Xerox 721 Customer Training Manual

Manual is about: Laser Printing System

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    Version 11.0, july 2005 701p43787 freeflow accxes software tools customer training guide.

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    Prepared by: xerox corporation global knowledge and language services 800 phillips road 845-17s webster, new york 14580 ©2005 by xerox corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright protection claimed includes all forms and matters of copyrightable material and information now allowed by statutory judi...

  • Page 3: Table of Contents

    Table of contents overview ........................................................................................................................ 1 manual profile ............................................................................................................ 1 remote access software ....

  • Page 5: Overview

    Overview manual profile this manual provides a description of the customer software available for the wide format print systems 8825/ 8830/ 8850/ 510dp and 721p. It also provides general information about installing the software on your pc and using it with the printer and scan system. Note: for the...

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    11.0 controller firmware & machine upgrades section, locate the release notes that are under within the controller firmware section). Training password access to some of the features covered in this training requires a system password. Only the key operator or system administrator should know this p...

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    To set the job accounting mode, you must use the printer control panel, the scan system control panel, or the web printer manager tool. User ids and account ids are created by the system administrator with the freeflow accxes account management tool installed on a workstation connected to the networ...

  • Page 9: Web Printer Manager Tool

    Web printer manager tool module introduction this module describes the web printer manager tool. It is part of the controller firmware that supports the wide format print systems 8825/ 8830/ 8850/ 510 and 721p. The 6030/6050 wide format print system needs to have a freeflow accxes controller connect...

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    Is located on your customer cd and on the www.Xerox.Com website in the wide format > support & drivers section. Browser connection (netscape navigator 7.0 or higher or microsoft internet explorer 5.5 or higher) web printer manager tool overview the web printer manager tool is a browser- based tool. ...

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    - shut down the yke controller from the printer defaults > utilities > shutdown screen. - change the priority of, or delete any job in, the print queue - set up all printer defaults - load stamps - specify the job accounting mode for remote print jobs - upload controller and printer firmware updates...

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    In the browser url box enter http:// followed by the printer’s ip address, (for example, http://13.240.20.38 ). If you don’t know the printer’s ip address, see your system administrator or the test print set produced at the time of your printer’s installation. When the power is switched on, the cont...

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    Enter the name of the help file in the indicated text field (example wenglish.Hlp ). The help file is supplied in packed form on the web printer manager tool cd. As an aid in finding this file, press the browse... Button to display the standard file dialog. (the help file can also be downloaded from...

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    Tool. You get to the help file by doing the following on the web printer manager tool screen. Select help on the top of the screen. Select index . Choose the overview of the web printer manager tool link. Quick start: do the quick start (tutorial) to give you the practical skills for using the user ...

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    Check your understanding of the web printer manager tool 1. What are the recommended browsers to use with the web printer manager tool? ____________________________________ ____________________________________ 2. Is a printer password required to make changes to the web printer manager tool printer ...

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    11. To view only the active print jobs, on the main page, select _________________. 12. If you are using a printer password, how can you cancel a print job?------------------ 13. When you view the print jobs on the main page, sometimes the word “mismatch” will show as the job’s status. What creates ...

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    Answers to web printer manager tool questions. 1. What are the recommended browsers to use with the web printer manager tool? Netscape navigator 7.0 or higher or microsoft internet explorer 5.5 or higher 2. Is a printer password required to make changes using the web printer manager tool printer set...

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    10. When viewing the list of print jobs on the main page, select ”get status” to update the list of all the print jobs. 11. To view only the active print jobs, on the main page, select “ show active jobs only”. 12. If you are using the printer password, how can you cancel a print job? Click on an ac...

  • Page 19: Freeflow Account

    Freeflow account management tool (amt) module introduction the amt application provides a means of retrieving job accounting data from multiple printers that use freeflow accxes version 7.0, or greater, firmware. This application replaces the accounting tab functionality of the freeflow accxes clien...

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    Freeflow accxes print server loaded with freeflow accxes firmware 11.0 the ip address of at least one printer. Install the account management tool (amt) and freeflow accxes client tools (act) the act and the amt softwares can both be installed during the same installation. A password is required for...

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    Need the amt software for this training module. System requirements and overview read over the information in the systems requirements help file. Do the following to locate the file. Select the amt icon on your desktop to open the installed amt software. If it isn’t there, select start > all program...

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    Go to the location of the data files. In the windows environment, the default location of these data files is c:\ program files \accxes\ amtdatabase. In unix, the files are located inside the "amtdatabase" folder that is found in the install directory (i.E.Usually the "accxes" folder.) make a backup...

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    Check your understanding of the account management tool 1. Where do you specify that you are requiring all users to put in an account id and a user id to track media and scan usage data?--------------------------------------- 2. When the freeflow accxes firmware is loaded, can the media and scan usa...

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    --------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- 9. After exporting the tallied data, can the same data be exported again if the records are not deleted first from the raw job accounting database before being re- tallied? Yes or no 10. D...

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    Answers to amt questions 1. Where do you specify that you are requiring all users to put in an account id and a user id to track media and scan usage data? Select “enabled” on the web printer manager tool accounting page. 2. When the freeflow accxes firmware is loaded, can the media and scan usage d...

