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README file for EPSON Stylus(R) High Quality ESC/P 2 printer driver
for Microsoft (R) Windows NT (R) Version 4.0
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This README file has the following sections:

A. Important legal information

B. Late-breaking news regarding your Windows NT printer driver
     I. Tips
    II. Application notes
   III. Known printer driver problems
    IV. Using the EPSON Stylus printer as a remote printer on a network.

A. Important legal information
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Software called the EPSON Stylus High Quality ESC/P 2 driver for Windows NT4.0
(the "Software") is provided "AS IS."  NO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE GIVEN.

The Software may be copied and distributed without charge only to users of EPSON
brand printers. All files on the disk must be copied without modification,
including all proprietary marks and notices. All components of the Software must
be distributed together. The Software may not be distributed for profit.

Copyright (c) 1997 SEIKO EPSON Corporation


B. Late-breaking news regarding your Windows NT printer driver
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I. Tips
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* Increasing the printing speed
  If MicroWeave is selected, black ink printing is much slower than usual. 
  (Color printing speed is only slightly affected by MicroWeave). Turn off
  MicroWeave to increase print speed. If you are printing in black ink, select
  MicroWeave only for presentation quality printing.

  Other ways to speed up your printing include turning on High Speed mode,
  turning off Halftoning, printing in black ink instead of color, and printing
  at a lower resolution.

  Your CPU speed, amount of system memory, application type, document type, 
  and degree of hard disk fragmentation also significantly affect printing speed.

* EGA and CGA displays
  The driver does not function properly with EGA and CGA displays.
  Either use the standard Windows driver (available from Microsoft) or upgrade
  your monitor to VGA.

* Changing printer resolution.
  Settings that are changed in the printer driver override the settings made in your 
  application software. For example, when the Print Quality is set to Fine-720 dpi with 
  Plain paper selected as the Media Type, your documents are printed at Fine-720 dpi 
  even though the resolution in your application software is set to another resolution.

* Using utilities in the network environment.
  The Nozzle Check, Head Cleaning, and Print Head Alignment utilities can not be 
  used in the network environment. Please connect the printer to a local port to use
  these utilities.


II. Application notes
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* Lotus WordPro96 *
  1.Very rarely, an inported bitmap image is not printed correctly.
  2.The frame line is printed incorrectly.
    (All or some parts of the frame line exceed the document dimensions.)

* Works4.0 *
  If the "Cancel" button is clicked while printing, a "memory low" message is sometimes be displayed.

* Excel7.0 *
  If the reduction size is set to less then 43%, the system can sometimes hang up.

* Excel97 *
  Color of pattern occasionally looks different from print preview.

* WordPad *
  When printing a document just after system start-up the print position is sometimes incorrect (skipped page/skipped column).
  This problem has been noted only on the 1st print job.

* MS-Graph(MS-Word) *
  The name of a graph in a document is sometimes printing incorrectly.
  The position of the graph name is different from the screen.

* Corel Draw6.0 *
  Very rarely: An inported photographic image is not printed correctly.

* MS-Word7.0J *
  Sometimes the frame line (dot line) color is different from the screen.

* Lotus1-2-3 5.0J *
  Sometimes the line feed position is different from the preview.

* PowerPoint7.0 *
  1.Changing the copy count in the "copies" field on the paper dialogbox does not change the # of copies printed.
  2.The background color of a document is not printed correctly when printing using gray.

* Others applications *
  Very rarely: when there are multiple spool files the print driver stops printing the
  spool file. When one file is finished, then screen displays a message - "deleting..."


III. Known printer driver problems
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* There are no known bugs within the printer driver itself.


IV. Known Problem of Windows NT 4.0 and Network printing
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* Part of the data is sometimes not printed when printing through a network.

* Part of the data is sometimes not printed when "Always spool RAW datatype" setting.





