Copyright CANON INC. 2001. All Rights Reserved. ________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Windows 2000 BJ Printer Driver Canon S100 Version 1.32 Instructions ________________________________________________________________________ Canon and BJC are registered trademarks, and Bubble Jet is a trademark, of CANON INC. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of the Intel Corporation. Other brand names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. ======================================================================== Introduction ======================================================================== 1. Foreword This Readme gives you important information about setting up and using the BJ Printer Driver with which the Readme is distributed. The BJ Printer Driver allows you to print on your Canon BJ printer from applications running under Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 2000. Before you can use your printer, you must install the printer driver on your computer. 2. Installation Components The following components make up the installation package: - Installer (Setup.exe) Installs the BJ Printer Driver on your computer. - BJ Printer Driver (referred to as the "printer driver" in this document) The software that allows you to print on your printer. - Uninstaller Lets you remove the printer driver from your computer. - Readme (readme.txt) This document. It contains important information about the printer driver. To view it after installation, select [Start]-[Programs]- [Canon S100]-[Readme]. - Guide (Guide.doc) Instructions on using the printer driver. To view it after installation, select [Start]-[Programs]-[Canon S100]- [Guide]. 3. System Requirements This software requires the following system configuration: Operating System Windows 2000 Professional (English) or Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server (English) Hardware Intel x86 base computer CPU: Pentium 166 MHz or better microprocessor (or equivalent) Display: VGA or better Hard drive: At least 25 MB free space prior to installing driver Other drive: CD-ROM drive Interface: USB interface Printer cable: USB cable Memory: Windows 2000 Professional: At least 32 MB (64 MB recommended) Windows 2000 Server: At least 64 MB (128 MB recommended) Note: This printer driver cannot be used to print on a print server from a client machine running an operating system other than the above. 4. Installation Method This printer driver is designed to be installed under Windows 2000. To install the printer driver, it is recommended you use the BJ Printer Driver Installer rather than installing the driver with the [Found New Hardware] Wizard. When the [Found New Hardware] Wizard starts, click [Cancel] to stop it. To install using the BJ Printer Driver Installer, follow the procedure below. Note: - Before starting installation, see your printer manual for details on connecting your printer to your computer. - If you have an earlier version of the printer driver installed on your computer, you must remove it with the uninstaller before installing the new driver. Note, however, that when you do this, you will lose any printing profiles you have created. Therefore, before deleting the old driver, you should make a note of your printing profile data so you can reenter it after installing the new driver. - You must have full-control access to printer settings to carry out an installation. 1) Make sure your printer is unplugged (powered off). Note: If the printer is on, the Windows Plug and Play feature's [Found New Hardware] Wizard will automatically appear when you start your computer. If this happens, click [Cancel]. 2) Log on to Windows 2000 as a member of the [Administrators] group. 3) Close any applications that are running. 4) If you have a CD-ROM setup disk, load the CD-ROM into your computer's CD-ROM drive. Alternatively, if you've downloaded the setup software from a Canon web site, do this: 1) Decompress the downloaded file into a temporary folder. 2) Open the temporary folder and double-click Setup.exe. The BJ Printer Driver Installer starts. 5) On the [Welcome] screen click [Next]. 6) Read the [License Agreement] and if you agree to it click [Yes]. Note: If a message dialogue box appears telling you the driver is already installed and asking if you want to continue, click [Yes]. 7) If you're installing from CD-ROM, click the Start button on the main Installer screen to start the file copying process. If you're installing from a downloaded installer, file copying starts immediately. Note: If a digital signature confirmation dialogue box opens, click [Yes]. 8) When the [Printer Port] dialogue box appears, make sure the printer cable is properly connected to both your printer and computer, then plug the power cable in to turn your printer on. Note: - If you want to select the printer port yourself, click [Manual selection], select the port in the [Select port] dialogue box, and click [Next]. - If automatic port detection fails, make sure the printer cable really is properly connected to both your printer and computer, then turn your printer on. Alternatively, click [Manual selection] and select the port in the [Select port] dialogue box and click [Next]. 