PCL LP 100R Printer Driver
Manual
For printer model:
LP 100R Laser
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Table of Contents
Before You Start ........................................................................................................................ 3
About the SATO PCL LP 100R Driver ....................................................................................... 4
Manage the Driver ................................................................................................................. 5
Printer Driver Installation ........................................................................................................... 6
Where to Find the Driver ........................................................................................................ 6
Installing the LP 100R Driver ................................................................................................. 6
Manage or Add a Port. ............................................................................................................ 10
LPR Port .............................................................................................................................. 12
Test Page ................................................................................................................................ 13
Upgrading the LP 100R Driver ................................................................................................ 14
Manually Remove the Driver ............................................................................................... 15
Using the LP 100R Driver ........................................................................................................ 16
Information Panel ................................................................................................................. 16
Managing Printer Settings ....................................................................................................... 17
Displaying Printer Preferences ............................................................................................ 17
Driver Version .......................................................................................................................... 19
Printer Properties .................................................................................................................... 20
See What’s Printing ................................................................................................................. 21
Mange Printer Status and Jobs ........................................................................................... 22
Matching the Driver and Printer settings ................................................................................. 23
Emulation ................................................................ ............................................................. 23
Paper Source ....................................................................................................................... 23
Orientation ........................................................................................................................... 24
Resolution ............................................................................................................................ 24
Paper Size ........................................................................................................................... 24
Custom Form Sizes ................................................................................................................. 26
Manage Custom Forms ....................................................................................................... 28
Modify a Form Definition ...................................................................................................... 29
Create a New Form Definition ............................................................................................. 30
Delete a Form Definition ...................................................................................................... 30
Customizing the LP 100R Printer Driver ................................................................................. 31
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General Properties ............................................................................................................... 31
Ports Tab ............................................................................................................................. 32
Advanced Tab ...................................................................................................................... 33
Printing from the Application ................................................................................................... 34
SATO LP 100R Printer Settings .............................................................................................. 35
Emulation ................................................................ ............................................................. 35
Form size ............................................................................................................................. 35
Resolution ............................................................................................................................ 35
Emulation settings ................................................................ ................................................... 35
Extended Margins ................................................................................................................ 35
PCL Idle Delay ..................................................................................................................... 35
Resolution Support .............................................................................................................. 35
Communications ...................................................................................................................... 36
LPR Queue Name ............................................................................................................... 36
Differences / Advantages ........................................................................................................ 36
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Before You Start
A printer driver is a software that sends data created on a computer (documents and illustrations) to the
printer using native printer language commands. The LP 100R Printer Driver Manual (hereinafter, "this
manual") describes how to obtain and install the printer driver for the LP 100R (hereinafter, "the product").
The manual also explains how to configure various settings after installing the printer driver and how to
uninstall and update the printer driver.
Printer Driver Screenshots Used in This Manual
This manual mainly uses screenshots of the printer driver for the product captured on Windows 10.
Therefore, the screen layout may differ depending on the OS that you are using.
Limitation of Liability
Specifications and contents in this manual are subject to change without notice.
Trademarks
SATO is a registered trademark of SATO Holdings Corporation.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Copyrights / Other Matters
Any unauthorized reproduction of the contents of this document, in part or whole, is strictly prohibited.
Second Edition September 2020
© 2020 SATO America, LLC. All rights reserved.
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About the SATO PCL LP 100R Driver
Created for the SATO LP 100R laser printer, this is a Microsoft Windows 8 and above-certified Type 3
(GDI) PCL printer driver. The driver is suited for both 32 and 64-bit Windows Operating Systems.
A replacement for the predecessor SATO PCL driver, the SATO PCL LP 100R driver with the improved
interface, allows the Printer Preferences critical settings; Form size, Resolution, and Orientation to be
configured directly from the print dialog of the Windows application. See more details at Manage Printer
settings (pg 17).
SATO also offers a Type 4 (XPS). The differences and advantages of each type of driver is discussed at
the end of this manual. The identification and management of drivers in general is clarified in the next
section.
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Manage the Driver
The printer type and version can be found in the Windows Print Management utility. From the detailed
view of Print Management (located in Control Panel\System and Security\Administrative Tools), you can
view the details and manage the printer driver.
