ReadMe.txt
4/15/02
Kodak Professional 8660 thermal printer
Kodak Digital Science 8650 color printer
Kodak Professional 8650 thermal printer
Raster printer driver for Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP
Version 2.0.1
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Note: To install over an older version of this printer driver,
delete any of the older printer icons first, install
the new printer driver, and restart your computer.
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Installing on
Windows NT 4.0
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1. From the Windows START menu, select "Settings | Printers"
and double-click the "Add Printer..." icon.
2. Follow the installation process until asked to select an
available port. You may choose an LPT port and skip the
rest of this step. If your computer has a SCSI card, you
may alternatively choose a SCSI port at this step.
SCSI Port Names:
Suitable SCSI ports have a name whose first four
characters are "EKSP" and ends with four digits.
For Example: EKSP2050
The last four digits will vary depending on your
computer's configuration and the printer's SCSI
device ID. The digits are defined as follows:
1st digit - SCSI Host Adapter Card Number
2nd digit - SCSI Bus Number
3rd digit - Printer's SCSI ID
4th digit - Logical Unit Number
If a suitable SCSI port already appears in the list of ports,
select it and skip the remainder of this step.
Click the "Add Port" button. From the dialog box that appears,
if "Kodak SCSI Port" shows up in the list of available printer
ports, select it and click the "New Port" button. Otherwise,
click the "New Monitor" button, browse to the folder which
contains the MONITOR.INF file, click OPEN, then click OK.
Select "Kodak SCSI Port" and click on the "New Port" button.
After the files have been copied to your computer, another
dialog box will list the Kodak SCSI printers found on your
system. Select the desired printer, click OK, then click CLOSE.
If no printers were found, see the Trouble Shooting section below.
The EKSPnnnn port should now be selected. Click the NEXT button
to continue.
3. When asked to select a manufacturer and printer, click the
"Have Disk" button and browse to the folder which contains the
EK86XX.INF file for your printer. Click OPEN, then click OK.
Select a printer model and click NEXT to continue.
4. If the "Add Printer" wizard displays the following message,
"A driver is already installed for this printer. Would you like
to keep the existing driver or use the new one?"
then click on "Replace existing driver."
5. Follow the installation process to completion.
When the "Add Printer" wizard asks, "Would you like to
print a test page?" always select "No."
Note: If the new printer driver is not listed in the Printers
window after the installation is completed, try clicking
on the View menu and selecting Refresh.
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Installing on
Windows 2000
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1. From the Windows START menu, select "Settings | Printers."
2. If you will not be printing over the SCSI port, skip this
step. Otherwise, select "File | Server Properties," click
on the "Ports" tab, and click the "Add Port" button.
From the dialog box that appears, if "Kodak SCSI Port" shows up
in the list of available port types, select it and click the
"New Port" button. Otherwise, click the "New Port Type..."
button, browse to the folder which contains the MONITOR.INF file,
click OPEN, then click OK. Select "Kodak SCSI Port" and click on
the "New Port..." button.
When the dialog box appears listing Kodak SCSI printers found on
your system, select the desired printer and click OK. Then close
all dialog boxes until you are back to the Printers window.
If no printers were found, see the Trouble Shooting section below.
(Refer to the installation steps for NT 4 for more details about
SCSI port names.)
3. Double-click the "Add Printer..." icon and follow the
installation process until asked for the manufacturer and
model of the printer.
4. Click the "Have Disk" button, and browse to the folder which
contains the EK86XX.INF file for your printer. Click OPEN,
click OK, and then continue the installation process.
5. If the "Add Printer" wizard displays the following message,
"A driver is already installed for this printer.
You can use or replace the existing driver."
then click on "Replace existing driver."
6. Follow the installation process to completion.
When the "Add Printer" wizard asks, "Do you want to
print a test page?" always select "No."
Note: When asked about the digital signature, click YES.
Note: If the new printer driver is not listed in the Printers
window after the installation is completed, try clicking
on the View menu and selecting Refresh.
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Installing on
Windows XP
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1. From the Windows START menu, select "Printers and Faxes".
2. If you will not be printing over the SCSI port, skip this
step. Otherwise, select "File | Server Properties," click
on the "Ports" tab, and click the "Add Port" button.
