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- Copyright (c) 1996 Canon Information Systems, Inc., Canon Inc.
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-
- Thank you for purchasing a Canon Color BubbleJet Printer. We hope that
- you'll appreciate its exceptional print quality, flexible paper
- handling, fast printing speed, and trouble-free operation. Your
- printer also comes with the Color Advisor software, a tool that helps
- you create professional looking color output quickly and easily.
-
- This READMECA.TXT file contains supplemental information to help you
- use the Color Advisor. As with most software and hardware products,
- some information is made available after the User's Manual is printed.
- Updated information is provided in this READMECA.TXT file. If any of
- the information in this file is inaccurate or you require further
- assistance, please contact your local Canon company. The contact
- addresses and phone numbers are listed in the driver's Help file, in
- the Visual GuideTM software, and in your printer's User Manual.
-
- Topics Covered In This Readmeca.txt File
- ========================================
- Enabling the Color Advisor
- Using the Color Advisor
- Recommended Print Settings
- Improving Printing Speed
- Cautions, Limitations and Restrictions
-
- Enabling the Color Advisor
- ==========================
- The Color Advisor software is automatically installed with the printer
- driver software. After installing Color Advisor, you must activate it
- in the printer driver dialog box. You can access the printer driver
- either through an application's Print or Print Setup dialog, or
- directly through the Control Panel\Printers dialog. Select the
- "Setting" tab in the printer driver, and click on the green check mark
- to activate Color Advisor.
-
-
- Using the Color Advisor
- ========================
- Color Advisor is a tool that assists you in colorizing documents.
- Color Advisor is optimized for use with text documents that have
- limited graphics. We recommend using Color Advisor primarily with
- word processing documents and to a lesser degree with spreadsheet
- and presentation files.
-
- When the Color Advisor is activated, the Color Advisor will appear
- after you click File/Print from within your application. Color
- Advisor displays your document, and allows you to select color schemes,
- add color to text and graphics, add backgrounds and enhance text with
- special effects.
-
- Color Advisor has been designed and tested to work with the following
- software applications:
-
- * Microsoft Corporation
- Word 6.0 & 7.0
- Excel 5.0 & 7.0
- PowerPoint 4.0 & 7.0
- Write 3.11
- Notepad 3.11
- WordPad 1.0
- Paintbrush
- Paint 1.0
-
- * WordPerfect Corporation
- WordPerfect 6.1
- Quattro Pro 6.0
- Presentations 2.0, 3.0
-
- * Lotus
- AmiPro 3.1
- Lotus 1-2-3, Ver. 5
- Freelance Graphics 2.1
-
- * Intuit
- Quicken 5.0
-
- * DogByte
- Stationary Store 1.7
- Sticker Store 1.1
- Pattern Maker 1.1
-
- Please refer to the "Cautions, Limitations and Restrictions" section at
- the end of this file for more information regarding the use of the
- Color Advisor.
-
-
- Recommended Print Settings for Color Advisor
- =============================================
- Color Advisor should be used with the "Color" and "Automatic"
- settings selected in the printer driver.
-
-
- To Improve Printing Speed:
- =======================================
- *Turn off the "Print Manager" in the Windows "Control Panel". This
- may increase your printing speed by as much as 25% depending on the
- computer you are using.
-
- *Under the 386 Enhanced icon in the Windows 3.1x "Control Panel",
- add or create a permanent swap file that is from 4MB to 10MB. See
- your Windows documentation for these instructions.
-
- *Limit the number of colors on each page; too many colors can make
- the image confusing and less effective as well as cause the print
- speed to slow down.
-
- *Color Advisor is optimized for use with True Type fonts. To obtain
- the best performance, replace any bitmap fonts in your document with
- True Type fonts.
-
-
- Cautions, Limitations and Restrictions
- =======================================
- 1. A mouse is required to use Color Advisor. Common "command
- keys" or "hot keys" are not supported.
-
- 2. Objects that will be smaller than 5 pixels in height or width when
- printed will not be colorized by Color Advisor. The screen fonts
- "Modern", "Script" and "Roman" have a thickness of only 1 pixel
- when printed, and cannot be colored by Color Advisor.
-
- 3. If your document contains ATM fonts and your video display is set
- to display 256 colors, changes to the colors in the Paint Box may
- not be immediately reflected in the text in the document viewing
- area. A Zoom/Unzoom, or any action that causes the document to be
- re-drawn will correct the display.
-
- 4. If you attempt to print using Color Advisor while your printer is
- off line, you must take the following steps to fully cancel the
- print job. First respond to the off line error message by pressing
- Retry. Next press the Cancel button in the Color Advisor print
- progress dialog box.
-
- 5. The Hallmark Everyday Greetings application on the Canon Creative
- CD is not supported by Color Advisor.
-
- 6. When using Color Advisor under Windows 95, use ALT-ESC to switch
- between tasks rather than ALT-TAB.
-
- 7. If your Word Perfect document contains pages in alternate page
- orientation (one page is landscape, the next is portrait) it will
- be sent to Color Advisor as multiple files. You may still use
- Color Advisor, but you will have to colorize each page separately.
-
- 8. Color Advisor does not support applications that use batch printing
- processes, such as Microsoft Office Binder. Please disable Color
- Advisor before printing with these applications.
-
- 9. If you are using fonts with large point sizes and text effects with
- Windows 95, it is recommended that you use the Spool Setting "raw"
- instead of the default Spool data format "EMF".
-
- 10. If you are using Windows 95, and your AmiPro portrait document
- prints out in landscape, turn off background printing in AmiPrint
- and the document will print correctly.
-
- 11. Color Advisor is not compatible with Microsoft BOB. Color Advisor
- will be automatically disabled when MS BOB is running.
-
- 12. If the highlight color in your Windows display appearance setting
- is blue, you may have difficulty seeing the names of the Coloring
- templates that appear in blue. Change your highlight to another
- color. The Coloring Templates that appear in blue are those that
- you create, and the application specific templates that come with
- Color Advisor.
-
- 13. It is recommended that you do not use Color Advisor when printing
- from the Windows File Manager. Instead print from within the
- application used to create the document.
-
- 14. Color Advisor does not fully support Quicken version 4.0. If you
- want to use Color Advisor with Quicken, please upgrade to Quicken
- version 5.0.
-
- Tradenames mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of
- their respective companies.
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