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    Needed" columns. On the printers tab. 6. How do you retrieve the job accounting data that users created on the scan systems and printers? Go to the printer job accounting tab. Select this toolbar button to collect the job log file data from each printer, which includes the scan data. 7. How do you t...

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    10. Data is automatically deleted in the raw job accounting database when the "keep raw printer records interval" (days) is reached the next time that the amt administrator retrieves data from the printers' job log files. Where is the interval (days) specified? On the printer job accounting tab, sel...

  • Page 29: Operating In Scan Mode

    Operating in scan mode overview this module discusses operation of the synergix scan system in scan mode. Before we discuss the freeflow accxes client tools’ document retrieve tool, you should understand how to use the scanner to send documents to the controller's hard drive, or to an ftp destinatio...

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    Have such a network connection and this functionality is of interest to you, contact your xerox representative or authorized reseller to arrange such an installation. Training in scan mode operations will then be conducted after the network installation is complete. 26 freeflow accxes software tools...

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    Objectives when you have finished this module, you should be able to: ensure that the tcp/ip network protocol is enabled on the controller using the web printer manager tool switch from copy mode to scan mode and back again scan in documents and interpret the display information delete the most rece...

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    Scan mode in copy mode, the image is sent immediately to the printer. However, in scan mode, the scan- to-net image is not printed, but is retained in the controller’s scan directory for the period of time set by the file deletion timer and then automatically deleted. The stored images can later be ...

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    Entering scan mode to switch to scan mode using the scanner control panel, first obtain the ready to copy screen. Press the mode key. Type in the name of the scan directory to which you will be scanning and retrieving images. The default directory is “images”. Press the enter key. The screen switche...

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    Operations in scan mode: machine observations for scan-to-net record your observations as you perform each activity. Go to the xerox wide format copy system user guide (check the index for the page numbers) and read the sections entitled "understanding the ready to scan screen", "selections disabled...

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    6. Before you select the sets build key, does the scan system need to be in copy mode or scan mode? ____________ go to the xerox wide format copy system user guide and read the "clearing the scanned images" section (check the index for the page number). 7. Press the c/ca key. Follow the procedure in...

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    Machine observations - feedback sheet 1. Select a document and scan it. Observe the following icons: 2. What happens to the arrow? What does the dark area signify? The arrow becomes partially filled with a dark area. Then the arrow becomes empty again. The dark area represents the amount of random a...

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    7. Press the c/ca key. Follow the procedure in the user guide to clear all images. What change did you observe in the cylinder icon? Why did the change occur? The dark area in the cylinder disappeared, because all the files were deleted, and all the hard disk space was released. The file deletion ti...

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    At a scan system, select scan mode . Select the sample key and select the ftp destination to where you will send a scanned file. Scan the document. View the ftp directory to see that the scanned file has been sent there. 34 freeflow accxes software tools training guide.

  • Page 39: Freeflow Accxes Client Tools

    Freeflow accxes client tools module overview the freeflow accxes client tools (act) application runs on your pc or solaris workstation. The client tools are used to print, retrieve, and save images using a wide format print system 8825/ 8830/ 8850/ 510dp/ 721p, or 6030/6050 wide format printer with ...

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    Note: whatever act option choices that you make will override the web printer manager tool option selections if the two are different for the same feature. Objectives when you have finished this module, you should be able to: connect to an freeflow accxes supported scanner and wide format print syst...

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    Using the client tools installing the client tools do the following to install the act software. (if you did the amt module in this document, then it is already installed and you can skip this section.) insert the client install cd into a cd-rom. If you downloaded the software from the www.Xerox.Com...

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    For the wide format print systems 8825/8830/8850/ 510 dp: on the printer control panel, press the button to take the printer off line. Press the enter button. Go through the menu choices to select setup io ports , ethernet tcp/ip , tcp/ip address , gateway , and mask . Connecting to the printer and ...

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    Track of multiple printers' scanned and printed media usage. This is replacing the functionality of the accounting tab. If you are the account manager, go to the freeflow accxes account management tool section of this document to learn how to install and use the tool. If you are a user, as you learn...

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    Creating, printing and saving document sets select the document submit tab. Go to the "quick start - document submit tool" section of the quick start help file. Follow the steps for adding several documents of the correct file type to the document submit screen, changing some options, printing the s...

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    Labels and stamps features labels and stamps can be applied to entire print jobs or to selected documents within a document set. An example of a stamp is a company logo. A label can be any text that you want to use as a label for your documents. You can choose where you want the label and stamp loca...

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    Using the printer queue and media mismatch feature select the printer queue tab. Read the "quick start - printer queue tool" section of the quick start help file . This section explains which toolbar buttons to select for viewing a print job that you sent to the printer from the document submit tab....

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    Check your understanding of the freeflow accxes client tools 1. Can a group of documents that you have added to the document submit screen be saved as a single file? Yes or no 2. How can you put a label on a document within a set of documents, but not on the whole set of documents? -----------------...

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    Answers to freeflow accxes client tools questions 1. Can a group of documents that you have added to the document submit screen be saved as a single file? Yes 2. How can you put a label on a document within a set of documents, but not on the whole set of documents? On the document submit screen, go ...

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    7. Where does the account mode need to be enabled first before you can use the accounting feature? On both the printer or scanner 8. Where do you indicate to which scan directory you want scanned images saved until you retrieve them to your file system? On the scanner, if the accounting feature is e...

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