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	Guidance of Thermal Printer Driver for Windows2000/XP
                                                                    2004.12.08
                                                     Fujitsu Component Limited

        Copyright(c) 2001-2004 Fujitsu Component Limited.  All right reserved.
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1. General
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 This document is applied for thermal printer drivers shown below.

    FTP629    (432pixels)     Ver 1.0.2.0
    FTP639    (576pixels)     Ver 1.0.2.0
    FTP639B   (640pixels)     Ver 1.0.2.0

  OS : Windows 2000 SP1 or later, or Windows XP
  These drivers work under OS language selection of both English and Japanese.

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2. Typical characteristics of this printer driver
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  * Paper length selection free (1/2Letter length, Letter length, Legal length,
    and many other selectable length including user definition).
       Attention : Paper width is fixed with each driver.
  * Selecting paper to use, printing energy is controlled automatically to fit
    each thermal paper sensitivity. Otherwise printing energy is adjustable as
    you wish for the paper of your own. 
  * Paper cutter working condition is selectable(No Cut / Page Cut / Document
    Cut).

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3. Driver installation process
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   Please follow the steps shown below to install the driver.
   Some steps might be skipped because of own pc setting, go on to the next
   step without care in that case.

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   Windows 2000
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   1) Open "Printers" folder. 
      ( "Start" --> "Settings" --> "Printers" from tool bar )
   2) Double click "Add Printer" icon and start "Add Printer Wizard".
   3) Click "Next" button and open dialog box that shows "Local or Network
      Printer".
      Then select "Local printer" and click "Next".
   4) System requires to select the port that the printer is connected to.
      After select it (ex."LTP1:"), click "Next". 
   5) Click "Have Disk..." button then choose driver file folder that is
      previously explained above as you wish (Using "Browse..." button is
      convenient to select the folder). Then click "OK".
   6) Selected driver name is shown in "Printers:" box so confirm it again then
      click "Next".
   7) Set the "Printer name:" box. We recommend to use default name as it is.
      System asks "Do you want your Windows-based programs to use this printer
      as the default printer?", so answer to it. Then click "Next". 
   8) There indicated "Printer sharing" then select "Do not share this printer"
      and click "Next".
   9) "Print Test Page" is shown so select as you wish then click "Next".
  10) Click "Finish" button.
  11) Message of "Digital Signature not found" should be indicated then click
      "Yes" and start file copy.
  12) If the system requires original OS CD-ROM, set it into drive and continue
      with system order.
      When the system requires the file having name of "FTP6xx.DLL", select the
      folder same as step 5 and continue.
  13) You can see added printer driver in "printers" folder after installation
      finished normally.

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   Windows XP
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   1) Open "Printer and Faxes" folder. 
      ( "Start" --> "Printer and Faxes" from tool bar )
   2) Double click "Add Printer" icon and start "Add Printer Wizard".
   3) Click "Next" button and open dialog box that shows "Local or Network
      Printer".
      Then select "Local printer attached to this computer" and click "Next".
      ( The check on the check box of "Automatically detect and install my Plug
      and Play printer" is removed this time. )
   4) System requires to select the port that the printer is connected to.
      After select it (ex."LTP1:"), click "Next". 
   5) Click "Have Disk..." button then choose driver file folder that is
      previously explained above as you wish (Using "Browse..." button is
      convenient to select the folder). Then click "OK".
   6) Selected driver name is shown in "Printers" box so confirm it again then
      click "Next".
   7) Set the "Printer name:" box. We recommend to use default name as it is.
      System asks "Do you want to use this printer as the default printer?",
      so answer to it. Then click "Next". 
   8) There indicated "Printer sharing" then select "Do not share this printer"
      and click "Next".
   9) "Print Test Page" is shown so select as you wish then click "Next".
  10) Click "Finish" button.
  11) Message of "Hardware Installation" should be indicated then click
      "Yes" and start file copy.
  12) If the system requires original OS CD-ROM, set it into drive and continue
      with system order.
      When the system requires the file having name of "FTP6xx.DLL", select the
      folder same as step 5 and continue.
  13) You can see added printer driver in "printers" folder after installation
      finished normally.

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4. Driver uninstallation process
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   You can uninstall this printer driver when you don't need it anymore.

   1) Select driver to be un-installed from printer holder.
   2) When click "Delete" key and asked confirmation, reply "Yes".
   3) Select "Server Properties" in "File" pull down menu, and click "Drivers" tab.
   4) Select driver to be un-installed from driver list.
   5) When click "Delete" key and asked confirmation, reply "Yes".

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5. Setting of Printer features 
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   1) Select the driver in "Printers" folder.
   2) Select "Properties" in "File" pull down menu, and open "Properties" dialog.
   3) Click "Printing Preferences..." button and then "Advanced..." button, open
      "Advanced Options" dialog.

    -- Print settings --
       * Quality
           Select the paper that you use. Printing energy is controlled automatically
           to fit each thermal paper sensitivity.
           If you select 'Custom', "TYPE" item is available.

       * TYPE
           Select the print mode set by the print quality.  
           For more information about "Quality" and "TYPE" settings,  see the
           "Product specification > Commands specification > GS E+n".

