EFI RIP STATION 5000 User Manual

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User Guide

RIP STATION 5000

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The software described in this publication is furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of such license.

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EFI, the EFI logo, Fiery, the Fiery logo, and Rip-While-Print are trademarks registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Ofﬁce. Fiery ZX, Fiery LX, Fiery Driven, the Fiery Driven logo, Command WorkStation, AutoCal, Starr Compression, Memory Multiplier, ColorWise,, NetWise, and VisualCal are trademarks of Electronics for Imaging, Inc.

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FCC Information

WARNING: FCC Regulations state that any unauthorized changes or modiﬁcations to this equipment not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user’s authority to operate this equipment.

Class B Declaration of Conformity

Trade Name—Fiery Server (Printer Controller for Epson) Model Number—LXFC001 Compliance Test Report Number—M71204A1 Compliance Test Report Date—December 21. 1997 Responsible Party (in USA)—Electronics for Imaging, Inc. Address—2855 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403 Telephone—650-524-4300

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation.

If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

In order to maintain compliance with FCC regulations, shielded cables must be used with this equipment. Operation with non-approved equipment or unshielded cables is likely to result in interference to radio and TV reception. The user is cautioned that changes and modiﬁcations made to the equipment without the approval of manufacturer could void the user’s authority to operate this equipment.

Industry Canada Class B Notice

This Class B digital apparatus meets all the requirements of the Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations.

Avis de Conformation Classe B de l’Industrie Canada

Cet appareil numérique de la classe B respecte toutes les exigences du Règlement sur le matériel brouilleur du Canada.

RFI Compliance Notice

This equipment has been tested concerning compliance with the relevant RFI protection requirements both individually and on system level (to simulate normal operation conditions). However, it is possible that these RFI Requirements are not met under certain unfavorable conditions in other installations. It is the user who is responsible for compliance of his particular installation.

Dieses Geraet wurde einzeln sowohl als auch in einer Anlage, die einen normalen Anwendungsfall nachbildet, auf die Einhaltung der Funk-entstoerbestimmungen geprueft. Es ist jedoch moeglich, dass die Funk-enstoerbestimmungen unter unguenstigen Umstaenden bei anderen Geraetekombinationen nicht eingehalten werden. Fuer die Einhaltung der Funk-entstoerbestimmungen seigner gesamten Anlage, in der dieses Geraet betrieben wird, ist der Betreiber verantwortlich.

Compliance with applicable regulations depends on the use of shielded cables. It is the user who is responsible for procuring the appropriate cables.

Einhaltung mit betreffenden Bestimmungen kommt darauf an, dass geschirmte Ausfuhrungen gebraucht werden. Fuer die beschaffung richtiger Ausfuhrungen ist der Betreiber verantwortlich.

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Software License Agreement

Electronics for Imaging, Inc. grants to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the software and accompanying documentation (“Software”) included with the RIP Station 5000 you have purchased, including without limitation the PostScript® software provided by Adobe Systems Incorporated.

You may: a. use the Software solely for your own customary business purposes and solely with RIP Station 5000; b. use the digitally-encoded machine-readable outline and bitmap programs (“Font Programs”) provided with RIP Station 5000 in a special encrypted format

(“Coded Font Programs”) to reproduce and display designs, styles, weights, and versions of letters, numerals, characters and symbols (“Typefaces”) solely for your own customary business purposes on the display window of RIP Station 5000 or monitor used with RIP Station 5000;

c. use the trademarks used by Electronics for Imaging to identify the Coded Font Programs and Typefaces reproduced therefrom (“Trademarks”); and d. assign your rights under this Agreement to a transferee of all of your right, title and interest in and to RIP Station 5000 provided the transferee agrees to be

bound by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

You may not: a. make use of the Software, directly or indirectly, to print bitmap images with print resolutions of 600 dots per inch or greater, or to generate fonts or typefaces

for use other than with RIP Station 5000; b. make or have made, or permit to be made, any copies of the Software, Coded Font Programs, accompanying documentation or portions thereof, except as

necessary for use with the RIP Station 5000 purchased by you; provided, however, that under no circumstances may you make or have made, or permit to be made, any copies of that certain portion of the Software which has been included on the RIP Station 5000 hard disk drive. You may not copy the documentation;

c. attempt to alter, disassemble, decrypt or reverse engineer the Software, Coded Font Programs or accompanying documentation; d. rent or lease the Software.

Proprietary Rights

You acknowledge that the Software, Coded Font Programs, Typefaces, Trademarks and accompanying documentation are proprietary to Electronics for Imaging and its suppliers and that title and other intellectual property rights therein remain with Electronics for Imaging and its suppliers. Except as stated above, this Agreement does not grant you any right to patents, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks (whether registered or unregistered), or any other rights, franchises or licenses in respect of the Software, Coded Font Programs, Typefaces, Trademarks or accompanying documentation. You may not adapt or use any trademark or trade name which is likely to be similar to or confusing with that of Electronics for Imaging or any of its suppliers or take any other action which impairs or reduces the trademark rights of Electronics for Imaging or its suppliers. The trademarks may only be used to identify printed output produced by the Coded Font Programs. At the reasonable request of Electronics for Imaging, you must supply samples of any Typeface identiﬁed with a trademark.

Conﬁdentiality

You agree to hold the Software and Coded Font Programs in conﬁdence, disclosing the Software and Coded Font Programs only to authorized users having a need to use the Software and Coded Font Programs as permitted by this Agreement and to take all reasonable precautions to prevent disclosure to other parties.

Remedies

Unauthorized use, copying or disclosure of the Software, Coded Font Programs, Typefaces, Trademarks or accompanying documentation will result in automatic termination of this license and will make available to Electronics for Imaging other legal remedies.

Limited Warranty and Disclaimer

Electronics for Imaging warrants that, for a period of ninety (90) days from the date of delivery to you, the Software under normal use will perform without signiﬁcant errors that make it unusable. Electronics for Imaging’s entire liability and your exclusive remedy under this warranty (which is subject to you returning RIP Station 5000 to Electronics for Imaging or an authorized dealer) will be, at Electronics for Imaging’s option, to use reasonable commercial efforts to attempt to correct or work around errors, to replace the Software with functionally equivalent software, or to refund the purchase price and terminate this Agreement. Some states do not allow limitations on duration of implied warranty, so the above limitation may not apply to you.

Except for the above express limited warranty, Electronics for Imaging makes and you receive no warranties or conditions on the Products, express, implied, or statutory, and Electronics for Imaging speciﬁcally disclaims any implied warranty or condition of merchantability or ﬁtness for a particular purpose.

For warranty service, please contact your authorized service/support center.

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EXCEPT FOR THE ABOVE EXPRESS LIMITED WARRANTY, ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING MAKES AND YOU RECEIVE NO WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS ON THE SOFTWARE OR CODED FONT PROGRAMS, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR IN ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT OR COMMUNICATION WITH YOU, AND ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Electronics for Imaging does not warrant that the operation of the software will be uninterrupted or error free or that the Software will meet your speciﬁc requirements.

Limitation of Liability

IN NO EVENT WILL ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF DATA, LOST PROFITS, COST OF COVER OR OTHER SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE, CODED FONT PROGRAMS OR ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. THIS LIMITATION WILL APPLY EVEN IF ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING OR ANY AUTHORIZED DEALER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE PRICE OF THIS UNIT REFLECTS THIS ALLOCATION OF RISK. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Export Controls

You agree that you will not export or re-export the Software or Coded Font Programs in any form without the appropriate United States and foreign government licenses. Your failure to comply with this provision is a material breach of this Agreement.

Government Use

Use, duplication or disclosure of the Software by the United States Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subdivision (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 or in subparagraphs (c) (1) and (2) of the Commercial Computer Software—Restricted Right Clause at 48 CFR 52.227-19, as applicable.

Third Party Beneﬁciary

You are hereby notiﬁed that Adobe Systems Incorporated, a California corporation located at 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110 USA (“Adobe”) is a thirdparty beneﬁciary to this Agreement to the extent that this Agreement contains provisions which relate to your use of the Fonts, the Coded Font Programs, the Typefaces and the Trademarks licensed hereby. Such provisions are made expressly for the beneﬁt of Adobe and are enforceable by Adobe in addition to Electronics for Imaging.

General

This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of California.

This Agreement is the entire agreement held between us and supersedes any other communications or advertising with respect to the Software, Coded Font Programs and accompanying documentation.

If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.

If you have any questions concerning this Agreement, please write to Electronics for Imaging, Inc., Attn: Licensing Dept. or see Electronics for Imaging’s web site at www.eﬁ.com.

Electronics for Imaging, Inc. 2855 Campus Drive San Mateo, CA 94403

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Contents

Before You Begin

How the RIP Station works About the documentation

About this manual xii World Wide Web xiii

System requirements

Windows computers xiii Mac OS computers xiv IPX (Novell) xv UNIX (TCP/IP) xv Parallel port xv

Speciﬁcations

Chapter 1: Operating the RIP Station

Using the Control Panel

Activity light 1-2 Buttons 1-2 Display window 1-3

Starting and shutting down

Starting the RIP Station 1-6 Restarting the RIP Station 1-7 Shutting down the RIP Station 1-8

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Chapter 2: Printing with Windows Computers

Setting print options

Printing with Windows 95 2-2 Working with custom page sizes in Windows 95 2-5 Printing with Windows 3.1x 2-6 Printing with Windows NT 4.0 2-9 Printing with Windows NT 3.51 2-11

Printing to the parallel port

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Preparing ﬁles to print at a remote location Using the Color Reference pages

CMYK color reference pages 2-13 RGB Color Reference pages 2-14 PANTONE reference pages 2-14

Chapter 3: Printing with Mac OS Computers

Printing to the RIP Station

Selecting the RIP Station in the Chooser 3-1 Setting print options 3-3 Deﬁning custom page sizes 3-8

Using the color reference pages

CMYK Color Reference pages 3-9 RGB Color Reference pages 3-10 PANTONE reference pages 3-10

Chapter 4: Downloading Files and Fonts

Using the Fiery Downloader

Printing with the Fiery Downloader 4-3 Downloading and managing PostScript printer fonts 4-6

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2-13

3-1

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Chapter 5: Managing Print Jobs

Using the Fiery Spooler

Duplicating, copying, moving, and deleting jobs 5-6 Changing print settings for a job 5-9 Using the Job Log 5-10

Using the Fiery WebTools

Checking RIP Station status 5-16 Tracking and managing jobs 5-16 Linking to other Web sites 5-17 Installing software 5-17

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Chapter 6: Simulation

Understanding simulations

DuPont Color Prooﬁng 6-2

Printing with a simulation on a per-job basis Checking the current simulation Editing simulations

Managing simulations 6-9

Testing and applying simulations

Chapter 7: Printing with UNIX Workstations

Printing to the RIP Station

Appendix A: Print Options

Where to set print options

Override hierarchy A-2 Paper Sizes A-5 Print Mode A-6 Rendering Style A-6

Appendix B: Fonts

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6-3

6-4

6-5

6-10

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A-1

PostScript printer fonts

Adobe Type 1 fonts B-1 TrueType fonts B-3

B-1

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Appendix C: Troubleshooting

Error messages Basic troubleshooting tips General printing problems Problems with print quality Problems with utilities Problems with Fiery Downloader Problems with Fiery Spooler or WebSpooler

Index

C-1

C-3

C-4

C-8

C-9

C-10

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xi How the RIP Station works

Before You Begin

The RIP Station enables you to use the printer as a high speed, networked printer. You can print documents from your computer as you would to any other printer on the network—you select it from the Printers dialog box (for Windows-based computers) or the Chooser (for Mac™ OS™-based computers)—and then print from within any application.

You can print to the RIP Station from networked Windows and Mac OS computers. In addition, you can use the parallel port to print directly from Windows computers.

