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Driver upgrade for Windows® 2000


IMPORTANT! 

Please follow the steps below:

1. Uninstall the current driver.

2. Install the new driver.






1.Uninstall 


For Windows® 95/98 users

If you are upgrading to Windows® 2000 from Windows® 95/98, we recommend that you first delete the existing printer driver from your system before performing the upgrade. 
Once you have completed the upgrade to Windows® 2000, you may then install the Windows® 2000 printer driver. 

To delete the printer driver from Windows® 95/98, perform the following steps:

1. Click Start and select printers in Settings. 

2. Delete the appropriate printer driver. 

3. Restart your computer. 


For Windows NT® 4.0 users 

If you are upgrading to Windows® 2000 from Windows NT® 4.0, you must first delete the existing printer driver from your system before performing the upgrade. 
Once you have completed the upgrade to Windows® 2000, you may then install the Windows® 2000 printer driver. 

To delete the printer driver from Windows NT® 4.0, perform the following steps:

1. Click Start and select printers in Settings. 

2. Delete the appropriate printer driver. 

3. Restart your computer. 





2.Download &  Install


To upgrade the new printer driver to Windows® 2000, perform the following steps:


Windows® 2000, PPD files for BR-Script2 printer drivers 

1.Please make a temporary directory on your HDD to save the downloaded self-extracting file. 
e.g.. C:\brodnt 
2.Start downloading. 
3.Once downloading is complete, double click on the downloaded file to extract it. 
4.Click [Start], [Settings], [Printers] and [Add Printer]. 
Then please follow the instruction on the screen. 
5.Set "Local printer" or "Network printer" for the target printer. 
6.Select a port. 
7.Click [Have a disk] and type the directory where the extracted files exist. 
e.g. C:\bront 
8.Select the model name. 
9.Click [Finish]. 


< Duplicating the driver to client PCs > 
Please follow this procedure after installing the driver on the server. 

10.Click [Network Neighborhood] and right click on the target printer. 
11.Select [Install] from the menu. 
12.Select [Yes] to the question "Do you want to download the driver?" 

PLEASE NOTE: 
You will need the original Windows CD-ROM that was supplied with 
your PC if you wish to install the BR-Script (PostScript) printer driver 
into your PC. If your computer came pre-installed with Windows, then you may 
already have a back up files on your HDD called "Cab" files. These cab files 
contains compressed versions of all the files necessary to install Windows 
software. Please make sure that you can locate the CD-ROM or the Cab files 
before proceeding with the installation of the BR-Script (PostScript) 
driver. 

The file DOWNLOAD>>


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