Copyright CANON INC. 1994-2005
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Canon MP Drivers
for Microsoft Windows XP/Windows 2000/Windows Me/Windows 98
Version: 1.01
Printer driver: Version 1.90/8.60
Scanner driver: Version 11.2.0.0.mp02
Storage driver: Version 1.02
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This file provides information not included in the On-screen
Manual. This information may be helpful in diagnosing potential
problems with your Canon MP150.
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CONTENTS
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General Notes
1. Important
2. Printing (Windows XP/Windows 2000)
3. Printing (Windows Me/Windows 98)
4. Scanning
Application Notes
1. Printing (Windows XP/Windows 2000)
2. Printing (Windows Me/Windows 98)
3. Scanning
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General Notes:
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1. Important
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- Some USB hubs may experience problems with MP Drivers. If this
happens, connect the device directly to the USB port on the PC,
or change the USB port that the device is connected to.
- With certain applications, on Windows Me or Windows 98, that
monitor the removable disks on the device, the PC performance
may get slow, or printing/scanning may not be performed
correctly. Closing such applications will solve the problems.
- When you connect the device to your PC, the drive that relates
to the Card Reader may not appear in Windows Explorer.
This behavior can occur if you map a network drive to the next
available drive letter after the local volumes and CD-ROM drives
have been assigned drive letters. If you experience this problem,
you should assign the network drive to any other drive letters
and reboot your PC.
- When working with very large files, Windows may run low on
virtual memory and not function properly. In this case, please
refer to your Windows documentation on how to increase your
virtual memory setting.
2. Printing (Windows XP/Windows 2000)
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- With certain applications, the [Copies] setting is non-effective
when setting is attempted from the printer driver. In such cases,
specify the setting in the applications' [Print] dialog box.
- With certain applications, if you attempt multiple-copy printing
of a document with [Collate] checked on the printer driver's
[Page Setup] tab or in the application's [Print] dialog box,
printing will not be done correctly. To work around this,
uncheck [Collate] before printing.
- In borderless printing, the document is enlarged until it
extends outside the page so that the document is printed
without any margins. If [P 89x254mm] is selected for [Page Size]
on the [Page Setup] tab, the portion that extends outside the
page becomes large in some sections compared to when another
page size is selected. If you are not satisfied with the
result of borderless printing, reduce the amount of extension
to expand the range of the document to be printed.
- With certain applications, printing may not be done properly if
[Print Type] or [Halftoning] is set to [Auto]. In this case,
start the [Print Advisor] on the [Main] tab and be sure to
select [Print a top-quality photo] or [Print tables and charts].
Alternatively, set [Print Quality] on the [Main] tab to [Custom]
and select a setting other than [Auto] for [Halftoning]. Next
set [Color/Intensity] to [Manual] and select a setting other
than [Auto] for [Print Type].
- When printing graduated or graphics-intensive print data,
sometimes print data may not be printed. This occurs when there
is not enough free space on your hard disk to temporarily store
the data. To remedy this, make sure there is 40-50 MB of free
space on the drive where Windows XP or Windows 2000 is
installed. Alternatively, set the spool folder on the disk with
sufficient space. To change the location of the spool folder,
follow the steps below.
1. From the [Start] menu, select the following items:
For Windows XP: [Control Panel]-[Printers and Other
Hardware]-[Printers and Faxes]
For Windows 2000: [Settings]-[Printers]
2. Select [Server Properties] from the [File] menu.
3. Click [Advanced] tab, change the drive name of [Spool Folder],
and then click [OK].
- If, during printing, you cancel the print job from the Printer's
folder, there will be a delay before printing actually stops.
- In some cases, printing will fail if there is not enough virtual
memory available. You can remedy this by increasing the file size
of virtual memory according to the operation described below.
For Windows XP
1. From the [Start] menu, select [Control Panel] -
[Performance and Maintenance] - [System].
2. At the [System Properties] window, click the [Advanced] tab.
3. Select [Settings] in the Performance section.
When the [Performance Options] window appears, click the
[Advanced] tab, and change the file size by clicking the
[Change] button in the Virtual memory section.
