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Name: Apple LaserWriter Driver for Windows NT
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ABOUT YOUR APPLE LASERWRITER PRINTER SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0 This document contains some important reminders and some information that is not in the manual that comes with your printer. Your Apple LaserWriter CD-ROM or floppy disk set contains the software you need to print to these Apple LaserWriter printers: CONTENTS OBTAINING PRINTER SUPPLIES You can order printer supplies direct from Apple for the LaserWriter 8500, Color LaserWriter 12/660, Color LaserWriter 12/600, and LaserWriter 12/640 PS printers. For other LaserWriter printers see your Apple-authorized dealer. For the location of the nearest Apple-authorized dealer, in the U.S. call 1-800-538-9696, extension 525. Obtaining Supplies for LaserWriter 8500 In the U.S. to order toner for the Apple LaserWriter 8500 direct from Apple, call 1-800-600-7805. For your reference, the part number is listed below: M5893G/A LaserWriter 8500 Toner Cartridge You can obtain other parts from your Apple-authorized dealer. The parts available are: M5894G/A LaserWriter 8500 A3 500-Sheet Cassette and Feeder M5895G/A LaserWriter 8500 A4 500-Sheet Cassette and Feeder M5896G/A LaserWriter 8500 Duplex Printing Unit M5897G/A LaserWriter 8500 Envelope Cassette Obtaining Supplies for Color LaserWriters 12/660 PS and 12/600 PS In the U.S., to order printer supplies for the Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS and Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS direct from Apple, call 1-800-600-7805. For your reference, the part numbers are listed below: M3755G/A Fuser Oil M3756G/A Black Toner Cartridge M3757G/A Cyan Toner Cartridge M3758G/A Yellow Toner Cartridge M3760G/A Magenta Toner Cartridge M3761G/A Photoconductor Replacement Kit M3867G/A Fuser Replacement Kit, 110v M3876G/A Color LaserWriter Transparencies, LTR size (50 per pack) Obtaining Supplies for the Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS In the U.S. to order printer supplies for the LaserWriter 12/640 PS direct from Apple, call 1-800-600-7805. For your reference, the part numbers are listed below: M4683G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Toner Cartridge M4682G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS 500-Sheet Cassette and Feeder M4680G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Envelope Cassette M4697G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Duplex Printing Unit M4698G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Face-Up Output Tray LASERWRITER 8500 PRINTER TIPS Using Letter and A4 Paper Sizes - If you want to alternate between doing letter and A4 print jobs, be sure to specify the specific cassette you want the printer to use. If you use AutoSelect, the printer may detect Letter paper as A4 and vice versa. Additional Regulatory Information - This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. See instructions if interference to radio or television reception is suspected. Responsible Party: Robert Steinfeld Apple Computer, Inc. 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 Telephone: 408-974-2618 (For FCC Compliance Information Only) Using Centronics to Print a PostScript File - When using Centronics to print aPostScript file Apple recommends that the following DOS command be present in the autoexec.bat file on your PC system: mode lpt1:,,p or mode lpt1:,,b This will ensure that the host computer will not time-out prematurely before the print job completes. Using Centronics to Print a PostScript File from DOS - If you will be printing from an IBM PC or compatible in DOS mode make sure that there is a Ctrl-D character at the end of the file or append another job containing a Ctrl-D. Using NetWare 3.12 and RPRINTER mode - If you will be using NetWare 3.12 with the printer in RPRINTER mode, be sure to check that NetWare banner pages are off or the print job will not print. INSTALLING THE PRINTER SOFTWARE ON WINDOWS NT 4.0 1) Start Windows NT. The installer supports Windows NT 3.5.1 and NT 4.0. You can use the installer to install the PostScript printer driver for these printers: 2) Insert your CD into the CD-ROM drive. 3) Open the directory on the CD called \Win_os\Win_NT\Disk1 and double-click the setup.exe file. Follow the installer's instructions. When the installer asks you to select the printer model to install, select Apple from the Manufacturer list and Apple LaserWriter 8500 from the printer list. If asked to insert the Windows NT CD-ROM into drive A:, Click OK. Click Browse to see the PSCRIPT.DLL file in the I386 folder on Disk 2. Click Open and Click OK to continue the installation. 