================================================================================ INFORMATION REGARDING POSTSCRIPT PRINTERS ================================================================================ You have selected one of the following printers: Agfa/Compugraphic 400PS Digital LPS PrintServer 40 TI OmniLaser 2108 Apple LaserWriter IBM Personal Pageprinter TI OmniLaser 2115 Apple LaserWriter Plus Linotronic 100/300/500 Varityper VT-600 AST TurboLaser/PS - R4081 NEC Silentwriter LC-890 Wang LCS15 Dataproducts LZR 2665 QMS-PS 800 Wang LCS15 FontPlus Digital LN03R ScriptPrinter QMS-PS 800 Plus Olivetti Cicero PG301 Apple LaserWriter II NT/NTX These printers are known as "PostScript Printers." Your printer has been installed; however, it has not yet been configured properly. To properly configure your PostScript printer, use the Control Panel. For information on how to do this, see "Configuring Your System" in Chapter 7, "Using Control Panel", of the Microsoft Windows User's Guide. Be sure to properly set up your communications port. Printing Faster With a Postscript Printer: Each time you print from Windows to a PostScript printer, Windows first prepares the printer by sending it a header file. Since sendng this file to the printer takes about 30 seconds, and the printer only needs this information once each time it is turned on, you can save time by telling Windows not to send this header to the printer and then doing it yourself each time you turn your printer on. NOTE: Do NOT do this if you will be creating PostScript print files to send to a service bureau for printing. If you decide to do this, first use Control Panel to configure your printer. Bring up the PostScript device specifc dialog, click the options buttons, and select "Already downloaded." Next, click the button that says "Header" and then click the button that says "File". Type in the filename "C:\WINDOWS\PSPREP.TXT" or other directory and filename. Now, each time you turn on your printer, you must copy this file, to the communications port which connects your printer to your computer. Assume you have created the file, PSPREP.TXT, in the C:\WINDOWS directory on your hard disk, and that your printer is connected to the COM1: communications port. Then, AFTER you turn on your printer and start Windows, you would need to use the File Copy command from MS-DOS Executive to copy PSPREP.TXT from C:\WINDOWS to COM1:. Likewise, before starting Windows, you could enter the following command at the DOS prompt: MODE COM1:9600,n,8,1 COPY C:\WINDOWS\PSPREP.TXT COM1 You could add the above DOS commands to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file so that your computer automatically copies PSPREP.TXT to your printer each time you turn it on. If you do this, BE SURE to turn on your printer BEFORE you turn on your computer or your printer will not be properly prepared for printing. If you do forget to turn on your printer first, simply issue the above command to prepare your printer. APPLE LASERWRITER OR APPLE LASERWRITER PLUS If you use a Local Area Network Spooler rather than the Windows Spooler, you may need to configure your Apple printer to use hardware handshaking; this is typical when using a printer connected to a Local Area Network. To configure your Apple printer for hardware handshaking, use the Control Panel to change your printer's communication port to "Hardware" for the "Handshaking" option. For more information see "Setting Up a Communications Port" in Chapter 7, "Using Control Panel," in the Microsoft Windows User's Guide. Also, you must select the Hardware option in the Handshaking dialog of the PostScript device dialogs options screen. You need only do this once, since this information is permanently stored in the printer, even if you turn the printer off. If you still have trouble printing, you may have a faulty serial port, or you may have an older model of the Apple LaserWriter. In order to resolve the latter problem, you may need to upgrade your LaserWriter. In either case, contact your printer dealer. If you are only getting the first few pages of a printout, it may be because your printer is connected to a device which does hardware handshaking. Try setting up hardware handshaking per the instructions above. Printing ITC Zapf Dingbats: With the LaserWriter Plus, you can select the ITC Zapf Dingbat fonts, ZapfDingbats (i.e. a number of special symbols). When using these fonts, the screen will display normal characters: no font is available with the Windows package for viewing the dingbat characters on the Windows screen. However, when the document is printed, the dingbat characters will be printed instead of normal characters. Printing Complicated Print Jobs: The Apple LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plus may spend a long time "computing" the image of very complicated printouts. When this happens, the Spooler occasionally alerts you that the printer is not responding with a dialog box asking if you would like to cancel the printout. If this happens, choose the "Retry" button and your printer will continue "computing." If you need to do this often, you may want to adjust the "Transmission retry" timeout with the Control Panel. For more information on changing the "Transmission retry", see "Setting Up Printers" in Chapter 7, "Using the Control Panel," in the Microsoft Windows User's Guide. LINOTRONIC IMAGESETTER: When configuring your Linotronic printer, be sure to set the "Graphics resolution:" option to the resolution of your model (for example, 1270 dots per inch). For information on configuring your printer, see "Setting Up Printers" in Chapter 7, "Using the Control Panel," in the Microsoft Windows User's Guide. IBM PERSONAL PAGEPRINTER: In order to use the IBM Personal Pageprinter, you must set up the postscript printer driver to use the EPT: port. If you did not do this during Setup, then you may use the "Connections..." command from the "Setup" menu of the control panel. Special EPT: port software is provided with your IBM printer. For more information, see your IBM Personal Pageprinter documentation. TI OMNILASER: When printing to a TI OmniLaser, you may experience problems such as garbled output or messages such as "Can't write to printer." These problems only occur when the printer is connected directly to the computer via its parallel port. If you get garbled output, then connect your printer to the computer via a serial port. If you get messages such as "Can't write to printer," then either connect your printer to the computer via a serial port, or simply press "Retry" when Windows says this. This problem has been fixed in version 1.4 and later of the OmniLaser ROM's. USING A4 PAPER ON VERSION 23 OR EARLIER POSTSCRIPT ROMS Copy the file A4TRAY.TXT, which is located on your Utilities disks, to the communications port that your PostScript printer is attached to in order to get your printer to print properly on A4 paper. You will have to copy this file to your printer each time you turn it on. The following DOS commands could be used in your autoexec.bat: MODE COM1:9600,n,8,1 COPY C:\WINDOWS\A4TRAY.TXT COM1 ================================================================================ END OF READMEPS.TXT ================================================================================