For Windows 2000
1. From the [Start] menu, select [Settings] - [Control Panel] -
[System].
2. At the [System Properties] window, click the [Advanced] tab.
3. Select [Performance Options] in the Performance section, and
change the file size by clicking the [Change] button in the
Virtual memory section.
- If the selected [Language] in the [About] dialog box does not
match the operating system interface language, the driver screen
may not be displayed properly.
- Do not change the [Print Processor] setting on the [Advanced]
tab in the Printer Properties dialog box. If you change the
setting, the following functions cannot be used:
- [Preview before printing] on the [Main] tab
- [Page Layout Printing], [Poster Printing], [Booklet Printing],
and [Duplex Printing] on the [Page Setup] tab
- All functions of the Stamp printing and Background printing
- The following functions cannot be used if you uncheck [Enable
advanced printing features] on the [Advanced] tab in the Printer
Properties dialog box:
- [Preview before printing] on the [Main] tab
- [Page Layout Printing], [Poster Printing], [Booklet Printing],
[Duplex Printing], [Print from Last Page], and [Collate]
on the [Page Setup] tab
- [Reduce spool data size] in the [Print Options] dialog box
- All functions of the Stamp printing and Background printing
- The following functions cannot be used when you are using an
application that does not allow EMF spooling (for example,
Adobe PhotoShop LE and MS Photo Editor):
- [Preview before printing] on the [Main] tab
- [Page Layout Printing], [Poster Printing], [Booklet Printing],
[Duplex Printing], [Print from Last Page], and [Collate]
on the [Page Setup] tab
- All functions of the Stamp printing and Background printing
- The following functions cannot be used if you check [Print to
file] in your application's [Print] dialog box:
- [Preview before printing] on the [Main] tab
- [Page Layout Printing], [Poster Printing], [Booklet Printing],
[Duplex Printing], [Print from Last Page], and [Collate]
on the [Page Setup] tab
- All functions of the Stamp printing and Background printing
- With some applications, when printing with [Page Layout
Printing] on the [Page Setup] tab set to [2-up Printing] or
greater, certain page images may get cropped. If this happens,
use the application to adjust the layout of the affected pages.
- When carrying out poster printing or stamp/background printing,
the displayed number of pages of the document in the print queue
is greater than that of the actual document.
- The colors in the screen display of the application software may
be different from the colors in the preview display.
- The colors in the preview display may be different from the
colors in the print result.
- Since the resolution in the preview display differs from the
printing resolution, text and lines in the preview display may
appear different from the actual print result.
- In some applications, the printing is divided into multiple
jobs. In this case the preview display can only display the job
being printed, and the display may differ from the display
intended by the user.
- The preview display cannot be used in the following cases:
- During printing when the printer icon is right-clicked and
[Use Printer Offline] is selected
- During printing outside the specified times when [Available
from] is set on the [Advanced] tab in the Printer Properties
dialog box
- When using a network printer, if the client's Canon IJ Status
Monitor is activated, a command is sent to the printer to obtain
its status. If you have checked [Notify when remote documents are
printed] on the [Advanced] tab of the print server's [Server
Properties] dialog box, a print completion notification message
is displayed on the client in response to each command. To stop
these messages appearing, uncheck [Notify when remote documents
are printed] on the [Advanced] tab of the print server's [Server
Properties] dialog box, then restart the print server to make
the setting effective.
- If you exit Windows while the printer is printing a file, the
job information may not be updated. In this case, the same job
will be activated again the next time you run Windows.
- When using a Windows XP or Windows 2000 system logged on to a
Workgroup instead of a Domain as a Server PC to share the printer,
printing from a Client PC may not work correctly. If you
experience this problem, you should either log on to a Domain,
or setup an account on the Server PC for each user in the
Workgroup that will print from a Client PC.
3. Printing (Windows Me/Windows 98)
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- To enable the Canon IJ Status Monitor, enable bi-directional
communication in Windows.
