Sharp AR-PB2 User Manual

AR-PB2

PRINTER EXPANSION KIT

SUPPLEMENTAL MANUAL

This manual describes the new installation method of printer drivers and additional features for the AR-PB2 Printer Expansion Kit. Please read this manual in conjunction with the AR-PB2 Operation Manual.

Contents

• Installing printer drivers from the CD-ROM

• PCL6 printer driver

• Printer driver for Macintosh

• Printer Status Monitor

• Printer Administration Utility

•NW Setup

• Additional printer configuration menu and key operator program

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Trademark Acknowledgments

Microsoft Windows and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S.A. and other countr ies. Macintosh and AppleTalk are registered trademarks of Apple Comput er , Inc. IBM, PC/AT, and PowerPC are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. PCL is a trademark of the Hewlett-Packard Company. PostScript® is a registered trademark of Adobe Syst em s I ncor por at ed. NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. All other trademarks and copyrights are t he pr oper t y of their respective owners.

PRINTER EXPANSION KIT AR-PB2

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Installing pr inter drivers from the CD-ROM

In the former version of the AR-PB2 Printer Expansion Kit, the printer drivers were supplied on floppy disks. The printer drivers are currently supplied on a CD-ROM. Additional printer utilities such as the Printer Status Monitor, Printer Adm inistrat ion Utilit y, and NW Set up are also included in the CD-ROM. If you install these utilities, see their r espective sections before installing them (pages 13 to 17). For installing the printer driver for Macintosh, see page 9, “Printer dr iver for Macintosh”.

Using the installer in the CD-ROM (Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows NT 4.0)

NOTE

1. Start Windows.

2. Insert the supplied PRINTER UTILITIES CD-ROM into a CD-ROM drive.

3. On the ‘Start’ menu, click ‘Run’.

4. Enter the CD-ROM drive and setup command. Then click the ‘OK’ button. Example: If the CD-ROM drive is designated as drive Q, type “Q:\Setup.exe” and click ‘OK’.

5. The license agreement will be displayed. Read it and click ‘Next’ if you accept the agreement.

6. Select English as a language for software to be installed and click ‘Next’.

The PPD printer dr i v er m ust be i nst al l ed usi ng t he plug & pl ay feat ur e or fr om the Add Printer W i z ar d. See “Instal l at i on with Plug & Play or from the Add Printer Wizard” in the next section.

If your computer is configured for auto start on the CD-ROM, proceed to step 5.

The printer drivers and utilities that can be installed from the CD-ROM will be displayed.

7. Select the desired printer drivers and utilities t o be installed by clicking the check boxes and then click ‘Next’.

If a printer driver or a printer utility (except NW Setup) is highlighted by clicking the icon or the name part, you can select the ‘README display’ button to display the information on the highlighted driver or utility.

Printer Administration Utility, Printer Status Monitor, and NW Setup can be used only if the printer is used as a network printer. See the installation requirements on pages 13, 16, and 17 before installing them.

8. Click the ‘Start’ button.

9. Follow the instructions on your screen to install the selected printer drivers and utilities.

10. If restart of the computer is requested, click ‘Yes’.

Restart of the computer may be needed depending on t he pr ogram to be installed and the system configuration.

Installation with Plug & Play or from the Add Printer Wizard

To install a printer driver with plug & play on Windows 95 or Windows 98 or to install a printer driver from the Add Printer Wizard on Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0, use the procedur e described on pages 8 to 11 of the AR-PB2 Operation Manual. Insert t he PRINTER UTILITIES CDROM into a CD-ROM drive and specify the path shown below instead of the floppy disk drive. To install a printer driver on a Windows 3.1x computer, use the procedure described on page 11 of the AR-PB2 Operation Manual and specify the path shown below.

The plug & play feature is effective only if both the computer and peripheral equipment are equipped with IEEE 1284 compliant parallel interface.

Example: The CD-ROM drive is designated as drive Q.

Printer driver Operating system Path PCL5e Windows 95/Windows 98 Q:\Packages\English\Pcl5e9x

Windows NT 4.0 Q:\Packages\English\Pcl5ent Windows 3.1x Q:\Win3x\English\Pcl5e3x

PCL6 Windows 95/Windows 98 Q:\Packages\English\Pcl69x

Windows NT 4.0 Q:\Packages\English\Pcl6nt

PostScript Windows 95/Windows 98 Q:\Packages\English\Ps9x

Windows NT 4.0 Q:\Packages\English\Psnt Windows 3.1x Q:\ Win3x\English\Ps3x

PPD Windows 95/Windows 98 Q:\Packages\English\Psppd9x

Windows NT 4.0 Q:\Packages\English\Psppdnt

Installation with Plug & Play (parallel connections only) Windows 95: See page 8 of the AR-PB2 Operation Manual.

Windows 98: See page 9 of the AR-PB2 Operation Manual.

Installati on f r om t he Add Pr inter Wizard

Windows 95/Windows 98: See page 10 of the AR-PB2 Operation Manual. Windows NT 4.0: See page 11 of the AR-PB2 Operation Manual.

Installing the r esi dent f ont i nf or mat ion (only Windows 95/Windows 98) After installing the PS PPD driver, install the resident font inf or m at ion as described below.

NOTES

Be sure to install the printer driver before installing the resident fonts. When installing the resident fonts, be sure to close all open applications. If the printer i s used i n t he netw or k envi r onment and ‘Print to t he fol l ow i ng por t’ i s c hanged i n the pr oper ti es s etti ng of

the printer driver, reinstall the resident fonts.

1. Start Windows.

2. Insert the supplied PRINTER UTILITIES CD-ROM into a CD-ROM drive.

If your computer is configured for auto start, the license agreement will be displayed. Click the ‘Cancel’ button.

3. On the ‘Start’ menu, click ‘Run’.

4. Enter the CD-ROM drive and “Packages\English\Psppd9x\Pfmsetup.exe”. Then click the ‘OK’ button.

Example: If the CD-ROM drive is designated as drive Q, type “Q:\Packages\English\Psppd9x\

Pfmsetup.exe” and click ‘OK’.

5. Click the ‘OK’ button.

If the printer driver has not been installed, installation of the resident fonts will not be performed.

6. Click the ‘OK’ button.

7. After the resident fonts have been installed, restart Windows.

Making floppy disks from CD-ROM

The printer drivers and print er utilities in the CD-ROM can be copied to floppy disks. To install a printer driver on a computer without a CD-ROM drive, the printer driver must be copied to a floppy disk. The copying procedure on a Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 computer is shown as follows.

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