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NEC 20 User Manual

Welcome
This Printer Driver User’s Manual describes how to install and use the Minolta PageWorks 20 Printer Utility. Before reading this Printer Driver User’s Manual, we recommend that you read the User’s Manual. It explains how to set up and operate the printer.
The contents of this manual are subject to change without notice.
Trademark Acknowledgments
TrueType is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Microsoft Wind ows 3.1 and 95 are registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation. PageWorksTM is a trademark of Minolta in the U.S. and Canada. All other products or name brands are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders. This printer includes the software developed by T okyo Denshi Sekei
K.K.
U.S.A. Technical Support
If you continue to experience technical difficulty with the operation of your printer product, please contact your support representative:
Toll free at 1-800-459-3250 or via our website at http://www.minoltappd.com.
Hours of operation and toll free nature of our support program is subject to change without prior notice.
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Contents

Chapter 1 Printer Driver for Windows 95

Introduction...........................................................1-1
System Requirements .......................................... 1-1
Installing the Printer Driver..................................1-2
Plug and Play ....................................................1-2
Manual Installation.............................................1-5
Setting the Printing Options .................................1-11
General Button Operations...................................1-11
Printer Properties Window ...................................1-11
General..............................................................1-12
Details................................................................1-13
Setup.................................................................1-15
Paper.................................................................1-25
Graphics............................................................1-30
Fonts..................................................................1-32
Device Option....................................................1-33
Printing Documents..............................................1-35
Installing the Minolta Font Manager.................... 1-36
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Chapter 2 Minolta Status Monitor 20

Introduction...........................................................2-1
System Requirements .......................................... 2-2
Installing the Minolta Status Monitor.................. 2-3
Understanding the Status Monitor........................ 2-4
Status Icon ...........................................................2-8
Status Monitor Menus..........................................2-9
Settings..............................................................2-9
Choose Printer............................................ 2-9
Alert ............................................................2-10
Monitoring Interval ......................................2-11
View...................................................................2-11
Toolbar........................................................2-11
Recommended Action.................................2-11
Refresh .......................................................2-11
Help...................................................................2-12
Help Topics .................................................2-12
About Minolta Status Monitor......................2-12
User Setting Items..............................................2-13
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Chapter 3 Printer Driver for Windows 3.1

