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FPS-9021/FPS-9022

Mini Printer Server w/Parallel (USB2.0) Port

User Manual

V1.0.0-0601

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Page 1: ...LevelOne FPS 9021 FPS 9022 Mini Printer Server w Parallel USB2 0 Port User Manual V1 0 0 0601...

Page 2: ...NETWORK 14 3 1 System Architecture 15 3 2 Administrator Installation and Setup 16 3 3 Administrator Utilities 23 3 4 Client Installation and Setup 24 3 5 Client Utilities 29 3 5 1 Network Ports Quick...

Page 3: ...2 Search for All Available Printer server 62 7 3 Status of Printer server 63 7 4 Setup the Printer server 64 7 5 General Configuration 65 7 6 TCP IP Configuration 66 7 7 Netware Printer server Configu...

Page 4: ...5 8 4 4 SNMP 96 8 4 5 NetWare 97 8 4 6 AppleTalk 98 8 4 7 Save Settings 99 8 5 System Tools 100 8 5 1 Load Default 100 8 5 2 Upgrade Firmware from Browser 101 9 IPP PRINTING 102 9 1 Introduction 103 9...

Page 5: ...1 Introduction 1...

Page 6: ...and AppleTalk protocols It is the best network printing solutions for various common network operating systems such as Windows 98SE ME 2000 XP NetWare Unix Linux and MAC OS etc With the help of Insta...

Page 7: ...1 2 Product Package This package contains the following components Printer server Power Adapter Quick Installation Guide CD ROM Including all the software utilities drivers and User Manual 3...

Page 8: ...ponent plays in the network printing environment Printer server Client User Network Server optional Windows NT Server NetWare Server Windows 98 Windows NT Workstation Windows 2000 Unix Print Server Ne...

Page 9: ...tion Windows 2000 Unix Print Server Client User Common operating systems for clients are classified as following Windows 98SE ME 2000 XP Our printer server system provides PTPP Peer to Peer Printing d...

Page 10: ...the network and then add their printing ports into Windows printing port see below Windows 98 PTPP Print Server MIS 2 P1 P2 P3 P1 Print Server MIS 1 UNIX Linux UNIX include HP UX SCO Unix SunOS Solar...

Page 11: ...rinter server system provides PTPP Peer to Peer Printing driver and utilities for Windows 2000 After PTPP is installed the server can directly print through printer server Adding this printing functio...

Page 12: ...s PTPP driver will use TCP IP protocol to print through printer server Windows 2000 Network Network printing function will become available after PTPP driver is installed into Windows 2000 Adding this...

Page 13: ...NetWare Network see below 9...

Page 14: ...requirement Chapter 7 and chapter 8 introduce printer server s management and configuration utilities on Windows and Web Browser s environment respectively You may select the appropriate management u...

Page 15: ...ng Function The printer server provides a complete network printing solution The feature set is listed below PTPP Peer to Peer Printing TCP IP LPR IPP Printing NetWare Bindery Printing AppleTalk SMB P...

Page 16: ...printer server do NOT use any other power adapter from any sources NOTE To prevent the compatibility problem between printer server and a few printer it is recommended that you power on the printer s...

Page 17: ...en the Status is OFF and the Ready is ON the Print Server is ready to use Reset to Factory Default Press the reset button with a pencil tip for longer than 5 seconds When the Printer Server is reset t...

Page 18: ...3 Windows Peer to Peer Network 14...

Page 19: ...mation System administrators must Install administrator s utilities into his her computer Configure printer server from administrator s configuration utility 2 Client Installation and Configuration re...

Page 20: ...nstalled on your PC TCP IP IPX and or NetBEUI It will be helpful in your installation process Insert the CD shipped along with the printer server into your CD ROM drive The Autorun exe program should...

Page 21: ...ilities Setup window will be displayed Click Next Click Next to install the utilities in the default folder or click Browse to specify the destination folder where you would like to install the utilit...

Page 22: ...ect the components you want to install It is highly recommended to install all provided components Click Next to continue Specify the program folder where the program icons will be added to click Next...

Page 23: ...rver will list all Printer servers within the network Select the Printer server you would like to configure and click Next If there is no printer server found please check the printer server has been...

Page 24: ...ID with prefix PS Please check the MAC ID on the printer server NOTE The list can only display the devices from the same manufacturer Specify a recognizable name for the Printer server and click Next...

