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- PRINTERS.TXT
-
- USING NOTEPAD TO VIEW ON-LINE DOCUMENTS
- =======================================
-
- * If you enlarge Notepad to its maximum size, the following
- document will be easier to read. To do so, click the
- Maximize button in the upper-right corner of the Notepad
- window. Or open the Control menu in the upper-left corner
- of the Notepad window and choose Maximize.
-
- * To move through the document, press PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN
- or click the arrows at the top and bottom of the scroll
- bar along the right side of the Notepad window.
-
- * To print the document, choose Print from the Notepad
- File menu.
-
- * For Help using Notepad, press F1.
-
-
- NOTES ON PRINTER SUPPORT IN WINDOWS 3.0
- =======================================
-
- Microsoft Windows 3.0 supports many types of printers. This
- on-line document contains information that is not available in
- the Windows User's Guide or in on-line Help for printers. Some
- of the topics in this document are specific to particular
- printer models and some refer more generally to a type of
- printer technology (dot-matrix, laser, and so forth).
-
- This document contains the following general topics about
- printing:
-
- * Installing your printer
-
- * Printing extended ANSI or international characters
-
- * Differences between displayed and printed fonts
-
- * Formatting fonts for dot-matrix printers
-
- * Printing color from Paintbrush
-
- * Printing with a Print Manager and a network printer
-
- * Printing without Print Manager
-
- It also contains specific topics about individual printer
- models:
-
- * Printing with PostScript cartridges
-
- * Printing Microsoft Word for Windows with an HP Plotter
- Driver
-
- * Printing with symbol fonts and Microsoft Word for Windows
-
- * Using Bitstream Fontware 3.0 for Microsoft Windows
-
- * Adjusting HP plotter margins
-
- * Installing and Using Softfonts on the IBM Laser Printer 4019
-
- * Printing with IBM Proprinter X24, XL24, Epson MX-80, or
- Okidata 24-pin
-
- * Printing with IBM Personal Pageprinter on EPT
-
- * Extended ANSI character support with Epson LQ printers
-
- * Printing with Fujitsu dot-matrix printers
-
- * Duplex printing multiple copies with PCL/HP LaserJet
- printers
-
- * Installing Softfonts for the HP PaintJet series
-
-
- If a Help button is available in the Printer Setup dialog box,
- review the Help information for your printer's specific driver.
- Also review Chapter 5, "Control Panel," in the Windows User's
- Guide for descriptions of printer settings, more information on
- installing and configuring your printer driver, and instructions
- for printing over a network. For information about printing
- with Windows Print Manager, see Chapter 6, "Print Manager,"
- in the Windows User's Guide.
-
-
- INSTALLING YOUR PRINTER
- =======================
-
- Most of the printer drivers provided with Windows work for more
- than one printer model. This means that you must install and
- configure the settings for your specific printer model.
-
- Before you try to print, complete all of the steps in the
- following installation procedure:
-
- 1. Choose the Printers icon from Control Panel. (Control
- Panel is located in the Main group of Program Manager.)
-
- 2. Choose Add Printer from the Printers dialog box.
-
- 3. Select the name of the printer model you want to install.
-
- 4. Choose Install.
-
- 5. Follow the dialog box instructions about inserting the
- printer-driver disk (or specifying the path to the driver)
- and choose OK.
-
- 6. Choose Configure from the Printers dialog box.
-
- 7. Select the port used by the printer you are installing.
-
- 8. Choose Setup.
-
- 9. Select the printer model you want to use and change the
- standard settings to match your needs.
-
- 10. Choose OK three times to return to Control Panel.
-
- For more information about the printer installation procedure,
- see Chapter 5, "Control Panel," in the Windows User's Guide.
-
- NOTE: Do not try to copy files directly from the disks that
- came with Windows. All the files on the Windows disks
- are in a compressed format that must be converted
- before the files can be used by Windows. Control Panel
- makes the printer driver files usable.
-
-
- PRINTING EXTENDED ANSI OR INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS
- ==================================================
-
- Windows supports the ANSI character set. In addition to the
- 128 standard ASCII characters you can enter from your keyboard,
- you can enter extended or international characters. See
- Appendix B, "Special Characters," in the Windows User's Guide
- for the ANSI character set table and instructions.
-
- Even though you can enter extended characters into applications
- and see them on the screen, your printer might not be able to
- print these characters. See your printer manual or contact your
- printer manufacturer for more information about your printer's
- support of extended characters.
