Epson Advanced Printer Driver for TM Series Ver.3.04, Installation Manual

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1-8 APD Overview Rev.B
Operating Environment
The APD can be used in the following environments.
Computer
Any PC/AT compatible machine running any of the following Windows systems.
OS
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4 English version
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 English version
• Microsoft Windows XP Embedded SP2 English version
When using the driver with Microsoft Windows XP Embedded, the following
components are required.
Volume Shadow Copy Service
System Restore Core
OLE Dialog Interfaces
Local Printing Support
Task Scheduler (Required for USB driver installation)
Primitive: DbgHelp (Required for USB driver installation)
Communications Port (If the PC has no serial or parallel port, one of them must
be installed manually.)
Primitive: Winhlp32 (Required for help file browsing)
After installing the above components, check the component's dependencies,
using the constitutive utility for Windows XP Embedded (Target Designer).
OSs other than those listed above are not supported.Windows Server 2003 is not supported.
Development tool
• Microsoft Visual Basic
• Microsoft Visual C++
Application
Allows printing from Windows applications. Printing from commercial text editor or
spreadsheet applications is possible without any programming.
To be able to acquire printer information such as "no paper" or "error" from an application, the
StatusAPI must be used. In such case, the user must develop the application him/herself.
Note:
To print from Microsoft Word, the file must be saved in Word 6.0/95 format.