window can be displayed at a time.
Therefore, close a currently open window before opening a new
one.
• On some of the IPS subwindows, the selection you make from a
pull-down menu is displayed in the lower-right corner of the
window. It remains until you close the window or enter a
selection/value elsewhere on that same window.
Figure 1-5. Window displaying the selection made from a pull-
down menu (lower-right corner)
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Buttons
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A selection button displays as an oval or box (except for the Stop and
Continue buttons) containing a function name, but no inverted
triangle.
Figure 1-6. Example of a selection button from the IPS main
window
Cancel Job
To use a button:
1. With the cursor positioned over the button, click the left mouse
button.
2. If the selection button is a toggle (turning a selection on/off),
you can alternately select and deselect it by repeatedly clicking
it with the left mouse button.
Incremental spin buttons An incremental spin button consists of a line displaying a numeric
value, with buttons next to it containing arrows.
Figure 1-7. Example of incremental spin buttons
To select an item that has incremental spin buttons:
1. Position the cursor on the triangle (up arrow) button to increase
the value displayed, or on the inverted triangle (down arrow) to
decrease the value.
2. Repeatedly click or hold down the left mouse button until your
desired value is displayed.
Note: You can also enter the values on the line next to the spin
buttons. Refer to “Entering text,” later in this chapter.
Note: On some windows, the value you enter or select is displayed
in the lower-left or -right corner of the window. It remains until you
close the window or enter a selection/value elsewhere on that same
window.
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Moving a window or icon
Windows and icons may be moved and repositioned where you want
them on the screen. You may need to do this when a window you
display covers all or part of another window you also need to see.
Drag and drop procedure To move an item on the screen:
This procedure is often referred to as “drag and drop.”
Uncovering a window Clicking a window’s title bar with the left mouse button places that
window in front (or on top) of any icons or windows that are
overlapping it. You would do this if you want to view an entire window
that is partially covered by other windows or icons you do not want to
close.
1. Position the cursor on the icon or on the title bar of the window
you want to move.
2. Hold down the left mouse button while moving the cursor to the
desired location. The window or icon moves with the cursor as
long as you hold down the mouse button.
3. Release the mouse button when the item is where you want it.
Reducing a window
If the title bar of the window you want is completely covered, use the
“Front” key on the keyboard, or drag and drop the other windows
away to expose enough of the title bar to click on. (Refer to “Drag and
drop procedure,” above.)
There are two ways to “shrink” a window on the screen, that is, to get
it out of your way without closing it:
• Resizing from the corner: Position the cursor on one of the
window’s corners and hold down the left mouse button. A small,
target-shaped icon displays at the point of the cursor. Drag the
corner of the window in the desired direction to shrink or
expand the window. (You are not able to resize the window if the
“target” icon is not displayed.)
• Reducing to an icon: If a window has a button containing an
inverted triangle in the upper left corner on the title bar, you can
reduce the window to an icon on the screen background by
single-clicking the triangle button. To restore the window to its
original size, double-click that icon with the left mouse button.
Note: Reducing a window to an icon does not in any way
interfere with any ongoing process that was initiated from that
window. It does not close the window.
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Entering text
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Some windows contain lines on which you can enter text such as file
names or numeric values. At the beginning of a text field, there is a
small icon. This icon displays as a dark triangle when the cursor is
positioned anywhere in the window containing the text field. When
the cursor is outside the window, the icon on the line becomes a
grayed-out diamond shape, and you cannot enter text in the field.
Here are some rules for entering text on a window:
• If a window contains more than one text field, click the left
mouse button on the text field you want to use, before beginning
to type.
• You can enter text only when the line displays the dark triangle
icon. Text that you enter displays in front of the triangle.
• To highlight or select text in a text field:
1. Position the cursor at the beginning or the end of the text
you are selecting.
2. Holding down the left mouse button, drag the cursor to the
right or left until the desired text is highlighted.
3. Release the mouse button.
• To delete text in a text field, do either of the following:
— Position the cursor to the right of the text to be deleted and
press either <DELETE> or <BACKSPACE>. This erases
the character to the left of the cursor. If you hold down
either of these keys, characters continue to be deleted to
the left until you release the key or all characters are
erased.
