T8106 T8406 Color Page Printer Macintosh ® PostScript Printer Driver Operation Manual Read this manual thoroughly and keep it at hand.
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· Carefully read and understand this manual before using the printer. · Keep this manual at hand for quick reference. Tally T8106 / T8406...
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(2) Tally Computerdrucker GmbH reserves the right to revise this publication from time to time and to make changes in the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision changes.
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This manual describes how to use the Macintosh-compatible PostScript (referred to as PS hereinafter) printer driver supplied with the Tally T8106 / T8406, as well as precau- tions related to its use. Read this manual thoroughly to ensure optimum use of the printer driver.
Contents Chapter 1. Introduction ..................1 Distribution Medium ..................3 System Requirements ..................3 Chapter 2. Installation ..................5 Chapter 3. Setting Up a Printer with the AdobePS Driver ......9 Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver..............15 Specifying the Settings from the Printer Driver ..........17 4.1.1 Paper........................17 4.1.2 Orientation......................
The printer driver software is distributed in one CD-ROM disk. System Requirements The system requirements for performing PS color printing with the Tally T8106 / T8406 printer driver are as shown below. Apart from the Operating System (abbreviated to OS hereinafter), the hardware shown below varies with the application (abbreviated to AP hereinafter) software that runs with the printer driver.
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Chapter 2. Installation Before installation, connect the printer to the personal computer, as explained in the hardware instruction manual. If the printer driver software is to be upgraded, first uninstall the old version of the software. Installation procedure Insert the printer driver CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive and double-click the CD-ROM icon displayed on the desktop screen.
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Chapter 2. Installation A license agreement is displayed.. After the contents are confirmed, click "Accept" but- ton to continue with installation. The software must be installed on the disk with the active System software. Click once on "Install" to continue the process. Click the "Quit"...
Chapter 3 Setting Up a Printer with the AdobePS Driver...
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Chapter 3. Setting Up a Printer with the AdobePS Driver After installation, the AdobePS Printer Driver is found in the Chooser. Installation procedure Point to Apple icon, drag the mouse to Control Panels, and then choose "AppleTalk" from the Control Panels. Choose "Ethernet", then close the dialog.
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Chapter 3. Setting Up a Printer with the AdobePS Driver Select the "Chooser" from Apple menu. To select the "AdobePS" printer driver, click on it once. Once you have done this, a list- ing of all printers will show up in the window on the right. If you are connected to a sin- gle network zone, the window will look like the one shown here;...
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Chapter 3. Setting Up a Printer with the AdobePS Driver The AdobePS driver will configure your printer automatically. It will find a PPD file that matches the printing device. A PPD for that printer must be present. If it fails, or if you wish to override its choice, click once on the Setup button at the bottom of the Choose windows.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver Specifying the Settings from the Printer Driver You can specify the print settings as you desire, using the File-Page Setup on the menu bar provided by printer driver. 4.1.1 Paper Set a paper size. Select the size you want from the drop-down list box. The following shows the paper sizes available.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.1.2 Orientation To specify the document print orientation, select a desired button (Portrait or Landscape). Procedure • MEMO Portrait prints text and images on tall pages. Landscape prints text and images on wide pages. 4.1.3 Scale You can enlarge or reduce a print image.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.1.4 Booklet When this checkbox is selected, your document is set up so that pages are printed 2-up of booklets. When "Portrait" is selected, the document is set up so that the booklet is printed for a vertical fold. When "Landscape"...
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.1.5 Watermark Select the Watermark file you would like to modify from this menu. Watermark File Draft Watermark Font System fonts Watermark Size 12, 18, 24, 48, 72, Other (size of 4 to 1000 points is selectable.) Watermark Style Plain, Bold, Italic, Underline, Outline, Shadow Color...
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Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4. Select a type of watermark here. 5. Select the watermark font, size and style. 6. Select the color of the watermark. 7. To enter the user-specific character string of watermark, type the character string in the watermark text. MEMO •...
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.1.6 Visual Effects You can flip an image from a document vertically and horizontally or invert the image pattern, that is, create a negative image from a positive image or vice versa. To do so, use the vertical image flip, hori- zontal image flip, and pattern inversion check boxes.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.1.7 Image & Text Other minor settings can be specified by options. Substitute Fonts When this checkbox is selected, the printer substitutes the Times font for New York, Helvetica for Geneva, and Courier for Monaco, producing higher-quality text. Smooth Text When this checkbox is selected, the printer will print bitmapped fonts with improved appearance.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.1.8 Custom Page You can set or enter an irregular paper size, or change the paper size that was entered before. Procedure 6 The Custom Page Default window appears. • MEMO See the Help for details of each setting. For seeing the Help, select “Ba- loon”...
