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Using the PostScript Printer Software / For Windows
Windows Me, 98, and 95 users
To print in the PostScript mode with Windows Me, 98, and 95, you will have to install the PostScript printer driver. See the appropriate sections below for installation instructions according to the interface that you are using to print.
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Follow these steps to install the PostScript printer driver for the parallel interface:
 | Insert the printer software CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. |
 | Click Start, then Settings, and finally Printers. |
 | Double-click the Add Printer icon. |
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The Add Printer Wizard will be displayed. Follow the on-screen instructions until the screen asking you to select the printer model is displayed. |
 | Click Have Disk and specify the path to the appropriate INF file necessary for installation. If your CD-ROM drive is D:, the path will be D:\ADOBEPS\ENGLISH\WIN9X\PS_SETUP (change the drive letter as needed for your system). |
 | Select the INF file for the version of the Windows operating system that you are running and continue with the installation according to the on-screen instructions until the screen asking you to select the port the printer is connected to is displayed. |
 | Select LPT1 as the port the printer is connected to, and then click Next. Follow the on-screen instructions for the rest of the installation. |
 | When installation is done, click Finish. |
Follow these steps to install the PostScript printer driver for the USB interface:
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| Without connecting the printer to your computer, turn on both the computer and the printer. |
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| The Add New Hardware Wizard will launch automatically. Click Next to start the installation of the USB printer driver. |
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| Select Search for best driver for your device (Recommended), and then click Next. |
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| Insert the printer software CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. |
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| Select only the Specify a location check box, and then specify the following path on the CD-ROM. You can click Browse to select the path. If your CD-ROM drive is D:, the path will be D:\ADOBEPS\ENGLISH\WIN9X\PS_SETUP (change the drive letter as needed for your system). |
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| If the USB printer driver file is correctly recognized, the message "EPSON USB Printer" will appear. Click Next to continue with the installation. |
 | When installation of the USB printer driver is done, click Finish. |
 | After the USB printer driver installation is done, the Add Printer Wizard will launch automatically. Follow the on-screen instructions to continue with the installation until the screen asking you to select the printer model is displayed. |
 | Click Have Disk and specify the path to the appropriate INF file necessary for installation. If your CD-ROM drive is D:, the path will be D:\ADOBEPS\ENGLISH\WIN9X\PS_SETUP (change the drive letter as needed for your system). |
 | Select the INF file for the version of the Windows operating system that you are running and continue with the rest of the installation according to the on-screen instructions. |
 | When installation is done, click Finish. |
Follow these steps to install the PostScript printer driver for the network interface:
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| Insert the printer software CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. |
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| Select Network Printer when the screen asking How is this printer attached to your computer? appears. |
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| Enter the printer's network path in the Network path or queue name field. You can also select the network printer by clicking Browse. |
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| When the screen asking you to select the printer model is displayed, click Have Disk and specify the path to the appropriate INF file necessary for installation. If your CD-ROM drive is D:, the path will be D:\ADOBEPS\ENGLISH\WIN9X\PS_SETUP (change the drive letter as needed for your system). |
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| Select the INF file for the version of the Windows operating system that you are running and continue with the rest of the installation according to the on-screen instructions. |
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| When installation is done, click Finish. |
The printer may not print normally if the computer is connected to the printer via the parallel interface and the ECP mode is set. If this is the case, disable bi-directional support in the printer driver. To do so, display the printer's Properties dialog box, click the Details tab, then click the Spool Settings button. In the Spool Settings dialog box that appears, Select Disable bi-directional support for this printer, then click the OK button.
The printer driver enables you to change the settings for your print job. The settings are grouped into various categories that you can access by clicking the appropriate tab in the printer's Properties dialog box.
Online help is also available to help you with the settings. There are two online help options. Click Help for procedural help on the settings. If you want help on a particular item, click the \xd4 ?' icon on the top-right corner of the dialog box's title bar and then click the name of the setting that you want more information on. An explanation of the setting and its options will be displayed.
Select the desired paper size. This setting must match the size of the paper loaded in the printer. The paper sizes that are available will differ according to the printer. The default setting is either A4 or Letter, depending on your country of purchase.
Specify how the document is to be positioned on the page. The options are Portrait (vertical) and Landscape (horizontal).
Select this check box to print multiple copies of the document in page order. If this check box is not selected, each page is printed out the specified number of times before the following page is printed.
