================================================================================ INFORMATION REGARDING TOSHIBA PRINTERS ================================================================================ You have selected one of the following printers: Toshiba P351SX Toshiba P341e Toshiba P321SLC Toshiba P351C Toshiba P341 Toshiba P1350 Toshiba P351 Toshiba P321SL Toshiba P1351 Toshiba P341SL Toshiba P321 Toshiba P1340 Your printer has been installed; however, it has not yet been configured properly. To properly configure your printer, use the Control Panel. For information on how to do this, see "Configuring Your System" in Chapter 7, "Using Control Panel", of the Microsoft Windows User's Guide. Be sure to properly set up your communications port. The Toshiba Dot Matrix driver; - supports 12 printer models - supports four resolutions - dithers and mixes colors You can install the Toshiba driver as a through the Windows Setup program or the Control Panel. For more information on installing a printer, see the section "Adding a New Printer" in the chapter "Using the Control Panel" in the Windows User's Guide. Note, the file TOSH24.FIF is not installed by the Control Panel. If you use downloadable or card fonts, you must copy this file into the same directory where you installed the driver. Note: To ensure higher quality output, turn on the "3 Pass Graph" option, available on certain models. For more information, see the Toshiba User's Manual or contact Toshiba. USING THE MENUS Model Menu: Choosing a printer When you select a model, the driver sets the options to the defaults for that printer model. A check mark reflects the latest choice made in the Model menu and the printer name appears in the title bar. Paper Menu: Select paper size The Paper menu lets you conveniently select paper size, and lets you switch between English and metric units. The Toshiba printer driver supports 9 standard paper sizes and 2 standard envelope sizes: - Letter (8.5 x 11 in.) - Legal (8.5 x 14 in.) - Ledger (11 x 17 in.) - Statement (5.5 x 8.5 in.) - A5 (148 x 210 mm) - A4 (210 x 297 mm) - A3 (297 x 420 mm) - B5 (182 x 257 mm) - B4 (257 x 364 mm) - Envelope (3.5 x 6.5 in.) - Envelope (4.0 x 9.5 in.) All paper sizes are available for each device. The Page area reflects the selected paper size. Quality Menu: Choosing a Resolution The Quality menu lists the resolution options the Toshiba printer driver supports. They include: - 180(V) x 180(H) dpi - 180(V) x 360(H) dpi - 360(V) x 180(H) dpi - 360(V) x 360(H) dpi The resolutions available depend on the selected model. Foreground Menu: Choosing Colors The Foreground menu lists the available printer ribbon colors. The Foreground menu is only available when you choose monochrome print type with models that support color. Options Menu: Choosing Fonts The Options menu lets you choose resident, card, downloadable, and cartridge fonts. The font options available depend on the selected model. When you choose one of the fonts commands, a dialog box appears. The Resident Fonts dialog box displays the fonts available on the selected device. You can leave the highlighted fonts selected, or you can choose an individual font. Then choose Ok to implement your choice or Cancel to return to the main dialog box. The Card Fonts dialog box displays two card positions, and the available card fonts. Choose a card slot (either A or B), then choose a font. Choose Ok to implement your choice, or Cancel to return to the main dialog box. Note: For more information about card fonts, see the Toshiba User's Manual or contact Toshiba. The Downloadable Fonts dialog box displays two font positions (1 and 2), and the available fonts. You can select only two downloadable fonts. Choose the drive and directory where the downloadable fonts are installed, and then choose Ok to display the fonts. Choose a font position and choose the font to download. If you want to save the current path as the default, choose the Save option. Then choose Ok. Downloadable fonts are downloaded to the printer when needed. After the fonts are downloaded, the Download check box is "unchecked" so the fonts are not repeatedly downloaded for each document printed. If the printer is turned off, recheck the Download check box to reload the selected downloadable fonts. If text in a document uses a downloadable font that is not selected in the Downloadable Fonts dialog box, the font is automatically downloaded when the document is printed, provided one of the two font positions is vacant. If a downloadable font position is not available, the text is printed using the closest available device font. For more information about downloadable fonts, see the Toshiba User's Manual or contact Toshiba. Note: For models with configurable RAM, these are the configuration settings: RAM ALOC=DLL, and Buffer Size=2K. For more information, see the Toshiba User's Manual or contact Toshiba. The Cartridge Fonts dialog box displays the fonts available on cartridge. You must select the name of the cartridge currently in the printer, then choose Ok to implement your choice, or Cancel to return to the main dialog box. You can select either the USA or IBM 2 character set in the Options menu, if your model supports it. Selecting the IBM 2 character set allows you to access more European characters than are available in the standard USA character set. The IBM 2 character set has decimal codes above 127. You enter a code in the Windows application by pressing alt and typing the decimal code on the numeric keypad. See the Toshiba printer manual for a listing of the IBM 2 character set. Note: Make sure the printer setting matches the setting in the Options menu. CHOOSING OPTIONS Page: You can choose portrait or landscape orientation. In portrait mode, the page is printed with the same orientation as the image displayed on the screen. In landscape mode, the page is printed with the image rotated 90 degrees clockwise. The Toshiba printer driver supports widths from 1 to 13.5 inches for wide carriages, and widths from 1 to 8.5 inches for narrow carriages. It also supports heights from 1 to 88 inches. Use the scroll arrows in the Page option box, or type a new number in the text box, to change the page width or height. Note: Page width is restricted to 10 inches in color mode at a resolution of 360(V) x 360(H) dpi. You can change to the Metric option by choosing one of the five Metric sizes in the Paper menu. The Auto Form Feed option causes a form feed command to be issued to the printer after each page. Print: The print modes are color and monochrome. The print modes available depend on the selected model. The monochrome option lets you choose the printer ribbon color if the model chosen supports color output. The color option lets you print text and graphics as displayed on a color monitor. If a model does not support color printing, the color option is disabled. Paper Source: The Paper Source list box displays the available methods for loading paper. The available paper sources depend on the selected device. Use the scroll arrows to scroll through the available paper sources. Highlight the source you want to use. Solid Fills: The Solid Fills option allows you to select the density of solid fills. When you choose the darkest option (Dark), solid fills print approximately four times as dark as the lightest option (Pale). The default is Light. Note: Dark is not available at a resolution of 180(V) x 180(H) dpi. After you choose all the options you want, you can Choose To --------- ----------------------------------------------- Ok implement your choices and close the dialog box Reset cancel your choices and revert to the values last saved or the default values Cancel close the dialog box without implementing any options Save save your options as the new defaults ================================================================================ END OF READMETO.TXT ================================================================================