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Studio Professional Update V2.14
This update is for all Studio V2.11, V2.12 and V2.13 users. It
updates the current Canon Workbench driver and provides additional
support for the latest Canon printers. It updates the Studio
printing program and PageStream 3.1/3.2 Studio driver. For users
of Deskjet 500C and Deskjet 550C compatible printers an output
module for the printing program is now installed. Using these
Deskjet 5xx modules allow you to print faster and maximize the
print area.
If you own V2.10 or an older version of Studio, please contact
your distributor for an update.
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Here is the list of the latest Studio distributors:
Germany: Australia & New Zealand
Deutschland: GSoft Australia Pty Ltd.
arXon GmbH PO Box 59
Assenheimer Str. 17 Elizabeth SA
D-60489 Frankfurt Australia 5114
Germany Tel: 08-284-1266
Tel: 069-978410-26 Fax: 08-284-0922
Fax: 069-978410-30 (English Version)
(German Version)
The Netherlands: North America:
MacroSystem NL Safe Harbor Computers
Tromplaan 1 W226 N900 Eastmound Drive
3951 CL-Maarn Waukesha
Tel: 034344-2969 WI 53186
Fax: 034344-3103 Tel: 414-548-8120
Fax: 414-548-8130
(English Version) (English Version)
United Kingdom: Belgium:
HiSoft Click! b.v.b.a.
The Old School, Greenfield Boomsesteenweg 468
Bedford MK45 5DE 2610 Wilrijk
Tel: 0525-718181 Tel: 038281815
Fax: 0525-713716 Fax: 038286736
(English Version) (English Version)
France: Spain:
Phoenix-DP Almathera TU Amiga Ordinadors
BP 801 Plaza Pedro IV No 4,7-3
64008 Pau Cedex 08120 La Liagosta
Tel/Fax: 059829500 Barcelona
Tel: (93) 560 3604
Fax: (93) 560 3607
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Notices for Deskjet users
The installation program on this disk will offer you Deskjet 500C
and Deskjet 550C output modules for the Studio printing program.
These modules should also be used by compatible printers. The
modules allow faster printing and maximize the print area used of
your printer.
The Deskjet500C and Deskjet 550C module is installed but not
selected for you by the installation program. If you want to use
the newly installed module, you MUST select the module using the
"Select Module..." menu item in the Studio "Outut" menu. Once
done, please realize that you are now printing without using a
Workbench printer driver and thus, the settings in DeskPref/4C are
not used anymore. All settings used by Studio are now done in
Studio. Again: use Config... in the output menu of Studio.
As the output modules usualy maximize the print area of your
printer, it is recommended to adjust the paper size settings in
Studio once the output module was selected. This can be easily
done by using the "Max Page&Print Size" menu item in Studio.
Deskjet 500 users: please note when installing the Deskjet 500C
output module you will also get two new profiles for printing on
plain paper using Blue Noise and Ordered 256 dither method. The
profiles replace the old profiles and do offer much better
quality. The old profiles are renamed to "Deskjet_500C_NormalII"
and are still available in the Match window in case you don't want
the color of the output to change (even if the new output is much
better).
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Notices for Canon BJC users
You must have a Studio CanonBJEC driver and CanonBJECPref
installed in order to get the driver updated by this update disk.
So first install your Canon driver using the standard Studio
disks.
And the usual important note: if you do use the CanonBJ-EC
driver, make sure the color adjustment of the driver does match
your used print resolution, dither method and paper. By default,
the CanonBJ-EC driver is setup for your printer using normal
paper. You can also setup the driver to some presets using the
menu of CanonBJECPref.
Canon BJC 620 users:
Canon BJC 620 users should use the 100% compatible BJC 610
software that came with your Studio V2.11/2.12/2.13 disks. There
is no difference regarding the supported commands of the printer.
The main difference between the BJC 620 and BJC 610 is the print
speed. Studio V2.10 and older users need the Studio V2.11, V2.12
or V2.13 update disk "Part II" in order to get the BJC 610
software, wich is shipped with Studio since V2.11.
