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Name: Apple LaserWriter Driver for Windows 95 Version: Revision 4.2 Released: Oct 18, 1996 Description: Software for printing from Windows 95 to: Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS LaserWriter 12/640 PS LaserWriter 16/600 PS LaserWriter Pro 600 LaserWriter Pro 630 LaserWriter Select 360 The software here is available in two formats (Disk Image & .zip): 1. Two Disk Copy 1440k DOS disk images. Use Disk Copy to create the DOS disks. Disk Copy can be found in the Utilities folder posted here. Windows95 LaserWriter Printer Software consists of 3 disks: Name as Posted Actual DOS Disk Name ------------------------------------------------- LW Win 95 4.2-1of3.sea PRINT SW 1 LW Win 95 4.2-2of3.sea PRINT SW 2 LW Win 95 4.2-3of3.sea PRINT SW 3 2. One ZIP archive of Windows95 files. To use, download this file, then extract to your hard drive. NOTE: This installer updates only the printing software. Use your original disks to install fonts. Included below is the README.TXT file found on the first disk: ABOUT YOUR APPLE LASERWRITER PRINTER SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 95 This document contains some important reminders and some information that is not in the manual that comes with your printer. You may want to print this document and keep it for future reference. Your Apple LaserWriter CD-ROM or floppy disk set contains all the software you need to print to these Apple LaserWriter printers: Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS LaserWriter 12/640 PS LaserWriter 16/600 PS LaserWriter Pro 600 LaserWriter Pro 630 LaserWriter Select 360 CONTENTS OBTAINING PRINTER SUPPLIES COLOR LASERWRITER PRINTER TIPS LASERWRITER 12/640 PS PRINTER TIPS INSTALLING THE PRINTER SOFTWARE ON WINDOWS 95 USING THE ADD PRINTER WIZARD TO INSTALL A PRINTER USING NETWARE CLIENT SOFTWARE ABOUT THE APPLE PRINTER UTILITY FOR WINDOWS ABOUT THE APPLE PRINT MONITOR FOR WINDOWS ABOUT THE APPLE LASERWRITER UTILITY FOR WINDOWS INITIAL NOVELL NETWARE SETUP FOR NETWARE 4.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR 12/640 OR 16/600 ON NETWARE PRINTING FROM WINDOWS 95 FILES INSTALLED HOW TO GET UPDATED SOFTWARE OBTAINING PRINTER SUPPLIES You can order printer supplies direct from Apple for the Color LaserWriter 12/660, Color LaserWriter 12/600, and LaserWriter 12/640 PS printers. For other LaserWriter printers see your Apple-authorized dealer. For the location of the nearest Apple-authorized dealer, in the U.S. call 1-800-538-9696, extension 525. Obtaining Supplies for Color LaserWriters 12/660 PS and 12/600 PS In the U.S., to order printer supplies for the Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS and Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS direct from Apple, call 1-800-600-7805. For your reference, the part numbers are listed below: M3755G/A Fuser Oil M3756G/A Black Toner Cartridge M3757G/A Cyan Toner Cartridge M3758G/A Yellow Toner Cartridge M3760G/A Magenta Toner Cartridge M3761G/A Photoconductor Replacement Kit M3867G/A Fuser Replacement Kit, 110v M3876G/A Color LaserWriter Transparencies, LTR size (50 per pack) Obtaining Supplies for the Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS In the U.S. to order printer supplies for the LaserWriter 12/640 PS direct from Apple, call 1-800-600-7805. For your reference, the part numbers are listed below: M4683G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Toner Cartridge M4682G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS 500-Sheet Cassette and Feeder M4680G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Envelope Cassette M4697G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Duplex Printing Unit M4698G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Face-Up Output Tray COLOR LASERWRITER PRINTER TIPS This section provides additional information on using the Color LaserWriter printer. Parallel Printing 1) Parallel Printing - Sometimes print jobs don't print when the print job is sent to the printer's parallel port. The paragraphs below explain what to do to correct this problem. The communication switch for the Color LaserWriter is located on the back of the printer. The printer is shipped from the factory with the switch in the right or "Custom" position. Should the switch be reset to factory defaults by moving it to the left or "Reset" position and then back to the Custom position, the communications protocol for the printer's parallel port may be incorrectly changed to ASCII. Because of this, print jobs sent from the AdobePS driver with Send Data in Binary turned on do not print. There are two work-arounds for this problem. You can select the PostScript driver's ASCII parameter instead of TBCP. Alternatively, you can use the Apple Printer Utility to set the printer's protocol to binary (TBCP). To do this: 1. Open the Apple LaserWriter Software folder, double-click the Apple Printer Utility, select the desired printer, and open it. 2. Select the Communication Configuration panel and then select Port Configuration. For the Protocol field, select TBCP. Then, press Send. The printer's protocol should now be set to binary (TBCP). 