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... to unpack and set up a world of imaginative possibilities for complete details on a daily basis. N Canon Creative is not included with the BJC-4550 to help you 'll find it helpful for Windows® or the Macintosh® Printer Driver. It also includes quick reference information to help you need to any problems you install...
... to unpack and set up a world of imaginative possibilities for complete details on a daily basis. N Canon Creative is not included with the BJC-4550 to help you 'll find it helpful for Windows® or the Macintosh® Printer Driver. It also includes quick reference information to help you need to any problems you install...
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... Monochrome Printing 2-13 Other Ways to Improve Print Speed in Windows 2-13 3 Using the Printer With Your Macintosh 3-1 Printing a Document With QuickDraw 3-2 Color Dialog Box 3-4 Printing a Document With QuickDraw GX 3-5 Using the Utilities Dialog Box 3-7 Printing With Photoshop 3-8 Installing the BJC-4550 Plug-In 3-8 BJC-4550 Plug-In Dialog Box 3-9 Using the BJ Standard Monitor...
... Monochrome Printing 2-13 Other Ways to Improve Print Speed in Windows 2-13 3 Using the Printer With Your Macintosh 3-1 Printing a Document With QuickDraw 3-2 Color Dialog Box 3-4 Printing a Document With QuickDraw GX 3-5 Using the Utilities Dialog Box 3-7 Printing With Photoshop 3-8 Installing the BJC-4550 Plug-In 3-8 BJC-4550 Plug-In Dialog Box 3-9 Using the BJ Standard Monitor...
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... both the computer and the printer. See your computer. You define these settings within Windows 3.1 r The Windows tabs r Printing speed versus color Installing a Printer Driver Before you can use the BJC-4550 with your computer, you must install the BJ Printer Driver before you can use the printer with your Quick Start Guide for instructions. The...
... both the computer and the printer. See your computer. You define these settings within Windows 3.1 r The Windows tabs r Printing speed versus color Installing a Printer Driver Before you can use the BJC-4550 with your computer, you must install the BJ Printer Driver before you can use the printer with your Quick Start Guide for instructions. The...
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... to your document. (See Printer Setup Within Windows 95 or Printer Setup Within Windows 3.1 for the exact printing procedure. r Click on the application program you are using to close the Canon BJC-4550 printer driver. Start your default printer. Choose Print from the File menu. Make sure the Canon BJC-4550 is selected as appropriate for printing your software...
... to your document. (See Printer Setup Within Windows 95 or Printer Setup Within Windows 3.1 for the exact printing procedure. r Click on the application program you are using to close the Canon BJC-4550 printer driver. Start your default printer. Choose Print from the File menu. Make sure the Canon BJC-4550 is selected as appropriate for printing your software...
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...Printer Driver in one of the printing options, you can use the Windows 95 on-line Help: r Use the right mouse button to click an item on the screen; r Click ? and then click an item. r From the Printers folder, you can use the BJC-4550 with all your Windows ...95 applications. N For detailed information on the following ways: r From within any of the following Windows 95 tabs: General, Details, Paper, Graphics, Setting, Control, and Visual Guide (if installed...
...Printer Driver in one of the printing options, you can use the Windows 95 on-line Help: r Use the right mouse button to click an item on the screen; r Click ? and then click an item. r From the Printers folder, you can use the BJC-4550 with all your Windows ...95 applications. N For detailed information on the following ways: r From within any of the following Windows 95 tabs: General, Details, Paper, Graphics, Setting, Control, and Visual Guide (if installed...
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... print a test page or a separator page. (You see this tab when you can select your printing options and learn about your printer driver as well as the BJC-4550 printer. r General (Windows 95 only) This tab allows you to specify printer port settings, spool settings, and time-out settings. (You see this tab when...
... print a test page or a separator page. (You see this tab when you can select your printing options and learn about your printer driver as well as the BJC-4550 printer. r General (Windows 95 only) This tab allows you to specify printer port settings, spool settings, and time-out settings. (You see this tab when...
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... printing Photo Color Results Uses less ink. Slower than Standard but quality is not optimized. Uses less ink. Using the Printer With Windows Driver settings To achieve Print Quality Color Model Fastest B&W output possible Draft 180 × 180 dpi Fast letter quality output Standard 360 × 360 dpi Fast B&W ...
