Printer IP Address,

How can I assign IP addresses properly?

• The Internet Protocol address is a unique number that represents a specific computer in a network. Format of the IP Address is four numbers separated by dots, e.g. '192.168.110.171.' Each number should be decimal of 0 through 255.

• The IP address is compiled from 'network ID + user ID.' This results in three different IP address 'classes.' Representing the network ID as 'n' and the user ID as 'u,' each class has the following attributes:

Class	IP Addressing	First Segment Range	Application	Number of Networks	Number of Users
A	n.u.u.u	0<127	Large scale network	126	16,777,214
B	n.n.u.u	128<191	Mid scale network	16,384	65,634
C	n.n.n.u	192<223	Small network	2,097,150	254

For example, in a class C network, you can assign an IP address as '192.168.40.1.'

• Devices having IP addresses with different network IDs ('n' above) cannot communicate even when they are in the same network segment.

Following is an example of a Class C IP network with 3 computers and 1 IB-21E/IB-22 printer:

Computer A	192.168.40.1
Computer B	192.168.40.2
Computer C	192.168.40.10
IB-21E/IB-22 printer	192.168.40.20

Network Printer Problems

Here is description of common printer problems:
I cannot print to my printer over the network.

• Make sure the PC and the printer can communicate. Try using the ping command, telnet, ftp, etc. In an IPX environment, try running AdminManager to see if the printer can be discovered.

• Verify the physical network connections. The network cables may be defective or not properly connected. Try changing the cables. Check the printer card and verify that the green link light is on and the red data light is flashing (receiving data).

• Turn the printer off, then on again. Try printing from another PC or to another network printer to help determine if the problem is with the PC or the printer.

Communication errors occurs.

• Verify the physical installation of the printer. The network cables may not be properly connected. The network hub may be defective.

• Initialize the printer firmware.

• If in a TCP/IP environment, try to directly connect the printer and the PC on an isolated network. Connect only the printer and the PC to a hub, or connect them directly using a crossover 10BaseT cable.

Barcode Printer

A barcode printer (or bar code printer) is a computer peripheral for printing barcode labels or tags that can be attached to physical objects. Barcode printers are commonly used to label cartons before shipment, or to label retail items with UPCs or EANs.
The most common barcode printers employ one of two different printing technologies. Direct thermal printers use a printhead to generate heat that causes a chemical reaction in specially designed paper that turns the paper black. Thermal transfer printers also use heat, but instead of reacting the paper, the heat melts a waxy or resin substance on a ribbon that runs over the label or tag material. The heat transfers ink from the ribbon to the paper. Direct thermal printers are generally less expensive, but they produce labels that can become illegible if exposed to heat, direct sunlight, or chemical vapors.
Barcode printers are designed for different markets. Industrial barcode printers are used in large warehouses and manufacturing facilities. They have large paper capacities, operate faster and have a longer service life. For retail and office environments, desktop barcode printers are most common.

Production Printing

When printing for a certain project, most companies or businesses settle for wholesale cheap printing to lower printing costs. However, though bulk printing is the most cost-effective way to print your advertising materials, it would be best to know the pros and cons to decide if it really suits your need. If you want to have something printed, it is not enough to know only the design and content that you want; it is also relevant that you know which kind of printing services this will look best. This is important so you know which would truly deliver the results you want.

Production Printing enables organizations to automate the reproduction of mass quantities of an original document. The production printing processes may be categorized into two broad groups: traditional plate printing and non-traditional plateless printing. The traditional image carrier processes produce numerous reproductions of an original subject by means of a printing press, which holds an inked image carrier and applies the pressure necessary to transfer the image to a substrate. Traditional processes include such methods as letterpress. Lithography, flexography, screen printing and gravure. The non-traditional printing processes do not use traditional image carriers or presses and include photography and non-contact processes like electro photography, thermal imaging, and ink jet printing. They use digital imaging and copier-like printers that produce an image during each cycle The non-traditional printing speed is much slower than traditional plate printing processing in that a large amount of computer memory is needed for repeating or changing information during each cycle. There is no make ready and no drying time, but the overall costs are slightly higher than the traditional printing. The non-traditional printing process is used for mainly short runs, on-demand or variable information printing.