How the RIP Station works

The RIP Station is a special-purpose controller that enables you to print to the printer by connecting it to networked computers. The RIP Station receives ﬁles from computers on the network, processes (RIPs) those ﬁles, and then sends them to the printer’s print engine.

Windows and Mac OS computers communicate with the RIP Station by means of a PostScript printer driver and PPDs (PostScript printer description ﬁles). The printer driver and PPDs enable you to use all the special features of the RIP Station from the Print dialog box.

About the documentation

This manual is part of the set of documentation that also includes the following manuals for users and system administrators:

• The

Setup Guide

and printer ﬁles from the User Software CD, and to set up printing. It also describes how to install printer ﬁles from the RIP Station via the Internet.

• The

Printer Guide

Pro 5000. The guide includes instructions for installing ink cartridges, loading various media, and solving problems like paper jams.

describes how to unpack the RIP Station, to install user software

explains how to set up and maintain your EPSON Stylus

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• The

Administrator Guide

RIP Station for the supported platforms and network environments. It also includes guidelines for setting up UNIX, Windows NT, and NetWare servers to provide PostScript printing services to clients.

• The

Color Printing Guide

printing to a RIP Station. It also includes practical color printing tips and application notes that explain how to print to the RIP Station from popular Macintosh and Windows applications.

•

Release Notes

the problems you may encounter.

provide last-minute product information and workarounds for some of

explains basic conﬁguration and administration of the

provides an introduction to the basics of color theory and

About this manual

This manual includes the following topics:

• Printing from a Windows computer

• Printing from a Mac OS computer

• Downloading fonts and ﬁles

• Managing print jobs with Fiery Spooler and Fiery WebTools

• Printing with press simulations

• Printing from UNIX workstations

• Appendixes—Include information about setting print options, a list of the printer fonts installed on the RIP Station, a list of error messages, and troubleshooting information.

Conventions

• Illustrations of software windows use the name “Astro” as the name of the RIP Station on the network.

• In the title bar of some windows, such as Fiery Downloader or Fiery Spooler, the network name of the RIP Station is appended to the device name by an underscore. For example, “_Pro5000” also appears in the title bar of these windows.

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World Wide Web

You can visit the EPSON World Wide Web page to download the latest information and software. In addition, the WWW page contains marketing and corporate information about EPSON. The address is: http://WWW.PROGRAPHICS.EPSON.COM

You may also want to visit the Electronics for Imaging World Wide Web page at: http://www.eﬁ.com

System requirements

The User Software CD contains Adobe PostScript printer driver and PPDs (PostScript printer description ﬁles) for Windows and Mac OS. You can also install printer drivers from the RIP Station via the Internet.

Windows computers

To print with a Windows computer you need:

• Any Windows-based computer with an 80386, 80486, or Pentium processor and at least 4MB of RAM

• A mouse supported by Windows

• A CD-ROM drive

For installing You can install printer drivers either from the User Software CD or via the internet with the Fiery WebTools Installer.

For installing CD-ROM drive to the RIP Station, or you can connect a Windows computer to the parallel port of the RIP Station and use the Windows computer CD-ROM drive.

• Microsoft® Windows 95, Windows version 3.1 or later, or Windows NT version 3.51 or 4.0

• To take advantage of PostScript 3 printing features of Windows 95 and Level 2 features of Windows 3.1x, use the Adobe PostScript Printer Driver for Windows included with the RIP Station user software.

user

software, you need a Windows computer with a CD-ROM drive.

system

software on the RIP Station, you can connect an external

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With Windows 95

• Microsoft Windows 95 with IPX/SPX networking protocol set up

With Windows 3.1x

• Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or later

• IPX/SPX networking protocol set up

• MS-DOS version 5.0 or later

With Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0

• Microsoft Windows NT with TCP/IP networking protocol set up

OTE

Windows NT version 3.51 users can use the Windows Printer Driver to print,

but PostScript Level 2 features will not be available. Windows NT version 4.0 users can access PostScript Level 2 features.

Mac OS computers

To print with a Mac OS computer you need:

• Any Mac OS-based computer that has at least 4MB of RAM and EtherTalk® Phase 2 installed

• A CD-ROM drive

For installing

user

software, you need a Mac OS computer with a CD-ROM drive. You can install printer drivers either from the User Software CD or via the internet with the Fiery WebTools Installer.

For installing

system

software on the RIP Station, you can connect an external CD-ROM drive to the RIP Station, or you can connect a Windows computer to the parallel port of the RIP Station and use the Windows computer CD-ROM drive.

• Apple System software version 7.0 or later

• The Adobe® PostScript® printer driver included with the RIP Station user software)

• To use the paging feature of Fiery Spooler, an alphanumeric pager and PageNOW! software version 1.5 or later. In the United States and Canada, PageNOW! is available from Mark/Space Softworks: 1-800-799-1718.

• To use the Fiery WebTools, Netscape Communicator version 4.0.1 or later, a color monitor, and the IP address or DNS name of the RIP Station

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IPX (Novell)

To print with an IPX (Novell) network, you need:

• A Novell ﬁle server running Novell NetWare software version 3.11, 3.12, or 4.0 that supports Frame Ethernet SNAP, Ethernet II, 802.3, or 802.2

UNIX (TCP/IP)

To use the RIP Station with a UNIX workstation, you need:

• A workstation with standard TCP/IP connectivity (for example, Sun SPARCstation or Silicon Graphics workstation)

• TCP/IP printing software that conforms to RFC1179 (Berkeley lpr protocol)

Parallel port

To use the RIP Station parallel port, you need:

• Windows computer with an 80286 processor or higher and at least 1MB RAM

• Parallel cable with 36-pin connector

Speciﬁcations

• CPU R4700, 133 MHz

• 32MB of memory

• Internal 2.1GB hard disk drive

• Supports AppleTalk, TCP/IP, and IPX protocols simultaneously

• Supports EtherTalk Phase 2

• Supports thinnet (by transceiver), thicknet, and twisted pair cabling

• Supports 100BaseT

• Built-in EFICOLOR color management

• Adobe PostScript 3 support (for Windows 95 and Mac OS)

• 136 PostScript 3 fonts

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You can use the Fiery Downloader or any third party LaserWriter downloader, such as the Adobe Font Downloader, to download additional fonts

• Fiery WebTools™ (Installer, Status, WebSpooler, and WebLink)

• Fiery Downloader

• Fiery Spooler

• Fiery Print Calibrator

™

• For installation of RIP Station system software—CD-ROM drive and 50-pin SCSI cable to connect the drive to the RIP Station SCSI port.

You can also install system software from the parallel port of a Windows 95 computer to the parallel port of the RIP Station.

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1-1 Using the Control Panel

Chapter 1: Operating the RIP Station

Activity light indicates current activity

Display window for status and performing setup

Up and down button

Menu button

You can use the RIP Station Control Panel to view status information about jobs, print special pages, and set up printing. For information about Setup options and how to use them, see the

Administrator Guide

Using the Control Panel

The Control Panel on the front of the RIP Station enables you to access special features and view information about jobs processing and printing.

It comprises the following parts:

Line selection buttons

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Activity light

The activity light indicates the current RIP Station activity. If the light is: Solid red The RIP Station has just been turned on and is about to

begin startup diagnostics, or there is an error that prevents the RIP Station from processing or printing.

Flashing red There is an error causing printing to be disabled, but the

RIP Station is still processing. If the error is cleared, the light changes to green; if the error is not cleared, the light changes

to solid red when the job is ﬁnished processing. Solid green The RIP Station is idle. Flashing green The RIP Station is performing startup diagnostics,

processing or printing a job, or communicating with a

remote computer—for example, through the Fiery Spooler. No light The RIP Station is off.

Buttons

Line selection buttons

Up and down button

Menu button Press to view other screens. The Control Panel displays the

There are four line selection buttons on the right side of the

Control Panel. Use these buttons to select the command

displayed on the corresponding line of the display window. A

special character appears in the display window next to a

button when it is active.

Use to scroll to different screens in multi-screen lists, to select

Setup options from a list of available options, and to select

alphanumeric characters.

Info Status screen with information about the status of the

RIP Station. If you press the Menu button, the Functions

menu is displayed and you can perform additional

operations. If a job is processing or printing, press the Menu

button to display the RIP Status screen or Print Status

screen.

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1-3 Using the Control Panel

Display window

The display window provides information about the status of the RIP Station, displays menu information, and enables you to view and edit information in the Setup menus. The last line of the display window is the name of the current screen and includes an icon to indicate what the RIP Station is doing.

The screens are: Alert Status If there is a problem with processing a job or printing functions,

an error message appears on the Control Panel. For information on error messages, see Appendix C, “Troubleshooting.”

Print Status When the RIP Station is printing a job, the Print Status screen

appears. This screen displays the following:

Cancel Job—Press the top line selection button to cancel the job

currently printing.

User name—The name of the user who sent the job currently

processing.

Pages/Total—The number of copies of the current page printed

and the total number of copies of the page requested.

RIP Status When the RIP Station is processing a job, the RIP Status screen

appears. This screen displays the following:

Cancel Job—Press the top line selection button to cancel the job

currently processing. The RIP Station cancels the job before printing begins.

Document name—The name of the document currently

processing.

User name—The name of the user who sent the job currently

processing.

Kilobytes—The amount (in kilobytes) of the job processed so

far.

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Info Status When the RIP Station is not processing or printing a job, it

displays information about the current server and software. It displays the following information:

Server Name—The RIP Station name.

Status—The current status of the RIP Station. The RIP Station

status can be Idle, Initializing, Busy, Processing, or Printing.

Number of MB—The space (in megabytes) available on the

RIP Station hard disk.

Version—The system software version running on the

RIP Station.

Functions You can press the Menu button to display the Functions menu.

Use the up and down button to scroll through the list. Press the line selection button to the right of the command to select it.

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1-5 Using the Control Panel

Functions menu

You can choose the following commands from this menu:

Choose: To do this:

Print Pages

Print special pages from the RIP Station. You can print the following pages from the submenu that appears:

Test Page—Prints a test page to conﬁrm that the

RIP Station is properly connected to the printer and provides color and grayscale samples to troubleshoot problems with the printer or the RIP Station.

Configuration—Prints the Conﬁguration page, which

gives the current server and device conﬁguration. This page lists general information about the hardware and software conﬁguration of the RIP Station, the current options for all Setup settings, information about the current simulation, and the Ethernet address (if applicable) of the RIP Station.

Suspend Printing

Resume Printing

Job Log—Prints a log of the last 55 jobs. For information

on the ﬁelds in the Job Log and on printing it in other forms, see “Using the Job Log” on page 5-10.

Control Panel Map—Prints an overview of the screens you

can access from the Control Panel. For information about using these screens to set up the RIP Station, see the Administrator Guide.

Color Charts—Prints samples of the RGB, CMY, and

PANTONE colors available from the RIP Station.

Font List—Prints a list of all fonts resident on the hard

disk.

Demo Page—Prints information about the RIP Station

and includes sample color pictures. Suspend communication between the RIP Station and the

printer. Resume communication between the RIP Station and the

printer.

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1-6 Operating the RIP Station

Power switch

Power connector

Reboot Server

Shuts down all RIP Station activity in the correct manner and then restarts. Use this option, and not the power switch on the back, to restart the RIP Station.

Starting and shutting down

Generally, you can leave the RIP Station running all the time. Remember that when the RIP Station is turned off, the printer is not available on the network. This section describes how to shut down and restart the RIP Station when necessary.

Starting the RIP Station

To start the RIP Station, move the switch on the rear of the RIP Station to the On position.

Diagnostic messages appear on the Control Panel. If any diagnostics fail, more information and instructions appear. Contact EPSON if the RIP Station encounters problems while running the diagnostics.

