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, Phaser

, PhaserShare

, the TekColor logo, ColorStix

, ColorCoat

, and Made For Each Other

are registered trademarks of Tektronix, Inc. Finepoint™, PhaserLink™, PhaserPrint™, the TekColor name, and PhaserSym™ are trademarks of Tektronix, Inc.

Adobe

Apple

and PostScript

, AppleTalk

are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

, LocalTalk

, EtherTalk

, TokenTalk

, and Macintosh

are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.

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SPARC

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Inc., licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Tektronix Phaser 840, Phaser 740, Phaser 780, and Phaser 360 printers are certiﬁed as NetWare print server devices, on both 3.12 and 4.1 NetWare systems. NetWare NDS is certiﬁed on 4.1

NetWare systems. Bindery mode is also certiﬁed to comply on both 3.12 and 4.1 x

NetWare systems.

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may not match PANTONE-identiﬁed solid color standards. Use current PANTONE Color Reference Manuals

for accurate colors.

PANTONE Color simulations are only obtainable on these products when driven by qualiﬁed Pantone-licensed software packages. Contact Pantone, Inc. for a current list of qualiﬁed licensees.

Pantone, Inc.’s check-standard trademark for color reproduction and color reproduction materials.

1 Network Printing with Tektronix Color Printers

Key components for networking Tektronix color printers 1 Network installation overview 6 The printer’s Configuration Page 6 How to tell which protocols are enabled 8 The printer’s networking software 8 Support for DOS systems 10 Tektronix PhaserPrint for UNIX software 10

2 PhaserShare Series B Network Interfaces

PhaserShare Series B Ethernet interface 11 PhaserShare Series B Token Ring card 14 PhaserShare Series B LocalTalk card 22

3 EtherTalk, LocalTalk, and TokenTalk Configuration

Before you begin 25 Configuration overview 25 Finding the printer’s name in the Chooser 26 Changing the printer’s name (optional) 27 Changing the printer’s EtherTalk/TokenTalk zone (optional) 29 Troubleshooting 30

4 Novell NetWare Configuration

The printer’s NetWare interface 31 Before beginning the configuration procedure 32 Configuration software for NetWare 33 NetWare configuration for Windows environments 33 Troubleshooting Windows configurations 36 Setting IPX frame types from the front panel 40

5 PhaserShare Administrator Software for NetWare Networks

Introduction to the PhaserShare Administrator 43 NetWare configuration with the PhaserShare Administrator 44 Installation 44 Using the PhaserShare Administrator 46 PhaserShare Administrator on-line help 50

6 TCP/IP Configuration Overview

Before you begin 52 Extracting files from unix.tar 52 Printing the Configuration Page 52 TCP/IP configuration overview 53

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7 TCP/IP Printer Configuration (All Platforms)

Setting the printer’s IP addressing parameters 55 General information on setting IP parameters (front panel) 57 Setting IP parameters: Phaser 840 printer front panel 57 Setting IP parameters: Phaser 740 printer front panel 58 Setting IP parameters: Phaser 780 printer front panel 60 Setting IP parameters: Phaser 360 printer front panel 63 Setting IP parameters: RARP or BOOTP 65 Setting IP parameters: DHCP 66 Supported BOOTP/DHCP fields 68 Enabling and disabling RARP and BOOTP/DHCP (front panel) 69 Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software 73 Controlling host access 76 Receiving printer status 79

8 TCP/IP Host Configuration (UNIX)

Configuring a host 83 Troubleshooting 94

9 TCP/IP Configuration (OS/2 Warp/LAN Server)

Setting the printer’s IP addressing parameters 95 Creating an LPR queue in OS/2 Warp Connect (direct LPR connection to the printer) 96 OS/2 client-to-server setup 97 Warp Server 4.0/Warp Connect 98

10 Windows NT

Setting the printer’s IP address 99 Adding the Windows NT 4.0 driver on a Windows NT 4.0 server or workstation 99 Adding the Windows NT 4.0 driver on a Windows NT 3.51 server 104 Adding a Windows NT 3.x driver 109 Windows NT network communication 112 Windows NT network troubleshooting 113

11 Windows 95 and Windows 98: PhaserPort Software

TCP/IP configuration for the PC 117 Setting the printer’s IP address 117 PhaserPort software installation 118 Adding a port for a new printer 120 Adding a port to an existing printer 120 Changing a port’s IP address 121

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12 PhaserLink Printer Management Software

System requirements 123 Multiple language support 123 Accessing printer information from a browser 124 Printer information pages 124 Printer status display 126 PhaserLink Printer Management Software help files 127 Setting printer parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software pages 128 Information Forwarding 128

13 Printer Management

Job accounting 129 PhaserLink PDF Direct Printing 130 Phaser 840 Intelligent Ready 131 PhaserLink Status Notification (Email Notification) 132 Usage Profile reports (Phaser 840, 740 and 780 printers only) 133 Printing Usage Profile reports from the front panel 134 Printing verbose Usage Profile reports from the front panel 135 Printing Usage Profile reports from PhaserLink Printer Management Software 136 Sending Usage Profile reports via email from the front panel 136 Sending Usage Profile reports via email: PhaserLink Printer Management Software 138 Controlling Usage Profile email reporting 139 Email to Tektronix 140 Reading Usage Profile reports 141 Report fields 142 Logs 147

14 Getting Help

If you need help from Tektronix 155 Using the automated fax systems 157 Receiving email update notices 158

15 Disabling Protocols

Disabling protocols: front panel 160 If the front panel is locked 167 Disabling protocols: PhaserShare Administrator 168 Disabling protocols: PhaserLink Printer Management Software 168

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16 Resetting the Printer

Resetting the printer: PhaserLink Printer Management Software 169 Resetting your printer using the Apple Printer Utility 170

17 FTP Interface

Index

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Chapter

Network Printing with Tektronix Color Printers

This manual provides information for system administrators and others who need to install Tektronix Phaser 840, Phaser 740, Phaser 780, and Phaser 360 printers equipped with PhaserShare Series B network interfaces.

Before using this manual, unpack and set up your printer. Install the

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appropriate drivers on any PC and Macintosh computers on your network. Instructions for unpacking, set-up, and installation are contained in your printer’s user documentation.

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After your printer is set up, use this manual in conjunction with your printer’s PhaserShare Administrator or PhaserLink Printer Management Software to conﬁgure the printer on the network.

This manual covers the following hardware and software versions:

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PhaserShare Series B interfaces

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PhaserShare Administrator version 3.9

Key components for networking Tektronix color printers

The following items are key components for networking your Tektronix printer:

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PhaserShare Series B network interface. This brings ease-of-use, superb

shareability and broad compatibility to Tektronix Phaser color printers. For more information, see “PhaserShare Series B network interface” on page 2.

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PhaserShare Administrator software. PhaserShare Administrator

software makes it easy to install, conﬁgure, and manage Phaser printers on a NetWare network. For more information, see Chapter 5, “PhaserShare Administrator Software for NetWare Networks”.

PhaserLink Printer Management Software. PhaserLink Printer

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Management Software is internal printer software that provides printer status and supports printer management through a World Wide Web browser. For more information, see Chapter 12, “PhaserLink Printer Management Software”.

PhaserPrint for UNIX software. PhaserPrint for UNIX software provides a

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driver with push-button control of printer features and fast raster ﬁle printing capability from UNIX workstations. For more information, see “Tektronix PhaserPrint for UNIX software” on page 10.

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PhaserShare Series B network interface

The Phaser 840, 740, 780, and 360 printers support the PhaserShare Series B network interface. These printers are equipped with a built-in PhaserShare Series B network interface with a 10BaseT Ethernet connector. This printer can be equipped with these optional PhaserShare Series B network cards:

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PhaserShare Series B Fast Ethernet card. This card is equipped with a

combined 10BaseT and 100BaseTx connector and a 10Base2 (BNC) connector. The combined 10BaseT/100BaseTx connector can be connected to either a 10BaseT or 100BaseTx network, and it will automatically adjust to the correct data rate using a process called auto-negotiation . If no connection is made to the 10BaseT/100BaseTx connector, the card is prepared to communicate using the 10Base2 connector.

PhaserShare Series B Token Ring card. This card is equipped with STP

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(Shielded Twisted Pair) and UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair) connectors. Only one connector at a time can be used.

PhaserShare cards

PhaserShare Series B LocalTalk card (AppleTalk).

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PhaserShare network cards can be purchased initially with the printer as options or added later as upgrade kits. A printer can have only one card at a time installed. When a PhaserShare Series B Fast Ethernet or Token Ring card is installed, the standard 10BaseT connector on the printer’s rear panel is disabled. The card and the printer’s standard parallel port can be simultaneously active. All network protocols can be simultaneously active.

PhaserShare cards work with the following printers: Phaser 380, 350, 340, 560, 550, 540, and 600. PhaserShare cards enable you to use your printer with Ethernet, Token Ring, LocalTalk, or serial connections. PhaserShare cards can be purchased initially with the printer as options or added later as upgrade kits.

A printer can have only one PhaserShare card installed at a time. When a PhaserShare card is installed, all ports on the card and the printer’s standard parallel port can be simultaneously active. Also, all network protocols can be simultaneously active.

For information on networking printers with PhaserShare cards, refer to the

PhaserShare Networking System Administrator Manual , part number 070-9789-00.

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Recognizing PhaserShare Series B interfaces and earlier PhaserShare cards

On your network, you may have some Tektronix printers equipped with PhaserShare Series B interfaces and other Tektronix printers equipped with earlier PhaserShare cards. Printers equipped with earlier PhaserShare cards are supported differently in printer management software such as the PhaserShare Administrator and PhaserLink Printer Management Software. There are several ways to determine if the printer is equipped with a PhaserShare Series B interface or an earlier PhaserShare card:

Printer model. PhaserShare Series B cards work with Phaser 840, 740, 780,

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and 360 printers. PhaserShare cards work with the following printers: Phaser 380, 350, 340, 560, 550, 540, and 600.

Card rear panel. The cards are labeled on the rear panel.

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The printer’s Conﬁguration Page. For Series B interfaces, Series B

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appears following the Network Information area on the printer’s Conﬁguration Page. If an earlier PhaserShare card is installed, the printer’s Conﬁguration Page reports the type of card installed in the PhaserShare ﬁeld.

The printer’s Startup Page. For Series B interfaces, Series B appears in the

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Ethernet , Token Ring , or LocalTalk ﬁelds on the printer’s Startup Page. If

a PhaserShare card is installed, the printer’s Startup Page reports the available connections in the Ports ﬁeld.

PhaserLink Printer Management Software. If the Adobe PostScript ﬁeld

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reads Adobe PostScript Level 3 Version , the interface is Series B. If the ﬁeld reads Adobe PostScript Level 2 Version , the printer supports PhaserShare network cards (not Series B). The Adobe PostScript ﬁeld is on the View Printer Information page or on the View and Conﬁgure General

Settings page, depending on the printer type. Links to these pages can be

accessed by clicking the Conﬁguration link. For more information on PhaserLink Printer Management Software, see Chapter 12, “PhaserLink Printer Management Software”.

PhaserShare Administrator. In the PhaserShare Administrator, Series B

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interfaces are identiﬁed in the Ethernet or Token Ring tabs, where Series B is displayed in the Interface Information area. For more information on the PhaserShare Administrator, see Chapter 5, “PhaserShare Administrator Software for NetWare Networks”.

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Environments supported

Tektronix Phaser printers are compatible with mixed PC, Macintosh, and UNIX environments. The printer automatically switches between the printer’s ports and network protocols to service all computers on the network.

Phaser printers are compatible with nearly all PC client/server environments. The printer’s Ethernet and Token Ring network interfaces are compatible with the following:

NetWare servers via the IPX (Internet Packet Exchange) protocol

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Windows NT servers over TCP/IP or EtherTalk protocols

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LANServer 4.0 servers via TCP/IP

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UNIX workstation via TCP/IP

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Macintosh computers via AppleTalk (LocalTalk, EtherTalk and TokenTalk).

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Windows 98

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Windows 95

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Supported PC platforms

Any PC in the server environments listed in the previous topic, “Environments supported,” can print over the network to a Phaser printer, including the following:

Windows 98

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Windows 95

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Windows 3.1

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Windows NT

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Windows for Workgroups

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OS/2 Warp

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■ DOS

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Phaser printers are compatible with Banyan Vines and Microsoft LAN Manager servers; however, third-party interfaces are required. Contact Tektronix Technical Support for more information (see Chapter 14, “Getting Help”).

Workstations

UNIX

Macintosh

Windows 95

(peer - to - peer)

Clients

Windows 95 Windows 3.1 Windows NT Windows for Workgroups OS/2 Warp DOS

Server

Novell NetWare (IPX)

Windows NT (EtherTalk

or TCP/IP)

LAN Server 4.0 (TCIP/IP)

UNIX (TCP/IP)

Phaser Color Printer

With PhaserShare Ethernet or Token Ring interface

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Network installation overview

Step 1 Unpack and set up

the printer.

Step 2 Install the network

card in the printer.

Step 3 Network

conﬁguration.

This step must be done before attempting to conﬁgure the printer on a network. Printer setup includes installing ink or toner, loading paper tra ys , and turning on the printer. See your printer’s user documentation for information about printer setup.

This step is necessary if the printer is to be equipped with an optional network card. It is not necessary when using the printer’s built-in Ethernet connector. This step is done at the factory when a network card is purchased initially with your printer.

When a network card is purchased later as an upgrade kit, follow the installation instructions included with the card.

Information on physically connecting the printer to networks is provided in this manual:

For Ethernet, see “PhaserShare Series B Ethernet interface” on page 11. For Token Ring, see “PhaserShare Series B Token Ring card” on page 14. For LocalTalk, see “PhaserShare Series B LocalTalk card” on page 22. For LocalTalk, EtherTalk, or TokenTalk, see Chapter 3, “EtherTalk, LocalTalk,

and T ok enTalk Conﬁguration”.

For NetWare, see Chapter 4, “Novell NetWare Conﬁguration”. For TCP/IP, see:

Chapter 6, “TCP/IP Conﬁguration Overview”. Chapter 7, “TCP/IP Printer Conﬁguration (All Platforms)”. Chapter 8, “TCP/IP Host Conﬁguration (UNIX)”. Chapter 9, “TCP/IP Conﬁguration (OS/2 Warp/LAN Server)” Chapter 11, “Windows 95 and Windows 98: PhaserPort Software”.

For Windows NT, see Chapter 10, “Windows NT”.

The printer’s Conﬁguration Page

Your printer can generate a Conﬁguration Page that lists the following information:

■ General printer information, including TekColor settings

■ Communication and network parameters for all ports

■ SCSI disk settings (if the printer has a SCSI port)

The information supplied on the Conﬁguration Page is helpful when you are installing and conﬁguring the printer on a network. There are two ways to print the Conﬁguration Page:

■ Use the printer’s front panel. You can easily print the Conﬁguration Page

from the printer’s front panel. Use this method if your printer is not yet conﬁgured on the network. Refer to:

■ “Printing a Conﬁguration Page: Phaser 840 front panel” on page 7.

■ “Printing a Conﬁguration Page: Phaser 740 and 360 front panels” on

page 7.

■ “Printing a Conﬁguration Page: Phaser 780 front panel” on page 7.

■ Use PhaserLink Printer Management Software. With a TCP/IP

connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use PhaserLink Printer Management Software; see “Printing a Conﬁguration Page: PhaserLink Printer Management Software” on page 7.

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Printing a Conﬁguration Page: Phaser 840 front panel

When the front panel displays READY TO PRINT, press the down-arrow button until Menu is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the down-arrow button until Printer Configuration is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the down-arrow button until Print Configuration Page is highlighted. Press Select.

