PS Driver
For Microsoft Windows
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This file describes how to set up your printer driver and contains the most up-to-date information that was available at the time of software release. For information on the Printer Driver settings and features, please check the Help file.
32-bit architecture
- Windows XP Home and Professional Editions
- Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Enterprise, and Business
- Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate
- Windows 8 Pro and Enterprise
- Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise Editions
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard and Enterprise Editions
- Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise
64-bit architecture
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Enterprise, and Business
- Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate
- Windows 8 Pro and Enterprise
- Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise Editions
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard and Enterprise Editions
- Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and Enterprise
- Windows Server 2012 Foundation, Essentials, and Standard
Note: Hyper-V virtual machine environments are not supported.
Notes:
All applications must be closed before installing or upgrading the driver.
This procedure requires administrator privileges (admin account or "Run as Administrator").
(1)-1 Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
- From the Charms Bar, select Settings > Control Panel > View devices and printers > Add a printer.
- When the "Add a Printer" window appears, displaying the message "Searching for available printer...", click "The printer that I want isn't listed".
- In the "Find a printer by other options" window, select "Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings" and then click "Next".
- In the "Choose a printer port" window, select "Create a new port:", choose "Standard TCP/IP Port" as the "Type of port:", and then click "Next".
- In the "Type a printer hostname or IP address" window, enter the hostname or IP address in "Hostname or IP address", uncheck "Query the printer and automatically select the driver to use", and then click "Next".
- When the "Install the printer driver" window appears, click "Have Disk".
- Browse to the folder containing the driver files, which are typically on the device's installation CD or downloaded from the website as an executable file, and then click "OK".
- Follow the wizard's instructions to complete the installation.
(1)-2 Windows 7/Vista/Server 2008
- From the "Start" menu, select "Devices and Printers" > "Add a Printer".
- The "Add a Printer" dialogue will be displayed asking "What type of printer do you want to install?" Select "Add network, wireless, or Bluetooth printer".
- The "Choose a printer port" dialogue will be displayed. Create a new "Standard TCP/IP Port" and click "Next".
- Enter the "DEVICE" IP address and uncheck "Query the printer and automatically select the driver to use". Click "Next".
- The "Install the printer driver" dialogue appears. Click "Have Disk".
- Browse to the folder containing the driver files (typically the CD-ROM or an extracted archive downloaded from the website) and click "OK".
- Follow the rest of the Wizard's instructions to complete the installation.
(1)-3 Windows XP/Server 2003
- Open "Printers and Faxes" from the Start menu.
- Select "Add Printer".
- "Welcome to the Add Printer Wizard" is displayed. Click "Next >".
- The "Local or Network Printer" dialogue is displayed. Select "Local printer attached to this computer" and click "Next >". Note: Do not enable "Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer".
- The "Select a Printer Port" dialogue is displayed. Select "Create a new port" > "Standard TCP/IP Port" as the port type and click "Next >".
- The "Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard" is displayed. Click "Next >".
- Enter the device IP address or hostname and click "Next >".
- The "Install Printer Software" dialogue is displayed. Select "Have Disk ...".
- Browse to the folder containing the driver files (typically the CD-ROM or an extracted archive downloaded from the website) and click "OK".
- Follow the rest of the Wizard's instructions to complete the installation.
Please follow these installation steps to update the printer driver from old version to new version.
Be sure to close all applications before upgrading the driver.
Note: This procedure requires administrator privileges.
Attension: If you want to upgrade the printer driver, use the same name printer driver.
- Open the "Printers" folder (or "Printers and Faxes", "View Devices and Printers") from the "Start" menu or "Control Panel".
- Open the Properties of the printer to be upgraded.
- Select "Advanced" tab > "New Driver" button. Click "Next >".
- Select "Have Disk..." then browse to the folder containing the extracted printer driver (you chose at step 2) INF file. Click "Open".
- Click "OK" and select the printer model. Click "Next >".
- Once the installation is complete, click "Finish".
- Click "OK" to close the printer properties dialog box.
- To finalize upgrade, log off and log on again.
After completing above operation, you can use printer driver of new version.
Note:: This procedure requires administrator privileges (admin account or "Run as Administrator").
(3)-1 Windows 7/8/Server 2008 R2/Server 2012
- Close all applications.
- Open the "Printers" folder (or "Devices and Printers").
