Management tools

This chapter introduces management tools provided to help you make full use of your machine.

Easy Capture Manager

[Note]

Available for Windows OS users only.

Capture your screen and launch Easy Capture Manager by simply pressing the Print Screen key. Now you can easily print your captured screen as captured or edited.

Samsung AnyWeb Print

[Note]

Available for Windows and Mac OS users only.

This tool helps you screen-capture, Triple Cassette Feeder, scrap, and print Windows Internet Explorer pages more easily, than when you use an ordinary program. Download the software from the Samsung website then unpack and install it: (http://www.samsung.com > find your product > Support or Downloads).

Samsung Easy Color Manager

Samsung Easy Color Manager helps users do fine adjustments with 6 color tones and other properties, such as brightness, contrast, and saturation. Color tone changes can be saved as a profile and can be used from the driver or from inside of the machine.

[Note]

Available for Windows and Mac OS users only.

Helps Samsung color laser printer users to adjust color as they like.

Download the software from the Samsung website then unpack and install it: (http://www.samsung.com > find your product > Support or Downloads).

Easy Eco Driver

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  • Available for Windows OS users only.

  • Available for PCL and PS.

With the Easy Eco Driver, you can apply Eco features to save paper and toner before printing. To use this application, Start Easy Eco Driver before printing job checkbox in the printer properties should be checked.

Easy Eco Driver also allows you simple editing such as removing images and texts, and more. You can save frequently used settings as a preset.

How to use:

  1. Open a document to print.

  2. Print the document.

  3. Select the options you want to apply to the document.

    You can see the Triple Cassette Feeder of the applied features.

  4. Click Print.

Using Samsung Easy Printer Manager

[Note]
  • Available for Windows and Mac OS users only.

  • For Windows, Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher is the minimum requirement for Samsung Easy Printer Manager.

Samsung Easy Printer Manager is an application that combines Samsung machine settings into one location. Samsung Easy Printer Manager combines device settings as well as printing environments, settings/actions and launching. All of these features provide a gateway to conveniently use your Samsung machine. Samsung Easy Printer Manager provides two different user interfaces for the user to choose from: the basic user interface and the advanced user interface. Switching between the two interfaces is easy: just click a button.

Understanding Samsung Easy Printer Manager

To open the program:

For Windows,

Select Start > Programs or All Programs > Samsung Printers > Samsung Easy Printer Manager > Samsung Easy Printer Manager.

For Mac,

Open the Applications folder > Samsung folder > Samsung Easy Printer Manager.

The Samsung Easy Printer Manager interface is comprised of various basic sections as described in the table that follows:

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The screenshot may differ depending on operating system you are using.

1

Printer list

The Printer List displays printers installed on your computer and network printers added by network discovery (Windows only).

2

Printer information

This area gives you general information about your machine. You can check information, such as the machine’s model name, IP address (or Port name), and machine status.

[Note]

You can view the online User’s Guide.

Troubleshooting button: This button opens the Troubleshooting Guide when an error occurs. You can directly open the necessary section in the user’s guide.

3

Application information

Includes links for changing to the advanced settings(switching UI), refresh, preference setting, summary, help, and about.

[Note]

The button is used to change the user interface to the advanced settings user interface (see Advanced settings user interface overview).

4

Quick links

Displays Quick links to machine specific functions. This section also includes links to applications in the advanced settings.

[Note]

If you connect your machine to a network, the SyncThru™ Web Service icon is enabled.

5

Contents area

Displays information about the selected machine, remaining toner level, and paper. The information will vary based on the machine selected. Some machines do not have this feature.

6

Order supplies

Click on the Order button from the supply ordering window. You can order replacement toner cartridge(s) from online.

[Note]

Select the Help menu or click the button from the window and click on any option you want to know about.

Advanced settings user interface overview

The advanced user interface is intended to be used by the person responsible for managing the network and machines.

[Note]

Some menus may not appear in the display depending on options or models. If so, it is not applicable to your machine.

Device Settings

You can configure various machine settings such as machine setup, paper, layout, emulation, network, and print information.

Scan to PC Settings

This menu includes settings to create or delete scan to PC profiles.

  • Scan ActivationDetermines whether or not scanning is enabled on the device.

  • Basic tab:  Contains settings related general scan and device settings.

  • Image tab:  Contains settings related to image altering.

Alert Settings (Windows only)

This menu includes settings related to error alerting.

  • Printer AlertProvides settings related to when alerts will be received.

  • Email AlertProvides options relating to receiving alerts via email.

  • Alert History Provides a history of device and toner related alerts.

Job Accounting

Provides querying of quota information of the specified job accounting user. This quota information can be created and applied to devices by job accounting software such as SyncThru™ or CounThru™ admin software.

