Setup guide

select the ‘‘Custom’’ option. While you can use other PCL printer drivers with
the DEClaser 5100, the provided PCL driver allows your application programs
to take advantage of your printer’s features and performance when using the
PCL language.
Using the PostScript printer driver
The Adobe PostScript printer driver supplied with your printer allows you to
download fonts to your printer’s memory or to the optional hard disk, and to
display or print a list of your printer’s fonts. There are three known limitations
in this program:
• The program does not display or print any built-in fonts that are not used
by the program. Fonts downloaded into your printer’s memory, on the
optional disk, or on a font cartridge will be displayed or printed.
• The ‘‘Print font samples’’ feature does not complete if you have more than
thirty fonts in memory, on the optional hard disk, or in an optional font
cartridge. A PostScript Error Page prints after the partial list if you have
that feature enabled in the Set-Up menu.
• The ‘‘Format device...’’ feature does not work with the DEClaser 5100
optional hard disk. This feature is not necessary for the optional hard
disk because it is automatically formatted the first time that the printer is
powered on with a disk installed.
Digital recommends that you not use the ‘‘Format device...’’ feature.
Using this feature causes a PostScript Error Page to print and the
printer’s hard disk may become inoperative.
You can select the PostScript font page from the Test/Fonts menu (Print PS
fonts) to get a complete list of your printer’s fonts.
Modifying the PostScript printer driver settings to avoid automatic
language sensing problems
If you print files from Microsoft Windows to a network printer queue that
performs automatic language sensing, the printer queue can misinterpret your
print job as ASCII text. To avoid this problem, make the following changes to
the default settings of the printer driver:
1. Open the Microsoft Windows Print Manager.
2. Select the ‘‘Printer Setup’’ feature in the Options menu.
3. Check the ‘‘Installed Printers’’ field to make sure that the DEClaser 5100
printer is selected.
4. Select ‘‘Setup...’’.
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