Epson AcuLaser C2900DN- User Manual

Epson AcuLaser C2900DN

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 2 – Contents; Preface
  • Page 8 – Copyright and Trademarks
  • Page 9 – Copyright © 2011 Seiko Epson Corporation. All rights reserved.
  • Page 10 – About License; RSA BSAFE; This product includes software developed by Eric Young.; AES; Copyright; JPEG
  • Page 11 – Using This Guide; Conventions; The following terms are used throughout this guide:; Product Features; Features
  • Page 12 – Print
  • Page 13 – Chapter 1; Specifications
  • Page 17 – Chapter 2; Basic Operation; Main Components; Front View
  • Page 18 – The operator panel has a liquid crystal display (LCD) and buttons.
  • Page 19 – Securing the Printer
  • Page 20 – Attach the Kensington lock to the security slot on your printer.; Preparing Printer Hardware; Completely pull out the eight yellow ribbons.
  • Page 21 – Installing Optional Accessories; Installing the Additional Memory Module; Your printer supports additional 512 MB memory module.
  • Page 22 – Loosen the screw. You do not need to remove the screw.
  • Page 23 – Menu; Printer Settings; Memory Capacity
  • Page 24 – Updating Your Driver to Detect Additional Memory Module; The following procedure uses Microsoft
  • Page 25 – Installing the Optional Duplex Unit; Turn off the printer and disconnect the power cord.
  • Page 26 – Push the side button to open the front cover.
  • Page 27 – Updating Your Driver to Detect Optional Duplex Unit
  • Page 28 – tab, and then select
  • Page 29 – Installing the Optional 250-Sheet Paper Cassette Unit; Remove the tape and the bag holding the screws.
  • Page 31 – Printer Options
  • Page 33 – Printing a Panel Settings Page; Panel Settings
  • Page 34 – Power Saver Mode; display also goes blank and displays nothing.; Exiting the Power Saver Mode; Energy Saver; Energy
  • Page 35 – Chapter 3; Printer Management Software; Print Drivers; Creating an Administrative Password
  • Page 37 – The; Status Settings; tab, and then select the type of the pop-up from; Auto start setup; You can also check the toner level of your printer.
  • Page 38 – Chapter 4; Network Basics; Overview of Network Setup and Configuration; Software Disc; “Printing a Printer Settings Page” on page 100; Connecting Your Printer
  • Page 39 – Connecting Printer to Computer or Network
  • Page 40 – USB Connection; To connect the printer to a computer:
  • Page 41 – Network Connection; To connect the printer to a network:; Setting the IP Address; TCP/IP and IP Addresses
  • Page 42 – Automatically Setting the Printer’s IP Address; Dynamic Methods of Setting the Printer’s IP Address; Using the Operator Panel; Admin Menu
  • Page 43 – Get IP Address; Using EpsonNet Config; When you assign an IP address manually in
  • Page 45 – Verifying the IP Settings; start
  • Page 46 – “Printing and Checking the Printer Settings Page” on page 46; Printing and Checking the Printer Settings Page; IP Address; Installing Print Driver on Computers Running Windows
  • Page 47 – The Operator Panel; Disabling the Firewall Before Installing Your Printer; For Windows XP, Service Pack 2 or 3 must be installed.; Online Help
  • Page 48 – Inserting the Software Disc; If the Software Disc does not automatically launch, click; For Installing PostScript Print Driver; USB Connection Setup; For Installing PCL Print Driver
  • Page 49 – PostScript User's Guide; Network Connection Setup; For installing PCL print driver
  • Page 50 – For installing PostScript print driver; Setting Up for Shared Printing; You need to purchase an Ethernet cable for shared printing.
  • Page 53 – For Windows Vista and Windows Vista 64-bit Edition
  • Page 55 – For Windows 7, Windows 7 64-bit Edition, and Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Page 56 – Installing Print Driver on Computers Running Mac OS X; Installing Print Driver on Computers Running Linux (CUPS); Installing the Print Driver; The print driver; For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 WS/5 Client
  • Page 57 – Setting Up the Queue
  • Page 58 – For SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
  • Page 59 – For SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
  • Page 60 – You can specify the printer name in
  • Page 61 – Setting the Default Queue
  • Page 62 – Specifying the Printing Options
  • Page 64 – Setting the Password for Authority as the Printer Administrator; Uninstalling the Print Driver
  • Page 65 – Computer
  • Page 66 – Repeat the command above for all queues for the same model.; The print driver is uninstalled.