9) When the [Installation Complete] screen appears click [Finish]. Note: In certain cases, a Windows 2000 printer driver provided by Microsoft will already be installed on your computer. However, it is recommended that you use a Canon driver. If you see a printer name of the form "Canon Bubble-Jet BJXXXX" in your [Printers] folder, a Microsoft driver has been installed. ======================================================================== Specifying Printer Driver Settings ======================================================================== 1. Opening the Printer Driver Dialogue Box - Opening from your application A typical way to open the printer driver from your application is to select [File]-[Page Setup] and click [Printer], or select [File]- [Print...] and click [Properties]. - Opening directly To specify a regularly-used setup or to access your printer's maintenance functions, use the procedure below. Don't try to use the maintenance functions while printing. 1) Select [Start]-[Settings]-[Printers]. 2) In the [Printers] folder, click the icon for your printer. 3) From the [File] menu select [Printing Preferences]. 2. Dialogue Box Tabs The printer driver dialogue box is organised into five tabs, as follows: - [Main] tab Specifies what BJ Cartridge is installed and what media is loaded. With this tab you can specify the ink and paper you're using. - [Page Setup] tab Specifies [Orientation], [Page Size], [Scaling], and related settings. - [Effects] tab Specifies optional effects for altering or enhancing printed images. - [Profiles] tab Lets you save the settings on the [Main], [Page Setup] and [Effects] tabs. Settings you use regularly can be saved and restored. You can also delete unwanted saved settings. - [Maintenance] tab Executes print head cleaning, test printing, and other printer- maintenance-related functions. Note: To get information on any dialogue box item, use the online help. Click [?] at the top right of the box, then click the item to get an explanation. To get help on an entire tab, click the Help button at the bottom of the dialogue box. For help on using [Help], press [F1] when the [Help] window opens. 3. Using the Printer Driver When printing something with this printer driver, restrictions on what you can do sometimes apply. Keep the following points in mind when printing: - If you cancel printing, delete the current and all pending print jobs and reset the printer. - With certain applications, the [Copies] setting is non-effective when setting is attempted from the printer driver. In such cases, specify the setting in the applications' [Print] dialogue box. - With certain applications, if you attempt multiple-copy printing of a document with [Collate] checked on the printer driver's [Page Setup] tab or in the application's [Print] dialogue box, printing will not be done correctly. To work around this, uncheck [Collate] before printing. - In some cases, printing will fail if there isn't enough virtual memory available. You can remedy this by increasing the size of the paging file. To do this, open the [System Properties] dialogue box by double-clicking [System] in the Control Panel or right-clicking [My Computer] and choosing [Properties]. Then click the [Advanced] tab, click [Performance Options...], click [Change...], specify the new paging file size, click [Set], and click [OK]. - With certain applications, printing may not be done properly if [Print Type] or [Halftoning] is set to [Auto]. In this case, start [Print Advisor] on the [Main] tab and be sure to select [Print a top-quality photo] or [Print tables and charts]. Alternatively, set [Print Quality] on the [Main] tab to [Custom] and select a setting other than [Auto] for [Halftoning]. Next set [Colour Adjustment] to [Manual] and select a setting other than [Auto] for [Print Type]. - When printing graduated or graphics-intensive print data, sometimes print data may not be printed. This occurs when there is not enough free space on your hard disk to temporarily store the data. To remedy this, make sure there is 40-50 MB of free space on the drive where Windows 2000 is installed. Alternatively, use the [Spool Folder] setting of [Server Properties] to allocate sufficient space for the spool folder. - If, during printing, you cancel the print job from the Printer's folder, there will be a delay before printing actually stops. - The [Page Layout], [Reverse Order], and [Collate] settings on the printer driver's [Page Setup] tab cannot be specified if you select the [Print directly to the printer] option or uncheck [Enable advanced printing features] on the [Advanced] tab of the Printer Properties dialogue box. - With certain applications, the [Page Layout], [Reverse Order], and [Collate] settings on the printer driver's [Page Setup] tab are ineffective. Examples are applications that don't support EMF spooling, such as PhotoShop 4.0 and PowerPoint. - The [Page Layout], [Reverse Order], and [Collate] settings on the printer driver's [Page Setup] tab are ineffective if you check [Print to file] in your application's [Print] dialogue box. - For more information on configuring Windows 2000, see the Windows 2000 user's manual. 4. Points To Note with Applications - Microsoft Word/Microsoft Corporation When changing [Paper size] and [Orientation], do it using Word's settings, not the printer driver's. - Microsoft Word 2000/Microsoft Corporation If you specify a value greater than one for the [Pages per sheet] setting in Word's [Print] dialogue box, set [Page Layout] on the driver's [Page Setup] tab to [1-up Printing]. If you specify values greater than one for both settings, printing will not be done correctly. When you want to print more than one page per sheet, use one setting or the other to specify it. - Microsoft Word 2000/Microsoft Corporation When using the [Scale to paper size] setting in the [Print] dialogue box, uncheck [Scaled Printing] on the printer driver's [Page Setup] tab. If checked, Word 2000's [Scale to paper size] setting will be overridden by the printer driver's [Printer Paper Size] setting on the [Page Setup] tab when scaling to fit. - Microsoft Word/Microsoft Corporation When selecting [Scaled printing] on the [Page Setup] tab, do this: 1) Open Word's [Print] dialogue box. 2) Open the printer driver dialogue box and on the [Page Setup] tab select the page size and click [OK]. 