November 2006 701P45676 Xerox FreeFlow Accxes V12.0 Drivers & Client Software Installation Guide Prepared by: Xerox Corporation Global Knowledge and Language Services 800 Phillips Road 845-17S Webster, New York 14580 ©2006 by Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright protection claimed includes all forms and matters of copyrightable material and information now allowed by statutory judicial law or hereinafter granted, including without limitation, material generated from the software programs which are displayed on the screen such as icons, screen displays, looks, etc. Printed in the United States of America. XEROX® and all Xerox product names mentioned in this publication are trademarks of XEROX CORPORATION. FreeFlow Accxes and Synergix Scan System are trademarks of the Xerox Corporation. HP-GL/2 is a trademark of Hewlett-Packard Development Company. Install Anywhere is a registered trademark of ZeroG Software Inc. PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. 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Changes, technical inaccuracies, and typographic errors will be corrected in subsequent editions. ii Xerox FreeFlow Accxes Drivers & Client Software Installation Guide Table of Contents Table of Contents................................................................................................. iii Drivers ..................................................................................................................1 Installing Drivers on a Server.........................................................................1 HP-GL/2 Driver..................................................................................................1 Standard TCP/IP Port Installation ..................................................................1 HP-GL/2 Driver Installation ............................................................................2 Remote Drivers..............................................................................................3 Removal of HP-GL/2 Driver ...........................................................................3 PostScript Driver ...............................................................................................4 Standard TCP/IP Port Installation ..................................................................4 See the instructions that are on page 1. ........................................................4 PostScript Driver Installation..........................................................................4 Remote Drivers..............................................................................................5 Removal of the PostScript Driver...................................................................5 FreeFlow Accxes Client Tools (ACT), the Account Management Tool (AMT), and Microsoft Windows 2003 Server ...........................................................................6 Overview of ACT ...............................................................................................6 Overview of the Account Management Tool......................................................6 Check your protocol before installing ACT, AMT, and/or Microsoft Windows 2003 Server:......................................................................................................7 Configure your network connections: ................................................................7 Installation for Windows ....................................................................................8 From CD-ROM:..............................................................................................8 From the Internet: ..........................................................................................8 Installation for Sun Solaris.................................................................................9 From CD-ROM:..............................................................................................9 From the Internet: ........................................................................................10 Clean Installation.............................................................................................10 Uninstalling ACT & AMT..................................................................................11 Enabling Selection of Finisher Options ...............................................................13 Configure the HP-GL/2 print driver to recognize the finisher: ......................14 Xerox FreeFlow Accxes Drivers & Client Software Installation Guide iii Drivers You can find the driver installation files on the customer CD entitled "Accxes Print Drivers", or they can be downloaded from the www.xerox.com website (Select Support & Drivers. In the Wide Format section select your printer group. Select the Drivers & Downloads link. Select the link of the driver that you wish to install.) Installing Drivers on a Server A Windows 2000 or 2003 server system can have all of the drivers installed locally on it which all of the workstations would require. Each workstation can then install the appropriate driver from the server to make remote drivers. HP-GL/2 Driver These instructions describe how to install the HP-GL/2 printer driver locally on a workstation or server. To install a printer driver on a workstation from a server, see the section in this document entitled "Remote Drivers". The printer driver must be installed on the server locally first, according to the following instructions. Note: Prior to installing this driver, you must remove all previous versions by following the removal instructions. The FreeFlow Accxes HP-GL/2 printer driver is delivered as a self-extracting zip file. Executing this program will extract the files to a default directory or to a directory of the user's choice (e.g. c:\temp). Use Window's Add Printer Wizard to add the printer, as described below. Note: You must have administrator rights to install the driver and ports You can install the HP-GL/2 driver on a standard TCP/IP port from one of the following settings. If you are going to use the Standard TCP/IP Port, install it first, using the directions in the following Standard TCP/IP Port Installation section. Then follow the directions to install the HP-GL/2 driver. The control for Bi-directional is located on the Device Options tab of the Printer Properties. Standard TCP/IP Port Installation 1. Go to the Printers Folder. For Windows 2000: Select Start > Settings > Printers For Window 2003 or XP: Select Start > Control Panel > Printers and Faxes 2. Click on the File Menu. 3. Click on the Server Properties... menu item. 4. Select the Ports tab. 5. Click the Add Port... button. 