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This is CanonDisk V3.95 for Canon BJ and BJC printers
COPYRIGHT/DISCLAIMER
====================
Copyright ©1991-97 Wolf Faust. All rights reserved. All
distribution- and marketing rights to the software (drivers) are
vested in Canon Europe N.V. The driver disk has been provided to
you strictly 'as is', without warranty of any kind. In no event
shall Canon and/or Faust be held liable for any loss or damages
arising out of any action, from whatever source, concerning the
use or inability to use the driver. You may not use, copy, or
transfer the product, or any copy or portion, without prior
consent in writing from Canon Europe N.V. or Wolf Faust.
Installer and Installer project icon (c) Copyright 1991-93
Commodore-Amiga, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduced and
distributed under license from Commodore. More (c) Copyright
1986-93 Commodore-Amiga, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduced
and distributed under license from Commodore.
INSTALLER SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE; NO
WARRANTIES ARE MADE. ALL USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. NO LIABILITY
OR RESPONSIBILITY IS ASSUMED. THE More PROGRAM IS PROVIDED
"AS-IS" AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE; NO WARRANTIES ARE MADE. ALL USE IS
AT YOUR OWN RISK. NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY IS ASSUMED.
CanonStudio
===========
This is the LIMITED VERSION of CanonStudio. You can use it for
printing pictures. Though, many functions have been disabled
forcing you to register and get the latest full featured version.
This program is included as free offer to all Canon users and is
not part of the main Canon drivers. Canon is not responsibel for
any support, update or warranty regarding CanonStudio.
CanonStudio is especialy recommended to all users using the Photo
Ink cartridge of the new Canon printers. Note that only the
registered CanonStudio offers you real Photo Ink output.
In case you use CanonStudio register the program or this product
will most likely not be supported in the future (programs do cost
more than time to develop). Also, your shareware fee is my
motivation for enhancements. If you like, you may also buy the
commercial "Studio" printer software from your Amiga dealer
instead of registering CanonStudio. Studio does additionaly offer
you a nice printed manual, driver support and drivers for various
non-Canon printers.
Registered users get an update service and an unlimited
CanonStudio version for all orig. Canon drivers.
ATTENTION: We are planning a release of CanonStudio on CD ROM.
This would allow us to ship additional software. The price of the
CD ROM will most likely be equal to the disk version. So please
note if you would prefer a CD ROM of CanonStudio. In case the
CD ROM is available you will receive the CD ROM instead of the
floppy disk version. Note that the CD ROM will not include any
printed manual - instead will offer ready to print dumpfiles for
your printer. This safes us a lot of postage costs and thus makes
the CD-R more affordable.
You can register CanonStudio from (don't forget to note wich
printer you own):
Wolf Faust
Am Dorfgarten 10
60435 Frankfurt
Germany
Internet: 100116.1070@compuserve.com
CompuServe: 100116,1070
Shipping inside German: DM 40
Shipping inside Europe: DM 45
Shipping worldwide: DM 50 or US$35 (see below!)
Cash. For international cheques add US$15 to the amount above.
No credit cards accepted.
Or in England you may register and get updates at/from:
HiSoft
"CanonStudio Registration"
The Old School, Greenfield
Bedford MK45 5DE
Shipping inside England: UK£20
Shipping inside Europe: UK£21
Shipping worldwide: UK£24
Only cash or checks in UK£ drawn on a british bank accepted.
Please add UK£5/DM 15 if you want the latest CanonDisk included
with your CanonStudio. CanonStudio does not include Canon
Workbench drivers.
PLEASE, DO MAKE SURE THE AMOUNT IS RIGHT. In the past there were
a huge amount of users not paying the proper amount when sending
checks. Please note CanonStudio is non-profit and as I'm planning
to ship printed CanonStudio manuals for registered users, there is
no room left for cuts after paying the high german
bank/postage/tax charges.
MANUAL
------
I know, reading the "Readme" file of the drivers is a real pain.
But there is a real printed manual available with pictures and all
that nice stuff. The manual is part of the commercial "Studio"
printer software described above (Studio is available from JAM and
other distributors/dealers).
INSTALLING CANONDISK
--------------------
CanonDisk is divided into two independent parts. During
installation a user can choose just the required part, or both
parts.
CanonStudio Program
The purpose of the CanonStudio program is to print pictures.
Pictures are printed directly from disk without the need for much
memory. For instance you can print a huge 10 MBytes picture on an
Amiga that is equipped with only 1 MBytes of memory.
If you have a colour printer you can print with 24 bitplanes of
colour accuracy (16.7 million colours). If you have a monochrome
printer you can print with 8 bitplanes of greyscale accuracy (256
greys). If you were not using CanonStudio's printing
capabilities, the Amiga's own colour printing capacity is 12
bitplanes for colour (4096 colours), and 4 bitplanes for
greyscales (16 greys). Printing pictures through CanonStudio does
therefore give a user greater precision.