When the diagnostics are ﬁnished, the following message is displayed:

For software update or setup press any key

If you want to change the Setup options, press one of the buttons; if you do not press a button, the RIP Station continues starting up and displays the message ready to receive data.

Idle when it is

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If you press a button, the following options appear:

Choose: To do this:

Run Setup

Install Software

Format Disk

Upgrade Flash Flash Info

Restarting the RIP Station

You should use the procedure described in this section rather than using the power switch on the rear of the RIP Station.

View the options in the Setup menus. For information on these settings, see the Administrator Guide.

Install new system software. This should be done only by your local EPSON reseller or dealer.

Reformat the RIP Station hard disk. This should be done only by your local EPSON reseller or dealer.

Upgrade the Boot ROM in the RIP Station. View information about the current Boot ROM.

NOTE: You must restart the RIP Station in order to access Setup options.

TO RESTART THE RIP STATION:

1. If the RIP Station is turned off, turn on the power switch on the back panel of the RIP Station. If the RIP Station is already on, make sure the Control Panel is at Idle.

When Printing or Ripping appears on the Control Panel and the activity light is ﬂashing green, the RIP Station is busy. When these jobs are ﬁnished, Idle appears on the Info screen.

2. Press the Menu button once, then select Reboot Server from the Functions menu.

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Shutting down the RIP Station

If you need to shut down the RIP Station for service, fonts downloaded to the hard disk drive are not deleted. Print jobs in the Hold and Printed queues and jobs that have been processed but not printed are not deleted and are available for printing when you restart the RIP Station.

NOTE: Always obtain permission from the network administrator to take the

RIP Station off the network.

TO SHUT DOWN THE RIP STATION:

1. Make sure the RIP Station is displays Idle.

When Printing or Ripping appears on the Control Panel and the activity light is ﬂashing green, the RIP Station is busy. When these jobs are ﬁnished, Idle appears on the Info screen.

2. Turn off the power switch on the back panel of RIP Station.

If the system has just ﬁnished processing, wait ﬁve seconds after the system reaches Idle before turning off the power switch.

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Chapter 2: Printing with Windows Computers

This chapter describes how to print to the RIP Station from a Windows computer using the Adobe PostScript Printer Driver (provided with the RIP Station user software). You can print ﬁles from within your Windows application to the RIP Station connected on your network. You can also print to the parallel port on the RIP Station from a laptop computer, a desktop computer, or a Novell server.

If you prepare ﬁles to print at a remote location, such as a service bureau, set up your Windows printer to print to the File port. You can still specify the RIP Station print settings when you create your ﬁle. This ensures that when the ﬁle is ﬁnally printed, you get the same quality output as if you had printed the ﬁles yourself. You can also print to the File port to create a ﬁle to be downloaded with Fiery Downloader.

For information on setting up the Windows environment for printing with Windows servers connected to the RIP Station, see the Administrator Guide. For information on how to connect to the RIP Station over the network, install printer drivers, and install the Fiery utilities, see the Setup Guide. For more information on setting up and using the printer, see the EPSON Stylus Pro 5000 Printer Guide.

Once you have installed the printer driver and set it to the proper port as described in the Setup Guide, you can print directly from Windows applications. Choose the Print command from within your application.

Setting print options

Once you have installed the appropriate PostScript Printer Driver and RIP Station PPD (PostScript printer description file), you can select the printer settings you prefer. You can also change some of these settings from within an application when you print a job to the RIP Station.

To achieve the best printing results from speciﬁc applications, see the Color Printing Guide.

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To set print options for a job, you need to change the printer driver properties. You can access the printer driver properties in several ways. For example, with many applications you can access the properties from the print dialog box. The procedures in the following sections describe how to set print options by changing the properties of the printer driver in the Windows control panel.

Printing with Windows 95

To print from Windows 95 applications over a network, you must be connected to a print server. This can be a Novell NetWare server, an NT server, or a UNIX server. For information about connecting a server to the RIP Station, see the Administrator Guide.

You can print from Windows 95 with the Adobe PostScript printer driver for Windows included with the RIP Station user software.

TO CHANGE THE PRINTER SETUP WITH THE ADOBE POSTSCRIPT PRINTER DRIVER FOR WINDOWS 95:

1. Double-click the My Computer icon.

2. Double-click the Printers icon.

3. Select the icon for the Fiery LX Stylus Pro 5000.

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4. Choose Properties from the File menu.

5. Click the Paper tab, and select the appropriate settings for your print job.

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6. Click the Fiery Options tab and choose the appropriate settings.

For best performance, it is recommended to use portrait orientation. If you print landscape images, rotate them within the application.

NOTE: If media loaded in the selected tray is a different size, orientation, or media type

than that of the job you are sending, the RIP Station displays an error message and the job will not print. You should then load the correct media in the selected tray or cancel the job.

The options in this dialog box are speciﬁc to the RIP Station. They override settings in Printer Setup on the RIP Station Control Panel; you can also override some of these settings in the Fiery Spooler or WebSpooler Override Print Settings dialog box. For information about these options and overrides, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

If you choose Printer’s default, the RIP Station prints with the information entered during RIP Station Setup.

7. If you want to make the new settings your default settings, click Apply.

8. Click OK to activate the current settings.

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Working with custom page sizes in Windows 95

With custom page sizes, you deﬁne the page dimensions and the unprintable area of the page. You can save three different custom page sizes for easy use any time you print.

TO DEFINE A CUSTOM PAGE SIZE:

1. From the Start menu button, choose Settings and choose Printers.

2. Right-click your printer icon, and choose Properties.

3. At the Paper tab, select a custom page size icon.

In this example, Custom page 1 is selected. “Custom p+” is displayed because the entire name does not ﬁt in the window.

4. Click the Custom button.

5. Deﬁne the name and the dimensions of the page. Click OK.

6. To deﬁne the unprintable area of the custom page, click the Unprintable Area button. Click OK.

7. Click Apply and then OK.

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After you deﬁne a custom page size, you can use it in an application. You can reuse a custom page size deﬁnition without having redeﬁne it each time you print.

TO PRINT A CUSTOM PAGE SIZE:

1. Select Page Setup from your application.

2. In the printer name menu, select a different printer from the one you want to use.

3. Select the printer that you want to use.

This ensures the connection to the proper printer.

4. Select the custom page size, and click OK.

5. Select the print options for the job.

6. Select Print from the application and print the document.

Printing with Windows 3.1x

You can print from Windows 3.1x with the Adobe PostScript printer driver included with the RIP Station user software.

TO CHANGE THE PRINTER SETUP WITH THE ADOBE POSTSCRIPT PRINTER

DRIVER FOR WINDOWS 3.1X:

1. In the Main group, double-click the Control Panel icon.

2. Double-click the Printers icon.

3. In the Printers dialog box, select the Fiery LX Stylus Pro 5000 in the Installed Printers box, and click the Setup button.

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4. Click the Paper tab, and select the appropriate settings for your print job.

For best performance, it is recommended to use portrait orientation. If you print landscape images, rotate them within the application.

5. Click the PostScript tab, and select the settings shown below.

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6. Click the Features tab.

7. Select the appropriate settings for your print job and click OK.

The options in this dialog box are speciﬁc to the RIP Station (you must scroll to see all the options). They override settings in Printer Setup on the RIP Station Control Panel; you can also override some of these settings in the Fiery Spooler or WebSpooler Override Print Settings dialog box. For information about these options and overrides, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

If you choose Printer’s default, the RIP Station prints with the information entered during Control Panel Setup.

8. Choose Print in your application.

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Printing with Windows NT 4.0

To print from Windows NT 4.0, use the Windows NT 4.0 PostScript printer driver included with Windows NT.

TO SET PRINT OPTIONS AND PRINT FROM WINDOWS NT 4.0 WITH THE MICROSOFT POSTSCRIPT PRINTER DRIVER:

1. Click the Windows NT Start button and choose Settings>Printers.

2. Right click to select the Fiery LX Stylus Pro 5000 and choose Properties.

3. In the RIP Station Properties dialog box, click the Device Settings tab.

4. Specify the appropriate settings and click OK.

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5. In the Printers window, right click to select the Fiery LX Stylus Pro 5000 and choose Document Defaults.

6. In the Page Setup tab, specify default settings for Paper Size, Paper Source, Copy Count, Orientation, and Color Appearance.

For best performance, it is recommended to use portrait orientation. If you print landscape images, rotate them within the application.

7. Click the Advanced tab.

8. Under Document Options, select Printer Features and then select print options from the list.

The options in the Printer Features list are speciﬁc to the RIP Station.

If you select Printer’s Default, the RIP Station prints according to the server defaults set by the administrator in Setup. Any other setting you select overrides the server defaults.

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For information on options in the Printer Features list, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

9. Click OK.

Printing with Windows NT 3.51

You can print from Windows NT 3.51 with the Printer Driver included with Windows NT, but it does not support PostScript 3 features, so you cannot set any options speciﬁc to the RIP Station. The Windows NT 4.0 driver does support PostScript 3 features. See the Setup Guide for more information.

Printing to the parallel port

You can print most ﬁles directly from a Windows computer if your network administrator has connected the computer’s parallel port to the RIP Station parallel port.

NOTE: You cannot use Fiery Downloader through the parallel port.

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TO PRINT FILES WITH THE PARALLEL PORT:

1. Make sure that parallel printing is enabled on your RIP Station.

Print the Conﬁguration page to see if parallel port printing is enabled. For information about setting up parallel printing on the RIP Station, see the Administrator Guide; for information about setting up parallel port printing on a Windows computer, see the Setup Guide.

2. Select the printer port that is connected to the RIP Station parallel port.

Select one of the local ports: LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3. For instructions, see your Windows documentation.

3. Print from within your application.

If you are printing a PostScript ﬁle in binary format (not ASCII), verify that the Network Setup option Ignore EOF character is set to Yes. You can use the Functions menu on the RIP Station to print the Conﬁguration page to view the settings for all Setup options.

Preparing ﬁles to print at a remote location

If you prepare files to take to a service bureau or some other location with a RIP Station, you can set up the printer in Windows to print to the File port. Printing to the File port creates a new ﬁle that includes your job with all its print settings. When the ﬁle is eventually printed, you get the same quality output as if you had printed the ﬁle yourself.

Even if you do not print ﬁles at a remote location, you can print to the File port to create a ﬁle to be downloaded with the Fiery Downloader. For information, see “Printing with the Fiery Downloader” on page 4-3.

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Using the Color Reference pages

The RIP Station user software includes several types of color reference pages that you can view and print to see the full range of colors available from your RIP Station. The pages included are:

• The CMYK Color Reference pages enable you to view and print CMYK color

patches in the range of colors the RIP Station can print.

• The RGB Color Reference include a Microsoft Word ﬁle and a Microsoft

PowerPoint ﬁle that you can open in the appropriate application to view the colors available in the standard palette for that application and see how they print on the RIP Station.

• The PANTONE reference pages are text ﬁles that indicate the closest RGB

equivalents of the PANTONE colors on various resolution and media combinations for your printer model.

For information on installing these ﬁles, see the Setup Guide.

CMYK color reference pages

The Color Reference folder contains a PostScript ﬁle of color reference pages that you can download to your RIP Station. You can use the pages as a reference for graphics applications that allow you to specify color as values of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. The pages display groups of color patches and give you the percentage of each process color required to achieve the color shown. There are eleven pages—each one shows colors from 0% to 100%.

TO PRINT AND USE THE CMYK COLOR REFERENCE PAGES:

1. Use the Fiery Downloader to download the CMYK—REF.PS ﬁle.

For information on using the Fiery Downloader, see “Printing with the Fiery Downloader” on page 4-3.