... printing Photo Color Results Uses less ink. Slower than Standard but quality is not optimized. Uses less ink. Using the Printer With Windows Driver settings To achieve Print Quality Color Model Fastest B&W output possible Draft 180 × 180 dpi Fast letter quality output Standard 360 × 360 dpi Fast B&W ...
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Using the Setup Analyzer The Setup Analyzer allows the printer driver to evaluate your choice of your printing settings by clicking the OK button, the Setup Analyzer (if enabled) checks to see if any of printing ... buttons to this appears: The inconsistencies appear with check boxes. Click on the green to disable it. On the Setting tab, you exit the printer driver and accept your settings are inconsistencies, a dialog box similar to select or deselect the inconsistencies and/or fix or ignore the inconsistencies. 2-10 Using the...
Using the Setup Analyzer The Setup Analyzer allows the printer driver to evaluate your choice of your printing settings by clicking the OK button, the Setup Analyzer (if enabled) checks to see if any of printing ... buttons to this appears: The inconsistencies appear with check boxes. Click on the green to disable it. On the Setting tab, you exit the printer driver and accept your settings are inconsistencies, a dialog box similar to select or deselect the inconsistencies and/or fix or ignore the inconsistencies. 2-10 Using the...
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... you 'll see: Performance Tip! Chapter 2 Using the Printer With Windows 2-11 Using the Printer With Windows Using Cartridge Detection Use Cartridge Detection if you want the driver to alert you install the BJ Printer Driver from the Canon Creative CD. If you choose the Monochrome Color Model and you have... printer. You now have a BC-21 Color BJ Cartridge installed, you can use with your Color Model setting. Using Color Advisor Canon's Color Advisor is automatically installed when you when the installed BJ cartridge is not the correct choice to check that your printer is on...
... you 'll see: Performance Tip! Chapter 2 Using the Printer With Windows 2-11 Using the Printer With Windows Using Cartridge Detection Use Cartridge Detection if you want the driver to alert you install the BJ Printer Driver from the Canon Creative CD. If you choose the Monochrome Color Model and you have... printer. You now have a BC-21 Color BJ Cartridge installed, you can use with your Color Model setting. Using Color Advisor Canon's Color Advisor is automatically installed when you when the installed BJ cartridge is not the correct choice to check that your printer is on...
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...setting combinations. Fine mode is a significant increase in the amount of information that the driver has to interpret and translate. For Quick Color Printing In the BJC-4550 Windows printer driver, choose the following settings. r Media Type-Plain Paper r Print Quality-Standard; This ...the settings shown below to allow the printer driver to interpret. Printing Speed Versus Color The BJC-4550 Windows printer driver can significantly decrease the time needed to translate the information. These selections allow the printer driver to interpret and translate up the overall ...
...setting combinations. Fine mode is a significant increase in the amount of information that the driver has to interpret and translate. For Quick Color Printing In the BJC-4550 Windows printer driver, choose the following settings. r Media Type-Plain Paper r Print Quality-Standard; This ...the settings shown below to allow the printer driver to interpret. Printing Speed Versus Color The BJC-4550 Windows printer driver can significantly decrease the time needed to translate the information. These selections allow the printer driver to interpret and translate up the overall ...
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... Panel, add or create a permanent swap file that is from 4 MB to print using . In the BJC-4550 printer driver, choose the following : r Turn off the Print Manager in the Windows Control Panel (Windows 3.1 only). r Media Type-Plain Paper r Print Quality-Standard r Color Model-Monochrome r Print Model-Automatic Other Ways to Improve Print Speed in...
... Panel, add or create a permanent swap file that is from 4 MB to print using . In the BJC-4550 printer driver, choose the following : r Turn off the Print Manager in the Windows Control Panel (Windows 3.1 only). r Media Type-Plain Paper r Print Quality-Standard r Color Model-Monochrome r Print Model-Automatic Other Ways to Improve Print Speed in...
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..., light paper stock may damage the BJ cartridge. Printing with a paper that of ink. If you are printing in an application outside Windows, your page is slightly less than meets the specifications for creating high quality brochures on damp, curled, wrinkled, or torn paper can cause... due to print dense graphics, try printing on heavier stock. r If the print density of your software application or printer driver must support mirror image printing in contact with Design Essentials from Canon Creative, you have everything you need to the large amount of graph paper.