If you experience strong stripes/banding of 1mm height in your BJC
610/620 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.
Canon BJC 150, 210 and 240 users:
These users should carefully note: These printers can't print
color graphics and text on the same page. The printer can only
print color in the Extended Emulation wich is set using
CanonBJECPref's "Emul" gadget. Different to earlier versions of
the CanonBJ-EC driver, the new V6 driver automaticly switches to
Epson emulation at the start of a page for printing internal text.
This means, you basicly can set the driver to Extended Emulation.
You don't have to worry about the printer being unable to print
text using the printer internal font under Extended Emulation.
The driver automaticly switches emulation for you as required.
But this only works at the top of a page.
In order to print with CanonBJ-EC using the Photo Ink Cartridge,
set the "Mode" gadget in CanonBJECPref to "PhotoGraph Mode".
Don't print using this mode using a normal ink cartridge. Always
use the photo ink cartridge (BC06) with this mode. And don't
forget you have to adjust the color adjustment for this different
cartridge. As usual, there are presets available in the Preset
menu of CanonBJECPref.
Canon BJC 4100, 4200 and 4550 (= 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 Studio's CMS for printing 720*360dpi. Presets
are available for various papers using the CanonBJECPref program.
BJC 4xxx users should use the BJC 4000 profiles with the printing
program for printing 360dpi.
In order to print with CanonBJ-EC using the Photo Ink Cartridge,
set the "Mode" gadget in CanonBJECPref to "PhotoGraph Mode".
Don't print using this mode using a normal ink cartridge. Always
use the photo ink cartridge (BC22) with this mode. And don't
forget you have to adjust the color adjustment for this different
cartridge. As usual, there are presets available in the Preset
menu of CanonBJECPref.
The new CanonBJEC driver
Now some info on changes made to the driver wich are not yet
covered by the manual:
1. The new V6 CanonBJ-EC driver now overrides the dither setting
defined by an application or the Workbench printer preferences
program unless you select a density below 3. So basicly, you now
don't have to care about the dither method set in printer
preferences unless you use a density below 3.
This also means things are more simple:
The CanonBJ-EC V6 driver behaves like a stupid driver if you
select a density below 3. In this case, none of the drivers
advanced color correction or dithering is used during printing and
the driver mainly offers the plain functions of most original
Workbench drivers. But if you do select a density above 2, you
can be pretty sure now that the driver's features are enabled and
work correctly as the driver overrides all bad settings that might
be caused by Workbench preferences or the application.
This means, at density above 2, the driver always uses the dither
routine and color adjustment defined in CanonBJECPref. It
disables the printer device color correction.
2. The driver disables the color correction of the printer device.
This color correction should never be used. Again, this is only
true as long as you select a density above 2.
3. The driver is now able to automatcily switch between Epson and
Extended emulation. So you can now set the Canon driver to
Extended emulation using CanonBJECPref and you don't have to
switch back to Epson emulation just to print some text using the
printers internal font.
However, there is still a limit by the printer: you can't print
text using the printer font and graphics using extended emulation
on exactly the same page. So, the printer driver can only switch
emulation at the start of a page.
However, please see the error chapter if you run into problems
when using Extended emulation (mainly an "empty page" problem).
4. The CanonBJ-EC driver now uses the much advanced dither
routines of Studio V2.13. As a result, the quality and the speed
especialy of the more complex dither routines has been dramaticly
improved. Also, the driver now offers more dither routines:
Blue Noise 30% (Serp.)
Blue Noise 50% (Serp.)
Burkes
Burkes (Serpentine)
Floyd Steinberg (Serp.)