From the [Start] menu, click [Settings], then select [Printers]
to open the Printer Properties dialog box. Go to the [Details]
tab and click the [Spool Settings...] button, then select
[Enable bi-directional support for this printer].
- The Canon IJ Status Monitor cannot be used, when the printer
is used as a network printer.
- In borderless printing, the document is enlarged until it
extends outside the page so that the document is printed
without any margins. If [P 89x254mm] is selected for [Page Size]
on the [Page Setup] tab, the portion that extends outside the
page becomes large in some sections compared to when another
page size is selected. If you are not satisfied with the
result of borderless printing, reduce the amount of extension
to expand the range of the document to be printed.
- If you exit Windows while the printer is printing a file, the
job information may not be updated. In this case, the same job
will be activated again the next time you run Windows.
4. Scanning
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- Make sure that you have adequate disk space available when
scanning large documents at high resolutions. For instance,
scanning a full page color document at 600 dpi requires a
minimum of 300MB of free disk space.
- Only run one application at a time that is actively linked to
ScanGear. Do not open more than one application that is actively
linked to ScanGear. Also, do not open ScanGear more than once to
acquire an image in the same application.
- When scanning large images at high resolutions, the progress bar
may stop at 0% or your computer may stop responding, depending
on the size of the file and the limitations of the applications
being used. If this happens, cancel the action (for example by
clicking the progress bar's [Cancel] button), and then increase
the virtual memory available and perform the scan again.
Selecting smaller area at lower resolutions may also resolve
the problem.
Also, you can scan and save the image from the MP Navigator
and import resulting file into your application.
- With Windows XP or Windows 2000, the TWAIN data source may not
open correctly from time to time when the system file is in the
NTFS format. For security reasons, the TWAIN module cannot be
written to the "winnt" directory. For details, contact your
system administrator.
- Always close the ScanGear main window before you exit the parent
application program.
- Certain personal computers (including laptops) may not restart
correctly from standby mode when the device is attached.
If this occurs, please reboot the computer.
- The Color key or Black key in scan mode may not operate after
you install the driver. In this case, restart the system.
- When you preview or scan an image with a relatively uniform
background, the Auto Tone function may change its coloring.
If this occurs, reset the Auto Tone.
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Application Notes:
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1. Printing (Windows XP/Windows 2000)
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- Microsoft Word/Microsoft Corporation
If you specify a value greater than one for the [Pages per sheet]
setting in Word's [Print] dialog box, do not use [Page Layout
Printing] setting on the driver's [Page Setup] tab.
If you specify values greater than one for both settings,
printing will not be done correctly. When you want to print more
than one page per sheet, use one setting or the other to specify
it.
- Microsoft Word/Microsoft Corporation
When using the [Scale to paper size] setting in the [Print]
dialog box, do not use [Scaled Printing] setting on the printer
driver's [Page Setup] tab. If used, Word's [Scale to paper size]
setting will be overridden by the printer driver's [Printer
Paper Size] setting on the [Page Setup] tab when scaling to fit.
- Microsoft Word/Microsoft Corporation
When Word's [Allow A4/Letter paper resizing] feature is enabled,
if [Orientation] in Word's [Page Setup] dialog box is set to
[Portrait] and the driver's [Orientation] setting is specified
as [Landscape], printing is not done correctly. To avoid this,
disable [Allow A4/Letter paper resizing] before printing. To
access this feature, open the [Options] dialog box from Word's
[Tools] menu and click the [Print] tab.
- Microsoft Word/Microsoft Corporation
When changing [Paper size] and [Orientation], do it using Word's
settings, not the printer driver's.
- Microsoft Word/Microsoft Corporation
When selecting [Scaled Printing], [Fit-to-Page Printing] or
[Page Layout Printing]in the [Printing Type] on the [Page Setup]
tab, do this:
1. Open Word's [Print] dialog box.
2. Open the printer driver setup window and on the [Page Setup]
tab select [Printing Type] and click [OK].