-
- When Windows prints a file, each character you typed in your
- application is translated from the ANSI character to the
- appropriate character on your printer. If your printer supports
- the same character, it will be printed. Otherwise, some other
- character will print. You might see a period or other filler
- character instead.
-
- Check your printer manual and experiment with your printer to
- determine which extended characters are supported.
-
- NOTE: This limitation applies only to the printer's hardware
- fonts. Fonts provided by Windows will print the
- extended ANSI characters. See the next topic for a
- list of fonts that Windows provides.
-
-
- DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DISPLAYED AND PRINTED FONTS
- ===============================================
-
- Windows supplies several different types of fonts for displaying
- characters on the screen:
-
- Font Description
- ---- ------------------------------------------
- Helv (raster) Proportional font (characters have varying
- widths) without serifs ("sans serif")
-
- Tms Rmn (raster) Proportional font with serifs
-
- Courier (raster) Fixed-pitch font (characters have uniform
- widths) with serifs
-
- Symbol (raster) Proportional font for mathematical symbols
-
- Roman (vector) Proportional font with serifs
-
- Modern (vector) Proportional font without serifs
-
- Script (vector) Proportional font of slanted characters
- with a script-like appearance
-
- Raster (or screen) fonts are used mainly for the screen and can
- be printed on most printers.
-
- Vector fonts are used mainly for plotter or other vector-type
- devices. These fonts can also be used on the screen and for
- printing on most printers, but generally the appearance is
- not of as high a quality as raster fonts provide.
-
- Windows determines which font to display on the screen by
- matching the screen font as closely as possible with the
- printer font you've selected. In some cases, the characters on
- your screen will look exactly like the printed characters. In
- other cases, there will be no matching screen font available,
- so the characters on your screen will look different from the
- printed characters.
-
- With most dot-matrix printers, the font size is a measure of
- the width of characters (characters per inch or CPI). Windows,
- however, measures screen fonts by height in point sizes. As a
- result, the screen fonts for some dot-matrix printers will not
- change size even as you change their CPI measurement. Only
- their positions on the page and the position of the end of
- lines will change to match the printed output.
-
- For proportionally spaced fonts on laser printers, the widths
- for particular characters, as they appear on your screen, might
- not match the widths for those same characters on the printed
- output. To accommodate this difference, Windows displays the
- horizontal position of each character and the position of
- the ends of lines as they appear when printed.
-
- In most applications that provide a ruler (e.g., Write), any
- discrepancies in ruler measurements reflect the size
- differences between the screen font and the printer font, as
- discussed earlier.
-
-
- FORMATTING FONTS FOR DOT-MATRIX PRINTERS
- ========================================
- Most dot-matrix printers measure font sizes in characters per
- inch (CPI). These fonts are generally the same height with
- varying widths. Windows measures font sizes by number of
- points in the font's height.
-
- Some applications list each font size for dot-matrix printer
- fonts as a font name. Because fonts with the same height can
- have various widths, the point size in the Sizes list box
- might not change as you change font names.
-
- For example, in Write, you might see the following fonts listed
- in the Fonts dialog box:
-
-
- Fonts: Sizes:
- --------------- ------
- | Roman 10cpi | | 10 |
- | Roman 12cpi | | |
- | Roman 15cpi | | |
- | Roman 17cpi | ------
- | Roman 20cpi |
- | Roman 5cpi |
- | Roman 6cpi |
- ---------------
-
-
- You can choose the appropriate font and size by selecting the
- font name and size from the respective lists. Because the
- height of these fonts does not change, the number in the Sizes
- list box remains constant regardless of the font you choose.
-
- See the preceding topic, "Differences Between Displayed and
- Printed Fonts," for more information on how different types of
- fonts are displayed on the screen.
-
-
- PRINTING COLOR FROM PAINTBRUSH
- ==============================
-
- Not all color printers have drivers that support color printing
- from Paintbrush. Unless you have a color PostScript or HP
- PaintJet printer, your color images might print only in black
- and white.
-
- If your printer is not a color PostScript or an HP PaintJet,
- you might get better results if you cancel the Color option in
- the Printer Setup dialog box.
-
-
- USING PRINT MANAGER WITH A NETWORK PRINTER
- ==========================================
-
- The availability of some Print Manager features depends on your
- network software. To find out which features are supported by
- the network you use, see the NETWORKS.TXT on-line document.
- This document also contains other important information about
- networks that was not included in the Windows User's Guide or
- in on-line Help.
