HP -GL/2 User's Manual
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1. checkbox on the Advanced Tab of Printer Properties should not be checked Occasionally saving job accounting information will cause an error ACCOUNTING 12 FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes When using printer accounting from a client going to a server you must set the driver to use the RAW data type only under Printer Properties General Tab and Print Processor WINDOWS 2000 When updating a driver if you receive an error message Printer Driver was not installed Operation could not be completed Delete the printer from the Printers Folder restart and Add the printer again WINDOWS XP If the printer port is created from an account that does not have administrator rights will not work correctly Test prints will not print and other applications may not be able to use the printer AutoCAD Wipeouts and Text Masks do not always work AUTOCAD LT Paper size must be set in the application AutoCAD LT ignores certain settings in the driver and paper size is one of the settings overridden BENTLY MICROSTATION Bentley Microstation overrides all driver features See Microstation web site at http selectservices bentley com supporttools index htm COREL DRAW Corel Draw 8 tends to put erroneous data in text fields in the driver this is especially noted in the copy count You may see the copy count go to such values as 50 or 520 unexpectedly It is recommended th2. the driver MICROSOFT PROJECT In order to print Microsoft Project documents larger than A size the Windows Print driver requires Microsoft Project 4 1a or later MICROSOFT WORD Microsoft Word overrides the paper setup in the driver properties SPICER IMAGINATION 4 50 Intermittent problems occur when printing from Spicer Imagination 4 50 using this printer driver The application periodically overrides some of the driver settings e g Copies To make sure Spicer uses the appropriate settings use the Printer Setup path or dialog for settings and not the Print path or dialog Adobe Acrobat Reader When the driver s margin settings are all set to 0 some files might be printed incorrectly The workaround is to leave the driver s margin settings at the default values 14 FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes Prepared by Xerox Corporation 800 Phillips Road Building 139 64A Webster New York 14580 9791 USA XEROX Inc 2006 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America XEROX XEROX Wide Format 510DP XES Synergix 8850 Digital Solution Synergix Scan System AccXES and acronym XEROX are trademarks of XEROX CORPORATION 1 2006 FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes 15
3. the known issues with this release of the Windows 2000 XP Pro Printer Driver ALL APPLICATIONS When a driver is installed from a server and a finisher is attached to the printer the finisher does not always get installed on the client machine If this is the case you must install the finisher locally If you change the Document defaults Printer Preferences or Printer properties when an application is open if these changes are not applied in your application restart your application If you receive an operation could not be completed error message while attempting to install this print driver it is likely that the previous driver has not been fully removed Follow the instructions above for removing first the Net Port Monitor and then the Driver If this fails to correct the problem manually remove the files listed in the Driver Installation section and then delete the XES registry entries listed below and reboot your computer HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Control Print Environments Windows NT x86 Drivers HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Control Print Monitors XES Net Port HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Control Print Monitors XES PJL When the driver is installed on a server and a folder is installed the folder settings are not copied to a client which installs the driver When the driver is installed from a version shared from a server the Enable advanced printing features
4. 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes There are 21 self extracting zip files WM Cote VBF Tate i r laleLercve l Self extracting zip file name FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes 5 3 FreeFlow Accxes HP GL 2 Printer Driver for 2000 XP 2003 3 1 New Release Features This release adds support for AccXES version 11 0 adds support for the Use Drawn Area command adds support for user specified job owner and addresses customer issues This version does not support use of the XES Net Port Monitor on drivers which are shared over the network 3 2 Customer Issues Resolved This release addresses the following issues Issue Description Problem Resolution SPAR 577821919 Unable to save Account and User ID SPAR 228560783 Dashed lines in PDF files are printed solid 6 FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes 4 Driver Installation Note Ensure you are logged into Windows with proper administrative privileges to install a driver 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 Remove any previous versions of this print driver as described in the Driver Removal section below Start Windows 2000 XP 2003 Either Download from the web http Awww xerox com or Insert the CD ROM containing this driver into your workstation s drive Select your language and unzip your driver file typically accomplished by double clicking on the