Page 25: ...in the window Now you have completed the Printer server Setup Click Finish and your system will add network port of the Printer server to your PC automatically The Administrator Installation procedur...

Page 26: ...the administrator s PC Configure the printer server including the printer server name and network protocol Add the network port of the printer server to the administrator s PC If you want to print fro...

Page 27: ...nter servers within the network to your PC Printer server Configuration Allows you to configure the printer server s IP Address network protocols and other advanced functions Please refer to Chapter 7...

Page 28: ...PC has connected to the network and installed at least one network protocol Insert the CD shipped along with the printer server into your CD ROM drive The Autorun exe program should be executed autom...

Page 29: ...ilities Setup window will be displayed Click Next Click Next to install the utilities in the default folder or click Browse to specify the destination folder where you would like to install the utilit...

Page 30: ...Specify the program folder where the program icons will be added to click Next The system will start to install the utilities automatically 26...

Page 31: ...cted on the network will be added to your PC automatically click Continue Note If there are no printer servers detected in the network currently please click Continue to finish the installation Please...

Page 32: ...Install all utilities and drivers to the client s PC Add all the printer server s network ports of the network to the client s PC You can then perform the Windows standard Add Printer procedure to ad...

Page 33: ...ers a very simple method to add or remove printer server s printer port from the client s computer During the client s installation procedure the system will automatically search for all printer serve...

Page 34: ...port into client s computer conveniently Perform the standard Add Printer procedure then you can print directly to the printer through the newly installed printer server Select the network ports in t...

Page 35: ...e across network segments printer servers 3 5 2 Remote Ports Utility Remote Ports Utility offers a convenient way for you to manage and add printer port of the remote printer server From the assistant...

Page 36: ...Step2 Enter printer server s name IP address select used ports and enter LPR queue name of each port Click Ok Step3 The new remote print port is displayed as follows 32...

Page 37: ...In order to use the remote printing function you will have to proceed with normal Add Printer procedure and select your printer port as the newly added remote printer port 33...

Page 38: ...Note that following Add Printer steps are running in Windows XP the steps in other Operating Systems are similar Step1 Click Start choose Settings and select Printers and Faxes Step2 Click Add a Prin...

Page 39: ...nstallation or Client Installation process and click Next Step6 Select a suitable printer manufacturer and the printer model and click Next If your printer is not in the list click Have Disk to instal...

Page 40: ...Step7 Name your printer and setup the default printer click Next Step8 Choose to print the test page or not It is recommended to print a test page Click Next 36...

Page 41: ...Step9 You have added the printer to the PC successfully The information of the printer is displayed in the windows Click Finish 37...

Page 42: ...4 Windows 2000 ServerNetwork 38...

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Page 44: ...evious chapter we also offer the Server Based Printing architecture for Windows 2000 Server Only one Windows 2000 Server is required to have Windows PTPP Peer to Peer Printing driver installed and sha...

Page 45: ...installation instructions If your network has already installed a working printer server and your Windows 2000 server has not yet installed the PTPP driver please install the client software Refer to...

Page 46: ...printer in Network Neighborhood You only need to perform Window s standard Add New Printer procedure select Network Printer shown in the screen below and complete the configurations afterwards to acc...

Page 47: ...2 Select A network printer or a printer attached to another computer and click Next 3 Select Connect to this printer or to browse for a printer select this option and click Next and click Next 43...

Page 48: ...lowing message is informed you that you will start installing the drivers for the network printer Click Yes to continue 6 The following message is popped up to let you know that your computer doesn t...

Page 49: ...the CD attached with the network printer and designate the file path to the CD Click Ok to start the installation 8 Select to let the network printer be your default printer or not Click Next to cont...

Page 50: ...9 The network printer is installed completely Click Finish 46...

Page 51: ...5 NetWare Network 47...

Page 52: ...int queue and then the printer server gets the print job from the queue to printers Netware Server Windows 98 Windows 2000 Print Queue Print Server Compare with NetWare printing functionality the adva...

Page 53: ...File Server menu selection 3 Choose the Print Queue Information menu selection 4 Press the Insert key to add a new print queue 5 Type in a print queue name such as PQ or Q1 6 You have now successfull...

Page 54: ...If your printer server is with only one port you do not need to configure this Type field 13 Press Escape and answer Yes to the Save Changes question 14 Select Queues Serviced by Printer then select P...

