******************************************************* IMPORTANT INFORMATION for Colorific v95.33 WINDOWS NT Users ******************************************************* THIS IS A BETA RELEASE FOR WINDOWS NT, TO UPGRADE TO A FINAL NT RELEASE CONTACT SONNETECH TECHNICAL SUPPORT www.colorific.com ******************************************************* Colorific v95.33 NT Release Notes May 22, 1997 ******************************************************* READ THIS FILE COMPLETELY BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO USE THIS PRODUCT! IMPORTANT! THIS PRODUCT IS NOT DESIGNED FOR USE IN LIFE SUPPORT DEVICES AND SONNETECH MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS TO THE CONTRARY. LIFE SUPPORT DEVICES ARE THOSE DEVICES WHICH ARE USED TO MEASURE, DIAGNOSE, OR EVALUATE THE TISSUE, SYSTEMS OR FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY; OR OTHER DEVICES EMPLOYED TO SUPPORT OR SUSTAIN LIFE OR GOOD HEALTH. Sonnetech, Ltd. 350 Townsend Street, Suite 409 San Francisco, CA 94107-1699 Customer Support via INTERNET:..................http://www.colorific.com Customer Support (Faxback and Voice).... (415) 957-9941 Voice Only ............................. (415) 957-0152 Customer Support FAX ................... (415) 957-9942 America Online .............................. colorific Internet E-mail address.............. colorific@aol.com ******************************************************* Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction: New Features 1.1 Windows NT 2.0 FOR BEST RESULTS: 2.1 Use special glossy paper for ink jet printers 3.0 Colorific and Kodak Precision-Enabled Applications 4.0 Uninstalling Colorific 4.1 Uninstall Colorific v1.x BEFORE installing Windows 95! 4.2 Uninstalling Colorific v95 5.0 Reporting Problems ******************************************************* 1.0 Introduction 1.1 This section contains a list of features in the current Windows NT version of Colorific. * Creates monitor profiles in the Kodak Precision format used by PageMaker 6.0, PhotoStyler, Picture Publisher, and other programs, in addition to the ICC-format profile needed by ICM and other Windows 95 programs. (See sections 2.0 and 6.0 below) * Provides TRUE INTERENT COLOR(tm) by creating an ICC (International Color Consortium) format profile needed for "tagging" Web pages to enable them to display with accurate color * Provides TRUE INTERENT COLOR(tm) by creating an ICC (International Color Consortium) format profile needed for internet "plug-in's" from SGI, Adobe, Pantone, Microsoft,and other systems offering internet color correction to your display (see: www.colorific.com) **************************************************** 2.0 FOR BEST RESULTS, YOU MUST READ THIS 2.1 INK JET PRINTERS NEED SPECIAL PAPER Unless you use special glossy ink jet paper, the colors from your ink jet printer will be dull and will not be a good match to the colors on your monitor. There are several makers for this type of paper. We recommend Colorific-approved inkjet paper from IJ Technologies. As a gift for reading this readme file, call 1-800-356-6962 to request a FREE 5-sheet sampler pack. IJ Technologies: Colorific-approved and recommended: Ultragraphix I Presentation Glossy Paper Ultragraphix I Presentation Matte Paper Ultragraphix I Photographic Matte Paper Ultragraphix I Photographic Glossy Paper IJ Technologies, Inc. St. Charles, MO 63303-5157 USA Tel. 800-356-6962 This paper is nice in that both matte and glossy finishes are available. And it works well with most color inkjet printers, including those from Canon and HP. Other good souces for special glossy ink jet paper include: Hewlett-Packard: HP 51636H LX Series Glossy Paper (8.5 x 11 inches) HP 51636H LX Series Glossy Paper (210 x 297 mm) Contact HP in the US at 800-538-8787. Outside the US, contact HP in your country. This paper is available worldwide in computer stores. It works well with most color ink jet printers, including those from Canon. Rexham Graphics: RIJ4WHP Paper for HP Color Ink Jet Printers, 8.5 x 11, 50 sheets RIJ4WC Paper for Canon Color Ink Jet Printers, 8.5 x 11, 50 sheets Contact Rexham for European sizes and part numbers. Rexham Graphics, 28 Gaylord Street, South Hadley, MA USA 01075-2894 Tel. 413-536-7800 FAX 413-536-4414 Technical Support: 800-831-9551 Not only does Rexham make a white bright specialty paper that works in virtually all ink jet color printers including HP, Canon, and Apple, but they also offer a high quality white film (glossy) and overhead transparency film. Rexham media has a unique surface coating that controls absorption and keeps ink from bleeding or dulling, effectively allowing Colorific to match your screen colors to your printed output. Rexham also offers an entire line of wax thermal transfer media for most thermal transfer printers, and is constantly introducing new and innovative products. For transparencies, please be aware that color matching may not be perfect. This is because the bulbs that light overhead projectors are missing much of the red spectrum to avoid creating heat, which can burn or melt the transparency material. So the color you see when you print on transparency material may not be the color you are able to project onto a screen. ****************************************************** 3.0 Applications using the Kodak Precision CMS Colorific creates a Kodak Precision (tm) monitor profile in your Precision database. This profile can be accessed by Kodak Precision-enabled applications such as PageMaker 6, PhotoStyler, Corel Draw 7, Adobe Photoshop, and Picture Publisher. Open the Kodak CMS from within your