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Installation of the Print Driver
3. Click on Start-Settings-Printers. Double click on the Add Printer icon.
3.1 The printer wizard begins with the page shown below. Choose My Computer and click Next.
3.2 The next page of the requests the communications port. LPT1 through LPT3 are local
parallel ports. COM1 through COM4 are local serial ports. Since the controller will be setup to
print through the network, click the Add Port button to add a network port as a doorway to the
ARPE1.
print through the network, click the Add Port button to add a network port as a doorway to the
ARPE1.
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3.3 Select LPR Port and click New Port. If LPR Port is not available, TCP/IP printing services is
not installed. Refer to Section 1 of this bulletin for installation instructions.
3.4 An LPR setting window will show up requiring two fields. Enter the IP address for the ARPE1
in the Name or address of server providing LPD. In the Name of the printer or print queue,
enter “print”, “hold” or “direct” in all lowercase letters, depending upon which queue you wish
to use.
enter “print”, “hold” or “direct” in all lowercase letters, depending upon which queue you wish
to use.
Use print for the printer queue name if normal print operations are desired. Use hold if jobs
sent to the controller should be stored on the controller’s hard drive to be printed later. If this
is done, it is necessary to use one of the provided utilities (Webtools or WebSpooler) to print
the job. When finished click OK and then click Close.
sent to the controller should be stored on the controller’s hard drive to be printed later. If this
is done, it is necessary to use one of the provided utilities (Webtools or WebSpooler) to print
the job. When finished click OK and then click Close.
3.5 The next step is to load the printer driver for the ARPE1. Click Next and the following screen
will appear. Click on Have Disk and insert the ARPE1 User Software CD.
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3.7 Click on Browse and navigate to the User Software CD and the English\Prntdrvr directory. This is
where the Windows NT printer driver for the ARC150 is stored. Click on Open when you are in the
directory.
where the Windows NT printer driver for the ARC150 is stored. Click on Open when you are in the
directory.
3.8 Confirm the directory and then click on OK.
3.9 You are now prompted for the version of printer driver. “Sharp AR-C150 E” is the A4 version, and
“Sharp AR-C150” is the Letter version. Generally for the UK we should select “Sharp AR-C150
E”. Highlight the required version and click Next.
E”. Highlight the required version and click Next.
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3.10 If you have already loaded a printer driver of this type, the following screen will appear. This is
asking you if you would like to update the already installed printer driver. If you are not updating
the driver, click Next.
the driver, click Next.
3.11 You are now prompted for a Printer Name. You can keep the default or alter the name. You can
also set this printer as the default printer. Click on Next when ready.
3.12 There is now an option to enable sharing of this printer on the NT network. In the example below
I have selected sharing and given the share a name. Workstations will now be able to print
through this queue.
through this queue.
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