You can perform a print job via a network, manage print jobs, and check the machine status by using OKI LPR Utility.
To use OKI LPR Utility, TCP/IP must be enabled.
OKI LPR Utility cannot be used for shared printers. Use the standard TCP/IP port.
How to install OKI LPR Utility
Add a printer to OKI LPR Utility.
You must have the administrator rights.
If you cannot add a printer, exit OKI LPR Utility, and then follow the procedure below.
Click [Start] > [All Programs] > [Okidata] > [OKI LPR Utility], right-click [OKI LPR Utility], and then select [Run as administrator] to start.
You cannot add the printer that is already registered in OKI LPR Utility. To change the port, select [Confirm Connections] from [Remote Print].
If the "You do not have sufficient privileges to complete this action." message is displayed, follow the procedure described in "If you cannot add a printer..." above.
Network printers and printers connected to the LPR port are not displayed.
You can add a comment to identify the printer that you have added to OKI LPR Utility.
This section describes how to forward selected print jobs to a registered printer using the OKI LPR Utility. This section also describes how to automatically forward a print job to a different registered printer when a problem occurs on the forward destination printer.
Print jobs can only be forwarded to an OKI printer of the same model as your printer.
Before forwarding a job, you must add an OKI printer of the same model.
If you are unable to print because the selected printer is busy, offline, out of paper, or due to other reasons, you can set so that a print job can be automatically forwarded to another OKI model printer.
Print jobs can only be forwarded to the same OKI model printer as the one you are using.
Before forwarding a job, you must add another same OKI model printer.
You must log in as the administrator.
You can print from multiple printers with a single command.
This function enables you to send a print command to multiple remote printers so that they can print at the same time.
You must have the administrator rights.
You can open the Web page of this machine from OKI LPR Utility.
You cannot open the Web page when the Web port number has been changed.
For details, see "Setting the OKI LPR Utility Port Number".
You can set so that you can maintain the connection with the original printer even after the IP address of the printer changes.
You must have the administrator rights.
The IP address may change if DHCP dynamically assigns IP addresses or the network administrator manually changes the IP address of the printer.
You must have the administrator rights.
If the [User Account Control] dialog box is displayed, click [Yes].
If there is a printer that is connected via a network and registered in OKI LPR Utility, you can download the print data.
The file is sent to the printer.
You can use OKI LPR Utility to delete unnecessary print jobs.
The unnecessary job is deleted.