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This is CanonDisk V3.50 for Canon BJ and BJC printers COPYRIGHT/DISCLAIMER ==================== Copyright ©1991-96 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. 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 210 Use the installed SetupBJL-BJC210 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 4000 all except -> 1, 4, 11, 12 BJC 4100 Use the installed SetupBJL-BJC4100 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 45 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 users should note, that the Canon BJC800 printer is a single page printer. The printer does not support continuous form paper. Because of this the page length must be defined! 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 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 610 users: please note that printing 720 dpi using the CanonBJ-EC Workbench driver requires major color adjustments. Use the CanonPref menu presets for adjusting the driver for 720dpi support. Note that the Canon BJC 610 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). BJC 610 users should use the BJC 600 profiles with the printing program for printing 360dpi. So when installing the profiles, select the BJC 600 and BJC 610 profiles as recommended by the installation program. More Canon BJC 610 720dpi and 720*360dpi profiles for various dither methods and paper types are under development (registered users should see CompuServe's AmigaUser forum library for the latest profiles updates). If you experience strong stripes/banding of 1mm height in your BJC 610 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 a lot. So BJC 610 users please stay tuned for new driver versions. Rome wasn't build in one night. Neither can I ;-) * Canon BJC 4100 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 4100 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). BJC 4100 users should use the BJC 4000 profiles with the printing program for printing 360dpi. So when installing the profiles, select the BJC 4000 AND BJC 4100 profiles as recommended by the installation program. * Canon BJC 210 users should carefully note following limitations: 1. The Canon BJC 210 can't print color graphics and text on the same page. The printer can only print color in the Extended Emulation set using CanonBJECPref "Emul" gadget. As described by the installed readme file of this driver, you can't print text using the printers text mode once you have printed a graphic in Extended Emulation. This doesn't mean you can't print text and color graphics on the same page, as nearly all good Amiga programs print text using the graphic mode of the printer. 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. 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')