Brady Windows Printer Driver Build v3.0.0.2 03/03/2004 ******************************* Welcome! This version of the Brady Windows Printer driver offers many new features and user conveniences. New utilities, such as a Font Downloader, Driver-Cloning and Driver Uninstall have been included. The number of printer native bar codes and fonts supported by the driver has been increased. The driver now also supports printing over USB with Brady printers offering USB connectivity. ******************************* Installation This driver is supported on: - Windows 95 - Windows 98 SE - Windows ME - Windows NT v4.0 - Windows 2000 - Windows XP The driver is compatible with: - Windows 2000 Terminal Services - Citrix Metaframe v1.8 for Windows 2000. (Windows and Windows Terminal Services are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Metaframe is a registered trademark of Citrix Systems, Inc.) How to Install Brady Printer Drivers Drivers can be installed from the Windows "Add Printer Wizard" or using the Installation Utility that came with the driver. NOTE: you must have sufficient rights on the system being used to install the driver. To install using the Installation Utility: 1) Uncompress the driver files. Be sure to note the location that the files are placed into. 2) Run the setup.exe utility. 3) Select the language to install in. Currently, English is the only choice. 4) Follow the prompts to select the printer model and port that you will be using. 5) The Utility will install the appropriate files and then run the Configuration Wizard to help you configure your new driver. 6) When the Install/Configure Wizard is complete, your new driver is installed and ready for use. To install the driver using the Windows "Add Printer Wizard": 1) Uncompress the driver files. Be sure to note the location that the files are placed into. 2) Using the START menu select "Settings" and then "Printers". The Printers folder will open up. 3) Double click on "Add Printer" and follow the prompts to begin the installation process. 4) When you come to the dialog screen that lists Manufacturers and Printers, select "Have disk". 5) Point to the location that contains the uncompressed driver files. Select the zsd.inf file and click "OK" to continue. 6) Select your printer model from the list of supported printers and click the Next button to continue. 7) If your printer is connected via a RS-232 serial connection, select "No" to the question "Would you like to print a test page?". This is suggested to avoid an error message in case you have not configured the port on the computer to match the serial settings on the printer. If your printer is connected via a parallel port and is ready to print, select "Yes" to print the test page. 8) Follow the remaining prompts to complete the Wizard. Once the install is done your printer driver is now installed and ready for use. ******************************* Supported Printers The following Brady printers are supported in this version: Brady THT 300X-Plus II Brady THT 600X-Plus II Brady THT 200M-e Brady THT 200M-e 300 Brady THT 200MVP Plus Brady THT 300MVP Plus Brady THT 360X-Plus II ****************************** Tips and Advice 1) If you are upgrading from an earlier version of the Brady printer driver, the font and bar code names have changed. It will be necessary to update your document(s) with the new names used in this version of the driver to ensure correct printing. In some cases, using font or bar codes names from prior driver versions can cause graphics to print incorrectly. Be sure to update documents with new font and bar code names. 2) Use the Bar Code Passthrough Mode start and end sequence with 2D bar codes such as Datamatrix, PDF-417, Micro PDF-417, QR Code. The bar code Passthrough Mode can be activated on the Options tab of the driver. The default start sequence is B{ and the default end sequence is }B. Thus, a line of data to be encoded in QR Code would be entered as: B{this is the data}B 3) Use the Bar Code Passthrough Mode start and end sequence with bar codes that cover more than one line in your document. The bar code Passthrough Mode can be activated on the Options tab of the driver. The default start sequence is B{ and the default end sequence is }B. Thus, two lines of data to be encoded in Code 128 would be entered as: B{thisistwolinesofdata}B 4) Applications will not list the internal fonts unless the Brady printer driver is the selected driver. This can be done by setting the driver to be the default driver before starting the application or by selecting the Brady driver while designing the document to be printed. 5) All bar codes are represented using the same display font. This means that 2-D bar codes appear as picket fence barcodes on the screen, but print as the intended 2-D bar code. The bar code display font is not WYSIWYG. Users may have to adjust the position of the bar code to achieve the desired placement on the printed label. Please keep in mind that if you are printing multiple labels with variable data, the dimensions of the bar code will change from one label to the next. 6) Multiple bar codes and fonts of the same type, but with different characteristics, can co-exist within the driver. For example, it is possible to have more than one Code 128 bar code type defined - one with human readable on and one with human readable turned off. To create a new bar code type, go to the "Printer" tab in the driver properties, click on "Bar Code Options" and then on "Settings". The "Printer Bar Codes" dialog will display. Click on the "New" button, enter