Xerox DocuPrint 4050 Overview Guide

Xerox DocuPrint 4050/4090 IPS System Overview Guide

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Laser safety

Warning: Adjustments, use of controls, or performance of

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.

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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

conductor may result in risk of electrical shock.

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• 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. System overview 1-1

Functional overview of the DocuPrint IPS 1-1

Major system components 1-2

Host connectivity options 1-3

IPDS data stream 1-4

Dual Mode 1-4

4050/4090 IPS hardware features 1-5

Multiple input trays 1-5

Advanced paper handling 1-5

300 dpi resolution 1-6

Multiple output trays/bins 1-6

User interface 1-7

Software features 1-8

Mixed paper sizes within a job 1-8

Tray selection capabilities 1-9

IOCA Replicate and Trim 1-9

Mixed plex 1-10

Enhanced N-Up 1-10

Trace facility 1-11

Overstrike, underscore, subscript, and superscript 1-11

Page origin rotation for continuous form jobs 1-11

Double-byte fonts 1-11

Outline font support 1-12

Printer resident font support 1-12

Processing options 1-12

Message translation 1-12

Configuration file processing 1-12

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PCI Bus support 1-13

Access control by privilege mode 1-13

Software license 1-13

Remote service (Sixth Sense Technology) 1-14

2. Printer Controller 2-1

Components of the Printer Controller 2-1

Processor 2-3

Hard disk 2-3

Diskette drive 2-4

CD-ROM drive 2-4

Cartridge tape drive 2-4

Monitor 2-4

Keyboard 2-4

Mouse 2-4

Host Channel Unit (HCU) — channel-attached systems only 2-5

Placement of the processor 2-5

3. User interface 3-1

Graphical user interface screen 3-2

IPS main window 3-4

4. Printers 4-1

Printer components 4-2

Components overview 4-2

Printer control console 4-3

Sample tray 4-5

Dual stacker trays 1 and 2 4-5

Feeder trays 4-5

Printer configurations 4-6

High-capacity feeder 4-6

Printer stackers 4-7

Dual stacker 4-7

Stitcher/stacker 4-8

Additional IPS printer features 4-9

Printer paper paths 4-10

A. Paper and other supplies A-1

Paper and other throughput stocks A-1

Selecting paper A-1

Paper care A-3

Other supplies A-6

Dry ink A-6

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Fuser lubricant A-6

Developer A-6

Diskettes A-6

Cartridge tapes A-6

Fonts A-7

Consumable supplies tables A-8

Paper and special stocks tables A-8

Complete supplies list—4050/4090 printers A-11

Ordering supplies A-12

Index INDEX-1

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About this guide

Introduction

This Xerox DocuPrint 4050/4090 IPS System Overview Guide provides an overview of the individual components of the DocuPrint IPDS Printer System (IPS) and how they work together. This reference is designed to provide you with background information that can be used to make informed decisions regarding printer use and performance.

The Xerox DocuPrint 4050/4090 IPS System Overview Guide provides information to help you quickly determine hardware, software, and connectivity requirements for printing from various clients to DocuPrint IPS.

This reference is useful for workstation users, printer operators, and system administrators who want to understand the overall DocuPrint IPS. Managers can use the reference information to assist them in making planning decisions.

Contents

Before using this guide, become familiar with its contents and conventions.

This guide contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, “System overview,” identifies and describes the

function of the major components of the DocuPrint 4050 and 4090 IPS.

• Chapter 2, “Printer Controller,” provides the information on the

Printer Controller components, software, and fonts.

• Chapter 3, “User interface,” describes the features of the IPS

graphical user interface.

• Chapter 4, “Printer,” details the base printer components and

optional printer components.

• Appendix A, “Paper and other supplies,” provides information

and specifications on paper and other media used with the IPS, as well as instructions for ordering supplies.

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 <RETURN>).

• Italics — Document and library names are shown in italics (for

example, the Xerox DocuPrint 4050/4090 IPS System Overview Guide).

• 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

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. 1System overview

This chapter introduces the DocuPrint 4050 IPS and the DocuPrint 4090 IPS printing systems. It describes the systems’ hardware and software components, features, functions, and modes of operation.

Functional overview of the DocuPrint IPS

DocuPrint IPS printers support:

• Duplex printing

• Media handling of multiple weights, sizes, and types

• Optional modules for enhanced finishing and output to third-

party finishing devices

• Optional high-capacity feeder which provides additional feeder

trays.

The IPS emulates an IBM AFP Group 3 page printer with the Advanced Function Image and Graphics (AFIG) option and can print in all the following PSF environments:

• MVS

• VM (channel-attached only)

• VSE (channel-attached only)

• OS/2

• OS/400 (with TCP/IP only)

• AIX

Note: Although PSF/VSE does not support TCP/IP directly, a printing system with PSF/2, PSF/6000, or IBM InfoPrint Manager can attach to a PSF/VSE system and the PSF/2, PSF/6000, or IBM InfoPrint Manager can furnish the TCP/IP support for the IPS printer.

For information on the minimum PSF levels needed to support the IPS, refer to your Xerox DocuPrint 4050/4090 IPS Installation Planning Guide.

