Roland PC-600 User Manual

Roland COLORCHOICE® for ColorCAMM

for Macintosh

Version 3.1

User Guide

Thank you very much for purchasing the PC-600.

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Welcome .............................................................................................................. 4

System Requirements .......................................................................................... 4

Macintosh Installation ........................................................................................... 4

Uninstalling the Software (Macintosh) .................................................................. 8

Outputting a Test File ........................................................................................... 8

Getting Started ..................................................................................................... 9

Working with Setup Properties ............................................................................. 9

General tab .......................................................................................................................... 9

Port tab ...............................................................................................................................10

Print tab .............................................................................................................................. 10

Cut tab ................................................................................................................................ 13

Color Adjust tab ..................................................................................................................14

Printing with Roland COLORCHOICE ............................................................... 14

Printing Already Prepared Jobs ......................................................................................... 14

Sending Jobs Directly from an Application ......................................................................... 14

Working with Jobs .............................................................................................. 15

Adding Jobs to the Print Monitor ........................................................................................ 15

Deleting Jobs from the Print Monitor ..................................................................................16

Printing Jobs ......................................................................................................................16

Pausing and Resuming Printing .........................................................................................16

Aborting a Job .................................................................................................................... 16

Saving Jobs in Native Format ............................................................................................ 17

Setting Preferences ............................................................................................ 17

Setting Job Properties ........................................................................................ 18

The General tab ................................................................................................................. 18

The Print tab .......................................................................................................................19

The Cut tab ........................................................................................................................19

The Color Adjust tab ..........................................................................................................20

Advanced Printing Procedures ........................................................................... 21

Illustrator 7 .........................................................................................................................21

PageMaker 6.5 ...................................................................................................................23

Photoshop 4 ....................................................................................................................... 24

Photoshop 5 ....................................................................................................................... 27

QuarkXPress 3 ...................................................................................................................29

QuarkXPress 4 ...................................................................................................................31

Contour Cutting and Spot Color Printing ............................................................ 34

Adobe Illustrator 7 .............................................................................................................. 34

FreeHand 8 ........................................................................................................................ 34

QuarkXPress 4 ...................................................................................................................35

PageMaker 6.5 ...................................................................................................................35

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Welcome

Welcome to the documentation for the Roland COLORCHOICE Software. We believe that you will find the information useful and the software easy to learn.

System Requirements

Minimum Recommended Recommened

Processor 90MHz 601 Power PC 233MHz G3 Power Macintosh

RAM 64MB (virtual memory set to 128MB) 128MB or more (virtual memory set to 256MB)

Install Space 100MB 100MB

Working Disk Space 1GB or more 2GB or more for storage

Operating System Mac OS 8.1 or later Mac OS 8.1 or later

Video 14” Monitor, 256 Colors 17” Monitor, Thousands of Colors

Other CD-ROM Drive CD-ROM Drive

MAC/PCI Card MAC/PCI Card

USB-PIA (requires Mac OS 8.5 or later) USB-PIA (requires Mac OS 8.5 or later)

Macintosh Installation

This section describes how to install the software, and how to configure it for common application scenarios.

1 Insert the Roland COLORCHOICE CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive.

2 Double-click the ColorCAMM Installer icon.

3 You are prompted to select the language of the software.

4 Select the language you wish to install and click OK.

You are prompted for your User ID.

5 Type “1000” in the entry box and click OK.

You are asked to re-enter your User ID.

6 Type in “1000” again, and then click OK.

The Installation Options dialog appears.

7 Click OK.

The next screen prompts you for the type of installation and the location to which you want to install the software.

8 Accept the default selection of Easy Install and specify the location to which to install the software. Click Install

when you are finished. A status window displays the progress of the installation.

Toward the end of the process, you are asked if you would like to clear preferences.

9 Click Yes.

10 The following screen asks you to launch the Adobe PS Driver Installer.

11 Click OK.

12 Explore the CD.

13 Open the folder labeled AdobePS Installers.

14 Open the folder for the language you are installing.

15 Double-Click on the AdobePS Installer Icon. The Adobe Printer Driver installer is launched.

16 Click Continue.

17 If you accept the terms of the License, click Accept.

The next window prompts you for a location to install the Adobe PostScript Installer.

18 Select a location and then click Install.

The necessary files are installed to the location that you specified.

After the installation finishes you are asked whether or not you want to restart your computer.

19 Click Restart.

The software installation is now complete. Before printing, however; you will need to add a setup and then go to the chooser and select the appropriate printer description.

20 Double-click the RCC for ColorCAMM icon to start the software. The Add Setup dialog appears.

21 Select your printer in the list and then click Next. You are prompted for the port to which the selected printer is

connected.

22 Choose the appropriate port and click OK.

23 Open the Chooser from the Apple menu and highlight AdobePS.

24 Locate your computer. It should say ColorCAMM PC-600@computer, where “Computer” is the name of your

Macintosh.

25 Click Setup. You are prompted to select a PPD (PostScript printer description).

26 Locate the PPD for the output device you are using (AmPC600.ppd), highlight it. Then click Select. You will find

it in the System Folder/Printer Description folder.

Uninstalling the Software (Macintosh)

Follow these steps to uninstall the Roland COLORCHOICE Software from your Macintosh.

1 Quit the Roland COLORCHOICE Software, if it is still open.

2 Drag the RCC for ColorCAMM Folder into the Trash.

3 Open the System folder.

• From the Preferences folder, drag the two RCC for ColorCAMM preference files into the Trash.

