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  • Page 2: Trademark Acknowledgments

    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. No part of this document may be reproduced, transmitted, tran- scribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into other lan- guages without the express written prior consent from Minolta Co.,...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Chapter 1 Printer Driver for Windows 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...
  • Page 4 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 ...
  • Page 5 Contents 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...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1 Printer Driver For Windows 95

    Chapter 1 Printer Driver for Windows 95 1--1...

  • Page 8: Introduction

    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...

  • Page 9: Installing The Printer Driver

    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.
  • Page 10 5. Insert the Windows 95 Printer Driver diskette into your com- puter’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.
  • Page 11 7. Click the Finish button. 8. Installing the Printer Driver is completed. Your new printer icon appears in the Printers folder.

  • Page 12: Manual Installation

    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.
  • Page 13 4. Click the Next button. 5. Select “Local printer”, then click the Next button.
  • Page 14 6. Click the Have Disk... button. 7. Insert the Windows 95 Printer Driver diskette into your com- puter’s disk drive. At the command prompt, type the drive letter followed by a colon (:) and a back slash (\). For example:...
  • Page 15 8. Click the Next button. 9. Make sure LPT1 is selected, then click the Next button.
  • Page 16 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.
  • Page 17 12. Installing the Printer Driver is completed. Your new printer icon appears in the Printers folder. 1-10...

  • Page 18: Setting The Printing Options

    1. Click the Start Button, point to Settings, and then click Print- ers. 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.

  • Page 19: General

    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. 1-12...

  • Page 20: Details

    Details Port Displays the port your printer is connected to or the path to the net- work 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.
  • Page 21 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).

  • Page 22: Setup

    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.
  • Page 23 A5 size 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.
  • Page 24 None: Performs one sided printing. Bind Long Edge: Performs duplex printing for binding along the long edge. Portrait NOTE When you print on a custom size out function cannot be used. Bind Short Edge: Performs duplex printing for binding along the short edge.
  • Page 25 Layout None: No layout specified. N-Up: Prints either two or four pages on a single sheet of paper. Example: Portrait orientation. 2-Up 4-Up Example: Landscape orientation. 2-Up 4-Up 1-18...
  • Page 26 If you select N-Up, the following settings activate. N-Up Choice: You can select twelve kinds of layouts. Example: Portrait orientation. 2-Up Ascending 4-Up Hoz. Ascending 4-Up Hoz. Descending 2-Up Descending 4-Up Ver. Ascending 4-Up Ver. Descending 1-19...
  • Page 27 Example: Landscape orientation. 2-Up Ascending 4-Up Hoz. Ascending 4-Up Hoz. Descending 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. 1-20 2-Up Descending 4-Up Ver.
  • Page 28 Booklet: Tells the printer that the printed pages will be bound in the center. Enables booklet printing both for portrait and land- scape orientation Portrait NOTES - To activate this setting, you must change the setting for Duplex Unit in the Device Option dialog box from “Not Installed” to “Installed”.
  • Page 29 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. 1-22...
  • Page 30 Watermark Specifies which watermark to use. You will be able to add others, edit or delete the defined watermark. Text: Lists the available watermarks from which you can select, edit or delete. First Page Only: Prints the watermark on the first page only. Click the Add or Edit button to display the watermark dialog box.
  • Page 31 Position: Tells the driver how to position the watermark. Auto- matically Center Watermark centers the watermark on the page. Position Relative to Center lets you specify x and y coordinates for the watermark relative to the center. 1-24...

  • Page 32: Paper

    Paper Paper Size Specifies the paper size of document data. The following is a list of available paper sizes. Paper Letter Ledger Legal Executive JIS B5 COM-10 (envelope) DL (envelope) C5 (envelope) Monarch (envelope) ISO B5 (envelope) Custom Size 8.5 x 11 inch 11 x 17 inch 8.5 x 14 inch 7.25 x 10.5 inch...
  • Page 33 Selecting Custom opens a dialog box that can be used to specify a paper size within the following ranges: Width Unit Inch 3.63 to 13.00” Metric 92.1 to 330.2mm 139.7 to 483.0mm For example: specify A5 size (148 mm x 210 mm). 1.
  • Page 34 Orientation Selects the direction of the print on the page. You can select either Portrait or Landscape. Portrait: Means the page is taller than it is wide when you view the printed text upright. Landscape: Means the page is wider than it is tall when you view the printed text upright.
  • Page 35 For example: Print out 8 pages with 4-Up. When you perform booklet printing, the direction of the print is determined by the orientation setting for the first page. Example: Portrait only. 1-28 Mixing Portrait and Landscape (the first page is Portrait).
  • Page 36 Landscape only. Paper Source Specifies the paper source. If Auto is selected, the printer will auto- matically search all paper trays for the required paper size. At this time, the paper source is selected in the priority order of tray 2, tray 3 and tray 1.
  • Page 37 - If you try to print the data with tray 1 being set to JOB SEPARATION ting mode, the printer feeds paper from the tray that you specified as the paper source at the control panel. About Click this button to display version and copyright information.