       * Energy Adjustment
           Adjust energy when printing.

       * Page Mode
           [OFF] :
              The blank of document end is deleted, and the following page is printed
              continuously.
           [ON] :
              The paper is printed according to paper size setting.

       * Print
           [Line Print] :
              Printing one dot-line at a time.
           [Page Print] :
              Printing one page (in the maximum memory of the printer) at a time.

    -- Paper Feed settings --
       * Start of document
           You can customize the paper feed lines at start of document.
           The unit is a dot-line (1mm = 8dot-lines), the allowable range is
           from 0 to 255.

       * Start of page
           You can customize the paper feed lines at start of page.
           The unit is a dot-line (1mm = 8dot-lines), the allowable range is
           from 0 to 255.

       * End of page
           You can customize the paper feed lines at end of page.
           The unit is a dot-line (1mm = 8dot-lines), the allowable range is
           from 0 to 255.

       * End of document
           You can customize the paper feed lines at end of document.
           The unit is a dot-line (1mm = 8dot-lines), the allowable range is
           from 0 to 255.

    -- Paper Cut settings --
       * Paper Cut
           [None] :
              The cutter is not used.
           [Page Cut] :
              The cutter works page by page.
           [Document Cut] :
              The cutter works only at the end of document.

       * Cutting Method
           [Full Cut] :
              Cutting the paper completely.
           [Partial Cut] :
              Cutting other than center part of paper.

       * Cut Feed lines
           The user can adjust the feed lines before the paper cut.
           The unit is a dot-line (1mm = 8dot-lines), the allowable range is
           from 0 to 255.

    -- Mark Detection settings --
       * Mark Detection
           [OFF] :
              The printer does not detect the mark.
           [ON] :
              The printer detects the mark, and feeds the paper up to the
              mark position.

       * Mark Feed lines
           You can adjust the paper feed lines after the mark detection.
           The unit is a dot-line(1mm = 8dot-lines), the allowable range is
           from 0 to 63.

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6. Creating of the image file
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   This driver can create the image file which can be printed with the printer. 

   1) Select the driver in "Printers" folder.
   2) Select "Properties" in "File" pull down menu, and open "Properties" dialog.
   3) Click "Image file creating" tab.

      * Create the image file
        The image file is output from the printer driver.

      * Output path and file name
        Specify the output folder, and the image file name which would be stored
        in that folder.
        If specified folder does not exit or the file name is illegal, the alert
        message is displayed and it is not possible to set.

      * Create all pages after the file name is numbered.
        The page number is added to the image file name, and all page image files
        are is created. (ex Image.bin => Image001.bin, Image002.bin ...)
        If this check box is clear, only the image file of first page is created.

      * Delete the space at page head.
        The space at page head is deleted and then the image file is created.

      * Delete the space at page end.
        The space at page end is deleted and then the image file is created.

      * Add the print command to the image file.
        The print command is added to the image, and the data which can be
        printed with the printer is created.

      * High speed collective print command
        The high-speed collective print command (FS * m n1 n2) is added to the
        image data.
        The image data which exceeds the SRAM on the printer is divided, and
        the high-speed collective print command is added to each image data.

      * Bit Image print command
        Bit image print command (ESC * m n1 n2) is added to the image data.
        The data of a space line is converted into the paper feed command
        (ESC J n).
        The right and left space data is converted into the margin setting
        command (GS L n1 n2, GS W n1 n2).

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7. Caution
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  7-1. You can make original length of paper using "Server Properties" in "File"
       pull down menu of "Printers" folder.
       Available range is from 10mm to 3200mm, and paper width is fixed to the
       value shown below.

           FTP629  ....  5.41 cm  (Print head : 432 pixels)
           FTP639  ....  7.21 cm  (Print head : 576 pixels)
           FTP639B ....  8.01 cm  (Print head : 640 pixels)

  7-2. This printer driver is monochromatic only, so actual color or gray scale
       printing data is changed to some dot pattern data of "Dither" method by
       OS. Sometimes small size letters or graphics having small area with
       light "Dither" pattern might look as to be not printed.
  7-3. Thermal printer is using print head of 203 DPI(dots per inch) printing
       density and has pixels shown above.  Some small dot data that is shown
       in display having more number of pixels might be canceled from printing
       data by OS.
  7-4. In the case printing direction is set as "Landscape" and  "Page Mode" is
       "Off" state,  blank area of right hand side edge of last page is neglected.
       If you need paper feed for this blank area, please set "Page Mode" to be
       "On" state.
  7-5. Please do not change driver setting (paper selection, cutter working
       condition and so on) when printing is in process.
  7-6. In the case of using serial interface, the communication setup of PC have to be
       changed to the setup of the printer. Please change settings as follows.

       1) Open "Device Manager".
       2) Double click "Communications Port(COMx)" that the printer is connected.
       3) Click "Port Settings" tab and change the setting as follows.
          *  Bits per second
          *  Data bits
          *  Parity
          *  Stop bits
          *  Flow control
       4) Click "Advanced" button.
       5) Clear "Use FIFO buffers(requires 16550 compatible UART)" check box.
       6) Close all Device Manager windows and restart the PC.

