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Windows 2000 Printer Setup

This document provides instructions for installing and configuring the Adobe PScript 5 printer driver on a Windows 2000 computer. It outlines downloading and extracting necessary files, running the installer, selecting options like "FILE: Local Port" and "Don't Substitute" for font substitution, and ensuring the output protocol is set to "Binary" to create clean, generic PDF files.

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Windows 2000 Printer Setup

This document provides instructions for installing and configuring the Adobe PScript 5 printer driver on a Windows 2000 computer. It outlines downloading and extracting necessary files, running the installer, selecting options like "FILE: Local Port" and "Don't Substitute" for font substitution, and ensuring the output protocol is set to "Binary" to create clean, generic PDF files.

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Electronic Prepress

ADOBE PRINTER DRIVER PSCRIPT 5


FOR WINDOWS 2000
It is important that your Windows 2000 computer is using the Collapse the “Font Substitution Table” section and change
Adobe PScript 5 printer driver when creating your postscript the Output Protocol to “Binary”.Your window should look
and PDF files. Follow the steps below to install and set up the like this:
print driver.
1. Place the Apogee.ppd in the C:/Windows/System
folder.
2. Double-click on the winsteng.exe file.This launches the install
shield for the Adobe PScript 5 Printer Driver.
3.The install shield walks you through the installation of the
print driver. Do the following:
a) Click Next.
b) Accept through the licensing agreement.
c) Select Local Printer, Click Next.
d) In the “Local Port Selection” select FILE: Local Port.
Click Next.
Click OK.
e) In the “Select Printer Model” window, click “browse.”
7. Once again, go to the new printer you just created,
When the “Browse for Printer” window opens, browse
right-click the mouse and select Preferences. In the win-
to the C:/Windows/System folder and select the Agfa
dow that comes up, click the Advanced button.The set-
Apogee Normalizer. Click OK, then click Next.
tings in the Advanced Options window should appear as
f) In the “Sharing” window, select “Not Shared.” Click Next. below:
g) Name the printer “PDF Postscript.” Select NO Default
Printer and NO Test Page. Click Next.
h) Click Install. Configure? No.
h) Click Next and Finish.
4. From the Start menu on your computer, go to ‘Settings’ then
‘Printers.’
5. Select the new “PDF Postscript” printer that you just creat-
ed, right click the mouse and select Properties.
6. Expand the “Font Substitution Table” so you can see all of the
font names. They must all say “<Don’t Substitute>”. If you
have some that say something else, change them. (See illus-
tration). Click OK.

Click OK.

Always use this new printer that you just created when
creating Postscript or PDF files to be output at Bang
Printing. Using this driver will create clean, generic PDF files
that are not device-specific.
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