Jarvis (Serpentine)
Sierra2
Sierra2 (Serpentine)
Sierra3
Sierra3 (Serpentine)
Stucki (Serpentine)
Here are some typical print times measured with Final Writer (a
full DIN A4 page of text was printed with a small 2*2 cm colored
logo):
CanonBJ-EC V5.4 Canon BJ-EC V6.0 Speed Increase
OrderedA256 140 sec 140 sec 0%
Blue Noise 30% 400 sec 150 sec 267%
As you can easily see, the new drivers complex dither routines are
not much slower than the fast Order type dithering. Take care:
the speed of the new driver mainly depends on the page contents
printed and the dither routine used. You can easily see print
speed increases by 300-400% if the page is not fully covered by
all colors. Note: the dither routines are able to detect blank
areas in the output even if this area is surounded by color.
5. Preferences DIN A4 setting is now causing the driver to use
the printers maximum print area (ie. 2880 instead of 2804 dots at
360dpi). This is not the correct way, but most drivers (including
most of the original Workbench drivers) do it this way and it
seems to center the output better. If you must have the old
setting back because your created documents print with an offset
and updating the documents is too much trouble: define a custom
DIN A4 page size (that is, set Custom ResX to 2804).
6. The driver now uses it's own simple UCR/GCR function (wich is
100% compatible to the printer device routine, but faster). As a
result of this, users black adjustments for color printing might
have to get readjusted when used with error diffussion or blue
noise dithering.
The SetupBJL Program
For some Canon users a SetupBJL program is installed (by the time
of this writing: only for the Canon BJC 4xxx and BJC2xx). The
program SetupBJL may also be named SetupBJL-BJC4xxx or similar
identifying the printer to use with. The program can usualy be
found in your systems Prefs drawer beside the drivers CanonPref
program. The SetupBJL program may be used by Canon BJ and BJC
users for controlling the printers permanent settings. It also
allows you to perform certain printer functions like test dumps
and ink head cleaning. The use of this program is very similar to
the MS-DOS or Windows program described in your printers user
manual or DOS print guide. This chapter will only cover the
additional Amiga specific functions of the setup software. See
you printer manuals for more details.
In most cases the printer is shipped to you by the manufacturer
already setup right for use with the Amiga. Anyway, if you start
SetupBJL for the first time, it's recommended to run the Setup For
Amiga/EU action first. This will setup the printer for you
automaticly.
Please note: the default setup often sets the printer page length
to 22 inch in SetupBJL. This is NOT a bug and totaly correct as
this reflects the printers internal setting after a complete
reset.
SetupBJL can be started with various Tool Types or Shell
arguments:
USEPOWERON: If you specify this keyword, the SetupBJL program
will unghost the Auto On feature. Please note that this feature
should only be used with the new BJC 240, 4200 and 4550 printers.
When used with older printers like BJC 210 and BJC 4100, strange
problems can arise (like being unable to turn off the printer
manualy). However, if you like, you can try the feature with
older printers... often it does work even on those older printers
fine. However, people wrote me lot's of letters because of this
feature in the past, even though the docs told about problems. So
in order to make things safe, it's off by default for those old
printers.
PUBSCREEN: SetupBJL opens a window on the default public screen.
You may specify a special public screen by setting the Tool Type
"PUBSCREEN=screenname". The screen name is case sensitive. and
the SetupBJL program will open its windows on your application's
screen.
TOPAZ: SetupBJL is font independent. All text is displayed using
the system font. If TOPAZ is specified, only the topaz 8 font is
used.
SAVE: When using this option, SetupBJL will set-up the printer
without showing the set-up window first. This is useful for
controlling printer settings from batch files. You can enable
certain printer settings without user interaction by using the
FROM option in combination with SAVE. Settings can be saved from
SetupBJL by using the Save As menu item.
SetupBJL will automaticly quit after 10 seconds if your printer is
off or not connected.
FROM: SetupBJL saves the settings sent to the printer in a file
named SetupBJL.prefs, placed in the same drawer as the SetupBJL
program. Next time you start SetupBJL, the current printer
settings are read from this file and displayed.
FROM allows you to specify a different settings file for reading.
You can save other settings files than SetupBJL.prefs using the
Save As menu item.
