Using Other Installed Drivers - Sharp AL-1000 Series Operation Manual

USING OTHER INSTALLED DRIVERS

If you use another GDI printer or a Windows Printing System printer, interference between
printers may occur and printing may not be performed properly.
To use another GDI printer or a Windows Printing System printer, you must change the port
setting of the printer driver using the following procedure.
Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows NT 4.0:
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Click the Start button.
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Select Settings and then click Printers.
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Right-click the AL-1000 Series icon in the printer dialog box and then click Properties.
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Click the Details tab (Ports tab – on Windows NT4.0) in the Properties dialog box,
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select FILE: in the Print to the following port list box, and click the OK button.
Right-click the icon of the printer to be used and click Properties.
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Click the Details tab (Ports tab – on Windows NT4.0) in the Properties window,
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select LPT1 (or the currently used port), and click the OK button.
Windows 3.1x:
Double-click the Control Panel icon in the Main window of Program Manager.
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Double-click the Printers icon. The Printers window will then open.
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Select AL-1000 Series, and then click the Connect button.
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If another printer does not operate properly when the AL-1000 series printer
driver is set to "FILE", uninstall the AL-1000 series printer driver.
To uninstall the driver, see UNINSTALLING PRINTER DRIVER on page 29.
For this description, it is assumed that the mouse is configured for right hand
operation.
To use the AL-1000 series again, perform the same procedure but select the
port to be used (for example, LPT1) in step 4.