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Printing an Iron-on Transfer Using the Apple Printer

Creating Partitions on an Apple IDE Hard Disk

When eWorld Fonts Appear Jagged on Screen

"Use PlainTalk Microphone" Warning

Why Macintosh Easy Open Keeps Opening the Wrong Application


Printing an Iron-on Transfer Using the Apple Printer

If you have ever wondered whether or not you can create a team logo on your computer, print to a Apple Color StyleWriter 2200, 2400, and Color StyleWriter Pro printer, then transfer the image to a t-shirt by ironing it on, YOU CAN!

Transfer papers are special purpose papers that can be used to transfer images from a printed page to another surface such as a shirt. Apple does not supply or test transfer papers on our printers, but there are third-party companies that supply products which should be compatible.

Canon sells special transfer paper for their line of MS-DOS/Windows color ink-jet printers which, due to the design similarities with the Color StyleWriter series of printers, should produce acceptable results when used with the Color StyleWriter 2200, Color StyleWriter 2400, and Color StyleWriter Pro.

Under normal conditions the inks used in the Color StyleWriter 2200, Color StyleWriter 2400, and Color StyleWriter Pro are water soluble. This makes them poor candidates for transferring images to cloth, since you would normally wash the cloth. However, Canon sells a special coated transfer paper that can be used to transfer image to fabric. In order to permanently set the water-soluble ink into the fabric, the cloth needs to be dipped into a vinegar solution using the instructions provided with the paper.

Canon's transfer paper does not require any special ink and can be ordered directly from Canon's consumer supplies group at (800) 671-1090. The Canon T-shirt Transfer Paper part number is TR101 as of the date of this publication.


Creating Partitions on an Apple IDE Hard Disk

It is possible to partition an IDE hard drive on a Macintosh using Apple's Drive Setup software. Drive Setup is supported on all of the current Power Macintosh computers and 68LC040 computers that have IDE drives installed. This includes all the original Power Macintosh machines as well as the new PCI-based Power Macintosh computers. The Power Macintosh upgrade card is not supported.

Drive setup 1.0 shipped with the Power Macintosh 9500/120 and 9500/132. Drive Setup replaces both Apple HD SC Setup and Internal HD Format utilities. Drive Setup 1.0.2 is available on online services. With Drive setup you may partition Apple hard drives as follows:


When eWorld Fonts Appear Jagged on Screen

Most new Macintosh computers are shipping with a copy of eWorld. If the fonts on your screen look jagged and jumbled together when you use eWorld, your eWorld fonts may be damaged or missing. You can correct this problem by following these steps:

Step 1

Open the Fonts folder in your System Folder. If you locate your eWorld Fonts suitcase outside your Fonts folder, drag it into the Fonts folder and relaunch eWorld. If your fonts still do not display properly, go to Step 2.

Step 2

Remove the eWorld fonts you have now, place them in the Trash.

Step 3

Download a new set from eWorld. They are available in the eWorld Info Booth (go shortcut info). The path is: eWorld Up To Date --> Latest eWorld Software --> eWorld Fonts 1.0 & 1.1 - Replacement Only. The fonts take about one minute to download.

Step 4

Disconnect from eWorld and the downloaded file will automatically decompress.

Step 5

Open the folder created by the compression software. Drag the three font suitcases to your Fonts folder in your System Folder. If you are asked if you want to replace items, click OK.

Step 6

Your new eWorld fonts are ready to use. Relaunch eWorld to see if your fonts appear normally.


"Use PlainTalk Microphone" Warning

In order to fully utilize the PlainTalk speech recognition software on your Macintosh Performa 5200CD or 5300CD series computer you need a PlainTalk microphone. If you do not have a PlainTalk microphone, there will be a message at startup that warns you that voice recognition may not work well because you are using the built-in microphone.

The only way to avoid getting this error message is to use the PlainTalk microphone. The message appears because the internal microphone is susceptible to feedback and noise since it is located near to and in the same housing as the built-in speakers. The software detects that you have chosen the built-in microphone in the Sound control panel and warns you accordingly.

To use the PlainTalk microphone open the Sound control panel, select Sound In from the pop-up menu, click Options, and choose the external microphone as your source.


Why Macintosh Easy Open Keeps Opening the Wrong Application

If you are running System 7.5, when you first attempt to open a file created by an application you do not have on your hard drive, the Macintosh Easy Open window appears. Macintosh Easy Open provides a list of applications on your hard drive from which you can select an application with which to attempt to open the file.

If you accidentally select the wrong application in the initial Macintosh Easy Open window, each successive time you attempt to open that file or other files with the same creator, the wrong application is launched. Fortunately, there a way to reset this so that the wrong application will not be launched.

After selecting the wrong application to open a particular file, you need to delete Macintosh Easy Open's preference file, or the wrong application remains associated with that file, and files that have the same creator type as that file.

To delete the preference file and rebuild the desktop, follow these steps:

Step 1

Open the Macintosh Easy Open control panel, and click the Delete Preferences button. Step 2

After deleting the preference file, you will need to rebuild your desktop file this way:

Step 3

Once you have determined everything is working normally, you can go back to the Extensions Manager and turn on all the extensions you usually use.

Step 4

You need to restart to have the reactivated extensions load.