3. This procedure must be performed each time the communication switch is reset. 2) NetWare Rprinter Printer Number - Your printer may support Auto assignment of Rprinter number only. About the Demonstration Page When the power is turned on, the Color LaserWriter automatically prints a startup page and a demonstration page. For legal and B5 paper sizes, only the startup page prints; the demonstration page is not printed. You can use the Apple Printer Utility to turn off the printing of the startup and demonstration pages. About the Apple Color LaserWriter Status Panel As described in the Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS manual, Appendix G, the status panel lights aid in indicating hardware service problems found during printer startup. If the Alert light is flashing and all the door lights are flashing, check all the printer doors; one of them is open. If the Paper OUT and Paper Jam lights are flashing alternately, a hardware problem has been detected. To identify the problem, notice which toner lights (C, M, Y, Bk) and how many of the maintenance lights (in the area on the right-hand side of the status panel) are on, and refer to the table below. Each area listed under "Problem" represents a general circuit area for the service technician to investigate, not necessarily the exact cause of the problem. Toner # Consumable Problem Lights On Lights On C 0 I/O Controller Boar C 1 SIMM, Slot J11 C 2 SIMM, Slot J10 M 2 Hard Drive M 3 I/O Controller ROM Y 0 Fuser Y 1 Oil Pump in Fuser Y 2 Thermal Sensor in Fuser Y 3 Paper Feed Unit Bk 0 DC Controller Bk 1 Power Supply Bk 2 Toner Carousel Bk 3 Laser/Sanner Circuit M & Bk 0 Main Motor M & Bk 1 Drum Motor M & Bk 2 Laser/Scanner C & Bk 0 Controller Fan C & Bk 1 Fuser Fan C & Bk 2 Main Fan If you have an external SCSI hard disk drive attached but don't turn it on before you turn on the printer's power, the printer may indicate a hardware failure. To correct the problem, turn the hard disk drive on and restart the printer. Using NetWare Banner Pages The Color LaserWriter is a PostScript printer only. If you are using NetWare 4.x, use PostScript banner pages only. If you use another type of banner page, your print job as well as the banner page will not print. Do not use banner pages at all with NetWare 3.x. If you do, neither the banner page nor your print job will print. Printing Over Novell Networks By default, binary PostScript sent via the Novell network is encoded in Tagged Binary Communications Protocol (TBCP). The printer's TBCP filtering mode for Novell is also on by default. If you change the Protocol Options to "None" from the Printer Control Panel's PostScript setup, you must send the following PostScript to turn off TBCP filtering for Novell on the printer: true 0 startjob (%PrintServer%) <</Filtering /None>> setdevparams If you subsequently change the Protocol Option back to "Default", you must send the following PostScript to turn on TBCP filtering for Novell on the printer: true 0 startjob (%PrintServer%) <</Filtering /InterpreterBased>> setdevparams The Novell filtering mode cannot be changed within a PostScript job, so the above PostScript sets the filtering mode outside the job context; thus it becomes permanent. If your printer's password has been changed from the default setting, replace the "true 0 startjob" line with "true <your password> startjob". Obtaining the Best Results for Business Graphics To obtain the best results for business graphics, colors should be 100% saturated. For example, to print pure yellow, define yellow as 100% red and 100% green without any blue. Then print your document, ensuring the Send Full Color Data option on the Job Control tab dialog is selected. Printing on Legal-Size Paper In the standard memory configuration, the Color LaserWriter uses a higher compression technique for legal-sized paper using only the cyan, magenta, and yellow color planes. As a result of this compression technique, very complex pages may show missing pixels in fine lines or small text, "jaggies" (edges with low-resolution appearance) and color changes. To improve the image quality of such pages, you can increase the printer's memory to 16 MB or more. With at least 16 MB of printer memory, the Color LaserWriter can achieve the same quality with legal-size pages as with letter and A4 sizes using all four color planes (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.) Printing Images on the Color LaserWriter Printer The Color LaserWriter printer's highest resolution for printing images is 150 x 150 dpi. No gain in image quality is achieved if higher resolution images are used. All other types of documents print at 600 x 600 dpi. Avoiding Hue Shifts When Printing to File When you save an image in an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file all the PostScript settings relating to the original output device in effect