From the dialog box that appears, if "Kodak SCSI XP Port" shows up
in the list of available port types, select it and click the
"New Port" button. Otherwise, click the "New Port Type..."
button, browse to the folder which contains the EKPASPIA.INF file,
click OPEN, then click OK. Select "Kodak SCSI XP Port" and click on
the "New Port..." button. Click on "Continue Anyway" when prompted with
the "Hardware Installation" warning message.
When the dialog box appears listing Kodak SCSI printers found on
your system, select the desired printer and click OK. Then close
all dialog boxes until you are back to the Printers window.
If no printers were found, see the Trouble Shooting section below.
(Refer to the installation steps for NT 4 for more details about
SCSI port names.)
3. Click on the "Add a Printer" icon on the left panel and click NEXT.
4. Select "Local Printer attached to the computer" and deselect "Automatically
detect and install my plug and play printer". Click NEXT.
5. If the printer is connected over parallel port, choose LPT1. For SCSI,
choose the new SCSI Port EKAPnnnn created (from step 2) and click NEXT.
6. Click the "Have Disk" button, and browse to the folder which
contains the EK86XX.INF file for your printer. Click OPEN,
click OK, and then continue the installation process.
7. If the "Add Printer" wizard displays the following message,
"A driver is already installed for this printer.
You can use or replace the existing driver."
then click on "Replace existing driver."
8. Follow the installation process to completion.
When the "Add Printer" wizard asks, "Do you want to
print a test page?" always select "No."
Note: When prompted with driver warning message, click CONTINUE ANYWAY..
Note: If the new printer driver is not listed in the Printers
window after the installation is completed, try clicking
on the View menu and selecting Refresh.
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Network Printing
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To print over a Microsoft network...
1. Using the "Add Printer" wizard, install the printer driver
and choose either the Kodak SCSI port, the standard LPT port, or the
standard LPR port. (See "Installing an LPR port" below.)
2. Continue with the installation until asked to share the
printer driver. Turn on sharing and specify a share name.
3. Finish the installation.
4. If your server is running Windows 2000 or XP, skip this step.
If your server is running Windows NT, right-click the printer
icon, select "Properties," click the PRINT PROCESSOR button on
the General tab, and make sure the "Always spool RAW datatype"
checkbox is selected. Click OK to save your changes.
(Refer to your operating system's documentation for more details
about connecting other computers to your shared printer.)
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Installing an LPR port
on an NT/2000/XP computer
for network printing
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Printing to the printer's ethernet card requires using an LPR port
on a Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 or XP computer. To add an LPR port
to your computer ...
1. From the Windows NT/2000 START menu, select "Settings | Printers". For Windows XP, select "Printers and Faxes".
2. Select "File | Server Properties," and click on the "Ports" tab.
3. For Windows NT 4:
- Click ADD PORT.
- Choose "LPR Port" from the list that appears. (If
"LPR Port" does not appear in the list, contact your
system administrator for assistance with installing
the "Microsoft TCP/IP Printing" service.)
- Click NEW PORT.
- A dialog box will appear prompting for the address of
the server providing lpd, and the name of the print queue
on that server. Type your printer's IP address into the
address field, and specify a queue name. (See the note
below.)
- Click OK to create the new LPR (TCP/IP) port.
- Click CLOSE.
For Windows 2000 or Windows XP:
- Click ADD PORT.
- Choose "Standard TCP/IP Port" from the dropdown list.
- Click NEXT.
- When prompted for the IP address and port name, type your
printer's IP address into the address field. You may also
change the default port name if desired.
- Click NEXT.
- When asked for additional port information, select "Custom"
and click SETTINGS.
- Select "LPR" for the protocol.
- Specify a queue name. (See the note below.)
- Click OK.
- Click NEXT.
- Click FINISH.
Note: Depending on your printer's network card, you may be required
to name your queue "ps" (without the quotes.) Refer to the
documentation provided with the printer's network interface
card for more details.
4. The new LPR port can be selected when running the "Add Printer" wizard.
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1. From the Windows START menu, select "Settings | Printers."
2. Delete any 8650/8660 printer icons that are connected to
Kodak SCSI ports.