3. Without starting printing, close the [Print] dialog box.
4. Open Word's [Print] dialog box again.
5. Open the printer driver setup window and click [OK] again.
6. Start printing.
- Microsoft Excel 2002/Microsoft Corporation
If the "Allow A4 and letter paper sizes to be changed" setting
is enabled in Excel 2002 and the "Paper Size" that was set on
the "Page Setup" tab of the Printer Properties screen differs
from the paper size that was set in Excel (one is set to A4 and
the other to Letter), the data is printed according to the
Printer Properties paper size.
If a problem occurs, match the Printer Properties paper size to
the paper size that was set in Excel. Alternatively, select
[Options] from the [Tools] menu of Excel, clear the "Allow A4 and
letter paper sizes to be changed" setting on the "International"
tab, and then print the data.
- Photoshop/Adobe Systems Inc.
Printing may not be done if you don't have system administrator
privileges. Log on with system administrator privileges to print.
- Lotus Notes/Lotus Corporation
The system can lock up with certain print jobs. Make sure that
in Notes' [Page Layout] settings you specify top and bottom
margins of 0.9 in. or 1.1 in.
- Microsoft Outlook/Microsoft Corporation
If you cancel printing from the application, the next print job
will crash. On the Printer Properties' [Advanced] tab, select
spooling for the print document.
- CorelDRAW 8/Corel Corporation
There are instances where problems arise if you try to open the
printer driver setup window from CorelDRAW 8.0. For instance, a
crash may occur or characters may be corrupted. To get round
this, open the printer driver setup window from the [Printers]
folder, specify the settings you want, then print from the
application.
This problem does not occur with CorelDRAW 9.0.
- Illustrator/Adobe Systems Inc.
If Bitmap Printing takes effect, printing may take time or some
data may not be printed. Print after clearing the [Bitmap
Printing] check box in the [Print] dialog box.
2. Printing (Windows Me/Windows 98)
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- Microsoft Word 95 / 97 / 2000 / 2002 (Microsoft Corp.)
When using Microsoft Word, documents designated for
enlargement/reduction printing may not be enlarged or reduced
as specified.
To use the enlargement/reduction function, first select [Start]
- [Settings] - [Printers], and right-click on the name of the
printer you use. Then select [Set as Default], and specify the
paper size in the Properties - [Page Setup] tab.
Now you are ready to start the application.
If you are not using the enlargement/reduction function, or if
you are printing after clicking on the [Close] button to close
the Print dialog box, the printer prints using the specified
paper size.
- CorelDRAW (Corel Corporation)
In some cases printer driver settings may not be valid. If this
should occur, save the printing data, and close CorelDRAW.
Then select [Start] - [Settings] - [Printers], right-click on
the name of the printer you use. Then select Properties. Now
enter the printer driver settings, start CorelDRAW again and
print the document.
- Some software packages may cancel enlargement/reduction settings
when the printer Properties window is closed and reopened.
Enlargement/reduction ratios are set in terms of the ratio
between the specified document size and the printer paper size.
If this happens, you can print at the proper enlargement/
reduction ratio by printing immediately after setting the
enlargement/reduction ratio.
- When printing using the page layout function, some applications
may move data from one page onto the next.
3. Scanning
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- Some application programs may hide the TWAIN user interface.
In this case, refer to the application programer's manual to
find out the required setting changes to show the TWAIN user
interface.
- Some applications, such as Microsoft Word 2000, Excel 2000 and
PowerPoint 2000, will not allow scanning of multi-page
documents.
These applications will only accept the first page scanned.
In this case, please scan each page individually.
- Microsoft Office/Microsoft Corporation
When scanning full page images into a Microsoft Office
application (such as Word, PowerPoint or Excel), it is
recommended that you use the Custom Insert command in the Insert
Picture from Scanner or Camera dialog box. The image may
otherwise not be scanned correctly.
- CorelWordPerfect 10/Corel Corporation
Images imported from Corel WordPerfect 10 may not be imported
correctly. If this happens increase the virtual memory available
and scan the image again. This should solve the problem.
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