What is Port?

In computer and telecommunication devices, a port (noun) is generally a specific place for being
physically connected to some other device, usually with a socket and plug of some kind. Typically, a
personal computer is provided with one or more serial ports and usually one parallel port.
Types of Ports
Parallel Ports
An interface on a computer that supports transmission of multiple bits at the same time; almost
exclusively used for connecting a printer. On IBM or compatible computers, the parallel port uses a 25-pin connector. It is also known as a printer port or Centronics port. The IEEE 1284 standard defines the bi-directional version of the port.
Serial Port
It is a general-purpose personal computer communications port in which 1 bit of information is
transferred at a time. In the past, most digital cameras were connected to a computer's serial port in order to transfer images to the computer. Recently, however, the serial port is being replaced by the much faster USB port on digital cameras as well as computers. Throughout most of the history of personal computers, data transfer through serial ports connected the computer to devices such as terminals and various peripherals.
SCSI Port
A port that's faster than the serial and parallel ports but slower and harder to configure than the newer USB port. Also know as the Small Computer System Interface.
A high-speed connection that enables devices, such as hard-disk drives and network adapters, to be attached to a computer. Generally, two connectors, designated male and female, plug together to form a connection which allows two components, such as a computer and a disk drive, to communicate with each other. SCSI connectors can be electrical connectors or optical connectors.
USB Port
USB (Universal Serial Bus) is a plug-and-play hardware interface for peripherals such as the keyboard, mouse, joystick, scanner, printer and modem. USB has a maximum bandwidth of 12 Mbits/sec and up to 127 devices can be attached. With USB, a new device can be added to your computer without having to add an adapter card. It typicall is located at the back of the PC. USB was designed to allow many peripherals to be connected using a single standardized interface socket and to improve the plug-and-play capabilities by allowing hot swapping, that is, by allowing devices to be connected and disconnected without rebooting the computer or turning off the device.
Firewire
The IEEE 1394 interface is a serial bus interface standard for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer, frequently used in a personal computer (and digital audio and digital video). The interface is also known by the brand names of FireWire. FireWire is simply a really fast port that lets you connect computer peripherals and consumer electronics to your computer without the need to restart. It is a simple common plug-in serial connector on the back of your computer. It has the ability to chain devices together in a number of different ways without terminators for example, simply join 2 computers with a FireWire cable for instant high-speed networking.

Offset Printing

The proper name of the process of offset printing is offset lithography, though it is usually called offset printing; or just offset. Offset printing is the most popular kind of printing used these days. The offset printing is so common that almost 40 % of the printing jobs are done by the usage of offset printing. The presence of offset printing is almost felt in every industry. Offset printing is the method most widely used for commercial printing runs of about 1,000 to 100,000. Typically, the speed of printing is much faster than office copiers, and very high quality can be achieved. Examples of offset printings include: catalogues, brochures, books, magazines, newspapers, maps, cards, and stationery. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier on which the image to be printed obtains ink from ink rollers, while the non-printing area attracts a water-based film (called "fountain solution"), keeping the non-printing areas ink-free.
Usually, artwork files prepared on a computer, are used to produce a printing plate. The plate
is fitted to an offset printing press. Ink is applied to the image on the plate and, as the press
rotates, the ink offsets to a rubber blanket on another cylinder. The ink is again offset from the
blanket to paper or other material.
The most common kind of offset printing is derived from the photo offset process, which involves using light-sensitive chemicals and photographic techniques to transfer images and type from original materials to printing plates. In current use, original materials may be an actual photographic print and typeset text. However, it is more common — with the prevalence of computers and digital images — that the source material exists only as data in a digital publishing system. Offset litho printing on to a web (reel) of paper is commonly used for printing of newspapers and magazines for high speed production. it cant print variable repeat in one machine.
Offset printing holds about 70% of the printing market. Other printing processes include:
gravure, letterpress, flexographic, intaglio, and silk screening.

