1@##$%&'Edited: 05/01/98 Lexmark 1000 Series README file This file contains information not included in the Lexmark 1100 Getting Started Booklet, User's Guide, or in the online help files. Upgrading from the Lexmark 1000 ColorFine Driver To upgrade your Lexmark 1000 printer driver: 1. Make sure your printer is on. 2. Close all open applications. 3. Uninstall the Lexmark 1000 ColorFine driver already on your system. Windows 3.1 From the Lexmark 1000 ColorFine program group, double-click the Uninstall icon. Windows 95 a. From the Start menu, click Programs. b. Click Lexmark 1000. c. Click Lexmark 1000 Uninstall. 4. Follow the steps in the README.TXT file to install the Lexmark 1000 Series ColorFine Driver. Note: If you installed your new driver before you uninstalled your old one, you will need to delete the duplicate icons from your program group. See the section on Deleting duplicate icons in Windows 95 for instructions on how to delete the icons for Windows 95. See Chapter 3, Program Manager, of the Microsoft Windows 3.1 User's Guide for instructions on how to delete the icons for Windows 3.1. System Requirements 486 processor or higher for Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, 486 processor or higher for Windows 95 Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (386 Enhanced Mode), or Windows 95 8MB of RAM for Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (10MB required by some applications), 16MB for Windows 95 Speeding up Your System Print in Normal 300dpi or Fast Draft 300dpi mode if possible. Remove as many unused fonts as possible from your system. Increase computer memory. Increase the amount of virtual memory in Windows. Run a memory-management program, such as MEMMAKER or RAMBOOST, to optimize your conventional memory. See Chapter 14, Optimizing Windows, of the Microsoft Windows 3.1 User's Guide for more help. Installing the LEXMARK 1000 Series Printer Driver During installation of the Lexmark 1100 printer driver, backup copies of the following Windows files are created: SYSTEM.INI WIN.INI VPD.386 (Windows 3.1 only) Each file is backed up with the same filename but with the extension LEX. For example, WIN.INI is backed up as WIN.LEX. This backup is performed strictly as a convenience to the user in the case that a nonrecoverable problem is encountered during the installation process. Hardware Issues Video Cards - TRIDENT: There have been reported problems when printing bitmap images from certain applications when using TRIDENT video cards. Recommended Paper Types (U.S.A. only) The following lists of papers are representative of business papers which may be used with the printer. These papers have been designed for general business and correspondence. They give good print quality with both the black and color cartridge. Print quality results will vary depending on the application, driver setting, and the paper lot. Lexmark strongly recommends that you test any paper product before buying a large quantity. Beckett Enhance Writing, 24 lbs Classic Crest Writing, 20 lbs Fox River Bond, 25% Cot, 20 lbs Fox River Trojan Bond, 25% Cot, 24 lbs Gilbert Neutech Recycled, 25% cot, 24 lbs Georgia Pacific Nekoosa Laser 1000, 24 lbs Georgia Pacific Quantum Opaque, 24 lbs Hammermill Fore DP, 20 lbs Hammermill Laser Print, 24 lbs Hammermill Regalia, 25% Cot, 24 lbs Hammermill Savings DP, 20 lbs Hammermill Xero / Lasercopy, 20 lbs Nationwide Papers Compat DP, 20 lbs Strathmore Legacy Recycled Laser Paper, 20 lbs Strathmore Writing, 25% Cotton, 24 lbs Union Camp Ink Jet, 24 lbs Weyerhaeuser First Choice, 24 lbs Xerox 4200 DP, 20 lbs The following coated medias will produce excellent print quality with the black and color print cartridges: Lexmark High Resolution Ink Jet Paper (P/N 1402780) Lexmark White Glossy Film for Ink Jet Printers (P/N 1402750) Lexmark Transparency for the 4076 Ink Jet Printers (P/N 1402910) Print Quality and Color Issues Printouts are too dark or fuzzy. Some software applications such as Adobe Photoshop 2.5 or 3.0, Micrografx Picture Publisher 4.0 and 5.0, Aldus PhotoStyler 2.0 and Corel Draw 7.0 have their own halftoning and color correction methods. If possible, disable these functions in the application. Generally, the Lexmark 1000 Series driver's halftoning and color correction methods produce better results. Coated paper and black printing Use the color printhead with coated paper to obtain the best print quality. Coated, transparencies, iron-on transfer, greeting card stock, and glossy paper types Use the manual feed with these paper types to obtain the best print quality. Printing from Windows Problems printing under Windows 95 If the printer spools the job and the printer makes noise (carrier movements) but the job never prints it has been noted that some combinations of PC's and the different revisions of Windows 95 contain different lpt.vxd files that are not 100% compatible with all printers. You can download the latest level of this lpt.vxd file and get instructions on installing it on your system from the Microsoft Web site at http://www.microsoft.com Deleting duplicate icons in Windows 95 1. From the Start button, click the right mouse button to open the Start menu and select Open. 3. Double click the Programs icon. 4. Double click the Lexmark 1000 folder. 