Help with Fiery IC303 on a KM C6500 please.

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  • Splatt
    Technician
    • Dec 2012
    • 32
    #1

    Help with Fiery IC303 on a KM C6500 please.

    Hi all,
    I've been browsing the forum for solutions to my problem but I guess I could really do with some advice now.
    I have purchased a second hand KM C6500 with an IC 303 rip. I am attempting installation and setup myself as I am on a really tight budget and willing to undertake the baptism of fire with learning about the machine as I intend to do the servicing myself.

    The problem I am having (already) is that I have connected the RIP to the copier and then directly to the PC and installed drivers. Unfortunately the PC will not talk to the Fiery. I have printed out the config file and pinged the address but it just times out. The fiery seems otherwise OK as it can be accessed from the copier. It has a steady blinking green light and displays the logo and server name on the LCD.

    The dealer I bought the machine from is now reluctant to talk to me or offer any support.
    I unfortunately do not have the Fiery installation discs to reinstall the firmware.

    Any help or advice would be very gratefully received, I have print jobs pending!

    Thanks in advance,
    Steve.
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    • Mr Spock
      Vulcan Inventor of Death

      1,000+ Posts
      • Aug 2006
      • 2064
      #2
      Re: Help with Fiery IC303 on a KM C6500 please.

      you need the pc and fiery to have like address (not the same). And for direct connect a crossover cable not a normal patch cable.
      And Star Trek was just a tv show...yeah right!

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        • Splatt
          Technician
          • Dec 2012
          • 32
          #3
          Re: Help with Fiery IC303 on a KM C6500 please.

          Thanks for the input.
          PC and Fiery both begin 192.168 and I am using a crossover cable.
          I also have a wide format printer that is disconnected while I try to get the C6500 working, this I can ping with no problems.

          Any other ideas?

          Steve.

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            • peter42
              Trusted Tech

              100+ Posts
              • Jan 2012
              • 110
              #4
              Re: Help with Fiery IC303 on a KM C6500 please.

              PC and Fiery must have the first three numbers of the ip-adress the same.
              mostly the subnetmask 255.255.255.0 is used, that means:
              IP-PC = 192.168.1.x
              IP-Fiery = 192.168.1.y

              then ping will work

              greetings peter

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                • Chameleon
                  Trusted Tech

                  100+ Posts
                  • Nov 2011
                  • 200
                  #5
                  Re: Help with Fiery IC303 on a KM C6500 please.

                  If there are 2 rj-45 (ethernet) connectors in the rear, you want to use the bottom one. They come with a dummy connector in the top one and sometimes it gets taken out.
                  The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein. -Fred Hoyle

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                    • Splatt
                      Technician
                      • Dec 2012
                      • 32
                      #6
                      Re: Help with Fiery IC303 on a KM C6500 please.

                      Thanks everyone, I'm up and running!
                      I am now using the bottom port and have edited the IP address. So now I have just seen my first print roll out.

                      If I could just change the language of the Fiery to English from German it would make my life complete. Still, I can always work around that with google translate.

                      Thanks again, I owe you all a beer!

                      Cheers,
                      Steve.

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                        • lmlittle50
                          Junior Member
                          • Nov 2012
                          • 3
                          #7
                          Re: Help with Fiery IC303 on a KM C6500 please.

                          i would use command work station to find you fiery and try and print from it first then you can troubleshoot your printing issue from there you might just need to reload system software

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                            • Splatt
                              Technician
                              • Dec 2012
                              • 32
                              #8
                              Re: Help with Fiery IC303 on a KM C6500 please.

                              I've installed command workstation and also logged into the fiery ip address but I still can't find an option to change the language on the controller tab of the copier from German. Everything else is in English, except on the LCD display of the fiery and like I say, the controller page.

                              I can work around it for now.

                              I now have another issue, but I'll start a new thread for that one.

                              Thanks again.
                              Steve.

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