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README file for:

PCL 6 printer driver for Windows(R) XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and Windows Server(R) 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 (x86/x64)

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This README file has the following sections:

(I)   Introduction
(II)  Installing the printer driver from the downloaded driver package
         i)   Installing the printer driver in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
         ii) Upgrading the printer driver in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
(III) Installing the printer driver from the CD
         i)   Installing the printer driver in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
         ii) Upgrading the printer driver in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
(IV)  Uninstalling the printer driver from Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
(V)   Application notes and tips
(VI)  Resolved problems and changed features
(VII) Limitations with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2

(I) Introduction
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This file describes how to set up your printer driver and contains the most up-to-date 
information that was available at the time of software release. Please see the application 
notes section for details of known limitations. For information on printer driver settings 
and features, please check the Help file. 

(II) Installing the printer driver from the downloaded driver package
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  i) Installing the printer driver in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
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  The printer driver is provided on the printer driver download site. 

  1. Download the printer driver and extract it to your computer.

  2. Close all applications.

  3. (Windows XP, Server 2003) Open "Printers and Faxes" folder from "Start" menu.
     (Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2) Click "Control Panel" from the "Start" menu.
     (Windows 10) Click "Control Panel" or click "Settings" from the "Start" menu.

  4. (Windows XP, Server 2003) Click on "Add a Printer" in "Printer Tasks" and follow the instructions.
     (Windows Vista, Server 2008) Click "Printer" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel".
     (Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2) Click "View Devices and Printers" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel".
     (Windows 10) Click "View Devices and Printers" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel". Or click "Devices" in "Settings".

  5. (Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2) Click "Add a Printer" from the menu bar.
     (Windows 10) Click "Add a Printer" from the menu bar or click "Add a printer or scanner" in "Devices". 
   
  6. Follow the instructions.
       
     When asked for the installation disk,
     a) Select the folder that the driver is extracted to.
     b) Select the "DISK1" directory.
     c) Click "OK" and continue with the instructions.

  ii) Upgrading the printer driver in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
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  1. (Windows XP, Server 2003) Open the "Printers and Faxes" folder from the "Start" menu.
     (Windows Vista, 2008) Click "Control Panel" from the "Start" menu and click "Printer" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel".
     (Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2) Click "Control Panel" from the "Start" menu and click "View Devices and Printers" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel".
     (Windows 10) Click "Control Panel" from the "Start" menu and select "View Devices and Printers" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel". Or click "Settings" from the "Start" menu and then click "Devices".
  2. Select the printer for which you wish to upgrade the driver.
  3. (Windows XP, Server 2003) Open the printer's properties dialog by selecting Properties under File menu.
     (Windows Vista, 2008) Click the right mouse button to open Menu. Click "Run as administrator" and "Properties" in this order.
     (Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2) Click the right mouse button to open Menu. Click "Printer properties".
                          If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
  4. Select the Advanced tab.
  5. Press "New Driver..." button, and follow the instructions
  6. When asked for the installation disk,    
     a) Select the folder that the driver was extracted to.
     b) Select the "DISK1" directory.
     c) Click "OK" and continue with the instructions.
  7. Log off Windows and Log on again.

  Note:
    If you do not log off and log on Windows, you may encounter an Explorer error
    when opening the printer driver dialog.
    To resolve this problem, please log off and log on Windows.


(III) Installing the printer driver from the CD
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  i) Installing the printer driver in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
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  The printer driver is provided on a CD-ROM.

  1. Insert the "Printer Drivers and Utilities" CD in the CD drive on your computer.

  2. Close all applications.

  3. (Windows XP, Server 2003) Open "Printers and Faxes" folder from "Start" menu.
     (Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2) Click "Control Panel" from the "Start" menu.
     (Windows 10) Click "Control Panel" or click "Settings" from the "Start" menu.

  4. (Windows XP, Server 2003) Click on "Add a Printer" in "Printer Tasks" and follow the instructions.
     (Windows Vista, 2008) Click "Printer" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel".
     (Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2) Click "View Devices and Printers" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel".
     (Windows 10) Click "View Devices and Printers" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel". Or click "Devices" in "Settings".

  5. (Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2) Click "Add a Printer" from the menu bar.
     (Windows 10) Click "Add a Printer" from the menu bar or click "Add a printer or scanner" in "Devices". 