5. Printers folder select File Server Properties then select the Drivers tab From the list on the Drivers tab select all Xerox Wide Format HP GL 2 drivers Click the Remove button Click Yes when prompted This will remove the Printer Drivers from your Windows operating system Make sure your registry is backed up 11 Using RegEdit remove the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Print Monitors KES PJL key If there are any files from the Release Content list either the one in this document or the one in the document from the release you are deleting remaining on your hard drive remove them using Windows Explorer You may need to reboot the system before the files are available for deletion Reboot 6 2 Removing from AutoCAD 2000i 2002 2004 2005 10 Start Windows Explorer Delete the XESGDI7 HDI file from the DRV directory of AutoCAD 2000i 2002 Delete the DRV_XESG CNT and DRV_XESG HLFP files from the HELP directory of AutoCAD 2000i 2002 If it exists delete the XESWMSG DLL file from Program Files Common Files Autodesk Common Empty your Recycle Bin and restart Windows FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes 7 Net Port Monitor Removal 1 If any Printer Drivers are using the XES Net Port change them to use a different port such a FILE 2 Select Printers Folder File Server Properties 3 On the Ports tab
6. XEROX Wide Format XEROX WIDE FORMAT FreeFlow Accxes HP GL 2 Printer Driver Version 11 0 for Windows 2000 XP 2003 for AccXES 11 0 Table of Contents 2 Trademark Acknowledgements Release Content FreeFlow Accxes HP GL 2 Printer Driver for 2000 XP 2003 New Release Features Customer Issues Resolved Driver Installation Creating a Printer Port Driver Removal Removing from Windows 2000 XP Pro Removing from AutoCAD 2000i 2002 2004 2005 Net Port Monitor Removal Known Issues FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes 1 Trademark Acknowledgements XEROX XES Synergix The Document Company and the identifying product names and numbers herein are trademarks of XEROX CORPORATION All other product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies All rights reserved Windows 2000 Windows XP Pro are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation HP GL 2 and HP RTL are registered trademarks of Hewlett Packard Company AutoCAD is a registered trademark of AutoDesk Inc HDI is an acronym for Heidi Device Interface Heidi is a registered trademark of AutoDesk Inc CorelDRAW is a registered trademark of Corel Corporation WinZip is a registered trademark of Nico Mak Computing Inc Bentley and MicroStation are registered trad
7. ab Click the Add Port Button Click on New Port Type to display the Installing Print Monitor dialog Provide the path to your driver files specifically the file named Monitor inf for 2000 or XPMonitor inf for XP Pro and click Open When the Installing Print Monitor screen displays again indicating the path to the print monitor click OK When the Printer Ports screen displays select XES Net Port click New Port and when prompted click OK When the XES Net Port Dialog displays enter the TCP IP address of the printer s Controller in the entry field and click OK Accept the default Timeout value on the displayed Configuration dialog and click OK Close the Printer Ports window Close the Server Properties dialog FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes 9 6 Driver Removal 6 1 Removing from Windows 1 a Oo MN 12 13 To remove the Net Port Monitor please follow the instructions in the Net Port Monitor Removal section below To remove the HP GL 2 Printer Drivers click on Start Settings Printers Right mouse click on the icon s representing your installed Wide Format Print Systems 8825 8830 8850 8855 510 Series 721p 6030 or 6050 Select Delete from the drop down menu Click Yes when prompted This will remove the Printer Driver s from your Printers folder From the
8. at you verify your copy count when entering the Driver s Document properties dialog through Corel Draw 8 e Color darkening gets overridden with CorelDraw IMAGING Printing with Imaging to paper sizes larger than 80 long doesn t work if you use the Imaging print setting Actual Size All the other settings seem to work such as Pixel to Pixel and Scale To Fit When printing to paper sizes over 80 the driver must be setup to Always Spool RAW Datatype this setting can be reached via Printer Properties General Tab Print Processor button You may also print to file and then send the file to the printer using our AccXES Client Tools EXCEL Use of the ANY paper size from within the driver does not work with Microsoft Excel This is a limitation of Excel If you set the margins within the driver to large top and bottom values you will not be able to produce a print If margins are necessary set them up in the page setup from within Excel If the user selects a custom paper size from within the driver and the tries to print and application error may occur which will shutdown Excel This is a problem with Excel and its page size limits MICROSOFT POWER POINT Microsoft Power Point overrides the Drivers copy count setting FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes 13 To use larger than A size paper in Power Point the user must select the paper size in