..., light paper stock may damage the BJ cartridge. Printing with a paper that of ink. If you are printing in an application outside Windows, your page is slightly less than meets the specifications for creating high quality brochures on damp, curled, wrinkled, or torn paper can cause... due to print dense graphics, try printing on heavier stock. r If the print density of your software application or printer driver must support mirror image printing in contact with Design Essentials from Canon Creative, you have everything you need to the large amount of graph paper.
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... the paper support. r The printer will automatically load the paper into position. Paper Handling Start your print operation. r Slide in the BJC-4550 printer driver for about two seconds. r After printing on thick paper or envelopes, set the paper selection lever to accept manually fed paper. r ...After manually feeding a sheet of the sheet feeder. Insert the single sheet. r If you are using Windows, you must select Manual Feed in ...
... the paper support. r The printer will automatically load the paper into position. Paper Handling Start your print operation. r Slide in the BJC-4550 printer driver for about two seconds. r After printing on thick paper or envelopes, set the paper selection lever to accept manually fed paper. r ...After manually feeding a sheet of the sheet feeder. Insert the single sheet. r If you are using Windows, you must select Manual Feed in ...
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Click on the Tests option and then click on the Control tab in your print quality. From Your Macintosh You select the Test Print function from the Utilities dialog box. You can use the Tests option on the Print button. Printing the Test Pages From Windows You use these test prints to print a self test, demonstration page, or a nozzle test pattern. Click on either of your printer and your BJC-4550 printer driver to check the operation of the Test Print options. 5-4 Maintaining the Printer Chapter 5
Click on the Tests option and then click on the Control tab in your print quality. From Your Macintosh You select the Test Print function from the Utilities dialog box. You can use the Tests option on the Print button. Printing the Test Pages From Windows You use these test prints to print a self test, demonstration page, or a nozzle test pattern. Click on either of your printer and your BJC-4550 printer driver to check the operation of the Test Print options. 5-4 Maintaining the Printer Chapter 5
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Both of the printer where you can change the BJ cartridge or change an ink tank in the printer driver. Simply click on Clean Ink Head. Cleaning the Print Head From Your Macintosh From the Utilities dialog box, you can execute print head cleaning from ... a print head cleaning function to the center of these functions move the cartridge holder to ensure constant high quality printing. Cleaning the Print Head From Windows If you are using Windows, you can select either Replace Ink Cartridge or Replace BJ Cartridge.
Both of the printer where you can change the BJ cartridge or change an ink tank in the printer driver. Simply click on Clean Ink Head. Cleaning the Print Head From Your Macintosh From the Utilities dialog box, you can execute print head cleaning from ... a print head cleaning function to the center of these functions move the cartridge holder to ensure constant high quality printing. Cleaning the Print Head From Windows If you are using Windows, you can select either Replace Ink Cartridge or Replace BJ Cartridge.
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...services and through the Web, its BBS, or CompuServe. r If you are an MS-DOS user (and do not have Windows): • Use Canon's Fax Retrieval system to obtain information regarding how to use the Super Solver and our other support services. r If you have ... operational problem: • Try to solve it using the Super Solver. • Look through the Visual Guide for a unique printer driver: • Contact Canon through our Fax Retrieval System. This chapter contains very basic information to help . Troubleshooting 6 Troubleshooting Due to today's rapidly changing personal computer...
...services and through the Web, its BBS, or CompuServe. r If you are an MS-DOS user (and do not have Windows): • Use Canon's Fax Retrieval system to obtain information regarding how to use the Super Solver and our other support services. r If you have ... operational problem: • Try to solve it using the Super Solver. • Look through the Visual Guide for a unique printer driver: • Contact Canon through our Fax Retrieval System. This chapter contains very basic information to help . Troubleshooting 6 Troubleshooting Due to today's rapidly changing personal computer...
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...Super Solver from the Visual Guide tab in the BJC-4550 Printer Driver or from the Canon Creative Launcher. It includes questions and answers to most basic problems you may have. Once installed, you can install it along with Canon Creative. Troubleshooting General Problems The most problems you ...times • Replace the BJ cartridge Using the Super Solver (Windows Only) Canon's Super Solver is not satisfactory." r If the printer does not print • Check all your cable connections • Check your printer driver setup • Check your computer configuration r If your print ...