4) Complete the installation by making any desired changes to the Property sheets. Configuring the PostScript Printer Driver Before you can print, you may need to configure the printer driver. If you will be using a NetWare network, you may need to configure the printer for NetWare before you can configure the printer driver for NetWare. See Chapter 3 of your LaserWriter user's manual for instructions on setting up the printer for NetWare. 1) You configure the PostScript Printer Driver by accessing and changing its Properties. To display the printer's properties, from Start select Settings. Then, select Printers. The Printers folder opens. Highlight the printer icon whose properties you want to access. Then, from the File menu select Properties. The properties tab dialog boxes are displayed. Select the Details tab dialog box. This tab dialog box defines which port your computer will use to print to the printer. 2) Select the Port the printer is connected on by selecting the port from the "Print to the following port" list box. If the printer is connected via the parallel port, select the desired LPT port. If you are using NetWare, select the NetWare queue that you will use. If you are using TCP/IP, select the Apple Port Monitor for TCP/IP. 3) If you are using NetWare, you will also need to associate the queue with a LPT port. Once associated, jobs printed to the LPT port will be routed to the destination you associate with it. Click Capture Port. In the Path field, enter the queue name. Then click OK. 4) Review the remaining tab dialog boxes. If you have purchased printer options, use the Device Options tab dialog box to inform the PostScript driver of their availability. 5) When you are finished making changes, click OK. USING THE ADD PRINTER WIZARD TO INSTALL A PRINTER Follow these steps to install a printer using the Add Printer Wizard: 1) On your Windows NT 4.0 system from Start select Settings and then Printers. 2) Double-click Add Printer. Follow the Add Printer Wizard prompts. 3) When the Add Printer Wizard asks you to select the manufacturer and model of the printer you are installing press Have Disk... 4) If you are using your CD to add the printer, enter D:\Win_os\Win_NT\Disk2 (where D: represents the letter of the CD drive you are using) as the path or if you are using a floppy disk set, insert Disk 2 into the floppy drive. The list of printer drivers available appears. Select the printer driver desired and press OK. The appropriate files are copied to your hard disk. 5) Complete the installation by responding to the Add Printer Wizard's remaining prompts. USING NETWARE CLIENT SOFTWARE For NetWare networks, be sure to install on your client workstation either Novell or Microsoft Client for NetWare Networks. From the Network Control Panel select the desired client. ABOUT THE APPLE LASERWRITER UTILITY FOR WINDOWS Use the Apple LaserWriter Utility with these printers only: Using NetWare configuration (for printers that support NetWare) - Be sure not to turn off your printer while you are using any function on the Apple LaserWriter Utility's NetWare menu. If you turn off your printer while using these functions, your computer will hang. If you need to power off your printer, do so after you exit from the NetWare menu. Changing a printer from Rprinter to Pserver or from Pserver to Rprinter - When you change a printer from Rprinter to Pserver or from Pserver to Rprinter, make the change with the Apple LaserWriter Utility first. Then change the configuration on the NetWare file server. If you change the NetWare file server confguration first, you may not be able to select the printer from the Apple LaserWriter Utility's NetWare Configuration menu. The symptom is that the printer displays "N/A" in the Mode field and cannot be selected. If this occurs connect to the printer manually to reconfigure it. For instructions on doing this, see your Apple LaserWriter 8500 User Manual, Appendix A, Connecting to a network printer manually. PCL mode - The LaserWriter 8500 does not support PCL. However, some Apple LaserWriters support PCL. The Apple LaserWriter Utility uses PostScript commands to set the printer parameters. If the printer being configured is set to PCL mode, PostScript commands sent by the utility will not be recognized by the printer. To correct this, place your printer's communication switch in the factory default position and restart the printer. This returns the printer to AutoSelect mode and PostScript commands will now be processed by the printer. Note, that this is not an issue for the LaserWriter 8500 because it cannot be set to PCL mode. Apple LaserWriter Utility Uninstall - Uninstall is not available for the Apple LaserWriter Utility. If you wish to remove the utility, you can do so by deleting these files (default directory is C:\LWUTILS): ALWPU.EXE ALWPU.HLP ALWPUNET.DLL Also delete the ALWPU.INI file from the C:\WINDOWS directory. ABOUT THE APPLE PORT MONITOR FOR TCP/IP Before you can use the Apple Port Monitor for TCP/IP your LaserWriter 8500 must have a TCP/IP address. To assign a TCP/IP address connect the printer initially using the parallel port. Then, use the Apple LaserWriter Utility to assign a TCP/IP address. Use the "." character to separate the digits of the TCP/IP address. The Apple Port Monitor for TCP/IP can only be used with the LaserWriter 8500. Deleting a Port - To delete an Apple IP port follow these steps: 1. From Start, select Settings and then Printers. 