User guide

Operating the Printer
• Press the Form Feed button; the paper will be fed in to the first print
position.
• Send the text to be printed.
Normally, after printing, the paper is expelled through the rear of the printer
into the paper output tray. However, if the paper is not ejected, press the
Form Feed button.
Printing with Windows Applications
All the features of the DECcolorwriter 120ic printer can be accessed within
Windows applications after having installed the two Printer Drivers which are
provided on the Driver diskette. These features allow you a great degree of
control over your printer, both monochrome and color printing.
Selecting the Proper Windows Printer Driver
The Digital DECwriter 110i driver is designed to print text and grayscale
graphics and allows you access to all installed fonts, including the resident
fonts and optional card fonts. This driver is to be used only with a
monochrome print head.
The Digital DECcolorwriter 120ic driver is designed to print color graphics.
It allows you access only to soft fonts (such as TrueType and other installed
scalable fonts) in the applications Characters menu, but the files using resident
fonts can nevertheless be printed using graphic mode. You can use this driver
with a monochrome or a color print head.
It is recommended to use the DECwriter 110i (monochrome) printer driver for
all text intensive printouts such as word processing files, so that you can
benefit from the faster printing of the resident printer fonts. You should use the
color printer driver primarily for printing graphics files.
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