PS Printer Driver
For Microsoft Windows
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This file describes how to set up your printer driver and contains the most up-to-date information that was available at the time of software release. For information on the Printer Driver settings and features, please check the Help file.
32-bit architecture
- Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate
- Windows 8.1 Pro and Enterprise
- Windows 10 Home/Pro/Enterprise/Education
- Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise
64-bit architecture
- Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate
- Windows 8.1 Pro and Enterprise
- Windows 10 Home/Pro/Enterprise/Education
- Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and Enterprise
- Windows Server 2012 Foundation, Essentials, and Standard
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation, Essentials, and Standard
- Windows Server 2016 Standard/Datacenter/Essentials/MultiPoint Premium Server
- Windows Server 2019 Standard/Datacenter/Essentials
Note: Hyper-V virtual machine environments are not supported.
Notes:
All applications must be closed before installing or upgrading the driver.
This procedure requires administrator privileges (an administrator account or the ability to "Run as Administrator" in the Windows operating system).
1-1) Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019
- From the Start button, go to the following to initialize the "Add Printer" settings: "Settings" > "Devices" > "Printers & scanners" > "Add printers & scanners" or select "All Apps" > "Windows System" > "Control Panel" > "View devices and printers" > "Add a printer".
- From "Select a printer", select "The printer that I want isn't listed".
- Select the connection method in "Find a printer by other options" according to the printer setup wizard. The following is the procedure when "Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings" is selected.
Below is the procedure when "Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings" is selected.
- Select a printer port in the "Choose a printer port" dialog.
- If an existing port will be used, select it from the "Use an existing port:" dropdown list.
- If a new port will be used, choose "Standard TCP/IP Port" from the "Create a new port:" dropdown list. In the "Type a printer hostname or IP address" dialog, enter the hostname or IP address and uncheck "Query the printer and automatically select the driver to use".
- Specify the driver file under the disk1 directory of the downloaded driver folder or by installing the CD-ROM and then click "Have Disk".
- Select the appropriate manufacturer and printer in the "Install the printer driver" dialog.
- Enter a printer name in the "Type a printer name" dialog.
- Select if the printer should be shared with other network users in the "Printer Sharing" dialog.
- Check "Set as the default printer" in the "You've successfully added [Printer name]" dialog if the printer should be used as the default printer.
- Check if the printer is working properly by clicking "Print a test page" in the "You've successfully added [Printer name]" dialog.
- Click "Finish" to complete the driver installation.
1-2) Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012/Server 2012 R2
- Initialize the "Add Printer" dialog by navigating to the following from the Charms Bar: "Settings" > "Control Panel" > "View devices and printers" > "Add a printer".
- Stop searching for available printers and select "The printer that I want isn't listed" in the "Select a printer" dialog.
- Select the connection method in "Find a printer by other options" dialog.
Below is the procedure when "Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings" is selected.
- Select a printer port in the "Choose a printer port" dialog.
- If an existing port will be used, select it from the "Use an existing port:" dropdown list.
- If a new port will be used, select "Standard TCP/IP Port" from the "Create a new port:" dropdown lists. Enter the device IP address and uncheck "Query the printer and automatically select the driver to use" in the "Type a printer hostname or IP address" dialog.
- Specify the driver file the .inf file under the disk1 directory of the downloaded driver folder or included in the CD-ROM-by clicking "Have Disk".
- Select the appropriate manufacturer and printer in the "Install the printer driver" dialog.
- Enter a printer name in the "Type a printer name" dialog.
- Select if the printer should be shared with other network users in the "Printer Sharing" dialog.
- Check "Set as the default printer" in the "You've successfully added [Printer name]" dialog if the printer should be used as the default.
- You can check if the printer is working properly by clicking "Print a test page" in the "You've successfully added [Printer name]" dialog.
- Click "Finish" to complete the driver installation.
1-3) Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008
- Initialize the "Add Printer" dialog by navigating to the following from the Start button: "Devices and Printers" > "Add a Printer".
- Select the connection method in the "What type of printer do you want to install?" dialog.
Below is the procedure when "Add a local printer" is selected.
- Select a printer port in the "Choose a printer port" dialog.
- If an existing port will be used, select it from the "Use an existing port:" dropdown list.
- If a new port will be used, select "Standard TCP/IP Port" from the "Create a new port:" dropdown list. Enter the device IP address and uncheck the "Query the printer and automatically select the driver to use" in the "Type a printer hostname or IP address" dialog.
- Specify the driver file the .inf file under the disk1 directory of the downloaded driver folder or included in the CD-ROM-by clicking "Have Disk".
- Select the appropriate manufacturer and printer in the "Install the printer driver" dialog.
- Enter a printer name in the "Type a printer name" dialog.
- Select if the printer should be shared with other network users in the "Printer Sharing" dialog.
- Check "Set as the default printer" in the "You've successfully added [Printer name]" dialog if the printer should be used as the default.
- You can check if the printer is working properly by clicking "Print a test page" in the "You've successfully added [Printer name]" dialog.
- Click "Finish" to complete the driver installation.
