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Installing xerox® printer manager, Launching xerox® printer manager – Xerox VersaLink C405/DN All-in-One Color Laser Printer User Manual

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Xerox

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Printer Manager allows you to:

• Configure and check the status of network connected printers.

• Set up a printer on your network and monitor the operation of the printer once installed.

• Perform maintenance checks and view supplies status at any time.

• Provide a common look and feel across the many different suppliers of UNIX and Linux operating

systems.

Installing Xerox

®

Printer Manager

Before you begin, ensure that you have root or superuser privileges to install Xerox

®

Printer Manager.

To install Xerox

®

Printer Manager:

1. Download the appropriate package for your operating system. To locate print drivers for your

printer, go to

www.xerox.com/office/VLC405drivers

.

2. On the print driver website, navigate to your printer model.

3. For your printer model, click

Drivers & Downloads

.

4. From the Operating System menu, select your operating system.

5. To identify the print driver for your printer model, review the list of available print drivers.

Note:

For additional information on each driver, click

Description

.

6. To select the print driver for your printer model and operating system, click the print driver name.

7. To begin the download, read the End User License Agreement, then click

Accept

.

The file automatically downloads to the default location for your computer file downloads.

8. To install the Xerox

®

Print Driver package:

a.

Open the package with your OS package manager.

b.

To install using a command-line utility, change to the directory where you downloaded the
file. To run the installer, type the appropriate command-line utility for your operating system.
For example:

Red Hat

: rpm -U .rpm

Debian-based Linux

: dpkg -i .deb

AIX

: rpm -U .rpm

HPUX

: .depot.gz

Solaris

: pkgadd -d .pkg

Note:

Most installations create a Xerox directory in /opt/Xerox/prtsys. For additional

information about utilities included in the OS package manager, refer to the manual

included with the package. For example,

man xeroxprtmgr

.

Launching Xerox

®

Printer Manager

To launch Xerox

®

Printer Manager, do one of the following tasks.

• For UNIX, log in as root. From a terminal window, type

xosdprtmgr

, then press

Enter

or

Return

.

• For Linux, type

sudo xeroxprtmgr

, then press

Enter

or

Return

.

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VersaLink

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C405 Color Multifunction Printer

User Guide

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