The CanonStudio picture-printing program works with every Amiga
printer driver but this version is limited to just the Canon
Workbench drivers. If you require a Version that supports all
drivers purchase the ``Studio Printer Software'' package from your
dealer.
Canon Driver
The Canon drivers are supplements to the Commodore supplied
printer drivers. They are 100 percent Amiga compatible printer
drivers, even though they offer many more functions than the
standard printer drivers. The additional functions of the drivers
are controlled by the preferences program included with CanonDisk.
The programs and drivers are described in detail later. Start the
installation by double-clicking with the mouse button on the
Install icon, found in the main drawer of the CanonDisk.
Follow the instructions below to install the Canon software:
* Configure and connect your printer as described in the printer's
user manual and the Amiga system manual.
* Set your printers dip switches as described in the table below:
Printer Switch OFF Switch ON
BJ 10e 3, 6, 7, 9 5, 8, 10
BJ 20 all except -> 5, 10, 11
BJ 30 Set the printer to Epson Emulation
BJ 200 all except -> 1, 4, 10, 11
BJ 200ex all except -> 1, 3, 4
BJ 300 all except -> SW1-1 and SW1-2
BJC 70 Set the printer to Epson Emulation
BJC 150 Use the installed SetupBJL-BJC1xx program.
BJC 210+240 Use the installed SetupBJL-BJC2xx program.
Perform the "Setup for Amiga" action.
BJC 600 all except -> 1, 4, 12
BJC 600e all except -> 1, 11
BJC 610 all except -> 1, 3, 11
BJC 620 (please see printer documentation)
BJC 4000 all except -> 1, 4, 11, 12
BJC 4100,
4200, 4550 Use the installed SetupBJL-BJC4xxx program.
Perform the "Setup for Amiga" action.
Please note these settings reflect those of DIN A4 paper size
users. US Letter paper users require a slightly different setting.
* Boot your Amiga with your usual system or Workbench disk.
* If you don't own a hard drive, prepare an empty floppy disk by
using the system Format command.
* We anticipate that most Canon users will want to install the
program on to a hard drive. If you do not have a hard drive then
you must install some parts (documentation and CanonPref) of
CanonDisk onto an empty floppy, using the supplied installation
program. You cannot run the Canon software directly from its
installation disk because it is stored in a compressed format.
* If your system has only a single floppy drive (and no hard
drive), the installation program will cause a large number of disk
swaps while it gets things prepared for the main installation.
* Double click on the Install icon found in the main drawer of the
CanonDisk. The installation process is automatic and uses the
Commodore standard Installer program. The installation process
has been designed to provide on-line instructions as you install
the product. Any questions that you might have about the
installation process should be answered by the on-line help
contained in the installation program.
The install program will copy the driver to your system disk. In
order to do so, you need 47 KByte empty disk space on your system
disk. Additional programs can be saved to an empty floppy disk or
hard disk and may not be saved to the system disk.
! Most likely floppy users must make space on their system disk in
order to install the driver. This can be done by deleting unneeded
programs using the Workbenchs 3.0 "Delete..." menu item.
The installation program will do the job for you if you like.
You will be asked before each file is deleted.
Here is list of programs that might be deleted:
Sys:Utilities/Clock (13 KByte)
Sys:devs/printers/generic (1.5 KByte)
Sys:system/nofastmem (1 KByte)
Sys:c/Edit (15 KByte)
Sys:c/Diskchange (0.5 KByte)
Sys:c/Lock (0.5 KByte)
Sys:c/Search (1.5 KByte)
Sys:c/MagTape (1.5 KByte)
Sys:c/Which (1.5 KByte)
* Canon BJC800 and 4550 users should note, that these printers are
single page printers. They don't support continuous form paper.
Because of this the page length must be defined by the driver if
it differs from the one set in the printer by SetupBJL. The
driver can do this automaticly for you, in case you set the paper
length in Workbench preferences to 250 lines. Don't forget to
turn on "Enable Form" in the CanonBJECPref program! Select a
paper type of "Wide Tractor" for printing on DIN A3 sized paper.
* Select a paper type of Wide Tractor for printing on DIN A3 sized
paper on BJ 230 or BJ330 printers.
* Please note that each Canon driver uses it's own setting files.
You may install several Canon drivers as long as they are
different.
* The installation program also installs a README file with the
driver and CanonStudio covering the software in detail.
* In case of problems with the software use the "Report" program
described by the installed README file!
* Canon BJC users: please note that printing 720 dpi or using the
Photo Ink cartridge usualy requires major changes to the drivers
color adjustments. Use the CanonBJECPref menu presets for
adjusting the driver color if you don't want to do it yourself.
Note that the Canon BJC will only print 720 graphics in BJC mode
(extended emulation). For best image dumps on the Amiga use
CanonStudio's CMS for printing 720dpi (only available to
registered users).
