Xerox 4850 - Manual

Safety System Overview Guide ix • Never use supplies or cleaning materials for other than their intended purposes. Keep all materials out of the reach of children. • Never operate the equipment if you notice unusual noises or odors. Disconnect the power cord from the electrical outlet and call servi...

Safety x System Overview Guide Electrical supply This product shall be operated from the type of electrical supply indicated on the product’s data plate label. If you are not sure that your electrical supply meets the requirements, please consult your local power company for advice. This product mus...

Safety System Overview Guide xi Maintenance Any operator product maintenance procedures will be described in the user documentation supplied with the product. Do not carry out any maintenance on the product, which is not described in the customer documentation. Before cleaning your product Before cl...

Safety xii System Overview Guide Radio and telecommunications equipment directive (Europe only) Certification to 1999/5/EC Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Directive: This Xerox product has been self-certified by Xerox for pan-European single terminal connection to the analo...

Safety System Overview Guide xiii For further information For more information on Environment, Health and Safety in relation to this Xerox product and supplies, please contact the following customer help lines: Europe:+44 1707 353434 USA:1 800 8286571 Canada:1 800 8286571

System Overview Guide xv Introduction This guide provides an overview of the individual components of the NPS/IPS printing system and how they work together. It is designed to provide you with background information that can be used to make informed decisions regarding printer use and performance. A...

xvi System Overview Guide • Appendix A, “Supplies,” provides information and specifications on paper and other media used with the NPS/IPS, as well as instructions for ordering supplies. Conventions This guide uses the following conventions: • All caps and angle brackets: Within procedures, the name...

Introduction System Overview Guide xvii NOTE: Notes are hints that help you perform a task or understand the text. CAUTION Cautions aler t you to an action that could damage hardware or software. WARNING Warnings alert you to conditions that may affect the safety of people. Related publications The ...

System Overview Guide 1-1 1. System overview This chapter introduces the DocuPrint NPS/IPS printing system and describes its major and optional components. It also provides information on how highlight color is used in printed documents. Functional overview of the NPS/IPS The NPS/IPS printers suppor...

System overview 1-2 System Overview Guide Resolution The 4850/4890 NPS/IPS provides high print quality at 300 dpi resolution. It can receive data at 240, 300, or 600 dpi. The controller converts 240 and 600 to 300 dpi data. The 92C NPS/IPS provides exceptional print quality at 600 dpi resolution. It...

System overview System Overview Guide 1-3 Xerox-supplied printer interface The printer interface cables provide high-speed data transport and communication between the printer controller and the printer. Xerox-supplied DocuPrint printer The printer accepts data from the printer controller and prints...

System overview 1-4 System Overview Guide Document Feeding and Finishing Architecture (DFA) The Document Feeding and Finishing Architecture (DFA) on the NPS/IPS suppor ts all third-party finishing devices currently validated for the LCDS (J11) printers (DFA is not suppor ted on the 4850). The bypass...

System overview System Overview Guide 1-5 • Host Resources MIB (RFC 1514) This MIB defines variables useful in managing a “host” system. In this context, a host is a computer that is directly used by human beings and that communicates with other similar computers attached through a network. The Host...

System overview 1-6 System Overview Guide Sixth Sense is intended to automate and expedite the range of service-related suppor t functions. Sixth Sense is a tool that enables Xerox to provide benchmark service support. Xerox customers benefit from the ability to bring broader support to focus more q...

System overview System Overview Guide 1-7 How highlight color is created A document with highlight color contains one color plus black. The color may be printed either as a solid color or combined with black. The NPS/IPS prints the highlight color by printing small dots in a single pass with near-pe...

System overview 1-8 System Overview Guide When the NPS/IPS receives a full-color document, the printer software matches the colors as closely as possible. If you specify a color in your document that the NPS/IPS cannot print, it is printed either as a shade of gray or as an equivalent tone of highli...

System Overview Guide 2-1 2. Printer controller overview The printer controller manages print options, provides the user interface, and runs system management and diagnostic operations on demand. The following is an explanation of tasks that enable the job to be printed: • The printer controller det...

Printer controller overview 2-2 System Overview Guide Printer controller components The printer controller consists of a specially-configured Sun workstation and uses proprietary Xerox hardware, firmware, and software. Your system may use one of two platforms for the printer controller: • Sun Blade ...

Printer controller overview System Overview Guide 2-3 Figure 2-1. Components of the printer controller 1. Monitor 2. Mouse 3. Keyboard 4. Diskette drive 5. DVD-ROM drive 6. Processor Processor The central processing unit contains the memory, internal disk drive, a graphics board, a DVD-ROM drive, a ...

