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34 Section 6: Using Your Card Printer
Pro-L Card Printer User’s Manual
Downloading
FARGO's downloadable printer driver files have names ending in ".exe" and are
self-extracting PKZip archives. A PKZip archive is a package, containing one or
more files, that has been "zipped" to make it smaller and provide easy
downloading of numerous files simultaneously. An archive that is self-extracting is
capable of "unzipping" itself.
To download the latest printer driver version, click on the printer driver's
highlighted ".exe" file name on the web site. You will then be prompted to "Save
this program to disk." Click OK, then choose the folder in which you would like to
save the printer driver file. You may wish to save it in an empty folder to prevent
mingling its files with others already on your computer.
Once the file has completely downloaded to your computer, "unzip" the contents of
the file by simply double-clicking on it. The archive will "unzip" itself, revealing its
contents as a new list of files within the folder.
Installing
1. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and select Printers.
2. Double-click on the Add Printer icon.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to begin installation. When prompted, click
on the Have Disk button; the Install From Disk window will appear.
4. Click on Browse, navigate to the folder containing the printer driver files you
just downloaded and unzipped, and click on OK. Click on OK again to close
the Install From Disk window, then click on NEXT.
5. Follow the remainder of the on-screen instructions to complete installation.
When prompted, do not have Windows print a test print, since you most likely
performed a printer self test while you were setting up your printer. Once
installed, the driver's icon will appear in the Printers folder.
C. INSTALLING THE 32-BIT PRINT SPOOLER FOR WINDOWS 95/98
The printer ships with a print utility program called the 32-Bit Print Spooler. This
print spooler is located on the Software Installation CD and is for use only with
Windows 95/98. Once installed, the 32-Bit Print Spooler is able to process your
print jobs and send them to the printer at consistently faster speeds than if sending
print jobs through the system spooler of Windows 95/98. The 32-Bit Print Spooler
is ideal for printing a large number of consecutive ID cards or for printing larger
file formats (1 MB or more). The 32-Bit Print Spooler also allows your computer to
display helpful prompts if a printer error occurs during printing.
The 32-Bit Print Spooler can be installed automatically from the Software
Installation CD. To do so, close down all other programs and insert the Software
Installation CD into your computer's CD drive. The CD will automatically open
and prompt you to click on the photo of your specific printer model to begin
installation.
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