DEVICE: SetupBJL usually sets up the output device defined in
Workbench 2.04 printer preferences. Since Workbench 2.04, nearly
any output device can be defined in preferences for printer
output. Usually serial.device or parallel.device is used. You
may alter the device using the case sensitive DEVICE Tool Type or
Shell argument.
UNIT: Workbench 2.04 (or higher) Printer preferences programs may
enable you to specify a printer port unit to print to. Most of
the current multiport cards enable you to specify a port to print
to using a unit number (0 = internal port, 1 = external port A, 2
= external port B ...). Using the UNIT tool type or Shell keyword
you can define a unit (port) to print to.
POWEROFF: When using this option, SetupBJL will turn off the
printer without showing the set-up window first. This is useful
for controlling the printer from batch files. SetupBJL will
automaticly quit after 10 seconds if your printer is already off
or not connected.
SetupBJL saves the settings sent to the printer in a file named
SetupBJL.prefs, placed in the same drawer as the SetupBJL program.
Next time you start SetupBJL, the current printer settings are
read from this file and displayed. This method works only so long
as SetupBJL is used for all printer setting changes and is not
moved to another directory without the SetupBJL.prefs file.
SetupBJL offers some printer functions and settings not available
in the MS DOS software:
Setup For Amiga/EU
This Printer Action function will setup the Canon printer for use
with the Canon Amiga Workbench driver. The setup is for use with
DIN A4 sized paper wich is mainly used in Europe (EU).
Setup For Amiga/US
Same as Setup For Amiga/EU for use with US Letter sized paper.
Enable Hex Dump
This Printer Action will set the printer to hex dump mode.
Auto On
When enabled, the printer will automaticly turn on if you try to
transfer data to the printer. The option is usefull in
combination with the Auto Off setting. It allows you to let the
printer automaticly turn itself on and off as needed.
Please note that turning on your computer can cause the printer to
go on too. This is a normal behaviour with Auto On enabled.
Turning your printer on and off too often is also no good idea.
The printer does consume a small amount of ink for a cleaning
procedure everytime it is turned on. It is recommended to use the
Auto Off feature with at least 10 minutes.
WARNING: there have been some reports of Canon BJC 4100 and BJC
210 printers refusing to turn off manualy after turning off the
computer. If you do have such a problem with your printer, turn
"Auto On" OFF. Similar reports do exist with printers set to an
Auto Off value of 1 minute. If you do encounter strange problems,
make sure Auto On is Off and a time is set above 1 minute for Auto
Off. See the USEPOWERON option described above for more details.
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STUDIO PRINTING PROGRAM
The printing program uses profiles as described in the Studio
manual in order to perform a color correction for your setup. The
profiles are made specificly for a certain setup. When choosing
profiles, you should be aware of following compatibility:
Canon BJC 210 is compatible with Canon BJ 2xx.
Canon BJC 240 is compatible with Canon BJC 210 and BJ.
Canon BJC 610 is compatible with Canon BJC 600.
Canon BJC 620 is compatible with Canon BJC 610 and 600.
Canon BJC 4200 is compatible with Canon BJC 4100 and 4000
Canon BJC 4550 is compatible with Canon BJC 4200, 4100 and 4000
This means, a BJC 4200 user should/can use the BJC 4100 profiles.
Usualy, you'll only find profiles for new and changed features of
the same printer series. So, you usualy use the BJC 4100 and BJC
4000 profiles on the BJC 4200, unless you want to print using the
new Photo Ink Cartridge. In this case, you should use the new BJC
4200 profiles.
In order to print using the Photo Ink cartridge, you must have the
necessary output module installed for your printer. If your
printer does support the feature, a "PhotoGraph Mode" Density 1
will become available in Studio for printing. Note that the
printer always prints in 360dpi when using the Photo Ink
Cartridge. The "Print Mode" setting configured for the output
module will not be used, as the Photo Ink cartridge assumes HR 101
paper. So, you can setup the output module for your normal paper
and print using any density except 1 with the normal print mode
and cartridge. You can switch to Photo Ink by simply exchanging
the cartridge in the printer and selecting density 1 ("PhotoGraph
Mode") in Studio.