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver Specifying the Settings from Application Open your application and choose File – Print. Then, the printer dialog box opens, in which you can specify the settings. MEMO “Printer Specific Options” are 2 in the setting menu. However, the contents of them each other is different, then there is no problem for the settings and printing.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.2 Pages You can specify the printing of all pages or of specified pages by selecting a radio button. Specify the printing of all pages or of specified pages on the dialog box. To specify the pages, enter the page num- bers in the Edit box.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.3 Paper Source Select the paper feeder which will feed the paper on which the images are printed. As the paper feeder, Tray1 standard, Tray2, or Auto Select can be selected. When selecting “Tray2”, setting of “Tray2” should be set to “Installed” in Options settings. (See the Chapter 5 Options settings.) •...
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.4 Background Printing Select the Print in "Foreground" or "Background", and select the Print Time. When the "Foreground" is selected, you must wait for the document to finish printing before you can use the computer. The document may be sent to the printer faster when this button is selected. When the "Background"...
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.5 Cover Page Select the Print Cover Page. None When the "None" is selected, no cover page will be printed with the document. Before Document When the "Before Document" is selected, a cover page will be printed as the first page of a document.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.6 Color Matching Sets a document for printing in black and white, in color or shades of gray, using ColorSync color matching of PostScript color matching. In case of selecting “ColorSync Color Matching” or “PostScript Color Matching”, Printer Profiles can be set from “Printer Profile”.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.7 Layout You can print pages by changing Layout. The image of two or four original pages can be compressed and printed on a single sheet. And sets the type of line to appear aroud the page. l Page layout when images are printed vertically (Portrait).
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.8 Print on Both Sides Set the printing method in case of having been installed Duplex unit and printing as required. The printing method are Vertical and Horizontal. Before setting the Print on Both Sides, setting of “Duplex unit”...
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.9 Color Mode Select printing in color or in monochrome. When the printing data is monochrome, it is printed with color print speed mode (6ppm) if "Color" is se- lected, or it is printed with monochrome print speed mode (24ppm) if "Monochrome" is selected. Procedure 6 The Printer Specific Options window appears.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.10 PS Color Matching Select the settings by "Change setting for :" drop-down selection list, which control what kind of color adjustment and correction is performed when colored data is printed. "Screen match" reproduces each color from the screen to printed page as Screen match closely as possible.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.11 MultiPrint In case of installing hard disk, make the driver print each copy as a set when more than one copy is printed. As the settings, On or Off can be set. Before setting the MultiPrint, setting of “Hard disk” should be set to “Installed”...
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.12 Resolution Specifies the print resokution 600dpi or 1200dpi. (dpi : dot per inch) "Standard 600 dpi" prints will be slightly faster. (This is faster from giving the print instruction to starting the printer engine than "Standard 1200dpi".) "Standard 1200 dpi"...
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.13 Media Type Set a media type on which the images are printed. Select a desired media type from the drop-down list box. The following shows the available media types. • Plain • Transparency • Label •...
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.14 Jam Recovery Set which recovery paper jam or not, when paper jam occurred. As the settings, On or Off can be se- lected. Procedure 6 The Printer Specific Options window appears.
Chapter 4. Setting Printer Driver 4.2.15 Idiom Recognition Set the idiom recognition. As the settings, On or Off can be set. When "On", it replaces certain PS procedures (idioms) with other procedures, typically ones that have equivalent behavior but produce better-quality results or execute more efficiently. This allows applications to take advantage of some new language features without changing the applica- tions.
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Chapter 5. Options Settings In case of setting “Duplex unit”, “Tray2”, “Tray3”, “Hard disk” or “Envelope adapter” to Printer, set the Options. Procedure Select the “Chooser” from the Apple menu. To select the “AdobePS” printer driver, click on it once. Once you have done this, a list- ing of all printers will show up in the window on the right.
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Chapter 5. Options Settings Click once on the “Configure” button. Set the Options, and click “OK” button. Finish the Options Settings. • “Hagaki adapter tray” is displayed in “Tray1 configuration”. This MEMO printer does not support “Hagaki adapter”. Do not select “Hagaki adapter tray”.
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Chapter 6. Precautions Precautions relating to the use of this driver are described below. (1) MultiPrint When hard disk is not installed in the printer, even if “MultiPrint” is “ON” on the driver, “Copies” is invalid. (2) Custom Do not print to “Custom” from Tray2 and Tray3. But even if the setting of “Paper source” is “Tray2”...
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