Printing a Conﬁguration Page: Phaser 740 and 360 front panels

While Ready is displayed, press Menu; the printer displays the ﬁrst item in the menu:

Help Pages <---- ----> Menu

Press Menu to access the Help Pages; the following message appears:

Menu Map <---- ----> Print

Press <---- or ----> until the following message appears:

Configuration Page <---- ----> Print

Press Print.

Printing a Conﬁguration Page: Phaser 780 front panel

While Ready is displayed, press Select; the Printer menu is displayed:

Printer Menu Help Pages Menu

Press Menu; the Help Pages menu is displayed:

Help Pages Configuration Page Print

Press Print.

Printing a Conﬁguration Page: PhaserLink Printer Management Software

From the printer’s home page, click Conﬁguration; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Settings page, select Conﬁguration Page from the pull-down list. Click Print.

For more information on PhaserLink Printer Management Software, see Chapter 12, “PhaserLink Printer Management Software”.

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How to tell which protocols are enabled

All protocols can be enabled and disabled. The Conﬁguration Page reports which protocols are enabled. If a protocol is enabled, the field for that protocol lists the current parameters. If the protocol is disabled, the field for that protocol contains an entry reading Disabled.

The printer’s networking software

The printer is shipped with a software CD-ROM, which contains software that you may need to install your printer on a network. The CD-ROM also contains on-line documentation, printer drivers, and other printer software. A single integrated installer is used to install printer drivers and other software.

Obtaining networking software for Phaser 840, 740, and 780 printers

You obtain the networking software from the CD-ROM by running the installer:

Insert the printer’s software CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.

■ If the Windows autorun feature is enabled, the CD-ROM launches

automatically.

■ If the Windows autorun feature is disabled, double-click My

Computer, then double click the CD icon to launch the CD-ROM.

View the brief introductory information, then click Install Drivers to launch the installer.

When you are prompted to select Easy Install or Custom Install, select Custom Install.

In the Custom Install dialog box, check the box for Network Utilities.

If you are running the installer on a computer that has NetWare software installed, you can also check the boxes to install the PhaserShare Administrator software. For more information on the PhaserShare Administrator software, see Chapter 5, “PhaserShare Administrator Software for NetWare Networks”.

To complete the installation, follow the on-screen prompts.

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Obtaining networking software for Phaser 360 printers

You obtain the networking software from the CD-ROM by running the installer:

Locate and run the installer on the printer’s CD-ROM. On a PC, the ﬁle is SETUP.EXE; on a Macintosh, it is Phaser 360 Installer.

When you are prompted to select Easy Install or Custom Install, select Custom Install.

In the Custom Install dialog box, check the box for Network Utilities.

To complete the installation, follow the on-screen prompts.

Network administration software

The following table lists the network administration software according to environment (network protocol, platform, and printer).

Network administration software

Environment Software

NetWare; Windows 95, Windows NT, and Windows 3.1

TCP/IP; Windows 95 and Windows 3.1

TCP/IP; Windows NT Printer conﬁguration: PhaserLink Printer Management Software (PhaserLink

AppleTalk; Macintosh 7.x and 8.x

TCP/IP; UNIX Printer conﬁguration: PhaserLink Printer Management Software (If using

Network queue conﬁguration: PhaserShare Administrator (Novell PCONSOLE and NWAdmin can also be used.)

Printer conﬁguration: PhaserShare Administrator (Over TCP/IP, PhaserLink Printer Management Software can also be used; Novell’s PCONSOLE and NWAdmin cannot conﬁgure the PhaserShare network interface.)

Printer status monitoring: Windows Print Monitor (over TCP/IP, PhaserLink Printer Management Software can also be used; PhaserLink Printer Management Software provides status on additional Tektronix printer features.)

Printer conﬁguration: PhaserLink Printer Management Software Printer status monitoring: PhaserLink Printer Management Software

Printer Management Software does not set up queues on the print server.)

Printer status monitoring: PhaserLink Printer Management Software Printer conﬁguration: PhaserLink Printer Management Software (MacTCP or

Open T r ansport required) Printer status monitoring: PhaserLink Printer Management Software (MacTCP

or Open Transport required)

PhaserPrint for UNIX for printing, use PhaserPrint to set up print queues.) Printer status monitoring: PhaserLink Printer Management Software

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Support for DOS systems

For information on installing Tektronix printers in DOS environments, see the printer’s CD-ROM. They contain PostScript utility ﬁles that can be sent to the printer for network conﬁguration in DOS environments. They also contain a DOS application, NWSET, for printer conﬁguration on NetWare networks.

For information on how to use the DOS conﬁguration ﬁles, see the README ﬁles on the printer’s CD-ROM. PC users will ﬁnd the README ﬁle for the PostScript utility ﬁles in the UTILS directory; the README ﬁle for NWSET is in the NETWARE directory. (Macintosh users will ﬁnd the ReadMe ﬁle for the PostScript utility ﬁles in the Network Utilities folder).

Tektronix PhaserPrint for UNIX software

For UNIX environments, Tektronix offers PhaserPrint software. PhaserPrint for UNIX provides fast raster screen copy printing to Tektronix color printers. PhaserPrint for UNIX also provides a graphical user interface for push-button control of Tektronix printer features.

PhaserPrint for UNIX is available for these workstations:

■ Sun: SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.3 and 2.4

■ SGI: IRIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4

■ HP 9000 700/800: HP-UX 9.0.5 and 10.2

■ IBM RS/6000: AIX 3.2 and 4.2

■ DECstation: ULTRIX 4.0 and 4.4

■ DEC Alpha AXP: OSF/1 3.0, 3.2, and Digital UNIX 4.0

PhaserPrint for UNIX works with the workstation’s native spooling system to print PostScript ﬁles and raster ﬁles in these formats: Sun Raster Format (SRF), xwd, SGI RGB, HP Starbase, TIFF, PBM, GIF, PCX, and BMP.

Your printer’s CD-ROM contains a demonstration copy of PhaserPrint for UNIX and an on-line instruction guide in the unix/unixdemo directory. You can also obtain a demonstration copy at this Tektronix site:

ftp.tek.com/cpid/UNIX/phaserprint2.1/demo

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PhaserShare Series B Network Interfaces

PhaserShare Series B network cards work with the Phaser 840, 740, 780, and 360 printers. Printers that work with PhaserShare Series B network cards have a built-in PhaserShare Series B Ethernet interface on the rear panel. Earlier printers (Phaser 380, 350, 340, 560, 550, 540, and 600) may be equipped with earlier PhaserShare network cards; these printers have no built-in network connections on the rear panel. If you are not sure which network interface your printer has, see “Recognizing PhaserShare Series B interfaces and earlier PhaserShare cards” on page 3.

This chapter provides information on connecting PhaserShare Series B interfaces to the network; for information on installing PhaserShare Series B network cards, see the instruction sheet that is shipped with each card.

PhaserShare Series B Ethernet interface

Ethernet is a communication standard that supports very high speed data transmission. Ethernet offers signiﬁcant speed improvement compared to serial, parallel, and LocalTalk connections. Speed improvement varies greatly depending on network trafﬁc, computer hardware, and other factors.

The PhaserShare Series B Ethernet interface conforms to the IEEE 802.3 and Ethernet II standards. With the printer’s built-in Ethernet interface, you can connect the printer directly to an Ethernet network using twisted pair (10BaseT) cables. With the PhaserShare Series B Ethernet card, you can connect the printer directly to an Ethernet network using twisted pair (10BaseT or 100BaseTx) or thin coax (10Base2) cables. Connecting the printer using thick coax (10Base5) requires an adapter; contact your dealer to obtain adapters, cables, and terminators.

When a PhaserShare Series B Ethernet card is installed, the built-in Ethernet connector is disabled; use the connectors on the card.

When a PhaserShare Series B card is purchased initially with the printer, it is installed at the factory. When a PhaserShare Series B card is purchased later as an upgrade kit, follow the instructions that are shipped with the card.

C A U T I O

To avoid damaging the network interface, turn off the printer before making any Ethernet connections.

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Ethernet connections and indicators

The printer’s built-in Ethernet connector

The printer’s built-in Ethernet connector has the following connections and indicators:

LINK indicator (Phaser 360 only); on indicates a working connection to a hub, off indicates no connection to a hub.

RCV indicator (green); blinks while the network interface is receiving.

XMT indicator (yellow); blinks while the network interface is transmitting.

Twisted pair (10BaseT) connector.

RCV XMT

LNK

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PhaserShare Series B Ethernet card

The PhaserShare Series B Ethernet card has the following connections and indicators:

TX indicator (yellow); blinks while the network interface is transmitting.

RX Link indicator (green); blinks while the network interface is receiving.

Speed indicator (yellow); on indicates 100 Mbps, off indicates 10 Mbps.

Twisted pair connection indicator; on indicates a working connection to a hub, off indicates no connection to a hub. If the 10Base2 connector (6) is used, this indicator is off.

Twisted pair (10BaseT or 100BaseTx) connector.

Thin coax (10Base2) connector.

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Ethernet cables and termination

N O T

To fully comply with EMI speciﬁcations, the use of shielded or screened cables may be required. “Shielded” describes IBM-deﬁned cables used with the DB-9 connector. “Screened” describes cables that are electrically similar to Category 4 UTP, but with an added shield or screen.

10BaseT or 100BaseTx (Twisted Pair)

100BaseTx requires Category 5 (100-Ohm UTP) cabling.

The Ethernet standard does not allow a direct 10BaseT connection between a single computer and a single printer. Use 10Base2 (Thin Ethernet) to connect a single computer to a single printer.

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C A U T I O

Do not use “silver satin” telephone e xtension cables f or 10BaseT networks, either as drop cords or as patch cables in the wiring closet. (Silver satin cables are ﬂat, usually silver or gray, with 28-gauge stranded or tinsel conductors.) Do not use shielded twisted pair cable intended for IBM Token Ring networks or voice-grade (level 1 or 2) unshielded twisted pair cable for wiring runs. These cables do not

meet the requirements for 10BaseT and will lead to unreliable operation.

10Base2 (Thin Ethernet)

Depending on the type of Ethernet cables you use and your network conﬁguration, you may need to use terminators at certain points in the installation. Refer to the manufacturer’s documentation for your Ethernet adapters and cables for details.

10Base5 (Thick Ethernet)

Connecting the printer using thick coax (10Base5) requires an adapter; contact your dealer to obtain adapters, cables, and terminators.

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PhaserShare Series B Token Ring card

The PhaserShare Series B Token Ring port conforms to the IEEE 802.5 standard. With the PhaserShare Series B Token Ring card, you can connect the printer directly to a Token Ring network using shielded twisted pair (STP; IBM Type 1) or unshielded twisted pair (UTP; IBM Type 3) cables. Contact your dealer to obtain adapters and cables.

N O T

When a PhaserShare Series B Token Ring card is installed in the printer, the printer’s built-in Ethernet connector is disabled.

C A U T I O

To avoid damaging the network interface, turn off the printer before making any Token Ring connections.

Token Ring connections and indicators

The PhaserShare Series B Token Ring card has the following connections and indicators on the rear panel:

Shielded Twisted Pair (STP; IBM Type 1) connector (DB-9).

N O T

The STP port on the PhaserShare Token Ring card supports cable lengths up to 150 meters (492 feet) from the interface to the MAU (Medium Access Unit), including lobe and patch cables.

Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP; IBM Type 3) connector (RJ-45).

Ring speed indicator (yellow); on indicates 16 Mbps, off indicates 4 Mbps.

TX indicator (yellow); blinks while the interface is transmitting.

Connection indicator (green); on indicates that the card is asserting its ring insertion control signal.

RX indicator (green); blinks while the interface is receiving.

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Ring speed jumper

The Token Ring card is equipped with a single three-pin jumper to set the ring speed. There are two settings: 4 Mbps and 16 Mbps.

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The following illustration shows a top view of the card and the location of the jumper.

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If you received your printer with the Token Ring card already installed, you must turn off the printer and remove the card before you change the jumper setting.

Rear panel

Jumper

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Token Ring conﬁguration

You can set the Token Ring Frame Routing from the printer’s front panel. When you have the Frame Routing set, you may want to set other Token Ring parameters. See “How to conﬁgure Token Ring parameters:” on page 19. See the table “Token Ring parameters” on page 18 for a list of all settable Token Ring parameters.

Setting the Frame Routing from the Phaser 740 and 360 front panels

When the Token Ring card is installed in the printer, you can set the Frame Routing from the printer’s front panel. The choices are Transparent (no source routing) or Source Route (use source routing).

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If you are attempting to perform any front panel procedure and you don’t see the expected menu choices, the front panel may be locked. For information on how to unlock it, see “If the front panel is locked” on page 167.

Press Menu; the front panel displays Help Pages.

Press ----> or <---- until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Access the Frame Routing menu:

Press Menu until the front panel displays Token Ring.

Press Menu; the front panel displays the ﬁrst of two Frame Routing choices.

Select the desired Frame Routing: Transparent or Source Route:

Press ----> until the Frame Routing choice you want is displayed.

Press OK to enter your choice into the printer; the front panel brieﬂy displays Selected, then returns to the Token Ring display.

Return the printer to normal operation:

Press Exit until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Press Exit again.

■ If you have changed any parameters that require a printer reset to

take effect, you will be prompted to reset the printer. If you press Reset, the printer resets. If you press Resume, the front panel displays Network Settings. Press Exit; the printer returns to normal operation, but the changes you have made will not take effect until the next time the printer is reset.

■ If you have not changed any parameters that require a printer reset

to take effect, the front panel displays Ready.

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Setting Frame Routing from the Phaser 780 printer front panel

While Ready is displayed, press Select; the Printer menu is displayed:

Printer Menu Help Pages Menu

Press the left or right arrow buttons until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Printer Menu Network Settings Menu

Press Menu to enter the Network Settings menu; the front panel displays:

Network Settings Token Ring Menu

Press Menu again; the front panel displays the ﬁrst of two Frame Routing choices.

Select the desired Frame Routing: Transparent or Source Route:

Press the right arrow button until the Frame Routing choice you want is displayed.

Press Select to enter your choice into the printer; the front panel brieﬂy displays Selected, then displays the selected Frame Routing choice again.

Return the printer to normal operation:

Press Exit (the far right button) until the front panel displays:

Network Settings Token Ring Menu

Press Exit again.

■ If you have changed any parameters that require a printer reset to take

effect, you will be prompted to reset the printer. If you press Confirm, the printer resets. To return to normal operation without resetting the printer, press Exit (the far right button); Printer Menu appears on the top line of the display. Press Exit again; the printer returns to normal operation, but the changes you have made will not take effect until the next time the printer is reset.

■ If you have not changed any parameters that require a printer reset,

press Exit again; the front panel displays Ready.

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Token Ring parameters

Parameter Description Choices

Network Address Token Ring Address (by default, this is a

Speed This read-only parameter reports the ring speed

Early T ok en Release

Adapter Status This read-only parameter reports the Token Ring

bit-swapped version of the printer’s Printer ID, and it is a unique address on the network). You can supply a Locally Administered Address.

set by the jumper on the card. The printer releases the token at the end of the

last byte transmitted (not applicable at 4 Mbps).

card status. The report is in two parts, separated by a

comma:

Adapter status, Details Adapter status

Ring card.

Route Cache Size

Route Cache Timeout

Broadcast For broadcasting to all network nodes.

Unknown Route Used when the printer is searching for a route to

The number of entries in the source route table. 10 to 300.

The time in seconds that an entry remains in the source route table before being updated.

Changes the default frame type for source route broadcasts. Broadcast is ignored if Frame Routing is set to Transparent.

NOTE: Some protocols (for example, IP and ARP) always use all routes, so they are not affected by this parameter.

a speciﬁc network node. Changes the default frame type for source route broadcasts. Unknown Route is ignored if Frame Routing is set to Transparent.

NOTE: Some protocols (for example, IP and ARP) always use all routes, so they are not affected by this parameter.

reports the condition of the Token

Details

reports additional information.