You can also view and manage the properties of the drivers, the forms, the ports and the printer instances
from the print management console
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Printer Driver Installation
Where to find the driver
The LP 100R Driver, along with the latest SATO-Logic controller software, is available on the SATO
America website: https://www.satoamerica.com/resources/software/laser-driver-and-software
Installing the LP 100R Driver
The driver is distributed as an executable, which will extract and launch the installer. Locate and launch
the “SATO PCL LP 100R driver setup-x.x.x. exe” file to begin the Windows driver installation.
You should use this procedure to update the existing instance of the driver with a later version.
NOTE: Do not use with “Add a printer” option unless you have added the driver files separately.
You will need to have the printer on your network and know the IP address of the LP 100R printer before
beginning the driver setup.
Launch the installer with administrator rights.
When the Setup Wizard launches, follow the prompts in the appropriate dialog box:
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When first installing or during an upgrade (after the previous version has been removed), you will see a
dialog box to select the model. Choose the SATO PCL LP 100R on the list. Select Next > to continue.
You will need to define the data communication connection in which the printer will receive data. You will
need to know the IP address of the LP 100R printer.
If the printer is set to an IP, powered up and connected, Select the IP from the drop-down and choose
Next > to continue.
If the connection has not been defined, you can select Add Network Port….
If you are adding an LPR port, Create a new port, and then after the printer installation is complete, go to
the port settings in the printer properties and define the LPR port.
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To add a network connection, enter the IP address, and follow the prompt.
After adding a network port, you will be returned to the dialog box to select the printer’s connection.
Select the connection and continue by selecting Next >.
You will receive confirmation the printer is about to be installed.
Select next to continue.
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The progress bar will indicate the installation progress.
When complete select exit.
Congratulations! You have now successfully installed the SATO PCL LP 100R v3 Printer Driver and may
now use it to print from Windows applications.
Open the printer in Printers and Devices.
A test print to confirm can be sent from the General tab of the Printer Properties.
You can travel to Devices and Printers to view the newly installed printer’s settings.
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Manage or add a port.
Use the port settings in Print Server Properties to manage the port settings.
To add a port, select the Add Port button.
Select Standard TCP/IP port and New Port … button.
This will launch the Add Standard TCPIP Printer Port wizard.
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Follow the wizard entering the IP address. You may edit Port Name to reflect something more
meaningful.
Be sure the printer IP is configured, powered up, and connected. Select Next > to continue
Select Finish to complete the add port wizard.
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LPR Port
The LP 100R can act as a print server and receive many pages ahead of printing. When you wish to send
data through an LPR or CUPS connection, you will need to configure the Port to LPR.
From the Ports tab of Printer Server Properties, highlight the port and select Configure Port
To create a Printer server queue, change the protocol to LPR, enter a Queue name, and enable LPR
Byte counting. The LP 100R queue name default is LIS_SATO. The IP address and the queue name
must match in both the printer and the driver. The LPR queue name within the physical LP 100R printer
may be defined through the communications setting menu at the printer.
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Test Page
Once the driver settings and communications connections are configured, a test page can be sent to
confirm the settings are correct. To print a test page, go to the General tab of the Printer properties.
When printing a test page from the driver, be sure the LP 100R Printer is set to PCL emulation in the
active configuration. Refer to Printer Settings (page 35) for more details.
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Upgrading the LP 100R Driver
To upgrade an existing instance of the driver, you must remove the existing instance. The driver installer
will guide you through this process.
Launch the installer package as if you were installing the driver. If an existing installation is found, you
will receive a prompt to uninstall or install a copy. To upgrade, you must first uninstall the current driver.
You will have restart Windows after the removal. After uninstalling the current driver and restarting
Windows, you can relaunch the installer and install the upgraded version driver.
Select Uninstall and Next. >.
You will be prompted to disconnect the printer, be sure all the jobs are completed and select Next.
After removing the driver, a restart is required.
After restarting windows, launch the installer again to install the upgraded version.
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Manually Remove the Driver
You may also remove the driver through the Drivers tab of the Print Server Properties.
When removing to upgrade to a new version, remove the driver and the driver package.
Once removed, relaunch the driver installer to continue with the installation of the upgrade.
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Using the LP 100R Driver
Information Panel
After the driver has been installed, you can see and manage the jobs submitted for printing by selecting
See What’s Printing from the information panel of the driver. To launch the information panel, go to
Devices and Printers and double click on the SATO PCL LP 100R printer driver.