- Delete the printer icon corresponding to the driver that is to be uninstalled.
- Print server properties > "Change Driver Settings" button.
- Open the Driver tab.
- Select the driver to be uninstalled.
- Press the Remove key.
- Press "Remove driver and driver package".
- Restart the PC.
(3)-2 Windows Vista/Server 2008
- Close all applications.
- Open the "Printers" folder (or "Printers and Faxes").
- Delete the printer icon corresponding to the driver that is to be uninstalled.
- Right click in the "Printers" folder and select "Run as Administrator".
- Server Properties > Driver tab.
- Select the driver to be uninstalled.
- Press the Remove key.
- Press "Remove driver and driver package".
- Restart the PC.
(3)-3 Windows XP/Server 2003
- Close all applications.
- Open the "Printers" folder (or "Printers and Faxes").
- Delete the printer icon corresponding to the driver that is to be uninstalled.
- File > Server Properties > Driver tab.
- Select the driver to be uninstalled.
- Press the Remove key.
- Restart the PC.
[General Issue]
- If intensive (or bookbinding) printing of the direction mixture data is carried out, direction or scaling of the figure in a document may not be printed correctly.
- When you carry out bookbinding printing, there are the following restrictions.
- If you choose "Auto tray select" as input tray in the driver setting screen, bypass tray is the outside for search.
- If you specify input tray in the driver setting screen, your print job is reset and printing is interrupted.
- In the environment to which the computer name is set by 16 bytes or more, the host name with banner page print is printed only up to 15 bytes.
- If you check "Choose paper source by PDF paper size" function of Adobe Reader, "Layout" function may not be operated normally. In that case, This can be prevented by enabling the application's "Print As Image" function.
- In the case of specific application, only one part will be printed even if the combination of post-processing features and number of copies by from the driver set of multiple.
Post-processing capability refers to the following items.
- Staple
- Punch
- Fold
- Sort
- Perfect Binding etc.
The example of specific application : Microsoft Office Project, Microsoft Office Visio
- When you print a Booklet (or the Layout) and Mirroring combined printing result is specified direction and may open the reverse.
- Use of the "Edge to Edge Print" function with the Layout function might result in page contents being slightly larger than normal.
[OS/Windows Related Issues]
- The driver's "Web Image Monitor" button might not work in an IPv6 environment.
[Driver Setting Related Issues]
- In the case of specific application, a stamp not be printed.The example of specific application : Adobe InDesign, CorelDRAW X5
- Adobe InDesign may print color verge and overlaps another object file to print black objectsn.
[Avoidance]Exporting a PDF file from Adobe InDesign. And print In Adobe reader enable "Print as image".
[Steps]
- Open files in Adobe InDesign.
- Select the desired preset from [Files]-[PDF beginning preset].
- And then specify the file to perform the [beginning].
- Open pdf file in Adobe Reader.
- Select [Files]-[Print].
- Open [advanced setting] dialog, and enable "Print as image".
- Push [OK] button, and print.
- In the case of specific application, may not print number of copies that set by the driver.
[Avoidance]Set number of copies by applications.
The example of specific application :
- Adobe Reader X
- Adobe Acrobat X
- Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Adobe InDesign CS5
- Adobe InDesign CS5.5
- If the Staple setting is "2 at Center" or if the "Reverse Order"setting is On, the driver will add an extra page to the end of odd-paged duplex jobs. The added page will be incremented in the printer's counter. There is no way to prevent this.
- Use of the "Stamp" or "Page Order" functions with some applications, e.g. Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, might produce unexpected results. Use of the application's "Print as Image" function is recommended to overcome difficulties with the these functions.
[Printing Issues]
- Depending on the combination of text and font settings for watermark, text might not be printed.
In such case, a change of font is recommended.
[B/W print with CMYK setting Issue]
- If the "Color/ Black and White" setting is "Color" some purely BW objects might be printed using CMYK toners (composite black). If the "Color/ Black and White" setting = "Black and White", all objects will be printed using K toner (pure black) only.
[Matching with the Printer/MFP]
- Some applications add an extra page to the end of odd-paged duplex jobs. The added page might be incremented in the printer's counter. To prevent such pages from being counted, please turn the device's "Blank Page Print" function off.
- The printing of a document with a filename consisting of 2-byte or extended ASCII characters, might result in the filename not being properly displayed in the operation panel.
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