2. Select the color that you want to use from the color reference page.

3. Enter the corresponding cyan, magenta, yellow, and black values in any application that supports CMYK.

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RGB Color Reference pages

The RGB Color Reference pages display the RGB colors available in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

TO PRINT AND USE THE RGB COLOR REFERENCE PAGES:

1. Use Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint to open the RGB_01.DOC (Microsoft Word) or RGB_02.PPT (Microsoft PowerPoint) ﬁle.

2. Choose Print from the File menu.

3. Select the color that you want to use and enter the corresponding values for colors you want to reproduce in your own Word or PowerPoint document.

PANTONE reference pages

The PANTONE reference pages list standard PANTONE colors and the closest RGB equivalents the printer can print. PANTONE reference ﬁles are included for several resolution and media combinations. You can open the reference pages with a wordprocessing program such as Microsoft Word or WordPad.

When you print ﬁles using the information in the PANTONE reference pages, you’ll get accurate PANTONE colors by following these guidelines:

• Make sure your application generates RGB data, not CMYK data.

• In Print Options, set RGB Source to Off, and set Rendering Style to Solid Color.

• Don’t use EPS ﬁles because they contain their own color processing information.

TO USE THE PANTONE REFERENCE PAGES:

1. Open the PANTONE reference page that corresponds to your printer and to the resolution and media combination you are using.

You can copy these ﬁles from the User Software CD. For more information, see the Setup Guide.

2. In your application, specify the RGB values corresponding to the PANTONE color you want to print.

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Chapter 3: Printing with Mac OS Computers

You can print from a Mac OS computer to the RIP Station just as you would print to any other printer. First, select the RIP Station as the current printer in the Chooser, then print the ﬁle from within your application. Depending on the application and printer driver you are using, you may need to use the Page Setup dialog box to set printing options after you select the RIP Station in the Chooser.

This chapter provides information on printing using the Adobe PostScript Printer Driver (provided with the RIP Station user software).

Printing to the RIP Station

After you have installed the Adobe PostScript printer driver included with the user software, you can adjust printer settings in the Print Options dialog box for the RIP Station.

For information on achieving the best printing results from speciﬁc applications, see the Color Printing Guide.

Selecting the RIP Station in the Chooser

To print to the RIP Station, you must ﬁrst select it in the Chooser. The RIP Station remains the default printer until you choose a different printer.

TO SELECT THE RIP STATION AS THE CURRENT PRINTER:

1. Make sure the RIP Station is connected to your network and is turned on.

2. Select Chooser from the Apple menu.

3. Click the AdobePS icon.

4. If your network is divided into zones, select the zone in which the RIP Station is located.

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5. Select the RIP Station in the list of printers that appears.

The names of all supported printers in the zone appear in the Chooser window.

NOTE: If your system administrator disabled the connection to one of the queues or the

direct connection, the corresponding name will not appear in this list.

Setup icon

6. With the RIP Station selected, click Setup.

The Chooser automatically selects the correct PPD for the RIP Station. An icon appears to the left of the printer name, indicating that the printer has been matched with a PPD.

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If the Chooser cannot ﬁnd the correct PPD for the RIP Station, you are prompted to ﬁnd and select the correct PPD. If you installed the AdobePS printer driver as described in the Setup Guide, the PPD is in the System Folder: Extensions:Printer Descriptions folder.

7. In the Chooser window, make sure that AppleTalk is set to Active, and close the Chooser.

The RIP Station is selected as the current printer until you choose a new printer. You can also choose a different printer in the AdobePS print dialog box when you

print, without having to go through the Chooser.

Setting print options

With Macintosh applications, print options are set from both the Page Setup dialog box and the Print dialog box. For details, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

Some default print options are set by the administrator in Setup. Check with the administrator for information on the current server default settings.

Before you begin, make sure any printer description ﬁles needed by the application are installed on your computer. See the Setup Guide for information on which ﬁles you need and where to install them.

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TO SPECIFY PRINT OPTIONS AND PRINT WITH THE ADOBEPS PRINTER

DRIVER:

1. Open the ﬁle you want to print, and choose Page Setup from the application’s File menu.

2. In the Page Setup>Page Attributes dialog box, specify a paper size, a print orientation, and a scale percentage.

For best performance, it is recommended to use portrait orientation. If you print landscape images, rotate them within the application.

3. Click OK to close the Page Setup dialog box.

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4. Choose Print from the application’s File menu.

Specify settings for the print options displayed in this dialog box.

NOTE: Print dialog boxes vary across applications.

Used to enter job notes

Used to specify color management settings

Used to set RIP Station print options

5. Choose the other Print dialog box displays (Notes, Color Matching, and Printer Speciﬁc Options) and specify the appropriate settings for the job.

The print options that you should typically use for printing to the RIP Station are described in the following pages.

NOTE: Print dialog boxes vary across applications.

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In the Print>Notes dialog box, you can enter job notes in the Notes 1 and Notes 2 ﬁelds. This information appears on the Job Log, and you can use it for job identiﬁcation or accounting purposes.

In the Print>Color Matching dialog box, you can specify color management settings.

For most color print jobs you should use the settings shown in the illustration above. For information on these options, see the Color Printing Guide.

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In the Print>Printer Speciﬁc Options dialog box, specify print option settings for the job. These PPD options are speciﬁc to the RIP Station.

You can scroll to see all the print options.

For information on setting print options, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

Some options in the Printer Speciﬁc Options window can also be set from an application. If this is true for your application, make the setting in the Printer Speciﬁc Options window, not in the application. The application might not print the ﬁle properly and might also take longer to process.

If the settings you speciﬁed are ones you want to use again, click Save Settings to make them your default settings.

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Deﬁning custom page sizes

With custom page sizes, you deﬁne the page dimensions and margins. The minimum page dimensions are deﬁned as 2" x 2".

TO DEFINE A CUSTOM PAGE SIZE:

1. Choose Page Setup from the application’s File menu

2. For Paper, choose Custom.

3. From the pull-down menu under “AdobePS Page Setup,” choose Custom Page Default.

Choose Custom Page Default

Limits for selected dimension displayed here

Custom page names

displayed here

Enter a custom

page name

4. Enter the page dimensions and margins

You can view the minimum and maximum sizes by using the pull-down menu under PPD Limits.

5. To save this custom page size, enter a name for it and click Add.

Saved custom page sizes appear in the menu of page sizes at the top right of the dialog box. To remove a saved custom page size, select it from the menu and click Remove.

6. Click OK.

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Using the color reference pages

The RIP Station User Software includes several types of color reference pages that you can view and print to see the full range of colors available from your RIP Station. The pages included are:

• The CMYK Color Reference pages enable you to view and print CMYK color

patches in the range of colors the printer can print.

• The RGB Color Reference pages are a Microsoft Word and a Microsoft PowerPoint

ﬁle that you can open in the application to view the colors available in the standard palette for that application and see how they print on the printer.

• The PANTONE reference pages are text ﬁles that indicate the closest RGB

equivalents of the PANTONE colors on various resolution and media combinations for your printer model.

For information on installing these ﬁles, see the Setup Guide.

CMYK Color Reference pages

The Color Reference folder contains a PostScript ﬁle of color reference pages that you can download to the RIP Station. You can use the pages as a reference for graphics applications that allow you to specify color as values of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. The pages display groups of color patches and give you the percentage of each process color required to achieve the color shown. There are 11 pages—each one shows colors from 0% to 100%.

TO PRINT AND USE THE CMYK COLOR REFERENCE PAGES:

1. Use the Fiery Downloader to download the CMYK Color Reference.ps ﬁle.

For information on using the Fiery Downloader, see “Printing with the Fiery Downloader” on page 4-3.

2. Select the color that you want to use from the color reference page.

3. Enter the corresponding cyan, magenta, yellow, and black values in any application that supports CMYK.

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RGB Color Reference pages

The application pages display the RGB colors available in Microsoft Word 6.0 or later and Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 or later.

TO PRINT AND USE THE RGB COLOR REFERENCE PAGES:

1. Open the RGB page 01 (Word) or RGB page 02 (PowerPoint) ﬁle in the appropriate application.

2. Choose Print from the File menu.

3. Select the color that you want to use and enter the corresponding values for colors you want to reproduce in your own Word or PowerPoint document.

PANTONE reference pages

When you print ﬁles using the information in the PANTONE reference pages, you’ll get accurate PANTONE colors by following these guidelines:

• Make sure your application generates RGB data, not CMYK data.

• In Print Options, set RGB Source to Off, and set Rendering Style to Solid Color.

• Don’t use EPS ﬁles because they contain their own color processing information.

TO USE THE PANTONE REFERENCE PAGES:

1. Open the PANTONE reference page that corresponds to your printer and to the resolution and media combination you are using.

You can copy these ﬁles from the User Software CD. For more information about copying these ﬁles, see the Setup Guide.

2. In your application, specify the RGB values corresponding to the PANTONE color you want to print.

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Chapter 4: Downloading Files and Fonts

The Fiery Downloader allows you to print PostScript and EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) ﬁles directly to the RIP Station without using the application they were created in. Fiery Downloader also enables you to manage printer fonts on the RIP Station.

With Windows computers, you cannot use the Fiery Downloader with the parallel port. Also, the Fiery Downloader is not supported for Windows 3.1x.

NOTE: The Fiery Downloader for Mac OS and Windows computers are fundamentally

the same; differences are noted in this chapter. The windows and dialog boxes you see illustrated are the Windows 95/Windows NT version. You’ll see the Mac OS version only when it is substantially different from the Windows version.

Using the Fiery Downloader

You can use the Fiery Downloader to:

• Print PostScript ﬁles and EPS ﬁles.

• Check the status of ﬁles downloaded to the RIP Station.

• Manage the PostScript printer fonts stored on the RIP Station hard disk

(this feature requires using the Direct connection).

NOTE: You can also use standard LaserWriter downloaders, such as the Adobe Font

Downloader, with the RIP Station. The Fiery Downloader was designed speciﬁcally for the RIP Station. You cannot use the Fiery Downloader with any other printer.

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TO VIEW INFORMATION WITH THE FIERY DOWNLOADER:

1. Double-click the Fiery Downloader icon.

2. Select the RIP Station in the Chooser window that appears and click Connect (Mac OS)

Displays the server status, user name, and document name of the

ob currently printing

or OK (Windows).

The Fiery Downloader Status window appears, and includes the Toolbar, Fiery Downloader’s menu(s), and status bar.

Displays the server status, user name, and document name of the

ob currently processing

Statically displays the processing status of the job currently downloading

Displays the amount of available

disk space on the RIP Station

Icon buttons for some menu functions display in the Toolbar at the top of the window. Click a button to perform a speciﬁc function. The icons are:

Open Click this button to connect to a different

Download Click this button to download a ﬁle or font to the

RIP Station.

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Display status window

Display font list Click this button to display a list of printer fonts

About the Downloader

You can also choose “Font List” from the File menu to view font information in the window.

3. To select a different server, choose Open from the File menu, select the RIP Station in the dialog box that appears, and click OK (Windows) or Connect (Mac OS).

4. To close the window, choose Close from the File menu; to close the application choose Exit (Windows) or Quit (Mac OS) from the File menu.

Printing with the Fiery Downloader

Printing files with the Fiery Downloader is fast—generally faster than printing from within applications. If you regularly print large ﬁles, printing with the Fiery Downloader can save time.

Click this button to display the status window for the current RIP Station.

on the RIP Station hard disk.

Click this button to view version information about the Fiery Downloader. (Windows computers only)

TO DOWNLOAD A FILE OR FONT WITH THE FIERY DOWNLOADER:

1. Save a ﬁle in PostScript or EPS format.

With many applications, you can save a PostScript ﬁle by selecting the PostScript option in the application’s Print dialog box. With some applications, you can save Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) ﬁles.

