Xerox DocuColor 250 User Manual

User Addendum

Fiery EXP250 Color Server, version 1.0SP1 for DocuColor 240/250

This addendum describes how to upgrade the Fiery EXP250 Color Server system software to include features that were not covered in the version 1.0 release. The document also supplements information in the user documentation about installable options and Fiery EXP250 user software.

Before using the Fiery EXP250, read this User Addendum and distribute copies to all users. For all other information and instructions, see the documentation that accompanies your Fiery EXP250.

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The term “Fiery EXP250” is used in this document to refer to the Fiery EXP250 Color Server. The Fiery EXP250 supports the DocuColor 240/250. The term “copier” is used in this document to refer to the DocuColor 240/250.

New features in this update

This document contains information about the following:

•Upgrade of Fiery EXP250 system software

Instructions are provided for installing the system software update in several ways. For more information, see “Upgrading system software” on page 2.

•Installation of printer drivers

The EXP250 SP1 System Software Update CD also includes printer drivers that you must install to use the Tray 6 (Oversized) option. For more information, see “Upgrading printer drivers” on page 7.

•Mac OS X printer driver choice

In addition to supporting the new Tray 6 (Oversized) option, the Mac OS X printer driver in the system software upgrade also addresses issues on OS X v10.3 and v10.4.1 with ﬁnisher options for folding and stapling. For more information, see “Two versions of Mac OS X printer driver” on page 10.

• Cancel on Mismatch

A job whose media is not available can be cancelled after a speciﬁed timeout. See page 11.

•Support for Tray 6 (Oversized) option

Tray 6 (Oversized) is a new installable option that accommodates larger paper than the regular Tray 6 option. For more information, see “Tray 6 (Oversized)” on page 11.

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•Tray 5 Media Protection

Copier damage is prevented with Tray 5 Media Protection if jobs printed from Tray 5 (Bypass) do not specify a media type. For more information, see “Tray 5 Media Protection option” on page 15.

• Clariﬁcation of requirements for printing a duplex job in manual or semi-manual mode

Manual and semi-manual duplex printing is supported using either Tray 5 (Bypass) or Tray 6 (Oversized) as the paper source. For more information, see “Manual duplex printing using Tray 5 (Bypass) or Tray 6 (Oversized)” on page 16.

Production Printing Package option

Upgrading system software

This document also describes the optional Production Printing Package, which offers various additional features to monitor and manage the print workﬂow of jobs on the Fiery EXP250. For more information, see “Production Printing Package” on page 20.

Methods of upgrading system software

You can install the system update in a number of ways:

•System Updates from the Control Panel or Fiery Advanced Controller Interface (FACI)

• Check for Updates from WebTools

•From the EXP250 SP1 System Software Update CD

These methods are described below.

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Updated printer drivers can be installed from Check For Updates or from the EXP250 SP1 System Software Update CD. They can also be installed by Point and Print once they have been installed on the Fiery EXP250.

Updating system software through System Updates from the Control Panel

You can access the System Updates utility from the Control Panel or from the FACI, if installed.

The following procedure describes accessing System Updates from the Control Panel.

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1Turn off the copier before installing updates.

2Press the Menu button to access the Functions menu, and press System Updates.

AND

INSTALL

UPDATES

MANUALLY

FROM

THE

ONTROL

ANEL

System Updates checks the server for new updates and displays a message indicating whether or not updates are available.

3Press OK.

If updates are available, the message “Install now?” appears.

4 Select Yes and press OK.

5 Enter the administrator password, and press OK.

The updates are downloaded (if they have not already been downloaded) and installed.

6 If the updates require a server restart or a reboot, the Fiery EXP250 is automatically

restarted or rebooted when installation is complete.

There is a one-minute delay before a reboot.

7 When the Fiery EXP250 reaches the Idle state, turn on the copier.

Updating system software through System Updates from the FACI

You can conﬁgure System Updates to check for updates in several ways:

•

Notify

when

updates

are

available

When updates are available, a pop-up message appears next to the System Updates icon in the Windows taskbar on the FACI. Clicking the popup message opens the System Updates window. This option requires that you download and install the updates manually.

Download

•

the

updates

automatically

and

notify (faster

installation)

When updates are available, a pop-up message appears next to the System Updates icon in the Windows taskbar on the FACI. The updates are downloaded automatically but not installed. Clicking the pop-up message opens the System Updates window. This option requires that you install the updates manually.

•

Automatically

download

and

install

updates, and

reboot

system

Updates are downloaded and installed automatically. System Updates checks for available updates at a time and day you specify, downloads and installs them, and reboots or restarts the server if required. No notiﬁcation is displayed and no user action is required.

CONFIGURE

YSTEM

1 Click Start and choose Programs> Fiery>System Updates.

PDATES

CHECK

FOR

UPDATES

FROM

THE

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FACI

Select the check box for Check for Important System Updates.

2 Select the option that describes how you want System Updates to respond when new updates

are available.

3 If you select Automatically download and install updates, choose a time of day and a day of

the week or Every Day from the menus.

4 Click OK.

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Installing system updates manually

If you selected a preference to be notiﬁed of system updates in the System Updates Preferences window, a pop-up message appears when new updates are available. Click the pop-up message to open the System Updates window.

To view a description of an update in the System Updates window, click to select the update in the list.

If you do not want to install new updates immediately, you can click Exit to close the window. To open the window again, click the System Updates icon in the Taskbar and choose Check System Updates.

INSTALL

NEW

UPDATES

1Turn off the copier before you install updates.

2 Click Install All in the System Updates window.

FROM

THE

FACI

The updates are downloaded (if they have not already been downloaded) and installed.

3 If the updates require a server restart or a reboot, the Fiery EXP250 is automatically

restarted or rebooted when installation is complete.