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Major system components

Printer Controller The Printer Controller accepts IPDS data from the host, processes

Graphical user interface The full-color graphical user interface (GUI) provides an easy-to-use,

The IPS has the following main components, each of which is described in greater detail in later chapters of this guide:

the data, and sends it to the printer using the IPS operating system for IPDS or the NPS operating system for PostScript or PCL.

The Printer Controller provides the printer with print data and commands and receives status information from the printer.

Host Channel Unit: On channel-attached systems, the Printer Controller has an additional component called the Host Channel Unit, or HCU. The HCU contains the channel communications board, and handles communication between PSF and the controller when data is received over a bus and tag connection.

mouse-driven interface to the IPS. Using the windows on the GUI screen, you can configure your system; perform diagnostic and administrative tasks; and set up, change, and implement system options, and run print jobs.

The IPS main window displays the current system status, as well as the current printer settings, including the current input and output tray configurations. From the IPS main window you access the various menus and windows you use to configure and operate the system. Refer to the chapter “User interface” in this guide, for more detailed information on the IPS graphical user interface components.

Printer The printer accepts data from the Printer Controller and prints the

document according to the print options specified by the user. The printer also provides paper stacking, collating, and optional finishing.

The 4050 and 4090 IPS are monochrome printers. Print jobs that contain color commands are printed in black.

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Host connectivity options

Channel-attached configuration Figure 1-1 illustrates the components of a channel-attached IPS.

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The IPS can be set up to receive data from a host in one of two ways:

• Over a channel with bus and tag cable connection, via the Host

Channel Unit (HCU)

• Through a Token Ring or Ethernet interface, using TCP/IP

protocol (not available in a VM or VSE host environment)

Note: A transmission rate of at least 16 megabits per second should be used with a Token Ring interface on the IPS. (Overall performance depends on network traffic and job density.)

This configuration requires a Host Channel Unit (HCU) to interface between the host channel and the IPS controller.

Figure 1-1. 4050/4090 IPS: channel-attached configuration

IBM Host

1 Host system (PC or mainframe) 2 4050 or 4090 IPS printer 3 Printer interface cable 4 Printer Controller 5 SCSI interface 6 Host Channel Unit (HCU) 7 Bus and tag cables

TCP/IP configuration If you are using Token Ring or Ethernet with TCP/IP, as shown in

figure 1-2, the bus and tag cables and the HCU are not required.

Figure 1-2. 4050/4090 IPS: TCP/IP configuration

1 Host system (PC or mainframe) 2 Token Ring or Ethernet network connection 3 Printer Controller 4 Printer interface cable 5 4050 or 4090 IPS printer

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IPDS data stream

All IPDS resources (print data sets, page definitions, form definitions, page segments, fonts, and overlays) supported by the IBM 3825 and 3827 printers are supported by the Xerox IPS software. Additionally, there are several data towers supported within the AFP environment which are fully supported by the IPS software, to a level supported by the IBM 3825 and IBM 3827 printer capabilities:

• IM Image IMD1

• FOCA: Font Object Content Architecture

• MO:DCA-P: Mixed Object Document Content Architecture for

Presentation

• PTOCA PT1, PT2, and PT3: Presentation Text Object Content

Architecture

• IOCA: Image Object Content Architecture

• GOCA: Graphics Object Content Architecture

• BCOCA: Bar code Object Content Architecture

• OL1: Overlay One

• PS1: Page Segment One

Dual Mode

• Line mode data streams

Each of the data objects follow the same object rule of containing delimiting fields with structured fields describing each object.

Xerox DocuPrint Dual Mode option enables both DocuPrint NPS and IPS systems to coexist on the same Printer Controller (Sun workstation). This allows the DocuPrint system to receive data streams supported by NPS and IPS, including IPDS, PostScript Levels 1 and 2, HP PCL5c, HP PCL5e, and ASCII.

Either of the following types of configurations may be used:

• The same Token Ring or Ethernet connection can be used for

both IPDS (IPS) and Postscript/PCL (NPS).

• Both a Token Ring card and an Ethernet card can reside in the

Sun workstation controller, with one being used for IPDS and the other for PostScript/PCL.

• Bus and tag attachment through the HCU can be used for

IPDS, and Token Ring or Ethernet connection for the NPS.

When the DocuPrint system is in IPS mode, it can accept PostScript and PCL data streams in the background; however, it can print these jobs only after it is switched to NPS mode. However, when the system is in NPS mode, it cannot accept IPDS data streams in the background.

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4050/4090 IPS hardware features

The 4050 and 4090 IPS provide numerous features that can be enabled or configured using the graphical user interface on the printer controller.

Multiple input trays

Two addressable input trays are standard with the printing system. Two additional feeder trays are available as options. These trays can be used to configure print jobs in the most effective manner. For example, the trays can be used to provide nonstop printing of a complex job that requires multiple paper stocks, or only a few paper stocks, but using the continuous loading capability of the input trays. A different tray can also be selected for each copy of a specific page in a print job; for example, to provide different paper colors for specific pages.

