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- COPYRIGHT
- =========
-
- Copyright ©1991-93 Wolf Faust. All rights reserved. All
- distribution- and marketing rights to the software 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.
-
- The Installer is Copyright ©1991-1992 by Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
- All Rights Reserved. Distributed under license from Commodore.
-
-
-
- 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. I STRONGLY recommend getting that printed manual
- for the Canon software. I'm still trying to organise people
- willing to copy the 90(!!) DIN A4 page manual for a small fee.
-
- Now, in ENGLAND you can get the english manual for £15 (includes
- shiping) from JAM (address below).
-
- CompuServe users may download the manual as postscript file from
- the AmigaUser forum. Use the PD "Post" PostScript Interpreter for
- printing the manual on any Canon printer.
-
-
- CanonStudio
- ===========
-
- This is the LIMITED VERSION of CanonStudio. You can use it for
- printing pictures. Though, some 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.
-
- Registered users get an update service and an unlimited
- CanonStudio version for all Canon drivers.
-
- The price for registering is:
-
-
- INTERNATIONAL
-
- US$25 includes shiping
- + $15 if payed by cheque. No COD!
-
-
-
- GERMANY
-
- DM 35 includes shiping. No COD (Nachnahme)!
-
-
-
- ENGLAND
-
- £15 includes shiping
-
-
-
- Send the money to following address:
-
- Wolf Faust
- Am Dorfgarten 10
- W-6000 Frankfurt 50
- Germany
-
- Internet: wfaust@aurea.hotb.sub.org
- CompuServe: 100116,1070
-
- Note: begining with 1 July use "60435 Frankfurt" instead of
- "W6000 Frankfurt 50"!
-
-
- Or in England you may register and get updates at/from:
-
- JAM
- 75 Greatfields Drive
- Uxbridge, UB8 3QN
-
- Tel: 08952-74449 (GMT)
-
-
-
-
-
-
- UPDATE HISTORY
- ==============
-
-
- CanonBJ-EC (or CanonBJC800)
- ---------------------------
-
- 03.09.92 Version 1.0
- 23.09.92 Version 1.1 - Ink compensation, color adjustment and
- custom dither matrices now require ORDERED
- dither set in preferences and a density
- greater 2. SuperMode now requires
- ORDERED dither set in preferences
- This change was made to avoid problems
- because of wrong user setup. So we have:
- | PREFERENCES REQUIRED
- FUNCTION |Dens.>2|Ordered|Color
- --------------------------------
- Super Mod | no | yes | yes
- Ink Comp. | yes | yes | yes
- Color Adj.| yes | yes | no
- Cust. Dit | yes | yes | no
- - disabling color adjustment in SuperMode
- by printing with a density smaller 3 didn't
- worked - fixed
- 19.11.92 Version 1.1b - two dithers replaced by new dithers
- - two dots fixed in Halftone 256 dither
- - new install program (KS 1.3 friendly)
- 20.02.93 Version 1.2 - paper size was not set to 22 inch when
- preferences paper length was set to
- 250 and paper type to fanfold and text
- got printed (graphics was fine).
- - all programs now compiled with SAS/C V6.2
- - small code size improvements and cleanups
- - Setting a dither method using CanonPref
- is now very easy.
- - Checks and warning messages added to CanonPref
- - recompiled using SAS/C V6.2
- - dither/adjustment directory is now allways shown
- in the CanonPref file requester as default.
- - CanonPref error message requester improved
-
-
-
-
-
-
- CanonBJ10: Now named CanonBJ5-230
- ------------------------------------
-
- 22.07.91 Version 1.1
- 27.11.91 Version 1.2 Version for Commodore
- + set presentation highlight removed for BJ300/330 printers
- 09.12.91 Version 1.3 Further changes for the BJ300 made
- 20.04.92 Version 3.0 major update:
- + arXon support added + new WB paper sizes added
- + I' accent fixed + CanonBeep option added
- + CanonTime option added + CanonResX option added
- + CanonConv option added + CanonTab option added
- + CanonPerf option added + CanonTop option added
- + CanonForm option added + CanonFont option added
- + FontShop program added + CanonPref program added
- + Report program added + aTBCALL command fixed
- + Check for MemCpy() fixed + MemCpy()/MemClr() improved
- + most text style commands changed
- for download font usage
- 01.06.92 Version 4
- - changes in the documentation
- - a small bug in MemCpy() fixed, causing chars to appear in
- dark graphics
- - misaligned slider in CanonPref fixed
- 27.03.93 Version 5
- - 100% new font independent CanonPref program
- - CanonGFeed option added (adjust graphic line
- spacing, avoiding stripes)
- - CanonMirror option added (mirror graphic dumps)
- - Supergrey function added (256 simultanious greyshades
- instead of 16 using WB color dump mode)
- - max. print size in 240*360 dpi mode fixed
- - free definable dither routines added
- - greyscale adjustment improved, replacing CanonConv
- (now named CanonGAdj)
- - FontShop is now font independent.
