Canon Printer Drivers
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Canon Printer Drivers
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Printer Drivers
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circa June 2008
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- Overview
Printer drivers are important tools in the completion of daily office tasks for most end users. Those that are comprehensive in their capabilities, easy-to-use, interactive, and administrator friendly can make the difference between productive workplaces, and those that suffer with continual operating difficulties.
As the world's largest supplier of laser printing products, Canon understands the complexities of network printing and how to simplify the process of document creation. Canon offers a wide array of black-and-white office products ranging from laser printers, to networkable fax devices, to networked multifunction systems. All of these product offerings share a common printer driver platform, ensuring that end users have a consistent interface and experience when printing to a Canon device.
Canon has designed our printer driver offerings to be extremely intuitive, graphically depicting the target print device, as well as interactive, accurately communicating printer configuration information, paper supply, and paper types to users' desktops across the network. For administrators, Canon offers flexible installation options and eliminates the need to configure printer options at every desktop by automating this process over the network.
Whether customer requirements dictate printing from Windows or Macintosh desktops, PostScript or PCL languages, or printing from specialized applications, Canon's comprehensive printer drivers can handle the task, assisting customers in leveraging the full benefits of their system investment.
- Features
Canon prides itself on consistent user interface design. Leveraging Canon's printer driver architecture, the interface presented to end-users across varying products is consistent in look and feel as well as navigation. By designing products in this fashion, Canon delivers greater ease of use, and lessens the training burden associated with learning how to use different Canon products.
Canon's Printer Drivers are designed using a 5-tab structure consisting of Page Setup, Finishing, Paper Source, Quality and Configuration. Through these tabs, users have access to the full capabilities offered by Canon devices. Within these tabs, users are presented with graphical icons representing their target print device as well as the page layout of the particular print job being submitted.
Canon's Page Setup Tab is the initial interface presented to users when accessing Canon's printer drivers. From this tab, users have the ability to make almost all settings associated with a particular print job.
From the Page Setup tab, users can select a number of output destinations, dependent upon the capabilities of the particular target device. These selections include print, store (mailbox), edit and preview (invokes Canon Page Composer), and secure print. All of these selections are outlined in further detail below.
A time saving feature of Canon's printer drivers is the ability for users to create and save frequently used job settings. Using the Profile function of Canon's printer driver, users can save job settings under their own name and icon. This function is particularly useful for jobs that are printed often and that require the same print settings. By selecting the appropriate job profile, users need not go through the process of making individual setting choices, as these are already stored.
When selected, users have the ability to view the device to which they are targeting their print job. All devices are depicted by a device icon, which accurately reflects the exact configuration of the target device. In addition, scrolling the mouse across the icon provides "pop-up" information concerning paper size and quantity. Users may also click on appropriate paper sources, selecting these sources to pull from when printing their job.
By selecting Page Layout View users are presented with an icon depicting the page layout of the job to be printed. This icon accurately reflects user selections with respect to paper size, page orientation, duplexing, or finishing commands. Using this view, users are guaranteed to receive the output as depicted on screen, eliminating the possibility of wasted prints.
From the Page Setup tab users are also afforded the ability to make selections concerning duplexing and document finishing. By right clicking their mouse within the Device or Page Layout Views, users are presented with a sub-menu that allows them to select two-sided output, as well as basic stapling of a document. Once selected, the appropriate document changes are reflected in Page Layout View ensuring the user recognizes the impact of their selections on the job being sent.
From the Page Setup tab, users are also provided the ability to add watermarks and other notations to their documents including name, page number, and date. In addition, users may also select borders when printing as well as the use of overlays created or previously stored.
By selecting View Settings, a user can confirm all settings associated with a given job. Although this is rarely necessary due to the visual information provided in the Page Layout view, this is another source of setting confirmation prior to submission of print jobs.
From the Finishing tab, users have the ability to make all finishing selections appropriate to the targeted print device. These options can include two-sided printing, basic single position stapling, multiposition stapling, hole punch, binding location, and saddle stitch booklet making. As with the Page Setup tab, the Finishing tab also provides users with the ability to take advantage of the Device View or Page Layout View, with the latter changing in accordance with the finishing options selected.
Using the Paper Source tab, users are given significant flexibility in determining from what source they will draw paper. Using this driver tab, users can select to pull covers from specific paper sources, while drawing body paper from others. Using this capability, users can easily build jobs of varying paper types, ensuring that specialty paper is pulled from the appropriate paper source.
From the Paper Source tab, users have the ability to control up to 4 independent paper sources, as well as invoke selections for the printing of transparencies. This flexibility is ideally suited for users who often need to print letterhead as part of their job, or for users who deliver print jobs consisting of specialty paper stocks.
