------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFORMATION ON THE HP PAINTJET COLOR GRAPHICS PRINTER ------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have selected the Hewlett Packard PaintJet printer. Your printer driver is not yet configured properly. This file contains instructions for configuring your PaintJet driver after Windows is set up, and is used in conjunction with the Microsoft Windows User's Guide. We recommend that you print this Readme file for use during configuration. You may print this file using Windows Write or another word processing package, or you may copy it directly to your printer from your operating system. To do this, insert the Windows Utilities disc into your floppy disc drive and enter the following at your DOS prompt: type a:readmepj.txt>LPT1 If your printer is not connected to LPT1, substitute the correct port specification. NOTE: The HP PaintJet Soft Fonts for Microsoft Windows will be available in early July of 1988. This package provides 16 high-resolution PaintJet soft fonts for use with Microsoft Windows version 2.03 or higher. These fonts will greatly improve text quality on your printer. To order this package, contact your local HP sales office, your HP dealer, or call this toll-free number and ask for part number 17301A: 1-800-538-8787. CONFIGURING YOUR PRINTER Connecting Your Printer 1. Follow the four steps on Connecting Printers in the "Configuring Your System" section of Chapter 7 in the Microsoft Windows User's Guide. Select PaintJet in the printer list box, then select the desired port (usually an LPT port for Parallel interface, or a COM port for RS-232 interface) in the Connections list box. 2. IF YOU SELECTED A COM PORT IN STEP 1: a) Pull down the Setup menu and select Communications Port. b) Establish the communications settings as: Baud rate=9600; Word Length=8; Parity=None; Stop Bits=1; Handshake=Hardware; Port=(your port) c) Click OK in the Communications Settings box. Setting Up Your Printer 1. Follow ONLY the first three steps on Setting Up Printers in the "Configuring Your System" section of Chapter 7 in the Microsoft Windows User's Guide. Select "PaintJet on (port)" in the Default Printer list box. The PaintJet Defaults dialog box is displayed. a. Print Box: Select Color if you have an application that supports color printing, or Monochrome if your application is black and white. The Monochrome option allows you to print in color from a monochrome application by setting a foreground and a background color for your output If you select Color, the Background and Foreground options in the menu bar are unnecessary and therefore are unavailable. NOTE: If you have a color application, selecting the Monochrome option and setting background/foreground colors will have no effect on printing. b. Orientation: Select Portrait to use the shorter side of your paper as the X-axis, or Landscape to use the longer side as the X-axis. NOTE: Printing is faster in Portrait mode, which is PaintJet's default orientation. The printer's internal fonts, Courier and Letter Gothic, can only be printed in Portrait mode. c. Media Type: Select the appropriate type of media for your output. d. Media Size: Choose A (8.5 x 11 inches) or A4 (210 x 297 mm) as media size, then indicate whether your media is single sheet or fanfold. If your media size does not match the size displayed, choose the size with the appropriate unit of measurement (inches or millimeters), then use the scroll bar on the Media Size text box to increase or decrease the length measurement. The Preloaded box is disabled for fanfold media, and is selected by default for single sheet media. The Preloaded selection turns off the "Insert Paper" prompt which appears after you start a print job, but before printing begins. If you use single sheet media and want the prompt to appear, click the Preloaded box to remove the "X". e. Background/Foreground: If you chose Monochrome in the Print Box and you want to set a background color for your printout, choose Background from the PaintJet Defaults menu bar. Select your color; the check will appear beside your color the next time you pull down this menu. When you print a document, PaintJet will fill the background of your output with the specified color. Repeat this step to set a color for your text and/or graphics, this time selecting Foreground from the menu bar. f. Select the Options menu to establish which soft fonts are available to PaintJet, and to print a mirror image of your document. 1. Mirror Image - Selecting this option causes PaintJet to print a reverse image of your document. A check appears when the option is in effect; it toggles on and off by repeated selection. 2. Fonts - If you have soft fonts to use with PaintJet, you must use the Fonts option to make the fonts available on the printer. Complete printer configuration, then see "Installing Soft Fonts" below for font installation instructions. If you have the HP PaintJet Soft Fonts for Microsoft Windows, refer to the manual in that package for more detailed installation instructions. PaintJet soft fonts print at the same speed as the fonts supplied with Windows (Modern, Roman, Script), but produce much higher quality output. NOTE: For the fastest possible printing on PaintJet, use the printer's internal fonts (Courier and Letter Gothic). g. Save Box: The Save box is selected by default and MUST remain selected to complete printer configuration. If the Save box is checked when you choose the OK button, your current settings are saved in the WIN.INI file and become defaults for PaintJet. When you make subsequent changes to printer settings, leave the Save box selected if you want to save the changes as defaults for your future print jobs. If you unselect Save, the changes remain in effect only until you exit Windows. Completing Configuration After you make all necessary changes to the PaintJet Defaults dialog box, complete configuration by selecting OK. Or you may choose Cancel or Reset if you want to do the following: a. Cancel - ignores any changes made to the PaintJet Defaults dialog box during the current session and returns control to the Default Printer box. Your printer will NOT be configured if you select Cancel during initial configuration. b. Reset - returns all options in the PaintJet Defaults dialog box to their driver default values. You may then choose OK to complete configuration and save the driver defaults as your defaults. SOFT FONTS Installing Soft Fonts If you have soft font files for PaintJet and they are stored on your hard disc in a subdirectory of your Windows directory, skip to step 1. Otherwise, follow steps a-d below to create a fonts subdirectory and to copy the font files to that directory. For details on these procedures, refer to Chapter 5, "Using MS-DOS Executive" in the Windows User's Guide. a. From the MS-DOS Executive window, use the Special menu's Create Directory command to create a directory for soft fonts under your Windows directory (for example, C:\WINDOWS\PJFONTS). b. Use the Special menu's Change Directory command to move to the newly created fonts directory. c. Insert your fonts disc into the floppy disc drive. d. Use the File menu's Copy command to copy the files from your floppy disc to the current directory of your hard disc. Type A:*.