●Safety precautions Please read the User’s Manual for the printer carefully before use, and follow the instructions. Note that the contents of directions for use and safety precautions correspond to the safety standards as of the time the User’s Manual has been created.
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 Installation Flow Installation is done in the following 3 steps. Details of each step are shown in a subsequent page. -> ”1.1 Printer and Host computer Preparation” STEP 1 Prepare the printer and computer Do not connect the USB cable at this step.
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 Check that the power for the DS-RX1 printer is OFF. Have a USB cable ready. But do not connect the printer to the computer with the USB cable at this point. In order to install the driver, login with administrator right.
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 In the selected folder, double click on the file “DriverInstall.CMD”. (Depending on your operating environment, the .CMD extension may not be shown.) The best Driver Package Installer for your operating system (32 or 64 bit) will automatically be selected. Fig 1.2 Install File If the User Account Control dialog appears, click on “Yes”.
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 When the “Welcome to the Device Driver Installation Wizard!” window appears, click on “Next>”. Fig 1.4 Starting of Installation Wizard If the Windows Security confirmation window appears, click on “Install”. Fig 1.5 Windows Security confirmation This starts the Driver Package installation.
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 Connect the printer to the computer with the USB cable, and turn the printer power ON. The printer will be recognized, and the driver installation should begin. * Please refer to the manual for the DS-RX1 printer for connection if needed. When driver installation begins, the message “Installing device driver software”...
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 When the confirmation window appears, click on “Yes”. Fig 1.10 Skip getting the driver software from Windows Update From a beginning of installation after a while, the message “Your device is ready to use” will appear above the task bar, and the printer driver installation will be complete.
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 Select “Start”, then “Control Panel”, and open the control panel. In Windows 8, right click the Start screen, select right-under the "All apps" and select the control panel. Click on “View devices and printers” in the control panel. Fig 1.13 Control Panel Check that the DS-RX1 is shown in the Devices and Printers window.
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 If the DS-RX1 printer driver installation was unsuccessful, the message “Device driver software was not successfully installed” will appear above the task bar. Fig 1.15 Driver Not Installed message By clicking on this message, the “Driver Software Installation” window will be opened, and the message “Device driver software was not successfully installed”...
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 Before installing the driver package, connect the printer (with power ON) to the computer, to create an ”Unspecified” device in the “Devices and Printers” window. Using this method, the printer driver can be installed as follows. Also, when a driver is not installed correctly but the "Unspecified"...
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 When the “Install a driver for this device” window appears, click on “Apply this fix”. It will automatically search for the driver and installation is started. Fig 1.18 Applying the Fix When the driver has been installed, “Troubleshooting has completed”...
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 Check that the DS-RX1 is displayed in the “Devices and Printers” window. Note: In Windows 8, DS-RX1 icon does not appear if the printer is offline (if the printer with the power on is not connected). Now, the DS-RX1 Printer Driver installation is complete.
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 Various printer settings can be made using the DS-RX1 Driver properties. Before operation, be sure to have a good understanding of the contents. Login by administrator authority is required for operation. Depending on application of the use, operation from print setting of the application is necessary.
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 3. Right click on the DS-RX1 icon, and from the pull-down menu select Printer properties => open the Properties window Note: In Windows 8, DS-RX1 icon does not appear if the printer is offline (if the printer with the power on is not connected). 4.
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 From the Properties window, by selecting Preferences you can make various print settings. 2.2.1 Layout Fig 2.2.1 Layout tab Orientation Assign print orientation as Landscape or Portrait. Refer to 2.6 Print direction. Page Order When printing multiple images in the application, you can set the order.
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 2.2.2 Advanced Options By selecting [Advanced] in the Layout window, various settings can be made using Advanced Options. Fig 2.2.2.1 Advanced Settings Fig 2.2.2.2 Advanced Options tab Paper Size You can designate the paper size. Please match the paper size to the media size with which the printer is equipped Copy Count You can designate the number of times an image will be printed.
