User`s guide
Setting Up a Computer for Printing/Sending a Fax (Windows/UNIX)
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Using a TCP/IP Network
Printer Connection Method (FTP)
This machine contains an internal FTP server, and a function that enables the machine to print
jobs which are uploaded to this server from PCs on the network. This function is for use in
special environments, such as in a large-scale system that includes a printing function for
processing a large amount of business data. This function, however, is not a general printing
method. The only types of data you can print using this method are plain text data, and binary
data after it has passed through the printer driver. Since jobs uploaded to the FTP server are
printed without passing through a printer driver, if you upload application data, it does not pass
through a printer driver, and therefore will never be printed correctly.
The following is the procedure for printing via FTP.
1
Go to the MS-DOS prompt or the Command prompt ➞ log in to the
machine's FTP server.
For details on user names and passwords, see step 16 in "TCP/IP Settings," on
p. 3-4.
IMPORTANT
Up to three clients can be logged in simultaneously to its FTP server.
2
Execute the following command to change the file type to IMAGE
(BINARY).
ftp> bin
IMPORTANT
Change the file type to IMAGE (BINARY) even if you are printing text files.
3
Execute the following command to upload the file to be printed.
ftp> put <file name to be printed>
4
Execute the following command to log out from the server.
ftp> bye