  • Page 67 – Chapter 5; Printing Basics; About Print Media; Print Media Usage Guidelines; Some wrinkling and embossing may occur when printing envelopes.
  • Page 68 – Print Media That Can Damage Your Printer
  • Page 69 – Supported Print Media; Print Media Dimensions
  • Page 71 – Standard 250-Sheet Tray
  • Page 72 – Optional 250-Sheet Paper Cassette Unit; “Loading Envelope in the Standard 250-Sheet Tray” on page 75; Loading Print Media
  • Page 73 – Capacity; 50 sheets of the standard paper.
  • Page 75 – Loading Envelope in the Standard 250-Sheet Tray
  • Page 76 – Monarch or DL
  • Page 77 – OR
  • Page 78 – Loading Print Media in the Single Sheet Feeder (SSF); Adjust the width guides to the print media’s width.
  • Page 79 – Loading Envelope in the Single Sheet Feeder (SSF); Ensure that you load an envelope with the flap completely closed.
  • Page 81 – Loading Letterhead in the Single Sheet Feeder (SSF); Load only one size and type of print media during a single print job.; Setting Paper Sizes and Types
  • Page 82 – “Understanding the Printer Menus” on page 104; Setting Paper Sizes; Setting Paper Types; Tray Settings; Printing
  • Page 83 – Canceling a Job From the Operator Panel; Active Jobs
  • Page 84 – Canceling a Job From the Computer Running Windows; Canceling a Job From the Taskbar; Using the Stored Print Function
  • Page 85 – Secure Print
  • Page 86 – Storing Print Jobs; Normal Print; Printing the Stored Jobs; Specifying Your Password on the Operator Panel (Secure Print)
  • Page 87 – Deleting Stored Jobs; Duplex Printing; Automatic Duplex Printing
  • Page 88 – Using Booklet Print
  • Page 89 – Selecting Printing Options
  • Page 90 – Selecting Options for an Individual Job (Windows)
  • Page 91 – Printing Options for Windows
  • Page 92 – Selecting Options for an Individual Job (Mac OS X); With the document open in your application, click; File; In Mac OS
  • Page 93 – Printing options for Mac OS X
  • Page 94 – Printing Custom Size Paper; “Loading Print Media in the Single Sheet Feeder (SSF)” on page 78
  • Page 95 – “Setting Paper Sizes and Types” on page 81; Defining Custom Paper Sizes; Using the Windows Print Driver
  • Page 96 – Printing on Custom Size Paper; The way to display the printer; Using the Mac OS X Print Driver
  • Page 97 – Auditron
  • Page 98 – The following table shows how the printer works with Auditron.
  • Page 99 – Checking Status of Print Data; button: Displays the; Printing a Report Page
  • Page 100 – Printing a Printer Settings Page; Help; Factory defaults may vary for different regions.
  • Page 101 – Printing With Web Services on Devices (WSD); Adding Roles of Print Services
  • Page 102 – Printer Setup; Installing a Print Driver Using the Add Printer Wizard
  • Page 104 – Chapter 6; Using the Operator Panel Menus; Understanding the Printer Menus; To print a sample of the available PCL fonts.; PCL Macro List; To print the information on the downloaded PCL macro.
  • Page 105 – RAM Disk; Billing Meters
  • Page 106 – PCL Settings; Use the; Paper Tray; To specify the default paper tray.; Output Size; To specify the default paper size.
  • Page 107 – inch series
  • Page 108 – Orientation; To specify how text and graphics are oriented on the page.; Font
  • Page 110 – Symbol Set; To specify a symbol set for a specified font.; Font Size
  • Page 111 – Font Pitch; Form Line; To set the number of lines in a page.; and; Quantity
  • Page 112 – Hex Dump; To help isolate the source of a print job problem. With; Draft Mode; To add the line termination commands.