are saved along with the image data. When the image is printed later, the settings that were in effect may cause major hue shifts. To prevent these hue shifts save the image in TIFF format instead of EPS. The Density Control Panel The Color LaserWriter has been adjusted at the factory to produce the best possible image quality. However, small variations exist among different printers. To make subtle changes to image quality, you can use the Density Control Panel on the back of the printer. NOTE: If changing the settings produces inferior image quality, return to the factory settings by following these steps: Select each color using the Color Select button, then press the - or + button to move the indicator light to the center position. When the indicator is in the center, press Enter to make the setting permanent. Repeat this procedure for all four colors. Printer's Processor Speed In the printer manual, Appendix A may contain a typographical error: the microprocessor speed is 30 MHz, not 25 MHz as printed. Using the Color LaserWriter with a Windows NT Server - Using a Windows NT Server may cause spurious job records to be entered in the printer's Job Log if the printer is busy. The jobs will have a status of "cancelled". Turning Off Unused Printer Interfaces - You may want to turn off unused printer interfaces with the Apple Printer Utility. To ensure best results power-cycle the Color LaserWriter after you turn off a printer interface. APPLE LASERWRITER 12/640 PS PRINTER TIPS Printer Memory Requirements If you will be using PhotoGrade or the optional Duplex Printing Unit, you may need to add memory. The printer uses SIMMs that can be purchased from many electronics and computer outlets. See the section "RAM Upgrade Specifications" in Appendix D of your user's manual for more information. Total memory requirements for the possible configurations that require additional memory are: PhotoGrade - 12 MB Duplex Printing Unit - 12 MB PhotoGrade and Duplex Printing Unit for all paper sizes except legal - 20 MB PhotoGrade and Duplex Printing Unit for all paper sizes - 24 MB Using PhotoGrade and the Duplex Printing Unit If your printer has at least 12 MB of memory but less than 24 MB, you cannot always use PhotoGrade and the Duplex Printing Unit at the same time (see "Printer Memory Requirements" above). A user interface switch in printer Setup allows you to switch between PhotoGrade and two-sided printing. If you have PhotoGrade selected, two-sided printing is disabled. If you want to use two-sided printing, turn off PhotoGrade, then make your two-sided printing selection. Similarly, if you have two-sided printing selected, you must first deselect it; then the user interface will allow you to select PhotoGrade. About the Duplex Printing Unit and the Multipurpose Tray The LaserWriter 12/640 PS does not allow the multipurpose tray to be used with the Duplex Printing Unit. The printer driver user interface provides a user interface switch that allows you to switch between the multipurpose tray and two-sided printing. If you have the multipurpose tray selected, two-sided printing is disabled. If you want to use two-sided printing, select a tray other than the multipurpose tray, then make your two-sided printing selection. Similarly, if you have two-sided printing selected, you must first deselect it; then the user interface will allow you to select the multipurpose tray. About Paper Jams and the Multipurpose Tray If you are printing from the multipurpose tray and your printer jams, check that you are specifying the correct paper size in your page setup. The printer may jam if you select the multipurpose tray and have the wrong size paper in the multipurpose tray for the job that you are printing. Using the Envelope Feeder By default, the multipurpose tray takes priority over the envelope feeder. However, if the multipurpose tray has the same paper size as the envelope feeder, the printer will pull the paper from the multipurpose tray instead of the envelope feeder. Use one of these methods to have the printer use the envelope feeder as the paper source: -Pick the envelope tray as the paper source in the Print dialog box. The envelope tray is identified as "Envelope Feeder." -Set the multipurpose tray to a size other than the desired envelope size using the Apple LaserWriter Utility. -Make "Cassette (Optional)" Installed and Preferred in the printer's Setup. From Setup select the Features tab dialog box and make Cassette (Optional) Installed and Preferred. INSTALLING THE PRINTER SOFTWARE 1) Start Windows 95. Before installing the software, make sure the Control Panel and Printers folders are closed. Quit any applications running. 2) Insert your CD into the CD-ROM drive. 3) Open the directory on the CD called \Win_os\Win95\Disk1. 4) Double-click the setup.exe file. Follow the installer's instructions. When the installer asks you to select the printer model to install select the \Win_os\Win95\Disk3 directory to display the printer models available. 