Appendix Printer Driver Details. Hi-Ti 640 DL, 640DL
Below you will find brief information for Photo Printer 640 DL. This manual guides you through setting up your Hi-Ti 640 DL Photo Printer, including installing the printer driver, loading paper, and replacing ribbon cartridges. Learn to use the PhotoDésirée software to edit and print photos in various formats, manage customer data, and price your services. The printer offers high-speed borderless printing and supports parallel printing for multiple printers.
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Appendix Printer Driver Details
This appendix provides extensive information on how you can adjust your printer settings and functions to meet your printing expectation, including installing printer driver and configuring printer settings. The topics covered in this appendix are:
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Installing Printer Driver
Installing Printer Driver
In Windows 98 environment
Although there are three methods available for installing printer driver, we recommend you use the first one as it is the most straight-forward and easy to follow. The three methods are:
• Install printer driver, then plug in the USB cable cord
(Recommended)
• Plug in the USB cable cord, then Install Driver
• Install by using the "Add Printer Wizard"
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Method 1. Install driver, then plug in USB cable cord (Recommended)
1.
2.
Please insert the "Software CD" into the CD-ROM drive.
If CD-ROM does not start automatically, you can initiate it by double-clicking the CD-ROM drive from Windows
Explorer or by double-clicking the My Computer icon.
Select Install HiTi Photo Printer 640DL Driver from the
Welcome window.
3.
The Installing Printer Driver message box appears. Click
Start to start the installation process.
4.
When done, the Installation Program prompts to ask if you want to set HiTi photo printer as the default printer for the computer. Click Yes if you like to; otherwise, click NO.
5.
The installation is complete.
6.
If you want to check your printer device, select Control
Panel > System > Device Manager to open the System
Properties window.
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Method 2. Plug in the USB cable cord, then install the printer driver
1.
Plug in the USB cable cord to the USB ports of the printer and your personal computer.
Note: Be sure to switch off the printer before you proceed the following steps.
2.
The New Hardware Found message box appears and so does the Install From Disk dialog box. Select the path to your CD-ROM drive, e.g., d:\. Click OK.
3.
The Add Printer Wizard dialog box displays. Select HiTi
Photo Printer 640 DL as the printer. Click Next.
4.
To this step, you can turn the power of the printer on.
Once the power is switched on, a message box saying the USB connection is connected will display on the screen.
5.
Choose USB001-HiTi-640DL as the port for use with the printer. Note that the port status should be "connected."
Click Next.
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Select if you want to set the printer as the "default printer." Choose Yes if you’re sure only photo printing will be processed from this computer. Click Finish.
7.
The installation is complete.
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Method 3. Using the Add Printer Wizard
1.
Choose Control Panel > Printer from Windows Start menu. Double-click on the Add Printer icon.
2.
The Add Printer Wizard is invoked. Click Next to begin the installation process.
3.
Choose if the printer is a local printer or is connected to a network system, e.g., LAN. Choose Local printer if the printer does not belong to a network system. Click Next.
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4.
Choose HiTi and HiTi 640 DL Photo Printer as the manufacture and model of the printer driver. Click Next.
5.
If you can’t find them in the scroll-down list, click Have
Disk to locate them from the CD-ROM. Usually, you can simply type "D:\" if your CD-ROM is on the D drive.
If you have installed the driver on the computer before, choose Replace existing driver. Click Next.
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Choose USB001-HiTi-640DL as the port for use with the printer. Note that the port status should be "connected."
Click Next.
7.
Select if you want to set the printer as the "default printer." Choose Yes if you’re sure that only photo printings will be processed on this computer. Click Finish.
8.
The installation is complete.
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In Windows 2000 environment
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2.
Insert the "Software CD" into the CD-ROM drive.
If CD-ROM does not start automatically, you can initiate it by double-clicking the CD-ROM drive from Windows
Explorer or by double-clicking the My Computer icon.
Select Install HiTi Photo Printer 640 DL Driver from the
Welcome window.
3.
The Installing Printer Driver message box appears. Click
Start to start the installation process.
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The Windows 2000 system will display a warning message, saying "Digital Signature Not Found." Click Yes to continue the installation process.
5.
The system starts to copy driver files from the CD-ROM.
When done, click OK.
6.
Then, connect the USB cable cord to the printer and your personal computer. Switch on the power of the printer.
The Windows 2000 PnP system will find the driver automatically.
7.
The installation is complete.
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If you want to check your printer device, select Control
Panel > System Properties > Hardware from Windows
Start menu. Click Device Manager to open the Device
Manager window.
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Configuring Driver Settings
Configuring Driver Settings
In Windows 98 environment
To configure driver settings, first open the Printers windows by choosing Control Panel > Printers from Windows Start menu. Click the HiTi USB Printer icon and right-click
Properties from the pop-up menu. The Printer Property window displays on the screen.
The printer property window is divided into the following categories:
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General
This General category contains printer’s general information, like printer name or descriptions. You can also choose what separator page to use when printing from this printer.
• Click Print Test Page if you want to test if the printer works properly.
• Click Apply to apply the changes you make. Or click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties window.
For more detailed information, click Help to view Windows online help file.
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Details
The Details category contains information about the port and printer driver version used by this printer. You can add, delete or capture ports connected to this printer by selecting from the drop-down list.
• The default time-out setting is also included in this category. Click Spool Settings to modify the spooling settings; click Port Settings to modify the port used by this printer.
