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[. . . ] Index-I v vi 1 CentreWare Printer Drivers for Microsoft Windows CentreWare is software that brings the power of your Xerox systems to your desktop. CentreWare provides you with total access, viewing, and control of any Xerox system from any connected desktop. CentreWare's interactive drivers make printing and faxing from the desktop simple to perform and easy to understand. With this guide, administrators can install and configure CentreWare printer drivers and general users can increase their productivity using the Xerox system's printing options. What's in this chapter: What's Included in this Release? [. . . ] NOTE: To install printers on Windows 9x clients, use the right-click method; drag and drop may yield unexpected results. 2 3 Follow the Add Printer Wizard instructions. The appropriate files for the selected Xerox system download to the client workstation. Installing Printer Drivers on Other Networks The Xerox Printer Driver Installation utility supports Windows networks. To install drivers in other networks, follow the network operating system's procedures for creating print servers, printers, and queues. You may then be able to use Microsoft's Add Printer Wizard to install drivers on Windows clients and attach the clients to queues. Point and Print Installations 2-15 Configuring Printer Drivers To use the CentreWare printer drivers most effectively, you will need to configure the drivers to reflect options available on your Xerox system. You can configure the drivers in one of the following ways: Preconfigure standard device and document settings in the driver prior to distributing them for installation. This capability is available for Windows NT, 2000, and XP drivers only. Configure installable options directly at a workstation. Preconfiguring Default Driver Settings (Windows NT / 2000 / XP / Server 2003) You may want to standardize the default settings for your Windows printer drivers before making them available for installation on individual workstations. There are two categories of driver settings that you can preconfigure: Device Settings--refers to installable options such as a High Capacity Feeder or a Finisher, accounting options, etc. Document Settings--refers to document options, such as a banner sheet, portrait or landscape orientation, PostScript options, etc. This preconfiguration process involves copying the printer driver files from the CentreWare Print and Fax Drivers CD to a server installation directory, installing a driver on a workstation, selecting the default device and document settings that you want to establish, saving those settings in the driver, and copying the configuration file to the installation directory on the server to overwrite the previous defaults. NOTE: This process can be performed in both Windows and non-Windows network environments (such as NetWare). To configure the Installable Options automatically: 1 2 3 At the desktop, click Start > Settings > Printers (Windows 9x / Me / NT / 2000) or Start > Printers and Faxes (Windows XP / Server 2003) . Select the System Configuration (Configuration) tab. Figure 2-1: System Configuration Tab (Properties Dialog) Configuring Printer Drivers 2-19 4 Click Bi-Directional Setup. . . . The Bi-Directional Communication dialog opens. Figure 2-2: Bi-Directional Communication Dialog 5 6 7 Enter the Device Name or TCP/IP address. A Status button appears on the Paper/Output tab of the printer driver. By clicking Status, you can access current information about the printer. The printer name must be changed to match this name for Bi-Directional communication to be available. 2-20 Installing Windows Printer Drivers Configuring Installable Options--Manually If your network environment does not support Bi-Directional communication, you can configure installable options manually. See Bi-Directional Driver Support on page 2-24 to see if your network environment is supported. To configure the Installable Options manually: 1 2 3 At the desktop, click Start > Settings > Printers. Select the System Configuration (Configuration) tab. Figure 2-3: System Configuration Tab (Properties Dialog) Configuring Printer Drivers 2-21 4 Click Installable Options and select the options that are available on your Xerox system. Figure 2-4: Installable Options Dialog 5 6 Click OK to save the settings and OK to close the dialog. Click OK to close the printer driver. 2-22 Installing Windows Printer Drivers About Bi-Directional Printer Drivers If you have a TCP/IP network, the Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003 printer drivers can provide Bi-Directional capabilities. With Bi-Directional communication, a printer driver communicates with the printer through your network. [. . . ] Excel will generate multiple print jobs instead of multiple copies of a single document. This behavior can result in performance degradation, as well as inoperability of features, such as Sample Set, which depend on multiple set printing. Excel may have occasional problems with documents that contain a mix of portrait and landscape pages. Selecting a different printer driver, then reselecting the original printer driver may help to resolve this problem. 6-4 Problem Solving PowerPoint The Microsoft PowerPoint feature that optimizes black and white printing will produce undesired results when Raster output is selected as the Graphics Mode in the CentreWare PCL printer driver. [. . . ]