If you experience strong stripes/banding of 1mm height in your BJC
610 and 620 output: make sure you run the print head alignment
test as described in the BJC manual. Also make sure the print
head is ok. Perform a printer nozzles test as described in the
manual and clean the print head several times. In some cases it
can help to print 20-30 fully colored pages if the print head was
new. The stripes are not caused by the printer driver. However,
your print mode, dither method and paper used are important.
Don't try to print high resolution on bad paper. You rather get
worse results compared to 360 dpi dumps. If you do experience 1mm
height stripes, try switching the dither method. The BJC often
prints less horizontal stripes when using an error diffusion
(Floyd, Stucki,...) or Blue Noise dither method. However this
might slow down your printing speed .
* Canon BJC 4xxx users: please note that printing 720*360 dpi
using the CanonBJ-EC Workbench driver requires major color
adjustments. Use the CanonBJECPref menu presets for adjusting the
driver for 720dpi support. Note that the Canon BJC 4xxx will only
print 720*360dpi graphics in BJC mode (extended emulation). For
best image dumps on the Amiga use CanonStudio's CMS for printing
720*360dpi (only available to registered users).
* IMPORTANT! Canon BJC 150 users: the Canon BJC 150 printer
doesn't offer any text support. Because of this, the current
driver version requires an application that prints text using the
drivers graphic mode. Most major applications (Final Copy, Final
Writer, WordWorth, PageStream, Professional Page...) do offer this
feature by default and the Canon BJC 150 can be used without any
drawbacks on the Amiga. In order to make text only applications
printing on the BJC 150, we are working on a new driver. This
driver will be able to print text using any Amiga font. However,
this is a complex task and will require several driver updates to
come until the support for all Amiga text style commands is
complete.
So please, watch the Canon internet sites, CompuServe AmigaUser
forum library, Internet (Canon's WWW sites or AmiNet text/print)
and Canon BBS's for updates to the Canon driver as major updates
are ahead.
* Canon BJC 210 and BJC 240 (= BJC 2xx) users should carefully
note following limitations:
1. The Canon BJC 2xx can't print color graphics and text on the
same page. The printer can only print color in the Extended
Emulation set using CanonBJECPref's "Emul" gadget. See the
readme file for the limitations of the Extended emulation.
2. Any try to print color graphics with the drivers Epson
emulations will result in a bad greyscale output. Don't try it.
3. In order to help you switching, CanonBJECPref offers a preset
menu for both, the BC 02 and BC05 cartridge. Using the presets,
CanonBJECPref will be setup to the wanted emulation and the colors
of the output are adjusted accordingly (for normal NeuSielder
ColorCopy xerox paper).
4. Note: after installing a PageStream 2.x driver, select the
CanonBJC800 driver from PageStream. The CanonBJC800 driver is
compatible with the BJC 210 and thus there is no BJC210 driver
necessary.
* This note seems necessary as I got several user letters
reporting problems after not following this install instruction:
Users of the new BJC 210, 240, 4100, 4200, 4550 should run the
SetupBJL program once after installation. This makes sure the
printer is set to the proper emulation and possible bad characters
at the start of the page are avoided.
* User of the Photo Ink cartridges should be aware, that the
CanonBJ-EC driver only offers Photo Ink when using the Extended
emulation and the print mode was set to "Photo Ink". Also, if you
do use Photo Ink, I strongly recommend registering CanonStudio as
only CanonStudio offers a complex color correction able to give
you Photo like quality advertised (by the time of this writing,
CanonStudio's Photo Ink output is even better of better quality
than those of the Windows 95 driver!!!)
* Users that do have to switch print cartridges manualy, should be
aware of problems caused by bad treatment of the print cartridge.
For instance, BJC 4200, BJC 4550, and BJC 240 users switching
between the normal ink cartridge and the photo ink cartridge
should take great care in storing their cartridges. Especialy the
Photo Ink cartridge is easily damaged when touching the cartridges
print head. If you do want to seal it, use the tape that came
with the cartridge (if you don't have a real container). Try
avoiding the (usualy orange) plastic shield that covered the new
print head without taping the print head first.
Important: use SetupBJL to clean the print head after changing
it!!! Otherwise your output might have bad colors (to say at
least)
After successfully running the Install program, try printing from
the application with which you normally print. In most cases you
should straight away notice major improvements in speed and
quality, but you can do much better once you have adjusted all the
settings of the driver to match your environment. The
installation program is unable to adjust all the driver settings
for your printer because every printer, paper and ink is
different. It is your task now to use your experience with your
software and printer to further adjust the settings made by the
Install program. This will result in further improvements in
output quality.
Please share your printing experiences with other Canon users by
sending your settings to Wolf Faust. This will allow future
enhancements of CanonDisk. You can easily print your settings
using the Report program mentioned in the error chapter. Please
don't forget to mention the name of your printer, and the type of
paper you are using.
(Continue by pressing 'Q')