Copyright (c) 1995 Canon Information Systems, Inc., Canon Inc.
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Thank you for purchasing a Canon Color BubbleJet Printer.  We hope that
you'll appreciate its exceptional print quality, flexible paper 
handling, fast printing speed, and trouble-free operation.  Your
printer also comes with the Color Advisor software, a tool that helps 
you create professional looking color quickly and easily.

This READMECA.TXT file contains supplemental information to help you
use the Color Advisor.  As with most software and hardware products,
some information is made available after the User's Manual is printed.
Updated information is provided in this READMECA.TXT file.  If any of 
the information in this file is inaccurate or you require further
assistance, please contact your local Canon company.  The contact
addresses and phone numbers are listed in the driver's Help file, in
the Visual GuideTM software, and in your printer's User Manual.

Enabling the Color Advisor
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The Color Advisor software is automatically installed with the printer
driver software.  After installing Color Advisor, you must activate it
in the printer driver dialog box.  You can access the printer driver 
either through an application's Print or Print Setup dialog, or 
directly through the Control Panel\Printers dialog.  Select the
"Setting" tab in the printer driver, and click on the green check mark
to activate Color Advisor.


Using the Color Advisor
========================
Color Advisor is a tool that assists you in colorizing documents.
Color Advisor is optimized for use with text documents that have
limited graphics.  We recommend using Color Advisor primarily with your
word processing documents and to a lesser degree with your spreadsheet
and presentation files.  

When the Color Advisor is activated, the Color Advisor will appear
after you click on File/Print from within your application.  Color
Advisor displays your document, and allows you to select color schemes,
add color to text and graphics, add backgrounds and enhance text with 
special treatments.

Color Advisor has been designed and tested to work with the following
software applications:

	* Microsoft Corporation
		Word 6.0 & 7.0
		Excel 5.0 & 7.0
		PowerPoint 4.0 & 7.0
		Write 3.11
		Notepad 3.11
		WordPad 1.0
		Paintbrush
		Paint 1.0

	* WordPerfect Corporation
		WordPerfect 6.1
		Quattro Pro 6.0
		Presentations 2.0

	* Lotus Corporation
		AmiPro 3.1
		Lotus 1-2-3, Ver. 5
		Freelance Graphics 2.1

	* Intuit
		Quicken

	* DogByte
		Stationary Store 1.5
		Sticker Store 1.0

Please refer to the "Cautions, Limitations and Restrictions" section at
the end of this file for more information regarding the use of the 
Color Advisor.


Recommended Print Settings for Color Advisor
==============================================
Color Advisor should be used with the "Color" and "Automatic"
settings selected in the printer driver.


To optimize or increase printing speed:
==============================================

  *Turn off the "Print Manager" in the Windows "Control Panel". This
   may increase your printing speed by as much as 25% depending on the 
   computer you are using.

  *Under the 386 Enhanced icon in the Windows "Control Panel", add or 
   create a permanent swap file that is from 4MB to 10MB.  See your 
   Windows documentation for these instructions.

  *Limit the number of colors on each page; too many colors can make
   the image confusing and less effective as well as cause the print
   speed to slow down.


Cautions, Limitations and Restrictions
=======================================

1. Color Advisor supports mouse driven commands only. Common "command
   keys" or "hot keys" are not supported.

2. In order to print multiple copies from Excel with the Color Advisor,
   you should select only one copy from within your application's print
   dialog.  After you finish colorizing your document, select the Print
   All button within Color Advisor. Color Advisor will then provide a 
   dialog to allow you to select the number of copies and the collation
   process. It will allow you to select up to 9999 copies, and provides
   a checkbox to turn on (box checked) or turn off (box unchecked)
   collation.

3. Some presentations have complex graphic images. Specifically those
   graphics that are shaded or gradated may cause Color Advisor to take
   a long time to display, or may not display correctly in the Color 
   Advisor viewing window.  

4. Color Advisor is optimized for use with True Type fonts.  If you use
   Bitmap fonts, performance will be noticeably slower. To obtain the
   best performance, replace any bitmap fonts in your document with
   True Type fonts.

5. Objects that will be smaller than 5 pixels in height or width when 
   printed will not be colorized by Color Advisor. The screen fonts 
   "Modern", "Script" and "Roman" have a thickness of only 1 pixel when
   printed, and cannot be colored by Color Advisor.

6. When using Color Advisor to colorize a part of a graphic, (such as a
   single 'slice' in a pie chart), you may find the entire graphic
   appears to be selected when you position the cursor over the 
   graphic. If this is the case, and the wrong section of the object is
   colorized when you click, keep the mouse in the same location and 
   click again. Repeat this until the proper section of the graph is
   the desired color.

7. If your document contains ATM fonts and your video display is set to
   display 256 colors, changes to the colors in the Paint Box may
   not be immediately reflected in the text in the document viewing
   area. A Zoom/Unzoom, or any action that causes the document to be
   re-drawn will correct the display.

8. Some very small fonts may not display clearly in the document 
   viewing area while in AmiPro.  Select Zoom to view the text as it 
   will be printed. 

9. If you attempt to print using Color Advisor while your printer is
   off line, you must take the following steps to fully cancel the
   print job.  First respond to the off line error message by pressing
   Retry.  Next press the Cancel button in the Color Advisor print
   progress dialog box. 

10. Text Enhancements may not be used on text that is upsidedown or
    rotated.

11. The Hallmark Everyday Greetings application on the Canon Creative
    CD is not supported by Color Advisor.

12. When using Color Advisor under Windows 95, use ALT-ESC to switch 
    between tasks rather than ALT-TAB.

13. If your Word Perfect document contains pages in alternate page 
    orientation (one page is landscape, the next is portrait) it will
    be sent to Color Advisor as multiple files.  You may still use 
    Color Advisor, but you will have to colorize each page separately.

14. It is not recommended to use Color Advisor to print with Microsoft
    Office Binder.  Doing so will cause Color Advisor to launch with 
    each document in the binder.  If your binder contains a large 
    number of documents it may cause system resource problems.

15. If you are using fonts with large point sizes and text effects with 
    Windows 95, it is recommended that you use the Spool Setting "raw" 
    instead of the default Spool data format "EMF".

16. If you are using Windows 95, and your AmiPro portrait document 
    prints out in landscape, turn off background printing in AmiPrint
    and the document will print correctly.

17. If you inadvertantly delete the predefined Coloring Templates 
    provided with Color Advisor, you can regenerate them without 
    re-installing.  Go into the Windows directory and locate the 
    "cadll.ini" file.  Delete this file.  When you restart Color 
    Advisor, the file will be regenerated and the Coloring Templates
    will be restored.


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