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Select the desired duplex print style. Flip on long edge produces two-sided printouts that turn like a book, while Flip on short edge produces two-sided printouts that turn like a calendar.
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Select the paper source for your print job. The options are Auto Tray Select, MP Tray, Cassette 1, Cassette 2, Cassette 3, Manual Feed 1st Page, and Manual Feed EachPage. However, the actual paper sources that are available vary depending on the options installed.
Select the desired paper type to print on. The options are Normal, Thick, Transparency, and Extra Thick. Make sure to select the correct paper type to avoid smearing or wasting ink.
Click this button to set the margins for your printout. You can select to specify in Inches or Millimeters.
Click this button to reset the settings on this sheet to their default values.
Select the resolution that you want to print in. The options are Fast and Quality. The Quality setting prints at a higher resolution, but the printing time will be longer.
Select this check box if you want to print the document as a negative image. This feature prints by reversing the RGB or black-and-white values of the image, and is useful for printing black-and-white or coarse RGB images.
Select this check box if you want to print the document as a mirror image. This feature prints by reversing the horizontal coordinates of the image.
Specify how many pages of your document to print on one sheet of paper. The options are 1-up, 2-up, 4-up, 6-up, 9-up, and 16-up.
Select this check box if you want the borders of the pages to be printed when printing more than one page of the document on one sheet of paper.
This setting enables you to shrink or enlarge the image to print. You can enter any percentage from 25% to 400%. To shrink the image, specify a percentage that is lower than 100%. To enlarge the image, specify a percentage that is higher than 100%. However, if you can shrink or enlarge the image to print in the application that you are printing from, do so in the application and not through the printer driver.
Click this button to reset the settings on this sheet to their default values.
Select this radio button to have the computer download TrueType fonts to the printer according to the settings in the Font Substitution Table. This setting can speed up printing.
Click this button to edit the Font Substitution Table.
Select this radio button to have the computer always download all the TrueType fonts used in the document to be printed to the printer. This will slow down printing, but the fonts in the printout will be identical to that shown on the screen.
Select this check box to add the symbol for the Euro currency to the set of PostScript fonts residing on the printer.
Click this button to update the list of installed PostScript Type 1 fonts so that they are printed correctly.
Click this button to specify advanced settings for the downloading of fonts to the printer. See online help for details on each of the available settings.
Click this button to reset the settings on this sheet to their default values.
Specify the amount of available printer memory. If the entered value does not match the actual amount of memory on the printer and printing problems occur, change the setting.
Displays the amount of font cache memory available to Type 32 fonts. The printer driver automatically adjusts the font cache size according the memory setting specified under Installable options.
Select whether to use RITech when printing. RITech improves the appearance of printed lines, text, and graphics. The options are On and Off.
Select whether to use the Toner Save Mode when printing. When the Toner Save Mode is turned on, the printer uses about 50% less toner than normal. The options are On and Off.
This setting enables you to specify whether to use lossy compression when memory runs low during printing. The options are On and Off. When Image Protect is set to On, lossy compression is not used. If it is set to Off, lossy compression is used when memory resources are too low.
The settings available under Installable options enable you to specify whether certain options are installed into the printer, and if so, what they are. Use the Change setting for drop-down list to specify the details of the options installed.
Click this button to reset the settings on this sheet to their default values.
Specify the format for PostScript files. The options are PostScript (optimize for speed), PostScript (optimize for portability-ADSC), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), and Archive format. See online help for details on each of these formats.
This setting enables you to specify how header information is sent to the printer. The options are Download header with each print job and Assume header is downloaded and retained.
Click this button to send the PostScript header information to the printer immediately. This button is available only when the Download header with each print job radio button is selected. If you click the Send Header Now button and then click OK, the Assume header is downloaded and retained radio button is automatically selected.
Select this check box to have the printer automatically print out a page with PostScript error messages when an error occurs in the print job. Turn this option on if you are having printing problems.
Specify the maximum number of seconds that can elapse for a print job to get from the computer to the printer before the printer stops trying to print the document. If you enter "0" (zero), the printer will continue trying to print indefinitely.
Specify the maximum number of seconds that the printer will wait to get more PostScript information from the computer before the print job is automatically canceled. After the specified time elapses, the printer will stop trying to print the document and prints an error message instead. If you enter "0" (zero), the printer will wait indefinitely.You may want to increase this value when printing complicated documents.
This setting enables you to prevent the printer from stalling if and when the computer that sends the print job stalls.