Feeder tray capacities, based on 20-pound or 80 gsm (grams per square meter) bond, are:

• Tray 1: 1000 sheets

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Advanced paper handling

• Tray 2: 500 sheets

• High-capacity feeder trays (3 and 4): 1000 sheets each.

The DocuPrint 4050/4090 IPS can handle paper stocks ranging in size from 8.5 by 11 inches / 216 by 279 mm to 8.5 by 14 inches / 216 by 356 mm, including A4, and in weight from 20-pound or 80 gsm bond to 110-pound / 200 gsm index. Jobs can also be printed on special stocks such as labels and transparencies.

The printer engine monitors the print job so that, should a paper jam occur, the job resumes on the correct page, providing complete document integrity.

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300 dpi resolution

Multiple output trays/bins

The DocuPrint 4050/4090 IPS provides high print quality at 300 dpi resolution. It can receive data at 240 or 300 dpi; The controller coverts 240 data to 300.

Caution: The DocuPrint 4050/4090 IPS must be configured to the same font resolution as the host input data stream (refer to your

Xerox DocuPrint 4050/4090 IPS Guide to Configuring and Managing the System for instructions on configuring for the correct input

resolution). Conflicts between the input font resolution and the IPS configuration could result in inability to print the job, or in missing variable data in the output.

Better print quality is usually achieved if you convert all 240 dpi and 300 dpi fonts and other resources to 300 dpi before printing, rather than leaving the conversion for the controller to do. However, you should always run test prints to validate your particular application.

Your 4050/4090 IPS is available with one of two stacker types: a dual stacker, with two output trays, or a stitcher/stacker which can offset and/or place a wire stitch in sets of up to 50 sheets.

Output tray capacities, based on 20-pound or 80 gsm stock:

• Dual stacker trays 1 and 2: 720 sheets each

• Stitcher/stacker: 2000 sheets.

Note: The equivalent grams per square meter of 20-pound paper is actually 75 gsm. However, there is no standard 75 gsm paper — the available stock that is closest in weight to 20-pound paper is 80 gsm.

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User interface

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The IPS full-color graphical user interface provides an easy-to-use, mouse-driven interface to the IPS. Using the graphical screens, you can configure your system; perform diagnostic and administrative tasks; and set up, change, and implement system options.

The IPS main window displays the current system status, as well as the current printer settings, including the current input and output tray configurations. From the IPS main window you access the various menus and windows you use to change the system settings and perform diagnostic and administrative tasks. Refer the “User interface” chapter in this guide for further information on the IPS graphical user interface.

Figure 1-3. IPS main window

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Software features

Mixed paper sizes within a job

The following special IPS software features increase system flexibility.

Note: Additional features are as follows:

• Enhanced N-Up (For information, refer to Dash 11.)

• Trace facility enhancements (For information, refer to Dash 11.)

• Remote diagnostics (For information, refer to the section “Sixth

Sense Technology” in this chapter.)

• Background color for OCA colors (For information, refer to Dash

11.)

The IPS can print jobs that call for a mix of paper sizes, without needing to interrupt or slow down printing.

An example of such an application would be a multi-page billing statement consisting of:

• One or more 8 1/2 by 11-inch sheets itemizing charges, and

• A final 8 1/2 by 14-inch page containing the rest of the billing

items, the total amount due, and a tear-off section to mail back with payment.

Note: When a print job calls for paper sizes that span over different pitch modes, the software will either cycle down or run at a lower pitch mode, based on the different pitch modes required, the paper sizes called for, the speed of the printer, and the time it takes to shut down the printer.

Note: Paper size and printer trays cannot be changed while the job is running.

Note: Mixed paper sizes are not supported for stitching. If your system has a stitcher/stacker, the printer cycles down if it detects any specification for stitching different sized papers.

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Tray selection capabilities

Output tray With the output bin selection capability you can select a different

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You can select a different input tray or output bin for each job. You can also select a different input tray for each page of a job.

Input tray With the input tray selection capability at the Copy Subgroup level,

you can select a different input tray for each copy of a page of a job. You can use this capability to print each page of a multiple-part form on a different color paper stock, or to print the cover of a job on a card stock and to print specific pages within the job on a different color stock.

To specify a different input tray for each job, use the BIN command in the SUBGROUP level of the COPYGROUP in the FORMDEF.

output bin group for each print job. This selection requires two steps:

1. At the host, set the JCL keyword OUTBIN in the OUTPUT statement to specify a bin number from 1 to 65535, or use the OUTBIN command in the FORMDEF to specify a bin number from 1 to 255.

2. At the graphical user interface, use the Output Configuration window to group the trays. You must also select Allow Host Control from the Bin Selection Mode pull-down menu.

IOCA Replicate and Trim

The IPS also supports Replicate and Trim, which improves the processing of IM and IO images that contain large areas of shaded graphics. (IM images are resolution-dependent images that cannot be compressed or scaled; IO images are resolution-independent.)

The IOCA Replicate and Trim capability allows for faster transmission to the printer of AFP applications with IM images that have large or widespread shaded areas. It also reduces the storage area required on the host and on the printer.

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