Getting started

This chapter gives you step-by-step instructions for setting up the USB connected machine and software.

This chapter includes:

[Note]

Supported optional devices and features may differ according to your model. Please check your model name (See Features by Models).

Setting up the hardware

This section shows the steps to set up the hardware, as is explained in the Quick Installation Guide. Make sure you read the Quick Installation Guide first and follow the steps below:

  1. Select a stable location.

    Select a level, stable place with adequate space for air circulation. Allow extra space to open covers and trays.

    The area should be well ventilated and away from direct sunlight or sources of heat, cold, and humidity. Do not set the machine close to the edge of your desk or table.

    Printing is suitable for altitudes under 1,000 m (3,281 ft.). Refer to the altitude setting to optimize your printing (See Altitude adjustment).

    Place the machine on a flat, stable surface so that there is no incline greater than 2 cm (0.79 inch). Otherwise, printing quality may be affected.

  2. Unpack the machine and check all the enclosed items.

  3. Remove the tape.

  4. Install all the necessary items such as toner cartridge and optional goods. (See Supplies and accessories).

  5. Load paper (See Loading paper in tray).

  6. Make sure that all cables are connected to the machine.

  7. Turn the machine on.

[Warning]

  • This equipment will be inoperable when mains power fails.

  • When you move the machine, do not tilt or turn it upside down. Otherwise, the inside of the machine may be contaminated by toner, which can cause damage to the machine or bad printing quality.

Printing a demo page

Print a demo page to make sure that the machine is operating properly.

  1. Press Menu on the control panel.

  2. Press the up/down arrow to highlight Information and press OK.

  3. Press the up/down arrow to highlight Demo Page appears and press OK.

  4. When Print? appears, press OK.

    The machine starts to print a demo page.

Supplied software

After you have set up your machine and connected it to your computer, you must install the printer software. If you are a Windows or Macintosh OS, install the software from the supplied CD and if you are a Linux or a UNIX OS user, download the software from the Samsung website (www.samsung.com/printer) and install.

[Note]

Machine software are occasionally updated due to release of new operating system and etc. If needed, download the latest version from the Samsung website. (www.samsung.com/printer)

OS

Contents

Windows

  • Printer driver: Use this driver to take full advantage of your machine’s features.

  • PostScript Printer Driver: Use the PostScript driver to print documents with complex fonts and graphics in the PS language. (PostScript printer description file is included.)

  • Smart Panel: This program allows you to monitor the machine’s status and alerts you when an error occurs during printing.

  • Printer Settings Utility: This program allows you to set up printer’s other options from your computer desktop.

  • Direct Printing Utility: This program allows you to print PDF files directly.

  • SetIP: Use this program to set your machine’s TCP/IP addresses.

  • XPS printer driver: Use to print documents in XPS print path. XPS printer driver can be installed only on Windows Vista or higher.

Macintosh

  • Printer driver: Use this driver to run your machine from a Macintosh computer and print documents. (PostScript printer description file is included.)

  • Smart Panel: This program allows you to monitor the machine’s status.

  • Printer Settings Utility: This program allows you to set up printer’s other options from your computer desktop.

  • SetIP: Use this program to set your machine’s TCP/IP addresses.

Linux

  • Unified Linux Driver: Use this driver to take full advantage of your machine’s features.

  • PostScript Printer Driver: Use this driver to run your machine from a Linux computer and print documents. (PostScript printer description file is included.)

  • Smart Panel: This program allows you to monitor the machine’s status.

  • Printer Settings Utility: This program allows you to set up printer’s other options from your computer desktop.

  • SetIP: Use this program to set your machine’s TCP/IP addresses.

Unix

  • UNIX Printer driver:  Use this driver to take full advantage of your machine's feature.

System requirements

Before you begin, ensure that your system meets the following requirements:

Microsoft® Windows®

Your machine supports the following Windows operating systems.

OPERATING SYSTEM

Requirement (recommended)

CPU

RAM

free HDD space

Windows 2000®

Intel® Pentium® II 400 MHz (Pentium III 933 MHz)

64 MB (128 MB)

600 MB

Windows XP®

Intel® Pentium® III 933 MHz (Pentium IV 1 GHz)

128 MB (256 MB)

1.5 GB

Windows Server® 2003

Intel® Pentium® III 933 MHz (Pentium IV 1 GHz)

128 MB (512 MB)

1.25 GB to 2 GB

Windows Server® 2008

Intel® Pentium® IV 1 GHz (Pentium IV 2 GHz)

512 MB (2048 MB)

10 GB

Windows Vista®

Intel® Pentium® IV 3 GHz

512 MB (1024 MB)

15 GB

Windows® 7

Intel® Pentium® IV 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor or higher

1 GB (2 GB)

16 GB

  • Support for DirectX® 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme).