Click this button to specify the following advanced PostScript options:
PostScript language level
Specify the PostScript language level to use. Select the highest PostScript language level that your printer supports to optimize its features. Use a lower PostScript language level only if you are experiencing printing problems or if you intend to print the file using another printer.
Data format
Select the data format to use. The options are ASCII data and Tagged binary communications protocol. You cannot use Binary communications protocol nor Pure binary data, although they may appear as options.
If ASCII data is selected, print data is sent in the ASCII (7-bit) format, which may take longer to print, but which can be sent through any I/O channel, including serial, parallel, and Ethernet.
If you select Tagged binary communications protocol, all data except for special control characters is sent in binary (8-bit) format. The binary format can be sent over parallel or serial communications ports and are faster then sending data in the ASCII format. The Pure binary data setting sends all data in pure binary format, which is the fastest format to print in, but that can be sent only over AppleTalk.
Send CTRL+D before job
Select this check box to specify for the CTRL+D character to be sent at the beginning of every PostScript document. CTRL+D at the beginning-of-file (BOF) will reset your printer to its default settings to ensure that prior print jobs will not affect the current print job. However, activating this setting may cause the print job to fail if it is connected through a network instead of the parallel or serial interface.
Send CTRL+D after job
Select this check box to specify for the CTRL+D character to be sent at the end of every PostScript document. CTRL+D at the end-of-file (EOF) will reset your printer to its default settings to ensure that the current print job will not affect future print jobs. However, activating this setting may cause the print job to fail if it is connected through a network instead of the parallel or serial interface.
Display alert for applications incompatible with driver features
Select this check box if you want the printer driver to display messages to alert you to incompatibilities between the printer's features and those of the application that you are using to print.
Click this button to reset the settings on this sheet to their default values.
Specify whether to use a watermark when printing. The options are None, CONFIDENTIAL, COPY, and DRAFT.
Click this button to edit the selected watermark. This button is not available when None is selected under Select a watermark.
Click this button to create a new watermark.
Click this button to delete the selected watermark. This button is not available when None is selected under Select a watermark.
Specify how the selected watermark should be printed. The options are On first page only, In background, and As outline only.
To print in the PostScript mode with Windows NT 4.0, you will have to install the printer driver. See the appropriate sections below for installation instructions according to the interface that you are using to print.
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Follow these steps to install the printer driver for the parallel interface:
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| Insert the printer software CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. |
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The Add Printer Wizard will be displayed. Follow the on-screen instructions until the screen asking you to select the printer model is displayed. |
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| Select the INF file for the version of the Windows operating system that you are running and continue with the installation according to the on-screen instructions. |
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| When installation is done, click Finish. |
Follow these steps to install the printer driver for the network interface:
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| The Add Printer Wizard will be displayed. Select Network printer server, and then click Next. |
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| Enter the name of the printer or select the printer from the list of available printers on the network, and then click OK. |
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| Click OK once the following message appears. |
"The server on which the XXX printer resides does not have the correct printer driver installed."
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| Click Have Disk and specify the path to the appropriate INF file necessary for installation. If your CD-ROM drive is D:, the path will be D:\ADOBEPS\ENGLISH\WINNT4\PS_SETUP (change the drive letter as needed for your system). |
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| When installation is done, click Finish. |
Unavailable paper sizes may appear in the paper size list for the selected paper source. See Paper Sources to confirm the available paper sizes.
The Print dialog box, which is accessed by selecting Print on the File menu of the application that you are using, enables you to specify print settings for the current document. The available settings are grouped under the Page Setup and Advanced tabs. See below for a brief description of each available setting.
Select the desired paper size. This setting must match the size of the paper loaded in the printer. The paper sizes that are available will differ according to the printer. The default setting is either A4 or Letter, depending on your country of purchase.
Select the paper source for your print job. The options are Auto Tray Select, MP Tray, Cassette 1, Cassette 2, Cassette 3, Manual Feed 1st Page, and Manual Feed EachPage. However, the actual paper sources that are available will differ according to the options installed.
Specify the number of copies to print.
This check box appears only if more than one copy is specified for Copy Count. Select this check box to print multiple copies of the document in page order. If this check box is not selected, each page is printed out the specified number of times before the following page is printed.
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Specify how the document is to be positioned on the page. The options are Portrait (vertical), Landscape (horizontal), and Rotated (rotated 90° counterclockwise).
