Epson Stylus Pro 7000 Product Support Bulletin
EPSON
Product Support Bulletin
Date:
PSB #:
Reference:
Product(s):
Subject:
09/25/2002
PSB.2002.09.004
N/A
EPSON Stylus Pro 9000, 9500, 9600, 7000, 7500, 7600, 10000, 10600, 5000,
5500 and Stylus Color 3000 P
PostScript Printing Support for Mac OS X Native Mode
rinters
Originator:
Authorization:
Total Pages:
This bulletin provides instructions for installing and configuring a Mac OS X Client with your
existing EPSON hardware or software RIP. If your EPSON Professional Wide Format printer was
bundled with one of the RIP packages listed below, or if you had purchased the RIP as an option,
then you can configure a Mac OS X Client with OS Version 10.2 and above for PostScript printing
by simply installing the appropriate RIP PPD.
• EFI RS 5000 LX Series – Stylus Pro 5000 printer
• EFI RS 5100 X2 Series - Stylus Pro 9000, 7000, 9500 and 7500 printers
• Fiery Spark Designer – Stylus Pro 5500 printer
• Fiery Spark Professional 1.0 – Stylus Pro 5500 and Stylus Pro 10000ARC/DYE printers
• Fiery Spark Professional 2.0 – Stylus Pro 9600UCM/7600UCM printers
• EPSON StylusRIP - Stylus Color 3000 and Stylus Pro 5000 printers
Installation Instructions:
Setup your existing RIP Server as per the instructions provided in the User’s Guide that came
with your RIP. To setup a Mac OS X Version 10.2 Client follow the instructions below. There are
two ways you can add a PPD and configure your printer in OS X,
AppleTalk Installation:
Open the
1.
Applications - Utilities
Print Center
, which can be found on your hard disk driver under
AppleTalk
or
IP Printing
.
MS
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2. Click on the
AppleTalk
3. The
from the list and click on the
Add
zone if applicable.
Print Center
button. Then select
should scan the network and find all your devices. Select your printer
Printer Model
AppleTalk
sub-menu. Select
from the top sub-menu and your
Other
to continue.
4. Navigate to the location of your PPD file. After selecting the PPD file it should reflect the
name of the printer under the
5. Repeat the process to add your additional queues. Your Mac OS X Client should now be
ready to print.
Printer Model
section. Click on the
Add
button.
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IP Printing Installation:
1. Open the
Utilities
Print Center
2. Click on the
Add
, which can be found on your HDD under
button and select
IP Printing
from the sub-menu.
Applications -
3. Enter the IP Address of the Postscript Server under
Use default queue on server
Printer Model
sub-menu and select
and type in the queue you wish to add. Click on the
Other
Printer’s Address
.
. Uncheck the
3
4. Navigate to the location of your PPD file. After selecting the PPD file it should reflect the
name of the printer under the
Printer Model
section. Click on the
Add
button.
5. The Print Center should now show the Queue that you typed along with the IP address.
6. Repeat the process to add your additional queues. Your Mac OS X Client should now be
ready to print.
Note: The StylusRIP does not have a separate folder on the CD to select the printer’s PPD. In
order to select the PPD it must be copied from another client’s
shown below (HDD - System folder - Extensions folder - Printer Description folder).
Printer Description folder
as
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EPSON
RODUCT SUPPORT BULLETIN
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Date: 8/8/02 Originator: RR
PSB #: PSB.2002.01.001A Authorization:
Reference: PSB.2002.01.001 Total Pages: 12
Product(s): EPSON Stylus Color 3000, Stylus Pro 5000, 5500, 7000 Series, 7600 Series, 9000 Series, 9600 Series and
10000 Series
Subject: Maximum Printable Area Limits for the EPSON Professional Graphic Printer line.
This bulletin was created to inform you of the maximum custom page sizes allowable for EPSON Professional Graphic products.
The tables below show the maximum page sizes allowable for the EPSON Professional Graphics printer line (Desktop and Large
Format). Although this document is meant as a guideline for the maximum page size allowable for each printer, it does not include
printable area (margin) information. Please refer to your user guide for additional information regarding the printable area (margins)
for your particular printer. There are 3 aspects that effect how long of a page your printer can output. Those 3 items are:
1. Operating System.
2. Driver Specification.
3. Software application(s) being used.
Maximum custom page size allowable per operating system (for Epson standard driver):
Stylus
Color 3000
Stylus
Pro 5000
Stylus
Pro 5500
Stylus
Pro 7000
Stylus
Pro 7500
Stylus
Pro 7600
Stylus
Pro 9000
Stylus
Pro 9500
Stylus
Pro 9600
Macintosh
OS
Win 9x/Me
Win NT
4.0/2000/XP
Print jobs being sent through the Epson standard print driver should be in the RGB format in order for color management to be
utilized properly.
44 in. 44 in. 44 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in.
44 in. 44 in. 44 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in. 90.5 in.
44 in. 44 in. 44 in. 590.5 in. 590.5 in. 590.5 in. 90.5 in. 590.5 in. 590.5 in. 590.5 in.