Managing Printer Properties

Printer properties allow you to configure options such as the printer name, whether the printer is shared, and printer security. To access the printer Properties dialog box, open the Printers folder, right-click the printer you want to manage, and choose Properties from the pop-up menu. To open the printer folder, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Printers and Faxes. Changing the printer properties affects only the selected printer, and can only be made if you have the Manage Printers permission, which is one of several printer permissions.
General tab
The General tab of the printer Properties dialog box contains information about the printer. It
also lets you set printing preferences and print test pages. The information here (name of the
printer, its location, and comments about it) reflects your entries when you set the printer up (as
described in the preceding section). You can add or change this information in the text boxes.
Sharing Properties
The Sharing tab of the printer Properties dialog box allows you to specify whether the computer
will be configured as a local printer (do not share) or as a shared network printer (share this
printer).
Port Properties
In the Ports tab, you configure all the ports that have been defined for printer use. Along with deleting and configuring existing ports, you can also set up printer pooling and redirect print jobs to another printer.
Advanced Properties
The Advanced tab of the printer Properties dialog box allows you to trol many characteristics of the printer. You can configure the following options:
The availability of the printer
The priority of the printer
The driver the printer will use
Spooling properties
How documents are printed
Printing defaults
The print processor that will be used
The separator page

Managing Printers

In this post I'll describe the printer management and print document management options

In this post I'll describe the printer management and print document management options. To manage a printer and print documents follow the following steps:

Go to Control Panel, Printer and Faxes, Right Click the printer you want to manage. Now you can see management option from the pop-up menu. Select the appropriate option for the area you want to manage.

See the table below for description of each option.

Option	Option Description
Set as Default Printer	Specifies the default printer that will be used when the user does not send a job to an explicit printer
Printing Preferences	Brings up the Printing Preferences dialog box, which allows you to configure printer settings for page layout and paper quality.
Pause Printing	While a printer is paused, print jobs can be submitted to the printer, but they will not be forwarded to the print device until you resume printing (by unchecking this option)
Sharing	Use this option to share the printer
Use Printer Offline	Pauses the printer. Print documents will remain in the print queue, even if you restart the computer
Create Shortcut	Allows you to create a shortcut for the printer, which would typically be placed on the desktop.
Delete	Removes the printer. You might use this option if you no longer need the printer.
Rename	Allows you to rename the printer.
Properties	Allows you to manage the properties of a printer

PJL Commands

Here is a selection of common PJL commands.

Category	Command	Description	Syntex
Kernel commands	UEL	The Universal Exit Language (UEL) command %-12345X exits the current printer language and returns the control to PJL. All PJL jobs must begin with this command.	@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = personality []
	COMMENT	The COMMENT command enables you to add a line of information as a comment. Use this command whenever you want to add an explanation to PJL commands.	@PJL COMMENT remarks []
Job separation commands	JOB	This command indicates the beginning of a print job. It also is used to specify which pages of a job are printed. Use the JOB/EOJ commands for spooling and related applications to monitor printing status, name a job, print portions of a job, or to mark job boundaries to keep the printer from treating a single print job as multiple jobs (for example, when printing a job with a banner page)	@PJL JOB [NAME = "job name"][START=first page] ~[END = last page][PASSWORD = number ] ~[DISPLAY = "display text"][]
	EOJ	This command indicates the end of a print job (EOJ = end of job)	@PJL EOJ [NAME = "job name"] []
Environment commands	SET	This command sets an environmental variable for the current print job.	@PJL SET [LPARM : personality | ~variable = value []
	RESET	This command sets all variables back to default values. For example, the PJL de value of the variable DUPLEX is OFF.	@PJL RESET []
Status read back commands	INQUIRE	This command requests the current value of a variable.	@PJL INQUIRE [LPARM : personality | ~IPARM : port] variable []
	DINQUIRE	This command requests the default value of a variable.	@PJL DINQUIRE [LPARM : personality | ~IPARM : port] variable []
Device attendance commands	RDYMSG	This command (RDYMSG =ready message) replaces the 00 READY on the printer’s display by a message.	@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY = "message" []
	OPMSG	This command (OPMSG = operator message) puts the printer off line and displays a message on the printer’s display.	@PJL OPMSG DISPLAY = "message" []
File system commands	FSAPPEND	The FSAPPEND command appends data to an existing file, or if the file doesn't exist, creates the file and loads it with the given data.	@PJL FSAPPEND FORMAT:BINARY SIZE=integer ~NAME = "pathname" [] %-12345X
	FSDELETE	The FSDELETE command is used to delete files or empty directories from the printer's file system.	@PJL FSDELETE NAME = "pathname" []