Printer controller overview 2-4 System Overview Guide • Diskette drive: Diskettes inser ted into a diskette drive are used to install fonts and to load files to, and back up files from, the internal disk drive. The diskette drive uses industry standard 3.5 inch, 1.44 MB, double-sided, high-density d...

Printer controller overview System Overview Guide 2-5 6. Twisted-pair Ethernet (TPE) connector 7. IEEE 1394 connectors 8. Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) connector 9. Audio module headphones, line-in, line-out, and microphone connectors 10. Graphics card / video connector (frame buffer 0) 11. ...

Printer controller overview 2-6 System Overview Guide Optional components For channel connection to a host for IPDS printing, the system may use an HCU. An external 4 mm tape drive is available and recommended for backing up site files. A typical color calibration file is 1.5 MB. Figure 2-3. Printer...

Printer controller overview System Overview Guide 2-7 • CD-ROM: The CD-ROM drive, located in the processor above the diskette drive, is a high-density, read-only, optical laser storage device used for loading the software, fonts and other files. • Cartridge tape drive: The Sun Ultra 60 offers an opt...

System Overview Guide 3-1 3. Printer components and options The printer processes the electronic data and images received from the controller and produces the printed output. This chapter describes the components and options available for the printer. Printer components The NPS/IPS printers contain ...

Printer components and options System Overview Guide 3-3 Figure 3-2. Printer console 1. Attention light 2. Message display 3. Graphic display 4. Wire percentage indicator 5. Feeder tray indicators 6. Power on/off switch 7. Sample button (not used) 8. Continue button 9. Stop button 10. Fault code dis...

Printer components and options 3-6 System Overview Guide Additional printer features Additional features of the NPS/IPS include the following: Instruction labels Located throughout the printer to assist you with a variety of tasks. Power savers To conserve energy, the printer has two power savers: o...

Printer components and options System Overview Guide 3-7 CCU changeout cart The car t is used to remove and install the customer changeable unit (CCU). The CCU consists of the color developer housing and the dry ink bottle. Because the CCU is heavy, the user will need the cart to make the change. Th...

Printer components and options 3-8 System Overview Guide High-capacity feeder The high-capacity feeder (HCF) provides two additional feeder trays. The extra trays work interchangeably with feeder trays 1 and 2 to allow automatic tray switching and uninterrupted printing time. Figure 3-5. 4850/4890/9...

Printer components and options System Overview Guide 3-9 Dual stacker The dual stacker contains two identical output trays. Output can be sent to either of these trays or both of these trays. NOTE: A dual stacker is required on the NPS/IPS for installation of the bypass transpor t. Figure 3-6. 4850/...

Printer components and options 3-10 System Overview Guide Stitcher/stacker The stitcher/stacker inserts wire-stitches (staples) into documents. Figure 3-7. 4850/4890/92C NPS/IPS printer with stitcher/stacker 1. Sample tray 2. Stitcher/stacker tray Sample tray Used for sample prints, rejected prints,...

Printer components and options 3-12 System Overview Guide Software, firmware, hardware, and paper requirements The optional bypass transpor t requires the following: • Dual stacker output module • Standard white, colored, predrilled, or preprinted paper. To minimize paper jams and misfeeds, use 20 p...

Printer components and options 3-13 System Overview Guide Profiles for third-party finishing devices When a bypass transport is connected to the NPS/IPS, you can add any number of third-par ty finishing devices. Figure 3-9. Third-party finishing device configuration 1. Paper path 2. Bypass transport...

Printer components and options 3-15 System Overview Guide 7. Sheet path 8. Finishing device left edge Electrical connection The printer automatically detects the presence of the bypass transport and third-par ty finishing devices when it is powered up. The system also begins monitoring the interlock...

Printer components and options 3-16 System Overview Guide Paper paths The paper path is the route that stocks (paper, transparencies, labels, and so on) follow through the printer from the feeder trays to the output trays. The figure below illustrates the simplex (one-sided output) paper path of a p...

System Overview Guide 4-1 4. Network printing environment The NPS/IPS system supports the personal computer (PC), Sun workstation, DEC workstation, HP/Apollo, IBM RS/6000 and Apple Macintosh. It accepts PostScript levels 1 and 2, PCL 5, TIFF, and ASCII output. Client workstations and system software...

Network printing environment 4-2 System Overview Guide Client software On your PC or workstation, you must install or set up a supported means of submitting jobs to the printer. Depending on your system, you can use the following: • Xerox drivers for Windows 3.x, 95/98, or NT/2000 • Xerox Document S...

