Konica Minolta magicolor 2550DN User Manual

							Software Utilities CD-ROM 7 PPD Files
!For details on the installation of the Windows printer drivers, refer to 
the magicolor 2550 Installation Guide on the Documentation 
CD-ROM.
Utilities
Operating System Use/Benefit
Windows Me/98SE These PPD files allow you to install 
the printer for a variety of platforms, 
drivers, and applications.
Macintosh OS 9/X These files are required in order to 
use the printer driver for each operat-
ing system. 
For details of the Macintosh and Linux 
printer drivers, refer to the magicolor 
2550 Reference Guide on the Docu-
mentation CD-ROM. Linux
Utility Use/Benefit
Download Manager This utility, which can be used only if 
the optional hard disk is installed, 
enables fonts and overlay data to be 
downloaded to the printer hard disk. 
For details, refer to the Download 
Managers online help for all of the 
functions.
Crown Print Monitor for Windows Using the TCP/IP protocol, print jobs 
can be sent directly to the printer. For 
details, refer to the magicolor 2550 
Reference Guide on the Documenta-
tion CD-ROM.
Status Monitor (Windows only) The current status of the printer in 
addition to the status of consumables 
and error information can be viewed. 
For details, refer to “Using the Status 
Monitor (Windows Only)” on page 21.
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PageScope Net Care Printer management functions such as 
status monitoring and network settings 
can be accessed. 
For details, refer to the PageScope 
Net Care Quick Guide on the Docu-
mentation CD-ROM.
PageScope Web Connection With a Web browser, the status of 
printers can be checked, and the vari-
ous settings can be changed. 
For details, refer to the magicolor 
2550 Reference Guide on the Docu-
mentation CD-ROM.
PageScope Network Setup Using the TCP/IP and IPX protocols, 
basic network printer settings can be 
specified. 
For details, refer to the PageScope 
Network Setup User Manual on the 
Documentation CD-ROM.
PageScope  Plug  and  Print This utility automatically detects a new 
printer connected to the network and 
creates a print object on the Windows 
print server.
For details, refer to the PageScope 
Plug and Print Quick Guide on the 
Documentation CD-ROM.
PageScope NDPS Gateway This network utility enables printers 
and KONICA MINOLTA multifunctional 
products to be used in an NDPS envi-
ronment. 
For details, refer to the PageScope 
NDPS Gateway User Manual on the 
Documentation CD-ROM. Utility Use/Benefit
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							System Requirements 9
System Requirements
#Personal computer
–Pentium 2: 400 MHz (Pentium 3: 500 MHz or higher is recommended)
–Power Mac G3 or later (G4 or later is recommended)
#Operating System
–Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition/Professional (Service Pack 1 or 
later), Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4 or later), 
Windows Me, Windows 98SE, Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6 or 
later)
!The 64-bit driver supports x64 operating systems running on AMD64 
or Intel Pentium 4 with EM64T platforms.
–Mac OS 9 (9.1 or later)
–Mac OS X (10.2 or later), Mac OS X Server (10.2 or later)
–Red Hat Linux 9.0, SuSE Linux 8.2
#Free hard disk space
–Approximately 128 MB of free hard disk space for printer driver and 
Status Monitor
–Approximately 128 MB of free hard disk space for image processing
#RAM
128 MB or more than OS recommendation
#CD-ROM/DVD drive
#I/O interface
–10Base-T/100Base-TX (IEEE 802.3) Ethernet interface port
–USB Revision 2.0 and USB Revision 1.1 compliant port
–IEEE 1284 compatible parallel port
!For details on the Macintosh and Linux printer drivers, refer to the 
magicolor 2550 Reference Guide on the Documentation CD-ROM.
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							Selecting Driver Options/Defaults (for Windows) 10
Selecting Driver Options/Defaults 
(for Windows)
Before you start working with your printer, you are advised to verify/change 
the default driver settings. Also, in case you have options installed, you 
should “declare” the options in the driver.
Windows XP/Server 2003/2000/NT 4.0
1Choose the driver’s properties as follows:
–(Windows XP/Server 2003)
From the Start
 menu, choose Printers and Faxes
 to display the 
Printers and Faxes
 directory. Right-click the KONICA MINOLTA 
mc2550 PCL6 or KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PS printer icon and 
choose Properties
.
