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PRINTING.W95
Printing with Windows 95/98
General Notes
All printer drivers must be installed. To check this, from
the Windows 95/98 Desktop:
Select Start, Settings, Printers. Confirm that each of your
printers should has an printer icon to represent it.
Confirm the Set as Default selection is check-marked on the
default printer. (Press the right mouse button to see this
Default question.)
Troubleshooting
Printing is too slow or doesn't print or laser statements don't
print correctly
Go to the Windows 95/98 Desktop, (press Ctrl-Escape if you're
not already at the desktop). Click the Start icon, then
click Settings, then Printers. Each of your printers
should have a printer icon to represent it.
Click the right mouse button on the printer icon
Choose Properties
Choose the Details tab
Choose the Port Settings button
There should be a line which reads SPOOL MS-DOS JOBS. Make
sure the check box next to this line is NOT checked.
Choose OK a few times to get back to the box of printer
icons
Repeat the steps for all the other printer icons
Sometimes it helps to disable the Bidirectional Printing option
found within the Details screen of the printer icon properties.
Sometimes it helps to delete the printer icon and reinstall it.
Sometimes, it is required to turn ON Spooling of MS-DOS print
jobs (but usually it's best if spooling of MS-DOS print jobs is
OFF)
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Print jobs take 45 seconds before they start printing
The first thing to try is to turn off print spooling for MS-
DOS prompt as described above. If that doesn't help, then
try these steps.
Your computer consultant/helper can make these changes which
Microsoft says should speed up printing under Windows 95/98.
If these sections don't already exist, add these AFTER the
[386Enh] section in the SYSTEM.INI
[Network]
PrintBufTime=5
[IFSMGR]
PrintBufTime=5
Note that if you have a network, you should make these
changes to all windows 95/98 computers on the network.
The number 5 above represents approximately the number of
seconds delay. Windows defaults to about 45. It is not clear
if reducing to 1 works well, you can try it out.
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*** CHANGE WINDOWS 95/98 SPOOLING TO 'LAST PAGE' ***
Some computers experience partial printing or other problems. If the
above suggestions don't help the below might.
Go to the Windows 95/98 Desktop, (press Ctrl-Escape if you're not
already at the desktop). Click the Start icon, then click Settings,
then Printers. Each of your printers should have a printer icon to
represent it.
*Click the right mouse button on the printer icon
*Choose Properties
*Choose the Details tab
*Choose the Port Setting Button
*Set the "Spool MS-DOS Print Jobs" box to be Checked
*Choose OK
*Choose the Spool Settings button
*Select (with a dot) the line which reads "Spool print jobs..." and
"Print after Last page..." and change the spool data format to RAW
*Choose OK a few times to close the printers boxes