  • Page 113 – Output Color; Color; PS Settings; PS Error Report
  • Page 114 – Paper Select Mode; To set the way to select the paper tray for PostScript mode.; To set the default color for PostScript.; Wired Network; Ethernet
  • Page 116 – Protocol
  • Page 117 – IP Filter; IP Filter feature is available only when
  • Page 118 – To set the PostScript communications protocol.
  • Page 119 – USB Settings; Port Status; System Settings; Use
  • Page 120 – Power Saver Time; To specify the time for transition to power saver mode.; Auto Reset
  • Page 121 – Clock Settings; To specify the date and time formats.
  • Page 122 – Audio Tones
  • Page 123 – DefaultPaperSize; Auto Job History; To automatically print a job history report after every 20 jobs.
  • Page 124 – The Job History report can also be printed using the; Print ID; To specify a location where the user ID is printed.; Print Text
  • Page 125 – Banner Sheet
  • Page 126 – To specify whether to print on both sides when you use letterhead.
  • Page 127 – Low Toner Msg; To specify whether to show the alert message when the toner is low.; Maintenance Mode; Adjust PaperType; To specify paper density settings.
  • Page 128 – To adjust the fusing temperature setting for each paper type.
  • Page 129 – Auto Adjust Regi
  • Page 130 – Adjust ColorRegi; To manually perform color registration adjustment.; Auto Adjust; Clean Developer; To stir the toner in a new toner cartridge.
  • Page 131 – To clean the toner in each toner cartridge.; To clean the surface of the drum cartridge.
  • Page 132 – To use toner cartridge of another manufacturer.; Adjust Altitude
  • Page 133 – Secure Settings; Panel Lock; To set a limited access to; Login Error; Login Error feature is available only when
  • Page 139 – Panel Lock Function; Enabling the Panel Lock; Disabling the Panel Lock
  • Page 140 – Setting the Power Saver Time Option; Resetting to Factory Defaults
  • Page 142 – Chapter 7; Troubleshooting; Clearing Jams; “About Print Media” on page 67; Avoiding Jams; Use only recommended print media.
  • Page 143 – Identifying the Location of Paper Jams
  • Page 144 – Clearing Paper Jams From the SSF
  • Page 147 – Clearing Paper Jams From the Standard 250-Sheet Tray
  • Page 150 – Close the belt unit, and push at the top of the unit until it clicks.
  • Page 151 – Clearing Paper Jams From the Fuser Unit; Turn off the printer and wait for 40 minutes.
  • Page 153 – Clearing Paper Jams From the Optional Duplex Unit; Push the side button to open the front cover.
  • Page 158 – Jam Problems; Standard 250-Sheet Tray Misfeed Jam
  • Page 159 – SSF Misfeed Jam
  • Page 160 – Optional 250-Sheet Paper Cassette Unit Misfeed Jam
  • Page 162 – Basic Printer Problems; The printer is turned on.
  • Page 163 – Display Problems; Printing Problems
  • Page 165 – Print Quality Problems; The Output Is Too Light
  • Page 167 – Toner Smears or Print Comes Off
  • Page 168 – Random Spots/Blurred Images; The Entire Output Is Blank
  • Page 170 – Streaks Appear on the Output; Part or the Entire Output Is Black
  • Page 171 – Pitched Color Dots
  • Page 172 – Vertical Blanks
  • Page 173 – Mottle; Ghosting
  • Page 174 – Light-Induced Fatigue
  • Page 175 – Fog
  • Page 176 – Jagged Characters
  • Page 177 – Banding
  • Page 178 – Auger Mark; Wrinkled/Stained Paper
  • Page 180 – Damage on the Leading Edge of Paper; The Top and Side Margins Are Incorrect
  • Page 181 – Color Registration Is out of Alignment
  • Page 182 – Protrudent/Bumpy Paper; Adjusting Color Registration; Performing Auto Adjust
  • Page 183 – Printing the Color Registration Chart; Determining Values; Fast Scan
  • Page 184 – Slow Scan
  • Page 185 – Entering Values
  • Page 187 – Problems With Installed Optional Accessories; Other Problems; Understanding Printer Messages
  • Page 197 – Contacting Service; LCD Panel Messages; “Understanding Printer Messages” on page 187; Status Monitor Alerts; The Status Monitor is a tool that is included on the; . It automatically checks the printer
  • Page 199 – Chapter 8; Maintenance; Cleaning the Printer; Cleaning Inside the Printer
  • Page 201 – Clean the feed roll inside the printer with a dry cloth.