Introduction...........................................................3-1
System Requirements .......................................... 3-1
Installing the Printer Driver..................................3-2
Selecting the Printer Port.....................................3-5
Selecting Timeout Options...................................3-6
Choosing the Default Printer................................3-7
Setting the Printing Options .................................3-8
General Button Operations...................................3-8
Printer Setup Window...........................................3-8
Setup.................................................................3-9
Paper.................................................................3-19
Graphics............................................................3-24
Fonts..................................................................3-25
Device Options..................................................3-26
Printing Documents..............................................3-28
Installing the Minolta Font Manager.................... 3-29
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Introduction
The Minolta PageWorks 20 printer utility was developed especially to provide true Windows based printing for users of the Minolta PageWorks 20 printer.
System Requirements
The following describes the minimum system requirements that are necessary to correctly run the Minolta PageWorks 20 printer utility.
Operating System:
Microsoft Windows 95 (English)
Personal Computer:
IBM PC or compatible with a 486SX 33MHz CPU, or faster CPU (Pentium processor recommended)
I/O Interface:
Standard PC parallel printer port and cable
Memory:
At least 12MB PC RAM (16MB recommended)
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Free Disk Space:
Approximately 1MB for files
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Use of a poor quality parallel cable may adversely affect input.
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Installing the Printer Driver
Plug and Play
1. Connect the printer to the computer using the parallel interface cable.
2. Turn on your printer.
3. Turn on your computer and start up Windows 95. If the New Hardware Found screen appears, go to step 4.
If not, go to “Manual Installation” step 2 on page 1-5.
4. Click “Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacture” and then click the OK button.
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5. Insert the Windows 95 Printer Driver diskette into your com­puter’s disk drive. After making sure the displayed drive letter is your computer’s disk drive, click the OK button.
6. Click the OK button.
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7. Click the Finish button.
8. Installing the Printer Driver is completed. Your new printer icon appears in the Printers folder.
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Manual Installation
1. Turn on your computer and start up Windows 95.
2. Click the Start Button, point to Settings, and then click Print- ers.
3. In the Printers folder, double-click the Add Printer icon.
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4. Click the Next button.
5. Select “Local printer”, then click the Next button.
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6. Click the Have Disk... button.
7. Insert the Windows 95 Printer Driver diskette into your com­puter’s disk drive. At the command prompt, type the drive letter followed by a colon (:) and a back slash (\). For example:
A:\ Click the OK button.
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8. Click the Next button.
9. Make sure LPT1 is selected, then click the Next button.
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10. Click the Finish button.
11. If you have already installed the printer driver, the following
screen appears. Check Yes, then click the Finish button.
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12. Installing the Printer Driver is completed. Your new printer icon
appears in the Printers folder.
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Setting the Printing Options
Printing options are your printer-specific settings, such as resolu­tion, print quality and installed options.
To change printer settings
1. Click the Start Button, point to Settings, and then click Print­ers. The Printers folder appears.
2. Click your printer icon, click File, and then click Properties. The printer properties window appears.
3. Make any necessary changes, then click the OK button.
General Button Operations
The following describes the operation of the three buttons that appear at the bottom of all setup dialog boxes.
Restore Default
Click this button to restore all settings in the displayed dialog box to their initial defaults.
OK
Click this button to close the printer properties window and save all the setting changes you made.
Cancel
Click this button to close the printer properties window without sav­ing any of the changes you have made.
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Apply
Click this button to send all the setting changes you made to the printer without closing the printer properties window.
Printer Properties Window
The following describes how to make settings using the dialog boxes that are available in this window.
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General
Comment
Provides a place for you to add a comment about the printer, for example, when it is available or what it is used for.
If you share this printer, the comment is transferred when someone sets up your printer on their computer. However, if you change the comment, other people will not see the updated version.
Separator page
Inserts a page between each document printed. This is useful if many people are using your printer or if you are printing multiple documents at once. You can choose between a full page that includes graphics or a simple page with text only.
If you want to use a custom separator page, click Browse to locate and specify which separator file you want to print between docu ments. You can use any Windows metafile (.wmf) for a separator page.
You can set up separator pages only if the printer is attached directly to your computer.
Print Test Page
Click this button to send a test page to your printer. You might want to do this to make sure your printer is set up correctly.
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Port
Displays the port your printer is connected to or the path to the net­work printer you are using.
You can change where you print to by typing the network path here, by opening the list and clicking a port, or by clicking Add Port.
LPT A parallel port. COM A serial port. FILE Prints to a file instead of a printer. If the application you
are working with supports this feature, you can print to a file even if you don’t select this option.
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Add Port
Click this button to add a new port or specify a new network path.
Delete Port
Click this button to delete a port from the list of available ports.
Driver
Displays the type of printer you are using. This type must match your printer or be one that your printer can emulate.
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New Driver
Click this button to update or change your printer driver.
Capture Printer Port
Click this button to capture a port (map it to a network drive).
End Capture
Click this button to remove the mapping of a port from a network drive (end the capture).
Timeout
Timeout options control the amount of time that elapses before a message appears to notify you of printer problems.
Not Selected Specifies how much time (in seconds)
Windows will wait for the printer to come on-line before reporting an error.
Transmission Retry Specifies how much time (in seconds)
Windows will wait for the printer to be ready to print before reporting an error. If you have problems printing large docu ments, you may want to increase the value of this setting.
Spool Settings
Click this button to specify how your document is sent from your program to the printer.
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Click this button to change settings for the printer port.
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Setup
Copies
Specifies the number of copies you want to print. You can specify any value from 1 to 999.
Collate
Collate Off: When Collate is off, the printer prints each page of
a job the number of times selected in the Copies item. For exam ple, if you send a three-page job to print and set Copies to 2, the printer prints page 1, page 1, page 2, page 2, page 3, page 3.
Collate On: When Collate is on, the printer prints each print job the number of times selected in the Copies item. For example, if you send a three-page job to print and set Copies to 2, the printer prints page 1, page 2, page 3, page 1, page 2, page 3.
Separation: Allows you to insert a blank page between print jobs.
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If you specify Separation, you must also specify JOB SEP ARA-
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NOTE
If you specify Collate On or Separation through the printer driver, be sure to set the collate setting of the application software to
Duplex Print
Specifies whether to print on both sides of the paper. If you attempt duplex printing, you can choose either Bind Long Edge or Bind Short Edge.
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- To activate this setting, you must change the setting for Duplex Unit in the Device Option dialog box from “Not Installed” to “Installed”.
- Do not use special paper (transparencies, labels, envelopes,
letterhead and thick paper) for duplex printing.
- You cannot print on a custom size smaller than A5 size for duplex printing.
By creating a combination of Bind Long Edge, Bind Short Edge, Portrait, Landscape and N-Up, the printer prints upside down for odd-numbered pages and even numbered pages, or in the same direction for all pages.
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None: Performs one sided printing. Bind Long Edge: Performs duplex printing for binding along
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When you print on a custom size with Bind Long Edge, the Lay­out function cannot be used.
Bind Short Edge: Performs duplex printing for binding along the short edge.
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None: No layout specified. N-Up: Prints either two or four pages on a single sheet of paper.
Example: Portrait orientation.
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If you select N-Up, the following settings activate. N-Up Choice: You can select twelve kinds of layouts.
Example: Portrait orientation.
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Example: Landscape orientation.
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N-Up Paper: p x n -> paper size. p: the paper size of the document. n: N-Up paper size: see “Paper Size” page 1-25.
Border Line: Specifies whether to print a border line.
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Booklet: Tells the printer that the printed pages will be bound in the center. Enables booklet printing both for portrait and land
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- To activate this setting, you must change the setting for Duplex Unit in the Device Option dialog box from “Not Installed” to “Installed”.
- When you perform booklet printing, set the Duplex Print setting in the Setup dialog box to “None”.
If you select Booklet, the following settings activate. Booklet Choice: You can select either “Left Open” or “Right
Open”. Booklet Paper: p x 2 -> paper size.
p: the paper size of the document. paper size: see “Paper Size” page 1-25.
Example: Portrait orientation.
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Enlarge/Reduce: Performs enlargement or reduction printing according to the paper size you specify.
If you select Enlarge/Reduce, the following settings activate. Enlarge/Reduce: p -> paper size.
p: the paper size of the document. paper size: see “Paper Size” page 1-25.
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