- - Security checks added to FontShop, avoiding crashes
- caused by corrupt fonts.
- - now compiled using SAS/C V6.2
- - Native mode added for BJ200 graphic dumps
- (native mode uses TIFF compression)
- - CanonResX changed. Now CanonResX defines the paper
- size including borders (0.5 inch).
- - CanonResY added. Defines paper height including
- non printable border (0.6 inch).
- - PageStream 2.x native mode driver added
- (useable with BJ200, BJ230 and BJC800)
- - density settings changed for new greyscale
- adjustment/dither functions.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- CanonBJ130
- ----------
-
- 26.10.90 Version 35 Rev 1
- 10.12.90 Version 35 Rev 1.5
- - Elite Bug (Setting Elite in Preferences) removed.
- This bug causes a "MW" while initialising the
- printer, also Autoline was setting on, which
- causes a LF with every CR (so you got to much
- lines in your printing...)
- - known bug left: transfer.a is not
- set right for 360YPI
- - reverse P in char table fixed
- 10.12.90 Version 35 Rev 2.0a
- - Bug in transfer.a removed
- new transfer.c now works with 360YDPI
- 10.12.90 Version 35 Rev 2.0b
- - transfer.c translated to assembler, so graphicdumps
- should be faster...
- 07.01.91 Version 35 Rev 3
- - small speed improvements
- 10.02.91 Version 35 Rev 3a
- - no real changes to the driver!
- 08.03.91 Version 35 Rev 4
- - faster memory transfer check.
- 08.04.91 Version 35 Rev 5
- - bug in translation table for chars >247 (= $F7)
- removed. Thanks goes to Bjarke Hvejsel for finding and
- reporting the first bug.
- 21.04.91 Version 35 Rev 6 new render module - test version
- 05.05.91 Version 35 Rev 7
- - Because of a bug in Pagestream 2.1 preference driver,
- there's no way to enable density 7. This revisions offers
- Pagestream users a fix until Pagestream gets updated.
- 14.07.91 Version 35 Rev 8.1
- - Elite & fine mode sometimes didn't got set.. fixed
- - printing NLQ in Prowrite now works... exact cause still unknown...
- - NOW Rev 6 render module has made it into this release
- and even got further improved...
- - "version" command ability added
- - margin settings after graphic dumps corrected
- - no more turbo versions! Everything is in there!
- Yep one version including special '20/30 code!
- Must be hell for turboboard users...
- 04.10.91 Version 35 Rev 8.2
- - Reset command caused '0' chars. fixed
- 20.04.92 Version 35 Rev 10 major update:
- + arXon support added + new WB paper sizes added
- + I' accent fixed + CanonBeep option added
- + CanonTime option added + CanonResX option added
- + CanonConv option added + CanonTab option added
- + CanonPerf option added + CanonTop option added
- + CanonForm option added + CanonPref program added
- + Report program added + aTBCALL command fixed
- + Check for MemCpy() fixed + MemCpy()/MemClr() improved
- + CanonType option added
- 01.06.92 Version 35 Rev 11
- - changes in the documentation
- - a small bug in MemCpy() fixed, causing chars to appear in
- dark graphics
- - misaligned slider in CanonPref fixed
- 03.06.92 Version 35 Rev 11.1
- - bug in margin command fixed
- 20.02.93 Version 35 Rev 12
- - 100% new font independent CanonPref program
- - CanonGFeed option added (adjust graphic line
- spacing, avoiding stripes)
- - CanonMirror option added (mirror graphic dumps)
- - Supergrey function added (256 simultanious greyshades
- instead of 16 using WB color dump mode)
- - free definable dither routines added
- - greyscale adjustment improved, replacing CanonConv
- (now named CanonGAdj)
- - now compiled using SAS/C V6.2
- - CanonResY added
- - density settings changed for new greyscale
- adjustment/dither functions.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- CanonBJ300
- ----------
-
- 25.07.91 Version 35 Rev 1
- 25.10.91 Version 35 Rev 1.1 test version / not released to public
- shading/reverse bug removed
- 28.10.91 Version 35 Rev 1.2 lf/cr bug removed
- 08.12.91 Version 35 Rev 1.3 On request: HQ/DRAFT setting doesn't affect
- graphic dumps
- 20.04.92 Version 35 Rev 3 major update:
- + arXon support added + new WB paper sizes added
- + I' accent fixed + CanonBeep option added
- + CanonTime option added + CanonResX option added
- + CanonConv option added + CanonTab option added
- + CanonPerf option added + CanonTop option added
- + CanonForm option added + CanonPref program added
- + CanonType option added + CanonFeed option added
- + Report program added + aTBCALL command fixed
- + Check for MemCpy() fixed + MemCpy()/MemClr() improved
- 25.05.92 Version 35 Rev 3.01 HQ/DRAFT setting doesn't affect
- graphic dumps (now works... sorryyy)
- 01.06.92 Version 35 Rev 4
- - changes in the documentation
- - a small bug in MemCpy() fixed, causing chars to appear in
- dark graphics
- - misaligned slider in CanonPref fixed
- 03.06.92 Version 35 Rev 4.1
- - bug in margin command fixed
- 20.02.93 Version 35 Rev 5
- - 100% new font independent CanonPref program
- - CanonGFeed option added (adjust graphic line
- spacing, avoiding stripes)
- - CanonMirror option added (mirror graphic dumps)
- - Supergrey function added (256 simultanious greyshades
- instead of 16 using WB color dump mode)
- - free definable dither routines added
- - greyscale adjustment improved, replacing CanonConv
- (now named CanonGAdj)
- - now compiled using SAS/C V6.2
- - CanonResY added
- - density settings changed for new greyscale
- adjustment/dither functions.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- CanonLBP
- --------
- Revision 2
- - CanonPref improved (default values = no environment var)
- - CanonOver may now be set in CanonPref
- - free definable greyscale conversion function added (CanonConv)
- - FontShop downloads directly to the printer now result in a
- permanently stored font (can only be erased by
- doing a hard reset!) instead of a registered font
- (erased by the driver during aRIN and aRIS)
- Revision 3
- - a bug in memcopy() fixed, causing chars to appear
- in graphics.
