Notice FCC Notice This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protec- tion against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications.
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Following information is for EU-member states only: This product is marked according to the requirement in EU-Directive 2002/96/EC. (Directive on Waste electrical and electronic equipment - WEEE) The use of the symbol indicates that this product may not be disposed as unsorted municipal waste and has to be collected separately.
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Other Points Do not take off the cover of the equipment; otherwise you could be injured or get an electric shock. Make sure that there is enough space around the system to facilitate changing of parts, maintenance and clearing paper jam. If there is insufficient space, some operations, such as bypass feeding, will become difficult and the Multifunctional Digital Color Systems could even break down.
Preface Thank you for purchasing Multifunctional Digital Color Systems with the EFI Printer Server. This EASY SETUP GUIDE explains how to setup the equipment for printing. Read this guide before setting up your Multifunctional Digital Color Systems with the EFI Printer Server. Keep this guide within easy reach, and use it to configure quality printing environment and make the best use of your printer’s functions.
CONTENTS Notice......................1 Trademarks ....................4 Preface......................5 Chapter 1 SETUP FLOW Items Included in This Product ..............10 Setup Flow for Windows................11 For SMB Printing ..................11 For LPR Printing ..................12 For IPP Printing ..................13 For Novell Printing ...................14 Setup Flow for Macintosh................16 Chapter 2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) About Installation ..................
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SETUP FLOW Items Included in This Product................10 Setup Flow for Windows ..................11 For SMB Printing..........................11 For LPR Printing..........................12 For IPP Printing..........................13 For Novell Printing..........................14 Setup Flow for Macintosh ..................16...
1 SETUP FLOW Items Included in This Product The following items are included in this product. Check that you have all the items. Easy Setup Guide (this guide) Safety Information Client Utilities DVD-ROM User Documentation CD-ROM ...
Setup Flow for Windows After completing each procedure, please mark the check box ( ) in front of each procedure so that you can make sure that you have completed each step for setup. For SMB Printing Connecting the GA-1310/E Connect the GA-1310/E to your network with a network cable.
1 SETUP FLOW For LPR Printing Connecting the GA-1310/E Connect the GA-1310/E to your network with a network cable. REFERENCE for GA-1310/E Configuration and Setup PREPARING FOR GA-1310 SETUP Connecting network cable to the GA-1310 Setting up TCP/IP Configure the TCP/IP Setup options to assign the IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Gateway Address on the GA-1310/E to enable Fiery WebSetup from the control panel.
For IPP Printing Connecting the GA-1310/E Connect the GA-1310/E to your network with a network cable. REFERENCE for GA-1310/E Configuration and Setup PREPARING FOR GA-1310 SETUP Connecting network cable to the GA-1310 Setting up TCP/IP Configure the TCP/IP Setup options to assign the IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Gateway Address on the GA-1310/E to enable Fiery WebSetup from the control panel.
1 SETUP FLOW For Novell Printing A NetWare server is required in your network for Novell Printing. You cannot print through the NetWare print server from Windows Vista. Connecting the GA-1310/E Connect the GA-1310/E to your network with a network cable. REFERENCE for GA-1310/E Configuration and Setup PREPARING FOR GA-1310 SETUP...
Setting up the Printing Service Enable the PServer Setup options and NDS Setup options (when using in NDS/NDPS mode), or Bindery Setup options (when using in Bindery mode) from Fiery WebSetup or Command Work- Station. REFERENCE for GA-1310/E Configuration and Setup SETTING UP THE GA-1310 FROM THE CONTROL PANEL Network Setup Options Services Setup Options...
1 SETUP FLOW Setup Flow for Macintosh After completing each procedure, please mark the check box ( ) in front of each procedure so that you can make sure that you have completed each step for setup. Connecting the GA-1310/E Connect the GA-1310/E to your network with a network cable.
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INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) About Installation....................22 System Requirements........................22 About the Installation Procedure .......................22 Installing the Printer Driver..................23 Installing the Printer Driver for SMB Printing..................23 Installing the Printer Driver for LPR Printing ..................25 Installing the Printer Driver for IPP Printing..................33 Installing the Printer Driver for Novell Printing ..................39 Configuring the Option...................43 Configuring the Options Manually .....................43...
2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) About Installation Before installing the printer driver on your computer, read this section to understand the installa- tion. System Requirements To install the printer drivers on a Windows computer, the following is required. Hardware: PC/AT compatible with an 80486, AMD, or Pentium processor Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service Pack 1 or later, Win- dows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1...
Installing the Printer Driver Installing the Printer Driver for SMB Printing PREPARATIONS: Before installing the printer driver to use SMB printing, please make sure of the following: If a previous version of the printer driver has been installed on the system, it must be removed. (For instructions on how to remove the printer driver, refer to the Printing from Windows.) ...