  • Page 38: Graphics

    Graphics Dithering Specifies the type of dithering used in printing. Dithering produces gray shading in graphics None: Click this button if you don’t need any halftoning. Fine: Click this button for printed images that you want to have a smooth, realistic and photographic appearance. The photographic images setting provides soft contrasts between various shades of gray.

  • Page 39: Fonts

    Fonts TrueType Fonts Controls how TrueType fonts are printed. Generally, downloading TrueType as Bitmaps speeds up printing. However, if your document contains graphics and you are not repeating the same text frequently on a page, use the Print TrueType As Graphics option. This option is also useful if you want to print graphics over text so that only the exposed part of a character is printed, or if you want characters clipped in cases where they are not visible on the screen.

  • Page 40: Device Option

    Enables or disables the options available to you. User Name Type the user name of the print job up to 8 characters. This is sent with a print job to the printer and displayed in a status message or operator call message. Page Protection Page Protection allows you to make sure the entire page is processed before it is printed.
  • Page 41 Print Quality Specifies the text quality you want to use for your printed document. Standard: Normal quality printing. Fine-ART: Smooths the jagged edges of the printed image. More effective when printing at 600 dpi. Toner Save: Toner save allows you to use less toner when print- ing.

  • Page 42: Printing Documents

    Most Windows applications include a print command on the File menu that you can use to print the current document. When you print from a Windows application, the application uses the printer driver for your printer. 1. To print a document from a Windows application, open the appli- cation and the selected document.

  • Page 43: Installing The Minolta Font Manager

    Installing the Minolta Font Manager 1. Turn on your computer and start up Windows 95. 2. Click the Start button, then click Run... 3. Insert the Minolta Font Manager diskette into your computer’s disk drive. At the command prompt, type the drive letter followed by a colon (:), a backslash (\) and the phrase “install”.
  • Page 44 7. The Select Fonts window appears. Select the fonts you want to install, then click the Install button to start installation. 8. Click the OK button. 1-37...
  • Page 45 9. Installing the Minolta Font Manager is completed. The following folder appears. 1-38...

  • Page 46: Minolta Status Monitor 20

    Chapter 2 Minolta Status Monitor 20 2--1...

  • Page 48: Introduction

    Introduction The Minolta Status Monitor provides you with instant information on the overall status of your printer. It also alerts you in case there is a problem with your printer. • Printer status is visually displayed. • Error and warning messages pop up automatically from the status icon when a problem occurs.

  • Page 49: System Requirements

    At least 12MB PC RAM Free Disk Space: Approximately 5MB for files Printer: Minolta PageWorks 20 printer I/O Interface: A Local (bi-directional parallel) connection except ECP mode*, or Network connection *Obtaining the print status from the printer is restricted by Operat- ing System.

  • Page 50: Installing The Minolta Status Monitor

    Installing the Minolta Status Monitor 1. Turn on your computer and start up Windows 95. 2. Click the Start button, then click Run... 3. Insert the Minolta Status Monitor diskette into your computer’s disk drive. At the command prompt, type the drive letter followed by a colon (:), a backslash (\) and the phrase “Setup”.

  • Page 51: Understanding The Status Monitor

    The following explains each part of the status monitor in detail. Indicator Status Recommended Action Toolbar Buttons: Click these buttons to open the Choose Printer, Alert or Monitoring Interval dialog box. Indicator Status: Classifies the printer status into four categories. Message: Displays the current printer status.
  • Page 52 For more information, see your PC User’s Man- ual. Message & Meaning No Print Jobs The PC is not sending a print job to the printer. Printing The PC is sending a print job to the printer. Offline The printer is off-line.
  • Page 53 The imaging cartridge is out of toner. Cover Open The upper or duplex cover is open. Paper Out There is no specified paper in the tray or no tray in the printer. Local Status Image & Status Image & Classification Classification Error Warning...
  • Page 54 Fuser, Laser diode or Motor error, etc.). NOTES - When the printer is off, depending on the PC you are using, the other message may be displayed. - If displaying the Offline message when the printer is off, it is classfied as a “Warning”.