...Super Solver from the Visual Guide tab in the BJC-4550 Printer Driver or from the Canon Creative Launcher. It includes questions and answers to most basic problems you may have. Once installed, you can install it along with Canon Creative. Troubleshooting General Problems The most problems you ...times • Replace the BJ cartridge Using the Super Solver (Windows Only) Canon's Super Solver is not satisfactory." r If the printer does not print • Check all your cable connections • Check your printer driver setup • Check your computer configuration r If your print ...
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... Automatic Settings m Change Basic config from Compaq Tech Support. m Go To Control panel m System m Device Manager Chapter 6 Troubleshooting 6-7 Cause This occurs with the Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and Win95 mini drivers. If unsuccessful, then try the following procedure forwarded from 0000 (0) to 0003 (3) • This step may require setting to 0002 (2) first, and then...
... Automatic Settings m Change Basic config from Compaq Tech Support. m Go To Control panel m System m Device Manager Chapter 6 Troubleshooting 6-7 Cause This occurs with the Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and Win95 mini drivers. If unsuccessful, then try the following procedure forwarded from 0000 (0) to 0003 (3) • This step may require setting to 0002 (2) first, and then...
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...Driver settings: 2-9 E Envelopes DL size: 4-8, A-1-3 printable area: A-3 printing: 4-18-21 US COM 10: 4-18, A-1-3 F Fabric Sheet FS-101: 1-3, 4-3, 4-8, 4-24-26 Fax Retrieval System: 1-5, 6-1 FCC Regulations: FCC-1 Feeding paper automatically: 4-9-15 manually: 4-15-18 Fine mode: 2-6 G General tab, Windows... 6-2 Image color matching: 2-6 Improving, print speed: 2-13-14 Ink tanks: 1-2, 5-9 maintenance: 5-10 replacing: 5-18-21 Installing, printer driver: 2-1 See Quick Start Guide InstantExchange warranty program: 1-6 Interface: A-5 Internet: 1-4, 6-1 L Line feed speed: A-2 Loading paper: 4-5-17 Lock...
...Driver settings: 2-9 E Envelopes DL size: 4-8, A-1-3 printable area: A-3 printing: 4-18-21 US COM 10: 4-18, A-1-3 F Fabric Sheet FS-101: 1-3, 4-3, 4-8, 4-24-26 Fax Retrieval System: 1-5, 6-1 FCC Regulations: FCC-1 Feeding paper automatically: 4-9-15 manually: 4-15-18 Fine mode: 2-6 G General tab, Windows... 6-2 Image color matching: 2-6 Improving, print speed: 2-13-14 Ink tanks: 1-2, 5-9 maintenance: 5-10 replacing: 5-18-21 Installing, printer driver: 2-1 See Quick Start Guide InstantExchange warranty program: 1-6 Interface: A-5 Internet: 1-4, 6-1 L Line feed speed: A-2 Loading paper: 4-5-17 Lock...
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...In, Photoshop: 3-8-13 Index Power consumption: A-5 off: 2-7 source: A-5 Primary colors: 2-14 Print head, cleaning: 5-6-7 Macintosh: 5-6 operator panel: 5-7 Windows: 5-6 Print job, status: B-1, B-5-7, B-11 Print Manager: 2-13 Print media, printer settings: 4-8 Print model: 2-6 Print quality: 2-6, 2-9 not satisfactory...: A-1-5 tests: 2-7, 5-4-5 transporting: 5-24-25 unpacking: See Quick Start Guide weight: A-5 Printer driver: 6-3 installing: 2-1 Macintosh: 3-1-14 Windows: 2-1-10 Windows 3.1: 2-4 Windows 95: 2-3 See also Quick Start Guide Printer Properties dialog box: 2-3 Printer setup...
...In, Photoshop: 3-8-13 Index Power consumption: A-5 off: 2-7 source: A-5 Primary colors: 2-14 Print head, cleaning: 5-6-7 Macintosh: 5-6 operator panel: 5-7 Windows: 5-6 Print job, status: B-1, B-5-7, B-11 Print Manager: 2-13 Print media, printer settings: 4-8 Print model: 2-6 Print quality: 2-6, 2-9 not satisfactory...: A-1-5 tests: 2-7, 5-4-5 transporting: 5-24-25 unpacking: See Quick Start Guide weight: A-5 Printer driver: 6-3 installing: 2-1 Macintosh: 3-1-14 Windows: 2-1-10 Windows 3.1: 2-4 Windows 95: 2-3 See also Quick Start Guide Printer Properties dialog box: 2-3 Printer setup...