  • DVD-R/W Drive

Windows Server® 2008 R2

Intel® Pentium® IV 1 GHz (x86) or 1.4 GHz (x64) processors (2 GHz or faster)

512 MB (2048 MB)

10 GB
[Note]

  • Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher is the minimum requirement for all Windows operating systems.

  • Administrator rights are required to install the software.

  • Windows Terminal Services is compatible with this machine.

  • For Windows 2000, Services Pack 4 or higher is required.

Macintosh

OPERATING SYSTEM

Requirements (recommended)

CPU

RAM

free HDD space

Mac OS X 10.3 ~ 10.4

  • Intel® Processors

  • PowerPC G4/ G5

  • 128 MB for a PowerPC based Mac (512 MB)

  • 512 MB for a Intel-based Mac (1 GB)

1 GB

Mac OS X 10.5

  • Intel® Processors

  • 867 MHz or faster Power PC G4/ G5

512 MB (1 GB)

1 GB

Mac OS X 10.6

  • Intel® Processors

1 GB (2 GB)

1 GB

Linux

Item

Requirement (recommended)

Operating system

RedHat® Enterprise Linux WS 4, 5 (32/64 bit)

Fedora 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (32/64bit)

SuSE Linux 10.0, 10.1 (32bit)

OpenSuSE 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 (32/64bit)

Mandriva 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2009.1 (32/64bit)

Ubuntu 5.04, 5.10, 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10 (32/64bit)

SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, 11 (32/64bit)

Debian 4.0, 5.0 (32/64bit)

CPU

Pentium® IV 2.4 GHz (Intel Core™2)

RAM

512 MB (1024 MB)

Free HDD space

1 GB (2 GB)

UNIX

Item

Requirements

Operating system

Sun Solaris 9,10 (x86, SPARC)

IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3 (PA-RISC, Itanium)

Free HDD space

Up to 100 MB

Installing locally connected machine’s driver

[Note]

Only use an USB cable no longer then 3 m (10 ft.).

Windows

You can install the machine software using the typical or custom method.

The following steps below are recommended for most users who use a machine directly connected to your computer. All components necessary for machine operations will be installed.

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected locally and powered on.

  2. Insert the supplied software CD into your CD-ROM drive.

  3. Select Install now.

    [Note]

    • You can see Wireless Setting and Installation menu. You can use this menu if an optional wireless network card is installed and/or the machine is connected to your computer with a USB cable.

      Install the optional wireless network card. Instructions for Wireless Setting and Installation, refer to the wireless network installation guide provided with the optional wireless network card.

    • The Advanced Installation has Custom Installation option. Custom Installation allows you to select the machine’s connection and choose individual components to install. Follow the instructions in the window.

  4. Read License Agreement, and select I accept the terms of the License Agreement. Then, click Next.

    The program searches for the machine.

  5. The searched machines will be shown on the screen. Select the one you wish to use and click Next.

    [Note]

    If the driver searched only one machine, the confirmation window appears.

  6. After the installation is finished, a window asking you to print a test page appears. If you want to print a test page, click Print a test page.

    Otherwise, just click Next and skip to step 8.

  7. If the test page prints out correctly, click Yes.

    If not, click No to reprint it.

  8. To register as a user of the machine in order to receive information from Samsung, click On-line Registration.

  9. Click Finish.

[Note]

If the printer driver does not work properly, follow the steps below to uninstall and reinstall the driver.

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected to your computer and powered on.

  2. From the Start menu, select Programs or All Programs > Samsung Printers > your printer driver name > Uninstall.

  3. Select the necessary option and follow the instructions in the window.

  4. After uninstalling the printer driver, reinstall it (see Installing locally connected machine’s driver, Installing network connected machine’s driver).

Silent installation Mode (Windows only)

Silent installation mode is an installation method that does not require any user intervention. Once you start the installation, the machine driver and software are automatically installed on you computer. You can start the silent installation by typing /s or /S in the command window.

