Technical Note: 20011004066

EPSON IM300 Stand alone Installation

(Maitre'D 2002, and later versions of Maitre'D)
The EPSON IM-300 already comes with: Hardware needed for a stand alone EPSON.

Installing Windows 95 Operating System.

If this hard drive does not come with an operating system, you will have to boot with a system disk and then install Windows 95 / 98 from diskettes.
For instructions on installing Windows 95 / 98, please refer to the appropriate manuals provided with Windows 95 / 98.
Please note that during the installation of Windows 95 / 98, At the Analyzing Your Computer Step, you will be prompt to click on different component that your system may have. Do not select any of these three components:

Installing Windows Touchscreen drivers

  1. Insert the touch screen driver floppy in drive A:
  2. Run a:\t5setup.exe
  3. Select the target directory (default windows)
  4. Select screen type: AHL / AR5000 and Digitouch Controllers
  5. Enter group name (e,g, Touch)
  6. On the next screen, ignore the switch setting and select OK
  7. Hardware Control (serial) screen:
    Com4, address 02E8, IRQ 10, 600 baud, parity none, data bits 8, stop bits 1 readme file: OK
  8. Installation complete, reboot
    After the system boots, the touch screen will beep but not necessarily work very well. It needs to be calibrated.
  9. From the Start menu, select programs, touch (or whatever group name you used above in step 5), touchscreen control.
  10. Then run the calibrate utility.

Install 3Com drivers

  1. Insert 3Com driver disk 1 in floppy drive
  2. from My Computer, Control Panel, Network Select Add / Adapter Have Disk
  1. NIC Test: DO NOT PERFORM NIC TEST.
  2. Network Connection Test: DO NOT PERFORM NETWORK CONNECTION TEST.
  3. Do you want to install and configure TCP / IP. Select NO.
  4. Make sure that you see:
  1. DynamicAccess software, select Next without changing anything here.
  2. Repeat Last installation, select No.
  3. Installation Complete, select Finish to end the 3com installation
    Windows® might prompt to enter a specific Windows® installation disk. Insert the required disk and click OK to continue. Windows will install network drivers and will ask to reboot the computer. Select Yes to reboot the computer now.
    When Windows® will restart, it will ask to enter a user name. Enter MAITRE D (upper case), do not enter any password and click on OK to access Windows® network.

Setting Windows 95 / 98 for the EPSON IM-300 and the Maitre'D software

Before you try to start the local workstation or connect any workstation on the network, you will need to make the following changes in your Windows 95 / 98® of the EPSON IM-300.

Network components

My Computer, Control Panel, Network
Remove Client for NetWare Networks
Remove IPX / SPX-compatible protocol
Remove TCP / IP
Select from Primary Network Login list: Windows Login
Select File and Print Sharing button and turn on the following:
I want to be able to give others access to my files
I want to be able to allow others to print to my printer(s)
When finish in the network components list, you need to have the following:
Client For Microsoft Network
3com Etherlink III ISA (3C509 / 509b) in ISA mode
3Com TCAATDI Diagnostic TDI
NetBEUI
File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks
Note :Be sure to remove the " IPX / SPX - Compatible protocol "
Click OK to accept these parameters, Windows will ask to reboot the computer. Select Yes to reboot now.

Share C drive

In My Computer, you will need to share your C: drive. To do so, " right click " on the icon representing your C drive. Click on SHARING and choose " SHARE AS ". The Share Name must be GDATA (uppercase). Access type must be FULL.
My Computer, Control Panel, Display, Setting TAB
Select High Color (16 bit)

Installing Maitre D 2000 from the network

To install the Maitre D software from the network, you must have a network connection between the EPSON IM-300 and a Windows 95 / 98 PC with a CD-ROM drive. This drive must be shared. You can connect to the network from cross-connect cable or from a hub using standard network cables.
1. From the network component screen / Identification page, have different computer names but use the same Workgroup such as POSERA.
EPSON IM-300;
PC with shared CD-ROM Reboot each computer. When both PC will be back on, insert Maitre'D 2000 Disk in PC CR-Rom drive. Start the Installation program 4.1 From the EPSON IM-300, click on network neighborhood
4.2 Select on the other PC icon.
4.3 Select the Shared CD-ROM Drive
4.4 Select the BO folder
4.5 Select DISK1 folder
4.6 Select setup.exe and follow instructions
Using Built in Magnetic Card Reader
Built in card reader is keyboard wedge. No additional setup is required.
Using Built in Customer Display
Pole display use the same COM port as the built in printer
Using the Built in Printer
IM-300 built in printer use TM-T88 setup codes as follow:
IMPORTANT :If you are not using a pole display, you must use a loop-back connector to jump pin 4 (DSR) and pin 5 (DTR) on DMD connector to have your printer work properly.
This device use com3 int. 10. In the workstation Port Configuration page, set the receipt as the following screen: