MicroBoards Technology G4 Manuals

Quick Reference Guide for Windows 7, Vista, and XP Rev 12.08.01 Please visit our Technical Support website at www.microboards.com/technical-support For a more in-depth look at the installation process, please refer to the Installation section of the User’s Manual. Be sure your computer meets the Minimum System Requirements as stated in the User’s Manual and that you have read these instructions and the Manual prior to contacting Microboards Technical Support with installation or configuration questions! G4 Disc Publisher Installation: You should not attempt to install the G4 Disc Publisher unless you are logged on to your PC with administrative rights. The hardware and much of the software installation will occur without intervention. 1. Unpack the G4 Disc Publisher and place it in the selected workspace. This space should have enough vertical space to allow for easy loading of media into the input hopper and have enough room to the back of the G4 Disc Publisher to allow the unloading of rejected discs. 2. Insert the G4 Disc Publisher Installation disk into the CD/DVD ROM drive on your computer. The installer should open automatically. If the installer does not automatically open, click the Start button and select Run from the Start menu. Click the Browse button and go to the CD/DVD drive, and open the PC directory. Highlight MBInstall.exe, click the Open button, then click OK. G4 Disc Publisher Installation Prerequisite Windows components may need to be installed before the Disc Publisher can be installed. If any prerequisites are not present, they will be installed at this point. You will not be able to install your Disc Publisher without installing the prerequisite components. You may need to reboot the PC after any prerequisites are installed. The Disc Publisher installer will launch automatically after rebooting. Select Microboards G4 Disc Publisher from the list, then click the Install Microboards G4 Disc Publisher button that appears. 3. You will first be guided through the hardware setup. Please follow all directions on each window before clicking the Next button. 4. After the physical hardware setup is complete, you will be instructed to connect the G4 Disc Publisher to the computer. Once this occurs, Windows will find your new hardware and run through the driver installation process. 5. Click the Finish button when complete. If the hardware is still being installed at this point, you will be asked to wait until that process is complete. 6. Click the Finish button to begin the Disc Publishing software installation process. 7. Rebooting your PC is required before attempting to run your G4 Disc Publisher! Click the Finish button to do so. The Microboards Printer Toolbox Installation The Microboards Toolbox is installed silently during the G4 installation. This application is used for general maintenance functions. After the installation completes, the Toolbox will start up. You will see an icon appear in the tool tray in the lower right corner of your Windows desktop. To access the Toolbox, double-click the icon circled below. The Toolbox will also automatically start up after rebooting the PC. For more information on configuration options, please see the G4 Disc Publisher Configuration Quick Reference Guide on the other side of this page, or refer to the appropriate sections of the User’s Manual. Windows Configurations for Non-Administrative Users To allow users who are logged on to your PC without administrative privileges to use PrintWrite, a few final steps must be taken. You will need to be logged in as an administrator to perform these steps. If you only have users with administrative rights on your PC, or do not intend to allow non-administrative users to run PrintWrite, you will not need to perform the following steps. Do NOT connect your G4 Disc Publisher to your computer until the Installer instructs you to do so!! INK CARTRIDGES CAN BE USED! As is true with all printers, the quality of ink cartridge and the quality of the ink within the cartridge will affect your output. To ensure quality results, the G4 Disc Publisher will not operate with any other color ink cartridge in place. The use of refilled ink cartridges will void your warranty! ONLY MICROBOARDS V102C and V101B In order to guarantee quality results from the G4 Disc Publisher, Drive not appearing in Windows Explorer 1. PC needs to be rebooted 2. Mapped drive conflict: Disconnect G4 Disc Publisher and reboot PC. Disconnect Network drives and remap to letters near end of alphabet. Reconnect G4 Disc Publisher. Printer not responding 1. Ink cartridges installed correctly? 2. Turn on power to Printer (front panel). Press the power button and wait several seconds for the printer power LED to come on. Hardware not installing on PC 1. Turn on power to G4 Disc Publisher (back panel) 2. Reseat USB connection 3. Installation CD in drive? Installation Troubleshooting Guide: Sharing the PrintWrite Working Directories If PrintWrite is to be run by users logged in as Standard or other Non-Administrative user types, the main PrintWrite application directory will need to be shared to allow those users access to the necessary files and directories. The main application directory will be the same as the directory specified during the PrintWrite installation. The default installation directory is C:\Program Files\Microboards\PrintWrite; if you changed the location, you must share the directory you selected. You will need to specify that you are allowing users to modify the contents of the PrintWrite directory. You will also need to share the C:\MBSDK Data directory in the same way. The location of this directory cannot be changed during the installation. This directory will not appear until the first time PrintWrite is launched. Windows Firewall You may need to add two applications, PrintWrite.exe and ServerManager.exe to the Windows Firewall Exceptions list, depending on your PC’s Windows Firewall settings. If Windows Firewall is on and you do not add them to the exceptions list, any non-administrative users will be blocked from running PrintWrite.

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