3) Without starting printing, close the [Print] dialogue box. 4) Open Word's [Print] dialogue box again. 5) Open the printer driver dialogue box and click [OK] again. 6) Start printing. - Microsoft Word 2000/Microsoft Corporation When Word's [Allow A4/Letter paper resizing] feature is enabled, if [Orientation] in Word's [Page Setup] dialogue box is set to [Portrait] and the driver's [Orientation] setting is specified as [Landscape], printing is not done correctly. To avoid this, disable [Allow A4/Letter paper resizing] before printing. To access this feature, open the [Options] dialogue box from Word's [Tools] menu and click the [Print] tab. - Lotus Organizer 2.1/97/Lotus Corporation Lotus Organizer will print in colour even though monochrome printing has been selected. To stop this, check [Greyscale Printing] in the printer driver. - Photoshop/Adobe Systems Inc. Printing may not be done if you don't have system administrator privileges. Log on with system administrator privileges to print. - Lotus Notes/Lotus Corporation The system can lock up with certain print jobs. Make sure that in Notes' [Page Layout] settings you specify top and bottom margins of 22.86 mm (0.9 in.) or 27.94 mm (1.1 in.). - Microsoft Outlook 97/Microsoft Corporation If you cancel printing from the application, the next print job will crash. On the Outlook [Schedule] tab, select spooling for the print document. - CorelDraw 8/Corel Corporation There are instances where problems arise if you try to open the printer driver's dialogue box from CorelDraw 8.0. For instance, a crash may occur or characters may be corrupted. To get round this, open the driver from the [Printers] folder, specify the settings you want, then print from the application. This problem does not occur with CorelDraw 9.0. - With some applications, when printing with [Page Layout] on the [Page Setup] tab set to [2-up Printing] or greater, certain page images may get cropped. If this happens, use the application to adjust the layout of the affected pages. 5. Network Printing This section explains what you must do and what restrictions apply when configuring clients and print servers for network printing and when actually printing via a network printer. <Overview> With Windows, it is possible to print via the network to a printer connected to another computer. Such a printer is called a shared printer. In the following explanation, a computer to which a shared printer is directly connected is called a print server, and a computer which uses a shared printer via the network is called a client. The following explains how to set up and work with a shared printer, as well as describing what restrictions apply. Regarding printer drivers, on the print server, install the driver most suitable for the print server's operating system; on the client, install the driver most suitable for the client's operating system. For example, when using Windows 2000 Server, install the latest version of the Windows 2000 printer driver; and when using a Windows Millennium Edition (hereafter referred to as "Windows Me"), Windows 98 client, install the latest version of the Windows Me, Windows 98 printer driver. When running Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 on a print server, the printer driver used by clients can be saved on the print server in advance. On Windows 2000 this function is called [Additional Drivers]; on Windows NT 4.0, [Alternative Drivers]. A driver which has been saved on the print server in advance is installed on a client automatically when the client connects to the shared printer. This feature is called point and print installation. Point and print installation provides a convenient way for the print server manager to cater for multiple clients. However, because restrictions and considerations apply with a number of systems (described later), it is recommended that drivers be installed in advance on all clients that use the shared printer. <Notes on the driver version> The following explains about using the different versions of printer driver. * Windows 2000 For a print server or a client, use Version 1.32 of the Windows 2000 BJ printer driver. Also, if the print server and client are running the same operating system, use the same version of the driver on each. * Windows NT 4.0 For a print server or a client, use Version 4.32 of the Windows NT 4.0 BJ Printer Driver. Also, if the print server and client are running the same operating system, use the same version of the driver on each. * Windows Me, Windows 98 or Windows 95 For a client, use the latest version of the Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95 driver. Note: - Versions 3.xx, 4.00, and 4.10 of the Windows NT 4.0 driver cannot be used. - Network printing cannot be done by combining a Windows printer driver (Microsoft) and a Canon printer driver. Use a Canon driver on both the print server and client. <Driver installation procedure> The method of installing the driver is described below. First, install the printer driver on the print server. Next, specify the shared printer. Then install the printer driver on the client. Lastly, connect the shared printer of the print server to the client. Use the following procedure: 1) Install the appropriate printer driver on the print server. The installation method is more or less the same as for a local printer. Note: If the print server is running Windows Me, Windows 98 or Windows 95, bi-directional communication with the printer is not possible, so the printer status cannot be determined. As a result, a cartridge- mismatch warning message is displayed on the print server even though the correct cartridge is installed, and printing sometimes stops or cannot be done at all. To avoid these problems, open the printer driver on the print server (Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95), click [Spool Settings...] on the printer properties [Details] tab, and select [Disable bi-directional support for this printer]. 