  • Page 55: Status Icon

    When minimizing the status monitor window, the status icon is posted at the right end of the taskbar. Even if the window is minimized, you can find the printer status that is classified into four categories. Double-clicking the icon can return...

  • Page 56: Status Monitor Menus

    Status Monitor Menus Settings Choose Printer Local Connection: Select Local Printer if the printer is connected directly to your computer. Network Connection: Select either TCP/IP or IPX/SPX if the printer is connected through the network. Local Printer Select the printer you want to monitor from a list.

  • Page 57: Alert

    Window Pop Up Specify whether the status monitor window automatically pops up when the detected printer status is classified as a “Warning” or “Error”. The status monitor window will display at the front of the screen if it is hidden behind another window. The status monitor will return to the window and display at the front of the screen if it has been minimized.

  • Page 58: Monitoring Interval

    Monitoring Interval Specify the time interval to renew the printer status. Time out for Networking Determines the time to display “Error” when there is no response from the Network. Monitoring Interval Determines the communication interval for checking the printer’s status.

  • Page 59: Help

    Help Help Topics Gives you information about what you see on your screen. About Minolta Status Monitor Displays version and copyright information. 2-12...

  • Page 60: User Setting Items

    (Alert Sound) Timeout for Networking Monitoring Interval Description Local (Parallel), TCP/IP or IPX/SPX Select from the Choose Printer box. Type the community name, IP address and network path. Type the community name or select from the Printer List. Click the option button.
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  • Page 62: Chapter 3 Printer Driver For Windows 3.1

    Chapter 3 Printer Driver for Windows 3.1 3--1...

  • Page 64: Introduction

    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 3.1 (English) or later...

  • Page 65: Installing The Printer Driver

    Installing the Printer Driver 1. Turn on your computer and start up Windows 3.1. 2. In the Main group, double-click Control Panel. The Control Panel window appears. 3. In the Control Panel window, double-click Printers. The Printers dialog box appears. Click the Add>> button.
  • Page 66 4. Select Install Unlisted or Updated Printer from the List of Printers, then click the Install... button. 5. Insert the Windows 3.1 Printer Driver diskette into your com- puter’s disk drive. At the command prompt, type the drive letter followed by a colon (:) and a backslash (\). For example:...
  • Page 67 6. Click the OK button. 7. Installing the printer driver is completed. Your printer appears in the Installed Printers box. 8. Click the Close button.

  • Page 68: Selecting The Printer Port

    Selecting the Printer Port Change the printer port according to your needs. 1. If you are not already using the Printers dialog box, click Printer Setup from the Options menu. The Printers dialog box appears. 2. In the Installed Printers box, select the printer whose port assign- ment you want to change.

  • Page 69: Selecting Timeout Options

    Timeout options control the amount of time that elapses before a message appears to notify you of printer problems. 1. If you are not already using the Printers dialog box, click Printer Setup from the Options menu. The Printers dialog box appears.

  • Page 70: Choosing The Default Printer

    1. If you are not already using the Printers dialog box, click Printer Setup from the Options menu. The Printers dialog box appears. 2. In the Installed Printers box, select the printer you want to use as the default printer.

  • Page 71: Setting The Printing Options

    3. Select your printer from the List of Installed Printers. 4. Click the Setup... button. The printer setup dialog box appears. 5. Make any necessary changes and then click the OK button. The Printers dialog box reappears.

  • Page 72: Setup

    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.
  • Page 73 A5 size 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.
  • Page 74 None: Performs one sided printing. Bind Long Edge: Performs duplex printing for binding along the long edge. Portrait NOTE When you print on a custom size out function cannot be used. Bind Short Edge: Performs duplex printing for binding along the short edge.
  • Page 75 Layout None: No layout specified. N-Up: Prints either two or four pages on a single sheet of paper. Example: Portrait orientation. 2-Up 4-Up Example: Landscape orientation. 2-Up 4-Up 3-12...
  • Page 76 If you select N-Up, the following settings activate. N-Up Choice: You can select twelve kinds of layouts. Example: Portrait orientation. 2-Up Ascending 4-Up Hoz. Ascending 4-Up Hoz. Descending 2-Up Descending 4-Up Ver. Ascending 4-Up Ver. Descending 3-13...
  • Page 77 Example: Landscape orientation. 2-Up Ascending 4-Up Hoz. Ascending 4-Up Hoz. Descending N-Up Paper: p x n -> paper size. p: the paper size of the document. n: N-Up paper size: see “Paper Size” page 3-18. Border Line: Specifies whether to print a border line. 3-14 2-Up Descending 4-Up Ver.
  • Page 78 Booklet: Tells the printer that the printed pages will be bound in the center. Enables booklet printing both for portrait and land- scape orientation Portrait NOTES - To activate this setting, you must change the setting for Duplex Unit in the Device Option dialog box from “Not Installed” to “Installed”.
  • Page 79 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 3-18. Watermark Specifies which watermark to use.
  • Page 80 The following settings are available in the Watermark dialog box. Text: Displays the text of the selected watermark for editing or type in a watermark (up to 64 characters) you want to print. Fonts: Specifies a font for the watermark you want to print on the page.