Any valid Token Ring address between

40.

xx.xx.xx.xx.xx

4 Mbps or 16 Mbps.

Enabled (default) or Disabled

Adapter status:

Adapter Initializing. Card is starting up. Adaptor Open. Card is connected to the

network. Adapter Closed. Card is not connected to the

network. Adapter Fault. Card is defective.

Details:

Ring OK. Ready for network communication. Fault. Internal error; the card is defective. Cable Disconnected. Cable is not connected to

the card. Ring Error. Network problem. Removed by network management. The

network administrator has disabled the connection.

5 to 65535.

Single Route. The printer uses single-route broadcasts for most source-route broadcasts.

All Routes. The printer uses all-routes broadcasts for all broadcasts.

Single Route. The printer uses single-route broadcasts for most source-route broadcasts.

All Routes. The printer uses all-routes broadcasts for all broadcasts.

and 7F.

xx.xx.xx.xx.xx

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How to conﬁgure Token Ring parameters:

■ On UNIX systems, you can use the script conﬁg-TokenRing, provided with

the printer’s network utilities software. See the next topic, “Using the conﬁg-TokenRing script”.

■ On PCs, you can edit the PostScript utility ﬁle TOKNCFG.PS and send it to

the printer. See the README ﬁle in the UTILS directory on the printer’s CD-ROM for details.

■ On a Macintosh, you can edit the PostScript utility ﬁle Conﬁgure Token Ring

and send it to the printer. See the ReadMe ﬁle in the Network Utilities folder on the printer’s CD-ROM for details.

■ Windows users on NetWare networks can use the PhaserShare

Administrator. See “Using the PhaserShare Administrator to conﬁgure Token Ring” on page 20.

■ With a TCP/IP connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use

PhaserLink Printer Management Software. See “Using PhaserLink Printer Management Software to conﬁgure Token Ring” on page 21.

Whichever method you use, you must reset the printer to make the changes take effect. For more information, see Chapter 16, “Resetting the Printer”.

Using the

The UNIX shell script conﬁg-TokenRing is provided with the printer’s network utilities software. The script creates a PostScript ﬁle containing the Token Ring parameters. Set the Token Ring parameters by sending the PostScript ﬁle to the printer.

Before performing this procedure, you must install the script on your host computer. If you have not already installed the ﬁle, see “Extracting ﬁles from unix.tar” on page 52. Your host spooling system must also be conﬁgured; see Chapter 8, “TCP/IP Host Conﬁguration (UNIX)”.

conﬁg-TokenRing

Connect the printer to the network. ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) requires that the printer be connected on the same physical network segment as the host. You will be using the arp command later in this procedure.

Run the script conﬁg-TokenRing:

Change (cd) to the bin subdirectory in the directory where you placed your printer’s network utilities.

Type the name of the script, redirecting the output to a ﬁle. Type:

conﬁg-TokenRing > ﬁlename

script

When prompted by the script, enter the Token Ring parameters.

When the script is ﬁnished, log in as root.

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Make an entry into the host’s ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) table deﬁning the printer’s Printer Name/Token Ring address pair. In general, this requires a command corresponding to one of the following syntax examples:

See the documentation for your host system for speciﬁcs of this command.

Turn on the printer.

Use the host spooling system (for example, lpr or lp) to send the ﬁle you created in Step 3b to the printer; this stores the Token Ring information in the printer’s internal memory, where it is retained over a reset or power cycle.

You must reset the printer before the changes take effect. For more information, see Chapter 16, “Resetting the Printer”.

Using the PhaserShare Administrator to conﬁgure Token Ring

arp -s printer-name Token-Ring-address (for BSD systems)

arp -s ether printer-nam e Token-Ring-address (for System V)

In the PhaserShare Administrator Main window, select the desired printer from the Printer List.

Click Conﬁgure Printer; this displays the Conﬁgure Printer dialog box.

In the Conﬁgure Printer dialog box, click the Token Ring tab.

In the Token Ring tab, set the Token Ring parameters as desired.

Click OK.

You are prompted to reset the printer. You must reset the printer before the changes take effect. For more information, see Chapter 16, “Resetting the Printer”.

For more information on the PhaserShare Administrator, see Chapter 5, “PhaserShare Administrator Software for NetWare Networks”.

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Using PhaserLink Printer Management Software to conﬁgure Token Ring

For information on connecting to your printer via PhaserLink Printer Management Software, see “Accessing printer information from a browser” on page 124. For general information on PhaserLink Printer Management Software, see Chapter 12, “PhaserLink Printer Management Software”.

From the printer’s home page, click Conﬁguration; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Settings page.

From the View and Conﬁgure Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page.

From the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure PhaserShare Settings (Token Ring card); this displays the View and Conﬁgure PhaserShare Settings page for Token Ring.

Enter your settings into the ﬁelds for Token Ring Address, Speed, and Bridging. If you make an error, click Restore Initial Form Values and start

again.

When you are ﬁnished entering the settings, enter the Validation Password and click Do/Apply. If you are not sure of the password, contact your system administrator.

You must reset the printer before the changes take effect. For more information, see Chapter 16, “Resetting the Printer”.

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PhaserShare Series B LocalTalk card

With the PhaserShare Series B LocalTalk card, you can connect the printer to a LocalTalk network. Both the LocalTalk connection on the card and the Ethernet connector on the printer’s rear panel are simultaneously active.

LocalTalk connection

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LocalTalk is sometimes referred to as AppleTalk. LocalTalk refers to the physical connection; AppleTalk is the protocol.

You can make LocalTalk connections between the printer and a single computer or a LocalTalk network. If your LocalTalk installation is complex, or if you need assistance, contact your network system administrator.

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Connect your printer to a LocalTalk network before you turn on the printer.

The PhaserShare Series B LocalTalk card has the following connections and indicators on the rear panel:

TX indicator (yellow); blinks while the interface is transmitting.

RX indicator (green); blinks while the interface is receiving.

LocalTalk connector; 8-pin, circular DIN.

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Both indicators ﬂashing together indicates a fatal software error . Turn the printer off, then on again; if the problem persists, replace the card.

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LocalTalk Card

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LocalTalk connectors and cables

LocalTalk connectors and cables are available through your local reseller. This illustration shows two commonly used types of LocalTalk connectors:

Self-terminating connector

Connector that requires an external terminator, depending on your network conﬁguration

0180-0212

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Depending on the type of LocalTalk cables you use and your network conﬁguration, you might need to use terminators at certain points in the installation. Refer to the documentation for your LocalTalk connectors and cables for details.

Connecting to a single computer

You can use LocalTalk connectors and cables to connect the printer directly to your computer, without connecting it to any other network. To avoid damaging the network interface, turn off the printer before making any LocalTalk connections.

Connect the short cable of a LocalTalk connector to the PhaserShare LocalTalk port.

Connect the short cable of another LocalTalk connector to your computer’s LocalTalk port.

Connect a LocalTalk cable from the LocalTalk connector that you have just attached to your computer to the printer’s LocalTalk connector.

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Depending on the type of LocalTalk connectors you use and your network conﬁguration, you might need to use external terminators. Refer to the documentation for your LocalTalk connectors and cables for details.

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EtherTalk, LocalTalk, and TokenTalk Configuration

Before you begin

Before you begin the conﬁguration, complete the following steps:

■ Your printer should be set up, connected to the network, and turned on.

See your printer’s user documentation for information about setting up and turning on the printer. For information about connecting the printer to the network, see Chapter 2, “PhaserShare Series B Network Interfaces”.

■ Install the Tektronix driver for your printer on every Macintosh and PC

that will send print jobs to the printer. For details on driver installation, see your printer’s user documentation.

Conﬁguration overview

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The printer’s AppleTalk connection works with Macintosh system software, 7.0, 7.1,

7.5, 7.6, 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2.

The conﬁguration procedure for LocalTalk, EtherTalk, and TokenTalk consists of two simple steps:

Print the Conﬁguration Page. It reports the printer’s default name, which you need for EtherTalk and TokenTalk conﬁgurations. For information on printing a Conﬁguration Page, see “The printer’s Conﬁguration Page” on page 6.

Verify that the printer is in the Chooser. See “Finding the printer’s name in the Chooser” on page 26.

■ If the printer is not in the Chooser, see “Troubleshooting” on page 30.

■ If the printer is in the Chooser, you may want to change the printer’s

name or zone. See “Changing the printer’s name (optional)” on page 27 and “Changing the printer’s EtherTalk/TokenTalk zone (optional)” on page 29.

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The default language for the LocalTalk, EtherTalk, and TokenTalk ports is PostScript. Refer to your printer’s user documentation for information about changing the printer’s default language.

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Finding the printer’s name in the Chooser

From the Apple menu, select Chooser.

In the upper-left corner of the Chooser, ﬁnd the driver icon. (If the driver icon does not appear in the Chooser, install the printer driver.) Click the driver icon.

If a list of zones appears in the lower-left portion of the Chooser, select the proper zone.

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The printer’s default zone is listed on the Conﬁguration Page in the EtherTalk or TokenTalk ﬁeld. For more information on the Conﬁguration Page, see “The printer’s Conﬁguration Page” on page 6.

A list of printers appears in the right portion of the Chooser; ﬁnd your printer’s name in the list. The printer’s default name is listed on the Conﬁguration Page (see “The printer’s Conﬁguration Page” on page 6). If the name does not appear, check the cable connection between your printer and the network.

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It is possible for the Printer Name ﬁeld on the Conﬁgur ation P age to be b lank. When the printer is powered up, it uses a def ault name and then checks to see that no other printer on the network has the same name. If enough printers with the same default name are present it can take several minutes for the printer to establish a unique name. If the name ﬁeld is blank, wait a short time and reprint the Conﬁguration Page.

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Changing the printer’s name (optional)

There are three ways to change the printer’s name:

■ Use the Apple Printer Utility; see “Changing the printer’s name: Apple

Printer Utility” on page 28.

■ With a TCP/IP connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use

PhaserLink Printer Management Software; see “Changing the printer’s name: PhaserLink Printer Management Software” on page 28.

■ With a PC running Windows on a NetWare network, you can use the

PhaserShare Administrator; see “Changing the printer’s EtherTalk/TokenTalk zone (optional)” on page 29.

The name selected here prints on the Startup Page and Conﬁguration Page; the name also appears in the Chooser on a Macintosh. The name can be up to 31 characters long. It may contain any printable characters; however, the characters @ : = * are deleted from the name used on AppleTalk. A change is persistent across printer power cycles.

Notes regarding printer names

■ If you have more than one printer in the same zone and you choose a name

for one printer that is already assigned to another, the second printer registers itself on the network with the number 1 appended to the name. For example, if you attempt to assign a printer the name TekPhaser and another printer in the zone already has the same name, the printer you are naming appears on the network as TekPhaser-1.

■ The added number is recalculated each time the printer is turned on. If you

have more than one printer with the same name on the network, the printers’ names on the network depend on the order in which the printers are turned on. To avoid this confusion, it is recommended that you assign each printer on the network a unique name.

■ The added number appears in the Chooser, on the printer’s front panel,

and on the Startup Page. On the Conﬁguration Page, the name, without the characters @ : = *, and with the added number, appears in the EtherTalk,

LocalTalk, and TokenTalk areas. The Printer Name under General Information is the name as it was set, not as it appears in the Chooser.

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Changing the printer’s name:

Locate the Apple Printer Utility, included with your printer’s network utilities software.

Double-click the Apple Printer Utility icon; the Printer Selector window is displayed.

Select the zone (if applicable) and the printer. Click Open Printer; a dialog box is displayed containing Printer Information and Printer Preferences.

Click the triangle to the left of Printer Preferences. Click the triangle to the left of Name; this displays a dialog box containing a ﬁeld for the printer’s name. Enter the new name in the ﬁeld.

Click Send.

To reselect the printer with its new name, open the Chooser.

Apple Printer Utility

Changing the printer’s name: PhaserLink Printer Management Software

From the printer’s home page, click Conﬁguration; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings.

On the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure EtherTalk Settings, View and Conﬁgure LocalTalk Settings, or View and Conﬁgure TokenTalk Settings.

In the Printer Name ﬁeld, enter the desired printer name.

For more information on PhaserLink Printer Management Software, see Chapter 12, “PhaserLink Printer Management Software”.

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Changing the printer’s EtherTalk/TokenTalk zone (optional)

There are two ways to change the printer’s zone:

■ With a TCP/IP connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use

PhaserLink Printer Management Software; see “Changing the printer’s zone: PhaserLink Printer Management Software” on page 29.

■ You can also change the printer’s zone using PostScript utility ﬁles; see the

README ﬁles on the printer’s CD-ROM. The Macintosh README ﬁle is in the Network Utilities folder; the PC README ﬁle is in the UTILS directory.

Changing the printer’s zone: PhaserLink Printer Management Software

From the printer’s home page, click Conﬁguration; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page, click: View and Conﬁgure EtherTalk Settings, or View and Conﬁgure TokenTalk Settings.

In the Zone ﬁeld, enter the desired zone.

For more information on PhaserLink Printer Management Software, see Chapter 12, “PhaserLink Printer Management Software”.

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Troubleshooting

If the printer is not in the Chooser, use the following troubleshooting procedure.

Check that the Conﬁguration Page shows a printer name, a node number, and a zone.

■ If there is no node number, verify that the printer is properly cabled to

the network. Test the cable segment by plugging in a new cable segment or using the cable segment of a printer that is in the Chooser.

■ If your network uses zones, and there is no zone name on the

Conﬁguration Page, or if the Conﬁguration Page shows the wrong zone, see “Changing the printer’s EtherTalk/TokenTalk zone (optional)” on page 29.

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The printer cannot create a zone; it must already exist.

If the Conﬁguration Page shows the correct printer name, node number, and zone, and the printer is still not visible in the Chooser, check the following items:

■ If there is a Novell NetWare server on the network, verify that the

NetWare server has been conﬁgured for Phase 2 routing and addressing.

■ If there is a Windows NT server on the network, verify that the printer

has not been captured by a Windows NT machine.

■ If the printer continually reboots when connected to the network, it is

possible that a router is broadcasting a zone of *, which is an invalid zone.

■ If using QuickDraw GX, the GX drivers must be installed. If you don't

use QuickDraw GX, disable the QuickDraw GX, QuickDraw Helper, and ColorSync extensions.

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The printer’s NetWare interface

The printer’s NetWare interface supports the Print Server (PSERVER) operating mode. Under the NetWare networking model, print jobs are stored in queues (directories) on a ﬁle server. A print server takes print jobs from the queues and sends them to printers. In your Tektronix printer, the print server resides within the internal interface of the printer, so the print server and the printer are one. The printer logs in to a ﬁle server using a login connection to service speciﬁed queues.

Bindery mode and NDS (NetWare Directory Services) supported

The printer’s NetWare interface supports Bindery and NDS connection modes separately or simultaneously.

Supported NetWare versions

The printer’s NetWare interface has been tested with NetWare versions 3.12, 4.1, and

4.11. It should work with any NetWare server that uses NetWare’s QMS (Queue Management System) to manage and service print queues. These servers include 80286-, 80386-, and 80486-based servers running other versions of NetWare (for example, versions 2.15, 2.2, 3.0, 3.11, 4.0), DOS and OS/2-based systems, VMS servers, and servers running UnixWare. The PhaserShare NetWare interface is not compatible with systems running NetWare Lite.

Supported NetWare protocols

The printer’s NetWare interface supports the following NetWare protocols:

■ NCP (NetWare Core Protocol)

■ IPX (Internet Packet Exchange)

■ SPX (Sequential Packet Exchange)

■ SAP (Service Advertising Protocol)

■ RIP (Router Information Protocol)

■ NEST (Novell Embedded Systems Technology)

■ SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

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Other features

Passwords

The printer’s NetWare interface supports up to 32 queues and eight ﬁle servers in any combination when in bindery mode. No additional VAPs (Value Added Procedures), NLMs (Network Loadable Modules), or TSRs (Terminate Stay Resident programs) are required to install your Tektronix printer on the network.