There is a one-minute delay before a reboot.

4 When the Fiery EXP250 reaches the Idle state, turn on the copier.

Updating system software through WebTools

You can also check for system software updates from a secure site on the Internet. Updates to user software may also be available.

CHECK

FOR

SOFTWARE

1 Start WebTools.

2Type the Administrator password and click OK.

3 Click Software Updates.

UPDATES

If Software Updates does not appear as one of the WebTools, click Conﬁgure and enable it.

4 If an update is available, click the update.

The update is downloaded to the Fiery EXP250.

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5For information about installing the update, click the ReadMe ﬁle provided with the update.

Installing the EXP250 SP1 System Software Update from the CD

Before installing this system update, print the Fiery EXP250 Conﬁguration page.

1 Make sure the Fiery EXP250 is Idle and temporarily remove any dongle attached to the

Fiery EXP250.

2 Insert the EXP250 SP1 System Software Update CD into a computer that can print to the

Fiery EXP250 and has Command WorkStation installed.

If Command WorkStation is installed directly on the Fiery EXP250, you can insert the CD in the DVD drive of the Fiery EXP250.

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You can also download ﬁles from a Windows or a Mac OS computer using Downloader or WebDownloader. For more information about downloading ﬁles using these utilities, see Utilities .

3 Start Command WorkStation and connect to the Fiery EXP250.

If you experience any problems, make sure Setup is conﬁgured properly.

4 Choose File>Import>Job from the Command WorkStation menu.

5 Navigate to the “System SW Update.ps” directory on the EXP250 SP1 System Software

Update CD, select the update ﬁle, and click Add.

6 Choose the Print or Direct connection from the Logical Printer menu.

7 Click Import and wait for the Fiery EXP250 to reach idle after downloading the update.

You must wait at least 60 seconds after the patch ﬁle is imported before rebooting the system. This will ensure the patch ﬁle is completely processed.

8 Remove the EXP250 SP1 System Software Update CD from the Fiery EXP250 or remote

computer.

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9 After the Fiery EXP250 reaches idle, reboot the Fiery EXP250.

Using the Fiery EXP250 Control Panel, choose Shut Down from the Functions menu, and then choose Reboot System.

The Control Panel should display the version as version 1.0SP1.

Wait until the Fiery EXP250 has come to idle after the second reboot to print the Conﬁguration page.

10 Print a Conﬁguration page and verify that the Update Information section includes the name

of the update ﬁle (the ﬁle name appears without the .ps extension).

Upgrading printer drivers

New Fiery EXP250 printer drivers

The EXP250 SP1 System Software Update CD contains updated Fiery EXP250 printer drivers.

You can install printer drivers in a number of ways:

•From the Fiery EXP250 through Point and Print using SMB printing (Windows only).

•From WebTools, using Installer or Check for Updates to download the printer driver ﬁles

before you install them.

•From the EXP250 SP1 System Software Update CD.

Before installing the updated printer drivers, you must manually uninstall the existing Windows and Mac OS X printer drivers.

Uninstalling Fiery EXP250 printer drivers

To uninstall Windows printer drivers, refer to the section “Using Fiery Printer Delete Utility” in the Printing Utilities chapter of Printing from Windows on the User Documentation CD.

To uninstall Mac OS X printer drivers, use the following procedure.

REMOVE

THE

1 Delete the Fiery EXP250 printer from the desktop.

2 Delete the following ﬁles:

OS X

PRINTER

DRIVER

• /Library/Frameworks/h10.framework

• /Library/Frameworks/hcore.framework

• /Library/Frameworks/heﬁ_color.framework

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3To remove the version 1.0 printer driver plug ins, delete the following ﬁles:

• /Library/Printers/PPD Plugins/EF4X2012 (CW)

• /Library/Printers/PPD Plugins/EF4X2012 (FJN)

• /Library/Printers/PPD Plugins/EF4X2012 (IS)

• /Library/Printers/PPD Plugins/EF4X2012 (PINFO)

4To remove the updated version 1.0 printer driver plug ins, delete the following ﬁles:

• /Library/Printers/Xerox/PDEs/EF6X2012 (CW)

• /Library/Printers/Xerox/PDEs/EF6X2012 (FJN)

• /Library/Printers/Xerox/PDEs/EF6X2012 (IS)

• /Library/Printers/Xerox/PDEs/EF6X2012 (PINFO)

5Browse to /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources and delete the PPD ﬁles Fiery EXP250

PS in each corresponding language folder as necessary.

For example, to delete the English PPDs, you delete /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/ Resources/en.lproj/Fiery EXP250 PS v1.0.

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6 Delete the ﬁerycupsﬁlter with the Terminal utility (requires root administrator password).

•Open the Terminal utility by browsing to /Applications/Utilities/Terminal. Double-click

Terminal to launch the utility.

• Change to the

cd /usr/libexec/cups/filter

fierycupsfilter

directory by entering

The command prompt reﬂects the new directory.

•Enter

sudo rm –r fierycupsfilter

•Enter the root password.

By default this password is blank. Press Enter to proceed.

The

fierycupsfilter

is deleted, and the printer driver has been removed.

Installing Fiery EXP250 printer drivers

To install the updated drivers on Windows computers, refer to the Installing Printer Drivers chapter of

Printing from Windows

To install the updated drivers on Mac OS 9, refer to the Setting Up Printing on Mac OS 9 chapter in Printing from Mac OS.

To install the updated drivers on Mac OS X, see the Setting Up Printing on Mac OS X chapter in Printing from Mac OS.

NOTE: You can install a Fast version or a Comprehensive version of the Mac OS X printer

driver. For more information, see “Two versions of Mac OS X printer driver” on page 10.

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