  • Page 81: Paper

    Paper Paper Size Specifies the paper size of document data. The following is a list of available paper sizes. Paper Letter Ledger Legal Executive JIS B5 COM-10 (envelope) DL (envelope) C5 (envelope) Monarch (envelope) ISO B5 (envelope) Custom 3-18 Size 8.5 x 11 inch 11 x 17 inch 8.5 x 14 inch...
  • Page 82 Selecting Custom opens a dialog box that can be used to specify a paper size within the following ranges: Width Unit Inch 3.63 to 13.00” Metric 92.1 to 330.2mm 139.7 to 483.0mm For example: specify A5 size (148 mm x 210 mm). 1.
  • Page 83 Orientation Selects the direction of the print on the page. You can select either Portrait or Landscape. Portrait: Means the page is taller than it is wide when you view the printed text upright. Landscape: Means the page is wider than it is tall when you view the printed text upright.
  • Page 84 For example: Print out 8 pages with 4-Up. When you perform booklet printing, the direction of the print is determined by the orientation setting for the first page. Example: Portrait only. Mixing Portrait and Landscape (the first page is Portrait). 3-21...
  • Page 85 Landscape only. Paper Source Specifies the paper source. If Auto is selected, the printer will auto- matically search all paper trays for the required paper size. At this time, the paper source is selected in the priority order of tray 2, tray 3 and tray 1.
  • Page 86 - If you try to print the data with tray 1 being set to JOB SEPARATION ting mode, the printer feeds paper from the tray that you specified as the paper source at the control panel. About Click this button to display version and copyright information.

  • Page 87: Graphics

    Graphics Dithering Specifies the type of dithering used in printing. Dithering produces gray shading in graphics None: Click this button if you don’t need any halftoning. Fine: Click this button for printed images that you want to have a smooth, realistic and photographic appearance. The photographic images setting provides soft contrasts between various shades of gray.

  • Page 88: Fonts

    Fonts TrueType Fonts Controls how TrueType fonts are printed. Generally, downloading TrueType as Bitmaps speeds up printing. However, if your document contains graphics and you are not repeating the same text frequently on a page, use the Print TrueType As Graphics option. This option is also useful if you want to print graphics over text so that only the exposed part of a character is printed, or if you want characters clipped in cases where they are not visible on the screen.

  • Page 89: Device Options

    Enables or disables the options available to you. User Name Type the user name of the print job up to 8 characters. This is sent with a print job to the printer and displayed in a status message or operator call message. Page Protection Page Protection allows you to make sure the entire page is processed before it is printed.
  • Page 90 Standard: Normal quality printing. Fine Art: Smooths the jagged edges of the printed image. More effective when printing at 600 dpi. Toner Save: Toner save allows you to use less toner when print- ing. Toner Density Selects the density of the toner applied to the page. This setting can be fine-adjusted in 7 different steps.

  • Page 91: Printing Documents

    Most Windows applications include a print command on the File menu that you can use to print the current document. When you print from a Windows application, the application uses the printer driver for your printer. 1. To print a document from a Windows application, open the appli- cation and the selected document.

  • Page 92: Installing The Minolta Font Manager

    Installing the Minolta Font Manager 1. Turn on your computer and start up Windows 3.1. 2. Click the File menu, then click Run. 3. Insert the Minolta Font Manager diskette into your computer’s disk drive. At the command prompt, type the drive letter followed by a colon (:), a backslash (\) and the phrase “install”.
  • Page 93 6. The Select Fonts window appears. Select the fonts you want to install, then click the Install button to start installation. 7. Click the OK button. 8. The following window appears. Installing the Minolta Font Man- ager is completed. 3-30...

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