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- README FILE FOR HPPCL5A PRINTER DRIVER VERSION 3.77
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- This README file contains the following information:
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- * Installation Instructions
- * New Features
- * HPPCL5A Printer Driver Enhancements
- * User Hints
- * HP Personal Peripherals Assist Line
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- INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT AND ANY SOFTWARE THAT MAY ACCOMPANY
- THIS DOCUMENT (collectively referred to as the HPPCL5A Printer Driver
- Version 3.77) IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
- EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
- OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The user
- assumes the entire risk as to the accuracy and the use of the HPPCL5A
- Printer Driver Version 3.77. The HPPCL5A Printer Driver Version 3.77 may be
- copied and distributed subject to the following conditions: 1) All text
- must be copied without modification and all pages must be included; 2) All
- files on the disk must be copied without modification (the DOS utility
- DISKCOPY is appropriate for this purpose); 3) All components of the HPPCL5A
- Printer Driver Version 3.77 must be distributed together; and 4) the HPPCL5A
- Printer Driver Version 3.77 may not be distributed for profit.
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- Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 Hewlett-Packard Company. All Rights Reserved.
- Univers is a product of; and Intellifont is a registered trademark of AGFA
- Compugraphic, a division of Agfa Corporation.
- Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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- To install the HPPCL5A Printer Driver:
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- 1. Start Windows 3.0.
- 2. Choose Control Panel from the Main Group in Program Manager.
- The Control Panel window appears.
- 3. Choose the Printers icon from the Control Panel window.
- The Printers dialog box appears.
- 4. Choose the Add Printer >> button.
- 5. From the List of Printers: dialog box, select the Unlisted Printer.
- Unlisted Printer is the last entry in the List of Printers dialog box.
- 6. Choose Install.
- 7. Insert the HPPCL5A Printer Driver Disk Version 3.77.
- 8. Double click on the installation drive in the "Directories:" list.
- 9. Double click on HPPCL5A.DRV in the Driver Files list.
- 10. Choose "New" when asked whether you want to use the current driver or
- install a new driver.
- 11. The entry "HP LaserJet III on None, Inactive" will appear in the
- Installed Printers dialog box.
- 12. Choose Configure.
- 13. Highlight the correct printer port from the Ports dialog box.
- 14. Choose Setup.
- 15. Make any necessary changes in the Printer Setup window to reflect your
- printer's configuration.
- 16. Choose OK twice.
- 17. Choose Active.
- 18. Choose OK.
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- The HPPCL5A printer driver is now installed.
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- NOTE: Any HP LaserJet III printer you have previously installed will
- use the new PCL 5 Printer Driver and Hewlett-Packard Font Installer.
- Remove through the Control Panel any HP LaserJet III printer entries
- that are not needed.
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- To remove a printer from the Installed Printers List:
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- 1. Choose Control Panel from the Main Group in Program Manager.
- 2. Choose the Printers icon from the Control Panel window.
- The Printers dialog box appears.
- 3. Highlight the printer you want to remove.
- 4. Choose Configure.
- 5. Choose Remove.
- 6. Choose Yes when asked if you want to remove the printer.
- 7. Choose OK twice to return to the Control Panel.
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- Until you exit Windows 3.0 and then restart Windows 3.0, the
- Printer Setup function from the Control Panel is accessed from the
- installation disk. Make sure the installation disk for HPPCL5A Printer
- Driver Version 3.77 is inserted in the floppy drive whenever you request
- Printer Setup from the Control Panel after installing the new Printer
- Driver and before exiting Windows 3.0.
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- NEW FEATURES
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- New features included with the HPPCL5A Printer Driver Version 3.77 include:
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- * Support for the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIISi
- - Additional Internal Scalable Typefaces
- - Memory Selection up to 17 Megabytes
- - Output Bin Selection
- - Job Separation Selection
- * Support for the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIIP
- - Internal Fonts and Scalable Typefaces
- - Dual Input Bin
- * Hewlett-Packard Font Installer Including AutoFont Support
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- Support for the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIISi - The Hewlett-Packard
- LaserJet IIISi has several features that were not available in previous
- Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Printers. When the HP LaserJet IIISi is selected
- as the printer in the Printer Setup window, the HPPCL5A Printer Driver
- Version 3.77 provides support for these features.
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- Additional Internal Scalable Typefaces - When the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet
- IIISi printer is selected, support for scalable typefaces Zapf Dingbats,
- CG Times, Univers, and Univers Condensed in medium, bold, italic and bold
- italic treatments is available. Zapf Dingbats is available in the
- Series 100, Series 200, Series 300, PS, and Ventura Screen symbol sets.
- The other scalable typefaces are available in the Windows symbol set.
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- From the Printer Setup window you will be able to set the following
- options:
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- Memory Selection up to 17 Megabytes - The available selections
- take in to account all of the possible memory configurations using
- 1 Megabyte and 4 Megabyte SIMMS.
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- Click on Options in the Printer Setup window to access the following
- options:
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- Output Bin Selection - The Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIISi has two
- output bins, upper and lower.
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- Job Separation - Job separation is produced by a shift of the
- rollers controlled by a PCL command. Job Separation is either on
- or off allowing each printout to be offset from the previous
- printout.