3. From the Windows START menu, select "Settings | Control Panel."
4. Double-click "Add/Remove Programs."
5. Locate and select "Kodak SCSI Printer Port Uninstall" from the
list, and click the "Add/Remove" button.
6. A dialog box will appear displaying all Kodak SCSI printer
ports installed on your system and any printers connected to
them. The Printer's window should be empty because the printer
icons have been deleted. If not, click CANCEL and go back to
step 1.
7. Click DELETE to remove all ports listed in the SCSI Ports
window.
8. Click YES when prompted to restart your computer for the
uninstallation to take effect.
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Positioning a logo
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When positioning a logo in the printer driver, the rectangular
region where the logo is previewed represents the printable area
of the current paper size, not the image the logo is being placed
over.
For easy logo placement, first scale your image or document to
the current paper size from within your application. Then the
rectangular region on the logo tab will more closely represent
your image.
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Printing from QuarkXpress
cuts off the top of the page
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If printing from QuarkXpress causes one or more edges to be cut
off, try centering the job by doing the following:
1. From QuarkXpress, select "File | Page Setup."
2. Choose "Center" for the "Page Positioning" option.
3. Click the Capture button to save your new choice.
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Fails to install Kodak SCSI port
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Problem: When trying to install the Kodak SCSI Port (EKSPnnnn) a
"Usage" dialog box appears. The dialog box indicates that
the Microsoft setup program failed to execute properly.
This problem is caused by having the printer driver
software in a folder that contains blank spaces within
the full path name.
Solution: Place the printer driver software in a folder that does
not have blank spaces within the full path name.
Example: A failing path name to the installation package:
"C:\Drivers\Kodak Drivers\Windows NT Driver"
A working path name to the installation package:
"C:\Drivers\Kodak_Drivers\Windows_NT_Driver"
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No SCSI printers found
when adding a port
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In order to add a SCSI port to your computer, the following
things are required:
- Your computer has a SCSI card and the card's software has
been properly installed.
- Your computer has ASPI drivers installed. These drivers
are not part of Windows, but may be obtained freely from Adaptec's website:
www.adaptec.com
Search for ASPI_v470.EXE, download it, and double-click it to
unzip the ASPI drivers. The default location is C:\Adaptec\ASPI
NT or 2000 INSTALLATION Run C:\Adaptec\ASPI\ASPIINST.EXE
to complete the installation of the ASPI drivers.
XP INSTALLATION
XP 32bit-Pentium I,II,III,IV : AMD : CELERON
Click "START","RUN" Type in C:\Adaptec\ASPI\install.bat XP32
XP 64bit-Itanium processors
Click "START","RUN" Type in C:\Adaptec\ASPI\install.bat XP64
Then select the OK button to run the XP installer to complete the
installation of the ASPI drivers.
- A Kodak 8650 or 8660 printer must be properly connected to your
computer's SCSI card and the printer must be configured with an
unused SCSI ID.
- The printer must be turned on before starting your computer.
If it was off, turn it on and restart your computer so Windows
loads the ASPI drivers required to communicate with the printer.
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Fails to print
over SCSI port
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- Make sure the SCSI device is properly terminated. (Refer to
the user documentation for the SCSI card and/or printer for
more details.)
- Make sure the printer displays "Ready" when you start your
computer.
- If you change the ID of the printer after the printer driver
has already been installed, another operating system port
will need to be added at the new address. (Refer to the
installation section above.)
- The following SCSI cards were tested with this product:
Adaptec SCSI Card 19160
Adaptec AHA-2940UW
Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460D
Adaptec SCSI Card 2906
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Fails to print
over LPT port
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Some computers require the parallel port to be configured
to standard Centronics mode. Typically, the parallel port is
set (in the computer's BIOS) to ECP or EPP mode which can
cause problems printing to an 8650 or 8660 printer. Refer
to your computer's manual for details about changing your
BIOS settings to standard Centronics mode.
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Fails to install from
a network folder
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To install printer drivers from a network folder, map the
network folder to a driver letter. Refer to "Mapping
network drives" in the index of your Windows help documentation
for more details.