2. Select the Printer that is using the port you want to delete. 3. From the File menu select Properties. 4. Assign a different port to the printer by clicking on one of the other available ports. 5. Press OK to exit thedialog and save the changes. 6. Repeat Steps 2 through 5 for each printer that is using the port. 7. Once all printers have been assigned other ports, select the Properties dialog, select the ports tab, and then select Delete Ports. 8. Highlight the port you want to delete and press OK. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR 8500, 12/640 OR 16/600 ON NETWARE If you select Print Server Configuration from the Apple LaserWriter Utility's Network menu and you don't see your LaserWriter 12/640 or 16/600 printer model's name in the list of printers available to configure, follow these steps to connect to your printer manually. 1) Run the Apple LaserWriter Utility and select your printer model. 2) From the Network menu, choose Connect to network printer. The Network Printer Manual Connect dialog box appears. 3) The Network number field displays the eight-digit ipx network number for this segment. If your printer is connected to another segment, enter that segment's Network number, then press Tab to enter the Node Address. Type the last six digits of your printer's Ethernet address in the Node Address field. You will find the Ethernet address on the startup page. Press Connect. The Printer Configuration and Status dialog box for your printer is displayed. 4) From the Frame Format list box, select the Frame Format that your NetWare file server uses. By default, NetWare 3 uses frame format 802.3; NetWare 4 uses frame format 802.2. If you want to use both NetWare 3.x and 4.x file servers with your printer, configure the NetWare file servers so that they use the same frame format. Note: The Frame Format list box may display "Autodetect" as its value. This indicates that the printer's frame format is not set yet. 5) Press Send to send the Frame Format to the printer. Then, wait about 30 seconds. You can now use Print Server Configuration to configure your printer. However, be sure to complete your PCONSOLE configuration for the printer first before doing so. PRINTING FROM WINDOWS NT 4.0 PostScript Level 2 Driver - Some features available with the Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 drivers are not yet available on Windows NT: a. watermarks, b. n-up printing, c. certain printer features - for example, for the Color LaserWriter 12/600 and 12/660 the transparency paper selection and print quality cannot be made, d. PostScript 3 features are not available. PostScript Options Negative Output - Only every other page is printed as negative output when this option is selected. Printing multiple copies from Acrobat - With Acrobat only one copy at a time can be printed. FILES INSTALLED This section identifies the files that are installed by an Express Installation: The Setup program places these PostScript Driver files in the Windows NT system directory you select: PSCRIPT.DLL PSCRIPTUI.DLL PSCRIPT.HLP PSCRIPT.CNT The Apple Port Monitor for TCP/IP files are installed by default into c:\windows\system. The files are: APPLE_IP.DLL APPLE_UI.DLL This README.WRI file and the Apple LaserWriter Utility are placed by default in c:\lwutils. The files are: README.WRI ALWPU.EXE ALWPU.HLP ALWPUNET.DLL NetWare client software is placed by default in c:\lwutils: NWCALLS.DLL NWIPXSPX.DLL The driver setup program installs PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files you select into the Windows system directory. These PPDs for the printer models indicated may be installed at the user's request: LaserWriter 8500 - APLWBGR1.PPD Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS - APLWCSB1.PPD LaserWriter 12/640 PS - APLWMGS1.PPD Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS - APLWCOB1.PPD LaserWriter 16/600 PS - APLWGRI2.PPD LaserWriter Select 360 - APLWSEL.PPD LaserWriter Pro 600 - APTOLLD1.PPD LaserWriter Pro 630 - APTOLLW1.PPD Default printer - DEFPRTR.PPD HOW TO GET UPDATED SOFTWARE Apple Software Updates are available on CompuServe, America Online, and on the Internet at: http://asu.info.apple.com/ To obtain the latest Adobe PostScript printer driver use: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/printerdrivers/main.html |
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