If you experience problems printing EPS ﬁles with the Fiery Downloader, you can print the ﬁle directly from the application in which you created it.

2. Double-click the Fiery Downloader icon.

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3. Choose Download from the File menu or click the Download button.

A dialog box containing a list of ﬁles appears.

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4. Choose the ﬁle type to display from the Show (Files of Type) menu.

5. Choose where to download the ﬁle or font from the Queue (Connection type) menu.

6. Select the ﬁlename and click Add (File[s]).

“All known formats” lists all ﬁles in formats supported by the Fiery Downloader. “All Files” lists all ﬁles in the folder.

NOTE: You can download ﬁles and fonts in the same batch; however, you should

download fonts ﬁrst if they will be used in subsequently downloaded ﬁles.

You can select the Print queue, Hold queue, or Direct connection. If the connection is not enabled, an error message will appear.

To download fonts, you must use the Direct connection. If you do not have access to the Direct connection, you must embed any special fonts used by the ﬁle in the ﬁle when you generate it.

The File name ﬁeld (Windows) displays the name of the selected ﬁle before you click Add.

You can use the dialog box to move to different drives and directories to select ﬁles to download. Click Add All (Mac OS) to add all ﬁles in a folder.

7. To change attributes of a job, select it and click Options.

8. Specify the following information in the dialog box and click OK.

Copies—Specify the number of copies you want by entering the number in the Copies text box.

Brightness—Change the Brightness setting if a ﬁle prints too dark or too light. Select 85% for a substantially lighter image, 115% for a substantially darker image, or one of the options in between.

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NOTE: Some applications, including Adobe Photoshop, provide transfer functions that

let you specify density settings for an image. If the ﬁle you are printing includes transfer functions, the Fiery Downloader Brightness options will have no effect on your printout. For more information on using transfer functions, see the documentation for your application.

‘showpage’ (after EPS ﬁles)—Adds a end of the print job. In most cases, you do not need to use this option. Some applications, however, omit this necessary PostScript language command when they generate EPS ﬁles. Select the ‘showpage’ option when printing EPS ﬁles generated by these applications. If you select this option unnecessarily, extra blank pages might print at the end of the job.

9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 for any other jobs as needed.

10. When you have selected the files and fonts, click Download.

11. To cancel downloading, press the Escape key on a Windows computer, or Command-. (Period) on a Mac OS computer.

12. To select a different RIP Station, choose Open from the File menu, select the RIP Station in the dialog box that appears, and then click Connect.

Downloading and managing PostScript printer fonts

Before printing a PostScript or EPS ﬁle containing fonts that are not resident on the RIP Station hard disk, you must download the fonts manually.

For a list of the standard RIP Station fonts, see Appendix B, “Font List.” If you have downloaded additional fonts to the RIP Station, you can produce a list of all fonts on the RIP Station as described on page 4–8.

showpage PostScript language command at the

NOTE: You cannot use the Fiery Downloader to download TrueType fonts. If you use

TrueType fonts in Windows, you can print them by ﬁrst converting them to Adobe Type 1 fonts. To do this with the AdobePS driver, click the Fonts tab and set up the Font Substitution Table as necessary.

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Understanding printer fonts and Mac OS screen fonts

The fonts included with the RIP Station come in two forms: printer fonts and screen fonts. The printer fonts are installed permanently on the RIP Station hard disk. The screen fonts, which are included on the RIP Station User Software CD, should be installed on your Mac OS computer. If you are using these fonts in documents you print on a LaserWriter, they are probably already installed. If not, you’ll need to install them yourself. For instructions, see Getting Started.

If you use PostScript (Mac OS) or Adobe Type 1 (Windows) fonts that are not included with the RIP Station, you’ll need to install both the screen fonts and the printer fonts on your computer. To do this, follow the instructions from the font manufacturer.

Downloading printer fonts to the RIP Station

In general, each time you print from within a Mac OS application, the application automatically downloads any fonts used in your document that are not already installed on the RIP Station, as long as the printer fonts are installed in your System Folder. These fonts remain in the RIP Station only until your document has been printed. If you print the same document again, your application must download the fonts again.

If you regularly use one or more fonts that are not already installed in the RIP Station from Windows or Mac OS applications, you can save time by downloading them to the RIP Station hard disk with Fiery Downloader. Fonts you download to the RIP Station hard disk remain installed until you remove them using Fiery Downloader, no matter how many times the RIP Station is turned off and on. You’ll probably want to download fonts you use on a regular basis to the RIP Station hard disk.

Before you print PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) ﬁles using Fiery Downloader, make sure that all fonts included in your ﬁle are installed in the RIP Station. If your ﬁle contains fonts that are not installed on the RIP Station, the text in these fonts will not print correctly and may not print at all. With some applications, you can include fonts when you create PostScript ﬁles. See your application documentation for details.

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TO VIEW FONT INFORMATION AND DELETE FONTS:

1. Choose Font List from the File menu or click the Font List button.

The Font List window appears with Update, Print, and Delete buttons in the title bar.

Update Click to update the information in the font list window.

Print Click to print the font list to the Print queue.

Delete Click to delete fonts selected in the list.

2. Select a font and click the Delete button to delete the font.

Shift-click to select multiple fonts.

NOTE: The printer fonts included with the RIP Station (resident fonts) are locked.

Locked fonts appear with a lock icon next to the name and cannot be deleted.

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Chapter 5: Managing Print Jobs

The following Fiery utilities help you manage print jobs:

• The Fiery Spooler allows you to view the order and priority of print jobs, delete jobs,

and move jobs between queues. You can also use it to view job accounting information.

• Fiery WebTools allow you to manage your RIP Station from the Internet or your

company’s intranet. The RIP Station has its own home page, from which you can select a variety of job management functions.

With Windows computers, you cannot use the Fiery Spooler with the parallel port. Also, you cannot use the Fiery Spooler with Windows 3.1x.

NOTE: The Fiery Spooler and Fiery WebTools for Mac OS and Windows computers are

fundamentally the same; differences are noted in this chapter. The windows and dialog boxes you see illustrated are the Windows 95/Windows NT version. You’ll see the Mac OS version only when it is substantially different from the Windows version.

Using the Fiery Spooler

The Fiery Spooler lets you monitor and manipulate the print jobs that you send to the RIP Station. It also lets system administrators track and manage all users’ print jobs.

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Fiery Spooler jobs can be in one of the following queues: Print Normal print jobs sent to the RIP Station appear in the Print

queue. You can move and manipulate these jobs as described below.

Hold Jobs sent to the Hold queue remain in the Hold queue until they

are moved to the Print queue or deleted. If you need to print the same document frequently, you can send it to the Hold queue and move a copy of the job to the Print queue every time you need to print it. You can also print large jobs to the Hold queue and then move them to the Print queue when other users are not printing.

Printed The jobs most recently sent to the RIP Station are saved in the

Printed queue. You can drag these jobs back to the Print queue to print additional copies. The number of jobs saved in the Printed queue is set by your system administrator in the Setup.

Jobs in the queues are stored on the RIP Station hard disk. Make sure you leave enough space on the hard disk for fonts and other Fiery Spooler jobs.

You can use the Fiery Spooler Job Log to view information about jobs printed to the RIP Station for job accounting purposes or saved for reference. The Job Log can be printed to the RIP Station or saved as a ﬁle and viewed in other applications.

TO USE THE FIERY SPOOLER:

1. Start the Fiery Spooler.

2. Select the RIP Station in the Chooser window that appears.

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Server name

Current Print and RIP status

Name of the job currently printing

Name of the job currently processing

List of every document sent to

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3. Click Connect or OK.

The Fiery Spooler main window and File, Edit, Window, Help (Windows), and Administrator menus appear.

List of every document sent to the Hold Queue

Jobs with PostScript errors appear in Printed queue with Alert icon

Available disk space

The job list includes information about the document name, user name, time and date sent, and ﬁle size.

The window is split into regions that correspond to the different queues and steps in the printing process. You can drag a job to the Print or Hold region of the window to move it to the corresponding queue.

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The icons provide information about the job:

Printing Print icon The job that is currently printing appears in this list. It can be deleted to

cancel printing.

Waiting Print icon Jobs that have been processed and are waiting to be printed appear in this

list. To cancel these jobs, you can delete them. They are dimmed because their settings cannot be changed and the jobs cannot be moved to another queue.

Ripping RIP icon Jobs that are processing appear in the scroll list, but they are dimmed

because their settings cannot be changed and they can’t be moved or canceled.

Print Print icon Jobs that are waiting to be printed that have not been processed appear

with the Print icon. This list shows jobs in the order they will be printed.

Hold Hold icon Jobs in the Hold queue appear with the Hold icon. You can move the job

to the Print queue to print it.

Printed Printed

icon

Printed Alert icon If a PostScript error occurred while a job was printing, it appears in the

Icons also appear above the scroll list. The icons are: Update Click this icon to update the information in the Fiery Spooler main

Duplicate and Print

Jobs that have been printed are saved in the Printed queue and appear with the Printed icon. Jobs are stored in the Printed queue until the limit set by your system administrator is reached.

Printed queue with an Alert icon next to it. You can double-click the Alert icon to display the error message.

window.

Drag a document onto this icon or select the document and click this icon to duplicate it and put the duplicate in the Print queue.

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Print Drag a document onto this icon or select the document and click

this icon to print it to the Print queue.

Hold Drag a document onto this icon or select the document and click

this icon to save it in the Hold queue.

Delete/ Cancel

4. Choose Preferences from the Edit menu to specify how the Fiery Spooler operates.

The Preferences window appears.

You can use this window to specify that the RIP Station: Update Automatically every n seconds or Update Manually—This option lets you

specify whether the Fiery Spooler main window is automatically updated every 20 seconds (or at an interval that you set), or whether it is updated only when you choose the Update command from the Window menu. By default, the Fiery Spooler main window is updated automatically every 20 seconds.

NOTE: When automatic updating is on, data is coming from the RIP Station across the

network very frequently. This data adds to the network trafﬁc, and might slow down other network jobs. For optimal network performance, turn off automatic updating in the Fiery Spooler Preferences dialog box. When you want to view updated information in the Fiery Spooler windows, choose Update from the Window menu or click the Update icon.

Drag a ﬁle onto this icon or select the document and click this icon to delete it or cancel processing or printing it. To eliminate the deletion veriﬁcation notice, turn off the Conﬁrm ﬁle deletion option in the Preferences window.

Conﬁrm ﬁle deletion—Select this if you want a conﬁrmation dialog box to appear before you delete a ﬁle.

5. If you selected Manual updating in the Preferences window, choose Update from the Window menu to update the information in the Fiery Spooler window.

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6. To display information about a different RIP Station, choose Open from the File menu.

7. Select the RIP Station in the Chooser.

8. Choose Close from the File menu to close the connection to the current RIP Station.

9. Choose Quit (Mac OS) or Exit (Windows) from the File menu to quit the Fiery Spooler.

The Chooser window appears.

The Fiery Spooler main window appears and displays information about the RIP Station you selected.

NOTE: You can move between Fiery Spooler windows by choosing the RIP Station

name in the Window menu. You can move between the Job Log and Main windows for a server by choosing them in the Window menu. You can also use the Cascade option in the Window menu to organize windows on your Desktop.

Duplicating, copying, moving, and deleting jobs

Mac OS, Windows 95, and Windows NT users can move, delete, and conﬁgure their own print jobs; the RIP Station system administrator (or anyone with Fiery Spooler Password access) can move, delete, and conﬁgure jobs for all users, and can re-order jobs within a queue. The RIP Station system administrator (or anyone with Fiery Spooler Password access) can re-order jobs within a queue.

You can select more than one job at a time. To select multiple, adjacent jobs in the list, use Shift-click. To select multiple, non-adjacent jobs, use Ctrl-click.