application, then choose the profile named for your monitor model. If you use the Kodak Precision CMS for color-correcting your print jobs, your should NOT enable ICM in your printer driver. Use either method of color-matching, but not both. If you use ICM rather than Kodak Precision for color matching, see items #2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 above for other important information about how to configure your application for use with Windows 95 and its ICM (image color matching) feature. Detailed information about using Colorific with particular graphics applications is available from the Sonnetech WEB PAGE: WWW.COLORIFIC.COM. It is also available by our faxback system. Call (415) 957-9941 from a fax machine phone to request a catalog of documents. ******************************************************* 4.0 Uninstalling Colorific 4.1 Uninstalling Colorific 1.x Colorific 1.x (for Windows 3.1) does not work with Windows 95, and can cause Windows 95 to boot only in Safe mode, so unless you plan on using Windows 3.1x as well as Windows 95, you should remove Colorific 1.x from your system. If you've already installed Colorific 1.x into Windows 95, you should uninstall it using the instructions below. To uninstall Colorific 1.x automatically, insert the Colorific 1.x installation disk in a floppy disk drive and choose Run from the Start menu. Type a:\setup (or b:\setup), just as you did when installing Colorific. At the second dialog box, you will given the option to uninstall, reinstall, or exit -- choose Uninstall. The uninstall procedure will remove most Colorific files and will also edit Windows' SYSTEM.INI file so that Windows 95 can boot normally. To complete the uninstallation, delete files remaining in the Colorific folder (usually C:\HGC), if any. If for some reason you can not uninstall Colorific 1.x automatically, you can edit your SYSTEM.INI file manually to recover full use of Windows. Open your SYSTEM.INI file using a text editor such as DOS Edit or Windows' Notepad. (If you can run Windows, you can open SYSTEM.INI for editing simply by double-clicking on the file's icon in File Manager or Explorer.) Edit the file as follows: a. If you do NOT have Adobe Type Manager installed, find the lines in the [boot] section that begin with system.drv and hgc.system.drv. Most likely they will be: system.drv=C:\HGC\hgcsys.drv hgc.system.drv=system.drv Replace these lines with one line reading: system.drv=system.drv b. If you have Adobe Type Manager installed, you will find these lines in the [boot] section: system.drv=atmsys.drv atm.system.drv=C:\HGC\hgcsys.drv hgc.system.drv=system.drv Remove references to hgcsys.drv, making the lines read: system.drv=atmsys.drv atm.system.drv=system.drv After making the above changes to SYSTEM.INI, save the file. You will then be able to run Windows 95 in normal mode if you previously could not. Then, delete the C:\HGC directory and remove Colorific 1.x from your Programs menu, if necessary. 4.2 Uninstalling Colorific v95 If you ever need to uninstall Colorific v95, first use the right mouse button to click on the Colorific icon in the right corner of the Windows 95 taskbar. (The Colorific icon is a monitor displaying a blue, red, and green design.) Choose Exit from the menu that appears. (If you haven't run Colorific, you will not have a Colorific icon and can skip this step.) Then use the left mouse button to click the Windows' Start button and choose Settings/Control Panel. When the Control Panel window opens, double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Highlight Colorific for Windows 95 in the list of programs, then click the Add/Remove button. (If you forget to choose Exit from the Colorific taskbar icon before removing the program, some files will not be deleted because they will be in use by Windows. You can delete these remaining files the next time you restart Windows. To do so, use Windows Explorer to delete the Sonnetech folder from the Program Files directory, usually C:\Program Files\Sonnetech). To undo the changes Colorific made to ICM, use Explorer to open your Windows 95 directory, then open the System\Color subdirectory. Delete all files whose names contain "Colorific" (eg. "Colorific1_2.icm"). If for some reason you can't run Windows 95, uninstall Colorific by deleting the directory "C:\Program Files\Sonnetech". (This will not update the Windows registry and is not the recommended way to uninstall, but it could be useful in the event of a software conflict.) ******************************************************* 5.0 Reporting Problems If you experience any problems, please report them to Colorific Customer Support by fax (using the attached form) or via Internet e-mail or America Online. Make multiple photocopies of the form and use a separate form for each problem being reported. Please mail or fax your completed forms to us as soon as possible. PROBLEM REPORT FORM Sonnetech, Ltd. 350 Townsend Street, Suite 409 San Francisco, CA 94107-1699 Customer Support FAX ..................(415) 957-9942 E-mail address .................... colorific@aol.com Product name: Colorific for (Windows 3.1/Windows 95 Windows NT/Mac OS System ___) Version: _____ Customer name: Internet e-mail address: Fax number: Address: My hardware is configured as follows: CPU/Speed: Memory: Video card (make and model): Bug occurs in the following video mode: 1) Resolution running when bug encountered 2) Color depth (e.g., 16/256/32K/65K/16M colors) Software running when problem occurred: Other system/software information: Problem description: *******************************************************