— Highlight the text you want to delete, then press
<DELETE> or <BACKSPACE>.
• To move text:
1. Highlight the text to be moved.
2. Position the cursor on the highlighted text.
3. Holding down the left mouse button, drag the highlighted
text to the right or left on the same line, or to another line
on the same window, and release the mouse button.
Note: You cannot drag text from one window to
another.
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Exiting a window
You can exit most IPS windows by clicking the left mouse button on
a Quit, Done, or Cancel button. Sometimes an Apply button closes
the window after applying what has been specified or selected.
Pin buttons In addition, on certain windows, there is a small button in the shape
of a push-pin in the upper-left corner on the title bar (illustrated in the
following examples).
• If the pin is “out:”
Figure 1-8. Window with pin button “out”
— You can exit the window by double-clicking the pin button.
— The window automatically closes after you make a
selection from it.
— To change the pin to the “in” position, single-click the pin
button.
• If the pin is “in:”
Figure 1-9. Upper-left portion of a window with pin button “in”
— You can exit the window by single-clicking the pin button.
— The window remains open after you make selections from
it.
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IPS main window
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To configure your system, use the IPS main window to provide
access to the Configuration, Diagnostics, Administration, and
System Options menus, and to the Input and Output Configuration
subwindows. You return to this window from each of the subwindows
after you have made your selections.
Caution: When you are using the mouse on the IPS main window,
it is possible to delete the window by selecting Quit from the pulldown menu on the title bar. Should this occur, you must reboot the
Sun workstation. (Refer to the “Starting and stopping the system”
chapter for the rebooting procedure.)
Figure 1-10. IPS main window
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Menus
The IPS main window displays the following pull-down menus:
• Configuration
• Diagnostics
• Administration
• System Options.
Note: Clicking or pressing the right mouse button with the cursor on
the title bar of a window displays a title bar pull-down menu. This
menu contains options having to do with displaying the window (for
example, the Refresh option redisplays or redraws the window).
The title bar pull-down menu is generated by the Windows system on
your Sun workstation and does not apply to the IPS software. You
should not have occasion to use it.
Configuration menu
Use the Configuration pull-down menu on the IPS main window to set
up various options in the Printer Controller. The figure below
illustrates the items available from the Configuration pull-down menu,
followed by an explanation of each item.
Note: Items in the Configuration pull-down menu that appear
“grayed out” on the screen are unavailable for use with your system’s
configuration.
Figure 1-11. Configuration pull-down menu
The Configuration pull-down menu contains the following items:
• Language — Allows you to select the language in which GUI
messages will display.
Note: The printer status and fault messages are not part of this
feature.
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• Interface — Allows you to specify the current interface and the
interface options you want to use.
• Resolution — Allows you to specify the resolution of the fonts
and other resources in the incoming job (240 or 300). This
resolution must match the font resolution in the PSF start-up
procedure (PROC) for MVS, or the font resolution set up by the
PSFCFG command for AS400.
Note: When you change the resolution, you must reboot the
system.
• Modem Enable/Disable — Enables or disables the modem if it
is installed by your service representative for diagnostic
purposes. This modem is used for dial-in servicing and
diagnostics when needed by your service representative.
• Maximum Simplex — For jobs containing both duplex and
simplex pages; the Maximum Simplex option allows you to
specify the maximum number of simplex pages that will print in
duplex mode before the system clears the paper path and
switches to simplex mode.
• Slumber Mode Timer — Not supported on the 4050/4090 IPS.
• MICR Mode — Not supported on the 4050/4090 IPS.
• Extraction Color — Not supported on the 4050/4090 IPS.
• Continuous Form Emulation — Rotates the page origin 90
degrees. This allows the IPS to print on cut sheets the jobs
designed for a continuous forms printer.
• Resource Limits — Enables you to allocate additional memory
for resources such as forms, fonts, and page segments.
• Media Units — Allows you to specify the units of measurement
to use for weight and size.
• Optional Processing Parameters — Allows you to set
processing parameters such as the model number reported to
the host.