Duplicating jobs

You can duplicate jobs in the Print, Printed, and Hold queues. You might want to duplicate a job if you want to change printing parameters in the Override Print Settings window without losing the original settings.

When you duplicate a job, the RIP Station creates a reference to the original ﬁle, so duplicate ﬁles do not require the full amount of disk space on the RIP Station. As long as one of the duplicates remains, the RIP Station saves the ﬁle, so you can delete all but one reference to a ﬁle.

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TO DUPLICATE A JOB WITHIN A QUEUE:

1. Select the job that you want to copy by clicking its name.

The selected job is highlighted.

2. Choose Duplicate Job from the Edit menu.

The job appears at the bottom of the queue.

TO DUPLICATE AND PRINT A JOB:

1. Select the job that you want to copy by clicking its name.

The selected job is highlighted.

2. Click the Duplicate and Print icon, or drag the job to the Duplicate and Print icon.

The job appears at the bottom of the Print queue.

Copying and moving jobs

You can move your jobs from the Hold queue and the Printed queue to the Print queue. If, for example, you frequently print the same ﬁle, you can send it to the Hold queue and later drag a copy of the ﬁle to the Print queue. By copying rather than moving a job, you leave a copy of the job in the Hold queue so that you can print the job again later. You can also duplicate a job if you want to have multiple copies of a job, saved with different settings, in the same queue.

TO COPY A JOB TO ANOTHER QUEUE:

1. Select the job that you want to copy by clicking its name.

The selected job is highlighted.

2. Hold down the Option (Mac OS) or Ctrl (Windows) key as you drag the job to either the Hold or Print queue icon or to the Hold or Print section of the job list.

A copy of the job is moved to the queue you have selected, but the original job still appears in the Hold or Printed queue so that you can print the job at another time.

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TO MOVE A JOB WITHIN A QUEUE:

1. If the RIP Station has a password, choose Password from the Administrator menu and enter the password.

2. Click the name of the job that you want to move.

The selected job is highlighted.

3. Drag the ﬁle to the new location in the queue.

TO MOVE JOBS BETWEEN QUEUES:

1. Select the job that you want to move by clicking its name.

The selected job is highlighted.

2. Move the selected job to another queue by dragging it to the queue icon of your choice or to the Hold or Print section of the job list.

For example, move a job that is currently in the Hold queue to the Print queue by dragging the job to the Print queue icon.

TO DELETE A JOB FROM ANY OF THE QUEUES:

1. Select the job that you want to delete by clicking its name.

2. Drag the selected job to the Delete icon or click the Delete icon.

You can also choose Delete from the Edit menu to delete a selected job. You can delete only your own jobs; system administrators who enter the Fiery Spooler

password can delete any job.

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Changing print settings for a job

You can set certain printing parameters for a job in the Override Print Settings dialog box. The settings in this dialog box override the settings in the Print Options dialog box and the Control Panel Printer Setup.

You can change printing parameters only for jobs in the Hold, Print, and Printed queue sections of the Fiery Spooler main window.

You can change print settings only for your own jobs; system administrators who enter the Fiery Spooler password can change print settings for any job.

TO CHANGE PRINT SETTINGS FOR A JOB:

1. Double-click a job or select the job and choose Override Print Settings from the Edit menu.

The Override Print Settings window appears.

2. Choose the new settings from the pop-up menus.

If you select Default Settings, the job will use the settings in the Print dialog box. For information about these options, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

3. Click OK.

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Using the Job Log

With the Fiery Spooler, you can view and print a log of all the jobs printed to the RIP Station. You can also save the Job Log as a tab-delimited text ﬁle and import into a database, spreadsheet or word processing application for job accounting purposes. All jobs printed to the queues and to the direct connection are listed in the Job Log. Although jobs sent to the direct connection don’t appear in the Printed queue, they do appear in the Job Log.

TO DISPLAY, PRINT, AND SAVE THE JOB LOG:

1. Choose Show Job Log from the Window menu.

2. Specify the period for the Job Log in the window that appears.

Click All to view all jobs since the Job Log was cleared; click Date if you want to specify a period of time for the Job Log.

3. Click OK.

The Job Log window displays a list of all the jobs and the following information about them: status, document name, user name, date, start time, end time, process time, file size, print device, paper size, media, number of originals, number of color pages, number of black and white pages, total number of pages, note 1, and note 2.

The information in the note ﬁelds is speciﬁed in the Print dialog box if you are using the Adobe PostScript printer driver.

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Use the scroll bar at the bottom of the window to view all ﬁelds in the Job Log window.

Update

Delete

Export

The Status column provides information about the job: OK The job was printed normally.

ERROR A PostScript error occurred while a job was processing. You can

double-click ERROR to display the error message. A dialog box displays the PostScript error.

CANCEL The job was canceled before printing was completed.

NOTE: For custom paper size jobs, the Page Size values shown in the Job Log are

displayed according to the following criteria. If the custom paper size dimensions (both width and length) are within a few points of a standard paper size selectable from the Page Setup dialog box, the standard paper size name is displayed. For example, a custom paper size deﬁned as 8.5 inches by 11 inches is displayed in the Job Log as LTR. If the custom paper size is not within a few points of a standard paper size, the paper size dimensions is reported as the nearest whole numbers. For example, a custom paper size deﬁned as 10.5 inches by 12.4 inches is displayed in the Job Log as 11 x 12. For all custom paper sizes, margins are included in the displayed paper size.

4. To print the Job Log, choose Print Job Log from the File menu or click the Print icon at the top of the window.

The information displayed in the Job Log window prints to the current RIP Station. When you print the Job Log, totals are printed for all appropriate columns.

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5. To save the Job Log as a ﬁle that you can view with a different application, choose Export Job Log from the File menu or click the Export icon at the top of the window.

6. Enter a name for the log ﬁle, and click Save.

The Job Log is saved as a text ﬁle, and the Job Log window reappears. You can view the information in any application that can read a text ﬁle. Items are

separated by tabs.

7. If you entered the Administrator password, you can choose Delete Job Log from the File menu to clear the Job Log.

The system administrator can also print and clear the Job Log from the Control Panel.

TO USE ADMINISTRATOR FUNCTIONS:

1. Choose Password from the Administrator menu.

This menu is active only if a password was created on the RIP Station.

2. Enter the password in the window that appears.

This password is set in the Setup on the Control Panel. If you enter the password via the Fiery Spooler on a Mac OS or Windows 95 computer, you can move, override, and delete all users’ jobs in the Fiery Spooler main window and re-order jobs within a queue.

Setting up automatic paging

In the United States and Canada, if you have PageNOW! paging software installed on your Mac OS computer, you can set up the Fiery Spooler to notify you if there is a problem with printing. This feature is available only for Mac OS computers. To use this feature:

• Both PageNOW! and the Fiery Spooler must be running on your Mac OS

computer.

• You must be connected to the server you want to monitor in the Fiery Spooler.

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TO SET UP AUTOMATIC PAGING:

1. Set up your user name in PageNOW!

See the PageNOW! documentation for instructions.

2. Choose PageNow username from the Fiery Spooler Administrator menu.

3. Enter your User Name.

4. Choose Start Error Paging from the Administrator menu to enable automatic paging. To stop paging, choose Stop Error Paging from the Administrator menu.

You can monitor the messages sent to the pager from within PageNOW! See your PageNOW! documentation for information.

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Using the Fiery WebTools

Fiery WebTools reside on the RIP Station but can be accessed over the network from a variety of platforms. The RIP Station functions as an Internet or intranet server, and has a home page that lets remote users view server functions and manipulate jobs. The only requirement for client computers is to use an Internet browser that supports the Java language. The recommended browser versions that support Java are:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.2 or Netscape Communicator 4.0.2 for Windows

computers

• Netscape Communicator 4.0.1 for Mac OS computers

For information about preparing the RIP Station for WebTool access, see the Setup Guide.

The RIP Station has its own home page, from which you can select the following WebTools:

WebTool Function

Status Shows you the jobs currently processing and printing.

WebSpooler Allows you to view, manipulate, reorder, reprint, and delete jobs

currently spooling, processing, or printing on the RIP Station. It also allows you to view, print, and delete the Job Log.

WebLink Provides a link to another web page, provided you have a valid

Internet connection. You can set the WebLink destination. This requires the Administrator password, if one has been set.

Installer Allows you to download installation programs for printer ﬁles

directly from the RIP Station.

To use the WebTools via the Internet or your site’s intranet, you need a Java-enabled Internet browser and the IP address or DNS name of the RIP Station.

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TO ACCESS THE WEBTOOLS:

1. Start up your Internet browser application.

2. Enter the IP address or the DNS name of the RIP Station.

Check with the operator or administrator for this information.

The RIP Station home page appears.

3. Click one of the WebTools buttons on the left to select a tool.

Click the question mark next to the button to display information about that WebTool.

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Checking RIP Station status

You can see what jobs are currently processing and printing with the Status WebTool.

TO ACCESS THE STATUS WEBTOOL:

• From the RIP Station home page window, click Status.

The Status window appears in a new browser window.

You can close other browser windows and leave the Status window open to continue checking the status of the RIP Station. As long as you keep the Status window open, it is dynamically updated.

Tracking and managing jobs

You can use the WebSpooler to perform essentially the same functions as with the Fiery Spooler, including:

• Override current job option settings

• Delete jobs and cancel processing

• Duplicate or rename jobs

• Hold jobs for printing later

• Change the priority of jobs

• Display, print, save, or delete the Job Log

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For more information on Fiery Spooler functions, see page 5–1.

The main difference between WebSpooler and Fiery Spooler is with moving and deleting jobs. With Fiery Spooler, you can delete your own jobs, but you cannot manipulate other jobs without a password. With WebSpooler, you cannot manipulate any jobs, including your own, even with a password.

Linking to other Web sites

WebLink links you to the EPSON home page www.epson.com, provided a valid Internet connection is available. You can change the WebLink destination by holding down the Control key and clicking the WebLink button.

NOTE: Any change to the WebLink destination remains permanent until changed

again.

Installing software

Provides the same printer driver installers found on the User Software CD, allowing you to easily access current user software from your computer. For information on using the WebTools Installer, see the Setup Guide.

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Chapter 6: Simulation

This chapter describes how to work with simulations, accepted industry standards for simulating output of a press. You can print to the RIP Station and your printed output simulates the range of colors a press would produce.

NOTE: Changing the RIP Station default simulation affects all jobs for all users, so you

might want to limit the number of people authorized to use the Fiery Print Calibrator.

With Windows computers, you cannot use the Fiery Print Calibrator with the parallel port. Also, you cannot use the Fiery Print Calibrator with Windows 3.1x.

NOTE: The Fiery Print Calibrator for Mac OS and Windows computers are

Understanding simulations

Using press simulations when you print, you can:

• Ensure consistent color quality across time.

• Produce consistent output across RIP Station servers connected to the same kind of

printer.

• Use your RIP Station as a prooﬁng system.

• Achieve better color matches when you reproduce spot colors, such as PANTONE

colors.

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Several simulations are provided with the RIP Station, and you can create additional ones as needed by modifying the existing ones. The simulations provided are:

• DIC—Japanese press standard.

• Cromalin® EuroSTD—European prooﬁng standard for offset printing.

• DuPont WaterProof

• Euroscale—European press standard.

• SWOP-COM /M—SWOP Commercial 3M Match Print.

• SWOP-COM /F—SWOP Commercial FujiColorArt Match Print.

• Custom simulations—deﬁned by editing existing simulations.

DuPont Color Prooﬁng

The two DuPont qualiﬁed simulations—DuPont WaterProof and Cromalin EuroSTD—were created by DuPont. These simulations were designed for precise color output that will match the color of these prooﬁng products. These simulations are valid only when DuPont/EPSON Commercial Prooﬁng Paper is used with the RIP Station. The use of any other media invalidates the color ﬁdelity and may result in unpredictable color.