5) Complete the installation by making any desired changes to the Property sheets. Configuring the PostScript Printer Driver Before you can print, you may need to configure the printer driver. If you will be using a NetWare network, you may need to configure the printer for NetWare before you can configure the printer driver for NetWare. If you are using NetWare 4.0x, see Chapter 3 of your LaserWriter user's manual for instructions on setting up the printer for NetWare. If you are using NetWare 4.1, see the section titled "Initial Novell NetWare Setup for NetWare 4.1," later in this ReadMe. 1) You configure the PostScript Printer Driver by accessing and changing its Properties. To display the printer's properties, from Start select Settings. Then, select Printers. The Printers folder opens. Highlight the printer icon whose properties you want to access. Then, from the File menu select Properties. The properties tab dialog boxes are displayed. Select the Details tab dialog box. This tab dialog box defines which port your computer will use to print to the printer. 2) Select the Port the printer is connected on by selecting the port from the "Print to the following port" list box. If the printer is connected via the parallel port, select the desired LPT port. If you are using a network, select the queue that you will use. 3) If you are using a network, you will also need to associate the queue with a LPT port. Once associated, jobs printed to the LPT port will be routed to the queue you associate with it. Click Capture Port. In the Path field, enter the queue name. Then click OK. 4) Review the remaining tab dialog boxes. If you have purchased printer options, use the Device Options tab dialog box to inform the PostScript driver of their availability. 5) When you are finished making changes, click OK. USING THE ADD PRINTER WIZARD TO INSTALL A PRINTER You can use the Windows 95 Add Printer Wizard to install the PostScript Printer Description file for these printers: Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS LaserWriter 12/640 PS LaserWriter 16/600 PS Follow these steps: 1. Click on the "Start" icon of the Task-Bar and select "Settings" and "Printers". 2. Double-click "Add Printer". If you want to install the printer as a network printer, you must setup your network client software first. 3. The list of known printers appears in the "Add Printer Wizard" window. Click the "Have Disk" button. If you are installing from the Apple LaserWriter CD-ROM, insert the CD and type this path, using the correct letter for your CD-ROM drive: "d:\Win_os\Win95\Disk3\APLW95.INF". Then, press "OK". If you are installing from a floppy disk set, insert the floppy titled "For Windows 95 Printer Software for Apple LaserWriter Printers with PostScript Version 4.1 Disk 3" into the floppy drive and type a:\APLW95.INF. Then, press "OK". 4. A menu displaying the available printers to install appears. Select the desired printer model and press the "Next" button. 5. Continue to follow the prompts of the "Add Printer Wizard" to select the port, enter a name for the printer, indicate whether it should be the default printer, and optionally, to print a test page. Press the "Finish" button. The needed PostScript Printer Description is copied from the disk to your system. This completes the installation. USING NETWARE CLIENT SOFTWARE For NetWare networks, be sure to use the default Microsoft NetWare Client software. From the Network Control Panel, select Microsoft Client for NetWare Networks. ABOUT THE APPLE PRINTER UTILITY FOR WINDOWS To set printer parameters for the Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS and the Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS, use the Apple Printer Utility for Windows. For other Apple printers, use the Apple LaserWriter Utility for Windows. Installing the Apple Printer Utility - The Apple Printer Utility is installed as part of Express Installation and is placed on your computer in the Apple LaserWriter Software program group. Using the Apple Printer Utility on the Parallel Port - On Windows 95, the Apple Printer Utility cannot be used on the parallel port. Opening dialog boxes within the Apple Printer Utility - Use the checkboxes to open individual dialog boxes within the Apple Printer Utility. Using the Apple Printer Utility with FaxWorks - The Apple Printer Utility may be incompatible with FaxWorks. The symptom that may appear is a General Protection Fault in the FaxWorks communication driver, FX-COMM.DRV. Using the default Microsoft communication driver (COMM.DRV) appears to solve the problem. To use the Microsoft COMM.DRV edit the SYSTEM.INI file. Change the line "comm.drv=fx-comm.drv" to "comm.drv=comm.drv", save and close the file, and then restart your system. ABOUT THE APPLE PRINT MONITOR FOR WINDOWS The Apple Print Monitor is not available for Windows 95. ABOUT THE APPLE LASERWRITER UTILITY FOR WINDOWS Use the Apple LaserWriter Utility with these printers only: Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS Apple LaserWriter Pro 600 