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The printer’s NetWare interface supports packet signature and IPX checksum automatically, that is, the print server automatically signs packets and/or calculates checksums upon request from the ﬁle server.

If a password is used in Bindery mode, it must be set on the printer with the PhaserShare Administrator (or PhaserLink Printer Management Software) and on the ﬁle server with PCONSOLE.

If a password is used in NDS mode, it must be set on the printer with the PhaserShare Administrator (or PhaserLink Printer Management Software) and on the ﬁle server with the NWAdmin utility or PCONSOLE.

Notify lists

Use the PhaserShare Administrator to set up notify lists on NetWare 3.x servers. On NetWare 4.1, use the NWAdmin utility to set up the notify list for a printer.

Before beginning the conﬁguration procedure

Before you begin the NetWare conﬁguration, complete the following steps:

■ Set up the printer and connect it to the network. See your printer’s user

documentation for information about setting up and turning on the printer. For information about connecting the printer to the network, see Chapter 2, “PhaserShare Series B Network Interfaces”.

■ Install the Tektronix driver for your printer should be installed on every

computer that will be sending print jobs to the printer. For details on driver installation, see the printer’s user documentation.

■ To speed the setup process and avoid conﬂicts, familiarize yourself with

the components of your network. You should know which version(s) of NetWare are installed, which versions of client software are used, and the network topology (frame types, routers, hubs, and cabling).

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Windows software

■ PhaserShare Administrator (Tektronix). Use this application to conﬁgure

the printer and the network when using NetWare 3.x and 4.x.

■ NWAdmin (Novell). Use this utility to manage existing queues on

networks running NetWare 4.x in NDS mode.

DOS software

■ NWSET (Tektronix). Use this application to conﬁgure the printer with

NetWare 3.x and 4.x. For more information on NWSET, see the README ﬁle in the NETWARE directory of the printer’s or CD-ROM.

■ NWCONFIG.PS (Tektronix utility ﬁle). In DOS environments and other

non-Windows environments, you can use this to conﬁgure the printer for NetWare 4.x networks. The PostScript code contained in the ﬁle

NWCONFIG.PS is also available in a Macintosh ﬁle called Conﬁgure NetWare. For more information on NWCONFIG.PS, see the README ﬁle in the UTILS directory of the printer’s or CD-ROM. For more information on Conﬁgure NetWare, see the ReadMe ﬁle in the Network Utilities directory of

the printer’s or CD-ROM.

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■ PCONSOLE (Novell). Use this utility to manage existing queues with

NetWare 3.x and 4.x (both Bindery and NDS modes).

NetWare conﬁguration for Windows environments

This is a quick conﬁguration procedure using the Tektronix PhaserShare Administrator. For information on installing the PhaserShare Administrator, see Chapter 5, “PhaserShare Administrator Software for NetWare Networks”. For detailed information on the PhaserShare Administrator, functions, see the PhaserShare Administrator on-line help.

Printing the Conﬁguration Page

Your printer’s Conﬁguration Page reports information that you need for NetWare conﬁguration. For information on printing a Conﬁguration Page, see “The printer’s Conﬁguration Page” on page 6.

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On the printer’s Conﬁguration Page, all zeros in one or more of the IPX Networks ﬁelds indicates that the printer does not recognize the network connection; this probably indicates a faulty cable connection, an incorrect frame type, or Reply to Get Nearest Server has not been set to on. It m ust be set to on f or at least one ﬁle server or router on the same segment as the printer.

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Using the PhaserShare Administrator Quick Conﬁguration Wizard

Log on to the ﬁle server

NetWare 3.x. Log on to the default NetWare ﬁle server as SUPERVISOR or SUPERVISOR equivalent. Many of the operations performed using the PhaserShare Administrator require SUPERVISOR privileges (for example, creating queues).

NetWare 4.x. In Bindery mode, log on to the default NetWare ﬁle server as SUPERVISOR, SUPERVISOR equivalent, or ADMIN /B. Many of the operations performed using the PhaserShare Administrator require SUPERVISOR privileges (for example, creating queues).

NetWare 4.x, NDS (NetWare Directory Services) mode. Log on to the default NetWare ﬁle server as ADMIN or ADMIN equivalent. Many of the operations performed using the PhaserShare Administrator require ADMIN privileges (for example, creating queues).

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While not required, it is recommended that you log in only to the ﬁle servers to be conﬁgured with this printer.

Start the PhaserShare Administrator

To start the PhaserShare Administrator, double-click the PhaserShare Administrator icon. Refer to your Windows documentation for complete information on how to start applications. For information on installing the PhaserShare Administrator, see “Installation” on page 44.

When you start the PhaserShare Administrator, the Main window is displayed.

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Select a print server

In the Main window Printer List, click the print server name/printer name.

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If the printer does not show up in the list of available printers, there could be a network hardware problem, an incorrect frame type, or incorrect search options settings (see “Printer does not appear in the Main window printer list” on page 36).

Launch the Quick Conﬁguration Wizard

Click Quick Conﬁguration to launch the Quick Conﬁguration Wizard.

Conﬁgure the printer and set up queues

If desired, change the Print Server Name or Printer Name.

Select connection mode(s) by checking the box(es) for Bindery Services, NDS Services, or both (the Phaser 740, 780, and 360 printers support both).

Click Next. The dialogs that follow allow you to conﬁgure Bindery connections, NDS connections, or both. Supply the following information for these connections:

Information needed for Bindery connections

Select either the conﬁguration ﬁle server or the preferred ﬁle server from the drop-down list; click Next.

If the ﬁle server you want is not on the list, proceed with these steps:

Click File Servers to display the File Servers Browse dialog box.

Select the server you want. Click OK. You are returned to the File Server Selection dialog box.

Select either the conﬁguration ﬁle server or the preferred ﬁle server from the drop-down list. Click Next.

Create and select a new queue, or select an existing queue; click Finish.

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Information needed for NDS connections

■ Specify the current Directory Services Tree; (the tree where the print

server will reside).

■ Specify the current Directory Services Context. (the location in the

directory services tree where the print server will reside).

■ Create and select a new queue, or select an existing queue; click Finish.

Verify information and ﬁnish the conﬁguration

After you have entered the conﬁguration information, the Quick Conﬁguration Wizard displays the Conﬁgured Printer Information dialog box, which reports the information you have entered.

Verify that the information is correct.

■ If the information is correct, click Apply Changes.

■ If the information is not correct, click Back to return to previous dialog

boxes and correct the information. Click Next to return to the Conﬁgured Printer Information dialog box. Click Apply Changes.

■ To exit the wizard and return to the Main window without making any

changes, click Cancel.

After you click Apply Changes, the printer resets; the changes take effect when the reset is complete.

After the reset, you are prompted to print a test page. It is recommended that you print a test page to verify a successful installation.

Troubleshooting Windows conﬁgurations

Printer does not appear in the Main window printer list

Make sure that the printer is turned on and properly connected to the network. Try a different network drop or port.

Make sure that NetWare is enabled on the printer. This is reported on the printer’s Conﬁguration Page in the NetWare ﬁeld. For information on enabling and disabling protocols, see Chapter 15, “Disabling Protocols”.

If you are using bindery emulation, make sure that NDS is disabled. From the PhaserShare Administrator Print Server tab, uncheck the Directory Services checkbox.

If your network uses a router, conﬁgure the router to not suppress NetWare SAP (Service Advertising Protocol) packets or packets of the frame type the printer is using.

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Testing from the PhaserShare Administrator

The following steps provide a simple test of the Administrator:

Click Search Options.

In the Search Options dialog box, click the following radio buttons:

Sort by: Print Server Name

Select by: All Tektronix Printers

Click OK.

Look at the list of printers. If the Printer Name is listed as <Information Not Available>, the Administrator is unable to communicate with the printer using SNMP over IPX; this indicates that either the printer selected is an unsupported printer or the network conﬁguration is incorrect. If the printer is not listed, check the printer’s Conﬁguration Page for network errors.

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The PhaserShare Administrator displays an SNMP error when the client computer running the PhaserShare Administrator is not attached to a ﬁle server with the same frame type as the printer is using. The same error is displayed if a version of the PhaserShare Administrator below 3.6 is used to conﬁgure a Phaser 740, 780, or Phaser 360 printer. The Printer Not Responding dialog box is displayed with the message: This printer is not responding to SNMP queries. Please check the

printer and try again. Click OK and correct the problem.

Testing the ﬁle server-to-printer connection

First use the CAPTURE command to redirect an LPT port output to a network queue. For example:

CAPTURE NB NFF NT Q=PHASER L=1

where:

NB speciﬁes NO BANNER NFF speciﬁes NO FORM FEED NT speciﬁes NO TABS Q=PHASER speciﬁes PHASER as the queue name L=1 speciﬁes port LPT1

Use any text editor to create a two-line ASCII ﬁle with the following contents:

%! showpage

Use the COPY command to send the ﬁle to the printer. For example, if the ﬁle is called SHOWPAGE, and the printer is assigned to LPT1, type:

COPY SHOWPAGE LPT1:

If the ﬁle server-to-printer connection is functional, the printer ejects a blank page.

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Cannot submit job to a queue

Use the NWAdmin to verify that the user is a queue user.

Log in as ADMIN and launch the NWAdmin utility. Browse the directory services tree to the location of the print queue object for this printer. Double-click the print queue object to view its properties.

The identiﬁcation view is displayed by default. If it is not displayed, select it. Make sure that all of the Operator Flags at the bottom left corner of the window are checked.

Click Users; this view displays a list of queue users and queue user groups. Verify that the list of users, groups, and group memberships are correct. For more details, consult the NetWare Administrator documentation.

Click Assignment; this view displays the print servers and printers assigned to service this print queue. Assign the appropriate objects to this print queue.

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For the print server to attach and service the print queue, the print server object name in the tree must match the print server name in the printer.

Job appears in queue, but printer does not service it

Verify that the printer has been set up to service the queue.

Click Assignment; this view displays the print servers and printers assigned to service this print queue.

The Authorized print servers window and the Printers servicing print queues window should list the names of the objects linked to this print

queue. If a print server object is not linked to this print queue, create or modify a print server object and assign it to this print queue. If a printer object is not linked to this print queue, create or modify a printer object and assign it to this print queue. See the NetWare user documentation for more details.

Check that the printer was able to log in to the ﬁle server:

At the ﬁle server’s console, type:

load monitor

From the Available Options menu, select Connection Information.

If the printer has logged in, its print server name is displayed in the list. If the print server name is not on the list, continue with Steps 3 through 5.

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Verify that there was an available connection slot for the printer. Since the printer consumes a login connection, the ﬁle server may need an available connection for the printer to log in.

Verify that the password the printer saved (if one was set) is the same as the one on the ﬁle server. Mismatched passwords can result if PCONSOLE, rather than the PhaserShare Administrator, is used to set the password. Use the PhaserShare Administrator to enter a new password to ensure that they are the same. In the Print Server tab, click Set Password; this displays the Set Password dialog box. Enter the password in both ﬁelds and click OK.

Verify that the printer’s print server name matches the one in the NDS tree. The Conﬁguration Page reports the printer’s print server name. For information on printing a Conﬁguration Page, see “The printer’s Conﬁguration Page” on page 6.

Verify that the frame type the printer is using is supported by the ﬁle server. See “Printer does not appear in the Main window printer list” on page 36.

Verify that at least one ﬁle server or router on the same segment as the printer has Reply to Get Nearest Server set to on.

Job is serviced, but does not print

■ Check the PhaserShare Administrator Printer Info dialog box for reported

error conditions.

■ Download the PostScript Error Handler to the printer. For information on

using the Tektronix PostScript Error Handler, see your printer’s user documentation.

■ Use the correct Tektronix driver for your networked printer.

■ Verify that the Print Server protocol is enabled; use the printer’s front panel

or check the Administrator’s Print Server tab.

■ Banners, form feeds, and tabs may interfere with the print job.

Try disabling these from the driver/network setup.

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Setting IPX frame types from the front panel

Setting IPX frame types: Phaser 840

When the front panel displays READY TO PRINT, press the down-arrow button until Menu is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the down-arrow button until Printer Configuration is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the down-arrow button until Network Settings is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the down-arrow button until NetWare is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the down-arrow button until IPX Frame Type is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the down-arrow button until the desired frame type is highlighted. Press Select until On is displayed. If desired, you can set more than one frame type.

To return the printer to normal operation, press the down-arrow button until Exit is highlighted. Press Select.

Setting IPX frame types: Phaser 740 and Phaser 360 printer

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Enter the Network Settings menu:

Press Menu; the front panel displays Help Pages.

Press ----> or <---- until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Press Menu; the front panel displays TCP/IP.

Access the menu of frame types:

Press ----> until the front panel displays NetWare.

Press Menu; the front panel displays Enable Interface.

Press ---->; the front panel displays IPX Frame Type.

Press Menu; the front panel displays the ﬁrst in a menu of frame types.

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Enable or disable the frame type:

Press ----> until the frame type you want is displayed.

Press Menu to display the current status of the frame type: Enabled or Disabled.

Press ----> until the frame type is either Enabled or Disabled, as desired.

Press OK to enter your choice into the printer. The front panel brieﬂy displays Selected, then returns to the display of the frame type name.

You can set more than one frame type; to set other frame types, repeat Step 3.

Return the printer to normal operation:

Press Exit (the far left button) until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Press Exit again.

■ If you have changed any parameters that require a printer reset

to take effect, you are prompted to reset the printer. If you press Reset, the printer resets. If you press Resume, the front panel displays Network Settings. Press Exit (the far left button); the printer returns to normal operation, but the changes you have made do take effect until the next time the printer is reset.

■ If you have not changed any parameters that require a printer

reset to take effect, the front panel displays Ready.

Setting IPX frame types: Phaser 780 printer

Enter the Network Settings menu:

While Ready is displayed, press Select; the Printer menu is displayed:

Printer Menu Help Pages Menu

Press the left or right arrow buttons until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Printer Menu Network Settings Menu

Press Menu to enter the Network Settings menu; Network Settings appears on the top line of the display.

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Access the menu of frame types:

Press the right arrow button until the front panel displays NetWare.

Press Menu; the front panel displays Interface.

Press the right arrow button until the front panel displays IPX Frame Type.

Press Menu; the front panel displays the ﬁrst in a menu of frame types.

Enable or disable the frame type:

Press the right arrow button until the frame type you want is displayed.

Press Menu to display the current status of the frame type: On or Off.

Press the right arrow button until the frame type is either On or Off, as desired.

Press Select to enter your choice into the printer. The front panel brieﬂy displays Selected, then returns to the display of the frame type name.

Press Exit (the far right button) to return to the menu of frame types.

You can set more than one frame type; to set other frame types, repeat Step 3.

Return the printer to normal operation:

Press Exit (the far right button) until Network Settings appears on the top line of the display.

Press Exit again.

■ If you have changed any parameters that require a printer reset to take

■ If you have not changed any parameters that require a printer reset,

press Exit again; the front panel displays Ready.

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PhaserShare Administrator Software for NetWare Networks

PhaserShare Administrator software makes your Tektronix color printer easier to use in a NetWare environment. It provides network administrators with printer management capabilities, job accounting information, and conﬁguration information.

This chapter provides instructions for installing the PhaserShare Administrator. This chapter also provides basic information on how to use the PhaserShare Administrator. Chapter 4, “Novell NetWare Conﬁguration”, provides quick conﬁguration instructions. More detailed information on using the PhaserShare Administrator is available through the PhaserShare Administrator’s on-line help.

