Printer driver release 1.020 BETA for OS/2 3.0 (Warp) and Warp 4.0 ****************************************************************** ******************************************************************* The EPSON Deuschland GmbH deveopment of the OS/2 driver is stopped. This version is at time the last version of our developer section and includes a completely new handling of the printer modell support. This version has some known problems: - no printer internal fonts - problems with default settings especially with PMView and Lotus WordPro 96 - the know margin problems are not solved Urgent !!!! This driver will not work with older versions. Please deinstall the old driver and delete all of the driver. ******************************************************************* This printer driver has been developed by EPSON Deutschland GmbH. This particular version 1.020 supports the following printer models: EPSON Stylus COLOR EPSON Stylus COLOR II EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 EPSON Stylus Pro/Pro XL EPSON Stylus Pro XL+ EPSON Stylus COLOR 400, COLOR 600, COLOR 800, COLOR 1520 EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 EPSON Stylus Photo EPSON Stylus 1500 EPSON Stylus 300, 400, 800, 800+, 1000 EPSON DLQ-3000 EPSON LQ-100, 300, 570, 570+, 870 EPSON LQ-1070, 1070+, 1170, 2070, 2170 EPSON SQ-870, 1170 ! new ! EPSON LQ-670 ! new ! Page printers PCL5/5e --------------------- EPSON EPL-3000, 4300, 5200, 5200+, 5500, 5600, 8100, 9000, N1200, N2000 Page printers EPSON GQ mode --------------------------- GQ-3500, 5000 EPL-4100, 4300, 5000, 5200, 7100, 8100 EPJ-200 Printer drivers with the extension (NLSP) are drivers which support particular printer models with a special character EPROM. These printer models and drivers are especially designed for use in the Eastern European market. The NLSP function only becomes apparent, however, when you select a printer resolution with built-in fonts. If you install an NLSP printer driver but do not have an equivalent printer model, your printouts may contain errors when you select one of the printer's built-in fonts. Hardware requirements: ********************** - Processor: min. 486/33 MHz; Pentium recommended - Main memory: min. 8 MB of RAM; min. 32 MB of Ram recommended (the more the better) - Hard disk space: - Installation: 6,8 MB of available hard disk space - Workstation: Color printing at 720 dpi, DIN A4: approx. 80-100 MB of available hard disk space (with 32 MB RAM) The required amount of hard disk space varies according to the amount of main memory installed (the more main memory, the smaller the swap file). Special features of the printer driver: *************************************** - TrueColor RGB input alterable to 256 color pallet mode (Attention: In 256 color pallet mode some colors may not match the colors of the original, since in this mode the system pallet of OS/2 is used. However, the printout is completed faster due to less data). - In-built printer fonts and code pages supported (not supported for COLOR 400, 600, 800, 1520, 3000, Photo) - Halftoning with error diffusion (random dot pattern) - The EPSON Color Management system enables top-quality printouts in both b/w and color. The output in TrueColor mode is an almost exact match of the colors in the original. - EPSON gamma curves for each printer - MicroWeave technology for Stylus printers - User settings can be saved under unique names - The driver currently supports two languages (German/English) - Metafile spooling (depending on the application, the system becomes available significantly faster and the printout is also completed faster) Notes on installation: ********************** Please observe the following when installing the printer driver: Warp 3.0, Warp 4.0 ****************** - Run OS/2. - Make sure that all printer queues are empty. - Select the Icon DRIVES. - Double-click on your CD-ROM drive. - Double-click on the subdirectory OS2DRV. - Double-click on the file EPSONPRT.DR_. - Choose your printer with the right mouse button and keeping the right mouse button pressed, drag the printer icon onto your desktop. - Choose the required language. - Attention!!!!: Do not close any windows during the installation procedure and do not install more than one driver at the same time!!!! To make sure, nothing interferes with the installation, wait until the entire installation is complete. Please wait until the printer icon has been generated. If you do not observe this warning, the driver may not be installed properly. If an error message occurs during the installation procedure, delete the driver and reinstall it. - To set the printer driver to be your default printer, click the right mouse button on the Printer icon, choose Set default from the menu and select the appropriate printer driver. - Select the desired interface by clicking the right mouse button on your printer model, choosing Settings from the menu and clicking the Output button. - The installation is now complete. To modify