Please follow these installation steps to update the printer driver from old version to new version.
This procedure requires administrator privileges.
Make sure to close all applications before upgrading.
Attention: If you want to upgrade the printer driver, use the same name printer driver.
- Open the "Printers" folder (or "Printers and Faxes", "View Devices and Printers") from the "Start" menu or "Control Panel".
- Open the Properties of the printer to be upgraded.
- Select "Advanced" tab > "New Driver" button. Click "Next >".
- Select "Have Disk..." then browse to the folder containing the extracted printer driver (you chose at step 2) INF file. Click "Open".
- Click "OK" and select the printer model. Click "Next >".
- Once the installation is complete, click "Finish".
- Click "OK" to close the printer properties dialog box.
- To finalize upgrade, log off and log on again.
After completing above operation, you can use printer driver of new version.
Note: This procedure requires administrator privileges (an administrator account or the ability to "Run as Administrator" in the Windows operating system).
3-1) Windows 7/8.1/10/Server 2008 R2/Server 2012/Server 2012 R2/Server 2016/Server 2019
- Close all applications.
- Open the "Printers" folder (or "Devices and Printers").
- Delete the printer icon corresponding to the driver that is to be uninstalled.
- Print server properties > "Change Driver Settings" button.
- Open the Driver tab.
- Select the driver to be uninstalled.
- Press the Remove key.
- Press "Remove driver and driver package".
- Restart the PC.
3-2) Windows Server 2008
- Close all applications.
- Open the "Printers" folder (or "Printers and Faxes").
- Delete the printer icon corresponding to the driver that is to be uninstalled.
- Right click in the "Printers" folder and select "Run as Administrator".
- Server Properties > Driver tab.
- Select the driver to be uninstalled.
- Press the Remove key.
- Press "Remove driver and driver package".
- Restart the PC.
- If intensive (or bookbinding) printing of the direction mixture data is carried out, direction or scaling of the figure in a document may not be printed correctly.
- Limitations on bookbinding ganged-up pages:
- Speciying "Auto tray select" in driver settings will not include the Bypass tray as a target input tray.
- Specifying an input tray in driver settings will reset and interrupt the job.
- If the PC name is set with a character string containing 16 bytes or more, Hostname on the banner is printed only up to 15 bytes.
- If you check "Choose paper source by PDF paper size" function of Adobe Reader, "Layout" function may not be operated normally. In that case, this can be prevented by enabling the application's "Print As Image" function.
- With specific application, depending on the combination of post-processings features and number of copies set on the printer driver, only 1 copy is printed out even if set with multiple copies.
Post-processing features are the following.
- Staple
- Punch
- Fold
- Sort
- Perfect Binding
- Layout and Booklet etc.
The example of specific application : Microsoft Office
- When you print a Booklet (or the Layout) and Mirroring combined printing result is specified direction and may open the reverse.
- Use of the "Edge to Edge Print" function with the Layout function might result in page contents being slightly larger than normal.
- Open-to-left/right may be set in the opposite direction in duplex stapling jobs.
- The driver's "Web Image Monitor" button might not work in an IPv6 environment.
- Stamp might not be printed when using the following applications:
- When printing from Adobe InDesign, border lines might be printed around an object that overlaps a black-colored object. A workaround for this issue is to save the document as a PDF file, open the file with Adobe Reader and print it using "Print as image".
- The number of copies setting of the printer driver might not work as expected when printing the following applications:
- Adobe Reader
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
Workaround:
Set the number of copies in application.
- If the Staple setting is "2 at Center" or if the "Reverse Order" setting is On, the driver will add an extra page to the end of odd-paged duplex jobs. The added page will be incremented in the printer's counter. There is no way to prevent this.
- The orientation of landscape images might be incorrect because Adobe Reader/Acrobat rotates the image, which causes printing to start from the top-right corner instead of the top-left corner.The problem can be solved by applying the following settings:
- Enable [Print as image] in Adobe Reader/Acrobat.
- Disable [Choose Paper Source by PDF page size] in Adobe Reader/Acrobat and specify Landscape for [Orientation] and the correct paper size in the driver settings.
- Enable [Disable PostScript Passthrough] in the driver settings.
- Use of the "Stamp" or "Page Order" functions with some applications, e.g. Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, might produce unexpected results. Use of the application's "Print as Image" function is recommended to overcome difficulties with these functions.
- To use the Adobe PostScript® option, open the Printer Properties, navigate to the Accessories tab, and select the "Adobe PostScript" option.
- Additional Page Count in Duplex Printing
An extra page is added to the end of odd-paged duplex jobs. The added page might be incremented in the printer's counter.
- Depending on the combination of text and font settings for watermark, text might not be printed.
In such case, a change of font is recommended.
- If the "Color/ Black and White" setting is "Color" some purely BW objects might be printed using CMYK toners (composite black). If the "Color/ Black and White" setting = "Black and White", all objects will be printed using K toner (pure black) only.
- Some applications add an extra page to the end of odd-paged duplex jobs. The added page might be incremented in the printer's counter. To prevent such pages from being counted, please turn the device's "Blank Page Print" function off.
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