Command-line Parameters

Following table shows commands that can be used in the command window.

[Note]

Following command-line are effective and operated when command is used with /s or /S. But /h, /H or /? are exceptional commands that can be operated solely.

Command- line

Definition

Description

/s or/S

Starts silent installation.

Installs machine drivers without prompting any UIs or user intervention.

/p”<port name>” or/P”<port name>”

Specifies printer port.

[Note]

Network Port will be created by use of Standard TCP/IP Port monitor. For local port, this port must exist on system before being specified by command.

Printer port name can be specified as IP address, hostname, USB local port name or IEEE1284 port name.

For example

  • /p”xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” in where, “xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” means IP address for network printer. /p”USB001”, /P”LPT1:”, /p”hostname”

  • When installing the driver silently in Korean, type in-Setup.exe /s /L"0x0012” or Setup.exe /s /L"18” .

/a”<dest_path>” or/A”<dest_path>”

Specifies destination path for installation.

[Note]

The destination path should be a fully qualified path.

Since machine drivers should be installed on the OS specific location, this command applies to only application software.

/i”<script filename>” or/I”<script filename>”

Specifies customized install script file for custom operation.

[Note]

The script filename should be a fully qualified filename.

Customized script file can be assigned for customized silent installation. This script file can be created or modified through provided installer customizing utility or by text editor.

Note: This customized script file is prior than default installer setting in setup package but not prior than command-line parameters.

/n”<Printer name>” or/N”<Printer name>”

Specifies printer name. Printer instance shall be created as specified printer name.

With this parameter, you can add printer instances as your wishes.

/nd or/ND

Commands not to set the installed driver as a default machine driver.

It indicates installed machine driver will not be the default machine driver on your system if there are one or more printer drivers installed. If there is no installed machine driver on your system, then this option won’t be applied because Windows OS will set installed printer driver as a default machine driver.

/x or/X

Uses existing machine driver files to create printer instance if it is already installed.

This command provides a way to install a printer instance that uses installed printer driver files without installing an additional driver.

/up”<printer name>” or/UP”<printer name>”

Removes only specified printer instance and not the driver files.

This command provides a way to remove only specified printer instance from your system without effecting other printer drivers. It will not remove printer driver files from your system.

/d or/D

Uninstalls all device drivers and applications from your system.

This command will remove all installed device drivers and application software from your system.

/v”<share name>” or/V”<share name>”

Shares installed machine and add other available platform drivers for Point & Print.

It will install all supported Windows OS platform’s machine drivers to system and share it with specified <share name> for point and print.

/o or /O

Opens Printers and Faxes folder after installation.

This command will open Printers and Faxes folder after the silent installation.

/f”<log filename>” or/F”<log filename>”

Specifies log filename.The default log file is created in the system temp folder if not specified.

It will create a log file to a specified folder.

/h, /H or /?

Shows Command-line Usage.

Language code

Code

Language

0X0009

English

0X0012

Korean

0X0804

Simplified Chinese

0X0404

Traditional Chinese

0x040c

French

0X0007

German

0X0010

Italian

0X000a

Spanish

0X0013

Dutch

0X001D

Swedish

0X0006

Danish

0X000b

Finnish

0X0014

Norwegian

0X0019

Russian

0X0005

Czech

0X000e

Hungarian

0X0008

Greek

0X0816

Standard Portuguese

0X0416

Brazilian Portuguese

0X0015

Polish

0X001F

Turkish

0X0001

Arabic

0X000D

Hebrew

0x0424

Slovenian

0X0418

Romanian

0X0402

Bulgarian

0X041A

Croatian

0X081A

Serbian

0X0422

Ukraine

0X041B

Slovakia

0X0421

Indonesian

0x041E

Thai

0X0429

Farsi

Macintosh

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected to your computer and powered on.

  2. Insert the supplied software CD into your CD-ROM drive.

  3. Double-click the CD-ROM icon that appears on your Macintosh desktop.

  4. Double-click the MAC_Installer folder.

  5. Double-click the Installer OS X icon.

  6. Enter the password and click OK.

  7. The Samsung Installer window opens. Click Continue.

  8. Read the license agreement and click Continue.

  9. Click Agree to agree to the license agreement.

  10. Select Easy Install and click Install. Easy Install is recommended for most users. All components necessary for machine operations will be installed.

    If you select Custom Install, you can choose individual components to install.

