Before Installation; Type Of Printer Drivers; System Requirements; About Installation Procedure - Kyocera TASKalfa 650c Software Installation Manual

3 INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS

Before Installation

This section will help you to plan an installation suited to your environment. Before installing the printer driver, read this
section.
When same printer drivers have been installed previously
Before updating the printer drivers, please delete the existing printer drivers.
P.76 "Uninstalling Printer Drivers"

Type of printer drivers

PCL6 printer driver — for printing documents from general applications such as Microsoft Office.
PS3 printer driver — for printing documents from graphical application such as Adobe Illustrator as well as general
applications such as Microsoft Office.
XPS printer driver —for printing documents from applications developed exclusively for Windows Vista, such as
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The optional memory is required to install.
The XPS printer driver can be installed on Windows Vista/Server 2008 computers, or those of Windows XP SP2,
Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later versions with XPS Essentials Pack installed.

System requirements

To install the printer drivers and other client software on a Windows workstation, the following is required.
Display resolution
1024 x 768 dots or more
Display color
High Color (16bit) or higher is recommended
CPU
Pentium 133 MHz minimum (Pentium 266 MHz or faster recommended)
Memory
The required memory size for OS.
OS
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Windows XP Service Pack 1/Service Pack 2/Service Pack 3
Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1/Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1

About installation procedure

Please find the installation procedure suited to your environment from the following:
USB connection
This equipment supports the Full Speed connection. When this equipment is connected to your computer with the USB
cable, you must install the printer drivers using the Windows Plug and Play functions.
P.48 "USB printing"
Raw TCP/LPR printing
This equipment supports the Raw TCP and LPR printing via TCP/IP. When this equipment is connected to your computer
in a TCP/IP network, Raw TCP/LPR printing may be most suitable.
P.34 "Installing the Printer Drivers"
To print with a Raw TCP connection, this equipment must be configured to enable Raw TCP Print Service. Ask
your administrator if the Raw TCP Print Service is enabled.
To print with a LPR connection, this equipment must be configured to enable LPD Print Service. Ask your
administrator if the LPD Print Service is enabled.
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Before Installation