5. Select the Lexmark 1000 Control Program on LPTx icon and press the Delete key on the keyboard (or choose delete from the File menu). Run Minimized under Windows To run the Control Program as an icon from Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 or from the task bar from Windows 95, select Run Minimized from the Options Tab of the Lexmark 1000 Series Control Program and then close the Control Program. Printing while using Adobe Type Manager 2.5 or earlier versions There have been a number of GPF problems that have been seen when using the Lexmark 1100 in conjunction with Adobe Type Manager version 2.5 or earlier. You can turn Adobe Type Manager off and these problems will not occur. Another solution is to upgrade to Adobe Type Manager 3.0 or later. Show Monitor during Print option The Show Monitor during print option must be on in order for printing to work on the LEXMARK 1100. This is the default setting and is found by right clicking on the Lexmark 1000 Series ColorFine icon in the printers folder in Windows 95. Details Tab, Spool Settings options on Windows 95 There are a number of options that are selectable on this tab that do not apply or are not supported by the Lexmark 1000 Series driver. Disable Bi-Direction Communications - This does not apply to the Lexmark 1000 Series driver. Spool Formats - The different spool formats listed include PMJOURNAL, RAW, and EMF. The Lexmark 1100 is designed to work best with the PMJOURNAL spool format. The other formats can cause errors and results that you will not be fully satisfied with. Printer Setup within Excel (or similar applications) If you cannot properly set printer features from within the software application you are using, exit the application and use the Windows Control Panel to change printer settings. Sharing a Lexmark 1100 on a network - Windows 3.1 and Workgroups 3.11 Use the method described in the Queue Menu section of the Lexmark 1000 Series Help for Spool Manager. (Search the Lexmark 1000 Series Help for ColorFine Spool Manager Queue Menu.) - Windows 95 For information on sharing refer to your Microsoft Windows Help on Sharing. "Out of Memory" message at High Print Quality If this message is encountered while printing at High 600dpi Print Quality, try printing at Normal 300dpi Print Quality instead. Printing from a DOS box in Windows Printing from Lotus 123 from DOS Special setup is required in Lotus 123 application to print to the Lexmark 1100. The follow steps should be done within the application in order to complete the setup. 1. Type to get the Lotus menus. 2. Go to Print, Printer, Options, Advanced, Device, Interface. 3. Choose #5 - Output Device LPT1. 4. Select to return to the main Print menu. Printing from DOS outside of Windows The LEXMARK 1100 will ONLY print from a DOS session under Windows; it will not print from a native (non-Windows) DOS session. The only exception is that you can copy a print file, created by the LEXMARK 1000 Series Printer Driver, to the LEXMARK 1100 Printer, from a native DOS session. Printing a file that was created in this way will only work from a Windows DOS session if the DOS Printing is disabled on the options tab of the LEXMARK 1000 Series Control Program. If you print to a file from a native DOS session with an application through a HP 500/500C printer driver, that print file can then be copied to the Lexmark 1100 from within a Windows DOS box. In order to do this you must: - Exit Windows and run the DOS application. - Select the HP 500 or HP 500C printer driver from within the application. - Print to a file. - Exit the DOS application and run Windows. In a DOS box under Windows, copy the print file generated above to the port where the printer is connected. This command may look like: copy filename lpt1: /b Where filename is the name of the print file you generated and lpt1: is the port where the Lexmark 1100 Printer is connected. Only 1 DOS box supported at a time The Lexmark 1000 Series printer driver only supports printing from a single DOS box at a time. This is the case even if there are multiple Lexmark 1100 printers attached to multiple printer ports. Furthermore, there have been problems seen w/ sending a DOS job to the port and then switching to other windows based applications. It is our recommendation that if you are printing from a DOS based application you wait until the job is complete before proceeding to do anything else with your PC. DOS Command Line: "Print" Vs. "Copy" Differences in the "Print" and "Copy" commands are such that poor results, i.e. slow printing, may be obtained with the use of one of these commands and not the other. This is even more true depending on what operating system; MS-DOS, PC-DOS, etc... is being used to provide the DOS command shell. It is recommended that the "Copy" command be used for DOS command line printing. It may be necessary to include the "/b" parameter with the "Copy" command for files that are not strictly ASCII text files. For further help see the on-line help included with your particular DOS shell (for MS-DOS use "Help Copy") Lexmark 1000 Series Control Program comes to the Foreground This is how the printer functions by default. If you do not want to be interrupted while printing, select Run Minimized from the Options tab in the Lexmark 1000 Series Control Program. System locks up when printing from DOS under WIN95 This problem has been seen when using Harvard Graphics for DOS and can be remedied by turning the Harvard Graphics spooler off. 1. Go to the Setup menu in Harvard Graphics. 2. Select Printer 1 or Printer 2 based on your system setup. 3. For the option "Use Spooler" choose No. Partial pages when printing from DOS under WIN95 This problem has been seen when printing multiple page jobs in quick succession from Word Perfect 6.0 for DOS. A setup change in the driver Spool settings can remedy this problem by following these steps. 1. Open the printers folder. 2. Right mouse click the Lexmark 1000 Series ColorFine icon. 3. Click on Properties. 4. Click on Details. 5. Click Spool Settings. 6. Click the "start printing after last page is spooled" radio button. 7. Click OK to exit. Using a HP500C printer driver; blank pages are printed The Lexmark 1100 emulates a HP 500C if you print from a DOS application under Windows. If only blank pages are printed, check the orientation setting, found in the DOS Printing section of the Lexmark 1000 Series Control Program, is set to portrait mode. Some applications require this setting to be portrait even if the printout is meant to be landscape. Using HP 500/500C printer driver; single page prints on multiple pages This problem can result from task-switching during a DOS print job or from an application that is slow in sending data to the printer port. If you are running the DOS application from the Windows MS DOS PROMPT, you can correct the problem by enabling Background Execution as follows: 1. Run the PIF Editor program found in the Windows Main folder. 2. Load the file "DOSPRMPT.PIF" found in the C:\WINDOWS directory. 3. Select and activate the box labeled Background found in the Execution section at the bottom-right of the PIF Editor screen. 4. Select File and then Save. This turns on background execution for all future DOS sessions. If you are not running the application from the MS DOS PROMPT consult your Windows documentation about creating a PIF file for your application and enabling background execution. If your application already has a PIF file you may edit it as described above. To determine if a program already has a PIF file, highlight the icon and select Properties from the Program Manager File menu. If the file specified in the Command Line section has a ".PIF" extension you should edit that PIF file. Another solution to this problem is to select Run Minimized from the Options tab of the LEXMARK 1000 Series Control Program. This will allow the DOS application to remain in the foreground when printing instead of bringing the Control Program to the foreground. If your application does not go to the background and you are seeing single page print jobs printing on multiple pages the port may be timing out because the application is taking too long to process the job. This problem is more likely to occur on slower computer. In order to compensate for slower computers and/or applications you can increase the Form Feed Timeout value in the DOS Printing tab of the LEXMARK 1000 Series Control Program. Sound Effects Enabled is Inaccessible This option (on the options tab of the control program) can be unhighlighted and thus unusable by the user. This option is used to turn the sound effects on so that the driver will verbally tell you various messages. In order to use the option you will need to download the wave (sound) files from our world wide web site at http://www.lexmark.com. You will need to copy those files to the windows\system directory. Once you have done this, the option will be accessible to you so that you may turn them on. Removing the LEXMARK 1000 Series Printer Driver To remove the Lexmark 1000 Series printer driver from your computer system, use the LXKEDEL utility. The icon for this utility is located in the Lexmark 1000 Series group; double-click this icon to begin the uninstall process... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep in Touch! 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