  • Page 202 – Close the belt unit, and push at the top of the unit until it clicks.
  • Page 203 – Cleaning the Color Toner Density (CTD) Sensor
  • Page 206 – Replacing Toner Cartridges; Epson toner cartridges are available only through Epson.; Overview
  • Page 207 – Removing the Toner Cartridges
  • Page 208 – Installing a Toner Cartridge
  • Page 210 – Replacing the Drum Cartridge; This section describes how to replace the drum cartridge.; Removing the Drum Cartridge; with both hands, and remove it from the printer.
  • Page 212 – Installing the Drum Cartridge; Take out the drum cartridge from the packaging.
  • Page 214 – Close the belt unit, and push at the top of the unit until it clicks.
  • Page 215 – Replacing the Fuser Unit; This section describes how to replace the fuser unit.; Removing the Fuser Unit
  • Page 217 – and slide out the fuser unit.; Installing the Fuser Unit; Hold both sides of the fuser unit with your hands.
  • Page 218 – Close the belt unit, and push at the top of the unit until it clicks.
  • Page 219 – Resetting the Counter of the Fuser Unit; Replacing the Feed Roll Unit; Epson feed rolls are available only through Epson.
  • Page 220 – Removing the Feed Roll Unit in the Standard 250-Sheet Tray
  • Page 221 – Installing the Feed Roll Unit in the Standard 250-Sheet Tray; Align the new feed roll unit with the groove on the axle.
  • Page 222 – Ordering Supplies; Consumables; DRUM CARTRIDGE; When to Order Supplies
  • Page 223 – Storing Print Media; Do not place anything on top of the print media packages.; Storing Consumables; An environment with extreme changes in humidity or temperature.
  • Page 224 – Managing the Printer; Checking or Managing the Printer with EpsonNet Config; Starting EpsonNet Config; Use the following procedure to start EpsonNet Config.; Address; field, and then press the; Enter; The EpsonNet Config screen appears.; Using Online Help; For details about each item, refer to the Help on the Software Disc.; Checking Printer Status with Status Monitor (Windows Only); Starting Status Monitor; Select
  • Page 226 – Moving the Printer; This section describes how to move the printer.
  • Page 228 – Removing Options; Removing the Additional Memory Module
  • Page 230 – Close the control board cover, and turn the screw clockwise.; Removing the Optional Duplex Unit
  • Page 231 – Lift the lever of the optional duplex unit.
  • Page 232 – Removing the Optional 250-Sheet Paper Cassette Unit
  • Page 234 – Two people are required to lift the printer.
  • Page 235 – Appendix A; Where To Get Help; Contacting Epson Support; Before Contacting Epson; Product model; Help for Users in Europe; Check your; Pan-European Warranty Document; for information on how to contact Epson support.; Help for Users in Taiwan
  • Page 236 – Repair service center:
  • Page 237 – Help for Users in Singapore; Our HelpDesk team can help you with the following over the phone:; Help for Users in Thailand
  • Page 238 – Epson Hotline
  • Page 239 – Epson Service Center
  • Page 240 – Help for Users in Hong Kong; Internet Home Page; Product information; Technical Support Hotline; Help for Users in Malaysia; Information on product specifications, drivers for download
  • Page 241 – Epson Helpdesk; Sales enquiries and product information (Infoline); Help for Users in India; Epson India Head Office - Bangalore
  • Page 242 – Helpline; Help for Users in the Philippines; Helpdesk Direct Line:; World Wide Web; Our Hotline team can help you with the following over the phone:
  • Page 243 – Enquiries on repair service and warranty
  • Page 244 – Index
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