-
-
- PRINTING WITHOUT PRINT MANAGER
- ==============================
-
- If you have cleared the Use Print Manager check box in Control
- Panel and try to print from more than one application at the
- same time, you will see an error message indicating that you
- cannot print. With Print Manager canceled, you must wait until
- one printing job is complete before sending another one to the
- printer.
-
-
- NOTES ON SPECIFIC PRINTERS
- ==========================
-
- The information in this section applies to problems you might
- have using a specific printer with Windows. Recommended
- remedies are included.
-
-
- Printing with PostScript Cartridges
- -----------------------------------
- To use add-on PostScript cartridges with Windows, you must set up
- Windows with a PostScript printer driver. To do this, choose the
- Control Panel from Program Manager's Main Group and follow the
- steps outlined in "Installing Your Printer" at the beginning of
- this document. Select the Apple Laserwriter Plus [PostScript] or
- another PostScript-type printer from the list of printer models.
-
- NOTE: PostScript cartridges are not directly supported by the
- PostScript printer driver.
-
-
- Printing Microsoft Word for Windows with an HP Plotter Driver
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- The HP Plotter will not print borders with Microsoft Word for
- Windows version 1.00.
-
-
- Printing with Symbol Fonts and Microsoft Word for Windows
- ---------------------------------------------------------
- Before you can print Symbol fonts with your HP PCL printer,
- you must install special printer information files. You can
- find installation instructions under "Symbol Soft Fonts HP PCL
- Printers" in the "Information About New Features" section of
- the README.DOC file for Microsoft Word for Windows version 1.00.
-
-
- Using Bitstream Fontware 3.0 with Canon LBP-811 or HP PaintJet
- --------------------------------------------------------------
- If you want to use Bitstream Fontware 3.0 with Canon LBP-8II
- or HP PaintJet series printer drivers you must follow
- additional installation procedures after you complete the
- Control Panel printer setup.
-
- * For the Canon LBP-8II, follow the instructions in your
- Fontware 3.0 documentation to install and make the fonts.
-
- To use the fonts you installed, edit your WIN.INI file as
- outlined in the following steps:
-
- 1. Start Windows Notepad.
-
- 2. Choose Open from the File menu and choose WIN.INI from
- your Windows directory.
-
- 3. Choose Search from the Edit menu and locate
- [Canon LBP8II Europe].
-
- 4. Select all the lines starting with "softfontN =...".
- 5. Choose Copy from the Edit menu.
-
- 6. Use Search again to locate [Canon LBP-8II].
-
- 7. Place the insertion cursor at the beginning of the next
- line.
-
- 8. Choose Paste from the Edit menu.
-
- 9. Close Notepad.
-
- * For the HP PaintJet series printers, install and make the
- fonts as instructed in your Fontware 3.0 documentation.
- Then start Control Panel and choose the Printer icon.
- Follow the Help instructions in the Printer Setup dialog
- box on using the Fonts option for the HP PaintJet series
- printer. Also, see the Help topic, "Adding and Removing
- Soft Fonts," in the Setup dialog box for the HP PaintJet
- series .
-
-
- Adjusting HP Plotter Margins
- ----------------------------
- If you are using one of the following plotters, you can
- probably correct problems with margins by experimenting with
- the margin settings in the application and turning on the
- Expand mode on your plotter.
-
- * HP 7580 A,B (hardware switch on back panel, pin #9)
- * HP 7585 A,B (hardware switch on back panel, pin #9)
- * HP DraftPro DXL, EXL (hardware switch on back panel,
- pin #9)
- * DraftMaster I, II (front panel selection)
-
- Turning on the Expand switch increases the plotting area by
- setting the outer margins to the area under the grid wheels.
- This gives you a greater printable area, although it might
- decrease plot quality.
-
-
- Installing and Using Softfonts on the IBM Laser Printer 4019
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- The IBM Laser Printer 4019 printer driver allows up to 99
- softfonts. You can install and remove softfonts for the 4019
- by using Windows Control Panel or the Printer Setup in your
- Windows application.
-
- For instructions on configuring printer settings, see Chapter 5,
- "Control Panel," in the Windows User's Guide.
-
-
- Printing with IBM Proprinter X24 OR XL24,
- Epson MX-80, or Okidata(R) 24-Pin
- -----------------------------------------
- You might experience erratic output while printing with these
- dot-matrix printers using Windows Print Manager because Print
- Manager sometimes interrupts the flow of data while printing.
- These printers cannot accommodate interruptions in data flow.
- Disabling Print Manager causes the data to be sent in one
- continuous stream.
-
- (This problem should not occur on the IBM Proprinter X24e or
- the IBM Proprinter XL24e.)