• Resident Fonts — Allows you to display current resident fonts
on your system, and to add new resident fonts.
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Diagnostics menu
Use the Diagnostics menu to print samples and specify trace mode
options. (It is also used by your service representative to access
system diagnostic functions.)
Figure 1-12. Diagnostics pull-down menu
The Diagnostics pull-down menu contains the following items:
• Sample Prints — Allows you to print sample files (test
patterns), to exercise the print engine, and to perform a manual
print quality adjustment (PQA).
• Trace Options — Allows you to capture and execute a
diagnostic trace of your system. This function is available to
Administrator and Service privilege mode users only.
• Service Mode — Accessed by your service representative;
This function is available to Service privilege mode users only.
• Debug Level — Displays different levels of debug messages to
be stored in log message files.
Note: Operating at a Debug Level other than 0 could reduce
throughput speed.
• Null Modem Connection — Accessed by your service
representative; This function is available to Service privilege
mode users only.
• Log Service Call — Accessed by your service representative;
This function is available to Service privilege mode users only.
• Update from CDROM — Allows you to update your software
using a CD. This function is available to Administrator and
Service privilege mode users only.
• Update from Floppy — Allows you to update your software
using a diskette. This function is available to Administrator and
Service privilege mode users only.
• Install Remote Update — Allows you to update your software
remotely. This function is available to Administrator and Service
privilege mode users only.
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Administration menu
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Use the Administration pull-down menu to access windows for
performing administrative tasks, such as billing reporting.
Figure 1-13. Administration pull-down menu
The Administration pull-down menu contains the following items:
• IPS Authorization — Enables entry of your IPS operating
system software license text string, provided by
Xerox, which authorizes you to use the IPS software. The IPS
cannot receive data from the host until this license is enabled.
(This is usually done by your service representative.)
• Billing Information — Displays the meter readings for the
system.
• Privilege Mode — Enables changing of:
— The privilege mode
— The password for a selected privilege mode (Operator or
Administrator).
• Backup Configuration Files — Enables backing up of:
— System configuration files
— Input group configuration files
— Input DFA Profiles
— Media library files
— Output group configuration files
— Output DFA Profiles.
• Restore Configuration Files — Enables restoring of files
backed up on diskettes.
• License Status — Displays the license status for your system.
• XSIS Authorization — (DFA systems only) Enables entry of
your XSIS Authorization license text string, which enables the
Enhanced Set Recovery option for your system, resulting in
reprinted DFA output sets.
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System Options menu
Use the System Options pull-down menu to take the IPS online and
offline, and shut down the system.
Figure 1-14. System Options pull-down menu
The System Options pull-down menu contains the following items:
• Online — Places the system online.
• Offline — Takes the system offline.
• Shutdown System — Shuts down the system. This option
stops all processes running on the Printer Controller, stops the
printer, and returns to the boot prompt of the operating system.
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Input Configuration section
INTRODUCTION TO THE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
The Input Configuration section of the main window provides access
to the windows that enable you to configure the printer input trays to
feed the stocks you want to be used in the print job. It also displays
the current configuration of the feeder trays.
Figure 1-15. Input Configuration section of IPDS main window
The Input Configuration section—the upper part of the larger left
column—contains the following fields:
• Input Configuration pull-down menu — Allows you to select
an Input Configuration window. Once you select an Input
Configuration window, you will be able to modify margin settings
from that window, and to create or change Input Configurations,
DFA personality profiles, and media icons.
• IPDS Trays — Graphically shows the stocks that the current
configuration has associated with the input trays that are called
out in the job (IPDS data stream).
This field consists of a row of eight boxes called “tray cells,”
each of which represents an input tray that a job might specify.
The number above each tray cell is the tray’s identification
number. The number(s) below each tray cell indicate the printer
trays to which the IPDS tray has been mapped.
Any IPDS tray for which a particular stock has been identified
displays a media icon in its tray cell. A media icon graphically
represents a stock, showing its weight, color, size, and form
type (3-hole, etc.).
Note: You map an IPDS tray to a printer tray by placing a
media icon for the same stock in the cells for both trays.
