Canon BJC 70 Product Setup, User Guides & Manuals - Page 35

Setting Up the Printer Installing a Printer Driver Before you can print documents from your software applications, you must install the appropriate printer driver on your computer. The printer driver takes the information from your application program and translates it into a language the printer can understand. If you are using Microsoft Windows 3.1 applications, install the BJC-70 printer driver for Windows and the Visual Guide, as described in the next section. If you are using MS-DOS applications, you must install a printer driver for each MS-DOS software application that you intend to use with the printer. See Chapter 4, Using the Printer With Your Software, for details. Installing the Windows Printer Driver, Visual Guide, and Color Advisor The Canon Windows Driver, Visual Guide, and Color Advisor diskettes contain a setup program called SETUP.EXE. This program automatically installs both the Canon BJC-70 printer driver for Windows 3.1 and the Visual Guide. You can choose to install either the driver, the guide, or both. The Canon BJC-70 printer driver for Windows includes a tool called the Canon Color Advisor, which allows you to easily add color to the text in your document. For instructions on how to use the Color Advisor, see Chapter 5, Using the Color Advisor. Before installing the Canon Windows driver, make sure your computer system has the following minimum configuration: t 386 personal computer t 4 MB random access memory (RAM) t 2.4 MB of available disk space t 256-color, VGA color graphics monitor with a minimum resolution of 640 x 480 dots per inch (dpi) t MS-DOS 5.0 or later t Windows 3.1 N You can run Windows and use the Visual Guide and Color Advisor with 4 MB of RAM. However, for optimum performance, Canon recommends that your computer have 8 MB of RAM. Windows and other applications use 4 MB of RAM; to speed its performance, the Color Advisor needs an additional 4 MB of RAM. Chapter 2 Setting Up the Printer 25