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- Notes: International C5 envelope size is not supported on the
- Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIISi Printer. The duplex option will be
- available from the Options Box of the Printer Setup window, but will
- not work on the printer unless the duplexing option is installed.
- Commands are appended to the beginning of every file to change the
- printer into PCL mode.
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- Support for the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIIP - When the Hewlett-Packard
- LaserJet IIIP is selected as the Printer in the Printer Setup window,
- the driver supplies support for the LaserJet IIIP's internal fonts and
- scalable typefaces including CG Times and Univers in medium, italic, bold
- and bold italic treatments. CG Times and Univers are available in the
- Windows symbol set. Also, dual bin support is available for those people
- who purchase the optional paper tray.
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- Hewlett-Packard Font Installer - Scalable typefaces and bitmapped fonts
- can now be installed for use in both Windows 3.0 and your Hewlett-Packard
- LaserJet III family printer. The Hewlett-Packard font installer installs
- typefaces and fonts from the following file types:
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- .PCM Printer Cartridge Metrics file. This file is created by the
- cartridge vendor. PCM files are used for scalable and bitmapped
- cartridges that are not supported by the Hewlett-Packard
- LaserJet III printer driver.
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- GLUE.TXT This file contains information for all font products you install
- with AutoFont Support. Soft fonts and cartridges, bitmapped and
- scalable can be installed from the "glue.txt" file.
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- When prompted by the HP Font Installer for the drive\directory
- from where you want to add fonts, input the drive\directory where
- your "glue.txt" file is located (default directory for HP's
- AutoFont program and for Type Director is C:\AUTOFONT). The HP
- Font Installer reads the "glue.txt" file and displays a list of
- the typefaces that have been installed with AutoFont support.
- When you add typeface(s), the HP Font Installer creates a .PFM
- file for soft fonts and a .PCM for cartridge fonts from the
- AutoFont .TFM files. The HP Font Installer installs the .PFM
- and .PCM files into Windows 3.0 for access by the printer driver.
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- .SFP Bitmapped soft font in portrait orientation.
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- .SFL Bitmapped soft font in landscape orientation.
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- AutoFont Support - AutoFont support incorporated into the Hewlett-Packard
- font installer allows the installation of scalable typeface cartridges,
- scalable soft fonts, bitmapped font cartridges and bitmapped soft fonts
- into Windows 3.0 without first acquiring a Windows 3.0 metric file.
- AutoFont support works by creating the Windows 3.0 metrics files from
- the .TFM files installed through AutoFont.
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- HPPCL5A PRINTER DRIVER ENHANCEMENTS
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- Enhancements to the HPPCL5A Printer Driver include:
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- * Print Model Improvement
- * New and Improved Gray Scale Printing
- * Font Downloading Optimizations
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- Print Model Improvement - The print model feature has been improved to
- include printing black and white text over the top of other text and
- graphic images instead of only on black rectangles.
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- New and Improved Gray Scale Printing - The gray scale option has been
- expanded to include optimal printing of scanned images. There are three
- choices in the Gray Scale dialog box in the Printer Setup screen for
- printing gray scale graphics: Photographic Images, Line Art Images, and
- HP ScanJet Images.
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- Photographic Images replaces the Gray Scale Graphics On selection
- supported in Version 3.61 of the HPPCL5A driver. This method
- uses an 8 bit by 8 bit super pixel to emulate 60 levels of gray.
- This is up from 32 levels of gray supported in the previous
- version of the driver. For improved photographic appearance,
- select Photographic Images. Your images will have smooth, soft
- looking contrasts between shades of gray. Images originally
- designed with color will print better also.
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- Line Art Images replaces the Gray Scale Graphics Off selection
- supported in Version 3.61 of the HPPCL5A driver. This method
- uses patterns to emulate 32 levels of gray. It has been
- improved from previous versions of the driver by supporting 32
- new hand-tuned patterned images. The benefits of this method is
- that is has fewer artifacts and a better balance of gray tones
- than the old method, yet all of the detail is preserved. Use
- this method for images that have a "line draw" look such as clip
- art.
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- HP ScanJet Images is a new option for printing gray scale
- graphics. This method uses a variation of the 8 bit by 8 bit
- super pixel used in the Photographic Images method. The HP
- ScanJet Images option is specially tuned for scanned images
- from an HP ScanJet to give exceptional quality and clarity to
- the printed images.
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- You may want to print your graphic images from more than one of
- the Gray Scale printing methods. Only you can decide which
- method creates the best output for your picture.
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- Font Downloading Optimizations - The HPPCL5A printer driver now downloads
- individual characters of a symbol set to the printer as they are
- referenced, rather than sending the entire symbol set at one time.
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- USER HINTS
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- On-line help files are included for the HPPCL5A printer driver and the HP
- font installer screens. Choose Help from these screens to access the HELP
- information.
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- HEWLETT-PACKARD PERSONAL PERIPHERALS ASSIST LINE
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- (USA and Canada only)
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- You can call the Hewlett-Packard Personal Peripherals Assist Line weekdays
- between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Mountain Standard Time), except for Wednesday
- when the hours are 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.:
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- (208) 323-2551
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- In Europe, call the Microsoft Customer Support line in your country.