How to scan and print with Konica Minolta 8031 / OCE CS220
The Konica Minolta 8031 color copier is a very useful office equipment for copying color documents but making it printing and scanning adds a great value to its functions. I didn’t have any manual for the copier when it first arrived to my office and i had to search some time on the internet for the printer drivers and to learn how to access it’s scanning functions. The tutorial is made for any Minolta 8031/OCE CS220 copier with Fierry x3e controller (the Fiery controller is the component that makes the communication between a copier and computer and also has the hard disk for storing the scanned files and connected with a UTP cable between the copier controller and the LAN network card of the computer/switch.
Installing the Printer Drivers
Download the Visual Post Script Fiery X3e drivers from konicaminolta.com . You can also use the PCL drivers or find other drivers but this is the one i recommend it. After downloading, unarchive it somewhere on you computer.
Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Printers and click on Add Printer. Choose the “Local printer attached to my computer” without selecting “Automatically detect and install m Plug and Play Printer”. Click next and select “Create a new Port” and choose the Standard TCP/IP type of port. Click Next twice and insert the printer IP address. You can find the IP Address by printing the settings of the copier from the Fiery menu on the copier. Click Next until the Install Software wizard appears. Click Have disk and browse to the driver folder you’ve unarchived it earlier. Choose the inf driver (it’s the only one that appears), and then chose one of the 2 drivers that appears on the list (i’ve chosen the eu version). Click Next a few times and you’re done. A test page should be printed. Note that you got to have the same class of ip on you network card as the ip of the copier (example : if the coiper has ip 192.168.0.### your network card should have the ip 192.168.0.### where the last three number of both ips differ).
Retrieving the scanned files from the copier
Open the web browser and type in the address bar the ip of the printer. A page containing the menu of the printer should appear. Click on Scan Button, and then on Index1 (you can choose any Index). Click on any of the boxes containing the “—” symbol , choose scan to Mailbox, choose admin mailbox or any mailbox of which you can access (you know the password or it doesn’t have a password), give it a name and then click “Create”.
Go to the copier, press the button Scan, Go to Index 1 and press on the touch panel on the button with the name you gave it earlier. And then press Start to scan it.
Go back to the web browser on the computer, type the IP address in the web browser, and click on the Fiery Web Tools on the bottom right side. A pop-up should appear with another menu on the right. Click Web Scan (it might ask you to choose a mailbox and password). Of the menu in the right doesn’t appear then you might need Java runtime.
Another pop up should appear. In the upper right text box of Mailbox write the mailbox and write the mailbox you can have access to (in my case admin). Click refresh and a scanned file should appear. Click it and then you can choose the format you can choose for saving it (jpeg, tiff or pdf). Click “Save As” and the scanned filed should appear in the browser or a window screen to browse for the location where to save the file.
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