—prooﬁng standard for negative commercial printing.

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6-3 Printing with a simulation on a per-job basis

Printing with a simulation on a per-job basis

If you send print jobs to the RIP Station and use the Adobe PostScript printer drivers provided with the User Software CD, you can select a simulation on a job-by-job basis, using the CMYK Simulation option.

When you select a simulation for a job different from the default on the RIP Station, it is applied to that job only. The server’s default remains unchanged. As a consequence, users do not have to agree or compromise on the goals of their print jobs.

To print with a simulation on a per-job basis, choose Print from your application’s File menu. Under the Printer Speciﬁc Options, set CMYK Simulation to one of the standard press goals (DIC, Cromalin EuroSTD, or SWOP-COM /M), or choose a custom simulation. You must also choose the Solid Color rendering style to use a simulation.

Custom simulations; must be deﬁned before using them

Custom simulations (“Custom-1”, “Custom-2”, and so on) always appear in the list of simulations. However, the custom simulations must be created before they can used. Otherwise, if you try to print with undeﬁned custom simulations, the print job will fail printing and report an error.

For more information about creating custom simulations and naming them, see “Editing simulations” on page 6-5.

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Checking the current simulation

The Fiery Print Calibrator allows you to work with press simulations provided with your RIP Station, or you can customize simulations to suit the speciﬁc needs of your printing environment. Before you print or change the simulation currently in use, you should check the current simulation and when it was last modiﬁed.

TO VIEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE CURRENT SIMULATION:

1. Start the Fiery Print Calibrator.

2. Select the RIP Station in the Chooser window and click Connect or OK.

The text under the Select Simulation button in the Fiery Print Calibrator main window displays information about the currently selected simulation.

The icon buttons represent the main Fiery Print Calibrator functions. The arrows between the buttons indicate that you perform tasks in a particular sequence. The current status is displayed at the bottom of the window. The functions unavailable at a particular time are dimmed and cannot be selected.

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3. Choose Server Status from the Server menu.

4. To choose a different RIP Station, choose Open from the File menu.

The Server Status window also displays information about the current simulation.

You can print the Conﬁguration page at the RIP Station or the Test Page from the Control Panel Functions menu.

Editing simulations

You can edit the current simulation and save the changes as a new simulation. This allows you to ﬁne tune the simulation on your RIP Station to meet your exact speciﬁcations. You select a simulation ﬁrst, then you edit it.

The creation date and time of the current simulation appear under the Edit Simulation button.

NOTE: The values in these illustrations do not represent standard values. They are

intentionally exaggerated for example purposes.

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TO SELECT A SIMULATION:

1. Click the Select Simulation button in the Fiery Print Calibrator window.

A dialog box displays a list of simulations available on the RIP Station.

2. Select a simulation and click OK.

Use Local to select a simulation on your computer.

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TO EDIT A SIMULATION:

1. Click the Edit Simulation button.

You can use this dialog box to view or to edit simulations. The graph on the left side of the window allows you to view and manipulate color output values; the areas on the right allow you to adjust other values.

2. In the View Channels area, select the channels to edit.

You can view the channels for all four color channels (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black), or any combination of these. Working only with one or two channels at a time helps you to fine-tune your adjustments and to edit curves on a monochrome screen.

NOTE: If all channels are turned on initially, they might overlap and be difﬁcult to

distinguish. To see other channels, move or turn off the topmost channel.

3. From the “Apply setting to” menu, choose the channels to be adjusted in the Lightness/Darkness area of the window.

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4. If needed, use the Brightness menu to adjust brightness.

5. If needed, adjust the Dot Gain value.

6. If necessary, in the graph, click and drag points to adjust the curve.

OTE: If you change a value for a color with the Brightness menu, it overrides values

set elsewhere in the dialog box.

This is used for simulating press output. You can choose either the North American or European standard. Then enter the desired Dot Gain in the appropriate text box. The valid values for North American gain at 50% input are 0%-50% output. The valid values for European at 40% input are 0%-60% gain on output; the valid values for European at 80% input are 0%-20% gain on output.

If you use Dot Gain values, the curve is smoothed so that there are no spikes or jumps in output value.

The graph maps input percentage to output percentage in 10% increments. The curve you selected appears, and points along the curve are marked so that you can adjust them.

NOTE: You should adjust points in this way after you have entered values in the other

area of the window. If you attempt to change values after you have adjusted the curve on the graph, values might not be valid.

7. When you are ﬁnished, click Save and enter a name for the new simulation.

This saves the simulation to RIP Station. Use Local to save the simulation to your computer hard disk so that you can use it again or continue editing it later.

If you edit one of the press standard targets (for example, SWOP-COM /M, DIC, or Euroscale), make sure you include the original name as part of the new target name, for example, DIC-New. This helps you remember what the new target information is based on. Also, this preserves the original target in case you need it later.

If you create a custom simulation for users to choose on a per-job basis when they print, the name of the simulation must be “Custom-1”, “Custom-2”, and so on. You can deﬁne up to ﬁve custom simulations.

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6-9 Editing simulations

Managing simulations

With Fiery Print Calibrator, you can back up and delete simulations. You can also remove the default simulation without deleting it. In general, removing the default simulation is not necessary because any new simulation replaces the existing one.

TO BACK UP SIMULATIONS:

• Choose Backup Simulations from the Server menu to copy the simulations from the RIP Station to your computer.

Simulations are saved in a folder called Backup in the folder where Fiery Print Calibrator is located. You can save simulations for safekeeping. You should always save simulations before updating RIP Station system software to ensure that no custom simulations are lost.

TO DELETE SIMULATIONS FROM THE RIP STATION HARD DISK:

1. Choose Delete Simulation from the Server menu.

2. Select the simulation and click OK.

You can remove simulations to free up disk space (although these ﬁles are small) and to make sure no one uses the wrong simulation ﬁle. You should always use the Backup Simulations command to save simulations before you delete them.

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TO REMOVE THE DEFAULT SIMULATION WITH THE FIERY PRINT CALIBRATOR:

1. Start the Fiery Print Calibrator.

2. Choose Set Default Simulation to None from the Server menu.

3. When prompted, verify that you want to proceed with removing the simulation.

The current simulation is removed.

Testing and applying simulations

You can view a printed sample of a simulation before you apply it to your RIP Station. You can print:

• Comparison Page—This page is provided with Fiery Print Calibrator and shows a

comparison of an image with and without the simulation.

• User deﬁned CALIB.EPS in Hold Queue— You can create an Encapsulated

PostScript (EPS) ﬁle in another application and name it CALIB.EPS. Then print the ﬁle to the Hold Queue of the RIP Station from your application or save it as an EPS ﬁle and download it to the Hold Queue with the Fiery Downloader.

TO TEST A SIMULATION:

1. Click Test Simulation in the Fiery Print Calibrator main window.

2. Specify a page and a paper tray, and click Print.

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TO APPLY A SIMULATION:

1. When you have visually veriﬁed that the test page displays appropriate color values, click Set Default Simulation.

This sets the default simulation on the RIP Station. Users can choose different simulations when they print by using the CMYK Simulation option.

2. Select the simulation to apply.

3. When you are ﬁnished, choose Quit (Mac OS) or Exit (Windows) from the File menu to close the Fiery Print Calibrator.

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Chapter 7: Printing with UNIX Workstations

You can print to the RIP Station directly from UNIX. Jobs printed to the RIP Station are sent to the Print or Hold queue and can be manipulated from Mac OS and Windows computers on the network. Jobs can also be manipulated from Mac OS and Windows computers running the Fiery WebSpooler.

NOTE: You should print to the Hold queue only if you use Fiery Spooler with a

Mac OS or Windows computer, so that you can move the jobs from the Hold queue to the Print queue.

The queue name and RIP Station printer name are established by your system administrator. Contact your system administrator for the name of your queues.

NOTE FOR ADMINISTRATORS: The internal rp names must be matched exactly when

setting up printing to the RIP Station. These names are printer speciﬁc and are constructed as follows:

print_Pro5000, hold_Pro5000

For information about setting up printing from TCP/IP, see your UNIX system documentation.

Printing to the RIP Station

You can use UNIX commands to print PostScript ﬁles and text ﬁles to the RIP Station. In general, the basic printing commands (lpr, lpq, lprm) can be used to send print jobs to a RIP Station. See your UNIX manual pages or other documentation for information about UNIX commands.

NOTE: Make sure the ﬁles are either PostScript or text ﬁles. These are the only formats

you can use to print from UNIX.

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TO PRINT FROM UNIX:

• On a system running SunOS4 or another BSD-based variant, use the lpr command to send a job to the RIP Station as follows:

lpr <-Pprinter> <-#copies> <filename>

For example, if the Print queue of your RIP Station is named print_Server, your ﬁle is named

lpr -Pprint_Server -#2 Sample

• On a system running Solaris 2 or any System V implementation of UNIX, use the lp command to send a job to the RIP Station as follows:

lp -d <printername> {-n <-#copies>} <filename>

For example, if the Print queue of your RIP Station is named print_Server, your ﬁle is named Sample, and you want to print two copies, type:

lp -d print_Server -n 2 Sample

Sample, and you want to print two copies, type:

TO DISPLAY A LIST OF JOBS IN THE QUEUE:

• On a system running SunOS 4 or another BSD-based variant, use the lpq command to see printer jobs in the queue as follows:

lpq <-Pprinter>

For example, if the Print queue of your RIP Station is named print_Server, type:

lpq -Pprint_Server

Your workstation displays the contents of the queue.

• On a system running Solaris 2 or any System V implementation of UNIX, use the lpstat command to see printer jobs in the queue as follows:

lpstat -o <printername>

For example, if the Print queue of your RIP Station is named print_Server, type:

lpstat -o print_Server

Your workstation displays the contents of the queue.

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TO REMOVE JOBS FROM THE QUEUE:

NOTE: Unless you log in as the root user, you can remove only your own jobs.

• On a system running SunOS 4 or another BSD-based variant, use the lprm command to remove jobs from the queue as follows.

lprm <-Pprinter> <job #…>

You can use the lpq command to check the job number. For example, to remove job number 123 from the Print queue of your RIP Station

named print_Server, type:

lprm -Pprint_Server 123

The lprm command reports the names of any ﬁles it removes.

• On a system running Solaris 2 or any System V implementation of UNIX, use the cancel command to remove jobs from the queue.

cancel <printername> <job ID>

For example, to remove job number 123 from the Print queue of your RIP Station named print_Server, type:

cancel print_Server 123

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A-1 Print Options

Appendix A: Print Options

Print options give you access to the special features of your printer and the RIP Station. You can specify print options in several places—from the server, from the printing application, from the Fiery Downloader, from the Fiery Spooler, and from the WebSpooler. The table in this appendix brieﬂy describes each print option, gives its default setting, and provides information on any constraints or requirements in effect.

Where to set print options

• Some settings are speciﬁed during Setup by the administrator. For information

about the current settings on the RIP Station, print the Conﬁguration page from the Functions menu. The Conﬁguration page lists all current settings.

To change settings on the Control Panel, restart the RIP Station and choose Run Setup. For detailed instructions, see the Administrator Guide.

• From applications

With the Adobe PostScript 3 printer drivers (included in your user software) and the Windows NT 4.0 printer driver, you can specify and override job settings when you print a job. See Chapter 3, “Printing with Mac OS Computers” and Chapter 2, “Printing with Windows Computers” for information about specifying job settings from applications.

For Windows computers, there are several methods for accessing the printer properties. Chapter 2, “Printing with Windows Computers” describes how to set the printer driver properties. The options described in this appendix are the same, regardless of how you access the printer driver properties.