  6. Follow the instructions.

     When asked for the installation disk,    
     a) Select your CD drive.
     b) Select the "DRIVERS" directory.
     c) Select the "PCL6" directory.
     d) Select the "XP_VISTA" directory.
     e) Select your Windows (natural) language directory.
     f) Select the "DISK1" directory.
     g) Click "OK" and continue with the instructions.

  ii) Upgrading the printer driver in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
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  1. (Windows XP, Server 2003) Open the "Printers and Faxes" folder from the "Start" menu.
     (Windows Vista, 2008) Click "Control Panel" from the "Start" menu and click "Printer" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel".
     (Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2) Click "Control Panel" from the "Start" menu and click "View Devices and Printers" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel".
     (Windows 10) Click "Control Panel" from the "Start" menu and click "View Devices and Printers" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel". Or click "Settings" from the "Start" menu and then click "Devices".  
  2. Select the printer for which you wish to upgrade the driver.
  3. (Windows XP, Server 2003) Open the printer's properties dialog by selecting Properties under File menu.
     (Windows Vista, 2008) Click the right mouse button to open Menu. Click "Run as administrator" and "Properties" in this order.
     (Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2) Click the right mouse button to open Menu. Click "Printer properties".
                          If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
  4. Select the Advanced tab.
  5. Press "New Driver..." button, and follow the instructions
  6. When asked for the installation disk,    
     a) Select your CD drive.
     b) Select the "DRIVERS" directory.
     c) Select the "PCL6" directory.
     d) Select the "XP_VISTA" directory.
     e) Select your Windows (natural) language directory.
     f) Select the "DISK1" directory.
     g) Click OK and continue with the instructions.
  9. Log off Windows and Log on again.

  Note:
    If you do not log off and log on Windows, you may encounter an Explorer error
    when opening the printer driver dialog.
    To resolve this problem, please log off and log on Windows.


IV) Uninstalling the printer driver from Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
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Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2:
1. Close all applications.
2. Click "Control Panel" from the "Start" menu and click "View devices and printers" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel". Or click "Settings" from the "Start" menu, and click "Printers & scanners" in "Devices". Then select  "Related settings", and choose"Devices and printers".
3. Delete the printer icon corresponding to the driver that is to be uninstalled.
4. Select anyone drvier icon and then click "Printer server properties" in the menu bar and navigate to the "Drivers" tab.
5. Select the driver name you want to uninstall in the "Installed printer drivers" list.
6. Press "Remove" key.
7. Select "Remove driver and driver package" and press "OK".
8. Press "Delete" key in "Remove Driver Package" dialogue, then press "OK".
9. Log the current user account off or restart the PC.

Windows Vista, Server 2008:
1. Close all applications.
2. Click "Control Panel" from the "Start" menu and click "Printer" in "Hardware and Sound" in "Control Panel".
3. Delete the printer icon corresponding to the driver that is to be uninstalled.
4. Open "Server Properties" dialogue then select "Drivers" tab.
5. Select the driver name you want to uninstall in the "Installed printer drivers" list.
6. Press "Remove" key.
7. Select "Remove driver and driver package" and press "OK".
8. Press "Delete" key in "Remove Driver Package" dialogue, then press "OK".
9. Log the current user account off or restart the PC.

Windows XP, Server 2003:
1. Close all applications.
2. Open "Printers and Faxes" folder from "Start" menu.
3. Delete the printer icon corresponding to the driver that is to be uninstalled.
4. Open "Server Properties" dialogue from "File" menu, then select "Drivers" tab.
5. Select the driver to be uninstalled.
6. Press "Remove" key.
7. Log the current user account off or restart the PC.


(V) Application notes and tips
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Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
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 1. When graphics images or text printed as graphics images are not printed as they appear on your computer screen, change the "Graphics Mode" on the "Print Quality" tab. 

 2. With some applications, some characters may not print correctly.  To solve this problem, change the "TrueType Mode" and/or the "Use Printer Fonts" on the "Print Quality" tab.

 3. When printing complicated documents to a printer connected with a parallel interface, the printer time-out may cause the document to print incorrectly.  If this happens, the Spool Setting to "Start printing after last page is spooled" and/or extend the IO timeout at the printer operation panel(max. 300 seconds).