–(Windows 2000/NT 4.0)
From the Start
 menu, choose Settings
 and then Printers
 to display 
the Printers
 directory. Right-click the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 
PCL6 or KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PS printer icon and choose 
Properties
. 
2If you have installed options, proceed with the next step. Otherwise, skip 
to step 9.
3Select the Configure 
tab.
4Check that the installed options are correctly listed. If not, proceed with 
the next step. Otherwise, continue with step 8.
5Click the Refresh
 to automatically configure installed options.
!The Refresh
 is available only if bi-directional communication is 
available with the printer; otherwise it is grayed out.
6From the Device Options
 list, select an option, one at a time, and then 
select Enable 
or Disable 
from the Settings
 menu.
!If Printer Memory
 is selected, select 128 MB
, 256 MB
, 384 MB
 or 
640 MB
, according to the installed memory. The factory default 
setting is 128 MB
.
7Click Apply
.
!Depending on the version of the operating system, Apply
 may not 
appear. If this is the case, continue with the next step.
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							Selecting Driver Options/Defaults (for Windows) 11
!With Windows NT 4.0, right-click the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 
PCL6 printer icon or the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PS printer 
icon in the Printers directory, and then click Document Defaults
. 
Skip to step 10.
8Select the General
 tab.
9Click Printing Preferences
.
The Printing Preference dialog box appears.
10Select the default settings for your printer, such as the default media for-
mat you use, on the appropriate tabs.
11Click Apply
.
12Click OK
 to exit from the Print preference dialog box.
13Click OK
 to exit from the Properties dialog box.
Windows Me/98SE (KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PCL6)
1Choose the driver’s properties as follows:
–From the Start
 menu, choose Settings
 and then Printers
 to display 
the Printers
 directory. Right-click the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 
PCL6 printer icon and choose Properties
.
2Select the Configure
 tab.
3Check that the installed options are correctly listed. If not, proceed with 
the next step. Otherwise, continue with step 7.
4Click the Refresh
 to automatically configure installable options.
!The Refresh
 is available only if bi-directional communication is 
available with the printer; otherwise it is grayed out.
5From the Device Options
 list, select an option, one at a time, and then 
select Enable 
or Disable
 from the Settings
 menu. 
!If Printer Memory
 is selected, select 128 MB
, 256 MB
, 384 MB
 or 
640 MB
, according to the installed memory. The factory default 
setting is 128 MB
.
6Click Apply
.
7Select the default settings for your printer, such as the default media for-
mat you use, on the appropriate tabs.
8Click Apply
.
9Click OK
.
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							Uninstalling the Printer Driver (for Windows) 12
Windows Me/98SE (KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PPD)
1Choose the driver’s properties as follows:
–From the Start
 menu, choose Settings
 and then Printers
 to display 
the Printers
 directory. Right-click the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 
PPD printer icon and choose Properties
.
2Select the Device Options
 tab.
3Check that the installed options are correctly listed. If not, proceed with 
the next step. Otherwise, continue with step 6.
4From the Installable options
 list, select an option, one at a time, and 
then select Installed 
or Not Installed
 from the Change setting for:
 
menu.
5Click Apply
.
6Select the default settings for your printer, such as the default media for-
mat you use, on the appropriate tabs.
7Click Apply
.
8Click OK
.
Uninstalling the Printer Driver 
(for Windows)
This section describes how to uninstall the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 
printer driver if necessary.
1Close all applications.
2Open the Printers
 directory.
–(Windows XP/Server 2003)
From the Start
 menu, choose Printers and Faxes
 to display the 
Printers and Faxes
 directory.
–(Windows 2000/Me/98SE/NT 4.0)
From the Start
 menu, choose Settings
 and then Printers
 to display 
the Printers
 directory.
3Right-click the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PCL6 or KONICA MINOLTA 
mc2550 PS printer icon or KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PPD printer icon 
and choose Delete
.
4Click Ye s
 to verify the driver deletion.
!When using Windows ME/98SE/NT 4.0, Skip to Step 8.
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							Displaying Printer Driver Settings (for Windows) 13
5(Windows XP/Server2003/2000) Select File / Server Properties
 from the 
menu.