Network printing environment System Overview Guide 4-3 • Xerox Client Software: Provides a print command for submitting jobs and specifying print options. The functionality of the print command is dependent on the TCP/IP software installed on the workstation. • Xerox DocuPrint Document Submission Cl...

Network printing environment System Overview Guide 4-5 Job status feedback Client workstations display fault messages and additional information, such as the status of feeder trays and output bins. If properly configured, the workstations may be able to display job status, as shown below. To determi...

Network printing environment 4-6 System Overview Guide The job status command (lpq) is available at client workstations unless your TCP/IP network communications utilities do not support it. Xerox Client Software provides commands for listing the status of the job and for listing the queue. These co...

Network printing environment System Overview Guide 4-7 Multiple network connectivity The system suppor ts multiple network connectivity, that is, the ability for protocols such as TCP/IP to run on more than one network interface. For TCP/IP, the system can support any combination of Ethernet or Toke...

System Overview Guide 5-1 5. IPDS printing environment The NPS/IPS emulates an IBM AFP Group 3 page printer with the Advanced Function Image and Graphics (AFIG) option. It can print in all the following PSF environments: MVS, VM (channel-attached only), VSE (channel-attached only, OS/2, OS/400 (with...

IPDS printing environment System Overview Guide 5-3 Figure 5-2. Printing system: TCP/IP configuration 1. Host system (PC or mainframe) 2. Interface network (Ethernet or Token Ring) 3. Printer controller 4. Printer interface cables 5. Printer For information on the various printer configuration optio...

IPDS printing environment 5-4 System Overview Guide Figure 5-3. Channel board and control unit 1. Printer 2. Printer control and video cable 3. Printer controller with channel interface board 4. Channel cable connector box 5. Channel cables 6. Host system NOTE: The customer is responsible for obtain...

IPDS printing environment 5-6 System Overview Guide • OL1: Overlay One • PS1: Page Segment One • Line mode data streams Each of the data objects follow the same object rule of containing delimiting fields with structured fields describing each object. Software features for IPDS This section describe...

IPDS printing environment System Overview Guide 5-7 Color image support Some IM1 images (for example, logos) can be conver ted to IOCA for resolution correction. The bi-level IOCA feature enables such IM1 images to be printed in color on the highlight-color printer. PSF does not strip the color info...

System Overview Guide A-1 A. Supplies This appendix provides information and specifications for the media you use with your Xerox DocuPrint 4850/4890/92C NPS/IPS printer. Instructions for ordering supplies are also provided. Consumable supplies (those that are depleted during operation of the system...

Supplies System Overview Guide A-3 • Tinted paper: Available in a variety of colors, it has many uses, including calling attention to certain printed material, separating special sections, or dividing chapters of a report. • Preprinted paper: May be letterhead, forms, or logos. • Predrilled paper: H...

Supplies A-4 System Overview Guide Figure A-1. Storing paper correctly Figure A-2. Recommended temperature and humidity for paper storage Conditioning paper Because temperature and humidity affect paper performance in the printer, you need to condition paper before using it. To do this, store paper ...

Supplies System Overview Guide A-5 The length of time you should condition your paper depends on the amount of paper and the difference between the storage and operating temperatures. Use the following chart to determine the length of time needed to condition stacked car tons of paper. NOTE: The num...

Supplies A-6 System Overview Guide Dry ink Dry ink (also called toner) is the powder which forms the image on the printed page. There are six cartridges of black dry ink or three cartridges of colored dry ink in each carton. You should keep at least one extra car tridge on hand at all times. The dis...

Supplies System Overview Guide A-7 The developer is changed by your service representative. For product information, refer to the consumable supplies table, later in this appendix. Stitcher wire Stitcher wire is a consumable item for a printer equipped with the stitcher/stacker option. You need to o...

Supplies System Overview Guide A-9 Consumable supplies tables A number of supplies are available from Xerox for your DocuPrint printer. Use the following tables to help determine your supply needs. NOTE: Customers in the U. S. may use the par t numbers in these tables to order supplies. Customers ou...

Supplies System Overview Guide A-13 Ordering supplies To avoid unnecessary downtime, always have an adequate amount of the necessary supplies. To do this, you need to establish a procedure for checking and ordering supplies. A supplies checklist is provided at the end of this appendix to help you wi...

System Overview Guide INDEX-1 Index AAdobe fonts 2-8Advanced Function Image and Graphics (AFIG) 5-1 AFP environment 5-5alignment, third-party finishing devices 3-14 attention light 3-3attributes, highlight color 1-8 Bback panel, Sun workstations 2-4BCOCA (Bar code Object Content Architecture) 5-5 bu...