Stylus Pro
10000 Series
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Maximum custom page size allowable for EPSON PostScript options (PPD):
EPSON Stylus RIP
EPSON Fiery RIP
Station
EPSON Fiery Spark
Stylus
Color 3000
44 in. 44 in. N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
N/A 44 in. N/A
N/A N/A 44 in. N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Stylus
Pro 5000
Stylus
Pro 5500
Stylus
Pro 7000
See
NOTE 1
Stylus
Pro 7500
See
NOTE 1
Stylus
Pro 7600
N/A See
Stylus
Pro 9000
NOTE 1
Stylus
Pro 9500
See
NOTE 1
Stylus
Pro 9600
N/A
Stylus Pro
10000 Series
N/A
Designer (Mac)
EPSON Fiery Spark
Professional
N/A N/A 44 in. N/A N/A See
NOTE1
N/A N/A See
NOTE1
See NOTE 1
Print jobs being sent through the Epson PostScript driver can be either RGB or CMYK format. Settings in the RIP will determine
how color management is used.
Maximum page size allowable from software applications:
Stylus
Color 3000
Stylus
Pro 5000
Stylus
Pro 5500
Stylus
Pro 7000
Stylus
Pro 7500
Stylus
Pro 7600
Stylus
Pro 9000
Stylus
Pro 9500
Stylus
Pro 9600
Stylus Pro 10000
Series
Adobe Photoshop
5.x/6.x
*Adobe Illustrator
8.x/9.x
QuarkXPress 4.x
*CorelDRAW
8.x/9.x
See NOTE
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227 in. 227 in. 227 in. 227 in. 227 in. 227 in. 227 in. 227 in. 227 in. 227 in.
48 in. 48 in. 48 in. 48 in. 48 in. 48 in. 48 in. 48 in. 48 in. 48 in.
1,800 in. 1,800 in. 1,800 in. 1,800 in. 1,800 in. 1,800 in. 1,800 in. 1,800 in. 1,800 in. 1,800 in.
See
NOTE 2
See
NOTE 2
See
NOTE 2
See
NOTE 2
See
NOTE 2
See
NOTE 2
See
NOTE 2
See
NOTE 2
See NOTE 2
* - These applications allow for tiling of print pages, therefore allowing you to print beyond the printers maximum page length limit
and print to the applications limits. The printer driver must be set for Roll Paper (Banner) mode so that page breaks at the printer’s
maximum page length do not occur (in essence gives you a 0 margin for the bottom of the page). The Stylus Pro 5000/5500
however will give a slight page break at the 44 inch limit as these printers do not support banner mode. Also, printing certain
elements from these applications may not utilize color management correctly/properly and may produce output color that is not
expected.
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NOTE 1:
NOTE 2:
a. Under Win 9x/Me, the PPD limit is 129 inches.
b. Under Windows NT, 2000 and XP, the PPD limit is 1771.6 inches (SP7000/9000 Series) and 1800 inches
(SP7600/9600/10000 Series).
c. Under Mac OS 8.x/9.x, the PPD limit is 273.06 inches.
Adobe Photoshop has a pixel limitation of 30,000 pixels, which means that a document created @ 300ppi can only
reach a maximum page size of 100 inches (H and V). When sending jobs to the printer via the standard nonPostScript print driver, Photoshop looks at the input resolution of the printer driver and adjusts the page size
accordingly. All Epson large format printers use 360dpi as the input resolution (this is the resolution data is rasterized
at), therefore when printing from Photoshop, the maximum page length you will be able to output to any Epson large
format printer using the standard Epson print driver would be 83.33 inches (30,000 pixels / 360dpi). As for the Epson
desktop products, they rasterize data at 720dpi, therefore the maximum page length obtainable with the standard
print driver would be 41.67 inches (30,000 pixels / 720dpi).
Also, under Photoshop 5.x/6.x for the Macintosh and Photoshop 6.x for the PC, the job will end up clipped if it is over
the 83.3inch printer page limit. If you are using Photoshop 5.x for the PC, the print job will actually be truncated to fit
within the printable area of the printer. Be advised that you may not get a page size error. It may be useful to enable
the “print preview’ function of your printer driver (if available) so that you do not waste unnecessary media.
The only options for printing beyond the limitations is to save the file and print via an application that does not have
the 30,000 pixel limit (may lose color management functions) or print the file through a PostScript RIP (which will
allow for longer pages).
The following examples show how to setup banner printing from Adobe Illustrator 8.01 and CorelDRAW 9 from the PC
platform. The Macintosh versions of these applications should be very similar in function. Please refer to your
software documentation for additional assistance.
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Adobe Illustrator 8.01:
In this example, we are creating a banner, which is 227 inches (Illustrators max. page setup).
1. Launch Illustrator and open or place your file in the page layout.
2. Click on File, then Document Se tup. The following screen appears.
3. Uncheck Use Print Setup, enable Tile Full Pages and create the page size (in our example we used 44x227
inches).
4. Click, Print Setup. This will bring up the print driver.
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5. Click on the Paper Tab. The following appears.
6. Set the Paper Source to Roll Paper (Banner) and also enable Save Roll Paper.
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