Page 55: ...t NOTE If the printer server you have is with multiple printer connectors you may create multiple print queues and printer objects Your printer server should now be ready to use You should be able to...

Page 56: ...6 UNIX System Network 52...

Page 57: ...Unix system to allow printing to the printer server The configuration examples in this manual follow the syntax for BSD based Unix systems Please refer to the related system documentation for the corr...

Page 58: ...inter server s TCP IP Support The default configuration of the printer server is with TCP IP support enabled Anyway you can configure the printer server to enable TCP IP support using the configuratio...

Page 59: ...running on your UNIX system that is accessible by the printer server you can use the BOOTP protocol to set up the IP address of the printer server We recommend that the BOOTP server should be located...

Page 60: ...r server The ha tag must be preceded by the ht tag The ip tag should correspond to the IP address you want to assign to the printer server For example a printer server with the following configuration...

Page 61: ...6 4 Verify Printer server s IP Address To verify that your printer server is responding to the newly assigned IP address using a PING command ping ip address 57...

Page 62: ...rver s IP address You can add this address to the etc hosts file by adding a line such as 203 66 191 186 pserver 2 Create a spool directory for the printer in the same directory where spool directorie...

Page 63: ...of lpt1 lpt2 or lpt3 depends on the printer port The printer server should now be available for printing from your Unix host 59...

Page 64: ...7 Configuration Utilit y 60...

Page 65: ...provides the following configuration and management functions Search Printer server Search All Available Printer Servers on the Network Printer server Status Display Printer server Network Status Gene...

Page 66: ...because the utility is using system s available network protocols to search for all printer servers on the network All available printer servers will be listed under Server Group on the left side of...

Page 67: ...MAC ID Model Type Firmware Version status of each printer port NetWare file server name NetWare file server polling interval NetWare printer queue names IP address subnet mask default gateway AppleTal...

Page 68: ...rrent selected printer server will be showed on the right side of the window Double click one of the icons to set up the selected printer server A screen will pop up to verify User Name and Password o...

Page 69: ...page You also can configure the Server Name User Name and Password here Server Name the name of the printer server You can use this name to identify the printer server when you are searching for the...

Page 70: ...er also has a built in DHCP server You can enable this DHCP server and let it manages IP for you Click the IP button to enter the IP setting page If you need the printer server to automatically get an...

Page 71: ...ed by default If Auto is selected the DHCP Server of printer server will be enabled only when there is no other DHCP Server within the network When Enable or Auto is selected you have to configure Sta...

Page 72: ...odically polls the NetWare server printer queues for printing jobs You have to assign the NetWare server name printer server polling interval and the name of queue on the NetWare server for each print...

Page 73: ...server Zone Name Printer server has to join zones of AppleTalk before it can be shared to other workstations Only workstations in the same zone can share the printer If you want to share the printer t...

Page 74: ...2 Click Print Fax 3 From the Print Fax screen click Set Up Printers 70...

Page 75: ...4 Click Add to add the new printer server through TCP IP 71...

Page 76: ...ct the Printer Model to setup the printer server Printer Type LPD LPR Printer Address Input the IP Address of the printer server Queue Name The queue name of the printer server is lpt1 Printer Model S...

Page 77: ...6 The printer server is installed completely You can see it in the printer list 7 You can print a file to check whether the printer server is installed successfully 73...

Page 78: ...up Contact You can enter the printer server administrator s contact information here This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool Location You can enter the installed location of th...

Page 79: ...ed When the printer is interrupted because of paper out or off line while printing user can set the interval time to bypass the current printing job Or the printing document will not be printed comple...

Page 80: ...printer server and load factory defaults to the printer server Upgrade Firmware You can use this Upgrade Firmware tool to update the newest firmware of the printer server Click button and select the...

Page 81: ...wizard item of the current selected printer server will be showed on the right side of the window Double click the Printer server Setup Wizard the setup wizard will guide you through all the setup pr...

Page 82: ...Step 2 Select to enable required printing protocol Please refer to section 7 11 for detail information 78...

Page 83: ...ep 3 Setup the IP of this printer server and the DHCP server Please refer to section 7 6 for detail information Step 4 Setup the AppleTalk printing Please refer to section 7 8 for detail information 7...

Page 84: ...Step 5 Setup the NetWare printing Please refer to section 7 7 for detail information Step 6 Click Save to finish setting 80...

Page 85: ...n the tool bar the Report window will pop up The report lists basic information of all available printer servers on the network The information includes Device Name MAC ID Model Type Firmware Version...