When you double click the driver icon, the information panel will be displayed.
You can also manage the settings or the jobs from Printer and Scanners in Settings. When you select a
printer in the list, you will be presented with Open Queue, Manage or Remove Device options.
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Managing Printer Settings
There are two panels to manage the settings of the driver: Printer Preferences and Printer Properties.
Depending on the Windows application being used to print to the LP 100R, these setting groups work
differently. Later Windows applications can interact with the Printer Preferences settings and change the
driver settings from the print window within the application. In earlier applications, you may need to open
and adjust Printer Preferences separately prior to printing to manage the settings.
Displaying Printer Preferences
The Preferences panel is used to make changes related to particular print jobs.
Once the driver is installed and configured, this will be the primary panel used to change the job
parameters.
New with the SATO PCL LP 100R v3 driver, you can access the Printer Preferences of the driver from the
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print dialog panel of many later Windows application by selecting Printer Properties.
You must ensure the Driver Settings and Printer Settings match to achieve the desired output. Comments
about related settings as they apply to the LP 100R printer are available in the SATO PCL LP 100R
Printer Settings section.
Users familiar with the previous (SATO PCL) driver will notice the settings; Page size,
Paper source, Resolution, Orientation and Copies in this updated driver are all contained
in the Printing Preferences. Note: These settings are only in Printer preferences.
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Driver Version
Select the About button in the Printer Preferences panel to see the version of the driver. The About
button is useful when troubleshooting output issues to verify the correct/updated driver is being used.
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Printer Properties
The Printer Properties dialog box allows you to change the name, security settings, communication port,
and other related properties. Select Customize your printer from the information panel and then choose
Printer Properties from the Settings menu.
Click the tabs in the Properties window to make changes to the applicable parameters.
Refer to the Customize the LP 100R Printer Driver section (page 31) for more detail.
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See What’s Printing
The status and jobs sent to your printer can be viewed and managed in the Windows spooler. There are
a few ways to open or view the spooler for the SATO PCL LP 100R Printer Driver.
Double click on the printer to open the information panel and from the information panel, select See
What’s Printing.
From the settings panel, you can select an Open print queue from the Settings window to display the list
of print jobs spooled to the printer.
From the Devices and Printers, highlight the printer and right-click, or select the “See what’s printing”.
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Mange Printer Status and Jobs
From the spooler view, you can see and manage the status of the printer and the jobs in the Queue. You
can control the jobs individually or as a pool.
The spooler shows the jobs queued to be processed. The printer menu in the spooler will give the options
to pause printing or cancel all jobs. The Document menu or Right-click on a job, and you will be
presented with options to Pause, Restart, or Cancel the job.
From the Printer Menu, pause or restart the jobs or cancel them all.
Print Queue Example and Applicable Actions
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Matching the Driver and Printer settings
The physical printer settings, found in the active configuration, must match the parameters of the printer
driver for the intended job sent to the printer. These settings include form size, orientation, and resolution.
Should any of these settings be mismatched between the printer settings and the driver, the resulting
output may be too small or too large, clipped, or out of registration from page to page.
In the printer, use the Configuration Menu (refer to the user manual for the LP10R) to configure the printer
to be prepared to receive output from the driver. Use the Printer Preferences panel to set these values
for the driver.
Emulation
The printer must be using the PCL Emulation when receiving files from the driver. If this is incorrect, you
may observe the printer hang-up requiring a reboot, or no output will be generated.
Paper Source
The Paper Source will always be set to Continuous when sending to a SATO LP 100R.
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Orientation
There are four options for Orientation; Portrait or Landscape, Reverse Portrait, or Reverse Landscape.
You can select the Orientation in the Paper / Quality, Printing Shortcuts, or Finishing tabs.
Resolution
The resolution is selected from 600,480, 400, 300, or 240 Dots per Inch (DPI). This selection can be
made from the Paper / Quality or Printing shortcuts Tab
Paper Size
The Paper size must match the form size selected on the printer. You can select the Paper size from a
drop-down in either the Printing Shortcuts or Paper/ Quality tabs. If the form size you need is not in the
drop-down list, you can add a new form definition at the Print Server Properties.
Note: When selecting or defining paper sizes, be sure they are within the dimensions of the printer; max
17 wide and 24 “ high.