2) Specify the printer connected to the print server as a shared printer. For information on how to do this, see the Windows online help. 3) Install the appropriate printer driver on the client. The installation method is more or less the same as for a local printer. Note: - Any port can be selected for installation. After choosing a suitable port, complete installation. - When using the installer to do the installation, a dialogue box telling you to turn the printer on appears. However, you can ignore this instruction. 4) Connect the shared printer of the print server to the client. From the client, open the print server computer, right-click the icon for the shared printer in the [Printers] folder, and do one of the following: - On a Windows 2000 client, choose [Connect...] from the menu. - On a Windows NT 4.0 client, choose [Install...] from the menu. - With a Windows Me, Windows 98 or Windows 95 client, do the following: 1. Select [Start]-[Settings]-[Printers] on the client. 2. Right-click the icon of the type of printer you want to use, and select [Properties]. 3. On the [Details] tab, click [Add port...]. 4. Select [Network] and click [Browse...]. 5. From the printer list, select the shared printer you want to use and click [OK]. As a result of this procedure, a printer icon allowing you to print to the shared printer is created on the client computer. Note: A second printer icon is created With a Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 client, a printer icon for the shared printer is created separately from the original one associated with the local printer. When printing on the shared printer, use the printer icon for that printer. Since the original printer icon is no longer needed, it can be deleted. <Additional restrictions on network printing> * Point and print installation Point and print installation is possible when the print server is running Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0. If print server and client are both running Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0, but a printer driver has not been installed on the client, by right-clicking the icon for the shared printer of the print server and selecting [Connect...] or [Install...], the printer driver will be automatically installed on the client. Also, if the print server and client are running different operating systems, by using the [Additional Drivers] (Windows 2000) or [Alternative Drivers] (Windows NT 4.0) feature, the driver needed by the client is saved on the print server and is automatically installed on the client when it connects to the shared printer. Note the following when doing point and print installation: * Bi-directional support is displayed as being off With a Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 client, [Enable bidirectional support] on the client printer properties [Ports] tab is shown as being off. Because of this, if the client user, having opened the properties [Ports] tab then closes it by clicking [OK], bi-directional communication with the print server will be disabled. You can avoid this problem by installing the driver on the client in advance and connecting to the shared printer. Also, by modifying the permissions of the shared printer, it is possible to restrict the access rights of the client user and so prevent misoperation. * Windows NT 4.0 driver installed under Windows 2000 If the print server is running Windows NT 4.0 and the client is running Windows 2000, point and print installation will install the Windows NT 4.0 printer driver under Windows 2000 on the client. Since Windows NT 4.0 driver operation under Windows 2000 is not guaranteed, it is necessary to install the correct driver manually by following the procedure described under 4, "Installation Method", in the Introduction to this Readme. <Restrictions on use> - When using a network printer, if the client's cartridge detection function ([Main] tab [Detect...] button) is used or the BJ Status Monitor is activated, a command is sent to the printer to obtain its status. If you have checked [Notify when remote documents are printed] on the [Advanced] tab of the print server's [Server Properties] dialogue box, a print completion notification message is displayed on the client in response to each command. In particular, if the BJ Status Monitor has been activated, a command requesting the printer status is issued frequently, with a completion notification message being displayed each time. To stop these messages appearing, uncheck [Notify when remote documents are printed] on the [Advanced] tab of the print server's [Server Properties] dialogue box, then restart the print server to make the setting effective. - When using a network printer, sometimes the BJ cartridge cannot be detected correctly by clicking the [Detect...] button on the [Main] tab. If this happens, use the [Detect...] button of the printer driver installed on the print server. - When using Axis Communications' PrintPoint 140 BJC ethernet print server, although printing is possible, bi-directional communication is not. ________________________________________________________________________Download Driver Pack
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