the printer driver settings, click the right mouse button on the Printer icon, choose Settings from the menu and then Printer driver. OS/2 makes a distinction between printer settings and job settings. The job settings usually apply to all programs. To modify the printer settings double-click the icon of your default printer driver. You can now modify the printer properties. The modified settings become valid as soon as you exit the printer driver by clicking OK. To modify the job settings, click the Job properties button. You can now modify the job settings and save them under a desired name. As long as no program is running at the time, these settings are valid for all programs. However, if a program is running when you make your modifications, the settings will apply just to this single program and will be deleted when you exit the program. Note: If you are using a Pentium computer, you should change the priority for your print jobs to 40 - 55 before submitting your first print job. This is done via the Spooler icon to be found under System/Setup. A speed of 40 - 55 is perfectly sufficient for the hardware printing speed. Note: The first printout: If you are using TrueColor RGB input, it follows that the more main memory you have available the quicker the printout will begin. For example, if you print an A4 page consisting of graphics, the main memory available will be shared between OS/2, the program, the graphics file you are printing and the printer driver. An A4 graphics page in TrueColor and printed at 720 dpi can be as big as 134 MB in size before being compressed (image width x image height x horizontal print resolution x vertical print resolution x TrueColor). If you have less than 48 MB of RAM, an extensive swap file is created and your system is kept busy over a longer period of time. If you do a lot of graphics work, it is advisable, therefore, to install additional RAM in your computer (48 MB or 64 MB (recommended)). Known problems ************** - Stylus COLOR: It is better to avoid using a combination of 360/720 dpi (no printer fonts), MicroWeave and Bidi, as these settings can result in faulty printouts. - IBM Works and DeScribe: The fonts are not provided with these programs as the printer fonts are not properly supported. - Warp 4.0 bug: Green and blue are exchanged. Solution: Click the WARP 4 button in the driver (this is the default setting when the driver is installed under Warp 4). Meanwhile, in other Warp 4 versions this bug is fixed, if so please deselect the flag. - DRAFT font: At present, the printer's built-in font is not properly supported. - Lotus Freelance Graphics 2.1: At the time being you cannot print with this application. Release Freelance Graphics 96 works fine. - General: Avoid to simultaneously create on two printers (via two interfaces) using the EPSON driver two color or two monochrome printouts at the same time. - General: If you installed the driver completely NEW or as an UPDATE, select once for each installed printer model from this driver the printer properties and the print job properties, make your settings and exit the driver clicking "OK". - General: We have found that you get an error if you select other codepages in OS/2 then 850 oder 437. It is possible that you can't start a printout. Special note ************ - Slow output under StarOffice: The programs of StarOffice presently do not support metafile spooling. You can see this from the printer icon which is displayed gray (disabled) until the file has been transferred completely to the driver. Until the printer icon is displayed in black (enabled) again, the print data have not been transferred to the driver and the driver cannot start the printout. In the actual version 4.0 you can select metafile spooling manually if you open the file SOFFICE.INI, search for the part [common] and type in under this part MetafilePrint=1. Perhaps if you have installed an interim update of this version this will be done automaticlly. Fixed problems in this version ****************************** - selection of manual paper tray !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As you know that the development of the driver is stopped and we can't give anybody the source code of the driver you can send us the problems which you found within the driver but we do not know if we can solve the problems in the future: - Test file - Exact program information with details of program version and settings used - Version number of printer driver - Printer driver settings (all) - If a general protection fault error occurs, we require a hard copy of the register settings (warning: a hard copy is also treated as graphics; the currently activated printer job properties are used) - E-mail address, if available - Daytime telephone number Please send these details to: EPSON Deutschland GmbH Mr. Wolfgang Wilms Zuelpicher Str. 6 40549 Duesseldorf Germany !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EPSON Deutschland GmbH, Duesseldorf, 2.10.1997