PS Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 PS Apple LaserWriter Select 360 Default printer - The Apple LaserWriter Utility writes to the default printer, so before using the utility be sure that the default printer is pointing to the printer that you want to configure. Using NetWare configuration (for printers that support NetWare) - Be sure not to turn off your printer while you are using any function on the Apple LaserWriter Utility's NetWare menu. If you turn off your printer while using these functions, your computer will hang. If you need to power off your printer, do so after you exit from the NetWare menu. PCL mode - The Apple LaserWriter Utility uses PostScript commands to set the printer parameters. If the printer has been set to PCL, PostScript commands sent by the utility will not be recognized by the printer. To correct this, place your printer's communication switch in the factory default position and restart the printer. This returns the printer to AutoSelect mode and PostScript commands will now be processed by the printer. INITIAL NOVELL NETWARE SETUP FOR NETWARE 4.1 Setting up the printer as a print server NetWare 4.1 introduces the concept of a hierarchical tree database, called NetWare Directory Services (NDS). NDS is different from the flat file database called the "Bindery" used in earlier versions of NetWare. A NetWare command, SET BINDERY CONTEXT, allows a single level of the NDS directory tree to be specified as a virtual Bindery location. Each time you use the NetWare 4.1 file server, set the file server's bindery context by typing SET BINDERY CONTEXT at the console prompt. The superuser account name also changes with NetWare 4.xx to Admin from NetWare 3.xx's name of Supervisor. The Supervisor account still exists in NetWare 4.xx for backward compatibility, but it can't actually be seen in the NDS directory tree. The Admin account gives you full access to the entire NetWare Directory Services tree. The Supervisor account will only let you see objects that are in its bindery context location in the tree. When following the steps below for setting up your printer on NetWare 4.1 as PSERVER always use the NetWare Admin account. There are five parts to setting up a LaserWriter that supports NetWare for PSERVER mode: Part A - Create a print server. Part B - Create a printer. Part C - Create a print queue. Part D - Set your printer to PSERVER mode. Part E - Turn the printer off and then back on to have the changes take effect. Part A - Create a print server 1) Power-cycle the printer to print a startup page. Obtain the NetWare Printer Name. This is the name of the printer on a NetWare network. It is also the default print server name. 2) Type SET BINDERY CONTEXT at the NetWare file server's console prompt to ensure that the context has been set. Write the context down, as it will be needed later. 3) Log in to the NetWare file server from a DOS client using the Admin account. 4) At the DOS prompt, type PCONSOLE and press ENTER. 5) Use the arrow keys to highlight Change Context in the menu, and press Enter. 6) Change the PCONSOLE utility's context to match the context set on the server (what you wrote down earlier), by pressing the Insert key, and selecting the correct context. 7) Use the arrow keys to highlight Print Servers in the menu, and press Enter. 8) Press the Insert key, then type the NetWare Printer Name (provided on the printer's startup page), and press Enter. The print server is created. Part B - Create a Printer 1) Select the name of the print server you specified in the previous procedure and press Enter. 2) Use the arrow keys to highlight Printers in the Print Server Information menu, and press Enter (this will let you configure the new print server). 3) Press the Insert key to display printers in your current context in the NetWare Directory Services tree. Note: You may have created a printer earlier. This example assumes that the printer has not yet been created. 4) Press the Insert key to create a new printer in the NetWare Directory Services tree. Make sure that the context listed at the top of the screen still lists the server's bindery context that was set earlier. If not, change to the correct context before creating the printer. 5) At the prompt, type the new printer name and press Enter. This name will be used for reference, so use a name that will be meaningful to the NetWare administrator, or other users who may wish to check on the printer's status. This step creates the printer object in the NDS tree. 6) Select the name of the printer you specified and press Enter. This adds the printer to the Serviced Printer list of the print server. 7) From the Serviced Printers menu list, select the name of the printer you specified in the previous procedure, and press Enter. This brings up the Printer Configuration menu. 8) From the Printer Configuration menu, use the arrow keys to highlight Printer type, and press Enter. 