• Locate and open the ‘Extensions’ folder. Drag the Am_ColorCAMM PC-600 spooler file into the Trash. From the ‘Printer Descriptions’ folder, located within the ‘Extensions’ folder, drag the PPD files, named according to your output device, into the Trash.

4 Restart your computer.

5 Hold down the Option key while you empty the Trash.

6 The software is now uninstalled.

Outputting a Test File

To insure that your software is properly installed and that a connection to the printer is established, select Setup>Test Print or Test Cut. When you do this a small test file is sent to the Print Monitor and then processed. Once you’ve successfully generated a test file, be sure to read the rest of this document to learn about other features.

Getting Started

To start the Roland COLORCHOICE Software, double click the icon labeled RCC for ColorCAMM located in the RCC for ColorCAMM Software folder.

The Print Monitor displays when you start the software. You can control every facet of job management from the Print Monitor. The Print Monitor is essentially a queue, listing all the files that are waiting to be printed.

Jobs appear in the queue in the order that they were recieved. For each job, the following information is displayed:

• Job Name - the name of the file, including any extensions.

• Status - the current status of the job, either Holding, RIPing, or Printing.

• Copies - the number of copies to be printed.

• Media - the media on which the job will be printed.

• File Type - the file type of the selected job.

Working with Setup Properties

Setup Properties are the default print settings for your printer. To view printer settings, click Setup Properties from the Setup menu of the menu bar to display the Setup Properties dialog. The Setup Properties dialog opens with the Communication tab selected.

General tab

The General tab displays settings related to the size of the media.

Media Size- Select a media size that is currently loaded into your printer. You can specify custom media sizes by selecting other from the list and then editing the Height and Width values.

Margin- Specify custom margins, if desired.

Send- You can choose to send the Print and the Contour, the Print only, or the Contour only.

Port tab

The Port tab contains a list box for specifying the port to which your output device is connected.

Print tab

The Print tab displays basic processing settings and allows you to access your printer’s Driver Options.

Resolution- You may set the output resolution here. A higher resolution will generally result in better results but slower output. The resolution set here is separate from the resolution used by your application.

Setting a resolution in this driver that is higher than the resolution in the application will not necessarily improve the output.

Dither Type- This is the pattern in which the individual dots that make an image are applied to the media. Dots of ink are arranged to fool your eye into seeing different shades.

Screen - The default settings will produce the best quality possible. We do not recommend to change these settings, since changing them can cause uneven colors.

Perform Color Correction- Checking this setting makes incoming jobs use the color correction settings- ICC input and output profiles that are explained below- of Roland COLORCHOICE RIP Software. If this setting is not checked, incoming jobs are assumed to already have color correction.

ICC input profile- This area is only accessible if Perform Color Correction is checked. Three types of ICC input profiles can be specified:

• CMYK has a default setting of High end Swop. You also can specify a different CMYK profile using the Add button.

• RGB corresponds to monitor profiles. In addition to the Generic setting, which will provide good results, you can select other popular monitor ICC profiles.

• Gray is the gray component ICC profile. Accept the default setting or use the Add button to locate another.

With input profiles, you can accept the default setting for all three profiles and expect excellent results. The ability to specify new profiles is an advanced feature, and you should use it only if you have a thorough understanding of ICC profiles and how to apply them.

ICC output profile

• Profile: Output profiles define the characteristics of your printer. An ICC profile is made for each ink/media combination that is available for a device. From the pulldown list you can choose the profile that is appropriate for your job.

• Image and Vector Rendering Intents: Before a file can be RIPed, its ICC profile must be translated into CRD (Color Rendering Dictionary) values. This is essentially the process of truncating RGB color space to CMYK color space. How to truncate this space is determined by the color rendering intent that you select. Select a rendering intent from the list of standard PostScript types. With Roland COLORCHOICE you can specify separate rendering intents for vector images and bitmap images. Vector images include lines, circles, text, and other non-bitmap images. Bitmap images are any non-vector elements such as photos, or other elements that consist of a pattern of individual dots, and not lines or curves.

Perceptual is best for photographic images. The relationship between colors in the original is scaled proportionally to fit the output device’s color gamut.

Relative Colorimetric When a color in the current color space is out of gamut in the target color space, it is mapped to the closest possible color within the gamut of the target color space, while colors that are in gamut are not affected. Only the colors that fall outside of the destination gamut are changed. This rendering intent can cause two colors which appear different in the source color space to be the same in the target color space. This is called "clipping".

Absolute Colorimetric Colors match exactly with no adjustment made for white point or black point that would alter the image’s brightness. This intent works well with logos and other design elements, were exact matching is important.

Saturation is best for images where true color matching is not as important as vivid colors. Colors outside of the output device’s gamut are converted to colors within the same saturation but with a different lightness. This intent may be used to boost colors within a photographic image.

Spot Color is best for use with vector images. This intent, which produces the greatest saturation possible, should only be used with non-photographic images.

• Info: Click this button for information pertaining to the ICC output profile that has been chosen under Profile. This dialog box contains a variety of information about the selected profile, including the ink and media names. If you are not sure whether or not you are using the correct profile, be sure to view this information. Following are a few guidelines to help you identify a profile:

ResOrGr

indicates calibration for Resin ink using Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Orange, and Green. Wax are

calibration for wax ribbons.

Profiles ending with “1200” should be used for 1200 x 600 dpi resolution. Profiles ending with “600” should be used only for 600 dpi printing. If a name contains none of the above descriptions in it, then it is appropriate for any resolution

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