Using the Quality tab, users can select output templates corresponding to the type of job they wish to print. Templates range from basic text to publications to engineering drawings. Upon making these selections, Canon's printer driver optimizes output in accordance with the document type being printed, ensuring that the user receives the most optimal quality.
For advanced users, Canon also offers the ability to manually adjust grayscale settings in accordance with a grayscale template provided. Through this function, users can adjust the driver to deliver grayscale output according to the users' preferences.
The Configuration tab included within Canon's printer driver is ideally suited for network administrators and end users installing printer drivers on user desktops or the network server. Using the configuration capability of Canon's printer drivers, administrators have the ability to automatically discover devices on the network, dynamically configure their options, and make selections impacting available device attributes.
Using Automatic Device Discovery, administrators can automatically search the network via IP or IPX protocol, discovering all available print devices. Upon retrieving available devices on the network, the network administrator need only highlight the device to which they want to print in order to configure the driver for delivery of print jobs. Using this function, administrators can easily find networked devices, and are not required to make any device configuration selections, as this information is automatically updated once the target device is selected.
Canon's Dynamic Configuration capability automatically updates the configuration and available options for any device highlighted and selected using Canon's Automatic Device Discovery function. Through Dynamic Configuration, the printer driver is updated to show all available device options, paper size, as well as paper quantity. Dynamic Configuration also updates the icon of the device as portrayed in Device View, clearly indicating all options available on the targeted printer. Canon's Dynamic Configuration function is ideal in that it always maintains accurate information concerning device configuration options, and installed paper. By monitoring the device for changes, Canon's Dynamic Configuration function provides up to date information to users, ensuring that changes made to the device are clearly visible within the printer driver.
- Supported Applications
Job Accounting
In connection with a number of Canon products, Canon offers the ability to account for jobs submitted, capturing user name, department name, and pages printed. In connection with these devices, if configured for job accounting, end users are prompted to enter their User ID and Password in order for print jobs to be released to the target device. This function is ideally suited for firms wishing to restrict device access, as well as for customers desiring to track output activity for billing purposes.
Network Communication
An embedded part of Canon's printer driver architecture is network communication. All Canon printer drivers embed network communications capabilities within the driver for device discovery, dynamic configuration, and communication of paper size and type directly to the end user desktop. Using this network communication function, users and administrators can easily search the network to find devices, can automatically update device configurations on a real time basis, graphically displaying device options and capabilities, and receive real-time information concerning paper size and quantity in each paper source in the system. The network communication capabilities inherent in Canon's printer drivers leverage the SNMP communication protocol embedded within Canon's network printing interface cards to support the functionality described above.
Printing to a Mailbox
Many of Canon's product offerings incorporate electronic mailboxes for the storage of printed and scanned information. Canon's printer drivers offer users the ability to send print jobs to user mailboxes by selecting the "Store" option from within the Output Destination pull down menu. Users can utilize Canon's mailbox printing functions to store frequently used documents at the device on a permanent basis, direct print output to mailboxes assigned to other users in a workgroup or department for security purposes, or to combine print data with other jobs already stored in a mailbox. Using this capability provides users significant flexibility in managing job composition and output.
Secure Printing
A supported function in a number of Canon product offerings is the ability to send secure print jobs to the device. For those devices where this function is supported, Canon's printer drivers will display a "Secure Print" selection under Output Destination. Upon selecting this option, users are prompted for entry of a secure password. All jobs submitted using this function will be stored in memory at the target device until the user enters the password at the device operation panel and releases the job. Canon's secure printing function is ideal for documents that must remain confidential such as performance appraisals, resumes, product specifications, financial data, etc.
- Specifications
Supported Page Description Languages: Adobe PostScript 3, PCL 5e, PCL 6, PCL XL, PostScript emulation
Supported Products: imageRUNNER, imageCLASS, LaserCLASS
Supported Operating Systems:
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows Me
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Apple Macintosh Version 7.5.1 and Higher
Network Communication: Automatic Discovery/Dynamic Configuration
- TCP/IP (Discovery)
- SPX/IPX (Discovery)
- SNMP (Dynamic Configuration)
Installation Methods:
- Canon Installation Program (.exe file)
- Microsoft Point and Print (.inf file)
Page Layout and Editing: Canon Page Composer
- Operates in background
- Operates as separate application
Driver Certifications: Microsoft WHQL Certification (http://www.microsoft.com/hcl)
Please note: Operating System and PDL support can vary by product. Check specific product specifications for details.
*Application Specific Drivers are available for imageRUNNER and varying imageCLASS devices only.
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