Konica Minolta MICROPRESS SERVER CII M500-2, MICROPRESS SERVER M500, MICROPRESS SERVER M500-2 User Manual

MicroTicket™ Server

Reference Manual

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Copyright  1999 T/R Systems, Inc.

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MicroPress is a registered trademark of T/R Systems.
BuildGamma, ClusterServer, ColorCurve, ColorTools, ConTune, ePower, ePSM, Gammatic, HalfTune, Image Management Server, Linear-
Matic, MicroScan, MicroScanner, MicroSpool, MicroTicket, MicroTiff, MPTrap, MultiRIP, OpenPrinter, Power Architecture, PrintLink, PrintSta­tion, PrintStation Manager, post-RIP, PSM to PDF, PSM to Tiff, SatellitePress, StochasticFM, TurboCharger , and VariableForms are
trademarks of T/R Systems Inc. Other brand or product names used in this document are the registered trademark or trademarks of their
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Gammatic, ConTune, and HalfTune are patent pending. Portions of the MicroScan product, Copyright  1990–1996 Corners tone Imaging, Inc.

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Table of Contents

Getting Started with MicroTicket Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Overview of the MicroTicket Server Main Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Using MicroTicket Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Extracting a Job Ticket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Custom Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Ticket Assignment in the PSM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Manual Ticket Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Automatic Ticket Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Getting Started with MicroTicket Server

To launch the MicroTicket Server application:

1. Go to the Start Menu and click Programs.

2. Click on MicroPress, then MicroTicket Server. The MicroTicket Server main screen
will display.

Overview of the MicroTicket Server Main Screen

The graphic below represents the way the MicroTicket Server will appear.

Refer to the following table to interpret the MicroTicket Server main screen.

Field/Control Description

Menu Bar Contains menus for accessing additional MicroTicket Server com-

mands.

Tool Bar Contains buttons for quick access to MicroTicket Server commands.

• Open MicroPress Job Ticket (.mjt) files.

• Starts the MicroTicket Server online help.

Files contained in job ticket • File Name

• Extract File To – the location where the file will be extracted.

View Ticket Info Displays the information contained in the job ticket.
Extract Files Extracts the job files and sends the ticket to the PSM.
Extract selected Files to Displays loca tions specified in the Set Configuration dialog..
Browse Used to locate folders where files are to be extracted.
Clear Selection Clears the extraction location.

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Menu Bar

The menu bar contains two menus, File and Help.

ile

F

The File menu contains commands used for operation of MicroTicket Server.

Menu Item Description

O

pen Job Ticket Displays the files contained in the job ticket.
onfigure Displays the View Current Configuration dialog used to assign loca-

C

tions for job files.

it Closes the MicroTicket Server application.

Ex

H

elp

The Help menu items are used for getting information about the MicroTicket Server applica­tion and its use.

Menu Item Description

T

opics Launches the MicroTicket Server online help.

A

bout Displays a dialog containing information about the software itself.

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Using MicroTicket Server

MicroTicket Server is a server based application that must run on the same system as the
PrintStation Manager. Its responsibility is to take job tickets and extract them. There are two
major portions in a job ticket:

One contains all files for the job, including

• PS files

• image files

• application files

The other contains the job ticket with all of the information that the MicroPress operator will
need to process the job.

Extracting a Job Ticket

Job tickets will usually be supplied by the customer via a removable media (Zip disk, Jaz
disk, etc.) or the internet . To extract the . mjt fil e, Micro Ticket Server will have to be launched.
To open the ticket choose one of three methods:

• Open the File menu and select Open Job Ticket

• Click the Open button on the Tool Bar.

• Simply drag and drop the .mjt file into the MicroTicket Server

Once the ticket is open, the customer information can be displ a yed by cli cking the View
Ticket Info button.

Click the More Info button to display job in formation.

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Now, all of the job files contained in the ticket file should be visible in the Files contained in
Job Ticket window. The left column displays the file name (File Name). The right column

displays the target extra ction path. By default, this value is "no destination set".

Should this value not be changed the file will not be extracted. To change a file destinations,
choose one or more files and then select Browse or a custom desti nation from the Extract
selected Files to drop down list.

Now that all of the file destinations have been selected, it is possible to start the extraction
process by clicking the Extract Files button.

When extracting files, two things happen; all the files selected are copied to the specified
directories and the job ticket containing the customer informat ion is sent directly to the PSM.
Since this happens "behind the scenes", the PSM has to be running. If it is not, a warning
message will be displayed:

Clicking Retry after starting the PSM will still send the ticket information to the PSM. Choos­ing Cancel will cause the fil es to be extracted but the ticket infor mation will not be sent to the
PSM.

It is possible to get a job ticket that contains no job files. In which case, the only option is to
send the ticket information to the PSM.

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Using MicroTicket Server

An example of a ticket with no files, would be a re-order of a job that has previously been
submitted to the print shop.

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Custom Configurations

The purpose for custom configurati ons is t o speed up the proces s of assigni ng fil e extrac tion
locations.

To set up custom destinations:

1. Go to the File menu and click Configure.

2. Click the Add button to display the Set Configuration dialog.

3. Enter a name into the Configuration Name edit field.

4. Choose the corresponding Job Directory.

5. Click OK. The following graphic shows example configurations.

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Ticket Assignment in the PSM

Manual Ticket Assignment

After extracting a job ticket, the customer information is sent directly to the PSM where it
resides in a hidden directory until it is assigned to a job. After the print job has been assem­bled and printed via MicroSpool to the PSM, the corresponding ti cket information can be
manually assigned to the job. This is done by right-cli cking and choosing Assign Job T icket.
The following dialog box will be displayed:

Choose the corresponding job ticket from the list and click Assign. The correct ticket should
start with the same name as the origina l .mjt file. Now the ti cket informat ion can be displayed
by clicking on the job and selecting Info, then choosing the Ticket pane.

Automatic Ticket Assignment

Automatic ticket assignment can only be done for PostScri pt files. When MicroT icket Server
detects a .ps file being extracted it writes an identifier into the file. After the .ps file is RIPed
and sent to the PSM, the ticket is automatically assigned to the job.

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