C7300/C7500/C9300/C9500 VE Product Information

C7300/C7500/C9300/C9500 VE
Product Information
Rev 1.1
ODA
Document Contents
Hardware
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What is VE?
How can a VE unit be identified from a current unit?
New Features
New Hardware
New Part Numbers
Compatibility Issues
Software
• Oki Color Correction Utility
• Oki Print Job Accounting 2.0
• Mac Rendezvous Support
HARDWARE
What is VE?
VE refers to a manufacturing process where improvements and changes
are made to an existing product. In the case of the C7300/C7500/C9300/C9500
it involves an upgrade to the current feature set as well as several hardware
changes.
How can a VE unit be identified from a current unit?
The VE version of the C7000/C9000 series can be quickly Identified by
looking at the S/N label either on the back of the unit or by printing a Menu Map.
A current unit S/N is shown below (take note that the alphanumeric
character is an A)
3 0 8 A
N31063A
01
1 0 0 0 6 7 0
Made In Thailand
A VE unit S/N is shown below (take note that the alphanumeric
character is a B)
3 1 2 B
N31063A
01
1 0 0 0 0 6 5
Made In Thailand
New Features
Custom paper size support from Tray 1
The VE units now support custom paper sizes from Tray 1. Current version units would only allow
custom page sizes to be printed from the Multi Purpose tray. In order for this feature to work the new
driver (PCL Version 2.01, PS PPD Version 2.0) or higher must be used in conjunction with the VE
printer.
Multi Purpose Tray support duplexing
On current models when a duplex command is issued for paper that is being fed from the MP tray, the
print job is automatically changed to a single sided print job. In the VE models any paper size that can
be duplexed from Tray 1-5 can now be fed and duplexed from the MP tray. This does not include
custom paper sizes.
USB Upgrade
VE printers will now support the USB 2.0 specification which allows for data transfer rates of up to
480Mb/s. Current models only support USB 1.1 which allows for 12Mb/s.
Quieter Operation in Power Save Mode
The VE models will rotate fans slower in power save mode in order to cut down on noise levels. This
should bring the levels down from 43dBA to approximately 38dBA.
New file system maintenance feature for the HDD option
Two new menu options have been added under the Administrator menu.
Check File System
OFF
FLASH
HDD
Default
Repairs the Flash device area
Repairs the HDD device area
HDD
ON
OFF
Normal state HDD is recognized and usable
In this mode the printer will start up and act as if no HDD is installed
New Hardware
OkiLAN 8100e SoftNIC
It is very important that you be able to distinguish between the different NIC cards as the new 8100e
SoftNIC is not backwards compatible with the current version of printers.
What is a SoftNIC?
A SoftNIC or Host Based interface is a NIC card that does not have any logic of its own. All processing
is done by the host, which in the case of the OkiLAN 8100e is the printer itself. The SoftNIC uses the
CPU on the CU board in order to process data. The NIC F/W is built-in to the CU board.
Improvements that have been made to the NIC are as follows:
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MAC Rendezvous support
Rendezvous is a network printer discovery tool developed by Apple in order to ease the setup
and installation of network printers and systems.
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Increased throughput
Performance is increased approximately 4 times with network speed increased from 325KB/s to
1.4Mb/s. LPR transfer speed is raised from 1.3Mb/s to 3.5Mb/s.
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Improved Email alerts
Emails will be sent at set intervals rather than when the event occurs. One email can contain
multiple alerts, and the user can set the interval at which emails will be sent.
Reference the compatibility chart below to identify which NIC cards work in which rev printer:
Current Units
“A Rev”
VE Units
“B Rev”
OkiLAN 6200e+
(Troy NIC)
OkiLAN 7300e
(JCI / Silex NIC)
OkiLAN 8100e
(Silex)
9
9
9
9
X
Limited Functionality*
Limited Functionality*
9
*Limited Functionality – NIC does not support the improvements that have been made with the SoftNIC.