2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Click [Continue]. The printer driver is installed and the print queue screen appears. Continue the operation to con- figure the option settings on the printer driver. P.43 “Configuring the Option” The installed printer driver varies depending on the Set Driver Type setting. When the Set Driver Type setting is set to “PCL”, the PCL printer driver is installed.
Installing the Printer Driver for LPR Printing PREPARATIONS: Before installing the printer driver to use LPR printing, please make sure of the following: The GA-1310/E printer is connected to the network and turned on. The TCP/IP setting is completed correctly. ...
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2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Click [Add a printer]. The Add Printer dialog box appears. Select [Add a local printer]. Select [Create a new port], select [Standard TCP/IP Port] in the [Type of port] box, and click [Next]. Installing the Printer Driver...
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Select [TCP/IP Device] in the [Device type] box, enter the IP address of the GA-1310/E printer in the [Hostname or IP address] box, and click [Next]. When you use a WINS server, enter the print server name of the GA- 1310/E printer provided from the WINS server in the [Hostname or IP address] box.
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2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Select [LPR] at the [Protocol] option, enter a queue name in the [Queue Name] box at the [LPR Settings] option, and click [OK]. In the [Queue Name] box, you have to enter a queue name, direct, hold, or print, on the GA-1310/E printer.
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If you have enabled Port 9100 printing at the GA-1310/E control panel, you can set up Port 9100 printing as well. When you want to set up Port 9100 printing, select [Raw] at the [Proto- col] option, and enter the port number in the [Port Number] box at the [Raw Settings] option. The port number is different for each print connection as following: 9101 - use direct queue for printing.
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2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Click [Have Disk]. The Install From Disk dialog box appears. Insert the User Software (Driv- ers) into the DVD-ROM drive. Click [Browse]. The Locate File dialog box appears. Locate the directory where the printer driver that you want to install is located, select the oemsetup.inf file, and click [Open].
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Select the printer driver and click [Next]. GA-1310/E printer PS printer driver GA-1310 PS v1.0 (for North America) GA-1310E PS v1.0 (for Europe) PCL printer driver GA-1310 PCL v1.0 (for North America) GA-1310E PCL v1.0 (for Europe) Change the name as required and click [Next].
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2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Click [Print a test page]. The Printer Sharing dialog box may appear prior to this step. In this case, select whether to share the printer with network clients, and click [Next] to pro- ceed to this step. Make sure that a test page is printed successfully and click [Close] to close the screen.
Installing the Printer Driver for IPP Printing PREPARATIONS: Before installing the printer driver to use IPP printing, please make sure of the following: The GA-1310/E printer is connected to the network and turned on. The TCP/IP setting is completed correctly. ...
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2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Click [Add a printer]. The Add Printer dialog box appears. If you are using the Windows 2000, double-click the [Add Printer] icon. The [Add Printer Wizard] dialog box appears. If you are using the Windows XP/ 2003 Server, click [Add a Printer] in the [Printer Tasks].
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Select [Select a shared printer by name], enter “http://[IP address]/ipp/[queue name]” in the edit box, and click [Next]. Enter the IP address of GA-1310/E printer instead of [IP address]. Enter a queue name that you want to use instead of [queue name] depending on how you want to print.
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2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Click [Have Disk]. The Install From Disk dialog box appears. Insert the User Software (Driv- ers) into the DVD-ROM drive. Click [Browse]. The Locate File dialog box appears. Locate the directory where the printer driver that you want to install is located, select the oemsetup.inf file, and click [Open].
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Select the printer driver and click [OK]. GA-1310/E printer PS printer driver GA-1310 PS v1.0 (for North America) GA-1310E PS v1.0 (for Europe) PCL printer driver GA-1310 PCL v1.0 (for North America) GA-1310E PCL v1.0 (for Europe) Select whether using this printer as a default printer and click [Next].
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2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Click [Finish]. The printer driver is installed. Continue the operation to con- figure the option settings on the printer driver. P.43 “Configuring the Option” Installing the Printer Driver...
Installing the Printer Driver for Novell Printing PREPARATIONS: Before installing the printer driver to use Novell printing, please make sure of the following: The GA-1310/E printer is connected to the network and turned on. The TCP/IP setting is completed correctly. (Required only when you want to use Fiery WebSetup or using the printer with NetWare server 5.x in the TCP/IP network.) ...
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2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Open the NetWare server (when using in bindery mode) or NDS directory tree (when using in NDS or NDPS mode) in the Network Neighborhood with the Windows Explorer, and double-click a queue. Select a queue depending on how you want to print.
