The Konica Minolta Banner Printing Guide

Emperon Controllers C203, C250, C252, C253, C300, C351, C352, C353, C450, C451 Fiery Controllers IC402, IC406, IC409

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Things to check before proceeding

First of all make sure that you are using the phase two drivers or above, to find this out go to your printers and faxes folder (Start/Settings/Printer and Faxes).

Find the Konica Minolta driver icon, right click on it and go into properties. For Fiery drivers, click on the About tab For Emperon controllers click on printing preferences and then click on Version. If you dont have phase two drivers or higher, it will never work.

Banner printing is not currently supported on Apple Macs.

It will not work using a PCL driver it must be done using a Postscript driver.

Banner printing is not supported on both the C550 and C650.

When using the C203, C253, C353 or the C451 for Banner printing, it will not work with the booklet finisher (FS-608).

Banner printing does not work from Publisher 2007.

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Contents How to enable Banner mode Emperon controllers Printing a JPEG File Emperon Controllers Printing a PDF Emperon Controllers Printing from Photoshop Fiery Controller IC-402 (C351, C450) & IC406 (C300, C352) Printing a JPEG File Fiery Controller IC-402 (C351, C450) & IC406 (C300, C352) Printing a PDF or from an application Fiery Controller IC-409 (C353, C451) Printing a JPEG file Fiery Controller IC-409 (C353, C451) Printing a PDF or from an application Emperon Controllers Printing from Publisher 2002 Page 4 Page 5 Page 11 Page 15

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How to enable Banner mode First of all you need to press the Utility button on the panel of the machine. You will then see this on the touch screen, press Banner Printing

Then select ON and press ok

It will then display then screen shown below, you are now ready to print a banner. (Depending on the finisher option on your machine you may need to slide the finisher away to allow the paper to exit)

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Emperon controllers Printing a JPEG File There is an easy way of printing a banner (XP operating system) using the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (Photo Printing Wizard), which is shown below. Open the banner you wish to print in the Windows picture and fax viewer Click on the printer icon

This will bring up the printing wizard. Click next

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This will then bring up the list of printers available, click on the arrow shown to show drop down menu.

Then select the printer you wish to use, in this case C450 PS (post script)

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This will bring up the screen below; first thing to change is the original size

Then select custom size

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This will bring up another screen shown below

You need to enter the following and click OK

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It will then bring up the following message below, select yes.

It will then display the following options, click OK

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Then click next

It will then show the screen below, its best to select Full page fax print as the Full-page photo print can sometimes crop the image. Check on the preview first before printing. 10 Created by Luke Bennett Konica Minolta Hotline Support (UK)

Then simply click on next and the job is sent to the printer.

Then your finished, click finish and it will close the wizard.

Emperon Controllers Printing a PDF 11 Created by Luke Bennett Konica Minolta Hotline Support (UK)

Open the file you wish to print as a banner. To start, go to file and print, it will show the screen below.

Chose your printer, for this I am using a C450 (post script)

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This will bring up the screen below; first thing to change is the original size

Then select custom size

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This will bring up another screen shown below

You need to enter the following and click OK

It will then bring up the following message below, select yes. 14 Created by Luke Bennett Konica Minolta Hotline Support (UK)

It will then display the following options, click OK

As you will now see the preview of the image has changed and now shows the full page

Emperon Controllers Printing from Photoshop 15 Created by Luke Bennett Konica Minolta Hotline Support (UK)

For this I am using Photoshop Version 7. First of all go to file and print, it may come up with the error below but this is normal just press proceed.

Then chose your printer from the drop down menu, I am using the C450 (post script) Then click on properties

This will bring up the screen below; first thing to change is the original size

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This will bring up another screen shown below

You need to enter the following and click OK

It will then bring up the following message below, select yes. 17 Created by Luke Bennett Konica Minolta Hotline Support (UK)

It will then display the following options, click OK

Then simply press ok as shown below

Fiery Controller IC-402 (C351, C450) & IC406 (C300, C352) Printing a JPEG File 18 Created by Luke Bennett Konica Minolta Hotline Support (UK)

There is an easy way of printing a banner (XP operating system) using the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (Photo Printing Wizard), which is shown below. Click on the printer icon

It will then open the printer wizard, click next

Select the image and click next 19 Created by Luke Bennett Konica Minolta Hotline Support (UK)

Then chose the relevant Fiery driver, for this I am using the IC402 driver Click on Printing Preferences

This will bring up the screen below 20 Created by Luke Bennett Konica Minolta Hotline Support (UK)

First thing to change is the document size, select as below

Then click on Custom

You then need to fill box out as shown below and press ok 21 Created by Luke Bennett Konica Minolta Hotline Support (UK)

You must then select the following, Bypass tray, Thick1 and Landscape and click ok

Then click next

You will then see the preview as shown below, click next 22 Created by Luke Bennett Konica Minolta Hotline Support (UK)

It will then show the below, click finish and your done

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Fiery Controller IC-402 (C351, C450) & IC406 (C300, C352) Printing a PDF or from an application To start, go to file and print, it will show the screen below.

Chose your printer, for this I am using the IC402 driver

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Then click on properties

This will bring up the screen below

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First thing to change is the document size, select as below

Then click on Custom

You then need to fill box out as shown below and press ok

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You must then select the following, Bypass tray, Thick1 and Landscape and click ok

Then click ok and your finished

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Fiery Controller IC-409 (C203, C253, C353, C451) Printing a JPEG file There is an easy way of printing a banner (XP operating system) using the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (Photo Printing Wizard), which is shown below. Click on the printer icon

It will then open the printer wizard, click next

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Select the image and click next

Then chose the relevant Fiery driver, for this I am using the IC409 driver Click on Printing Preferences

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This will bring up the screen below

First thing to change is the original size, select as below It may come up with a conflict screen as shown below; if so just press ok, this will auto change the paper tray to Bypass tray.

You then need to click onto custom

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Change the sizes as below

As you will see it auto-changes Bypass tray for you so just change the following and click ok

Then click next

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Check the preview is ok and press next

Then click finish and the wizard will close

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Fiery Controller IC-409 (C353, C451) Printing a PDF or from an application To start, go to file and print, it will show the screen below.

Chose your printer, for this I am using the IC409 driver

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Then click on properties

This will bring up the screen below

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First thing to change is the document size, select as below

It may come up with a conflict screen as shown below; if so just press ok, this will auto change the paper tray to Bypass tray.

Then click on Custom

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You then need to fill box out as shown below and press ok

You must then select the following and click ok

Then click ok and your finished

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Emperon Controllers Printing from Publisher 2002

First of all go to page setup and under layout tab, setup as exactly as below.

Once completed click on Change Overlap, make sure its set to Print one sheet.

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Then change to Printer & Paper tab and set as below. (I am using a C252)

Then click on Properties.

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Then set as it is shown below. Must be the same or it will error.

For customer size set as shown below.

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Then go to file/print, once it displays the screen below, chose Advanced Print Settings

Then untick Crop Marks as shown below, and click ok.

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Then once set up simply click ok.

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