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Page Size
The page size is a dynamic drop-down based on all the forms defined on the Windows Print Server
(workstation).
Many standard forms sizes are included in the installation of the Windows driver, including several wide
forms (beyond the traditional 11” width). These will provide some possible form sizes for testing or an
initial start to create a new one based on these sizes by modifying one of your own.
Included with the form definition of width and height are the margins. Margins will reduce the print size.
e.g., an 11” wide page defined with a 0.5” margin on either side will effectively be a 10” print width.
Because the print size is critical to the LP 100R, SATO recommends using 0.00” margins so the page
size and print size will be the same. You can view the margins defined by viewing the form definitions in
the Forms tab of the Print Server Properties. To check and modify the sizes and margins, refer to the
Custom Form Sizes section found on page 27.
If the page size defined in the printer is not listed, then you must add it to the print server. See the
Custom Form Sizes section (page 30) to define and add new form sizes.
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Saving and Reusing Printing Preference Settings
The Printing Shortcuts tab of Printing Preferences, allows you to define for later single click reuse the
definitions for; the Page Size, Resolution, Orientation and number of pages per sheet.
To reuse a defined collection, open the Printer Preferences from the Print dialog box of the application
navigate to the Printing Shortcuts tab, select the defined shortcuts by the name you gave it and select
OK.
To define a Printing Shortcut for future use, from the Printing Shortcuts tab of printer preferences, set the
parameters page size, resolution, orientation, etc., and select Save As. At the prompt, enter a unique
name of the shortcut and press OK. To immediately use that shortcut, select and depress OK.
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Custom Form Sizes
The SATO PCL LP 100R V3 driver will install several common form sizes applicable to the wide web
laser. If these default sizes do not work for the forms you are printing, you can create custom form sizes
to define the specifics of your forms. These default sizes include the following:
15 in x 8.5 in (SATO Laser)
15.5 in x 13 in (SATO Laser)
16 in x 11 in (SATO Laser)
16 in x 12 in (SATO Laser)
17 in x 11 in (SATO Laser)
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Manage Custom Forms
To add or revise a custom form.
From the Windows Control Panel, select Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers to view the installed
printer drivers.
Select the Print Server Properties and then select the Forms tab
From this list, you can browse through all the forms defined on the work station/print server where the
printer is defined.
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Modify a Form Definition
To modify the form definition, select Change Form Settings. Then select a form from the list, and the
form description (measurements) will be highlighted. Note: If the measures are not highlighted, then that
form definition is standard within windows and not editable. You will need to create a New Custom Form.
Then edit the measurements and select Save Form
Close the dialog box to complete.
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Create a New Form Definition
To add a new custom form definition, select the Create a new form checkbox. Select a form from the list
which similar in the name of dimensions. Edit the name and measurements when the settings match your
intent, select Save Form.
When the form is shown in the list, close the dialog box to complete.
Delete a Form Definition
You can also clean up unused custom forms by highlighting and selecting Delete. Close the dialog box to
complete.
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Customizing the LP 100R Printer Driver
Select Printer Properties from the Settings window to open this panel. Below is an explanation of the
various tabs and applicable parameters you can customize.
General Properties
The General tab displays the Printer Preferences or Print a Test Page button. You can also edit/specify
the Printer Name, include a Location or Comment.
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Ports Tab
The Ports tab selects the port used to communicate with the printer. Only select one port per printer
instance to prevent confusion of settings matching the printer and where jobs are being sent.
Selecting a port and clicking the Configure Port button will open the Configure Ports panel, allowing you
to modify/specify the specific settings applicable to the communication protocol using either Raw or LPR.
NOTE: The default for RAW protocol is port 9100.
LPR Protocol (port 515) is also an option. The queue name must match that of the LP 100R printer. The
default printer queue name is LIS_SATO. The queue name can be changed in the Communications
Menu on the printer. Always enable the LPR Byte Counting option.
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Advanced Tab
The Advanced Tab defines how jobs are managed.
Start printing immediately will send data to the spooler and printer as the pages are rendered.
Printing Defaults will open the Printer Preferences that are to be used to define the default parameters
when printing within Windows applications.
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Printing from the Application
Changes at the application or at the Driver Preferences often are interactive when printing from later
Windows Applications. Note: Not all applications have connections to the driver preferences; you may
need to make changes independently at either the Printer Preferences or the Printer Properties window,
as previously stated.