9) From the Printer Type menu, use the arrow keys to highlight Other/Unknown, and press Enter. This makes your selection active, and brings you back to the Printer Configuration menu. 10) If most of the printing to the LaserWriter will be PostScript, and not PCL, then from the Printer Configuration menu, use the arrow keys to highlight Banner type, and change the banner type from Text to PostScript. This limits the number of times the printer will have to switch modes between PCL and PostScript. Part C - Create a print queue 1) From the Printer Configuration menu, use the arrow keys to highlight Print queues assigned, and press Enter. This displays the Print Queue menu list. 2) Press the Insert key to display print queues in your current context in the NetWare Directory Services tree. For this example, we will create a new queue. 3) Press the Insert key to create a new print queue in the NetWare Directory Services tree. The context listed at the top of the screen should still list the server's bindery context that was set earlier. If it doesn't, change to the correct context before creating the print queue. 4) At the prompt, type the new queue name and press Enter. You are then asked for the NetWare volume to store your NetWare print queue jobs on. With NetWare 4 the NetWare queue does not have to exist on the SYS volume -- you can place the queue on any volume you want. Use the Insert key to select the volume from the directory tree (you may need to navigate to a different context to select the volume desired). 5) Select the name of the queue you specified above and press Enter. This adds the queue to the Print Queue list of the printer. 6) Press the Escape key until you are prompted to save your changes. Part D - Set your printer to PSERVER mode. There are two different procedures to follow depending upon your printer model. Color LaserWriter 12/660 and 12/600 PS models: 1) Run the Apple Printer Utility. It is located in the Apple LaserWriter Software program group for Windows 95. 2) Click Network 3) Select the Color LaserWriter 12/660 or 12/600 that you want, then click Open Printer. 4) Select Communication Configuration and then NetWare Configuration. 5) Enter the PSERVER name and then click the Rescan button. Rescan sends the new settings tothe printer and causes it to renew its commuknications with the NetWare file server. LaserWriter 12/640 PS and LaserWriter 16/600 PS models: 1) Run the Apple LaserWriter Utility. It is located in the Apple LaserWriter Software program group for Windows 95. 2) Select the printer model as LaserWriter 12/640 PS or LaserWriter 16/600 PS depending on the printer you're using. For the Color LaserWriter 12/600 or 12/660 PS, use the Apple Printer Utility instead of the Apple LaserWriter Utility. 3)Choose Print Server Configuration from the Network menu. 4) Select the printer you want to configure. Each printer's NetWare Printer Name is displayed. You identify the printer by matching the NetWare Printer Name displayed with the NetWare Printer Name that is printed on the printer's startup page. If you don't see your printer in the list of names, first check all the cable connections and turn the printer off and back on. Also, make sure your NetWare file server is running. Check the printer's startup page to make sure you are using the correct NetWare Printer Name. Now try Steps 1-4 again. If you still don't see your printer's name, you can connect to it manually. See "ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR 12/640 OR 16/600 ON NETWARE," later in this ReadMe. 5) Click the desired name and press Configure. The Printer Configuration and Status dialog box appears. 6) Click Print Server if it is not already selected and enter the PSERVER name. This is the same name you used in PCONSOLE. 7) Enter the optional NetWare password if you defined one with PCONSOLE. 8) Enter the file server names that the printer will service. 9) Press Add. In the Add NetWare Server dialog box that appears, enter the Server Name. Then press OK. 10) Enter the Queue Scan Time. This is the interval that the printer will wait before checking each file server in its access list for print jobs. The default value is 40 milliseconds. 11) Press Send. Part E - Restart the printer 1) Turn the printer off and then back on again. The printer is now ready to function as a print server on the NetWare network. 2) Submit a print job to the printer to ensure it is working. Setting up the printer as a remote printer (RPRINTER) There are six parts to setting up your printer for RPRINTER mode: Part A - Create a print server. Part B - Create a printer from within the print server configuration menu options. Part C - Create a print queue from within the printer configuration menu options. Part D - Set your printer to RPRINTER mode. Part E - Start PSERVER on your NetWare 4.1 file server. Part F - Turn the printer off and then back on to have the changes take effect. Part A - Create a print server 1) Turn the printer off, then on, and retrieve the printer's startup page. 2) Type SET BINDERY CONTEXT at the server's console prompt to ensure that the context has been set. Write the context down, as it will be needed later. 