User manual CANON BJC-50

[. . . ] BJC-50 USER'S MANUAL Canon . 3 Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction How to use this manual Conventions Features and benefits Compact portable design Excellent print quality and speed in both color and black and white Options and supplies BJ Cartridges and ink cartridges Print media Power supply Available options 6 6 7 8 8 8 9 9 11 12 13 14 14 15 15 17 17 19 22 22 23 26 27 27 28 28 29 30 33 36 Chapter 2 Setting Up the Printer Selecting a location for your printer Examining the printer Front view Rear view Operation panel Installing the battery pack Connecting the printer to your computer Connecting the parallel interface Setting up the IrDA wireless interface Attaching the AC adapter To connect the AC adapter Switching the printer on and off Installing the BJ Cartridge Choosing which BJ Cartridge to use BJ Cartridge guidelines BJ Cartridge installation Performing a test print Installing and using printer drivers . . g gp Installing a printer driver for Windows 95/3. 1 Installing a printer driver for DOS applications Selecting a DOS printer driver from your software application 36 36 36 38 38 38 39 39 40 45 45 47 47 48 48 Chapter 3 Paper Handling Selecting paper types Plain paper Special media Envelopes Loading paper and other media Chapter 4 Performing Test Prints Starting the test prints Sample test prints Demonstration Printer settings Ripple pattern 3 . . 4 Nozzle Check Pattern Font Sample Hexadecimal dump test Chapter 5 Color Printing and Black-and-White Printing Switching between color printing and black-and-white printing Printing with Windows Printing with DOS applications Preparing your printer Changing the BJ Cartridges Printing with a color BJ Cartridge The benefits of color printing Selecting the print media Understanding your software application's capabilities Matching Colors displayed on your monitor with printouts . . . Color and cost Chapter 6 Maintaining the Printer Recharging and replacing the battery pack Recharging the battery pack Replacing the battery pack Replacing ink cartridges Handling ink cartridges Examining the ink cartridges Replacing an ink cartridge Replacing BJ cartridges Installing the Color Image Scanner Cartridge IS-12 Removing the BJ Cartridge Installing the scanner cartridge Removing the scanner cartridge 49 49 50 51 51 51 51 52 52 57 57 57 58 59 61 62 62 62 64 66 66 67 68 72 73 73 75 76 . . Cleaning the printer Before you start cleaning Cleaning inside and outside the printer Cleaning the print head Preparing the printer for travel or storage Troubleshooting Check List Errors indicated by the CHARGE/ERROR lamp Clearing paper jams Operational problems Print quality problems White streaks, dots missing, or irregular dots Color printing problems Other printing problems Where to Find More Help 78 78 79 80 81 83 83 84 86 87 89 89 92 94 97 Chapter 7 4 . . 5 Appendix A Paper Specifications Paper size Paper type Paper weight Printing area Paper and special media Envelopes 99 99 99 99 100 100 101 Appendix B Code Pages and Character Sets Code pages Character sets BJ mode LQ mode 102 102 108 108 111 Appendix C Printer Command Summaries Entering a setup string in Lotus 1-2-3 BJ mode command summary Basic control codes ESCape sequence codes Alternate Graphics Mode (AGM) codes Miscellaneous control codes ESCape sequence code for colour printing LQ mode command summary Basic control codes ESCape sequence codes ESCape sequence code for color printing 114 114 115 116 116 119 119 120 120 120 121 124 Appendix D Options and Supplies Consumables Paper and special media Available options Appendix E Specifications Printer Specifications 125 125 126 126 127 127 . . Appendix F Interface Specifications Parallel interface IrDA interface 131 131 131 5 . . 6 Chapter 1 Congratulations on your purchase of the Canon BJC-50 Bubble Jet Printer. The BJC-50 is compact, lightweight, and offers excellent color print quality. We hope you will be satisfied with this advanced Bubble Jet technology. How to use this manual The user's manual contains basic information about the printer, such as initial setup procedures, basic operation, the use of supplies and options, daily maintenance, troubleshooting, character sets, printer commands, and so on. [. . . ] z To print color designs and patterns on cloth, use Canon Fabric Sheet FS- 101. Use your favorite software to produce an original design then print the design on the fabric sheet. Create materials for pillows, gift bags, stuffed animals, hand puppets, appliques and so on. z You can also produce original designs on T-Shirt Transfer TR-20 1 (TR-101 in the U. S. ) and transfer them with a hot iron to cotton or cotton-polyester blend T-shirts. z When you use special print media, make sure that you always print on the correct side. (p42) Understanding your software application's capabilities The Canon BJC-50 can print a large number of different colors. The software application may support all 16. 7 million colors or may be limited, as follows: z A limited number of colors, such as the basic eight: red, green, blue, cyan, yellow, magenta, black, and white. For example, mixing red and blue for purple. 58 59 Matching Colors displayed on your monitor with printouts Colors are displayed on a video monitor by mixing the colours red, green, and blue (the three primary colors of visible light) in the amounts required to produce any given color. In the RGB method, the more intense the colors you mix, the brighter the color becomes. Printing technologies, on the other hand, employ the three primary colors cyan, magenta, and yellow, plus black (or K) to produce color effects. In the CMYK method, the more of a given color you add to a mixture of colors, the darker the resultant color becomes. As these paragraphs illustrate, the methods used to produce color in displays and printers are completely different. Other factors that can affect the perception of color are the quality of paper, type of print media, and differences in the source of light in use when viewing the colors. For these reasons, it is impossible to avoid some differences in the perceived color of a document or image viewed on a monitor, and the same image in printed form. In order to achieve a printed result which looks like the image displayed on the screen of a monitor, you must first make the appropriate settings to both the software application and the printer. 59 60 Adjustments made to the monitor If you have high quality monitor capable of finely controlling the amount of light allocated to each component of the RGB mix of colors, it is possible to adjust the colors appearing on the screen in such a way as to approximate the printed result. However, normal monitors allow only rough control of brightness and contrast, control which is applied indiscriminately to the entire screen and is not very effective for anything more than rough adjustment of the appearance of whole screen images. We recommend selection of a highly reliable monitor which suffers from as little deviation in the reproduction of colors as possible. Some software applications allow you to adjust the Gamma value, a value which adjusts the contrast of a color. One rule of thumb holds that a monitor Gamma value of about 1. 4 brings the colors displayed on a monitor into close agreement with the colors displayed on the printed page. Adjustment of color from within software applications When the software application allows adjustment of color, the appearance of colors on the monitor screen can be adjusted after comparison with printed results. Normally, colors are adjusted according to the procedure outlined below. For further information about how to adjust colors, see the documentation accompanying your software application. z First, print out a color sample using the CMYK method, and adjust the colors appearing on the monitor screen as you compare them to the printed result. By performing this calibration, it is possible to bring the colors displayed on the monitor screen and on the printed page into closer match. z If your software application uses a color palette to set color levels, it is possible to finely tune the appearance of a particular color by adjusting the color palette. [. . . ] z You can send specific commands directly to the printer, using either a BASIC statement or a printer command option in your software application. Entering a setup string in Lotus 1-2-3 The procedure for entering printer control commands in Lotus 1-2-3 is typical of the procedures used in spreadsheet software applications. If you are using another spreadsheet, review your application manual to determine if your software application supports printer option setups. Although the procedure to enter the codes may differ slightly, you will still have to enter the same number codes. For a list of these codes, refer to the tables later in this appendix. 114 115 BJ mode example This part shows that the decimal form the command to specify condensed text is 15 and the character form of the same command is SI. [. . . ]