-
-
- To cancel Print Manager:
-
- 1. Choose the Printers icon from Control Panel. (Control
- Panel is located in the Main Group of Program Manager.)
-
- 2. Clear the Use Print Manager check box.
-
- 3. Choose OK.
-
-
- If you still have problems after disabling Print Manager, you
- can print to a file and send that file to your printer. To do
- so, connect to the port called FILE, make it Active, and choose
- the print command for the application. Then copy the print file
- to your printer port.
-
- See Chapter 5, "Control Panel," in the Windows User's Guide for
- more information on printing to a file. See your MS-DOS manual
- for information on copying files to your printer port.
-
-
- Printing with IBM Personal Pageprinter on EPT
- ---------------------------------------------
- For best results, use the IBM Personal Pageprinter Adapter
- Program Version 1.3.1 or later.
-
- If you want to print from an IBM Personal Pageprinter with EPT
- in 386 Enhanced mode, you must set the 386 Enhanced LPT1 device
- contention to never issue a warning. This is only for 386
- enhanced mode. Standard and real modes do not require special
- settings.
-
- To change the device contention warning, follow these steps:
-
- 1. Choose the Control Panel icon from Program Manager.
-
- 2. Choose the 386 enhanced-mode icon and select the LPT1
- port.
-
- 3. Select the Never Warn option button in the Device
- Contention area.
-
- 4. Choose OK.
-
-
- Extended ANSI Character Support with Epson LQ Printers
- ------------------------------------------------------
- You will be able to print the extended ANSI characters
- (character values 128 through 255) only on the following
- Epson LQ printers:
-
- LQ-500
- LQ-2500
- LQ-850
- LQ-1050
-
- Other Epson LQ printer models do not provide support for these
- characters and are not available to Windows when printing with
- the printer's hardware fonts.
-
- NOTE: This limitation applies only to the printer's hardware
- fonts. Fonts provided by Windows will print the
- extended ANSI characters above 128.
-
-
- Printing with Fujitsu Dot-Matrix Printers
- -----------------------------------------
- * The manual-feed option is not supported with Fujitsu
- dot-matrix printers. All paper is fed to the printer
- automatically from the roller.
-
- * You can print only in black and white from Paintbrush.
- For best results, turn off the Color option in Paintbrush.
- See "Printing Color from Paintbrush" earlier in this
- document for more information.
-
-
- Duplex Printing Multiple Copies with PCL/HP LaserJet Printers
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- The HP LaserJet IID and HP LaserJet 2000 printers can print
- duplex (two-sided) copies. If you print in duplex mode, set the
- number of copies from the PCL/HP LaserJet Printer Setup dialog
- box, not from your Windows application.
-
- To learn more about setting up your printer for duplex printing,
- press F1 to see Help when you install the printer. After the
- printer is installed, you can see Help by following these
- steps:
-
- 1. Choose the Printers icon from Control Panel.
-
- 2. Select your PCL/HP LaserJet installed printer and choose
- the Configure button from the Printers dialog box.
-
- 3. Choose the Setup button from the Printers-Configure
- dialog box.
-
- 4. Select PCL/HP LaserJet from the drop-down list box and
- choose the Help button.
-
-
- Installing Softfonts with the HP PaintJet Series
- ------------------------------------------------
-
- The HP PaintJet Series printer driver allows up to 25 softfonts
- to be installed at one time. You might be able to add more than
- 25 fonts, but only the first 25 are listed as currently
- available. If you want to use additional fonts, you must
- remove some of the 25 fonts.
-
- For instructions on configuring printer settings, see Chapter 5,
- "Control Panel," in the Windows User's Guide. For more
- information on installing softfonts, see the Help topic,
- "Adding and Removing Soft Fonts," in the Setup dialog box for
- the HP PaintJet Series.
-
-
- OTHER ON-LINE DOCUMENTS
- =======================
-
- The following are other on-line documents that contain
- important information not included in the Windows User's
- Guide or in on-line Help:
-
- 3270.TXT Information about using specific non-Windows
- 3270 emulation applications.
-
- README.TXT Contains important information about operating
- Windows that was unavailable when the Windows
- User's Guide was printed.
-
- NETWORKS.TXT Contains information about running Windows with
- specific network configurations.
-
- SYSINI.TXT Contains procedures for modifying SYSTEM.INI
- SYSINI2.TXT settings (for advanced users only).
-
- WININI.TXT Contains procedures for modifying WIN.INI
- WININI2.TXT settings (for advanced users only).
- WININI3.TXT
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