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Maintenance tab
This tab allows you to maintain your machine by upgrading firmware and
setting contact information for sending emails. You can also connect to
Samsung website or download drivers by selecting the
Link
menu.
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Firmware Upgrade:
You can upgrade your machine’s firmware.
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Contact Information:
You can view the contact information.
•
Link:
You can view the links to useful sites where you can download
or check information.
USING THE SMART PANEL PROGRAM
The Smart Panel is a program that monitors and informs you of the machine
status, and allows you to customize the machine’s settings. For Windows
and Macintosh, Smart Panel is installed automatically when you install the
machine software. For Linux, you can download Smart Panel from the
Samsung website and install (See "Installing the Smart Panel" on page 28).
To use this program, your computer has to meet the following system
requirements:
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Windows. Check that your computer’s CPU, RAM and HDD meet
or exceed specification (See "System requirements" on page 25).
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Mac OS X 10.3 or higher. Check that your computer’s CPU, RAM
and HDD meet or exceed specification (See "System
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Linux. Check that your computer’s CPU, RAM and HDD meet or
exceed specification (See "System requirements" on page 25).
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Help.
If you need to know the exact model name of your machine, you can
check the supplied software CD.
Understanding Smart Panel
If an error occurs while operating, you can check the error from the Smart
Panel.
You can also launch Smart Panel manually. Double-click the Smart Panel
icon on the Windows task bar (in Windows), or Notification Area (in Linux).
You can also click it on the status bar (in Mac OS X).
Windows
Double-click this icon in Windows.
Macintosh
Click this icon in Mac OS X.
Linux
Click this icon in Linux.
Or, if you are a Windows user, you can launch it from the
Start
menu, select
Programs
or
All Programs
>
Samsung Printers
>
your printer driver
name
>
Smart Panel
.
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If you have already installed more than one Samsung machine,
first select the correct machine model you want in order to access
the corresponding Smart Panel.
Right-click (in Windows or Linux) or click (in Mac OS X) the Smart
Panel icon and select your machine.
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The Smart Panel window and its contents shown in this user’s
guide may differ depending on the machine or operating system in
use.
The Smart Panel program displays the current status of the machine, the
estimated level of toner remaining in each toner cartridge, and various other
types of information. You can also change settings.
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
Buy Now
You can order replacement toner cartridge(s) from
online.
3
User’s Guide
You can view the online User’s Guide.
This button changes to
Troubleshooting
Guide
when error occurs. You can directly
open the troubleshooting section
in the
user’s guide.
4
Printer
Setting
You can configure various machine settings in the
Printer Settings Utility window.
Some machines
do
not have this feature.
If you connect your machine to a network,
the SyncThru™ Web Service window
appears instead of the Printer Settings Utility
window.
5
Driver Setting
You can set all of the machine options you need in
the
Printing Preferences
window. This feature is
available only for Windows (See "Opening printing
Changing the Smart Panel Program Settings
Right-click (in Windows or Linux) or click (in Mac OS X) the Smart Panel
icon and select
Options
. Select the settings you want from the
Options
window.
SMARTHRU
The supplied software CD provides you with
SmarThru. SmarThru
offers
you convenient features to use with your machine.
Starting
SmarThru
Follow the steps below
to start
SmarThru
.
1.
Make sure that your machine and computer are turned on and properly
connected to each other.
2.
Once you have installed
SmarThru
, you will see the
SmarThru
icon on
your desktop.