Using Samsung Printer Status

The Samsung Printer Status is a program that monitors and informs you of the machine status.

[Note]
  • The Samsung Printer Status window and its contents shown in this user’s guide may differ depending on the machine or operating system in use.

  • Check the operating system(s) that are compatible with your machine (see System requirements).

  • Available for Windows OS users only.

Samsung Printer Status overview

If an error occurs while operating, you can check the error from the Samsung Printer Status. Samsung Printer Status is installed automatically when you install the machine software.

You can also launch Samsung Printer Status manually. Go to the Printing Preferences, click the Basic tab > Printer Status button.

These icons appear on the Windows task bar:

Icon

Mean

Description

Normal

The machine is in ready mode and experiencing no errors or warnings.

Warning

The machine is in a state where an error might occur in the future. For example, it might be in toner low status, which may lead to toner empty status.

Error

The machine has at least one error.

1

Toner Level

You can view the level of toner remaining in each toner cartridge. The machine and the number of toner cartridge(s) shown in the above window may differ depending on the machine in use. Some machines do not have this feature.

2

Option

You can set printing job alert related settings.

3

Order Supplies

You can order replacement toner cartridge(s) from online.

4

User’s Guide

You can view the online User’s Guide.

[Note]

This button opens the Troubleshooting Guide when an error occurs. You can directly open the troubleshooting section in the user’s guide.

5

Close

Close the window.

Using the Linux Unified Driver Configurator

Unified Driver Configurator is a tool primarily intended for configuring machine devices. You need to install Unified Linux Driver to use Unified Driver Configurator.

After the driver is installed on your Linux system, the Unified Driver Configurator icon will automatically be created on your desktop.

Opening the Unified Driver Configurator

  1. Double-click the Unified Driver Configurator on the desktop.

    You can also click the Startup Menu icon and select Samsung Unified Driver > Unified Driver Configurator.

  2. Click each button on the left to switch to the corresponding configuration window.

    1. Printers Configuration

    2. Scanners Configuration

    3. Ports Configuration

    [Note]

    To use the on screen help, click Help.

  3. After changing the configurations, click Exit to close the Unified Driver Configurator.

Printers configuration

Printers configuration has the two tabs: Printers and Classes.

Printers tab

View the current system’s printer configuration by clicking on the machine icon button on the left side of the Unified Driver Configurator window.

1

Switches to Printers configuration.

2

Shows all of the installed machine.

3

Shows the status, model name and URI of your machine.

The printer control buttons are, as follows:

  • RefreshRenews the available machines list.

  • Add PrinterAllows you to add a new machines.

  • Remove PrinterRemoves the selected machine.

  • Set as DefaultSets the current selected machine as a default machine.

  • Stop/StartStops/starts the machine.

  • TestAllows you to print a test page to ensure the machine is working properly.

  • PropertiesAllows you to view and change the printer properties.

Classes tab

The Classes tab shows a list of available machine classes.

1

Shows all of the machine classes.

2

Shows the status of the class and the number of machines in the class.

  • RefreshRenews the classes list.

  • Add ClassAllows you to add a new machine class.

  • Remove ClassRemoves the selected machine class.

Scanners configuration

In this window, you can monitor the activity of scanner devices, view a list of installed Samsung machine devices, change device properties, and scan images.

1

Switches to Scanners configuration.

2

Shows all of the installed scanners.

3

Shows the vendor, model name and type of your scanner.

  • PropertiesAllows you to change the scan properties and scan a document.

Ports configuration

In this window, you can view the list of available ports, check the status of each port and release a port that is stalled in a busy state when its owner has terminated the job for any reason.

1

Switches to Ports configuration.

2

Shows all of the available ports.

3

Shows the port type, device connected to the port, and status

  • RefreshRenews the available ports list.

  • Release portReleases the selected port.

Sharing Ports Between Printers and Scanners

Your machine may be connected to a host computer via a parallel port or USB printer port. Since the machine device contains more than one device (printer and scanner), it is necessary to organize proper access of “consumer” applications to these devices via the single I/O port.

The Unified Linux Driver package provides an appropriate port sharing mechanism that is used by Samsung printer and scanner drivers. The drivers talk to their devices via so-called machine ports. The current status of any machine port can be viewed via the Ports configuration. The port sharing prevents you from accessing one functional block of the machine device, while another block is in use.

When you install a new machine device onto your system, it is strongly recommended you do this with the assistance of an Unified Driver Configurator. In this case you will be asked to choose I/O port for the new device. This choice will provide the most suitable configuration for machine’s functionality. For machine scanners, I/O ports are being chosen by scanner drivers automatically, so proper settings are applied by default.