Updating The Standard Microsoft Windows Postscript Driver; Installing The Printer Driver For Os/2 Version 2 - Digital Equipment DECcolorwriter 1000 Service Manual

Updating the standard Microsoft Windows PostScript driver

Installing the printer driver for OS/2 Version 2

If a customer prefers to use the standard Microsoft Windows PostScript printer driver
instead of the custom driver for Windows, follow these instructions. This update
procedure provides printer page size information for applications within Windows using
the standard driver. However, color adjustments and other PostScript Level 2 features
are available only with the custom Windows 3.1 driver and are not supported by the
standard driver.
These instructions assume a basic familiarity with Windows operation and terminology.
For additional information about Windows, refer to your Microsoft Windows
documentation.
Update procedure
1.
Start Windows.
2.
Open the Control Panel.
3.
Double–click on the Printers icon.
4.
Choose the Add>> button; a list of printers is displayed.
Highlight the DECcolorwriter 1000 printer.
5.
Select Install Unlisted or Updated Printer.
6.
Choose the Install button.
7.
When prompted, insert the provided standard Windows 3.1 Printer Driver
diskette into your computer's disk drive. Conndect to the appropriate floppy
drive and the directory \WPD. Choose your printer and then click the OK
button. When asked to insert a diskette with the updated PSCRIPT.DRV file,
enter system as the location so that the current PSCRIPT.DRV file is used.
Under OS/2 Version 2.0 printing is managed through printer object icons. Object icons
represent a printer setup, and are associated with a port, a driver, and a queue, if
appropriate. These object icons replace the earlier Print Manager functions. Normally, a
printer object icon is installed during the initial OS/2 2.0 installation. A single printer
object on the desktop may represent more than one printer. A printer object on the
desktop is a "generic" object that can be configured to point to any printer by changing
settings in the settings notebook for this object. You may not have more than one printer
object pointing to the same I/O Port. Port designations for each printer object must be
unique. Before new printers are installed, existing printer object assignments must be
changed.
Note
IBM suggests that printer objects be named to represent available
printer ports rather than printer names or printer drivers. This avoids
the confusion of a specific printer name being associated with an
object that is using a driver for a different printer.
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