* in the Copy box (if your floppy drive is not A:, substitute the correct letter). Leave the TO box empty and click OK. e. Use the Special menu's Change Directory command to return to your Windows directory. Your soft fonts are now stored on your hard disc. To INSTALL the soft fonts so that they are available on the printer from Windows applications: 1. Run Control Panel and choose Printer from the Setup menu. 2. Select PaintJet and choose OK to see the PaintJet Defaults dialog box. 3. Pull down the Options menu and select Fonts. a. In the Fonts dialog box, choose the button which matches your font filename extension (PJF or FNT). (All soft fonts created for PaintJet have the extension PJF.) b. In the Directories box, open the directory that contains your fonts by double-clicking the drive/directory name. To move one subdirectory level above your current location, double-click the bracketed dots ([..]). The current directory name displays in the lower left corner of the Fonts box, and all font files with the specified extension in that directory appear in the font scroll box. c. In the font scroll box select the font(s) that you want to make available on PaintJet. You may select more than one font by pressing the Shift key while clicking each font filename. The selected fonts will REPLACE any previously installed soft fonts when you choose the OK button, so be sure to select all desired fonts. Unselected fonts will not be available on PaintJet, but will still be stored in your fonts directory. d. Choose the Font Info button if you would like to see the typeface name and point size of the selected soft fonts, then select OK to return to the Fonts dialog box. If no fonts are selected, the Font Info button is disabled. e. Select OK in the Fonts dialog box to complete soft font installation. Make any selection in the PaintJet Defaults dialog box; soft fonts will remain installed regardless of your selection. Now when you print from Windows applications which let you select fonts, the soft fonts you have installed will display as options. Removing Soft Fonts You may remove soft fonts so they no longer appear as PaintJet font options in your Windows applications. The font files will not be erased from your hard disc; they simply will no longer appear on Windows applications font lists. 1. From Control Panel's Setup menu, select Printer and choose "PaintJet on (port)." Click OK to see the PaintJet Defaults dialog box. 2. Pull down the Options menu and select the Fonts option. Your currently installed soft fonts are highlighted in the font scroll box. 3. Press the Shift key while you click the font(s) to be removed. The font names become unhighlighted. 4. Choose the OK button in the Fonts dialog box. 5. Choose the OK button in the PaintJet Defaults dialog box. The fonts will be removed regardless of the Save box setting. UNDERSTANDING PAINTJET SETTINGS IN YOUR WIN.INI FILE Your WIN.INI file contains settings for many Microsoft Windows features and Windows applications. Refer to Appendix A, "Customizing Your WIN.INI File," of the Microsoft Windows User's Guide for descriptions of these settings. When you configure your Windows PaintJet driver, the following section is added to the WIN.INI file (your values may differ according to the options you selected during configuration): [PaintJet,LPT1:] softfonts=2 fontdir=C:\WINDOWS\PJF FileMask=*.PJF Font1=(your soft font names here) Preloaded=1 MirrorImage=0 Orientation=0 PaperFeed=1 Size=0 Length=1100 PrintColor=0 MediaType=0 Background=7 Foreground=0 The first four keywords appear only if you install soft fonts for PaintJet. All WIN.INI PaintJet settings may be changed through Control Panel, so it may never be necessary for you to work directly in this file. And because some settings are related, they should be changed ONLY in Control Panel where incorrect options are unavailable for selection. The following is provided for your reference. Softfonts: Shows the number of soft fonts available on PaintJet. Fontdir: Displays the directory path containing your soft fonts. FileMask: Lists your soft font filename extensions. Font#: Lists installed soft font filenames. Preloaded: 0 = Paper is not preloaded 1 = Paper is preloaded (default) MirrorImage: 0 = Regular image (default) 1 = Mirror image Orientation: 0 = Portrait (default) 1 = Landscape PaperFeed: 0 = Single Sheet 1 = Fanfold (default) Size: 0 = "A" English/8.5 inches wide (default) 1 = "A4" Metric/210 mm wide Length: 1100 = Media is 11 inches long 297 = Media is 297 mm long other = other length set using media length scroll box PrintColor: 0 = Color application (default) 1 = Monochrome application MediaType: 0 = Paper (default) 1 = Transparency Background, Foreground: 0=Black 1=Blue 2=Green 3=Cyan 4=Red 5=Magenta 6=Yellow 7=White WIN.INI TROUBLESHOOTING You may find that incorrect settings appear in your PaintJet dialog boxes if your WIN.INI file becomes corrupt due to repeated installation of drivers or direct editing of the file. If this occurs, delete the PaintJet section from your WIN.INI file beginning with the [PaintJet,LPT1:] entry. Then reconfigure your PaintJet driver using Control Panel, and the driver will insert its default settings into your WIN.INI file. Refer to "Editing Your WIN.INI File" in Appendix A of the Microsoft Windows User's Guide for instructions on editing this file. For faster printing on PaintJet, set the WIN.INI "Spooler=" setting to NO. REMINDER: Windows reads certain WIN.INI settings only when you start the program. Therefore, any time you edit the WIN.INI file, you should save the file, exit Windows, then restart Windows for your new settings to take effect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ END OF README FILE ------------------------------------------------------------------------