Printer Drivers for This Printer

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Printer Drivers for This Printer

Printing requires installation of a printer driver for your operating system. The

following drivers are included o n the CD-ROM that comes with this printer.

*1 Microsoft Windows 95 operating system
*2 Microsoft Windows 98 operating system
*3 Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
*4 Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
*5 Microsoft Windows NT Server operating system version 4.0, Microsoft Windows NT
Workstation operating system version 4.0 in a computer using x86 processors.
*6 Versions 8.6 to 9.1 of the Mac OS can be used. With OS X, the printer operates in Clas-
sic Mode.
*7 Requires Service Pack 4 or later.
*8 The Adobe PostScript printer drivers and PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files
are included on the CD-ROM labeled “Printer Drivers and Utilities”.
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❖PCL printer drivers

Printer drivers allow the computer to communicate with the printer via a

printer language. Two kinds of PCL printer drivers , PCL 6 and PCL 5e, are

provided with this printer. We recommend PCL 6 as your first choice.

Note

❒Some of your applications might require the installation of the PCL 5e

printer driver. In this case, you can install PCL 5 e in addition to PCL 6.

⇒ p.40 “Installing the PCL 6/5e Printer Driver”

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❖RPCS printer driver

This printer driver allows the computer to communicate with the printer via

a printer language.

⇒ p.42 “Installing the RPCS Printer D river”

Printer Language PCL 6 PCL 5e RPCS PostScript3
Operating system
Windows 95 *1 √√√√
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Windows 98 *2 √√√√
*8
Windows Me *3 √√√√
*8
Windows 2000 *4 √√√√
*8
Windows NT 4.0 *5 √√√√
*7 *8
Mac OS *6 √ *8
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