Printing Over A Network (Windows 95/98 Only) - DataCard ImageCard series Manual

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Printing over a network (Windows 95/98 only)

If you are using Windows 95/98, you can use the printer with Microsoft File
and Print Sharing so that more than one PC can send card data to the printer.
This feature is not fully supported, however.
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Each time you start using Japanese-language characters, or stop using
them, the driver adds a hidden character. Each hidden character
reduces, by one, the number of characters you can encode.
Spaces between characters can be Japanese-language spaces or English-
language spaces. Make sure that spaces are in the same language as the
surrounding characters.
If you need to encode Kanji characters, please contact your DataCard
Japan representative for more information.
When the printer driver is installed and the ImageCard/UltraGrafix
printer is the selected printer, the Track NTT--Magnetic Stripe font
appears in the font list. This font encodes all the supported characters in
the font only from a PC running Japanese Windows. PCs running other-
language versions of Windows do not have Japanese-language
characters available.
This section does not apply to Windows NT users. The printer driver for
Windows NT does not support printing over a network.
To install the printer with Microsoft File and Print Sharing, do the
following:
1. Install the printer driver on the PC to which the printer is
attached.
2. See Windows help for information on enabling file and printer
sharing. Select the "I want to be able to allow others to print to my
printer(s)." choice.
3. See Windows help for information on sharing your printer with
other people. Select "Shared As" and provide a share name and a
comment or password, if desired.
4. On the network-connected PC, install the printer as a network
printer.
5. After installing the printer and before sending any card data from
the network-connected PC, use the Graphics tab of the Printer
Properties dialog box to uncheck "Always auto-detect ribbon
type" and then select the ribbon type. (The ribbon type must
match the ribbon installed in the printer.) Set the ribbon type at
the PC connected to the printer and at each remote PC printing
over the network.