Understanding Your Printer Software

Use the Drivers and Utilities CD that came with your printer to install a combination of software programs, depending on your operating system.

The following software programs can only operate on Windows. They cannot operate on Macintosh, UNIX, or Linux.

Printing Status Window

The Printing Status Window alerts you when an error or warning occurs, for example, when the top cover is open or toner is running low.

The Printing Status Window always launches when printing. When an error occurs, the error message appears on the Printing Status Window.

Status Window

On the Status Window, you can check how much toner and paper are remaining or the configuration of options for the local printer.

Status Monitor Console

Use the Status Monitor Console to manage multiple Status Window.

• Select a printer from the list view (or Printer Selection) by clicking its name to open a Status Window or Dell Printer Configuration Web Tool for a particular printer.
  
  
• Select Help to read the online help.
  
  
• The Status Monitor Console displays the Status Window for local connections, or the Dell Printer Configuration Web Tool for network connections.
  
  
  

Dell Supplies Management System

You can launch the Dell Supplies Management System dialog box from the Printing Status window, the All Programs menu, or the desktop icon. You can also launch it from the Status Window when a toner error occurs.

You can order consumables by phone or from the web.

1. Click Start ® All Programs ® Dell Printers ® Dell Laser Printer 3100cn ® Dell Supplies Management System.
   
   

The Dell Supplies Management System window appears.

2. If ordering from the Web:
   
   
   1. When you cannot get information from the printer automatically by two-way communication, a window that prompts you to type the Service Tag number appears. Type your Dell printer Service Tag number in the field provided.
      Your Service Tag number is located inside the front door of your printer.
      
      
   2. Click Visit Dell printer supplies ordering web site.
      
      
3. If ordering by phone, call the number that appears under the By Telephone heading.
   
   

User Setup Disk Creating Tool

The User Setup Disk Creating Tool program located in the MakeDisk folder of the Utilities folder on the Drivers and Utilities CD and the printer drivers located on the Drivers and Utilities CD are used to create driver installation packages that contain custom driver settings. A driver installation package can contain a group of saved printer driver settings and other data for things such as:

• Print orientation and Multiple Up (document settings)
  
  
• Watermarks
  
  
• Font references
  
  

If you want to install the printer driver with the same settings to multiple computers running the same operating system, create a setup disk in a floppy disk or in a server on the network. Using the setup disk that you have created will reduce the amount of work required when installing the printer driver.

• Install in advance the Dell Laser Printer 3100cn printer driver in the computer on which the setup disk is to be created.
  
  
• The setup disk can only be used on the operating system on which the disk was created or computers running the same operating system. Create a separate setup disk for different types of operating systems.
  
  

Software Update

The firmware and/or driver updates can be downloaded from http://support.dell.com/.