6(Windows XP/Server2003/2000) Go to the Driver
 tab and select KONICA 
MINOLTA mc2550 PCL6 or KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PS driver and 
then click on Remove
.
7(Windows XP/Server2003/2000) Click Ye s
 to verify the driver removal.
8Restart your computer.
9The KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 printer driver will be uninstalled from your 
computer.
Displaying Printer Driver Settings 
(for Windows)
Windows XP/Server 2003
1From the Start
 menu, choose Printers and Faxes 
to display the Printers 
and Faxes
 directory.
2Right-click the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PCL6 or KONICA MINOLTA 
mc2550 PS printer icon and choose Printing Preferences
.
Windows 2000/Me/98SE/NT 4.0
1From the Start
 menu, point to Settings
, and then click Printers
 to display 
the Printers
 directory.
2Display the printer driver settings:
#Windows 2000
—Right-click the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PCL6 or 
KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PS printer icon and choose Printing Pref-
erences
.
#Windows Me/98SE
—Right- click the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 
PCL6 or KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PPD printer icon and choose 
Properties
.
#Windows NT 4.0
—Right-click the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PCL6 
or KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PS printer icon and choose Document 
Defaults
.
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							Using the PostScript and PCL Printer Driver 14
Using the PostScript and PCL Printer Driver
!When using the KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PCL6 printer driver on 
Windows Me/98SE, a tab for specifying printer settings appears in the 
dialog box.
For details on using KONICA MINOLTA mc2550 PPD on Windows 
Me/98SE, refer to “Using the Windows Me/98SE PPD File” on page 
19.
Common Buttons
The buttons described below appear on each tab.
OK
Click to exit the Properties dialog box, saving any changes made.
Cancel
Click to exit the Properties dialog box without saving any changes made.
Apply
Click to save all changes without exiting the Properties dialog box.
!Depending on the version of the operating system, Apply
 may not 
appear.
Help
Click to view the help.
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							Using the PostScript and PCL Printer Driver 15
Easy Set
To save the current settings, enter a name, and then click Save
. Afterward, 
the saved settings can be selected from the drop-down list. To change the 
registered setting, click Edit
.
Select Defaults
 from the drop-down list to reset the functions in all tabs to 
their default values.
#Name:
 Type in the name of the settings to be saved.
#Comment:
 Add a simple comment to the settings to be saved.
#Sharing:
 Specify whether or not the settings to be saved can be used by 
other users logged onto the computer.
Paper View
Click the button to display a sample of the page layout in the figure area.
!This button does not appear on the Advanced
, Watermark
, Quality
 
and Version
 tabs.
Printer View
Click the button to display an image of the printer (with all installed options) in 
the figure area.
!This button does not appear on the Advanced
 and Version
 tabs.
Watermark View
Click this button to display a preview of the watermark.
!This button only appears when the Watermark
 tab is selected.
Quality View
Click this button to display a sample of the settings selected in the Quality
 
tab.
!This button only appears when the Quality
 tab is selected.
Default
Click this button to reset the settings to their defaults.
!This button does not appear on the Advanced
 and Version
 tabs.
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							Using the PostScript and PCL Printer Driver 16
Advanced Tab (PostScript Printer Driver Only)
The Advanced Tab allows you to
#Specify the PostScript output method
#Specify whether or not the error messages of a print job are printed
#Print a mirror image
#Specify whether or not the application can directly output PostScript data
Basic Tab
The Basic Tab allows you to
#Specify the orientation of the media
#Specify the size of the original document
#Select the output media size
#Zoom (expand/reduce) documents
#Specify the paper source
#Specify the type of media
#Specify the number of copies
#Turn on/off job collation
#Save a print job on the printer and print it later (Job Retention)
#Save a confidential job on the printer and protect it with a password
#Print a single copy for proofing
#Send a notification by e-mail when printing is finished
#Specify user information such as e-mail addresses and passwords
Layout Tab
The Layout Tab allows you to
#Print several pages of a document on the same page (N-up printing)
#Specify booklet printing
#Rotate the print image 180 degrees
#Specify duplex printing
#Specify whether or not blank pages are printed (PCL printer driver only)
#Adjust the binding margin (PCL printer driver only)
#Adjust the printing position (PCL printer driver only)
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