Introduction to the PhaserShare Administrator

The PhaserShare Administrator is a powerful tool for network and system administrators designed to simplify administration and make Tektronix printers easy to share. The PhaserShare Administrator’s key features are listed here:

■

Printer conﬁguration reporting.

network settings. You can remotely set the print server name, IPX frame types, and many more NetWare parameters, bringing printer control to your desktop.

■

Printer management.

management tool for network administrators. With real time printer messages and access to a remote printer control panel, administrators can resolve many printing problems without leaving their desks. By using the Notify List to send printer alerts, the network administrator is the ﬁrst to know if a printing problem exists.

■

Network conﬁguration.

driver distribution and queue management. Once you install a Tektronix printer driver on a network server, the driver is automatically available to all network users.

■

Job accounting.

individual user and job on NetWare networks.

The PhaserShare Administrator is a valuable printer

The PhaserShare Administrator supports automatic

Job accounting allows you to track printer usage by

You can control printer settings and

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NetWare conﬁguration with the PhaserShare Administrator

The PhaserShare Administrator allows you to conﬁgure and administer your Tektronix printer and the queues it services, while providing functionality not available with PCONSOLE. The PhaserShare Administrator allows you to control parameters that can be set from PCONSOLE. It also allows you to control the following printer-speciﬁc parameters not supported by PCONSOLE:

■ Printer connection type

■ Frame type

■ Queue scan interval

■ Conﬁguration ﬁle server

■ Error notiﬁcation

■ Resetting the printer (Phaser 740 and 360 printers)

■ Print server name

■ Printer login password

■ Banner printing on a per-queue basis

The PhaserShare Administrator is compatible with NetWare 3.x and 4.x.

Installation

System requirements

■ A Tektronix color printer equipped with an Ethernet card or a Token Ring

card.

■ Microsoft Windows 3.1, 3.11 (or later), Windows for Workgroups 3.11,

Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 95 installed on workstations with standard memory. The workstation must be at least an 80286 PC.

■ Novell NetWare 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x networks with shells 3.26 or above and

IPX version 3.10 or above.

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To determine your network IPX version, use the NetWare NVER command. The IPX version is not shown when using the IPXODI ? command.

■ Supervisor or equivalent permission on all NetWare 3.x ﬁle servers to be

conﬁgured.

and/or

■ Administrator or equivalent permission on all NetWare 4.x networks to be

conﬁgured.

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The installer supports the following installation methods:

■ Standard install. This is the recommended installation method; it copies

the necessary ﬁles to your workstation’s hard disk. All program features are installed automatically using standard settings.

■ Network install. This method allows you to specify a drive and directory

on a NetWare ﬁle server in which to place the ﬁles needed for the installation. You can then install the software from that directory to designated workstations using the standard install.

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The drive you specify should be a NetWare shared drive. You must have write access to the directory you specify.

Installation procedure

Installation for Phaser 840, 740, and 780 printers

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Put the printer’s software CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.

■ If the Windows autorun feature is enabled, the CD-ROM launches

automatically.

■ If the Windows autorun feature is disabled, double-click My

Computer, then double click the CD icon to launch the CD-ROM.

View the brief introductory information, then click Install Drivers to launch the installer.

When you are prompted to select Easy Install or Custom Install, select Custom Install.

During custom installation, a dialog box is displayed enabling you to install the PhaserShare Administrator. Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.

Installation for Phaser 360 printers

Locate and run the ﬁle SETUP.EXE on the printer’s CD-ROM or on printer software diskette 1.

When you are prompted to select Easy Install or Custom Install, select Custom Install.

During the custom installation, a dialog box is displayed enabling you to install the PhaserShare Administrator. Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.

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Using the PhaserShare Administrator

Launching the PhaserShare Administrator

Start Windows.

The installer places (by default) the PhaserShare Administrator icon in a folder/group called PhaserTools. To start the PhaserShare Administrator, double-click the PhaserShare Administrator icon, or start the application using one of the standard Windows methods. Refer to your Windows documentation for complete information on how to start applications.

The PhaserShare Administrator displays its Main window.

Click here to select a printer.

Click this button to control the contents of the printer list.

Click one of these buttons to perform the type of work you need to do.

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In the Printer List, locate the desired printer.

■ The Printer List displays only Tektronix printers from the NetWare ﬁle

servers that were attached when you launched the PhaserShare Administrator.

■ If the list is long, you may need to use the scroll bar to scroll through

the list and ﬁnd the printer you want.

■ The list is constructed according to the search options that are currently

active. You can control the list to display only certain types of printers based on search options that you specify. To display the Search Options dialog box, click Search Options. For more information on controlling the list with search options, see “Specifying search options: the Search Options dialog box” on page 48.

When you see the printer that you want in the list, click it to select it.

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The list is updated each time you click OK in the Search Options dialog box.

Click the button you need to perform the type of work you need to do:

■ For a quick, ﬁrst-time installation, click Quick Conﬁguration. See

Chapter 4, “Novell NetWare Conﬁguration” for more information.

■ To display job accounting information or conﬁgure settings for the

selected printer, click Conﬁgure Printer.

■ To conﬁgure NetWare ﬁle servers, queues, and the notify list for the

selected printer, click Conﬁgure Network:

■ With NetWare 3.x servers. The Conﬁgure Network button displays

the Conﬁgure Network dialog box, which is used to manage queues, the notify list, and ﬁle server connections for the selected printer.

■ With NetWare 4.x servers. The Conﬁgure Network button opens

the NWAdmin utility, if it is installed; if NWAdmin is not installed, this button is grayed-out.

■ To read detailed conﬁguration information about the selected printer,

click Printer Info.

To quit the PhaserShare Administrator, click Exit in the Main window.

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Specifying search options: the Search Options dialog box

In the Main window, click Search Options; this displays the Search Options dialog box.

If you are logged on to an NDS ﬁle server, these buttons are grayed-out:

■ File Server

■ FS/Queue

■ File Server by Print Server

■ FS/Queue by Print Server

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Choose a Select by option to limit the number of printers in the list, or choose a Sort by option to present all the printers in a particular order. Choose only one select or sort option. To select or sort the printers in the list, follow the procedures given here:

■ To select the printers in the list. In the Select by area, click the button

for the selection option that you want to use. The selection option determines which printers appear on the list in the Main window.

The ﬁeld at the bottom of the Select by area allows you to enter speciﬁc information after you have chosen a selection option. This ﬁeld functions either as a ﬁll-in ﬁeld or a pull-down menu, depending on what selection option you have chosen. For example, if you choose

Printer Name, type a printer name in the ﬁeld. If you choose File Server, the ﬁeld becomes a pull-down menu displaying the ﬁle servers

your workstation is attached to. Select a ﬁle server from the pull-down menu.

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When typing the printer name or printer model, you may end any entry with a “wild card.” Wild cards are an asterisk (*) to specify any group of characters and a question mark (?) to specify any single character.

■ To sort the printers in the list. In the Sort by area, click the button for

the sort option you want to use. The sort option determines the order in which the printers are displayed on the list in the Main window.

If you want your chosen selection or sort option to apply each time you run the PhaserShare Administrator, check the Use setting at startup checkbox. If you leave the box unchecked, the next time the Administrator is started, the settings are All Tektronix Printers and Print Server Name. When the Administrator is ﬁrst installed, the setting for Select by is Printer Name*.

To rearrange the list, click OK. To return to the Main window without rearranging the list, click Cancel.

When you select a Sort by option, the Select by option changes to All Tektronix

Printers. When you choose a Select by option, the Sort by option changes to Print Server Name.

Information Not Available in the Printer List

When using the Sort by options, some selections in the Search Options dialog box display the message Information Not Available in the printer list in the Main window. This indicates that the printer is not equipped with a PhaserShare card or is not using the PhaserShare Series B interface. The PhaserShare Administrator cannot conﬁgure these printers; use the Advanced Conﬁguration Tool supplied with your printer’s network utilities software.

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Printer Not Responding dialog box

If you click a printer name and the PhaserShare Administrator displays the Printer Not Responding dialog box, quit and restart the PhaserShare Administrator. If you

still get the same dialog box when you select the printer, there are several possible causes:

■ There is a problem with the printer, its network connection, or the PC’s

network setup.

■ The frame type of the computer running the PhaserShare Administrator

does not match the frame type of the printer it is attached to.

■ You are attempting to conﬁgure a printer equipped with a PhaserShare

Series B interface using a version of the PhaserShare Administrator below version 3.6.

■ You also get the Printer Not Responding dialog box if you click a printer

that reports Information Not Available in the Printer List (see the previous topic, “Information Not Available in the Printer List”).

PhaserShare Administrator on-line help

The PhaserShare Administrator provides Windows Help ﬁles containing detailed descriptions of all program functions and dialog boxes.

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TCP/IP Configuration Overview

This chapter provides an overview of TCP/IP conﬁguration. For detailed printer conﬁguration instructions, refer to Chapter 7, “TCP/IP Printer Conﬁguration (All Platforms)”; for host conﬁguration instructions, refer to the chapter for your environment:

■ Chapter 8, “TCP/IP Host Conﬁguration (UNIX)”

■ Chapter 9, “TCP/IP Conﬁguration (OS/2 Warp/LAN Server)”

■ Chapter 10, “Windows NT”

■ Chapter 11, “Windows 95 and Windows 98: PhaserPort Software”

PhaserShare Series B Ethernet and Token Ring interfaces support the following capabilities:

■ Print jobs. The interface can accept print jobs sent via AppSocket, ftp,

telnet, lpr, or lp with lpr extensions.

■ Printer status. The interface can report printer status through the

following protocols:

■ lpq/lpc (lpc for UNIX BSD systems only).

■ Syslog (UNIX systems only). This protocol functions like a remote

printer front panel for reporting printer status.

■ SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol; UNIX systems only).

The printer’s interface responds to status queries from host-resident SNMP utilities.

■ AppSocket. This protocol allows a direct, socket-level connection to

the printer.

■ HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol). This protocol allows

communication with the printer via PhaserLink Printer Management Software.

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Before you begin

■ Do not turn on the printer yet. Your printer should be set up and

connected to the network. See your printer’s user documentation for information about setting up the printer. For information about connecting the printer to the network, see Chapter 2, “PhaserShare Series B Network Interfaces”.

■ Install the ﬁles from the your printer’s CD-ROM on to the hard disk of the

workstation you will be using for the TCP/IP conﬁguration. For more information, see the next topic, “Extracting ﬁles from unix.tar”.

Extracting ﬁles from

The ﬁle unix.tar contains all shell scripts and other ﬁles needed for network conﬁguration in UNIX environments. The ﬁle is in UNIX tar format. The ﬁle is included with your printer’s networking software.

Listing the contents of

Type this command:

Where directory-name is the mount point or the directory that contains the ﬁle. For example:

unix.tar

tar tvf /directory-name/unix.tar

tar tvf /mnt/unix.tar

Extracting the ﬁles

Change (cd) to the directory on your workstation where you want the ﬁles to reside.

Type this command:

tar xvf /directory-name/unix.tar

Where directory-name is the mount point or the directory that contains the ﬁle. For example:

tar xvf /mnt/unix.tar

Printing the Conﬁguration Page

Your printer’s Conﬁguration Page reports important information that you will need for TCP/IP conﬁguration. For information on printing a Conﬁguration Page, see “The printer’s Conﬁguration Page” on page 6.

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Print the Configuration Page

Configure host

• Host table

• Print queue

Configure printer

Where should the printer’s IP addressing information be stored?

Printer

Use printer’s front panel

•

Use Tektronix-supplied UNIX shell scripts to generate PostScript configuration files. Send PostScript configuration files to the printer.

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Server

Host file: RARP, BOOTP, or DHCP

Reset printer

Set host access and control character filtering

Set printer status reporting (optional; UNIX only)

Reset printer

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TCP/IP Printer Configuration (All Platforms)

There are two steps to printer conﬁguration:

Set the printer’s IP address and other addressing information. The Phaser 840, 740 and 780 printers support the use of IP host name as well as IP addresses.

Set the printer’s other TCP/IP parameters (optional):

■ Set host access and control character ﬁltering for each port.

■ Receiving printer status (Syslog, SNMP, or email notiﬁcation)

Setting the printer’s IP addressing parameters

Obtain the information listed in the following table. It might be helpful to write down this information so that you can refer to it later when you are performing the conﬁguration.

Information for TCP/IP conﬁguration

Information Comments

Internet (IP) address for the printer The format is Network mask If you are unsure, leave this blank; the printer chooses an appropriate mask. Broadcast address If you are unsure, leave this blank; the printer computes an appropriate

broadcast address. This is the address the printer uses to send broadcast packets. Regardless

of how this parameter is set, the printer accepts broadcast packets from an y of the commonly used broadcast address conventions.

Gateway IP address This is the address of the router. You need this address if you want to

communicate with the printer from anywhere other than the local network segment.

x.x.x.x

, where x represents a decimal number from 0 - 255.

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There are ﬁve ways to set the printer’s IP address and other IP parameters:

■ Use the printer’s front panel. See “General information on setting IP

parameters (front panel)” on page 57.

■ Server-based printer conﬁguration. This method uses RARP (Reverse

Address Resolution Protocol), BOOTP (Boot Parameter Protocol), or DHCP. When turned on or reset, the printer receives its IP addressing information from a boot server. See “Setting IP parameters: RARP or BOOTP” on page 65 or “Setting IP parameters: DHCP” on page 66.

■ Printer-based printer conﬁguration (using a downloaded conﬁguration

ﬁle). This method can be used on hosts that do not have RARP, BOOTP, or DHCP. Use a Tektronix-provided shell script to prepare a conﬁguration ﬁle. When you send the ﬁle to the printer, the IP addressing information is stored in the printer’s memory, where the printer reads it when reset. See “Setting IP parameters: PostScript utility ﬁle (UNIX only)” on page 71.

PC and Macintosh users can also set IP parameters using PostScript utility ﬁles; see the README ﬁles on the printer’s CD-ROM. The PC README ﬁle is in the UTILS directory; the Macintosh README ﬁle is in the Network Utilities folder.

■ Printer-based printer conﬁguration (using arp table entry; address

gleaning). You can enter the printer’s Ethernet address and IP address in

your host’s arp table, then send a ping command to the printer, and the printer will take it’s IP address from the ping packet. See “Setting IP parameters: arp table entry (address gleaning)” on page 74.

■ Printer-based printer conﬁguration (using PhaserLink Printer

Management Software). After setting the printer’s IP address by one of the other three methods listed here, you can perform the rest of the TCP/IP conﬁguration using PhaserLink software, if you have a World Wide Web browser. See “Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software” on page 73.

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General information on setting IP parameters (front panel)

You can set IP address, network mask, gateway address, and broadcast address from the front panel. See the following topics for procedures for each of the following printers:

■ “Setting IP parameters: Phaser 840 printer front panel” on page 57.

■ “Setting IP parameters: Phaser 740 printer front panel” on page 58.

■ “Setting IP parameters: Phaser 780 printer front panel” on page 60

■ “Setting IP parameters: Phaser 360 printer front panel” on page 63.

Printer defaults for network mask and broadcast address

When you set the IP address from the front panel, the printer supplies default values for network mask and broadcast address. These default values are calculated according the ﬁrst octet of the IP address you set. The following table provides some examples.

1st octet of IP address

1 - 127 118.101.14.101 255.0.0.0 118.255.255.255 128 - 191 134.101.14.101 255.255.0.0 134.101.255.255 192 - 223 192.101.14.101 255.255.255.0 192.101.14.255

When you are setting the IP addressing parameters from the front panel, you can accept these default values or change them. However, if you return to the front panel later to change the IP address, the network mask and broadcast address are reset to these default values, and you will have to set them as well if you want values different than these defaults.

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Example IP address

Printer’s default network mask

Printer’s default broadcast address

Setting IP parameters: Phaser 840 printer front panel

When the front panel displays READY TO PRINT, press the down arrow button until Menu is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the down arrow button until Printer Configuration is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the down arrow button until Network Settings is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the down arrow button until TCP/IP is highlighted. Press Select.

