OS/2 1.3 and 2.0 driver for Canon BJ-Series ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INSTALLATION NOTES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you are installing this version of the driver as a replacement for an older version of the driver, you must follow the instructions in Section 1 ("Upgrading the Driver") before installing the new version. If this is a new installation, follow the instructions in Section 2 ("Installing the Driver"). 1. UPGRADING THE DRIVER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Before installing the new driver, you must first remove the old driver from your system, if you do not, the driver will not be successfully installed. You should follow the instructions for the release of OS/2 that you are running. Deleting the old driver from OS/2 Version 1.3x ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following instructions can be followed to delete any printer driver from your OS/2 system that is no longer required A) Delete Printer Names ----------------------- 1. From the Presentation Manager Desktop, select the Print Manager. (printer icon) 2. Choose "Setup". 3. Choose "Printers". For each Canon BJ Printer name associated with the old version of the printer driver: Highlight the printer name by clicking on it; Click the "Delete" button to remove the name; Click "Yes" to confirm the operation; Click "OK" to confirm completion. 4. You will be returned to the Print Manager. B) Delete associated printer queues ----------------------------------- 1. Choose "Setup" at the Print Manager. 2. Choose "Queues". 3. For each printer deleted in the previous step, delete its associated queue(s): Highlight the printer queue by clicking on it; Click the "Delete" button to remove the queue; Click "Yes" to confirm the deletion; Click "OK" to confirm completion. 4. You will be returned the Print Manager. 5. Minimize the Print Manager. C) Delete printer Drivers from "Control Panel" ---------------------------------------------- If any OS/2 applications have accessed the Canon printer driver during your current OS/2 session, you must Reboot your machine before performing the next step. If you do not do this, Control Panel will be unable to delete the files because they will still be "open". 1. From the Presentation Manager Desktop, change to the Group - Utilities. 2. Select the Control Panel. 3. Select the "Installation" menu. 4. Select "Delete printer drivers..." 5. For each printer name deleted previously, delete its associated printer driver as follows: Highlight the printer driver by clicking on it; Click on the "Delete" button to remove the driver; Click "Yes" to confirm the deletion; Click "OK" to confirm completion of the operation. At this point, one of the following will happen: 5a) If the focus is returned to the Control Panel and there are no more printer drivers to be deleted, exit the Control Panel and proceed to section 3, "Installing the Driver". 5b) If the focus is returned to the Control Panel and there are more printer drivers to be deleted, repeat steps 3, 4, and 5 for each printer driver to be deleted. 5c) If a message appears: "The device driver has been deleted. Cannot delete the associated printer driver file because you have installed other printer device drivers from it.": You have not deleted all the printers associated with this device driver. To rectify this: Click on "Cancel"; Repeat steps 3, 4, and 5 for each driver to be deleted. It there are no other printer drivers to be deleted, exit the Control Panel, and proceed to section 3, "Installing the Driver". 5d) If a warning message appears: "Cannot delete the printer device driver because it is associated with one or more printers. Remove the printer associations, then retry.": You have not deleted all the printer names associated with this device driver. To rectify this exit from Control Panel and repeat the above steps A and B to delete the remaining printer names. 5e) If a warning message appears: "Cannot delete the printer driver because a program may be using the file, the file may be read-only or the disk may be write-protected": The driver file is still in use by the operating system. To rectify this exit from Control Panel and reboot OS/2 to unload the driver. Refer to your OS/2 user documentation for details on how to "Shutdown" the OS/2 operating system and avoid loss of data. Deleting the old driver from OS/2 Version 2.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If any OS/2 applications have accessed the Canon printer driver during your current OS/2 session, you must Reboot your machine before performing the next step. If you do not do this, you will be unable to delete the files because they will still be "open". Deleting an obsolete Canon BJ Printer Driver Object --------------------------------------------------- 1. Find the Icon on your OS/2 desktop that refers to your printer driver (in OS/2 2.0 terms, this is the "Printer Object"). 2. Select (highlight) the icon by clicking on it with the left mouse button. 2. Display the pop-up menu for the printer object by clicking on the object with the right mouse button. For details of how to do this with your keyboard, please refer to your OS/2 documentation. 3. Select the arrow to the right of "Open"; then select "Settings". 4. Select "Printer driver". 5. If the Canon BJ-Series printer driver is selected in one or both fields in the printer driver settings window, select a different driver as the default by clicking on the icon for that driver. 6. Display the pop-up menu for the Canon BJ-Series driver that you want to delete by clicking on the icon with the right mouse button. 7. Select "Delete". 