9. emarks of Bentley Systems Incorporated FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes 3 2 Release Content This release is provided as a self extracting zip file The self extracting zip contains the following files File Version Description XESUIDRV DLL 11 0 4 1541 User interfaceDLLE O i O XES32RES DLL 11 0 4 1302 Resource DLL localized XESNET HLP o Monitor INF Installation file for Net Port Monitor for 2K XPNonitor INF Installation file for Net Port Monitor for XP Pro AccXES_500 NF_ Installation file for the driver for 500 88xx AccXES_700 INF_ Instalation file for the driver for 721p _____ AccXES cat _XESG pO a DRV_XESG CNT 8830ANSILFIN 8830 Folder finisher description file _ PO pO AccXES_11 0 HPGL2_D Customer Release Notes river_Customer_Release_Not es pdf Only one of the AccXES_ INF files will be in each self extracting zip file Each self extracting zip file creates 7 folders one for each supported language The folders are Enu English Deu German Esp Spanish Fra French Ita Italian Ptg Portuguese and Rus Russian The version numbers for XES32RES DLL and XESNPRES DLL may be different for each language The version number listed is for English XESNPRES DLL 11 0 4 1097 Net Port Monitor Resource DLL localized PO ized Help file for XES Net Port localized 4 FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP
10. inters Choose Yes if you will be printing primarily to this printer from your windows applications Click Next When the Printer Sharing window displays select Do not share this printer unless the printer is directly connected to your workstation and you wish to share it with other network users Click Next If the printer is power on and capable of communicating with your workstation when prompted to print a test page select Yes Click Finish Verify that an icon representing your printer is now displayed in your desktop Printers window FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes 7 16 If you previously had an Xerox Wide Format HPGL 2 driver installed be sure to close all Windows programs and then restart your computer to replace the old driver files with new files Note Upon installation this driver will look for Windows System registry entries previously created by the AutoCAD 2000i 2002 or 2004 program installer If such entries are found this driver will add itself to the list of available printers within the AutoCAD program 8 FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes 5 Creating a Printer Port If you do not have an XES Net Port to use with this driver it is recommended that you create a new printer port on your desktop 1 Begin by clicking Start Settings Printers File Server Properties Ports t
11. select all XES Network Ports in the list and click the Delete Port button 4 Make sure your registry is backed up Using RegEdit remove the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Print Monitors KES Net Port key 6 Reboot the system 7 Delete XESNet DLL XESNet HLP and XESNPRES DLL from the Windows directory tree if they exist FreeFlow AccXES 2000 XP 2003 HP GL 2 Printer Driver Customer Release Notes 11 8 Known Issues The following is a list of the known issues with this release of the Windows 2000 XP Pro XES Net Port Monitor If you log off Windows and then try to configure the port the Transmission Retry field will be grayed out completely and you will not be able to see the value The spin buttons will still work but you will not be able to see your changes You can fix this by doing a net stop spooler and then a net start spooler at the command line or just restart Windows This is due to an incompatibility of the common spin button control in the spooler environment after logging back into Windows If a driver using the net port is installed by an admin and used by a non admin on the same machine the Refresh button does not work for the non admin The Refresh button on the Device Options Tab in Printer Properties is used only when the printer is using the XES Net Port Sometimes the button may not work unless the Refresh on open checkbox is also checked The following is a list of
12. self extracting file Write down the directory into which you extracted the files for later use On your workstation s desktop click Start Settings and Printers to open the Printers window From the Printers window double click on the Add Printer icon If the Add Printer Wizard introduction screen displays click Next Click on the Local printer radio button unless you will be printing through a network server in which case you should select Network Printer Deselect uncheck the Automatically detect check box in Windows 2000 XP Pro Click Next Note If you selected Network Printer or Network Printer Server you will have to click Browse to open up the applicable network directories and sub directories to locate your printer s server Then skip to step 11 When the Select the Printer Port window displays do one of the following o Select an XES TCP IP port form the displayed list and click Next If you do not have an available XES TCP IP port cancel this installation and refer to Creating a Printer Port in these Release Notes When the Manufacturers and Printers window displays click Have Disk and enter the path to the driver files you extracted in step 3 Click OK From the displayed list of printers select your printer Wide Format Print System 721p for example and click Next Select either Yes or No to make this printer your default windows pr
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