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SATO LP 100R Printer Settings
The settings in the LP 100R printer must match the data from the driver. The printer’s configuration menu
allows the user to edit the configuration for a unique type of job and store it for recall.
Emulation
The LP 100R v3 driver generates HP PCL5e® commands and sends the data stream to the defined
printer to be interpreted and create the output. Be sure the configuration on the LP 100R printer is set to
PCL emulation. This will be listed on the operator panel on the printer.
Form size
The size of the form loaded in the printer is defined in the active configuration of the printer. The settings
used in the driver for the application and print job, must match those dimensions set in the printer. The
width of the page defined in the printer is the print width, which is 1” less than the physical form width
because of the pin feed (0.5”) on each side. The active form size is shown on the printer’s operator panel.
Resolution
The resolution of the printer is defined in the active configuration on the LP 100R printer. This is indicated
on the operator panel. Be sure the active printer resolution matches the resolution used by the driver.
Refer to the Printer Preferences (page 23).
Emulation settings
The LP 100R has additional settings for the PCL emulation to manage unique settings related to PCL.
Extended Margins
An added benefit of the continuous feed of the LP 100R is its capability of printing to the end of a page.
Typically, a cut sheet printer is not able to do this, and traditionally margins on forms defined in windows
are very generous. Extended margins or reduced margins are typical of continuous forms designed for
the LP 100R. The Margins setting in the emu settings by default is Standard. In order to print to the edge,
change this setting to Reduced, indicating the smallest margins.
PCL Idle Delay
The Idle Delay is a time interval setting which causes the printer to wait before going from Print to Idle
state. The purpose is to prevent the printer from pausing when jobs are delayed while being sent to the
printer. If the printer does not detect the next job before completing the current job, it will prepare to go
into Idle mode. If the next job is delayed in getting to the printer before the present job completes, then
the idle down process is begun, resulting in a delay where the printer will actually pause printing. When in
Idle, the printer must first stop printing before it can start the next job. This results in a delay where the
printer will pause (stop then restart printing). The delay setting, as an extra period of waiting after a job,
completes before the printer idles. The idle delay can also balance jobs that are small in print time
(minimum number of printed pages) created by large file sizes which take a longer time to be created and
transmitted then the actual time to print. The setting is arbitrary and is determined by experimentation to
find a setting that will balance performance in a unique scenario.
Resolution Support
Enabling resolution support within emulation settings allows the LP 100R printer to change the
emulation's resolution if the data steam includes the resolution command.
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Communications
The IP address is set in the communications menu. It is recommended you use a Static IP address in
place of a Dynamic IP address, which could change upon restarting the printer.
The LP 100R Printer will listen on both Raw and LPR ports. When a job is detected on one of the ports,
the printer will change from Idle to Print status. This is seen on the Operator Panel on the LP 100R
printer. As long as the port continues to receive data, the printer will continue to use that port and not
process data from other ports until the current port becomes idle again. The printer’s operator panel will
indicate which port the job is received on: On TCP/IP means the job is via Raw protocol on port 9100.
On Ethernet indicates the jobs are received via LPR on port 515.
LPR Queue Name
LPR protocol requires a queue name. It is “LIS-SATO” by default. It can be set in the communications
menu on the LP 100R printer to match the name defined in the host (driver).
Differences / Advantages
Windows 8 and later support both Type 3 (GDI) and Type 4 (XPS) drivers. Prior Windows operating
systems only supported the Type 3 drivers.
To determine if a driver is Type 3 or 4, you can view details from Print Management, or you can also find
the Driver type under Print Server Properties \ Drivers.
Either LP 100R driver, when properly configured, will send valid print commands to the printer. Which is
best suited for your application will often be an individual preference based on the user experience when
launching a print job around the user’s interaction between the application and printer dr settings. The
shortcuts option of the PCL LP 100R v3 driver makes it easy to change driver settings by selecting
preconfigured definitions when the settings are not in the job and have to be made by the user.
The v4 (XPS) driver interface was developed by Microsoft to resolve potential interference and memory
leaks seen in environments with multiple applications using the same resources. XPS interface is well
suited for jobs that are not specific to a device. It also has supports strengths in sharing devices.
Applications sensitive to the resulting output file size will typically see smaller files and shorter time to
generate in the device-specific interface of the v3 driver.
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