New (VE) Part Numbers
Printer
CU Board
CU ROM DIMM
C7300
C7500
C9300
C9500
42503109
42503109
42503109
42503119
42277521
42277521
42277522
42277522
NIC physical differences:
OkiLAN 6200e/6200e+
OkiLAN 7300
OkiLAN 8100e SoftNIC
New Controller (CU) Board
Two new controller (CU) PCB’s HME & HMF will be introduced with the VE units.
Changes to the controller are:
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The CPU on the HMF has changed from a PPC750cxe to a PPC750FX
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Even though the PPC750FX can run at a speed of 750MHz it is scaled back to 600MHz
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The L2 cache on the CPU has been doubled in size from 256KB to 512KB
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The EEPROM was has been changed from a 93C86 to a 24C32 in order to fulfill the need for a
capacity increase
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HMF is a replacement for the TIG-2 boards and is only for use with the C9500 series units
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HME is the replacement for the TIG-3 and is only for use in the C7300/C7500/C9300 series units
Old C73/C75/C93 TIG-3 Board
Note the NBC-2 marking on the
new HME & HMF boards.
NBC-2 = VE
New C73/C75/C93 HME “VE” Board
Compatibility Issues
Due to the change in the Controller (CU) PCB and several software changes, there are compatibility
issues that need to be recognized.
C7300/C7500 Program ROM DIMM Compatibility
Old Program
ROM DIMM
HME Board
Printer will not initialize, and the
display shows black squares on
the top line of the operator panel
New Program
ROM DIMM
TIG-3 Board
Printer will not initialize, and the
display shows black squares on
the top line of the operator panel
C9300/C9500 Program ROM DIMM Compatibility
Old Program
ROM DIMM
HMF Board
Fatal Error 43
New Program
ROM DIMM
TIG-2 Board
Printer will not initialize, and the
display shows black squares on
the top line of the operator panel
EEPROM
Old EEPROM
93C86
HME Board
???
New EEPROM
24C32
TIG-3 Board
??
SOFTWARE
Oki Color Correction Utility
The Color Correction Utility allows the user to adjust the colors expressed in wither the CMYK or RGB
color spaces which are used in almost all general purpose office or graphic applications to their liking.
There are two different modes (shown in the picture below) that can be used “Office Palette Tuning” and
“Hue and Saturation Tuning”.
Office Palette Tuning
Office Palette Tuning allows the user to adjust the way that the colors of the Microsoft Office color
palette are printed in order to more closely match them with the colors displayed on screen. There are
several screenshots below of the utility.
Hue & Saturation Tuning
Allows the user to adjust the shade of a specific output color for the entire image. In the Gamma
Adjustment, you can adjust the overall lightness/darkness contrast of a color. In the Hue/Saturation
Adjustment, you can adjust the output color of the entire image by adjusting hue/ saturation for each
color of RGB and CMY.
Oki Print Job Accounting 2.0
Oki Print Job Accounting was introduced with the C7300/C7500/C9300/C9500 series. Revision 2.0 now
introduces several new features such as User/Printer groups and Toner Usage tracking, along with
support for the new VE models.
Printer/User Grouping
Job Accounting now allows for multiple printers/users to be grouped together in order for an admin to
track usages by group as opposed to only tracking a single user.
Toner Usage Amount Recording
Toner usage amount is a new feature that enables tracking of toner percentages. There are 6 different
percentage tracking levels that can be used to charge for toner usage.
Category
Level 0
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Average Toner Coverage
No toner used
between 1 and 5%
between 6 and 15%
between 16 and 30%
between 31 and 60%
between 61 and 100%
The 6 levels represent a range of toner coverage per page across the entire print job. For example, a
job reported as Level 2 implies that the average page coverage is between 5 and 15%. The level
assigned to a print job is based on all the toner used across all pages of a print job. Therefore, a job
reported as Level 2 may have some pages that are lower than 5% and some pages that are higher than
15% coverage.
Mac Rendezvous Support
The VE units now support the latest Macintosh networking system, Rendezvous. Rendezvous allows
users to “instantly” discover and communicate with other Macs or devices without having to change
complex configuration settings or have a broad knowledge of networking.
For more detailed information on Rendezvous visit the link below:
http://a256.g.akamai.net/7/256/51/40eab2299de09b/www.apple.com/macosx/pdfs/Rendezvous_TB.pdf