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 Overcoat Finish The overcoat finish for the printed surface can be selected from the following two types. Overcoat Finish Function Glossy This finishes the print with a glossy surface. Matte This finishes the print with a matte (non-glossy) surface. Print Re-try This sets up whether print data in a printer buffer when the error of a printer occurs is printed after error recovery, or it does not print.
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 <Multiple layout> When the DS-RX1 is using 6x8 size media, 2 image layout is possible. With the printer driver paper setting, multi-image layout is made possible, and the image sizes are as follows. Layout designation Driver paper setting Paper...
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 <Example of Application Use> This is an example using Windows Explorer Step 1. Select 2 or more images=>Click “Print”. Step 5. Click on “Advanced”. Select 2 or more images Step 2. Check “Fit picture to frame” and click “Options”. Step 6.
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 2.2.3 Paper/Quality Fig 2.2.3 Paper/Quality tab Color Please set to color print. Do not use for black and white printing. 2.2.4 Option Fig 2.2.4.2 Sharpness setting Fig 2.2.4.1 Paper option tab Border Designates yes or no for border (check means with border).
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 2.2.5 Color Adjustment If you check Handled by Driver in 2.2.4 Option, the respective color adjustment values in the Color Adjustment tab are reflected in the image. Fig 2.2.5 Color Adjustment tab Setting ranges in the Color Adjustment tab are as follows: Adjustment Item Adjustment Value...
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 Default values for each option (at the time of installation) are shown below. If the printer driver does not work correctly after changing the options, please return the options to the default settings. Note) According to the Service Pack and use environment of OS, the default value at the time of installation may differ from the following chart.
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 Depending on the paper size designated at the driver, the image size and dot count will be as follows. Paper Paper Image size (width x height) Image pixel amount (width x height) Orientation (inch) (mm)
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 In order to update the printer driver, follow the steps shown below. 1. Driver Removal (1) Before removing the printer-driver, shut down all other applications. Also, in the “Devices and Printers” window, select the printer icon of the printer you want to remove, check the bottom of the window that there are no documents in queue, and start removal of the driver.
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 In Windows 8, DS-RX1 icon does not appear if the printer is offline (if the printer with the power on is not connected). If you can not connect to the printer with the power on, remove the device in the following procedure. (i) Right click an empty area of the "Devices and Printers"...
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 (3) When “Are you sure you want to remove this device?” appears, click on “Yes”. Fig 3.3 Remove device confirmation window (4) After the DS-RX1 printer has been removed, select another printer (for example: Fax), and click on “Print server properties” in the menu bar.
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 (5) When the Print Server Properties window appears, click on the Drivers tab. From the list of installed printer drivers, select “DS-RX1”, and click the “Remove” button. Fig 3.5 Print Server Properties window (6) When the Remove Driver and Package window appears, select “Remove driver only”, and click on the”OK”...
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 (7) When the Print Server Properties confirmation window appears, click on the “Yes” button. Fig 3.7 Print Server Properties confirmation window (8) Using the Print Server Properties window, confirm that “DS-RX1” has been removed, and click on the “Close” button. After removing the printer driver, uninstall the driver package.
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 2. Uninstalling a Driver Package (1) Select “Start”, then “Control Panel”, and open the control panel. Click on “Uninstall a program” in the control panel. In Windows 8, right click on the Start screen, select the right-under "All apps", select "Control Panel", click on "Uninstall a program"...
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[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 (3) When the “Uninstall Driver Package” window appears, click on “Yes”. The Uninstall will be completed. After finished with uninstalling the driver package, reboot the computer. Fig 3.11 Uninstall confirmation window 3.
[DS-RX1 Printer Driver] Instruction Manual for Windows 7, 8 For steps to remove the printer driver, refer to Chapter 3 “1. Driver Removal” and “2. Uninstalling a Driver Package”. Dai Nippon Printing Co.,Ltd.
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