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SHARP PRINTER DRIVER README FILE
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Thank you for purchasing our product.
This document gives you the details of important matters which
have to be checked before you install the printer driver.
Be sure to read this document thoroughly before continuing with
the installation.
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Compatible Models
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This README file is for following models.
SHARP MX-M550N/M620N/M700N/M550U/M620U/M700U
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Interface Cables
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A printer cable is not included with this machine. Please use a
network cable or a USB cable not longer than 10 feet (3m).
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Compatible OS
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PCL5e Driver: Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Me
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (SP5 or later)
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
PCL6 Driver: Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Me
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (SP5 or later)
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
PS Driver: Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Me
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (SP5 or later)
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
PS PPD Driver: Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Me
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (SP5 or later)
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
*The software compliant to Windows NT4.0 is not included in the CD-ROM.
Download the software from Sharp's web site and install it in your PC.
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Tips
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- If you upgrade the printer driver, be sure to install the new
version of the printer driver after deleting the older version.
Otherwise, the new version of driver may prevent the older
version of printer driver from working.
- If you install the printer driver on Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003
with Plug and Play function,
be sure to check the [Specify a location] check box.
- If it is possible, try to use the latest versions of
software applications, which are compatible with the operating
system.
A document created on an old version of a software application
may not print correctly if printed from a newer version of the
software. In this case, try saving the document using the
new version, and then print it.
- When some printer drivers do not print normally, if you use
other types of printer drivers, the printing may be improved.
Features of each of printer drivers are the following:
- PCL printer driver
It provides high speed printing.
- PostScript printer driver
It provides high reproducibility for images including fine
graphics.
- PostScript PPD printer driver
Some specific applications may normally print by only the
PPD printer driver.
- If you encounter printing problems with the Windows PCL6 printer
driver, please try to use the Windows PCL5e printer driver
instead.
- Brightly colored characters , lines , fill effects or patterns
(yellow, light blue, etc.) may not appear when printed.
In this event, try the following:
(A) Text consisting only of characters/lines/fill effects/patterns
created with CAD software:
Try selecting the "Text To Black" checkbox or
"Vector To Black" checkbox in the "Advanced" tab before
printing.
(In this case, sections where photographs, colored
characters and lines overlap will all be printed in black.)
(B) Text that includes photographs, colored characters and
lines:
Try decreasing the "Brightness" setting in the "Image
adjustment" dialog box that appears when you select the
"Image adjustment" button in the "Advanced" tab.
(This will change the brightness of the overall printed
image.)
(C) Other cases
If you tried the above and still did not obtain the desired
printing result, change the color of the character or line,
or make it thicker using the application's control for font
or line
- When using a Novell network, if a blank Page prints after the
Job is completed, turn off the [Form Feed After Job] found in
the network setting in the PC client software.
- When printing a large volume of data, an LPT1 Error might occur.
In this case, please modify the setting time for timeout of the
printer in the properties tab to a longer time by opening
[Settings] - [Printers] and selecting your printers [Properties]
in the start menu of Windows.
- When you use the "Pamphlet Style", the "Fit To Page" , "N-up
Printing" or "XY-Zoom" can not be used at the same time.
- When you print the document created by different computers,
the computer that you use may not register the fonts that use
in the document.
If you print the document in this case, some printed documents
slightly show the difference against the original document
(when you print it by the original computer).
In this case, you are required to register the fonts that use
in the document into your using computer.
- When occurring the garbled characters, if you change the
"Font Source:" of "Font..." of "Advanced" tab, the printed results
may improve.
- The position, size, and color of a watermark shown in the
watermark preview (on the left side of the "Watermark" tab) in
the driver properties may differ from the actual printed result.
Use the preview only as a general guideline.
- The printing test in installing the printer driver indicates
that [Color Printing] is ON. This is the setting to enhance the
reproducibility of gradation printing. This machine is possible
to execute only the black and white printing.
- When printing in Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/Server 2003,
the displayed "number of pages" in the print queue may not
be automatically updated. You can press the F5 key to
update the displayed number.
- If N-Up printing is selected in the "Main" tab when a watermark
has been selected, an image will appear (the paper image in the
upper left-hand corner of the "Main", "Paper", "Advanced", and
"Job Handling" tabs) indicating that one watermark will be printed
on the paper. The image simply indicates that a watermark has
been selected; it does not indicate the printing result. A watermark
will actually be printed on each page of the document.
For example, when a multi-page document is printed using 2-Up
printing, two watermarks will be printed on each sheet of paper.
- Even if the color text with big font size is printed with
"Text to Black", it may not be printed with black. In that case,
you may solve this problem by checking "Vector to Black".
- If the printer driver language in use is different from the OS
language, "Watermark" is not sometimes printed correctly.