a name for the bar code in the "Bar Code Properties" prompt and choose the symbology type and related bar code characteristics that you require. Click "OK" and then "OK" again to confirm your changes. The new bar code definition will be displayed in the font list the next time you start your application. To create a new internal font, go to the "Printer" tab in the driver properties, click on "Printer Fonts Options" and then on "Settings". The "Printer Text Fonts" dialog will display. Click on the "New Internal Font" button, enter a name for the font in the "Font Properties" prompt and choose the internal font and related font characteristics that you require. Click "OK" and then "OK" again to confirm your changes. The new bar code definition will be displayed in the font list the next time you start your application. 7) Using the Cloning Utility requires full Administrative rights. This is due to the need to write directly to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry keys. 8) The Cloning Utility can only be used to clone drivers of the same model number. For example, a 200MVP Plus driver can only be cloned to another installation of a 200MVP Plus driver. 9) The Uninstall Utility may require a restart of the operating system to complete the removal of the drivers files. This can occur when the operating system or an application has not fully released a given driver file. 12) When a new set of drivers is installed in Windows NT, 2K and XP, the operating system creates two files in the WINNT\INF directory. The two files are the OEMx.inf and OEMx.pnf files. The operating system creates one of each file for each new set of a manufacturers drivers. This information is then used to present the list of manufactures and printer models in the "Add Printer" Wizard. The value of the x changes for each new set of drivers introduced into the system, it is possible to have OEM1.inf through OEM22.inf (or larger) Uninstalling a driver, either by deleting the driver from the Printers folder or by using the Uninstall Utility, does not remove these two files. If you wish to remove these files you should be very cautious that you are removing the OEMx.inf and OEMx.pnf files for the Brady printer driver and not another the ones created by another driver. The OEM.inf file created for the Brady driver will have the same contents as the zsd.inf file that came with your Brady printer driver installation files. 13) In certain circumstances lines of rotated text can print on top of each other. This can be resolved by setting the driver to portrait mode and setting the application to landscape mode while designing the label. ****************************** Known Issues 1) The settings on the Printer tab will be reset to the default settings if you change a setting on the Document tab. To avoid this issue, change settings on the Document tab and then make changes on the Printer tab. 2) Some multi-page documents require you to turn on the Smart Download feature on the Document tab. If not turned on, some pages may print more than once (in place of other pages). 3) The driver will not print more than 32767 copies of a document. This is a Windows limitation. 4) Some large documents can cause an error in Acrobat Reader on Windows 98. 5) The text on the Setup Wizard incorrectly states that the Top Adjustment setting alters the amount of label fed out or pulled back prior to printing. The dialog should state that the Top Adjustment setting moves the entire format up or down from the top of the label. For the Brady drivers, the Top Adjust setting controls the ^LT or Label Top command. The ~TA command is controlled through the Vertical Offset control on the Dispense Mode dialog. 6) Graphics print best when a monochrome image is used. Because Brady printers are monochrome printers, color and grayscale images will be printed using the dithering method you select on the Options tab. There are four available dithering methods, each offering some control over the final printed image. However, monochrome images will print in a more predictable fashion. 7) When using Word, the application forces the driver to insert spaces into any edited line of text using the ZPL Font 0 (ZB:Brady CG Triumvirate). If you save the document after editing the text, but before printing it, the spaces will not be inserted on the printed label. 8) Not all Applications will read internal font information from drivers. Some applications will not present the list of native fonts and bar codes even if the operating system is restarted after installing and the driver is set as the default driver. This is a limitation of some applications. 9) The "Brightness and Contrast" button on the Options dialog takes you to a dialog that controls Intensity and Contrast. 10) The HELP text that can be reached from the Dispense Mode dialog does not mention the "Use Printer Setting" option. 11) On the driver's Font Download dialog, the correct ?HELP for "Character Set" can be reached if you click on the question mark button and then click the question mark cursor over the words "Character Set". 12) On the driver's Dispense Mode dialog, Pause or Cut intervals at or over 1000 are not saved. Additionally, the prompt is four characters wide, but a comma is used for values over 999. ****************************** Change Log This is build is the initial release v3.0.0.2 The driver engine is v1.0.0.26 The language monitor is v1.0.0.26 The model set is v2 ******************************Download Driver Pack
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