3) Log in to a NetWare file server from a DOS client using the Admin account. 4) At the DOS prompt, type PCONSOLE, and press Enter. 5) Use the arrow keys to highlight Change Context in the menu, and press Enter. 6) Change the PCONSOLE utility's context to match the context set on the server (what you wrote down earlier) by pressing the Insert key and selecting the correct context. 7) Use the arrow keys to highlight Printer Servers in the menu, and press Enter. 8) Press the Insert key, then type a descriptive name for your printer server. This can be any name, but in general you should be able to glance at the object and know what its purpose is, for example "12_640_Server." Part B - Create a printer from within the print server configuration menu options 1) Select the name of the print server you specified in part A and press Enter. 2) Use the arrow keys to highlight Printers in the Print Server Information menu, and press Enter. This lets you configure the new print server. 3) Press the Insert key to display printers in your current context in the NetWare Directory Services tree. 4) Press the Insert key to create a new printer in the NetWare Directory Services tree. The context listed at the top of the screen should still list the server's bindery context that was set earlier. If this is not the case, change the context to the correct context before creating the printer. 5) At the prompt, type the new printer name and press Enter. 6) Select the name of the printer you specified in the previous procedure and press Enter. This will add the printer to the Serviced Printers list of the print server. Part C - Create a print queue from within the printer configuration menu options 1) From the Serviced Printers menu, select the name of the printer you specified in the previous procedure, and press Enter. A Printer Configuration menu appears. 2) From the Printer Configuration menu, use the arrow keys to highlight Printer type, and press Enter. 3) From the Printer Type menu, use the arrow keys to highlight Other/Unknown, and press Enter. This makes your selection active, and brings you back to the Printer Configuration menu. 4) If most of the printing to this printer will be PostScript, and not PCL, then from the Printer Configuration menu, use the arrow keys to highlight Banner type, and change the banner type from Text to PostScript. This limits the number of times the printer will have to switch modes between PCL and PostScript. 5) From the Printer Configuration menu, use the arrow keys to highlight Print queues assigned, and press Enter. The Print Queue list appears. 6) Press the Insert key to display print queues in your current context in the NetWare Directory Services tree. For this example, we will create a new queue. 7) Press the Insert key to create a new print queue in the NetWare Directory Services tree. The context listed at the top of the screen should still list the server's bindery context that was set earlier. If it doesn't, change to the correct context first before creating the print queue. 8) At the prompt, type the new queue name and press Enter. You will then be asked for the NetWare volume to store your NetWare print queue jobs on. With NetWare 4.xx, the NetWare queue does not have to exist on the SYS volume --- you can place the queue on any volume you want. Use the insert key to select the volume from the directory tree (you may need to navigate to a different context to select the volume desired). 9) Select the name of the queue you specified in the previous step and press Enter. This adds the queue to the Print Queue list of Printers. 10) Press the Escape key until you are prompted to save your changes. Part D - Set your printer to RPRINTER mode There are two different procedures to follow depending upon your printer model. Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS and Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS models: 1) Run the Apple Printer Utility. It is located in the Apple LaserWriter Software program group for Windows 95. 2) Click Network 3) Select the Color LaserWriter 12/660 or 12/600 that you want, then click Open Printer. 4) Select Communication Configuration and then NetWare Configuration. 5) Select RPRINTER and enter the name of the print server NLM in the Remote Printer Namefield. 6) Click Send. Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS and Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS models: 1) Run the Apple LaserWriter Utility. It is located in the Apple LaserWriter Software program group for Windows 95. On Windows 95, select Programs from Start to find it. 2) Select the printer model as LaserWriter 12/640 PS or LaserWriter 16/600 PS. 3) Choose Print Server Configuration from the Network menu. 4) Select the printer you want to configure. Each printer's NetWare Printer Name is displayed. You identify the printer by matching the NetWare Printer Name displayed with the NetWare Printer Name that is printed on the printer's startup page. If you don't see your printer in the list of names, first check all the cable connections and turn the printer off and back on. Also make sure your NetWare file server is running. Check the printer's startup page to make sure you are using the correct NetWare Printer Name. Now try Steps 1-4 again. If you still don't see your printer's name, you can connect to it manually. See "ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR 12/640 OR 16/600 ON NETWARE," later in this ReadMe. 