• Click Apply to apply the changes you make. Or click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties window.
For more detailed information, click Help to view Windows online help file.
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Color Management
The Color Management category allows you to choose a color setting profile associated with the photo printer.
• Choose Automatic to allow Windows automatically to select a color setting profile. Choose Manual if you want to specify a profile to use.
• Click Apply to apply the changes you make. Or click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties window.
For more detailed information, click Help to view Windows online help file.
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Sharing
The Sharing category is ONLY available when you install
Microsoft Networks function on the computer connected with the photo printer. This also means that the printer is located in a local LAN environment and you can share it as a public printer.
• Assign the Sharing Name and Comment for this printer.
You can assign a password for assessing this printer if necessary.
• Click Apply to apply the changes you make. Or click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties window.
For more detailed information, click Help to view Windows online help file.
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Setting
The Setting category provides you the choices of specifying output format settings on each paper type.
• Select a paper type from the scroll-down list and modify the settings if necessary. The paper types available are: photo, sticker 4/2/4 and sticker 4x4.
The format settings available are:
• Orientation: Set the output format as portrait or landscape.
• Tiles: Set the output image to be in the full page of the print paper or to be tiled as 2" ID photo.
• Printer mode: Set the printing mode as speed, standard or optimum.
• Copies: Select the number of copies to print.
• Check Preview if you want to open the Preview window to modify the output formats in the Preview window. See
Preview Function on Page 76 for more information.
• Click Apply to apply the changes you make. Or click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties window.
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Preview Function
The Preview function allows you to preview the output format and do the final check before printing. You can always invoke the Preview window for checking before you hit the Print button.
The options available are:
1.
Adjust color settings, e.g., brightness, contrast, and sharpness. Define if the image to be centralized on the photo paper. Click Reset to ignore the changes you make;
2.
Set Scale number if you’re not satisfied with the printing size;
3.
Specify the copies to print;
4.
Change the measurements unit in "mm" or "inches;" and
5.
Set the actual page to print in specified pages.
Click Print to start printing. Click Reset All to ignore the changes you make and restore the default settings. Click
Cancel to close the Printer Properties window without saving the changes you make.
For more detailed information, click Help to view Windows online help file.
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Tools
Position Calibrating
1.
According to the result of your print output, specify a number that fits best to the sticker dimension.
2.
You must fill in the number of Area A and Area B in order to adjust the horizontal and vertical margins.
Color Preference Setting
This option gives you a natural look of your skin tone in the photo. For making your selection process easier, you may select from 9 different images of pre-toned photos from the 9 images listed in AREA C.
Note: Color matching can also be conducted by clicking the circle on the color matching selection.
If you wish to do no configuration changes, don’t make any selections.
Click Apply to apply the changes you make. Or click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties window.
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About
This section shows the copyright information of the driver software installed on this machine. The corporate web site address is also listed for your reference.
Click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer
Properties window. For more detailed information, click Help to view Windows online help file.
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In Windows 2000 environment
To configure the driver settings, first open the Printers windows by choosing Control Panel > Printers from
Windows Start menu. Click the HiTi USB Printer icon and right-click Properties from the pop-up menu. The Printer
Property window displays on the screen.
Because the settings in Windows 2000 are almost similar with those in Windows 98, we only document what is different when your operation system is Windows 2000. For parts that are not documented in this section, refer to
Windows 98 environment on Page 70.
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General
This General category contains printer’s general information, like printer name or descriptions. You can add or modify the location and comment of the printer.
• Click Print Test Page to test if the printer works properly.
• Click Printing Preference to configure options on printing.
See
Printer Preferences on Page 81.
• Click Apply to apply the changes you make. Or click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties window.
For more detailed information, click Help to view Windows online help file.
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Printer Preferences
To open the Printer Preference window:
• Choose Printing Preference from the Printer Properties window (see
General on Page 80). For options available
in this category, refer to the Setting
Windows 98 environment section.
• Click Apply to apply the changes you make. Or click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties window.
For more detailed information, click Help to view Windows online help file.
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Ports
The HiTi photo printer creates a "virtual printer port" for printing through the USB port when you install the printer driver. Make sure the HiTi USB Photo Printer 640 DL is checked and the status is Connected.
Click Apply to apply the changes you make. Or click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer Properties window.
For more detailed information, click Help to view Windows online help file.
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Uninstalling Printer Driver
In Windows 98 environment
You should uninstall the printer driver if: you want to re-install with a new version of printer driver, or you want to remove the printer driver from your machine.
1.
Choose Control Panel > Printers > Uninstall HiTi USB
Photo Printer 640DL from Windows Start menu. Click
Add/Remove.
2.
Click Start to uninstall the driver software from the machine.
3.
The uninstallation program starts to remove related program files. When done, the uninstallation program prompts you to restart Windows to complete the installation. Click OK.
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Uninstalling Printer Driver
In Windows 2000 environment
1.
Choose Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs from
Windows Start menu. Choose Uninstall HiTi USB Photo
Printer.
2.
Click Start to uninstall the driver software from the machine.
3.
The uninstallation is complete.
Note: You don’t need to restart your machine to complete the uninstallation.
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Key features
- 4x6 inch borderless printing
- High-speed printing (under 70 seconds)
- D2T2 40 3dpi True Color printing
- PhotoDésirée MiniLab Edition software
- Parallel printing (up to 8 printers)
- Automatic temperature and humidity detection