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5. Set the IP address: a.

Press the down arrow button until IP Address is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the left or right arrow buttons to highlight the 3-digit part of the address that you want to set. Press the up or down arrow keys to change the numbers.

When the address is set, press Select.

6. Set the network mask:

Press the down arrow button until NW Mask is highlighted. Press

Select.

Press the left or right arrow buttons to highlight the 3-digit part of the address that you want to set. Press the up or down arrow keys to change the numbers.

When the address is set, press Select.

7. Set the default router/gateway address:

Press the down arrow button until Default Router/Gateway

Address is highlighted. Press Select.

Press the left or right arrow buttons to highlight the 3-digit part of the address that you want to set. Press the up or down arrow keys to change the numbers.

When the address is set, press Select.

To return the printer to normal operation, press the down arrow button until Exit is highlighted. Press Select.

Setting IP parameters: Phaser 740 printer front panel

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When you set the IP addressing parameters from the front panel, the selections for DHCP/BOOTP and RARP are automatically set to Disabled.

Press Menu; the front panel displays Help Pages.

Press ----> or <---- until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Press Menu until the front panel displays TCP/IP.

To set the IP address:

Press Menu again; the front panel displays Interface.

Press ----> to display TCP/IP Address.

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Press Select to display the IP address. For example:

192.2.194.101 + ----> Set

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Setting the IP address to 000.000.000.000 causes the printer to use Dynamic Address Resolution to set its IP address (see “Setting IP parameters: RARP or BOOTP” on page 65).

Press + to set the left-most digit of the address.

Press ----> to advance to the next digit. Press + to set this digit.

Use ----> and + as described in Step e to set the remaining digits.

When the address is correctly set, press Set to enter your settings into the printer; the front panel displays:

Confirm Selection Confirm

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When you press Confirm to set the IP address, the printer resets the network mask and broadcast address to the printer’s defaults; see “Printer defaults for network mask and broadcast address” on page 57.

Press Confirm; the front panel brieﬂy displays Selected, then returns to TCP/IP Address. The IP address is now set in the printer.

To set the network mask:

Press ----> until Network Mask is displayed.

Press Select; the front panel displays the network mask.

Use + and ----> as described in Steps 4d through 4f to set the network mask.

When the network mask is set, use Set and Confirm as described in Steps 4g and 4h to enter the network mask into the printer.

To set the gateway address:

Press ----> until Gateway Address is displayed.

Press Select; the front panel displays the gateway address.

Use + and ----> as described in Steps 4d through 4f to set the gateway address.

When the gateway address is set, use Set and Confirm as described in Steps 4g and 4h to enter the gateway address into the printer.

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The printer calculates the broadcast address based on the IP address and the network mask. However, the broadcast address can be viewed and set using the following procedure:

Press ----> until Broadcast Address is displayed.

Press Select; the front panel displays the broadcast address.

Use + and ----> as described in Steps 4d through 4f to set the broadcast address.

When the broadcast address is set, use Set and Confirm as described in Steps 4g and 4h to enter the broadcast address into the printer.

Return the printer to normal operation.

Press Exit (the far left button) until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Press Exit again.

■ If you have changed any parameters that require a printer reset to

take effect, you will be prompted to reset the printer. If you press Reset, the printer resets. If you press Resume, the front panel displays Network Settings. Press Exit (the far left button); the printer returns to normal operation, but the changes you have made will not take effect until the next time the printer is reset.

■ If you have not changed any parameters that require a printer reset

to take effect, the front panel displays Ready.

Setting IP parameters: Phaser 780 printer front panel

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When you set the IP addressing parameters from the front panel, the front panel selections for DHCP/BOOTP and RARP are automatically set to Disabled.

While Ready is displayed, press Select; the Printer menu is displayed:

Printer Menu Help Pages Menu

Press the left or right arrow buttons until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Printer Menu Network Settings Menu

Press Menu to enter the Network Settings menu; Network Settings appears on the top line of the display.

If TCP/IP is not already displayed, press the right arrow button until the front panel displays TCP/IP.

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To set the IP address:

Press Menu again; the front panel displays Interface.

Press the right arrow button until the front panel displays IP Address.

Press Menu to display the IP address. For example:

IP Address

192.2.194.101 Select

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Setting the IP address to 000.000.000.000 causes the printer to use Dynamic Address Resolution to set its IP address (see “Setting IP parameters: RARP or BOOTP” on page 65).

Press the up arrow button to set the left-most digit of the address.

Press the right arrow button to advance to the next digit. Press the up arrow button to set this digit.

Use the right arrow and up arrow buttons as described in Step e to set the remaining digits.

When the address is correctly set, press Select; the front panel displays the IP Address with a Confirm button.

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Press Confirm; the front panel brieﬂy displays Selected, then displays the IP address again. The IP address is now set in the printer.

Press Exit (the far right button); the front panel displays:

TCP/IP IP Address Menu

To set the network mask:

Press the right arrow button until Network Mask is displayed.

Press Menu; the front panel displays the network mask.

Use the right arrow and up arrow buttons as described in Steps 5d through 5f to set the network mask.

When the network mask is set, use Select and Confirm as described in Steps 5g and 5h to enter the network mask into the printer.

Press Exit (the far right button); the front panel displays:

TCP/IP Network Mask Menu

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To set the gateway address:

Press the right arrow button until Gateway Address is displayed.

Press Menu; the front panel displays the gateway address.

Use the up arrow and right arrow buttons as described in Steps 5d through 5f to set the gateway address.

When the gateway address is set, use Set and Confirm as described in Steps 5g and 5h to enter the gateway address into the printer.

Press Exit (the far right button); the front panel displays:

TCP/IP Gateway Address Menu

The printer calculates the broadcast address based on the IP address and the network mask. However, the broadcast address can be viewed and set using the following procedure:

Press the right arrow button until Broadcast Address is displayed.

Press Menu; the front panel displays the broadcast address.

Use the up arrow and right arrow buttons as described in Steps 5d through 5f to set the broadcast address.

When the broadcast address is set, use Select and Confirm as described in Steps 5g and 5h to enter the broadcast address into the printer.

Press Exit (the far right button); the front panel displays:

TCP/IP Broadcast Address Menu

Return the printer to normal operation:

Press Exit (the far right button) until Network Settings appears on the top line of the display.

Press Exit again.

■ If you have changed any parameters that require a printer reset to take

■ If you have not changed any parameters that require a printer reset,

press Exit again; the front panel displays Ready.

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Setting IP parameters: Phaser 360 printer front panel

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When you set the IP addressing parameters from the front panel, the front panel selections for DHCP/BOOTP and RARP are automatically set to Disabled.

Press the Menu; the front panel displays Help Pages.

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When you are in the menu, if the front panel is not used for 5 minutes, the printer returns to

Press ----> or <---- until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Press Menu until the front panel displays TCP/IP.

To set the IP address:

Press Menu again; the front panel displays Enable Interface.

Press ----> until the front panel displays TCP/IP Address.

Ready.

To display the IP address, press Menu. For example:

000.000.000.000 Increment Shift Select

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Setting the IP address to 000.000.000.000 causes the printer to use Dynamic Address Resolution to set its IP address (see “Setting IP parameters: RARP or BOOTP” on page 65).

To set the left-most digit of the address, press Increment.

To advance to the next digit, press Shift. To set this digit, press Increment.

To set the remaining digits, press Shift and Increment as described in Step e.

When the address is correctly set, enter your settings into the printer by pressing Select; the front panel displays:

Confirm Selection Confirm

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Press Confirm; the front panel brieﬂy displays Selected, then displays the IP address again. The IP address is now set in the printer.

To return to the menu of IP addressing parameters, press Exit.

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To set the network mask:

Press ----> until Network Mask is displayed.

Press Menu; the front panel displays the network mask.

To set the network mask, press Increment and Shift as described in Step 4d through 4f.

When the network mask is set, enter it into the printer by pressing Select and Confirm as described in Steps 4g and 4h.

To return to the menu of IP addressing parameters, press Exit.

To set the gateway address:

Press ----> until Gateway Address is displayed.

Press Menu; the front panel displays the gateway address.

To set the gateway address, press Increment and Shift as described in 4d through 4f.

When the gateway address is set, enter the it into the printer by pressing Select and Confirm as described in Steps 4g and 4h.

The printer calculates the broadcast address based on the IP address and the network mask as described under “Printer defaults for network mask and broadcast address” on page 57. In most cases, this calculated value is correct and there is no need to set the broadcast address. However, the broadcast address can be viewed and set using the following procedure:

Press ----> until Broadcast Address is displayed.

Press Menu; the front panel displays the broadcast address.

To set the broadcast address, press Increment and Shift as described in 4d through 4f.

When the broadcast address is set, enter it into the printer by pressing Select and Confirm as described in Steps 4g and 4h.

Return the printer to normal operation:

Press Exit until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Press Exit again.

■ If you have changed any parameters that require a printer reset to

■ If you have not changed any parameters that require a printer reset

to take effect, the front panel displays Ready.

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Setting IP parameters: RARP or BOOTP

With this method, conﬁguration information is sent to the printer over the Ethernet or Token Ring connection via RARP or BOOTP, depending on which protocol your host supports. This is called Dynamic Address Resolution.

The advantage of server-based conﬁguration is that it provides centralized administration. You can conﬁgure a number of printers from a central location. The disadvantage is that if the server is down, the printer does not appear on the network after a reset or power cycle, because the printer gets its boot information from a boot server and does not retain it in non-volatile memory.

Store the printer’s conﬁguration information on a boot server, in a conﬁguration ﬁle such as an ethers or bootptab ﬁle. On power-up, the printer issues RARP and BOOTP requests and receives the conﬁguration information from the server in the RARP or BOOTP response.

The RARP response contains only IP address information. After the printer has its address information, you can set other TCP/IP parameters by either of two methods:

■ With a TCP/IP connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use

PhaserLink Printer Management Software; see “Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software” on page 73.

■ Send PostScript ﬁles to the printer using your host spooler. UNIX shell

scripts for creating the PostScript ﬁles are provided with your printer’s network utilities software. See “Setting IP parameters: PostScript utility ﬁle (UNIX only)” on page 71. For PC environments, the PostScript ﬁle IPCONFIG.PS is in the UTILS directory on your printer’s CD-ROM.

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The printer’s BOOTP and RARP implementations do not support booting across a router. The BOOTP or RARP server (host) and client (printer) must be connected to the same Token Ring or Ethernet segment, or to segments interconnected only by repeaters and/or bridges. However, with certain hosts (such as OS/2) on Token Ring networks, the server and the client must be on the same Token Ring. Furthermore, the printer’s BOOTP and RARP implementations do not support booting between Token Ring and Ethernet segments.

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Setting IP parameters: DHCP

DHCP (Dynamic Host Conﬁguration Protocol) is a system in which DHCP servers can allocate IP addresses dynamically. Under DHCP, the server gives the printer (called a DHCP client) its IP address when the printer is reset.

Installing the DHCP server

In Control Panel:Network, select Add Software.

Select TCP/IP components.

In the second window that is displayed, select DHCP server.

Setting up a DHCP server

Access your DHCP management utility:

■ Windows NT 4.x. Click Start; select Programs, then Administrative

Tools (Common). Select DHCP Manager.

■ Windows 3.5x. Go to the Network Administration group and select

DHCP Manager.

Conﬁgure DHCP with a scope; a scope is a range of IP addresses available to be allocated to DHCP clients. For example, the scope could be the IP addresses 192.2.194.101 through 192.2.194.254.

Deﬁning a scope in Windows NT 4.x

Click Start, Programs, Administrative Tools, DHCP Manager.

Double-click Local Machine.

Click Scope, Create.

Enter the IP information to deﬁne the scope.

Deﬁning a scope in Windows NT 3.5.x

Open the Network Administration group.

Double-click DHCP Manager.

Double-click Local Machine.

Click Scope, Create.

Enter the IP information to deﬁne the scope.

Deﬁne the lease. A lease is a pre-determined time that the printer holds the IP address. When the lease time expires, the printer queries the DHCP server again to renew its lease of the IP address. It is recommended that you set the lease to Unlimited.

Deﬁne a name for the scope. You are prompted to activate the newly created scope. Answer Yes.

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Restart the DHCP server:

In Control Panel:Services, scroll down to DHCP Server.

Click Stop; then click Start.

Click Close.

Turn on the printer. The printer receives its IP address from the server. Print a Conﬁguration Page to obtain the IP address (see “The printer’s Conﬁguration Page” on page 6).

Using Add Printer Wizard (Windows NT 4.0) or Print Manager (Windows NT 3.5x), verify that a Windows NT printer port refers to the printer’s IP address or DNS name. See Chapter 10, “Windows NT” for more information.

Conﬁgure the printer’s DHCP client software.

DHCP transactions

■ On power up or reset, the printer sends a DHCP discover packet, indicating

its Ethernet address and requesting an IP address.

■ The DHCP server responds to the discover packet with a DHCP offer packet,

which contains an IP address from within the assigned scope and the assigned lease.

■ The printer examines the DHCP offer packet and decides whether to

accept the lease. The printer sends a request packet, accepting the IP address and the lease.

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There can be multiple DHCP servers on the same network, each deﬁning its own scopes and leases. The printer selects the ﬁrst lease offered.

■ The DHCP server sends an acknowledgment packet to the printer, completing

the transaction.

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Supported BOOTP/DHCP ﬁelds

The printer recognizes the BOOTP/DHCP ﬁelds listed in the following table.

Field Description Values

gw Gateway address list List of IP addresses separated by spaces. ha Hardware address Hexadecimal; the

tag.

tag must be preceded by the

ht Hardware type (see

Assigned Numbers RFC)

ip IP address A single IP address. lg Log host address(es) A list of IP addresses separated by spaces. sm Subnet mask A single IP address. dn IP domain name A single domain name. ds DNS server IP address

list

Unsigned decimal, octal, or hexadecimal integer, or one of the following symbolic names:

For UNIX Ethernet:

ethernet

(DIX encapsulation);

ieee802

(SNAP encapsulation).

For UNIX Token Ring:

token ring

For OS/2 Ethernet or Token Ring:

ether

Printer recognizes up to two IP addresses, separated by spaces.

ether

for 10-Mbit Ethernet

for IEEE 802 Ethernet

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Enabling and disabling RARP and BOOTP/DHCP (front panel)

RARP, BOOTP, and DHCP can be enabled and disabled from the front panel. The default is enabled. When you set the IP addressing parameters from the front panel, the front panel selections for DHCP/BOOTP and RARP are automatically set to Disabled. To disable these protocols manually, follow the procedure for your printer:

■ “Phaser 740 and 360 printers” (the next topic).

■ “Phaser 780 printer” on page 70.

Phaser 740 and 360 printers

Press Menu; the front panel displays Help Pages.

Press ----> or <---- until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Press Menu until the front panel displays TCP/IP.

Press Menu again; the front panel displays Interface.

To disable DHCP/BOOTP:

Press ----> until the front panel displays DHCP/BOOTP.

Press Menu again to display the current status of the protocol: Interface:Enabled or Interface:Disabled. The current status is marked with an asterisk (*) in the upper-right corner of the display.

Press ----> until the front panel displays Interface:Disabled.

Press OK to disable the protocol; the front panel brieﬂy displays Selected, then it displays Interface.

Press Exit (the far left button) to return to the Interface display.

To disable RARP:

Press ----> until the front panel displays RARP.

Press Menu again to display the current status of the protocol: Interface:Enabled or Interface:Disabled. The current status is marked with an asterisk (*) in the upper-right corner of the display.

Press ----> until the front panel displays Interface:Disabled.

Press OK to disable the protocol; the front panel brieﬂy displays Selected, then it displays Interface.