• From the Fiery Downloader

Only a few settings—Copies, and Brightness—can be speciﬁed when printing jobs with the Fiery Downloader. To set these options, select the job in the “Files to be Downloaded” list and click Options. For information, see “Using the Fiery Downloader” on page 4-1.

• Overrides from the Fiery Spooler or WebSpooler

To change job settings from the Fiery Spooler or WebSpooler, double-click a job to display the Override Print Settings dialog box. For more information, see “Changing print settings for a job” on page 5-9.

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Override hierarchy

In the following table, the default printer driver settings are underlined. The override hierarchy is as follows: a user’s printer driver settings override the server’s default settings; settings made from Fiery Spooler or WebSpooler override the user’s printer driver settings. Fiery Downloader settings override Print dialog box settings.

option

Brightness 85% Lightest/90% Lighter/

95% Light/100% 105% Dark/110% Darker/ 115% Darkest

CMYK Simulation

Color Mode

SWOP-COM M/ SWOP-COM F/ Euroscale/Cromalin EuroSTD/ DuPont WaterProof/DIC/ Custom 1/Custom 2/ Custom-3/Custom-4/ Custom-5/None

The default is SWOP-COM M for English-language systems, and Euroscale for European systems.

Color

Settings

(default is underlined)

Normal/

/Grayscale

Description

Speciﬁes image brightness. 85% produces a substantially lighter image; 115% produces a substantially darker image.

Speciﬁes the press simulation to use for an individual print job and does not affect the resident simulation on the RIP Station.

Speciﬁes the color mode for the job.

Requirements

and constraints

You must choose the Solid Color rendering style to use a

simulation. It is best to print CMYK data from your application. Custom simulations must be deﬁned before users select them. For information about deﬁning custom simulations, see page 6–5. When using the Cromalin EuroSTD and DuPont WaterProof simulations, choose one of the Print Mode settings for Com Prf Ppr, and choose the appropriate page size.

Copies 1

- 999

Speciﬁes the number of copies of the job to print.

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option

Paper Sizes See page A–5. Speciﬁes the paper size for the

Paper Source

Print Mode

Pure Black Text and Graphics

uto Select/Tray 1/Tray 2/

Manual Feed

PQ I PQ InkJet Paper 1440/ PQ Glossy Paper 720/ PQ Glossy Paper 1440/ PQ Glossy Film 1440/ Com Prf Paper 720/ Com Prf Paper 1440/ BackLight Film 1440/ InkJet Paper 720/ Plain Paper 720/ Transparencies 360

Off/On

The default setting reﬂects the Pure Black Text and Graphics setting speciﬁed in Color Setup on the RIP Station Control Panel.

Settings

(default is underlined)

nkJet Paper 720/

Description

job.

Speciﬁes the tray the printer uses for the job.

Speciﬁes the media type and the resolution at which the printer prints.

Select Off to print black text and graphics as a four-color black. Select On to print black text and graphics as a one color black, using 100%K ink only.

Requirements

and constraints

Be sure to select the correct setting on your printer. When using a paper size for which there is not a corresponding setting on the printer, choose Other on the printer.

For more information, see page A–6. Be sure to select the correct setting on your printer. When using a media type for which there is not a corresponding setting on the printer, choose Other on the printer.

This option is especially useful when printing a multiple page document containing color and black-only pages. Use this option only for printing composites, not separations.

Rendering Style

hotographic/Presentation/

Solid Color

Speciﬁes the color rendering dictionary (CRD) for the job.

You must choose the Solid Color rendering style to use a CMYK simulation. For more information about rendering styles, see page A–6.

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option

RGB Source

RGB Source Gamma

RGB Source Phosphors

RGB Source White Point

Settings

(default is underlined)

EFIRGB/sRGB (PC)/ Apple Standard/Other/Off

1.0/1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0/2.2

2.4/2.6/2.8/3.0

Hitachi EBU/Hitachi-Ikegami/ NTSC/Radius Pivot/SMPTE Trinitron

5000 K (D50) 6500 K (D65)/7500 K/9300K

/5500 K/

Description

Speciﬁes the source color space. EFIRGB—the standard color space sRGB (PC)—based on an average of Windows computer monitors Apple Standard—a standard reference point for the ColorSync color management system Other—allows you to deﬁne a source color space from gamma, phosphors, and white point values Off—does not set a color space

Speciﬁes the gamma for a custom RGB Source.

Speciﬁes the phosphors for a

custom RGB Source.

Speciﬁes the white point for a custom RGB Source.

Requirements

and constraints

RGB Source must be Other.

Set RGB Source to Other, and Rendering Style to Solid Color.

RIP Mode M

Scaling 200%/150%/100%

Tray Switch

emory/Disk Speciﬁes whether to RIP the job

uto/Manual Speciﬁes whether to switch

to memory or to disk.

/75%/50% Speciﬁes the percentage

reduction or magniﬁcation at which the job prints.

trays automatically.

These percentages are available only as a Fiery Spooler or WebSpooler override.

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Paper Sizes

These are the dimensions for the supported paper sizes:

Paper Size

Super A3/B 1, 2 12.95"

A3 1, 2 11.69"

A4 1, 2 8.27"

A4 Landscape 1, 2 11.69"

A5 1 5.85"

Index card A6 1 4.13"

B4 1, 2 10.12"

B5 1, 2 7.16"

B5 Landscape 1 10.12"

Letter 1, 2 8.5"

Letter Landscape 1, 2 11"

Legal 1, 2 8.5"

Ledger 1, 2 11"

Available

Trays

Size in inches Size in mm

x 11" 215.9 mm x 279.4 mm

x 8.5" 279.4 mm x 215.9 mm

x 14" 215.9 mm x 355.6 mm

x 17" 279.4 mm x 431.8 mm

x 19.02" 329 mm x 483 mm

x 16.54" 297 mm x 420 mm

x 11.69" 210 mm x 297 mm

x 8.27" 297 mm x 210 mm

x 8.27" 148.5 mm x 210 mm

x 5.85" 105 mm x 148.5 mm

x 14.33" 257 mm x 364 mm

x 10.12" 182 mm x 257 mm

x 7.16" 257 mm x 182 mm

Executive 1, 2 7.25"

#10 Envelope 1 4.125"

DL Envelope 1 4.33"

C5 Envelope 1 6.38"

C6 Envelope 1 4.49"

Half Letter 1 5.5"

Index card 5

Index card 8

x 8 1 5" x 8" 127 mm x 203.2 mm

x 10 1 8" x 10" 203.2 mm x 254 mm

x 8.5" 139.7 mm x 215.9 mm

x 10.5" 184.2 mm x 266.7 mm

x 9.5" 104.8 mm x 241.3 mm

x 8.66" 110 mm x 220 mm

x 9.02" 162 mm x 229 mm

x 6.38" 114 mm x 162 mm

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Print Mode

Print Mode Media Resolution

PQ InkJet Paper 720

Photo Quality InkJet paper

PQ InkJet Paper 1440 1440

PQ Glossy Paper 720

Photo Quality Glossy paper

PQ Glossy Paper 1440 1440

PQ Glossy Film 1440 Photo Quality Glossy ﬁlm 1440

Com Prf Paper 720

Commercial Prooﬁng Paper

Com Prf Paper 1440 1440

BackLight Film 1440 BackLight Film 1440

InkJet Paper 720 360 dpi InkJet paper 720

Plain Paper 720 Plain paper 720

Transparencies 360 Transparency 360

720

x 720

x 360

Rendering Style

Photographic—optimizes the range of colors on the RIP Station to produce the best results for photographic or bitmapped images. Presentation—optimizes the output of pure, saturated colors such as those used in business presentations. Solid Color—most useful for printing spot colors such as those found in company logos or corporate charts and graphs; must be used when using a press simulation.

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B-1 PostScript printer fonts

Appendix B: Fonts

This appendix lists the built-in printer fonts included with your RIP Station.

PostScript printer fonts

Listed below are the 136 built-in PostScript printer fonts on the RIP Station.

NOTE: For Mac OS computers, install the corresponding screen fonts from the User

Software CD. For instructions, see Getting Started.

Adobe Type 1 fonts

The RIP Station includes 117 Adobe Type 1 fonts:

• AlbertusMT, AlbertusMT-Italic, AlbertusMT-Light

• AntiqueOlive-Roman, AntiqueOlive-Bold, AntiqueOlive-Compact, AntiqueOlive-

Italic

• AvantGarde-Book, AvantGarde-BookOblique, AvantGarde-Demi, AvantGarde-

DemiOblique

• Bodoni, Bodoni-Bold, Bodoni-Italic, Bodoni-BoldItalic, Bodoni-Poster, Bodoni-

PosterCompressed

• Bookman-Demi, Bookman-DemiItalic, Bookman-Light, Bookman-LightItalic

• Carta

• Clarendon, Clarendon-Bold, Clarendon-Light

• CooperBlack, CooperBlack-Italic

• Copperplate-ThirtyThreeBC, Copperplate-ThirtyTwoBC

• Coronet

• Courier, Courier-Bold, Courier-Oblique, Courier-BoldOblique

• Eurostile, Eurostile-Bold, Eurostile-ExtendedTwo, Eurostile-BoldExtendedTwo

• GillSans, GillSans-Bold, GillSans-Italic, GillSans-BoldItalic, GillSans-Condensed,

GillSans-BoldCondensed, GillSans-Light, GillSans-LightItalic, GillSans-ExtraBold

• Goudy, Goudy-Bold, Goudy-Italic, Goudy-BoldItalic, Goudy-ExtraBold

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B-2 Fonts

• Helvetica, Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-BoldOblique, Helvetica-Condensed,

Helvetica-Condensed-Bold, Helvetica-Condensed-BoldObl, Helvetica-CondensedOblique, Helvetica-Narrow, Helvetica-Narrow-Bold, Helvetica-NarrowBoldOblique, Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique, Helvetica-Oblique

• JoannaMT, JoannaMT-Bold, JoannaMT-Italic, JoannaMT-BoldItalic

• LetterGothic, LetterGothic-Bold, LetterGothic-BoldSlanted, LetterGothic-Slanted

• LubalinGraph-Book, LubalinGraph-BookOblique, LubalinGraph-Demi,

LubalinGraph-DemiOblique

• Marigold

• MonaLisa-Recut

• NewCenturySchlbk-Roman, NewCenturySchlbk-Bold, NewCenturySchlbk-Italic,

NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic

• Optima, Optima-Bold, Optima-Italic, Optima-BoldItalic

• Oxford

• Palatino-Roman, Palatino-Bold, Palatino-Italic, Palatino-BoldItalic

• StempelGaramond-Roman, StempelGaramond-Bold, StempelGaramond-Italic,

StempelGaramond-BoldItalic

• Symbol

• Tekton

• Times-Roman, Times-Bold, Times-Italic, Times-BoldItalic

• Univers, Univers-Bold, Univers-BoldExt, Univers-BoldExtObl, Univers-

BoldOblique, Univers-Condensed, Univers-CondensedBold, UniversCondensedBoldOblique, Univers-CondensedOblique, Univers-Extended, UniversExtendedObl, Univers-Light, Univers-LightOblique, Univers-Oblique

• ZapfChancery-MediumItalic

• ZapfDingbats

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B-3 PostScript printer fonts

TrueType fonts

The RIP Station includes 19 TrueType fonts:

• Apple-Chancery

• ArialMT, Arial-BoldMT, Arial-ItalicMT, Arial-BoldItalicMT

• Chicago

• Geneva

• HoeﬂerText-Regular, HoeﬂerText-Black, HoeﬂerText-Italic, HoeﬂerText-BlackItalic,

HoeﬂerText-Ornaments

• Monaco

•NewYork

• TimesNewRomanPSMT, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, TimesNewRomanPS-

ItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT

• Wingdings-Regular

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