  11. When the message which warns that all applications will close on your computer appears, click Continue.

  12. Select Typical installation for a local printer and then click OK.

    [Note]

    If you select Typical installation for a network printer during the machine driver installation, the SetIP program automatically runs. If the machine has already configured network information, close the SetIP program. Go to the next step.

  13. After the installation is finished, click Quit.

  14. Open the Applications folder > Utilities > Print Setup Utility.

    • For Mac OS X 10.5~10.6, open the Applications folder > System Preferences and click Print and Fax.

  15. Click Add on the Printer List.

    • For Mac OS X 10.5~10.6, click the “+” icon; a display window will pop up.

  16. For Mac OS X 10.3, select the USB tab.

    • For Mac OS X10.4, click Default Browser and find the USB connection.

    • For Mac OS X 10.5~10.6, click Default and find the USB connection.

  17. For Mac OS X 10.3, if Auto Select does not work properly, select Samsung in Printer Model and your machine name in Model Name.

    • For Mac OS X 10.4, if Auto Select does not work properly, select Samsung in Print Using and your machine name in Model.

    • For Mac OS X 10.5~10.6, if Auto Select does not work properly, select Select a driver to use... and your machine name in Print Using.

    Your machine appears on the Printer List, and is set as the default machine.

  18. Click Add.

[Note]

If the printer driver does not work properly, uninstall the driver and reinstall it.

Follow steps below to uninstall the driver for Macintosh.

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected to your computer and powered on.

  2. Insert the supplied software CD into your CD-ROM drive.

  3. Double-click CD-ROM icon that appears on your Macintosh desktop.

  4. Double-click the MAC_Installer folder.

  5. Double-click the Installer OS X icon.

  6. Enter the password and click OK.

  7. The Samsung Installer window opens. Click Continue.

  8. Select Uninstall and click Uninstall.

  9. When the message which warns that all applications will close on your computer appears, Click Continue.

  10. When the uninstall is done, click Quit.

Linux

You need to download the Linux software package from the Samsung website to install the printer software.

Follow the steps below to install the software.

Installing the Linux Unified Driver

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected to your computer and powered on.

  2. When the Administrator Login window appears, type in root in the Login field and enter the system password.

    [Note]

    You must log in as a super user (root) to install the machine software. If you are not a super user, ask your system administrator.

  3. From the Samsung website, download the Unified Linux Driver package to your computer.

  4. Right click the Unified Linux Driver package and extract the package.

  5. Double click cdroot > autorun.

  6. When the welcome screen appears, click Next.

  7. When the installation is complete, click Finish.

The installation program has added the Unified Driver Configurator desktop icon and the Unified Driver group to the system menu for your convenience. If you have any difficulties, consult the on screen help that is available through your system menu or can otherwise be called from the driver package Windows applications, such as Unified Driver Configurator or Image Manager.

Installing the SmartPanel

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected to your computer and powered on.

  2. When the Administrator Login window appears, type in root in the Login field and enter the system password.

    [Note]

    You must log in as a super user (root) to install the machine software. If you are not a super user, ask your system administrator.

  3. From the Samsung website, download the Smart Panel package to your computer.

  4. Right click the Smart Panel package and extract the package.

  5. Double click cdroot > Linux > smartpanel > install.sh.

Installing the Printer Settings Utility

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected to your computer and powered on.

  2. When the Administrator Login window appears, type in root in the Login field and enter the system password.

    [Note]

    You must log in as a super user (root) to install the machine software. If you are not a super user, ask your system administrator.

  3. From the Samsung website, download the Printer Setting Utility package to your computer.

  4. Right click the Printer Settings Utility package and extract the package.

  5. Double click cdroot > Linux > psu > install.sh.

[Note]

If the printer driver does not work properly, uninstall the driver and reinstall it again.

Follow the steps below to uninstall the driver for Linux.

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected to your computer and powered on.

  2. When the Administrator Login window appears, type in “root” in the Login field and enter the system password.

    You must log in as a super user (root) to uninstall the printer driver. If you are not a super user, ask your system administrator.

  3. Click the icon at the bottom of the desktop. When the Terminal screen appears, type in:

    [root@localhost root]#cd /opt/Samsung/mfp/uninstall/[root@localhost uninstall]#./uninstall.sh

  4. Click Uninstall.

  5. Click Next.

  6. Click Finish.