Press Exit (the far left button) to return to the Interface display.

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Return the printer to normal operation.

Press Exit (the far left button) until the front panel displays Network Settings.

Press Exit again.

■ If you have changed any parameters that require a printer reset to

■ If you have not changed any parameters that require a printer reset

Phaser 780 printer

Press Select; the front panel displays Help Pages.

Press the right arrow or left arrow buttons until the front panel displays Network Settings.

to take effect, the front panel displays Ready.

Press Menu to enter the Network Settings menu.

Press the right arrow button until TCP/IP is displayed.

Press Menu again; the front panel displays Interface.

To disable DHCP/BOOTP:

Press the right arrow button until the front panel displays DHCP/BOOTP.

Press Menu again to display the current status of the protocol: On or Off. The current status is marked with an asterisk (*) in the

upper-right corner of the display.

Press the right arrow button until the front panel displays Off.

Press Select to disable the protocol; the front panel brieﬂy displays Selected, then it displays Off again.

Press Exit (the far right button) to return to the TCP/IP menu.

To return the printer to normal operation, go to Step 8, to disable RARP, follow these steps:

Press the right arrow button until the front panel displays RARP.

Press Menu again to display the current status of the protocol: On or Off. The current status is marked with an asterisk (*) in the

upper-right corner of the display.

Press the right arrow button until the front panel displays Off.

Press Select to disable the protocol; the front panel brieﬂy displays Selected, then it displays Off again.

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Return the printer to normal operation:

Press Exit (the far right button) until Network Settings appears on the top line of the display.

Press Exit again.

■ If you have changed any parameters that require a printer reset to take

■ If you have not changed any parameters that require a printer reset,

press Exit (the far right button) again; the front panel displays Ready.

After the printer has its address information, you can set other TCP/IP parameters by either of two methods:

■ With a TCP/IP connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use

PhaserLink Printer Management Software; see “Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software” on page 73.

■ Send PostScript ﬁles to the printer using your host spooler. UNIX shell

scripts for creating the PostScript ﬁles are provided with your printer’s network utilities software. For PC environments, the PostScript ﬁles for setting other TCP/IP parameters are included with your printer’s network utilities software.

Setting IP parameters: PostScript utility ﬁle (UNIX only)

Use the conﬁg-IP script to create a PostScript ﬁle that sets the printer’s IP addressing parameters. The conﬁg-IP script is provided with your printer’s network utilities software. Keep the following points in mind when running the conﬁg-IP script:

■ The output of the script is PostScript code, which you must send to the

printer. When you run the script, redirect the output to a ﬁle. Then send the ﬁle to the printer.

■ The script prompts you to provide certain information. For information

about these prompts, see the tables “IP parameters” on page 72.

The advantage of this method is that each printer has a permanent setup stored in its non-volatile memory and is not dependent on a boot server for boot information. The disadvantage is that you must conﬁgure each printer individually.

Before performing this procedure, install the ﬁles from your printer’s network utilities software on to your host computer. If you have not already installed the ﬁles, see “Extracting ﬁles from unix.tar” on page 52.

In the printer-based conﬁguration procedure, you use a script provided on the printer’s CD-ROM to set the IP parameters listed in the following table. The procedure follows the table.

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IP parameters

Parameter Description

Use RARP Yes/no. Speciﬁes whether the printer should get its IP

Use BOOTP/DHCP Yes/no. Speciﬁes whether the printer should get its IP

IP address The printer’s address on the network. The format is

Network mask Needed in networks that use sub-netting. If y ou are not

Broadcast address The address the printer uses to send broadcast packets.

address from a RARP response at power-up. The default is yes. Answer no for a printer-based conﬁguration; this prevents RARP packets from appearing on the network when the printer is turned on or reset.

address from a BOOTP or DHCP response at power-up . The default is yes. Answer no for a printer-based conﬁguration; this prevents BOOTP or DHCP packets from appearing on the network when the printer is turned on or reset.

x.x.x.x

, where x represents a decimal number from 0 - 255. The value entered must be a valid IP address and not 0.0.0.0, 255.0.0.0, any address starting with 127, or any address ending with 255.

using sub-netting, leave this blank; the printer will choose an appropriate mask. The format is where

0 - 255.

The format is number from 0 - 255. If you are unsure, leav e this blank; the printer will choose an appropriate address.

represents a decimal number from

x.x.x.x,

where

represents a decimal

x.x.x.x,

Default gateway (router) The address the printer uses to communicate with

Connect the printer to the network. ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)

devices not on the same network segment. The format is

x.x.x.x,

0 - 255.

where

represents a decimal number from

requires that the printer be connected on the same physical network segment as the host.

Run the script conﬁg-IP:

Change (cd) to the bin subdirectory in the directory where you placed your printer’s network utilities.

Type the name of the script, redirecting the output to a ﬁle. Type:

conﬁg-IP > filename

When prompted by the script, enter the information.

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The script accepts IP addresses that have empty ﬁelds (for example,

123..40.10). The script does not detect this error. Double-check the IP addresses you enter.

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Make an entry into the host’s ARP table deﬁning the printer’s IP/hardware address pair. In general, this requires a command corresponding to one of the following syntax examples:

arp -s printer-IP-address hardware-address (for BSD systems) or arp -s ether printer-IP-address hardware-address (for System V)

See the documentation for your host system for speciﬁcs of this command.

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The hardware address in the arp command example is the printer’s Ethernet Address for PhaserShare Ethernet interfaces or the Token Ring Address for PhaserShare Token Ring cards.

Turn on the printer.

Execute the ping command from the host:

ping printer-IP-address

Use the host spooling system (for example, lpr or lp) to send the ﬁle you created in Step 2b to the printer. This stores the IP addressing information in the printer’s internal memory, where it is retained over a reset or power cycle. (For more information on setting up queues, see “Assigning a print queue to the printer” on page 83.)

Reset the printer. For more information about resetting the printer, see Chapter 16, “Resetting the Printer”.

Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software

After setting the printer’s IP address by one of the methods described previously in this chapter, you can perform the rest of the TCP/IP conﬁguration using PhaserLink Printer Management Software, if you have a World Wide Web browser. For more information on PhaserLink software, see Chapter 12, “PhaserLink Printer Management Software”.

From the printer’s home page, click Conﬁguration; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Settings page.

From the View and Conﬁgure Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page.

From the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure TCP/IP Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure TCP/IP Settings page.

Enter your printer’s settings. If you make an error, click Restore Initial Form Values and start again.

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When you are ﬁnished entering the settings, enter the Validation Password (if one has been set) and click Do/Apply.

The printer responds by displaying a dialog box that allows you to reset the printer. The new parameters will not take effect until the printer is reset.

Setting IP parameters: arp table entry (

This method sets the printer’s IP address until the next printer reset. Once you have used this method to set the printer’s IP address, you can use PhaserLink Printer Management Software (see “Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software” on page 73) or a PostScript utility ﬁle (see “Setting IP parameters: PostScript utility ﬁle (UNIX only)” on page 71) to set the address permanently.

You can enter the printer’s Ethernet address and IP address in your host’s arp table, then send a ping command to the printer, and the printer will take it’s IP address from the ping packet.

Make an entry into the host’s ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) table deﬁning the printer’s IP/hardware address pair. In general, this requires a command corresponding to one of the following syntax examples:

arp -s printer-name hardware-address (for BSD systems) or arp -s ether printer-name hardware-address (for System V)

See the documentation for your host system for speciﬁcs of this command.

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The hardware address in the arp command example is the printer’s Ethernet Address for PhaserShare Ethernet cards or the Token Ring Address for PhaserShare Token Ring cards.

address gleaning

)

Execute the ping command from the host:

ping printer-IP-address

Domain Name Services (DNS)

The Phaser 840, 740, and 780 printers support Domain Name Services (DNS) through an embedded DNS stub resolver. The DNS resolver protocol communicates with one or more DNS servers to request the IP address for a given host name or the host name for a given IP address.

To use an IP host name for the printer, the system administrator must have already conﬁgured one or more DNS servers and a local DNS domain name space data base.

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To set up the printer for DNS, you must supply an IP domain name and up to two DNS name server IP addresses. There are three ways to set up the printer for DNS:

■ BOOTP. See “Setting IP parameters: RARP or BOOTP” on page 65 and

“Supported BOOTP/DHCP ﬁelds” on page 68.

■ DHCP. See “Setting IP parameters: DHCP” on page 66 and “Supported

BOOTP/DHCP ﬁelds” on page 68.

■ On any system that supports TCP/IP, you can use PhaserLink Printer

Management Software. See the next topic, “Setting up the printer for DNS using PhaserLink Printer Management Software”."

Setting up the printer for DNS using PhaserLink Printer Management Software

After setting the printer’s IP address by one of the methods described previously in this chapter, you can set up the printer for DNS using PhaserLink software, if you have a World Wide Web browser. For more information on PhaserLink software, see Chapter 12, “PhaserLink Printer Management Software”.

From the printer’s home page, click Conﬁguration; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Settings page.

From the View and Conﬁgure Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page.

From the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure TCP/IP Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure TCP/IP Settings page.

Set the Domain Name Service Resolver Enabled ﬁeld Yes.

Enter the following information:

■ Primary Name Server IP Address (required)

■ Second Name Server IP Address (optional)

■ IP Domain Name (required)

■ Additional Search Domain Name(s) (optional)

When you are ﬁnished entering the settings, enter the Validation Password and click Do/Apply.

The printer responds by displaying a dialog box that allows you to reset the printer. The new parameters will not take effect until the printer is reset.

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Controlling host access

LPR (BSD systems)

You can control which hosts can access the printer through LPR. The printer’s factory default is that all hosts have access to the printer.

There are two ways to set host access:

■ With a TCP/IP connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use

PhaserLink Printer Management Software. See the next topic, “Controlling host access using PhaserLink Printer Management Software” for more information.

■ Send the appropriate PostScript ﬁle to the printer. See “Controlling host

access using a PostScript utility ﬁle” on page 77.

Controlling host access using PhaserLink Printer Management Software

With a TCP/IP connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use PhaserLink Printer Management Software to set host access. For more information on PhaserLink software, see Chapter 12, “PhaserLink Printer Management Software”.

Click Conﬁguration; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure LPR Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure LPR Settings page.

In the Host Access List ﬁeld, enter the IP addresse(s) or DNS name(s) of the host(s) that will have access to the printer. You can enter addresses or names for multiple hosts by separating them with spaces, up to a total of 256 characters. If you do not enter any addresses, all hosts will have access to the printer.

Enter the validation password (if one has been assigned), and click Do/Apply.

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Controlling host access using a PostScript utility ﬁle

To create a PostScript ﬁle to set host access, use the script conﬁg-LPR provided with the printer’s network utilities software.

Make sure that the printer is connected to the network.

Run the script conﬁg-LPR:

Change (cd) to the bin subdirectory in the directory where you placed your printer’s network utilities.

Type the name of the script, redirecting the output to a ﬁle:

conﬁg-LPR > filename

When prompted, enter the IP addresse(s) of the host(s) that will have access to the printer. You can enter addresses for multiple hosts by separating them with spaces, up to a total of 256 characters. If you do not enter any addresses, all hosts will have access to the printer.

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The script accepts IP addresses that have empty ﬁelds (for example, 123..40.10). The script does not detect this error. Double-check the IP addresses you enter.

Send the ﬁle named in Step 2b to the printer; type:

lpr -Pqueue-name filename

AppSocket (TCP Sockets)

You can control which hosts can access the printer through AppSocket. The printer’s factory default is that all hosts have access to the printer.

There are two ways to set host access:

■ With a TCP/IP connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use

PhaserLink Printer Management Software. See the next topic, “Controlling Host Access using PhaserLink Printer Management Software”.

■ Send the appropriate PostScript ﬁle to the printer. See “Controlling host

access using a PostScript utility ﬁle” on page 78.

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Controlling Host Access using PhaserLink Printer Management Software

Click Conﬁguration; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure AppSocket Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure AppSocket Settings page.

Enter the validation password (if one has been assigned), and click Do/Apply.

Controlling host access using a PostScript utility ﬁle

To create a PostScript ﬁle to set host access, use the script conﬁg-sockets provided with the printer’s network utilities software.

Connect the printer to the network.

Run the script conﬁg-sockets:

Change (cd) to the bin subdirectory in the directory where you placed your printer’s network utilities.

Type the name of the script, redirecting the output to a ﬁle:

conﬁg-sockets > ﬁlename

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The script accepts IP addresses that have empty ﬁelds (for example,

123..40.10). The script does not detect this error. Double-check the IP addresses you enter.

Send the ﬁle named in Step 2b to the printer using lp or lpr.

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Receiving printer status

Email notiﬁcation through PhaserLink Printer Management Software

PhaserLink Printer Management Software provides email notiﬁcation, allowing the printer to automatically send email to the system administrator and others when the printer needs attention (for example, paper jams or out of ink). This email notiﬁcation capability is supplied by an SMTP client embedded in the printer’s ﬁrmware. For more information, see “PhaserLink Status Notiﬁcation (Email Notiﬁcation)” on page 132.

Syslog (UNIX systems only)

The Syslog facility provides a dynamic path for printer status information that allows administrators to collect information from the printer. You can set a priority threshold indicating which messages from the printer will be sent to the listed log host.

The threshold is a number listed in the following table. The priorities listed in the table conform to BSD and SunOS conventions.

Priority Number Description

Emergency 0 Printer is no longer available Alert 1 Printer needs immediate attention Critical 2 Critical error message Error 3 Error message Warning 4 Warning message Notice (printer’s default) 5 Normal but signiﬁcant message Information 6 Informational message Debugging 7 Debugging message

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If you are using BOOTP to set the printer’s network address, the printer sends syslog messages to the hosts listed in the BOOTP log hosts ﬁeld. If you are not using BOOTP or have not speciﬁed a log host in the BOOTP conﬁguration, you must set the syslog host address as described in the next two topics.

There are two ways to set Syslog priorities:

■ With a TCP/IP connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use

PhaserLink Printer Management Software. See the next topic, “Setting Syslog priorities using PhaserLink Printer Management Software” for more information.

■ Send the appropriate PostScript ﬁle to the printer. See “Setting Syslog

priorities using a PostScript utility ﬁle” on page 80.

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Setting Syslog priorities using PhaserLink Printer Management Software

Click Conﬁguration; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure Syslog Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Syslog Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Syslog Settings page, enter the log host’s IP address or DNS name and the priority level of the threshold you want to set.

Enter the validation password (if one has been assigned), and click Do/Apply.

Setting Syslog priorities using a PostScript utility ﬁle

To create a PostScript ﬁle to set Syslog priorities, use the script conﬁg-syslog provided on the printer’s CD-ROM.

Connect the printer to the network.

Run the script conﬁg-syslog:

Change (cd) to the bin subdirectory in the directory where you placed your printer’s network utilities.

Run the script, redirecting the output to a ﬁle. Type:

conﬁg-syslog > filename

When prompted, enter the log host’s IP address and the priority level of the threshold you want to set.

N O T

The script accepts IP addresses that have empty ﬁelds (for example,

123..40.10). The script does not detect this error. Double-check the IP addresses you enter.

Send the ﬁle named in Step 2b to the printer using lp or lpr.

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SNMP (UNIX systems only)

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) allows you to use an SNMP monitoring station to query the printer remotely for its status. You can provide the following information for the printer to send to your SNMP utility:

■ Printer's name.

■ Name of contact person for printer problems.

■ Printer's location.

■ Phaser 740, 780, and 360 printers. Trap host's IP or IPX address. Members

of this list receive asynchronous SNMP traps (error and status messages) from the printer.

■ Phaser 380, 350, 340, 560, 550, 540, and 600 printers. Trap host's IP address

and community name. Members of this list receive asynchronous SNMP traps (error and status messages) from the printer.