Specify whether to print the document in grayscale or color. The options are Monochrome and Color.
Undo Changed Option/s
Click this button to undo all the changes that have been made to the settings. The settings return to their default values. This button is enabled only if one or more of the default values have been changed.
About Adobe PostScript Printer Driver
Click this button to view information on the currently installed PostScript printer driver.
Paper Size
If you specified the Paper Size setting on the Page Setup sheet, that setting is reflected here. To change this setting, select the desired paper size from the options displayed at the bottom of the dialog box. For more information on this setting, see Paper Size.
Orientation
If you specified the Orientation setting on the Page Setup sheet, that setting is reflected here. To change this setting, select the desired orientation from the options displayed at the bottom of the dialog box. For more information on this setting, see Orientation.
Paper Source
If you specified the Paper Source setting on the Page Setup sheet, that setting is reflected here. To change this setting, select the desired paper source from the options displayed at the bottom of the dialog box. For more information on this setting, see Paper Source.
Media
Select the desired paper type to print on. The options are Normal, Thick, Transparency, and Extra Thick. Make sure to select the correct paper type to avoid smearing or wasting ink.
Copy Count
If you specified the Copy Count setting on the Page Setup sheet, that setting is reflected here. To change this setting, enter the desired number of pages to print into the text box at the bottom of the dialog box. For more information on this setting, see Copy Count.
Resolution
Select the resolution that you want to print in. The options are Fast and Quality. The Quality setting prints at a higher resolution, but the printing time will be longer.
Color Appearance
If you specified the Color Appearance setting on the Page Setup sheet, that setting is reflected here. To change this setting, select the desired setting from the options displayed at the bottom of the dialog box. For more information on this setting, see Color Appearance.
Scaling
This setting enables you to shrink or enlarge the image to print. You can enter any percentage from 1% to 1000%. To shrink the image, specify a percentage that is lower than 100%. To enlarge the image, specify a percentage that is higher than 100%. When you enlarge a document, only the portion of the document that fits on the selected paper will be printed. If you can shrink or enlarge the image to print in the application that you are printing from, do so in the application.
TrueType Font
Specify how TrueType fonts in the document are printed. Select Substitute with Device Font to use equivalent PostScript fonts for printing documents that contain TrueType fonts. Select Download as Softfont to download TrueType fonts to the printer instead of using PostScript fonts.
If your document has overlapping text and graphics, select Substitute with Device Font. Using downloaded TrueType fonts to print when text and graphics overlap may cause output errors.
Page Layout (N-up) Option
Specify how many pages of your document to print on one sheet of paper. The options are Normal (one-up), Two-up (1x2), Four-up (2x2), Six-up (2x3), Nine-up (3x3), and Sixteen-up (4x4).
PostScript Output Option
Specify the format for PostScript files. The options are Optimize for Speed, Optimize for Portability, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), and Archive Format. See online help for details on each of these formats.
TrueType Font Download Option
Specify how TrueType fonts are downloaded to the printer. The options are Automatic, Outline (scalable outline font), Bitmap (bitmap font), and Native TrueType (outline font).
PostScript Language Level
Specify the PostScript language level to use. The options are 2 and 3.
Send PostScript Error Handler
Specify whether the printer automatically prints out a page with PostScript error messages when an error occurs in the print job. The options are Yes and No.
Mirrored Output
Specify whether the document is printed as a mirror image by reversing the horizontal coordinates of the image. The options are Yes and No.
RITech
Select whether to use RITech when printing. RITech improves the appearance of printed lines, text, and graphics. The options are On and Off.
Toner Save Mode
Select whether to use the Toner Save Mode when printing. When the Toner Save Mode is turned on, the printer uses about 50% less toner than normal. The options are On and Off.
Printer settings specific to your printer are available on the Device Settings sheet of the printer's Properties dialog box.
Online help is available to help you with the settings. If you want help on a particular item, click the \xd4 ?' icon on the top-right corner of the dialog box's title bar and then click the name of the setting that you want more information on. An explanation of the setting and its options will be displayed.
Click this button to undo all the changes that have been made to the settings. The settings return to their default values. This button is enabled only if one or more of the default values have been changed.
Click this button to view information on the currently installed PostScript printer driver.
Assign the desired paper size to the various available paper sources. Once this setting is specified, the printer will automatically feed paper from the paper source that holds the selected paper size.