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Click [Have Disk]. The Install From Disk dialog box appears. Insert the User Software (Driv- ers) into the DVD-ROM drive. Click on [Browse]. The Locate File dialog box appears. Locate the directory where the printer driver that you want to install is located, select the oemsetup.inf file, and click [Open].
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2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Select the printer driver and click [OK]. GA-1310/E printer PS printer driver GA-1310 PS v1.0 (for North America) GA-1310E PS v1.0 (for Europe) PCL printer driver GA-1310 PCL v1.0 (for North America) GA-1310E PCL v1.0 (for Europe) The printer driver is installed.
Configuring the Option After you complete the installation of printer drivers, you should configure the option settings on the printer driver. There are two methods to configure the options; When the GA-1310/E printer and your computer is not connected in the TCP/IP V4 network, you can configure the options manually.
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2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Click [Start], select [Control Panel] and click [Printer] under [Hardware and Sound] to open the Printers folder. If you are using the Windows 2000, click [Start], select [Settings], and click [Printers] to open the Printers folder.
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Select the [Accessories] tab, select the option under [Avail- able Options] box, and click [Add]. Added options are displayed in the [Installed Options] box. Repeat the operation to add all options installed on the equipment. GA-1310/E printer Finisher Add this option when the Finisher (DF-800) is installed. ...
2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Configuring the Options Automatically When the GA-1310/E printer and your computer is connected in the TCP/IP V4 network, you can configure the options automatically obtaining the settings using the Two-Way Communica- tion function. Click [Start], select [Control Panel] and click [Printer] under [Hardware and Sound] to open the Printers folder.
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Select the [Accessories] tab, select the [Two-Way Communi- cation] check box, and enter the IPv4 address or DNS Name in the [Printer IP Address or DNS Name] box. Then click [Update]. When you installed the printer driver for SMB printing, the [Two-Way Communication] check box has been selected and the DNS Name has entered in the [Printer IP Address or...
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2 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Windows) Configuring the Option...
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INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Macintosh) About Installation....................50 System Requirements........................50 Installing the Printer Driver..................51 Installing the PPD Files ........................51 Creating the Printer ...........................53 Appendix for Booklet Printing on Macintosh............57 Printing a Booklet ..........................57...
3 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Macintosh) About Installation Before installing the printer driver on your computer, read this section to understand the installa- tion. System Requirements To install the printer drivers on a Macintosh computer, the following is required: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later Memory: 256MB or more About Installation...
Installing the Printer Driver To install the printer driver to Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, follow the procedure below: Installing the PPD Files to your Macintosh computer P.51 “Installing the PPD Files” Creating the PostScript printer for the GA-1311/E printer on your Macintosh computer ...
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3 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Macintosh) Click [Install]. It starts copying files. Click [Quit] Installing the Printer Driver...
Creating the Printer Start the Printer Setup Utility (or Print Center in Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later), located in the “Applications: Utilities” folder in the Boot Disk. The Printer List screen appears. Click [Add]. When using the OS X 10.4, proceed to step 4.
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3 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Macintosh) Select the GA-1310/E printer displayed in the list. Select a GA-1311/E printer depend- ing on how you operate the printing. ([Server Name] is a printer name of GA-1311/E.) [Server Name]_Print - print jobs are spooled to the hard disk in the GA- 1310/E printer and printed out.
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Select [GA-1310/E] in the Model list and click [Add]. The printer is added to the Printer Name List. Select the printer that you have created, and select [Show Info] in the [Printers] menu. The Printer Info screen appears. Select [Installable Options] in the drop down box.
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3 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Macintosh) Select each option according to the configuration of the GA- 1310/E printer. GA-1310/E printer Finisher Add this option when the Finisher (DF-800) is installed. Finisher + Hole Punch Add this option when the Finisher (DF-800) with the Hole Punch Unit (PH-6) is installed. ...
Appendix for Booklet Printing on Macintosh The following information does not always guarantee for that all applications can perform the booklet printing from a Macintosh computer. Printing a Booklet When you want to print a booklet from a portrait document or a landscape document, follow the procedure below.
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3 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Macintosh) Select [Layout 1] in the [Fea- ture Sets] box and select [Top- Top] in the [Duplex] box. Select [Layout 2] in the [Fea- ture Sets] box and select [Sad- dle - Left Binding] when printing a left binding docu- ment, or [Saddle - Right Bind- ing] when printing a right...
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Select [Finishing 1] in the [Fea- ture Sets] box, select [Saddle Tray] in the [Output Tray] box, and click on [Print]. Appendix for Booklet Printing on Macintosh...
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3 INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER (Macintosh) Appendix for Booklet Printing on Macintosh...
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