N O T

Phaser 350, 360, 550, and 560 printers support RFC 1759, The Printer MIB. Phaser 740, 780, and 360 printers support SNMP traps within RFC 1759.

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There are two ways to set SNMP parameters:

■ With a TCP/IP connection and a World Wide Web browser, you can use

PhaserLink Printer Management Software. See “Setting SNMP parameters using PhaserLink Printer Management Software” on page 81.

■ Send the appropriate PostScript ﬁle to the printer. See “Setting SNMP

parameters using a PostScript utility ﬁle” on page 82.

Setting SNMP parameters using PhaserLink Printer Management Software

Click Conﬁguration; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure Interface Settings page, click View and Conﬁgure SNMP Settings; this displays the View and Conﬁgure SNMP Settings page.

On the View and Conﬁgure SNMP Settings page, enter the information for the SNMP utility.

Enter the validation password (if one has been assigned), and click Do/Apply.

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Setting SNMP parameters using a PostScript utility ﬁle

To create a PostScript ﬁle to control these parameters, use the script conﬁg-SNMP provided with the printer’s network utilities software.

Connect the printer to the network.

Run the script conﬁg-SNMP:

Change (cd) to the bin subdirectory in the directory where you placed your printer’s network utilities.

Run the script, redirecting the output to a ﬁle. Type:

conﬁg-SNMP > filename

When prompted, provide the information for the SNMP utility.

Send the ﬁle named in Step 2b to the printer using lp or lpr.

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Conﬁguring a host

Adding the printer to the host table

Add the printer’s name to the host table and assign an IP address to the printer’s name. Depending on your host system, you may do this one of three ways:

■ Use NIS (Name Information Server, formerly Yellow Pages).

■ Use DNS (Domain Name Server).

■ Edit a ﬁle (for example, /etc/hosts). For an example, see “Example

installation for a typical BSD UNIX system” on page 85.

Assigning a print queue to the printer

■ For BSD systems, edit the /etc/printcap ﬁle and add a spool directory (for

example, to /usr/spool/lpd).

■ For System V hosts, conﬁgure the queue as a remote BSD print queue

(support for TCP/IP LPR is required). Specific instructions for the following System V hosts are provided in this manual:

■ “Sun Solaris” on page 87.

■ “SGI IRIX 5.3 and 6.x” on page 89.

■ “IBM AIX 3.x and 4.x” on page 90.

■ “Hewlett-Packard HP-UX 9.x and 10.x” on page 92.

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Some UNIX hosts report an error when you conﬁgure a print queue that is not currently on the network; ignore this message.

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Assigning print queues with PhaserPrint for UNIX

For UNIX environments, Tektronix offers PhaserPrint for UNIX software, which provides fast raster printing and a graphical user interface with push-button control of printer features. For more information on PhaserPrint software, see “Tektronix PhaserPrint for UNIX software” on page 10.

If you want to print using PhaserPrint for UNIX software, you must use PhaserPrint software to conﬁgure your host. Refer to the PhaserPrint for UNIX user manual or the instructions provided with the PhaserPrint for UNIX CD-ROM for conﬁguration information. PostScript and PDF versions of the manual are available from the Tektronix ftp site:

Required remote printer queue names

The printer’s internal LPR queue uses the BSD protocol; its known queues are listed in the following table. These are the only remote queue names that the printer recognizes. If you use another name, the printer automatically defaults to AUTO.

Queue name Language

ftp.tek.com/cpid/UNIX/phaserprint2.1/demo/MANUALS

PS PostScript PCL PCL (Printer Control Language) AUTO Automatic Language Selection (the printer automatically senses

the language of the print job and processes it accordingly)

Using PostScript utility ﬁles to control printer features from queues

As you set up a spool queue for the printer, you can use the PostScript utility ﬁles provided with your printer’s software to control printer features (for example, selecting upper or lower paper trays, or selecting print quality modes). See your printer’s user documentation for more information on these utility ﬁles.

UNIX model ﬁles

The printer’s CD-ROM contains UNIX model ﬁles. These ﬁles allow you to access printer features from the UNIX command line by using the -o printing option. On the printer’s CD-ROM, the ﬁle model.tar contains the installer for the model ﬁles and model ﬁles for Sun Solaris, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM AIX workstations.

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Example installation for a typical BSD UNIX system

The following procedure is an example spooler conﬁguration that will work for many BSD systems, including SunOS 4.x and 5.x (Solaris 1.x and 2.x) and Digital UNIX.

Modify the /etc/hosts ﬁle to identify the printer to the workstation and modify the /etc/printcap ﬁle to describe the printer to the workstation:

Log on to your system as root.

Make a backup copy of the /etc/hosts ﬁle.

N O T

You need superuser privileges to edit this ﬁle.

Edit /etc/hosts and add a line that deﬁnes the printer's IP address and its name. The IP address you enter here for the printer must be the same address you speciﬁed as the printer's IP address when it was conﬁgured. The name is the name by which your workstation identiﬁes the printer. (You will enter this same remote name in your /etc/printcap ﬁle in the next step.)

Example:

134.62.33.138 Phaser740

In this example, 134.62.33.138 is the printer’s IP address and Phaser740 is the printer’s remote name.

Make a backup copy of the /etc/printcap ﬁle.

Edit /etc/printcap and add an entry for your printer. Refer to the following example and the table “Descriptions of printcap parameters” on page 86 to create your entry.

Sample printcap ﬁle

# Printer: Tektronix Phaser740 # Print queue name: colorprinter # Remote machine name: Phaser740 # Remote printer queue name: PS # Spool directory: /usr/spool/lpd/colorprinter colorprinter:\ :lp=:\ :rm=Phaser740:\ :rp=PS:\ :mx#0:\ :lf=/usr/spool/lpd/ERRORLOG:\ :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/colorprinter: #

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Example:

Set up spool directories. After you have edited the /etc/hosts and /etc/printcap ﬁles, create and set permissions for the spool directory you

speciﬁed.

cd /usr/spool/lpd mkdir colorprinter chown daemon colorprinter chgrp daemon colorprinter chmod 770 colorprinter

Refer to your UNIX documentation for the correct command syntax for your workstation.

Descriptions of

Parameter Description

lp Name of the device to open; this parameter must be left empty or set to rm Remote machine name. This is the name by which the workstation identiﬁes the printer; it must

rp Remote printer queue name. This is the queue name that the printer recognizes. It must be one

mx Maximum ﬁle size. Set this parameter to 0 for unlimited ﬁle size; this allows the print command to

lf Name of the log ﬁle where print command error messages are collected. Some systems have a

sd Spool directory on your host. Make a separate spool directory for each queue.

printcap

match the name in the

of the following:

■ PS for PostScript

■ PCL for Printer Control Language

■ HPGL for Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language

■ AUTO for Automatic Language Selection (the printer automatically senses the language of the

print job and processes it accordingly) If you specify any other remote printer queue name, the printer defaults to AUTO. Your printer model may not support all languages listed here. See your printer’s user

documentation for information on the supported languages. With some printers, PCL must be authorized with an authorization code before it can be used. If

you use PCL for the remote printer queue name, make sure that PCL has been authorized in the printer. See your printer’s user documentation for more information on authorization codes and PCL.

handle large PostScript or image ﬁles.

log ﬁle for each print queue. Refer to your workstation’s documentation for more information.

parameters

/etc/hosts

ﬁle.

/dev/null

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Conﬁguration procedures for common System V UNIX hosts

Sun Solaris

For Solaris version 2.6 and later, go to “Adding an LPD queue in Solaris” on page 88. For Solaris 2.5x and older, use the sol_apps.tar provided with your printer’s networking software to avoid a Solaris communication problem. The sol_apps.tar ﬁle is also available from the Tektronix ftp site:

ftp.tek.com/cpid/UNIX/sun/sol_apps.tar

This ﬁle redirects the print jobs to the printer's AppSocket port (port 9100) instead of the LPD port (port 515).

N O T

If you do not want to redirect the print jobs to the printer's AppSocket port, see “Adding an LPD queue in Solaris” on page 88.

Untar the sol_apps.tar ﬁle by typing this command:

tar -xvf phaser.sun5

The following ﬁles are extracted into the indicated directories:

asprint.sun5 to /usr/bin tektcp.sun5 to /usr/spool/lp/model

Edit the ﬁle /etc/hosts to create an entry for the printer.

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The network name and the queue name for your printer must be identical for the model ﬁle to work.

Execute the following commands:

lpadmin -p queuename -v /dev/null -i /usr/spool/lp/model/tektcp.sun5 -I postscript enable queuename accept queuename

where queuename is the name entered for the printer in the /etc/hosts ﬁle.

The print queue is now enabled.

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Adding an LPD queue in Solaris

Add the printer to the host table. This is done by either editing the local host table /etc/hosts (if not running yp or NIS), or updating the NIS data base on the NIS (yp) server.

Here is an example of how to add a PostScript queue named phaser printing to a printer named tektronix while in the Bourne shell.

The queue name can be anything you want. The printer name should be the same name used in the host table.

The !PS names the remote queue name. There are four valid remote printer names: PS, HPGL, PCL, and AUTO.

Use the following commands to enable the new queue:

/bin/sh lpsystem -t bsd tektronix lpadmin -p phaser -s tektronix!PS -I postscript

lpshut /usr/lib/lpsched enable phaser accept phaser

If Solaris 2.2/2.3 print jobs get stuck in the queue

Change directory (cd) to this location:

/usr/spool/lp/temp/workstation-name

To remove any jobs, type:

Change directory (cd) to this location:

/usr/spool/lp/requests/workstation-name

To remove any jobs, type:

Type:

kill -pid

where pid is the process ID number /usr/lib/lpsched.

To restart lpsched, type:

/usr/lib/lpsched

Remove any jobs that have not printed from the Print Tool.

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SGI IRIX 5.3 and 6.x

Modify the /etc/hosts ﬁle to identify the printer to the workstation:

N O T

You need superuser privileges to edit this ﬁle.

Log onto your system as root.

Make a backup copy of the /etc/hosts ﬁle.

IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.x with Impressario Client

The following procedure describes how to use the SGI Printer Manager program to conﬁgure a workstation running IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.x with Impressario Client to support a color PostScript printer.

From the Toolchest, click System/Printer Manager, or type printers at the command line.

Click Printer and select Add from the pull-down menu.

Fill in the ﬁelds; refer to the following table.

Field name Description

New Printer Name Name of the print queue (this can be anything). Connection T ype Select Network. Remote Host Name The name that you entered in your

Remote Printer Name Queue name that the printer recognizes:

Click OK.

as the remote machine name.

■ PS for PostScript

■ PCL for text

■ HPGL for HP7475A

■ AUTO for automatic selection.

/etc/hosts

ﬁle

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IRIX 6.x with Impressario Server

The following procedure describes how to use the SGI Printer Manager program to conﬁgure a workstation running IRIX 6.x with Impressario Server to support a color PostScript printer.

Field name Description

New Printer Name Name of the print queue (this can be anything). Printer Connected To Select Local Host.

From the Toolchest, click System/Printer Manager, or type printers at the command line.

Click Printer and select Add from the pull-down menu.

Fill in the ﬁelds; refer to the following table.

Location Code Optional; may contain information describing the

Location Description Optional; may contain information describing the

Printer Type Select one of the Generic Color PostScript

Printer is Attached to Select Network. Printer's Name (or IP Address) The name that you entered in your

Printer is Attached to Network With Network card Installed in printer.

Click OK.

location of the printer.

entries.

/etc/hosts

as the remote machine name.

IBM AIX 3.x and 4.x

Modify the /etc/hosts ﬁle to identify the printer to the workstation:

Log onto your system as root.

Make a backup copy of the /etc/hosts ﬁle.

N O T

You need superuser privileges to edit this ﬁle.

ﬁle

Edit /etc/hosts and add a line that deﬁnes the printer’s IP address and its name. The IP address you enter here for the printer must be the same address you speciﬁed as the printer's IP address when it was conﬁgured. The name is the name by which your workstation identiﬁes the printer.

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AIX 3.x

The following procedure describes how to use the AIX System Management program (SMIT) to conﬁgure a workstation running AIX 3.x to support a color PostScript printer.

From the command line, type smit.

Select Devices.

Select Printer/Plotter.

Select Manage Remote Printer Subsystem.

Select Client Services.

Select Remote Printer Queues.

Select Add a Remote Queue.

Fill in the ﬁelds; refer to the following table.

Field name Description

NAME of queue to add Name of the print queue (this can be anything). DESTINATION HOST for remote

jobs Name of QUEUE on remote

printer

NAME of device to add Any name.

10.

To process the information, press Enter. Make sure that SMIT ﬁnishes with

The name that you entered in your as the remote machine name.

The queue name that the printer recognizes:

■ PS for PostScript

■ PCL for text

■ HPGL for HP7475A

■ AUTO for automatic selection.

/etc/hosts

ﬁle

an OK in the upper left hand corner. To return to the ﬁrst Printer/Plotter Devices menu, press F3.

AIX 4.x

The following procedure describes how to use the AIX System Management program (SMIT) to conﬁgure a workstation running AIX 4.x to support a color PostScript printer.

From the command line, type: smit.

Select Print Spooling.

Select Add a Print Queue.

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Field name Description

Attachment T ype Select remote.

Fill in the ﬁelds; refer to the following table.

Type of Remote Printing Select Local ﬁltering before sending to

Remote Printer Type Select Other, then generic. Name of NEW print queues to add Use the down-arrow key to move down to

HOSTNAME of remote server The name that you entered in your

Name of QUEUE on remote server Queue name that the printer recognizes:

TYPE of print spooler on remote server

Send PASS-THROUGH FLAG to queue on remote server?

To process the information, press Enter. Make sure that SMIT ﬁnishes with

print server.

PostScript, then enter the print queue name

on the right side. This can be anything.

/etc/hosts

ﬁle as the remote machine name.

■ PS for PostScript

■ PCL for text

■ HPGL for HP7475A

■ AUTO for automatic selection.

Press F4 and select BSD.

Select F4 and select no.

an OK in the upper left hand corner. To return to the ﬁrst Printer/Plotter Devices menu, press F3.

Hewlett-Packard HP-UX 9.x and 10.x

Make a backup copy of the /etc/hosts ﬁle.

N O T

You need superuser privileges to edit this ﬁle.

Edit /etc/hosts and add a line that deﬁnes the printer's IP address and its remote machine name.

The IP address you enter here for the printer must be the same address you speciﬁed as the Tektronix printer IP address when you conﬁgured the printer. For example:

134.62.33.138 tekphaser

In this example, 134.62.33.138 is the printer's IP address and tekphaser is the printer's remote system name.

Use the HP System Administrator Manager program (SAM) to conﬁgure an HP workstation. From the command line, type: sam.

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Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

Network Printing with Tektronix Color Printers

Key components for networking Tektronix color printers

Network installation overview

How to tell which protocols are enabled

The printer’s networking software

Support for DOS systems

Tektronix PhaserPrint for UNIX software

EtherTalk, LocalTalk, and TokenTalk Configuration

Before you begin

Finding the printer’s name in the Chooser

Changing the printer’s name (optional)

Changing the printer’s EtherTalk/TokenTalk zone (optional)

Troubleshooting

Novell NetWare Configuration

The printer’s NetWare interface

Setting IPX frame types from the front panel

PhaserShare Administrator Software for NetWare Networks

Introduction to the PhaserShare Administrator

Installation

Using the PhaserShare Administrator

PhaserShare Administrator on-line help

TCP/IP Configuration Overview

Before you begin

TCP/IP Configuration Overview

Setting the printer’s IP addressing parameters

General information on setting IP parameters (front panel)

Setting IP parameters: RARP or BOOTP

Setting IP parameters: DHCP

Enabling and disabling RARP and BOOTP/DHCP (front panel)

Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software

Controlling host access

Receiving printer status

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