6. Select Standard TCP/IP. 7. Click the New Port... button. Click Next. Xerox FreeFlow Accxes Drivers & Client Software Installation Guide 1 8. Using the keyboard, enter the Name or IP address assigned to the printer. Click Next. 9. Accept the Device Type=Standard Generic Network Card. Click Next. 10. Click Finish. 11. Click Close. 12. Click Close. HP-GL/2 Driver Installation 1. Go to the Printers Folder For Windows 2000: Select Start > Settings > Printers For Window 2003 or XP: Select Start > Control Panel > Printers and Faxes Double-click on Add Printer. Click Next. 2. Select Local printer. Uncheck "Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer. Click Next. 3. From "Use the following port:" Choose the port you created for this printer. Click Next. 4. When asked for the printer manufacturer and model, select the Have Disk... button. Then select the Browse... button and navigate to the directory where the driver has been unzipped and select the .INF file that corresponds to your printer. 5. Select the printer you wish to install and follow the instructions. 6. If the "Use Existing Driver" screen appears, select "Replace Existing Driver" and click Next. 7. If this is a server install, share the printer and give it a share name. 8. Reboot the system. 9. Enable or disable bi-directional support in Device options using the checkbox. The control for bidirectional support is located on the Device Options tab of the Printer Properties. If Enable bidirectional support is checked, the driver will automatically communicate with the printer and set the installed media size, finisher type, and Accxes firmware version. If Enable bidirectional support is not checked, the user must be aware of those settings and make sure the driver settings match the printer settings. (Refer to the Xerox Wide Format FreeFlow Accxes Driver Release Notes for file names and directory structures of the installed driver.) To change the display units, select the printer icon from the Printers Folder. Choose File > Properties. Select the Device Options tab. Change the "Display Units" control to your preference. The currently used Firmware Revision is also listed on the Device Options tab. 2 Xerox FreeFlow Accxes Drivers & Client Software Installation Guide Remote Drivers 1. In the Add Printer Wizard, select "A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer." 2. Choose the appropriate way to connect to the Wide Format printer. 3. Make your selection for whether or not to make this the default printer. 4. Select the Finish button. Removal of HP-GL/2 Driver 1. Go to the Printers Folder: For Windows 2000: Select Start > Settings > Printers For Window 2003 or XP: Select Start > Control Panel > Printers and Faxes 2. Click on the printer icon(s) in the Printers Folder you want to delete and choose File > Delete. 3. From the Printers Folder, choose File > Server Properties. 4. Select the Drivers tab. Select all Accxes drivers in the list, and click the Remove button. 5. Reboot the system. Xerox FreeFlow Accxes Drivers & Client Software Installation Guide 3 PostScript Driver These instructions describe how to install the PostScript printer driver locally on a workstation or server. To install a printer driver on a workstation from a server, see the section in this document entitled "Remote Drivers". The printer driver must be installed on the server locally first, according to the following instructions. The FreeFlow Accxes PostScript printer driver is delivered as a self-extracting zip file. Executing this program will extract the files to a default directory or to a directory of the user's choice. Note: The FreeFlow Accxes PostScript feature needs to be installed on the controller before the PostScript driver can be used. A System Administrator needs to install the PostScript driver. Standard TCP/IP Port Installation See the instructions that are on page 1. PostScript Driver Installation 1. Use Window's Add Printer Wizard to add or upgrade the printer from a previous release: For Windows 2000: Select Start > Settings > Printers For Window 2003 or XP: Select Start > Control Panel > Printers and Faxes 2. Double-click on Add Printer. Click Next. 3. Select Local printer. Uncheck "Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer. Click Next. 4. From "Use the following port:" Choose the port you created for this printer. Click Next. 5. When asked for the printer manufacturer and model, select the Have Disk ... button. Then, select the Browse... button and navigate to the directory where the driver has been unzipped and select the .INF file that corresponds to your printer. Click Open. Then click OK. 6. Select the printer model for your operating system and click Next. 7. If the "Use Existing Driver" screen appears, select "Replace Existing Driver" and click Next. 8. Follow the instructions on the screen. 9. If this is a server install, share the printer and give it a share name. 10. Reboot the system after the Add Printer Wizard completes. Refer to the Xerox Wide Format FreeFlow Accxes Driver Release Notes for file names and directory structures of the installed driver. 4 Xerox FreeFlow Accxes Drivers & Client Software Installation Guide Remote Drivers 1. In the Add Printer Wizard, select "A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer." 2. Choose the appropriate way to connect to the Wide Format printer. 3. Make your selection for whether or not to make this the default printer. 4. Select the Finish button. Removal of the PostScript Driver 1. Go to the Printers Folder: 2. For Windows 2000: Select Start > Settings > Printers 3. For Window 2003 or XP: Select Start > Control Panel > Printers and Faxes 4. Click on the printer icon(s) in the printer's folder and choose File > Delete. 5. From the Printers Folder, choose File > Server Properties. 6. Select the Drivers tab. Select all Accxes PostScript drivers in the list, and click the Remove button. 7. Reboot the system. Xerox FreeFlow Accxes Drivers & Client Software Installation Guide ...