================================================================== SHARP AR-PB2A PRINTER DRIVER README FILE October 2001 ================================================================== Thank you very much for purchasing a SHARP AR-PB2A. This document gives you the details of important matters which have to be checked before you install the AR-PB2A printer driver. Be sure to read this document thoroughly before continuing with the installation. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Compatible OS ------------------------------------------------------------------ PCL5e Driver: Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows Me Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows 3.1 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1x PCL6 Driver: Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows Me Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Windows 2000 PS2 Driver: Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows Me Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows 3.1 Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1x PS PPD Driver: Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows Me Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Windows 2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hint ----------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 with Plug and Play function, be sure to check the [Specify a location] check box. - Please use the latest version of application software for your Operation System if possible. - 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. - When printing light colored lines and/or thin lines in your document the lines may not be visible. Please change the color of the lines to a darker color or make the lines thicker. - Some fill effects and/or patterns might not be printed (or become invisible). At that time, please change the fill effect or pattern to one that can be printed correctly. - 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. - If the setting [collate] exists in the print dialog box of the application's print settings, do not select this setting. This setting is not necessary because this printer always performs collated printing. If this setting is selected, two-sided printing or stapling with multiple prints may not be performed properly. - When you use the "Pamphlet Style", the "Fit To Page" or "N-up Printing" 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 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. - Makedisk caution: Please format the floppy disks to ensure no bad sectors are present on the disks before using Makedisk. - There are some limitations when using the AR-NC1D (Print Server Card) and the Peer to peer printing utility. You must switch on the printer before initialization of Network PC's. If not, the PC's will not recognize the printer and you will have to power on the printer then reboot the PC's and restart the utility. - If two staples and paper with short edge feed are selected, the prints will be delivered without being stapled. To put two staples along the long edge, the paper must be set for long edge feed. - When you want to do Pamphlet printing with any application and the application has a Pamphlet paper size setting, please select Pamphlet printing from the application. When you select Pamphlet in the printer property dialog box, the Pamphlet feature might not print correctly. - Pamphlet Style additional information - Staple and N-up printing is not possible when using the Pamphlet Style option. - If Pamphlet style is selected from the Print Properties Main Tab menu, you will find that Staple and the N-up options are grayed out. - If Pamphlet is selected from within your application (Example: Using Microsoft Word and selecting Pamphlet from the Page Size menu) Staple and the N-up options can be selected from the Print Properties Main Tab menu but they will not work. - When creating an overlay file in Windows 3.1, the "Use Print Manager" option check box of the Printers dialog should be off, or the overlay file may not be created in some cases. - Different Paper printing and Transparency Inserts printing can not be used at the same time. When both Different and Transparency are set, the setting of Different Paper printing is ignored. - Pamphlet printing and Different Paper printing cannot be used at the same time. If both are set, all the paper will feed from the tray that Different paper selects. ----------------------------------------------------------------- About PCL5e/PCL6 Driver ----------------------------------------------------------------- - 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, which is available as a free upgrade from Adobe. - When printing a watermark, please select "HP-GL/2" / "Vector" setting found in the "Graphics Mode:" window, this can be done by selecting it from the "Advanced" tab of the driver. These setting can be eliminated by changing to "Raster" from "Vector" mode found in the "Advanced" Tab of the "Graphics Mode:" window. - 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 MS paint, MS 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:". - 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". - When printing a document with large amounts of graphic data using applications such as Corel Draw, it might take a long time to print this data using the PCL driver. This might be solved by modifying the graphic mode of Advanced setting tab to be raster after opening the printer properties of the print dialog. ----------------------------------------------------------------- About PS Driver ----------------------------------------------------------------- - 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. - When you use custom size papers, the correct paper size for the custom paper should be defined in both the printer properties dialog and the application program. - When you print with custom papers use the bypass tray. - When you turn the checkbox on for "PS Pass-through", you cannot use the Cancel button of the Job Control review dialog to cancel a print job. If you need this function, please turn the checkbox off for "PS Pass-through". ----------------------------------------------------------------- About PS PPD Driver ----------------------------------------------------------------- - 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. - 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- About Overlay Function ----------------------------------------------------------------- - 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- About Limitations for each Application Software ----------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 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. - With the Windows printer driver, if Microsoft Paintbrush for Windows 3.1x is used, sometimes Fit To Page does not work correctly. - With some applications such as Lotus Approach97, when you select "Advanced" property "Fonts" in the print dialog and select "Download fonts" as the "Font Source" and select "Download as bitmap font" in the "TrueType Mode", the size of the downloaded font bitmap images may be smaller than requested. At this time, please use resident font or select "Download as TrueType" as the "TrueType Mode". - When printing with some Windows3.1 application software (ex. MS-Word6), characters might not be printed or be printed incorrectly with the layout of the document disturbed. For MS-Word6, trouble shooting for this problem is described in the "[MS Word Text Converters] session," of Help. Other application software may also describe trouble shooting for this problem. Referring to the Manual, README.TXT or Help files first when this trouble occurs. - When printing more than one copy of a document with MS Excel, the printing result might be incorrect. In this case, print the document without checking "collate", or after setting "EMF" on spool format. When you want to do "EMF" with any application, do the following: 1) Open the printer folder of your Windows Control Panel. 2) Choose the tab "Details" from printer property. 3) Click "Spool Settings" button. 4) Set "EMF" on [Spool data format]. - In order to print from Lotus AmiPro 3.1 using the SHARP AR-PB2A printer drivers, background printing must be disabled. Background printing can be disabled as follows: 1) Open the [User Setup] dialog of Lotus AmiPro via the [Tools] menu. 2) Click the [Option] button, then uncheck the "Print in background" check box. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SHARP Corporation does not guarantee the accuracy of the information contained in this document and the software (SHARP AR-PB2A printer driver) which accompanies this document for any purpose other than what they are intended for. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (C) 2001 SHARP CorporationDownload Driver Pack
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