5) Click the desired name and press Configure. The Printer Configuration and Status dialog box appears. 6) Click Remote Printer if it is not already selected, and enter the Server name. This is the same name you used in PCONSOLE. Enter also the Printer Number. Again, this is the same number assigned in PCONSOLE. 7) Press Send. The printer is now ready to function as a remote printer on the NetWare network. Part E - Start PSERVER on your 4.1 File Server 1) Start PSERVER on your 4.1 File Server by typing "LOAD PSERVER <Print Server Name>". Part F - Turn the printer off and back on for the changes to take effect 1) Turn the printer off and then back on again. 2) Submit a print job to the printer to ensure it is working. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR 12/640 OR 16/600 ON NETWARE If you select Print Server Configuration from the Apple LaserWriter Utility's Network menu and you don't see your LaserWriter 12/640 or 16/600 printer model's name in the list of printers available to configure, follow these steps to connect to your printer manually. 1) Run the Apple LaserWriter Utility and select your printer model. 2) From the Network menu, choose Connect to network printer. The Network Printer Manual Connect dialog box appears. 3) The Network number field displays the eight-digit ipx network number for this segment. If your printer is connected to another segment, enter that segment's Network number, then press Tab to enter the Node Address. Type the last six digits of your printer's Ethernet address in the Node Address field. You will find the Ethernet address on the startup page. Press Connect. The Printer Configuration and Status dialog box for your printer is displayed. 4) From the Frame Format list box, select the Frame Format that your NetWare file server uses. By default, NetWare 3 uses frame format 802.3; NetWare 4 uses frame format 802.2. If you want to use both NetWare 3.x and 4.x file servers with your printer, configure the NetWare file servers so that they use the same frame format. Note: The Frame Format list box may display "Autodetect" as its value. This indicates that the printer's frame format is not set yet. 5) Press Send to send the Frame Format to the printer. Then, wait about 30 seconds. You can now use Print Server Configuration to configure your printer. However, be sure to complete your PCONSOLE configuration for the printer first before doing so. PRINTING FROM WINDOWS 95 See the document titled README.DOC located on \Win_os\Win95\Disk2. It contains information about the LaserWriter PostScript driver. FILES INSTALLED This section identifies the files that are installed by an Express Installation: The Setup program places these PostScript Driver files in the Windows 95 system directory you select: ADOBEPS4.DRV ADOBEPS4.HLP FONTS.MFM ICONLIB.DLL PSMON.DLL Note: This software release installs AdobePS 4 version 4.1.1. This README.WRI file, the Apple Printer Utility, and the Apple LaserWriter Utility are placed by default in c:\lwutils. The files are: README.WRI ALWPU.EXE ALWPU.HLP ALWPUNET.DLL APU.EXE APU.HLP IDPSVCS.DLL SPX_WPS.DLL The driver setup program installs PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files you select into the Windows system directory. These PPDs for the printer models indicated may be installed at the user's request: Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS - APLWCSB1.PPD LaserWriter 12/640 PS - APLWMGS1.PPD Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS - APLWCOB1.PPD LaserWriter 16/600 PS - APLWGRI2.PPD LaserWriter Select 360 - APLWSEL.PPD LaserWriter Pro 600 - APTOLLD1.PPD LaserWriter Pro 630 - APTOLLW1.PPD DEFPRTR.PPD HOW TO GET UPDATED SOFTWARE Apple Software Updates are available on AppleLink, CompuServe, America Online, and on the Internet at: US, WWW site: www.support.apple.com US, WWW site: www.info.apple.com US, FTP site: ftp.support.apple.com US, FTP site: ftp.info.apple.com Europe, FTP site: ftp.info.euro.apple.com. To obtain the latest Adobe PostScript printer driver use: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/printerdrivers/main.html Copyright 1996 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, AppleLink, LaserWriter, Macintosh, Mac OS, and TrueType are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Adobe and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated or its subsidiaries and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. PowerPC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation, used under license therefrom.