The paper source options are MP Tray, Cassette 1, Cassette 2, Cassette 3, Manual Feed 1st Page, and Manual Feed EachPage. However, the actual paper sources that are available will differ according to the printer and the options installed.
The paper sizes that are available will differ according to the printer. The default setting is either A4 or Letter, depending on your country of purchase.
Double-click to display the Font Substitution Table and the options for the TrueType-to-PostScript font mapping.
Specify the amount of available PostScript memory. The available PostScript memory is a subset of the printer's total physical memory. It is recommended that you use the default setting.
Specify the protocol that the printer will use for print jobs. The options are ASCII, TBCP, and Binary.
TBCP cannot be used through AppleTalk.
Binary can be used only when using AppleTalk.
If ASCII is selected, print data is sent in the ASCII (7-bit) format, which may take longer to print, but which can be sent through any I/O channel, including serial, parallel, and Ethernet.
If you select TBCP (Tagged Binary Communications Protocol), all data except for special control characters is sent in binary (8-bit) format. The binary formats can be sent over parallel or serial communications ports and are faster than sending data in the ASCII format.
Specify whether a CTRL+D character should be sent at the beginning of every PostScript document. CTRL+D at the beginning-of-file (BOF) will reset your printer to its default settings to ensure that prior print jobs will not affect the current print job. However, activating this setting may cause the print job to fail if it is connected through a network instead of the parallel or serial interface.
Specify whether a CTRL+D character should be sent at the end of every PostScript document. CTRL+D at the end-of-file (EOF) will reset your printer to its default settings to ensure that the current print job will not affect future print jobs. However, activating this setting may cause the print job to fail if it is connected through a network instead of the parallel or serial interface.
Specify the maximum number of seconds that can elapse for a print job to get from the computer to the printer before the printer stops trying to print the document. If you enter "0" (zero), the printer will continue trying to print indefinitely.
Specify the maximum number of seconds that the printer will wait to get more PostScript information from the computer before the print job is automatically canceled. After the specified time elapses, the printer will stop trying to print the document and prints an error message instead. If you enter "0" (zero), the printer will wait indefinitely. You may want to increase this value when printing complicated documents.
Specify the minimum font size (in pixels) for which the printer driver will download TrueType fonts as outline (Type 1) fonts. A font smaller than the minimum setting will be downloaded as a bitmap (Type 3/Type 32) font.
Specify the maximum font size (in pixels) for which the printer driver will download TrueType fonts as bitmap (Type 3/Type 32) fonts. A font larger than the maximum setting will be downloaded as an outline (Type 1) font.
The settings available under Installable Options enable you to specify whether certain options are installed into the printer, and if so, what they are. The available settings are Installed Memory, Lower Cassette Unit, Stacker Unit, and Duplex Unit.
To print in the PostScript mode with Windows XP and 2000, you will have to install the printer driver. See the appropriate sections below for installation instructions according to the interface that you are using to print.
Follow these steps to install the printer driver for the parallel interface:
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The Add Printer Wizard will be displayed. Follow the on-screen instructions until the screen asking you to select the printer model is displayed. |
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| Click Have Disk and specify the path to the appropriate INF file necessary for installation. If your CD-ROM drive is D:, the path will be D:\ADOBEPS\ENGLISH\WIN2K-XP\PS_SETUP (change the drive letter as needed for your system). |
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| Select the INF file for the version of the Windows operating system that you are running and continue with the installation according to the on-screen instructions. |
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| When installation is done, click Finish. |
Follow these steps to install the printer driver for the USB interface:
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| Without connecting the printer to the computer, turn on both the computer and the printer. |
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| The Add New Hardware Wizard will launch automatically. Click Next to start the installation of the USB printer driver. |
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| After the USB printer driver installation is done, the Add Printer Wizard will launch automatically. Follow the on-screen instructions to continue with the installation until the screen asking you to select the printer model is displayed. |
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| Click Have Disk and specify the path to the appropriate INF file necessary for installation. If your CD-ROM drive is D:, the path will be D:\ADOBEPS\ENGLISH\WIN2K-XP\PS_SETUP (change the drive letter as needed for your system). |
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| Select the INF file for the version of the Windows operating system that you are running and continue with the rest of the installation according to the on-screen instructions. |
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| When installation is done, click Finish. |
Follow these steps to install the printer driver for the network interface:
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"The server on which the XXX printer resides does not have the correct printer driver installed."