 4. Selecting the Spool Type as EMF may cause some applications not to print well in "Vector" mode.  If this happens, return the Spool Type setting to RAW.

 5. Documents that contain fonts not installed on your computer will not print correctly.  Make sure your document only contains fonts installed on your computer.

 6. To avoid problems in general, make sure that there is plenty of free disk space.

 7. When you change the printer properties from WordPad, changes will not be reflected in the print job immediately following the change.

 8. When "Copies" is selected on the driver's "Setup" tab, the value may not be reflected in the application print dialog box.  Be sure to set the number of copies only in the driver, not in the application.

 9. PowerPoint may print some graphics objects with the same color although they are in different colors on the computer screen.  To solve this problem, change the object's color.

10. To print multiple copies from MS-Project, set the number of copies setting in the application print dialog box to 1, and then specify the number of copies using "Copies" setting on the driver's "Setup" tab.

11. When using with MS-Project, the stripe pattern interval may not print as it appears on your computer screen.  If this happens, change the "Graphics Mode".

12. PageMaker shifts the image by about an inch with some paper sizes.  To solve this problem, print using a different paper size.

13. With Adobe Frame Maker, please use *.FM document to print when "Duplex/Booklet" or "Staple" function is selected.

14. PageMaker may not print graphics if a document contains large amount of graphics. To print such documents, change the "Memory Usage" settings to "Font Priority" on the printer operation panel.

15. If a Separator Page is selected, some documents may not print as expected.

16. The printer driver dialog opened from CorelDRAW 8 may show unreadable characters, due to a problem in CorelDRAW 8.

17. You can not enter the number of copies greater than 9 in the printer driver dialog opened from CorelDRAW 8, due to a problem in CorelDRAW 8.  To print more than 9 copies, set the number of copies in the CorelDRAW 8's print dialog.

18. Documents may not be stapled at the slant angle, even when you select "Top Left Slant" or "Top Right Slant". In such a case, the document will be stapled parallel to an edge of the paper.

19. The measurement unit in the Custom Paper Size dialog is reset to "cm" when the driver dialog is reopened, even if the custom paper size was previously specified in "inch".  The paper size specification is retained regardless of the unit.

20. When the spooler is paused, please do not send the print job.

21. Please do not change the "Driver" setting on the "Advanced Options" tab.

22. If you are using Office XP, be sure to apply Service Pack 1 or later to avoid printing problems.

23. The watermark is not printed on the first page when both "On first page only" and "Booklet" are selected.

24. With some applications (e.g. CorelDRAW, Visio), complicated images may take a long time to print when the "Graphic Mode" is "Vector".  For faster printing, choose "Raster"(Graphics Mode) on the "Print Quality" tab. 

25. If the printer driver language differs from that of the Operating System, characters may not be printed properly or the characters on the printer driver may not be displayed properly.

26. Printing a large document in booklet produce a large temporary file.  If you encounter an error when printing a large document in booklet, try again after increasing the free area in drive C:.

27. If the "Graphics Mode" is set to "Raster" or if the "TrueType Mode" is set to "Download as bit image", the watermark may not print correctly.  Change the "Graphics Mode" to "Vector".

28. Use of a different Paper Source for the cover setting might result in a paper mismatch error. This occurs if the cover is of a different paper size than the rest of the document. This only happens if the cover is not blank and if the source tray for the rest of the document is not "Auto Tray Select". As a workaround, change the print settings so that any one of the above conditions are not met. Note: "cover" = Front Cover, Back Cover or Chaptering Pages

29. Black and White documents might be printed in full color (CMYK). To ensure that the job prints using pure Black (K), please change the color mode to "Black and White".

30. If printed using Adobe Acrobat/Acrobat Reader, black and white PDF documents compressed by MMR are printed in full color with some image distortion/deterioration. This can be prevented by disabling the application's "Print As Image" function.

31. The gray background of the chart will be printed as a color job (using CMY ink) when you print the chart from Microsoft Excel 2003/2007.

32. This printer driver is not supported the "Update Printer Driver" function of Web SmartDeviceMonitor Packager. If you want to update driver, use "Delete Printer Driver" function and use "Add Printer" function again.

(VI)  Resolved problems and changed features
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Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
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None.

(VII)Limitations with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2
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1. Terminal Services Easy Print is not supported.

