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SHARP PRINTER DRIVER README FILE
July 2002
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Thank you very much for purchasing a SHARP Digital Imager.
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 printer driver is for following SHARP Digital Imagers. This
printer driver does not work correctly, if it is used to other
product.
SHARP AR-235/AR-275/AR-N275/AR-M208/DM-2305/DM-2705
AR-M280/AR-M280U
AR-P350/AR-M350/AR-M350U/DM-3500/DM-3501/DM-3551
AR-P450/AR-M450/AR-M450U/DM-4500/DM-4501/DM-4551
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Compatible OS
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PCL5e Driver: Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Me
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
PCL6 Driver: Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Me
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
PS2 Driver: Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Me
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
PS PPD Driver: Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Me
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
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Hint
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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 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.
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About SHARP AR-235/AR-275/AR-N275/DM-2305/DM-2705
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- If you would like to print a word document by PS PPD Driver of
Windows9x with 1200dpi, few some graphic characters are not
printed. This is the problem of the PS PPD Driver of
Windows9x. When You can print the document with 600dpi setting
correctly.
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About SHARP AR-235/AR-275/AR-N275/AR-M208/DM-2305/DM-2705
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- When you print with custom papers, use the bypass tray.
- When you print to the transparency, at first, place a check
mark in the "Transparency Inserts" in the "Paper" tab.
- When you want to use [collate] in the print dialog box of the
application's print settings, please put a tick off the "ROPM"
checkbox under the "Configuration" tab.
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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, 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:".
- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 MS Word2000, 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.
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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) 2002 SHARP Corporation
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After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
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.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
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