Ricoh AP1400/AP2000 manual Printer Drivers for Your Printer, PCL printer drivers

4.Printer Drivers for Your Printer

Printer Drivers for Your Printer

Printing requires installation of a printer driver for your operating system. The following drivers are provided with this printer.

Emulation	PCL 5e	PCL 6	PostScript
			Level2
Operating system
Windows 95 *4	√	√	√ *1
Windows 98 *5	√	√	√ *1
Windows 3.1x *6	√	√
Windows NT4.0 *7	√	√	√ *1
Macintosh			√ *1 *2	*3

*1

*2

*3

PPD (PostScript Printer Description) files are included in the CD-ROM. The optional network interface board is required.

You can use the LaserWriter printer driver. Use the appropriate printer driver that comes with the Macintosh operating system you are using. See the documentation that comes with your Macintosh for details on the LaserWriter functions.

*4 Microsoft® Windows® 95 operating system

*5 Microsoft® Windows® 98 operating system

*6 Microsoft® Windows® for Workgroups operating system Version 3.11

*7 Microsoft® Windows NT® Server network operating system Version 4.0, Microsoft® Windows NT® Workstation operating system Version 4.0

❖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 the PCL 6 as your first choice. However, some of your applications might require the installation of the PCL 5e printer driver. In this case, you can install PCL 5e in addition to the PCL 6.

⇒P.31 “Windows 95/98 - Installing the PCL 6/5e Printer Driver”

⇒P.32 “Windows 3.1x - Installing the PCL 6/5e Printer Driver”

⇒P.34 “Windows NT4.0 - Installing the PCL 6/5e Printer Driver”

❖PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files for Windows

The printer specific functions can be used by installing the PPD file specific for your printer.

⇒P.39 “Windows 95/98 - Installing the PostScript Printer Driver”

⇒P.41 “Windows NT4.0 - Installing the PostScript Printer Driver”

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