The mapping of IPDS trays determines the use of system
memory for handling media of different sizes. It is
recommended that media that are not used in a particular job is
not placed in an IPDS cell.
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• Printer Trays — Graphically shows the stocks that should be
Output Configuration section
The Output Configuration section of the IPS main window provides
access to the windows that enable you to configure the printer
stacker trays to ensure printed output is delivered to the desired
output tray or bin. It also displays the current configuration of the
stacker trays.
Figure 1-16. Output Configuration section of IPS main window
loaded in the physical feeder trays for the current input
configuration.
The Printer Trays field consists of a row of tray cell boxes, each
of which represents one of the printer’s feeder trays. (The
number of cells in this field is the number of input trays your IPS
printer supports.) Tray cells for feeder trays in which stocks will
be loaded contain media icons representing those stocks.
This section—the lower part of the larger left column—contains the
following fields:
• Output Configuration pull-down menu — Allows you to select
an Output Configuration window. Once you select an Output
Configuration window, you will be able to create or change
Output Configurations and DFA personality profiles.
• Printer Bins — Graphically shows how IPDS output destination
bins have been mapped to the physical printer bins.
In the Output Configuration section of the main window, the
horizontal rows of icons represent the IPDS bins specified in the
job as the output destination. The vertical columns represent
the actual printer bins to which output will be delivered.
When a bin has been selected as part of the configuration, it
displays bolded on the screen. By looking at the printer bin
number at the top of the column above each bolded icon, and at
the IPDS bin number at the beginning of the row beside the
same bolded icon, you can see which IPDS bins have been
mapped to which printer bins.
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Note: IPDS bin 1 is coded in the software to be mapped to the
sample tray. The IPDS row 1 contains only a sample tray icon,
which always displays bolded; there are no other printer bins
available to select. You are not able to change this part of the
output configuration. If “Allow Host Control” is selected, all parts
of any print job in which the data stream calls for IPDS bin 1 are
delivered to the sample tray.
Note: If your system has a stitcher/stacker instead of the dual
stacker, your output configuration display shows only one
stacker bin icon, which has a diagram of a staple above it
(illustrated in the following figure).
Figure 1-17. Output Configuration Bins field, stitcher/stacker
configuration
• Finishing — Displays “Enabled” if the system is configured with
a bypass transport or a stitcher/stacker, and “Finishing” or
“Stitching” is selected from the Output Configuration window.
For information on specifying finishing attributes, refer to the
section “Creating a new output configuration” in the chapter
“Setting the system configuration.”
If the system has no bypass transport or stitcher/stacker, this
field is grayed-out and displays “Disabled.”
• Page Order Within Set — Displays the current setting for the
order in which pages are placed in the output bin, from 1 to N
(ascending) or N to 1 (descending). If your system does not
have a bypass transport, or if the Finishing field displays
“Disabled,” this field is grayed out and always displays “N to 1.”
• End of Set — If a bypass transport is installed on your system,
this field displays the criterion (MARKFORM or Offset Stacker)
that was selected from the Job Attributes window to indicate the
end of a set or segment within a job.
If your system does not have the stitcher/stacker configuration
or a bypass transport, or if the Finishing field displays
“Disabled,” this field displays grayed-out and always displays
“Offset.”
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Setup and status information
The following system setup and status information is displayed in the
right column of the IPS Main window:
Control Unit Configuration section Displays the current configuration of the system. Items that appear
here include:
Figure 1-18. Control Unit Configuration section of main window
• Resolution — Shows the resolution in dpi of the fonts used in
the current or most recent job sent to the IPS. This field reflects
the value entered on the Resolution window, accessible through
the Configuration pull-down menu.
• Rotation — Indicates whether Continuous Forms Emulation is
enabled.
• Privilege Mode — Indicates the current Privilege Mode
(Service, Administrator, Operator, or User).
Note: When a remote Shell is activated, “Remote Shell Active”
displays on the window.
When a remote Shell is activated and a service representative dials
in remotely, “Remote Session Active” displays on the window.
For information on activating a remote shell, refer to the “Setting up
the printer controller” chapter, “Enabling or disabling the modem”
section.
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