8. If this driver is used in any other printer objects, a window appears showing those printer objects. Repeat step 6-7 for each printer object displayed to delete them. If you receive the message: "Do you want to delete the files associated with this printer driver from your fixed disk" you will know that all references to the driver have been deleted. Click on "Yes" to delete the driver files. For further information, regarding this process under OS/2 2.0, please refer to the Master Help Index. Click on the "Search Topics..." button and search for "delete printer driver". Follow the instructions under "Deleting (printer or plotter) device drivers" and "Deleting printer object". 2. INSTALLING THE DRIVER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Files included in this release ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CANONBJ.DRV Driver file BJ_GNRC.DLL DLL required by driver CARD301.FNT ) CARD302.FNT ) Font Card data files CARD303.FNT ) RESETEA.CMD OS/2 Batch file to re-build Extended Attributes CANONBJ.EA ) BJ_GNRC.EA ) Data Files used to preserve Extended Attributes CARD301.EA ) CARD302.EA ) CARD303.EA ) INSTALL.TXT This file (installation notes) README.TXT Release notes If you have received this driver electronically, or the files have been copied using DOS instead of OS/2, you must first reconstruct the driver release disk, otherwise the installation will fail. Constructing a Driver Release Disk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Printer Installer for OS/2 requires special extended attributes (EA's) for the driver files which will only be preserved if files are copied under OS/2. These EAs will be lost if the driver has been transferred electronically or using the DOS copy command. Additional files have been supplied with this driver to allow the re-construction of these attributes. To re-build the EAs, you must do the following: 1. Under DOS or OS/2, copy the driver files to a newly formatted floppy diskette. 2. If you are not already running OS/2, Boot OS/2 on your workstation. 3. Switch to an OS/2 Full Screen or Windowed command prompt. 4. Change drive to the floppy diskette containing the driver files (A: or B:). 5. Run the OS/2 batch file RESETEA.CMD by typing: RESETEA at the OS/2 command prompt 6. The RESETEA batch file will run the OS/2 command EAUTIL to restore the Extended Attributes from .EA files provided on your release disk. If the command fails, make sure that EAUTIL is present in your OS/2 PATH. (Your OS/2 user documentation will tell you how to do this). Installing the driver ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The installation procedure differs depending on the version of OS/2 that you are running. Please follow the correct procedure given below for your version of OS/2. If you do not follow these procedures, the driver may not be correctly installed. If you already have old printer drivers installed on your system, you may need to delete these before installing the Canon BJ-Series driver. Before installing your Canon BJ-Series driver under OS/2, you must check that your OS/2 CONFIG.SYS file contains the following setting, which will allow the driver to be correctly installed: From your root directory ("cd \"), check that the line IOPL=YES appears in the CONFIG.SYS file. If it does not, or if the line appears as: IOPL=NO use an editor (such as the OS/2 System Editor) to add it anywhere in the file, or to correct the existing line. Using the Printer Installer under OS/2 1.3x ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Start the Printer Installer by opening the Print Manager icon from the Presentation Manager Desktop. 2. Select the "Setup" menu. 3. Select "Printer install...". The "Printer Install" dialog will be displayed. 4. Click on the "New" button. You will be prompted for the "New Printer Driver Location". Enter the path where the driver files are located and select "OK". The "New Printer Driver Model" dialog box will be displayed. 5. Select the required printer model and click on "OK" to confirm the selection. The "Printer Properties" dialog will be displayed for the Canon BJ-Series printer driver. Select the options that you require and click on "OK" to save them. For more help on the Printer Installer, select the Help button or in the "Help Index", select the Printer Installer. Using the Printer Installer under OS/2 2.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Open the "OS/2 System" icon from the "Workplace Shell" to open the "OS/2 System - Icon View" window. 2. Open the "Drives" icon to display a window of disk drive icons. 3. Place your device driver diskette in drive A or B and open the corresponding drive icon. 4. An icon for the Canon BJ-Series printer driver CANONBJ.DRV will be displayed in the "Drive x - Icon View" window. Open this icon to start the driver installation process. 5. The "CANONBJ.DRV - Icon View" window will be displayed. Drag the icon corresponding to the printer model you wish to install to your OS/2 2.0 Desktop. 6. Repeat step 5 for each printer model you wish to install. 7. When all disk activity has ceased, close all the windows opened so far. The icon "CANONBJ.Canon BJxxx" should now be present on your desktop. Notes ----- In the above examples, Drive x refers to Drive A or Drive B and Canon BJxxx refers to any of the Canon BJ-Series Models supported by the driver. You can edit the icon name for your Canon BJ-Series driver by using the options in "Settings". For further information regarding installation, instructions are provided in the OS/2 Master Help Index. Open the Master Help Index, scroll to the P tab, and scroll to the Printing topics. Select "Installing a printer or a plotter". Or, click on the "Search Topics..." button and search for "installing printer drivers".