Page 86: ...8 Web Management 82...

Page 87: ...and manage printer server s various main functions in browsers Simply enter printer server s IP address into your browser s address field to manage a printer server by printer server s built in Web Se...

Page 88: ...figure the settings of the printer server After entering the IP address of the printer server a login page display You have to enter correct User Name and Password before going to the Web Management p...

Page 89: ...8 3 Device Status 8 3 1 System System Information includes Device Name Printer server Name Model Type Firmware Version MAC Address and the protocols enabled status etc 85...

Page 90: ...8 3 2 Printer This page lists information of printer connected to the printer port 86...

Page 91: ...8 3 3 TCP IP This page lists all TCP IP settings of the printer server including IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway It also displays if the DHCP server is enable or not 87...

Page 92: ...8 3 4 SMB This page lists the SMB group and the pass job interval time settings of the printer server 88...

Page 93: ...8 3 5 SNMP This page lists the SNMP settings of the printer server It includes the settings of SNMP System Contact and SNMP System Location 89...

Page 94: ...8 3 6 NetWare This page lists NetWare settings including Polling Time Use Bindery Mode Name of the File Server and Port Attached Queue 90...

Page 95: ...8 3 7 AppleTalk This page lists AppleTalk settings including AppleTalk Zone Name and Printer Type of the printer connected to the print port 91...

Page 96: ...e to identify the printer server when you are searching for the printer server by the administration and client utilities Password enter the password you want to change to the printer server The passw...

Page 97: ...You can enable disable the printing protocols from the screen To enable the function please select Enable to disable the function please select Disable 93...

Page 98: ...lect Disable Use the following TCP IP Settings to manually assign IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway for the printer server You can enable disable or set auto for the printer server s DHCP server The...

Page 99: ...er belongs to All PC should join the same group before they can use this printer server by SMB protocol Pass Job When Error Occurred is for you to set the interval time for bypassing the current print...

Page 100: ...rs SNMP System Contact You can enter the printer server administrator s contact information here This information will be displayed in the SNMP management tool SNMP System Location You can enter the i...

Page 101: ...nting jobs You have to assign the NetWare server name printer server polling interval and the name of queue on the NetWare server for each printer port Polling Time is the polling interval of the prin...

Page 102: ...for each printer port of this printer server AppleTalk Enable Enable or disable AppleTalk AppleTalk Zone Name Printer server has to join zones of AppleTalk before it can be shared to other workstatio...

Page 103: ...8 4 7 Save Settings You can click the Save Settings to save the settings and restart the system 99...

Page 104: ...8 5 System Tools 8 5 1 Load Default You can use this page to restore the factory default settings All of your previous setup will be cleared 100...

Page 105: ...his page Click Browse to select the new firmware in your storage and then click OK the firmware will be updated in several minutes Be aware that if you have started upgrading firmware you have to foll...

Page 106: ...9 IPP Printing 102...

Page 107: ...fault It is needless to do any setting Any PC that can support IPP printing for example Windows 2000 XP can directly uses the printer server by IP By using the IPP printing you can share the printer t...

Page 108: ...set a real IP to the printer server You also have to make sure that any gateway router or firewall does not block IPP protocol if you have these gateway devices installed in your network 9 2 2 Client...

Page 109: ...is http IP 631 Port Name The IP should be the printer server s IP The number 631 is IPP standard port number Port Name is the port name of printer server that your printer is connected to The default...

Page 110: ...printer is not in the list click Have Disk to install the driver of the printer After installation the printer model will be added to the list 106...

Page 111: ...oose to set the print whether as a default printer or not Click Next Step8 You have added the network printer to the PC successfully The information of the printer is displayed in the windows Click Fi...

Page 112: ...the communications data passed through the XP SP2 s firewall In case that you do not find any printer server listed on the Available Ports in Network Ports Quick Setup please follow the steps below S...

Page 113: ...Step3 Select Advanced tab and click Settings 109...

Page 114: ...Step4 Select Exceptions tab and click Add Program Step5 Click Browse to add a new program 110...

Page 115: ...Step6 Open the NPUtil file from C Program Files PrintServer Utilities where C is the system drive Step7 A new program Network Ports Quick Setup is displayed in the list click Ok 111...

Page 116: ...Step8 Click Ok You have completed the setting The Windows XP SP2 will allow the incoming network connections activated by the program 112...

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