Readme File for the Windows Driver for HP DeskJet 1600C Note: To print this file from Windows Notepad or Write you must copy it to your hard disk, and then open the copy on your hard disk. Quick Installation from Windows -- This is the recommended procedure. 1. Insert the driver disk into the A (or other) drive of your computer. 2. In the Program Manager, select File and then Run... 3. On the Command Line, type a:\setup and click OK. 4. Select the desired configuration in the Printer Driver Installer dialog and click OK. The default is easy install which installs the print driver, status monitor, reference guide, and remote control front panel. The Status Monitor checks the printer and displays status conditions like "door open". The Status Monitor can be installed from the Easy Install or the Custom Install option on the setup screen. To install without the Status Monitor, select Custom Install in the setup.exe program on disk 1, and uncheck the Status Monitor box. To install the TrueType fonts, select Custom Install in the setup.exe program on disk 1, then check the "TrueType Fonts" box. If the Status Monitor was installed, you should notice the following changes: - a new version of Print Manager which is fully backward compatible. - DOS box printing will be redirected to the Print Manager and may take a few seconds to show up as a "DOS Print Job" in the Print Manager. --- Quick Installation from DOS (Windows not running) 1. Insert the driver disk into the A (or other) drive of your computer. 2. Type: win a:\setup. 3. Select the desired configuration in the Printer Driver Installer dialog and click OK. The default is easy install which installs the print driver, status monitor, reference guide, and remote control front panel. --- Manual Installation NOTE: This installation method does NOT install the status monitor. You must use quick installation from Windows or from DOS. -- Recommended for Asian Windows. 1. Insert the driver disk into the A: (or other) drive of your computer. 2. In the Program Manager, select Main. 3. In Main, select Control Panel. 4. In Control Panel, select Printers. 5. In the Printers dialog, click Add >>. 6. Select the Install Unlisted or Updated Printer entry in the List of Printers and click Install. 7. In the Install Driver dialog box, type A: (or other drive) and click OK. 8. In the Add Unlisted or Updated Printer dialog box, select the appropriate printer name and click OK. 9. After the color maps have been built, check the Use Print Manager check box and click the Connect button. 10. In the Connect dialog box, double click on the desired port, check the Fast Printing Direct to Port check box, ****VERY IMPORTANT**** 11. Change the Transmission Retry value to 900 and then click OK. --- Windows Status Monitor, Remote Control Panel, and PCL Driver Notes 600 dpi (dots per inch) capability is available by selecting "Print in Grayscale" in the driver setup window. NOTE: The Status Monitor will cause the LaserTools Status Monitor (by LaserTools Corp.) to fail. Use only the HP Status Monitor. --- ALDUS PERSUASION BITMAP PRINTING Printing bitmaps (.tif, .pcx, ...) from Aldus Persuasion produces incorrect output. In order to repair this problem, the ALDUS.INI file must be modified by adding the following lines to the end of the file: [HP DeskJet 1600C] color printer=1 [HP PCL5 Color Printer] color printer=1 For more information on locating and modifying this file, please contact Aldus Corporation Software Support. CORELDRAW 3.0 REV. B and 4.0 - SLOW PRINTING To speed the printing of gradient filled objects in CorelDraw 3.0 Rev. B, add the following line to the [CDrawConfig] section of the coreldrw.ini file: UseClippingForFills=0 For more information on locating and modifying this file, please contact Corel Corporation Software Support. CORELDRAW 5.0 and VENTURA 5.0 If the file size of the printed file is too large and causes out-of-memory error then modify the CORELAPP.INI file [Config] section. change "UseClippingForFills=3" to "UsingClippingforFills=1". This drastically reduces the file size and the time it takes to print the file. --- If you encounter problems with printing bitmaps on a non-Postscript printer, try setting the following flag in \COREL50\CONFIG\CORELPRN.INI file: DumpEntireBitmap = 0 The default value is 1 but some printer drivers may cause system errors if this flag is set to 1. --- If on-screen text that is placed below a graphic, prints the text on top of the graphic, add the following switch to the [config] section of CORELPRN.INI file: "UseTextBand = 0" When set to zero, each character of text is sent to the printer as a graphic object. Leaving the switch at zero decreases quality and speed of printed text. "UseTextBand = 1" This is the default. Text is printed using text bands rather than graphic objects. AMI PRO VERSION 3.0 PATTERN FILLS To print objects with pattern fills correctly, add the following line to the [AmiPro] section of the amipro.ini file located in the Windows directory: DefOptions1=2 For more information on modifying this file, please contact Lotus Development Corporation Software Support. PAGEMAKER 5.0 HIGH QUALITY OUTPUT If pictures printed in the high quality mode appear to have faint grids or lines through the image, than select the normal print quality mode to correct the problem. ---