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| Select the INF file for the version of the Windows operating system that you are running and continue with the rest of the installation according to the on-screen instructions. |
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| When installation is done, click Finish. |
Unavailable paper sizes may appear in the Paper Size list in the printer driver. See Paper Sources to confirm the available paper sizes.
Printer settings specific to your printer are available through the Device Settings tab of the printer's Properties dialog box. In addition to the settings there, click the Printing Preferences button on the General sheet or the Printing Defaults button on the Advanced sheet for more print settings. The basic print settings are grouped under the Layout and Paper/Quality tabs, while more advanced settings are available by clicking the Advanced button on either sheet.
Online help is also available to help you with the settings. There are two online help options. Click the Help button for procedural help on the settings. If you want help on a particular item, click the \xd4 ?' icon on the top-right corner of the dialog box's title bar and then click the name of the setting that you want more information on. An explanation of the setting and its options will be displayed.
Assign the desired paper size to the various available paper sources. Once this setting is specified, the printer will automatically feed paper from the paper source that holds the selected paper size.
The paper source options are MP Tray, Cassette 1, Cassette 2, Cassette 3, Manual Feed 1st Page, and Manual Feed EachPage. However, the actual paper sources that are available will differ according to the options installed.
The paper sizes that are available will differ according to the printer. The default setting is either A4 or Letter, depending on your country of purchase.
Double-click to display the Font Substitution Table and the options for the TrueType-to-PostScript font mapping.
Specify the amount of available PostScript memory. The available PostScript memory is a subset of the printer's total physical memory. It is recommended that you use the default setting.
Specify the protocol that the printer will use for print jobs. The options are ASCII, TBCP, and Binary.
TBCP cannot be used with AppleTalk.
Binary can be used only when using AppleTalk.
If ASCII is selected, print data is sent in the ASCII (7-bit) format, which may take longer to print, but which can be sent through any I/O channel, including serial, parallel, and Ethernet.
If you select TBCP (Tagged Binary Communications Protocol), all data except for special control characters is sent in binary (8-bit) format. The binary formats can be sent over parallel or serial communications ports and are faster than sending data in the ASCII format.
Specify whether a CTRL+D character should be sent at the beginning of every PostScript document. CTRL+D at the beginning-of-file (BOF) will reset your printer to its default settings to ensure that prior print jobs will not affect the current print job.
However, activating this setting may cause the print job to fail if it is connected through a network instead of the parallel or serial interface. Conversely, if your document fails to print when sent to a printer connected through a parallel or serial port, change the setting to Yes.
Specify whether a CTRL+D character should be sent at the end of every PostScript document. CTRL+D at the end-of-file (EOF) will reset your printer to its default settings to ensure that the current print job will not affect future print jobs.
However, activating this setting may cause the print job to fail if it is connected through a network instead of the parallel or serial interface. If your document fails to print when sent to a network printer, change the setting to No.
Specify whether to convert true gray (RGB value) in text to the gray provided by the PostScript driver.
Specify whether to convert true gray (RGB value) in graphics to the gray provided by the PostScript driver.
Specify whether to add the symbol for the Euro currency to the set of PostScript fonts residing on the printer.
Specify the maximum number of seconds that can elapse for a print job to get from the computer to the printer before the printer stops trying to print the document. If you enter "0" (zero), the printer will continue trying to print indefinitely.
Specify the maximum number of seconds that the printer will wait to get more PostScript information from the computer before the print job is automatically canceled. After the specified time elapses, the printer will stop trying to print the document and prints an error message instead. If you enter "0" (zero), the printer will wait indefinitely.You may want to increase this value when printing complicated documents.
Specify the minimum font size (in pixels) for which the printer driver will download TrueType fonts as outline (Type 1) fonts. A font smaller than the minimum setting will be downloaded as a bitmap (Type 3) font.
This setting enables you to fine-tune the Automatic setting for the TrueType Font Download Option setting on the Advanced Options dialog box of the Printing Preferences dialog box.
Specify the maximum font size (in pixels) for which the printer driver will download TrueType fonts as bitmap (Type 3) fonts. A font larger than the maximum setting will be downloaded as an outline (Type 1) font.
This setting enables you to fine-tune the Automatic setting or override the Bitmap setting for the TrueType Font Download Option setting on the Advanced Options dialog box of the Printing Preferences dialog box.
The settings available under Installable Options enable you to specify whether certain options are installed into the printer, and if so, what they are. The available settings are Installed Memory, Lower Cassette Unit, Duplex Unit, Stacker Unit, and Hard Disk.