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Fails to print
multi-page jobs
over the network
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When printing to a network printer from an application that
supports multi-page documents, each page must be printed as
a separate job. This limitation does not apply when printing
over the SCSI or parallel ports.
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Slow network printing when
using a shared printer
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If you are printing to a printer that is shared from another
computer, and either computer is running Windows NT 4, do
the following steps:
1. From the Windows START menu, select "Settings | Printers"
and click on the printer icon being used for printing to
the shared printer.
2. Select "File | Properties" and click the "Print Processor"
button on the dialog box that appears.
3. Make sure the "Always spool RAW datatype" checkbox is
selected and click OK.
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Logos fail to print using
a shared network printer
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If you are printing with a logo file selected from an NT 4
workstation to a printer being shared from another computer
and the logo does not appear on the printed output, make
sure the "Always spool RAW datatype" checkbox is selected
in the printer driver. (Refer to the "Slow network printing"
problem for details about how to do this.)
If the logo still does not print, connect directly to the
printer over the SCSI or parallel port.
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Color bars are printed
over images
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If you are printing over the network through a Windows NT 4
server and color bars are printed over your images, do the
following steps on the NT 4 server:
1. Click on the printer icon using the LPR port.
2. Select "File | Properties."
3. Select the "Schedule" tab.
4. Select "Start printing after last page is spooled."
5. Click OK.
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"Found New Hardware"
keeps showing up when
Windows 2000/XP starts
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This software does not support Plug&Play. To prevent this message
from showing up when Windows starts, perform the following steps
while the message is being displayed:
On Windows XP, Click NEXT, select the checkbox "Don't prompt me again
to install the software" and click FINISH.
On Windows 2000 do the following:
1. Click NEXT to continue.
2. Select "Search for a suitable driver," and click NEXT.
3. Uncheck all choices for search locations, and then click NEXT.
4. Select "Disable the device", and click FINISH.
(To install this software, refer to the installation section.)
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Scaling below 100%
causes bad prints
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If prints are produced with strange color speckles when scaling
is set less than 100% in the printer driver, try scaling the
image to the desired size in your application, leave the
printer driver set to 100%, and then print the image.
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Getting the wrong
number of copies
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The number of copies to print can be set in two locations. One
location is in the printer driver when its properties are viewed from
"Control Panel | Printers". The other is from an application's print
window (if the application supports copies.)
If your application provides a choice for copies, set the value from
the application rather than from the printer driver's dialog box.
Otherwise, your application might multiply both numbers together and
produce more prints than desired.
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Can't change the
default paper size
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Certain applications do not use the default paper size properly unless
the printer driver is the default printer for the operating system.
To make a printer driver the default printer, right-click on the
printer icon found in "Control Panel | Printers" and choose "Set as
default."
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Incorrect color management
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To use Microsoft's Image Color Management (ICM,) enable application
color management and select "Printer's default color" on the Color Mode
tab of the printer properties dialog box. See your application's
documentation for correct usage of Windows ICM.
To use a Kodak Colorflow color connector file, disable any application
color management and select "Kodak Colorflow color connector" on
the Color Mode tab of the printer properties dialog box.
Also be aware no Windows color management will occur when using a four
color ribbon (CMYK.) The 8650 four color ICC profiles were provided
with this driver only for use by the Kodak ColorFlow Color Connector
application.
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Color connector files may
not be correctly applied
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Color connector files must have write access privileges. Color
connector files with read-only access will NOT be applied.
Also, the color connector file will not be applied if it was
created without an RGB Pixel source transform.
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Error#9 [eOSW, 170] occurs when
printing over a LPT port
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This error may occur when printing more than one job at a time over
the LPT port. To fix this problem, increase the timeout value of the
LPT port to 120 seconds. To do this, follow these steps:
1. From the Windows START menu, select "Settings | Printers"
and click on the printer icon being used for printing.
2. Select "File | Properties" and click the "Ports" tab.
3. Click the "Configure Port" button, and type 120 into the edit box
for the timeout value.
4. Click the OK button, and then close all dialog boxes.
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Pausing the print queue
causes a printer error
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Pausing the print queue after a job begins will cause a printer error
because the printer will automatically cancel the current job if the
Windows print spooler stops sending data for a certain period of time.
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