Kyocera Mita Common Error Codes

6000	Broken fixing heater wire
6020	Abnormally high fixing unit thermistor temperature
6030	Broken fixing unit thermistor
6050	Abnormally low fixing unit thermistor temperature
6100	Broken fixing heater wire
6200	Abnormally low fixing unit thermistor temperature
6300	Abnormally high fixing unit thermistor temperature
6400	Zero-crossing signal problem
6410	Fixing unit connector insertion problem
6420	Fixing fuse cut problem
6420	Broken fixing unit thermistor wire
7100	Toner sensor problem
7300	Broken external temperature thermistor wire ( KM-1505/1510/1810/4230/5230/6230)
	Toner sensor problem/ Toner hopper problem (KM-2530/3530/3035/4035/5035/6230/4530/5530/6330/7530/6030/8030)
7310	Short-circuited external temperature thermistor
7400	Image formation unit connector insertion problem
	Developing unit connector insertion problem ( 2550)
7410	Drum unit connector insertion problem
7750	Drum type mismatch problem A (1635/2035)
7760	Drum type mismatch problem B (1635/2035)
7800	Broken external temperature thermistor
7810	Short-circuited external temperature thermistor

kyocera error code

A1 Uninstalled waste toner conveyer

A2 Fuser overheating

A3 Fuser heater disconnection

A4 Developer unit life-fuse error

A5 Main charger Arc discharge of contact has occurred. DEV,FTR,STR bias Short circuit of contact voltage has occurred.

A6 Fuser/Toner Cartridge fan is not rotating at normal speed.

A7 Power supply fan error. Fan is not rotating at normal speed.

A8 Ozone fan error. Fan is not rotating at normal speed.

A9 Multi-Purpose Pickup Roller movement error occured.

B1-B6 Feed cassette bottom plate motor error.

B7 Media transfer roller movement error. Transfer roller did not reach to transfer position or home position within 0.7 sec.

B8 Cyan developing unit movement error. Developer unit did not reach contact position or home position within 1 sec.

B9 Magenta developing unit movement error. Developer unit did not reach contact position or home position within 1 sec.

C1 Duplex communication error

C2 Duplex printing registration error

C3 Duplexer feeding motor error

C4 DF-30 IPC communication error

C5 ST-30 backup RAM error

D0-D4 Firmware program downloading errors

E0 Engine communication error. Parity error occurs or no response comes back from engine.

E1 Main motor unlocked. It is not phase-locked and is not rotating at normal speed.

E2 Laser scanner motor error. The polygon motor does not deliver a synchronous output (L) within the predetermined period of time

E3 Laser beam detection error. The photo detector board does not deliver a synchronous output (L).

E4 Fuser Heater Error.

E5 Eraser error. The eraser current is less than 15 mA (normally 65 mA).

E6 Engine ROM check sum error.

E8 Fuser unit life fuse error

E9 Toner motor error. The toner motor current is 120 mA or more for one second (normally 30 mA).

F0 Controller system lock error. Communication is failed between the front panel and the main controller.

F1 System Checksum Error. An error is detected in the controller. The Ready-symbol and ON LINE indicators go off; and ATTENTION lights. The printer does not operate when this message is displayed.

F2 RAM read/write error. Checksum is failed with the RAM on the main controller board.

F3 Controller system error.

F4 29000 system ROM checksum error.

F5 29000 main RAM error.