- - documentation changed
- 27.03.93 Version 35 Rev 4
- - 100% new font independent CanonPref program
- - CanonMirror option added (mirror graphic dumps)
- - Supergrey function added (256 simultanious greyshades
- instead of 16 using WB color dump mode)
- - free definable dither routines added
- - greyscale adjustment improved, replacing CanonConv
- (now named CanonGAdj)
- - now compiled using SAS/C V6.2
- - density settings changed for new greyscale
- adjustment/dither functions.
- - CanonType fixed
- - CanonOrient meaning changed
- - CanonCompress added for CaPSL 4 mode
- - CanonEmu added for enabling CaPSL 4 600 dpi mode
- - FontShop is now font independent
- - Security checks added to FontShop, avoiding crashes
- caused by corrupt fonts.
- - Several KS 3.0 compatibitily checks added to FontShop
- - PageStream 2.x driver updated for 600dpi CaPSL 4
- - User defined page format fixed (CanonResX and CanonResY)
- - Now supports CaPSL 4
- - Empty pages after graphic dumps are now avoided
- as far as possible.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- CanonBJC880
- -----------
-
- 20.3.92 Version 35 Revision 1
- - new CapSL 4 360 dpi color printer driver
-
-
-
- CanonStudio (limited)
- ---------------------
-
- 05.09.92 Version 1.0 First Version
- 08.09.92 Version 1.1 o "Vertical Aspect" set in preferences
- caused wrong sized printing
- (a left bar) - minor bugfix
- 09.09.92 Version 1.2 o Remaining time not shown if
- print = page dimension - minor bugfix
- o a bug made it into V1.1 Blue-Noise color
- dump routine causing "cyan-spots" - minor bugfix
- 16.09.92 Version 1.3 o needed stack size decreased, avoiding
- possibel crashes while loading dither because
- of wrong user startup - minor enhancement
- 18.09.92 Version 1.4 HAM8 screenmode code improved - minor enhancement
- 23.09.92 Version 1.5 o custom dither matrizes on b/w dumps
- weren't inverted - minor bugfix
- o 68020/30/40 security check added to the
- turbo version - minor enhancement
- o DPaint sometimes saves HAM palette with
- more than 16 colors. Colors >16 are scaled
- while colors <16 are shifted. Shift/scale checks
- fail because of this, causing HAM pictures to
- "smear" or darken; now works - minor enhancement
- 13.11.92 Version 1.51 o compiled with SAS/C V6 compiler
- causing a ~15% speed increase
- o now improved 68020/30/40 routines
- build in. There is no more need for a
- .030 version of Studio!
- o internal communication between the three Studio
- processes got improved. Also, each process
- now opens its own resources.
- o IFF->RGB data conversion now speed up
- by 20%!
- o refresh handling improved (less rounding
- problem that caused a refresh)
- o faulty Diagonal dither method replaced
- by brick dither method.
- o Halftone 256 dither fixed (two dots wrong)
- o now checks if driver is in supermode
- and forces b/w dump accordingly.
- o no more error messages on IFF24 pictures
- with a CMAP or CAMG chunk.
- (Imagine does write these bad iff files)
- 02.12.92 Version 1.52 o Compiled with SAS/C V6.1
- 07.01.93 Version 1.53 o Listview added to "Define Dither..."
- o Changed code for reading .prefs file
- o Remaining time calculation code rewritten.
- Time shown is now much more precise.
- 27.01.93 Version 1.54 o SAS/C V6.1 compiler bug caused color
- output with "Custom Dither" setting to
- fail in V1.52/1.53.
- 20.02.93 Version 1.55 o new Canon printer drivers Supergrey mode
- is now disabled by CanonStudio.
- o refresh of main changed.
- o "Limited" requester caused problems with
- status window (gadgets stay ghosted).
- Cause yet unknown... but fixed.
-
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- (Continue by pressing 'Q')
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