Studio V2.14 now supports the BMP (sometimes called Windows DIB)
image format. Supported BMP formats are Windows BMP version 3 and
OS 2 V1.x, V2.x and others: 1, 4, 8, 16 and 24 Bit.
Uncompressed, RLE 4, RLE 8 and RLE 24 compression without delta is
supported. Multiple image (or array) BMP's are supported and the
first image from the array is used. As usual, BMP images are
printed from disk without need for much memory.
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01.01.97 V2.14
CanonBJ-EC V6.0 WB Driver (06.12.96):
- Support for BJC 150, BJC 620, BJC 240,
BJC 4200, BJC 4550 added.
- DIN A4 size changed from 2804 to 2880 dots.
- Support for Photo Ink Cartridges added.
- Mirror function improved
- unnecessary >68020 code removed to make driver
smaller
- Driver now uses it's own UCR/GCR function
- Now uses Studio dither routines
(much faster and better quality)
- New dither algorithems added (mainly Serpentine
versions of error diffusion dithers.
- Treshold dither was used with user
color adjustment. Fixed.
- Setting file changed for new dither routines
- NULL command is now ignored for FF detection
(possibel empty pages are now avoided if
applications sents NULL (DPaint)).
- Driver now automaticly switches between
Epson and Extended Emulation if required.
- Transfer(), DoSpecial() completly rewritten.
- Driver Presets added and improved
CanonBJ-EC V6.1 WB Driver (01.01.97):
- Photo Ink Dither routines are now written
in assembler (+20% more speed).
SetupBJL V1.11 (27.11.96):
- Renamed to BJC 4xxx and BJC2xx
- USERPOWERON added as shell option
Studio V2.14 Print Program (01.01.97)
- recompiled using near code model.
- memory for dither structure for preview
wasn't free'd in V2.11 and V2.12
- Pointer array for landscape rotation was to
small in V2.12 - 4 bytes trashed
- BMP image format support added.
Supported BMP formats are Windows BMP version 3
and OS 2 V1.x and V2.x:
1,4,8, 16 and 24 Bit.
Uncompressed, RLE 4, RLE 8 and
RLE 24 compression without delta is supported.
Multiple image (or array) BMP's are supported and
the first image from the array is used.
- Left white margin check in multilevel BNoise
dither routine of V2.11, V2.12 and V2.13 was
not correct and caused a slowdown.
The bug affected only very slightly the
print speed - nothing else.
- Multilevel dither routines restructered.
Studio now 40KByte smaller because of this.
- BNoise and Order multilevel dither routines
now written in assembler (20% total speed increase!).
- Deskjet 550C and 500C output modules added.
- Fixed a bug in color printing with PCL 5C and
some printers unable to deal the code.
- Output modules now watch data send to the
printer in order to avoid timeout problems
if print data compresses to well.
- PageStream 3.1 and 3.2 Studio driver
did not print correctly if an unprintable
margin was entered in PageStream.
Fixed in Studio driver Ver 3 Rev 1.
- BMP support added to CMSScan V2.14 (01.01.97)
Version V2.14c (so far only available via AmiNet
Update archiv)
- TIFF image format support added
COPYRIGHT/DISCLAIMER
Copyright ©1991-97 Wolf Faust. All rights reserved. The Studio
update disk has been provided to you strictly 'as is', without
warranty of any kind. In no event shall Wolf 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 software. You
may not use, copy, or transfer the product, or any copy or
portion, without prior consent in writing from Wolf Faust. The
disk can be distributed via AmiNet, CompuServe or CIX as long as
no payment for the software is asked. Any other distribution is
strictly forbidden.
Installer project icon (c) Copyright 1991-93 Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. Reproduced and distributed under license
from Commodore.
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