Panasonic KX-P8420 User Manual

The printer drivers that come with your printer have been customized to provide additional print options specific to

your KX-P8420 printer. Although the PostScript printer driver interfaces vary between Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0,

Windows 3.1 and Macintosh operating systems, the printing features available from each driver, on each platform,

are virtually the same. This document describes KX-P8420 specific print options and settings available using the

PostScript printer driver with Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 3.1 and Macintosh platform except color

related features.

KX-P8420 Windows95 driver is developed based on Adobe PS driver version 4.2.3.

For Macintosh platform, AdobePS driver 8.5.1 and P8420 PPD is used as a P8420 driver.

PPD(PostScript printer description) is a file that describes printer specific features and is provided for all platforms

KX-P8420 supports.

For Windows3.1, Adobe PS driver 3.1.2 and P8420 PPD is used. For WindowsNT4.0, PSCRIPT.dll (Microsoft

PostScript driver) and P8420 PPD is used.

KX-P8420 Driver&Utility CD-ROM has a readme file for each versions of Adobe PS driver which include various

information common in all Adobe PS driver such as troubleshooting, know problems or others. Please also refer to

Help files included in each Adobe PS driver that gives you the helpful hint as well.

Windows3.1x,Windows95,WindowsNT4.0 with SP3 (intel version) or later.

MacOS7.5x,7.6x,8.0.

Contrary to P8410, P8420 does not require much resources(RAM size, HDD remaining size) on PC. Only when you

need to use ATM and PS3 fonts, you need more than 20MB as a remaining HDD size.

The version of KX-P8420 Win95 driver is 4.2.3, which is certified as Win95 compatible by Adobe and the latest driver

is 4.2.4 certified as Win98 compatible. The customer can use 4.2.4 version driver after they download from Adobe

home page together with KX-P8420 PPD file and as far as we have confirmed, it should work as Windows98 driver

with no problem although P8420 specific driver properties tab (Colorwise, Device Options) are replaced with Adobe

ddriver generic tab. In addition, the current driver 4.2.3 also should work well with Windows98. Because there seems

not to be much different between these 2 versions and so far we have not found any problems related to the Adobe

driver version with Windows98 printing.

Though this document does not describe the functions common in all Adobe printers, please note the followings as a

reminder when you use those functions.

See also the Readme file included on the KX-P8420 Driver & Utility CD-