- When you use SC-Print2005, you need to install Internet
Explorer 4 SP2 or later.
- When you use SC-Print2005, switching the user, you have to
restart your computer.
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About PCL5e/PCL6 Driver
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- When printing PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat 4.0
occasionally a very large print file may be generated causing
the document to be printed incorrectly. If this occurs please
upgrade to Acrobat version 4.05 or later, which is available as a free
upgrade from Adobe.
- When you are using Windows PCL printer driver with some
applications such as Adobe FreeHand, a watermark might not be
printed even if you have set to print watermark in the printer
driver.
- It may take time to print an original containing a large amount
of graphic data from a drawing application. This problem may be
solved by taking the following measures.
Open the printer properties dialog box and then change
"Graphics Mode:" to "Raster" found under the "Advanced" tab in
the print driver.
- When printing an image by using applications such as Microsoft Paint,
Microsoft Word, image data may appear under the printed image.
This might be solved by modifying the graphic mode of the
"Advanced" tab to be "Raster" after opening the printer
properties of print dialog.
- When printing with Netscape Navigator, the image of title or
index might be not be printed. This might be solved by
modifying the graphic mode of the "Advanced" tab to be "Raster"
after opening the printer properties of print dialog.
- With some applications such as Lotus Approach if you select
"Download Fonts" as the "Font Source:" and select "Download as
bitmap font" as the "TrueType Mode:" in the "Font..." dialog,
shrunk fonts might be printed. At that time, please use
resident fonts or select "Download as TrueType" as the
"TrueType Mode:".
- When printing is performed using Adobe's Acrobat,
garbled characters may be printed. This problem may be solved by
taking the following measures.
Open the printer properties of the print dialog and then change
the "Graphics Mode:" found under the "Advanced" tab to "Raster",
in addition, press the "Font..." button on the "Advanced" tab, and
then select "Download Fonts" for "Font Source:" and select
"Download as bitmap font" for "TrueType Mode:".
- When you use the Lotus123 and the map is not printed, this
problem may be solved by taking the following measures
introduced in the Lotus's Web page.
-Open the printer property, and select the "Advanced"tab.
-Select the 300dpi in the "Resolution Settings:".
- When overlapping the characters or being printing as the dotted
lines change into the full lines, this problem may be solved by
taking the following measures.
-Open the printer property, and select the "Advanced"tab.
-Select the 300dpi in the "Resolution Settings:".
- If you produce a print from the application such as Adobe
Photoshop by using the PCL 6 driver, color reproduction may
be bad. In this case, if you use PCL5e or PS driver, screen
quality may improve.
- If you paste a big bitmap in document of Microsoft PowerPoint
with setting "Graphics Mode:" in "Advanced" Tab to "Raster", the
error may occur when printing.
In this case, please change "Graphics Mode:" to "Vector" or
"HP-GL/2" and print it again.
- If the ruled lines for the graph area is not printed, put a tick
on the checkbox of "Fit To Page".
- If the watermark of which size is larger than the printing area
is set, the watermark is not correctly printed. Please adjust
the watermark size within the printing area.
- If the printed character is overlapped or crowded when the data
is printed using the PCL5e driver for Windows NT 4.0 or Windows
2000, please use the PCL6 driver.
- The tandem print function does not support SSL (encrypted
communication) between the master machine and slave machine.
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About PS Driver
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- When printing using the Acrobat, please turn the checkbox
on for "PS Pass-through".
- Adobe PostScript uses the binding edge definitions "LongEdge"
/ "ShortEdge" for paper orientation. Our PS3 driver is using
"Book" / "Tablet" for "image orientation" to provide an easy
to understand user interface.
Some Adobe application like AcrobatReader will inform the
driver that the document is Portrait even if the images are
Landscape so that the Main page of the driver will incorrectly
show the page orientation in the page icons under "Frequently
Used Settings."
As a result of this mixing up by the application, the driver
may flip the binding edge (Book/Tablet) for Landscape
document. If this occurs, just set the PS3 driver to the
opposite binding direction and the document will print
correctly.
- If you would try to print with "N-Up", "Fit to page" or
"PS Pass-through" off by PS3 driver of Windows9x, the color
map may be wrong.
- With some applications such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel Draw,
some extra features of the Windows PS printer driver such as
"Watermark", "N-Up Printing" or "Different Paper" may not work
properly. At that time, when you use the PCL printer driver,
this problem may be solved.
- When you print with custom papers, there are some cases that
negative printing doesn't operate normally.
- When the printing is cancelled during using the PS printer
driver, the blank paper may be output.
- When you print the type of download font by using the download
of "Download as TrueType (Type 42)", the error may occur.
