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ReadMe_Driver.txt

KODAK PROFESSIONAL 8810 Digital Photo Printer
32 bit Printer driver for Windows XP, Windows vista and Windows 7 

Description:-
Applications use the KODAK PROFESSIONAL 8810 Digital Photo Printer 
driver to render images and to send them to the printer.  By using 
the driver from client applications, users can select various 
options to make photo quality thermal prints.

Requirements:-
The Windows XP/vista/7 KODAK PROFESSIONAL 8810 Digital Photo Printer 
driver requires the following minimum configuration:

Processor: 1.0 GHz Pentium III or greater
Monitor:   800 x 600 resolution or greater

                                  Minimum         Minimum
Operating System                Service Pack       Memory
----------------                ------------      -------
Windows XP Home                     SP3            128 MB
Windows XP Professional             SP3            128 MB
windows vista                                      256 MB
Windows 7                                          256 MB

In addition, the driver requires a functional USB port in order
to communicate with the printer.

Installation:-
You must have "administrator" privileges in order to add a printer.                              

 1. Connect the KODAK PROFESSIONAL 8810 Digital Photo Printer and 
    switch on the printer.

 2. Windows XP
    ----------
    The "Found New Hardware Wizard" detects the KODAK PROFESSIONAL 
    8810 Digital Photo Printer.

    Cancel the Installation of 'Found New Hardware Wizard'.


 3. Double-click 'E8810Driver_v1.02.exe' and follow the instructions 
    that appear.

 4. Windows XP, Vista, 7
    --------------------
    A hardware installation dialog may be presented warning that
    the driver has not passed Windows Logo testing.  Click
    "Continue Anyway".

    Note: These dialog boxes may be hidden behind the installer
          dialog (for either operating system).

Note: If the new printer driver is not listed in the Printers
      window after the installation is completed, try clicking
      on the View menu and selecting Refresh.


Uninstallation:-
Note:- You must have "administrator" privileges in order to 
       remove a printer.  
                   
To remove the printer driver from your computer:

 1. Start Menu -- E8810Printer -- Uninstall. Continue as per
    Instructions.

Next step to ensure full uninstall of drivers.

 1. From the Start menu, select "Settings -> Printers".

 2. Click the icon for the KODAK PROFESSIONAL 8810 Digital 
    Photo Printer you wish to remove.

 3. From the File menu, select Delete.

 4. From the Start menu, select "Settings -> Printers".

 5. Right click in the Printers window.

 6. Select Server Properties.

 7. Select Drivers.

 8. Select KODAK PROFESSIONAL 8810 Digital Photo Printer.

 9. Select Remove.

10. Disconnect the printer.


Troubleshooting:-

No warning for page size and ribbon size incompatibility
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Driver does not display an error message if you select a page
size it conflicts with the size of the installed ribbon.  For 
example, you can select a page size of 8X12 when the printer has
only short (10 inch) ribbon, even though trying to print with
this combination will produce an error during printing.

No error message displayed when encountering printing problems
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If you use the "Fast User Switching" facility in Windows XP any errors
that occur during printing may not be displayed in a message box.  The
only user who will see any error messages will be the one who logged
onto the system first.

Loss of communication if the USB cable is disconnected
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If you disconnect the USB cable during printing and then 
reconnect it, the printing operation will not pick up where 
it left off (i.e., on the next page, or on the next job).  
In addition, you may need to reboot the operating system 
and power cycle the printer to re-establish communications.

My borderless prints print with a thin white border
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See the Driver Tips section on Printing Borderless Pictures.


Driver tips:-

Printing Bordered Pictures
==========================

The printer creates 1/4 inch (75 pixel) borders on all page 
sizes.  The imageable area in pixels for bordered printing 
follows:

Page size         Imageable Area
===============   ==============
8 x 10 (E8810)    2250 X 2850
8 X 12 (E8810)    2250 X 2450
4 x 8  (E8810)    1125 x 2248

You do not need nor want to make the oversize image 
considerations for bordered printing that you need to 
make for borderless printing (See Printing Borderless 
Pictures).


Printing Borderless Pictures
============================

All printers have difficulties making borderless prints 
that exactly equal the physical size of the the paper 
they use.  Paper can track through the printing system in 
a way that misses one or more pixels on the edges of the 
paper.  When this occurs, an unwanted thin white border 
can print on some edges of the borderless print.

The KODAK PROFESSIONAL 8810 Digital Photo Printer solves 
this problem by making the print head (and the image area 
of the page) slightly larger than the page size. In this 
way, a slight tracking error through the printer will 
still allow printing at the extra wide print head without 
causing a thin border. However, this feature works only 
when the application provides the printer with a slightly 
larger image than the page size. 

You can find out how large an image to send to the printer 
for borderless printing by going to the Printers dialog 
in Control Panel and select File->Server Properties.  In 
the Forms tab of the Print Server Properties dialog you 
can find the following page sizes:

8 x 10 (E8810)
8 x 12 (E8810)
4 x 8  (E8810)

Select the page sizes and look at the measurements 
information displayed by the Form tab. This tab displays 
the printer's the image sizes in inches or metric 
units. For example the 8x10 page size shows its true 
image size as 8.21 x 10.08 inches or 20.85 x 25.60 cm. 
Generally, for most image printing applications you '
want to know the image size in pixels. 

The printer supports one resolution: 300 DPI.  As a 
result, while 8 inch wide paper requires 8 x 300 or 
2400 pixels, the printer requests 2464 wide images on 
8 inch paper (32 pixels extra on either side of center). 

On 10 inch long prints, the paper requires 3000 pixels 
for height, but the printer requests 3024 pixels (12 extra 
pixels top and bottom). On 12 inch long prints, the paper 
requires 3600 pixels, but the printer requests 3624 pixels 
(again, 12 extra pixels top and bottom).

If you use an application like Adobe Photoshop to print 
your images, and you make 8X10 images that have exactly 
2400 x 3000 pixels, Photoshop, depending on your settings 
and the version of Photoshop, might center your smaller 
image in a white background of the size the printer requests.  
This can defeat the purpose of the printer's larger page 
size and cause the production of thin, white borders.  

As a general rule, you should use the following pixel 
sizes for borderless printing of 8 x 10 and 8 x 12 
images:

8 x 10   2464 x 3024
8 x 12   2464 x 3624
4 x 8    1232 x 2464

You can use fewer pixels left and right and top and bottom 
in your applications, but to prevent thin white borders on 
borderless prints, you must always use a few more pixels 
left and right and top and bottom than the exact size of 
the paper.

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