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Three diskettes are supplied with the AR-5132 printer. Refer to Table
1 to determine which driver or drivers are compatible with your
operating system.

1. The Sharp AR-5132 Windows PostScript® Driver diskette con-

tains the following printer drivers:

•

Windows PostScript® printer driver (Sharp AR-5132 PS)

•

Sharp-specific PostScript® PPD (Sharp AR-5132)

2. The Sharp AR-5132 Windows PCL5e Driver contains

•

Windows PCL5e printer driver (Sharp AR-5132 PCL)

3. The Sharp AR-5132 Macintosh driver diskette contains the Macin-

tosh PostScript® printer driver and the Sharp-specific PostScript®
PPD.

Refer to the table below for selecting the printer driver depending on
operating systems, i.e., WIN 3.1 or WIN 95.

WIN 3.1

WIN 95

WIN NT

MAC

Windows PCL5e
Driver

✕

✕

Windows PostScript
Driver

✕

✕

Sharp-Specific
PostScript PPD

✕

✕

✕

Macintosh
PostScript Driver

✕

NOTES: 1. Users of Windows 3.1x and Windows 95 will obtain

maximum functionality and best output quality by install-
ing the Windows PostScript Printer driver. In other
words, the preferred Windows printer driver is AR-5132
PS.

2. Users of Windows NT must install the Sharp-specific

PostScript PPD, which uses the standard Microsoft
PostScript printer drivers supplied with Windows NT.

3. For this manual, when we way Windows 3.1x, we are

including Windows 3.1x and Windows for Workgroup
3.1x. The term ‘Windows 3.1x’ means any version of
Windows 3.1, whether 3.10 or 3.11.

The AR-5132 printing system can be applied to any AR-5132 con-
figuration

The printing system prints documents in PostScript, and PCL5e

2 data inputs are available:

Data

Input Availability

IEEE-1284 compatible, nibble (plug and
play only)

Standard

Network Interface Card

Optional

The printing system is supplied with custom PostScript and PCL5e
drivers for Windows and Macintosh

The printing system and copier can be configured and monitored via
the copier front panel.

The printing function operates in single bit per pixel mode only.

400 dpi 1 bit/pixel

1200 dpi smoothing. Switch Selection on/off default is on

RET is a hardware system that operates on 400 

×

 400 dpi data.

Basic printing modes implement copier like features. Extended print-
ing modes depend on both printer and driver.

Duplex printing is a modifier to the printing modes.

Each of the basic printing modes identified in the table below can be
selected in conjunction with any of the other modes

Mode

Applied to

Control

Description

Print Groups,
Sets, Page

Page

Page

ordered-pages stacked in order
sent Face up, Group, no
separators, to standard tray or
top tray of sorter.

Groups

Group (single
side print)

all page 1 together
all page 2 together etc.

Group (duplex
print)

all page 1,2 together
all page 3,4 together etc.

Sets

Set

Pages print in order 1,2,3 etc. for
all pages repeat for additional sets

Insert Page
Separators

off

print pages as planned

on

print page from selected tray
print blank from interleave tray

print

print page as planned
print same page from interleave
tray

The characteristics below are Modifiers or explanations to all the modes above

Face

all

(none)

All sheets delivered to output with
odd face up

Duplex

all

off

All sheets printed on 1 side

on

all sheets printed on both sides

if the number of pages is odd
and greater than 1, a blank
page is added to the job
if the number of pages is 1
the job is printed with duplex
off.

Extended printing modes require interaction by the printer driver.

Caution: Extended printing modes N-1, N-up and Booklet may not

function correctly when invoked from applications that use
PostScript passthrough or direct modes.

Up to 2 paper sources can be selected within a job. Sources can be
selected by location or by size.

If duplex printing is selected, selecting a new paper source empties
the duplex unit and printing resumes on the next odd face.

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