At this time, if you set the "Download Font Mode:" into the
"Download as Bitmap (Type 3)" by the "Font..." of "Advanced"
tab, the print may be improved.
- When you execute the overlay print, please do not use the
"Negative Image" and "Mirror Image" functions.
It may not be output normally.
- The tandem print function does not support SSL (encrypted
communication) between the master machine and slave machine.
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About PS PPD Driver
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- When you install the PPD printer driver onto Windows NT 4.0, the
CD-ROM for Windows NT4.0 requires. the other required files like
PSCRIPT.DLL are in the i386 folder of CD-ROM.
- With the [Table Edit] of [Font] Tab in the printer properties
dialog, do not push this button [Reverse previously arranged
value] in the substituted list of fonts. The print speed will be
slow and the driver will treat all fonts as software fonts. To
change this back to the original setting, execute "PFMSetup.exe"
again.
- When you use the PageMaker, please print in the following method
described in the Readme of PageMaker.
- When you open the print dialog box by [File] - [Print] of the
menu bar, pressing the [Alt] key, operate to open the
[Print Dialog Box].
- Under Windows NT4.0 environment, when you use the PPD printer
driver, you can not use the N-up function (Layout Function).
- When you execute the watermark print, the watermark is printed
to the [Portrait] direction, regardless of the print setting.
- If you use N-up printing and staple feature, a printer may not
staple papers to the correct position.
If you check the staple position, use the PCL5e, PCL6, or PS
driver except PPD drivers.
- Correct stapling or punching depends on the paper size or the
paper orientation.
- If stapling or punching function is used in duplex mode, then
the "Flip on short edge" option may have to be selected.
- The tandem print function does not support SSL (encrypted
communication) between the master machine and slave machine.
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About Overlay Function
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- When you register the overlay form data, please print only one
page.
- When you execute the overlay print, please print the document in
the same printer setting as created the overlay form data.
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About Limitations for each Application Software
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- Some image printing problems such as PhotoShop printing of an
oversize image( bigger then the printer margins ) which results
in extra printed matter or a blue screen. Reducing the image
size to fit the paper size may solve this problem.
- If Microsoft Publisher is installed, sometimes the Configuration
settings of the printer will return to the default values.
- When printing is performed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader,
garbled characters may be printed. This problem may be solved
by taking the following measures.
Open the printer properties of the print dialog and then click
on the "Font..." button found using the "Advanced" tab, and then
select "Download Fonts" for "Font Source:" and select "Download
fonts".
- When the print error occurs on the Microsoft binder, this
problem may be solved by taking the following measures.
- Turn off the [Print binder as a single job] of the [Binder
Options].
- Set all setting items of the printer driver into the default.
- If you stop printing at the alert dialog at the time of print
in some application software such as Microsoft Word 2000,
the print may not stop properly.
- If the print setting is changed for Wordpad, please go to the
Properties page which appears after clicking the [Properties]
on [Printer...] from [Page Setup] dialog. The print setting from
[Properties] on [Print] dialog is sometimes not applicable.
- When editing multiple documents in Microsoft Word 2000 or later,
opening the driver properties and changing the print settings
for one document may result in changes in the print settings
for the other documents. In this case, reset the print
settings before printing each document.
- If a document is printed using a large font in Microsoft Word and
other applications, the application may be shut down by Windows.
Fonts larger than 300 points can be set in Microsoft Word; however,
do not use a font larger than approximately 300 points for
printing.
When using a large font in a document, we recommend that you
frequently save the document so edits are not lost.
- Some English fonts may not print correctly from WordPad. In
this case, use a different word processor application
(Microsoft Word, etc.)
- In WordPad, printing may not take place correctly if you
specify a page range starting from the second page. In this
event, select "All" for the pages to be printed.
- Graphics in a Power Point document may print in black, try the following:
(1) Select "Print" from the "File" menu in Power Point.
(2) Set off in the Grayscale function in the Print dialog box.
(3) Click the "OK" button.
===> Printing begins.
- When you use the Internet Explorer with "Protected Mode",
some functions may not be used correctly. This probrem may be
solved by modifying the "Enable Protected Mode" of the "Security"
tab to be "OFF" after selecting the "Tool"-"Internet Options"
menu in Internet Explorer.
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This software is based in part on the work of the Independent
JPEG Group.
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)
This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young
(eay@cryptsoft.com)
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SHARP Corporation does not guarantee the accuracy of the
information contained in this document and the software (SHARP
printer driver) which accompanies this document for any purpose
other than what they are intended for.
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Microsoft, Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation in the United States and worldwide.
Windows is an abbreviation for the Microsoft Windows operating
system.
All other company names and product names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of the respective companies.
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Copyright (C) 2006-2007 SHARP Corporation
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Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
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