Mannesmann Information Concerning Windows NT Drivers B. Wegener, EE Tally GmbH for Mannesmann Tally Printers March 11, 1996 Last update: March 11, 1996 _____________________________________________________________________________ This is the first formal distribution of our native printer drivers for our MT350/360 printers for Microsoft Windows NT Rev. 3.51 for Intel PC (386 or higher). The driver will NOT work with MIPS-, ALPHA- or POWER-PC processors. The development of the drivers below was payed by Mannesmann Tally GmbH and because of this they are property of Mannesmann Tally. These drivers are developed with tools and based upon sample drivers published by Microsoft in their DDK (Drivers Development Kit). The license agreement by Microsoft allows the free distribution of those drivers but not the sale. 1. Unitool Minidriver for our MT3X0 printer family ================================================== These drivers require the files - RASDD.DLL - RASDDUI.DLL - RASDDUI.HLP - PRINTER.INF - MT360.DLL for installation. These files are included in the file MT360.ZIP. All files are in English, which may cause some troubles, but this is absolutely necessary for the moment, because only these versions support options for setting the print quality when using internal printer fonts. Please install all these drivers only by using the Windows NT Control Manager or the Windows NT Print Manager and please have your Windows NT diskettes or CD-ROM available during the installation in case Windows NT asks for some special files. The printer driver installation will be guided by the file PRINTER.INF, containing information which files are required for the instal- lation of the supported printers. List of Printer Drivers and Supported Printers: ---------------------------------------------- MT350, MT350 color model, MT360, MT360 color model, MT360-2T with driver V3.4 2. Installation process ======================= From your Windows NT program manager, either double-click the control icon and then the printer icon or double-click the print manager in the main group directly. Then click printer - add new printer and at the end of the line 'driver' click the button to get a list of available printers. Scroll down to the very end of the list and select 'others ...'. You will then be prompted to insert the diskette containing the drivers in drive a: (or type in a different path). If you accept, you get a list of supported printers. Select one, and the installation begins. After this is done, you can adjust the printer's properties by clicking printer - properties in the print manager menu. You can adjust the usual things like paper size and -source by clicking details - defaults (= standard in the german version of NT). If you want to adjust the print quality of the internal printer fonts, you should continue by clicking on options - more options. Then you will find a line called print quality, where you can choose from Fast Draft Quality, Draft Quality, Near Letter Quality and Letter Quality. Then click OK several times to accept the adjustments. The driver is now set up. 3. Request for Bug Reporting: ============================= Although the drivers have been tested carefully , I do not think that they are free of bugs. But I am confident that at least obvious bugs should not appear. In case of reporting bugs, please verify that it is not an application error of the user only which caused the problem. Please report the bug to: Mannesmann Tally GmbH, Postfach 2969, D-89019 Ulm, Germany Attn. Mr. Franz Schmid, Dept. SB, Phone (..49)-7308-80-124, Telefax (..49)-7308-80101 CompuServe: 100634,644 Internet: 100634.644@compuserve.com In order not to overlook necessary background information in your report please use the form in file BUGREP1.ASC. Thanks for your support and your efforts. I am looking forward to receiving your comments. Bernd Wegener