Specify how the document is to be positioned on the page. The options are Portrait (vertical), Landscape (horizontal), and Rotated Landscape (rotated 90° counterclockwise).
Specify the order in which the pages of the document will be printed. The options are Front to Back and Back to Front.
Specify how many pages of your document to print on one sheet of paper. The options are 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, and 16.
Select the paper source for your print job. The options are Auto Tray Select, MP Tray, Cassette 1, Cassette 2, Cassette 3, Manual Feed 1st Page, and Manual Feed EachPage. However, the actual paper sources that are available will differ according to the options installed.
Select the desired paper type to print on. The options are Normal, Thick, Transparency, and Extra Thick. Make sure to select the correct paper type to avoid smearing or wasting ink.
Select the desired paper size. This setting must match the size of the paper loaded in the printer. The paper sizes that are available will differ according to the printer. The default setting is either A4 or Letter, depending on your country of purchase.
Specify the number of copies to print.
This check box appears only if more than one copy is specified for Copy Count. Select this check box to print multiple copies of the document in page order. If this check box is not selected, each page is printed out the specified number of times before the following page is printed.
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Select the resolution that you want to print in. The options are Fast and Quality. The Quality setting prints at a higher resolution, but the printing time will be longer.
Specify whether to enable Image Color Management, and if so, how it should be handled. The options are ICM Disabled, ICM Handled by Host System, ICM handled by Printer, and ICM Handled by Printer using printer calibration. See online help for details on each of these settings
Specify how color images are to be treated to produce the best possible printout. The options are Graphics (charts, bright colors), Pictures (photos), Proof (print in a specific ink color), and Match (preview color settings from another printer).
This setting enables you to shrink or enlarge the image to print. You can enter any percentage from 1% to 1000%. To shrink the image, specify a percentage that is lower than 100%. To enlarge the image, specify a percentage that is higher than 100%. If you can shrink or enlarge the image to print in the application that you are printing from, do so in the application and not through the printer driver.
Specify how TrueType fonts in the document are printed. Select Substitute with Device Font to use equivalent PostScript fonts for printing documents that contain TrueType fonts. Select Download as Softfont to download TrueType fonts to the printer instead of using PostScript fonts.
Specify whether to enable the advanced printing features. The options are Enabled and Disabled.
Specify the format for PostScript files. The options are Optimize for Speed, Optimize for Portability, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), and Archive format. See online help for details on each of these formats.
Specify how TrueType fonts are downloaded to the printer. The options are Automatic, Outline (scalable outline font), Bitmap (bitmap font), and Native TrueType (outline font).
Specify the PostScript language level to use. The options are 1, 2, and 3.
Specify whether the printer automatically prints out a page with PostScript error messages when an error occurs in the print job. The options are Yes and No.
Specify whether the document is printed as a mirror image by reversing the horizontal coordinates of the image. The options are Yes and No.
Select whether to use RITech when printing. RITech improves the appearance of printed lines, text, and graphics. The options are On and Off.
Select whether to use the Toner Save Mode when printing. When the Toner Save Mode is turned on, the printer uses about 50% less toner than normal. The options are On and Off.
Online help is available to help you with the printer driver settings. There are two online help options. Click Help for procedural help on the settings. If you want help on a particular item, click the \xd4 ?' icon on the top-right corner of the dialog box's title bar and then click the name of the setting that you want more information on. An explanation of the setting and its options will be displayed.
A printer installed with the optional Hard Disk Drive can use the Reserve Job function. The Reserve Job function makes it possible to send printing data from a computer to the printer's hard disk and save it there for printing at a later time. The print data can then be printed directly from the printer's control panel.
The Reserve Job function has the following four features:
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Re-Print Job |
Print the job immediately, as well as store it for later reprinting. |
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Verify Job |
Print one copy immediately for content verification before printing multiple copies. |
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Stored Job |
Save the print job without printing it. |
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Confidential Job |
Specify a password for the print job and save it for later printing. |
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Settings for the Reserve Job function are carried out in the PostScript printer driver. Follow the instructions below to specify Reserve Job function settings:
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Follow these steps to use the Reserve Job function when printing from any application:
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| Click the Properties button, and then click the Job Settings tab. |
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Use the following settings if your machine is running Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0, and the printer is connected through an network interface using the AppleTalk protocol:
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