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RW-470

CLIENTS

Final Version 11/12/2001

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Note: “RW-470 PS” stands for RW-470 Postscript Level 3 Compatible Option

CONTENTS

Contents

RW-470 PLOTCLIENTS ......................................................... 7

Manual conventions..................................................................... 9

Part I – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN ....................................10

Introduction ......................................................................11

Installation .......................................................................12

System requirements .................................................................. 12

Installation of the RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN.............................. 13

Start and quit program ....................................................15

Program window ..............................................................16

Program sequence............................................................17

Name conventions ..................................................................... 17

From the drawing to the job ....................................................... 18

Job and entry in the chart........................................................... 20

Tools .................................................................................22

Main symbol bar........................................................................ 22

Icon bar .................................................................................... 23

Presets ..............................................................................25

Setting the SSL defaults .............................................................. 25

“General“ tab............................................................................ 25

Set up SSL spool paths .......................................................... 27

“Format“ tab ............................................................................. 29

Job editor..........................................................................30

“Job” tab................................................................................... 30

Default settings area .................................................................. 32

“Default Specific“ tab ............................................................ 33

“Default Additional“ tab ........................................................ 37

“Entry“ area............................................................................... 38

Stamp editor ..................................................................... 40

Make stamp .............................................................................. 40

Stamp configurations ................................................................. 41

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Edit or delete stamp ................................................................... 41

“Settings“ tab............................................................................. 42

“Data“ tab................................................................................. 44

Pen settings ......................................................................47

View the changes....................................................................... 47

HPGL/2 - Pens........................................................................... 48

HPGL/2 - Colors........................................................................ 50

HPGL/2 - Misc........................................................................... 51

Calcomp - Pens ......................................................................... 55

Calcomp - Colors ...................................................................... 56

Calcomp - Misc ......................................................................... 57

Collate jobs ....................................................................... 61

Add entries ................................................................................ 62

Add with button .................................................................... 62

Add using the right-hand mouse button ................................. 63

Add with menu item .............................................................. 63

Add with Drag & Drop .......................................................... 64

Add multiple entries ................................................................... 64

Delete entries ............................................................................ 65

Entry information ....................................................................... 66

Part II – RW-470 WINPRINT..............................................67

Introduction ......................................................................68

Installation .......................................................................69

Configuration.................................................................... 70

Print Parameters of RW-470 WINPRINT (16 bit)........................... 70

“Details“ tab ......................................................................... 70

“General Settings“ tab .......................................................... 71

“Job Processing“ tab ............................................................. 72

Print Parameters of RW-470 WINPRINT (32 bit)........................... 72

Part III – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI ...........................75

Introduction ......................................................................76

Installation .......................................................................77

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Configuration.................................................................... 83

Configuration for AutoCAD 13/14 via configuration tool ............ 83

Settings for AutoCAD 13/14 in print dialog................................. 84

Settings for AutoCAD 2000 in print dialog .................................. 85

Presets for print jobs ........................................................87

“Main menu“ tab ....................................................................... 87

“Extended“ tab........................................................................... 89

“Options“ tab ............................................................................ 90

Part IV – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB ..................................92

Introduction ......................................................................93

Installation .......................................................................94

Configuration.................................................................... 95

Open the configuration page ..................................................... 95

Access rights for users................................................................ 96

Set spool path (upload) .............................................................. 98

Additional settings (misc.) ........................................................... 99

E-mail (e-mail)......................................................................... 100

Administrator password (admin) ............................................... 101

Prepare print jobs ..........................................................102

Plot sequence .......................................................................... 102

Open and log on..................................................................... 102

Settings for the job (job parameters) ......................................... 103

Print parameters for entries (entry defaults) ............................... 107

General print parameters .................................................... 107

Stamp settings .................................................................... 109

Pen settings (pen settings)......................................................... 110

HPGL ................................................................................. 111

Calcomp ............................................................................ 113

Add local entry, add multiple.................................................... 115

Local files or ZIP-Archive (add local entry)............................ 116

ZIP-Archive with SSL-job ...................................................... 116

Several local files (add multiple) .......................................... 117

Entry list................................................................................... 118

Edit and delete entries (select, delete) ....................................... 119

Send job (Submit job)............................................................... 119

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Query current job status (queue status) ..................................... 120

Plotter status (plotter status) ...................................................... 120

Incomplete jobs ....................................................................... 121

Corrective maintenance..................................................122

Part V – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT MAC ................................. 123

Installations .................................................................... 124

Installations on Server PC with Windows 2000 .......................... 124

Installation on the Macintosh computer..................................... 124

Print jobs and presets.....................................................126

MainOptions1 ......................................................................... 126

MainOptions2 ......................................................................... 127

JobOptions.............................................................................. 128

Part VI – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT LPR/FTP ..........................130

RW-470 PLOTCLIENT LPR ................................................131

Configuration on Server PC with Windows 2000 ....................... 131

Print jobs with lpr on Windows 2000 ........................................ 132

Configuration on UNIX ............................................................ 132

Print jobs on UNIX using lpr ..................................................... 133

RW-470 PLOTCLIENT FTP ................................................134

Configuration on Server PC with Windows 2000 ....................... 134

Print jobs on Windows 2000 using ftp....................................... 134

Configuration on UNIX ............................................................ 135

Print jobs on UNIX using ftp...................................................... 136

Part VII – Appendix.........................................................138

Index...............................................................................139

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RW-470 PLOTCLIENTS

RW-470 PLOTCLIENTSRW-470 PLOTCLIENTS

RW-470 PLOTCLIENTS

This manual explains the installation and operation of RW-470

PLOTCLIENTs as well as two networks. You find out how you can

use the RW-470 PLOTCLIENTs or network protocols to produce

print jobs, set print parameters and to send the print jobs to the

RW-470 PLOTBASE server program. The following RW-470

PLOTCLIENTs and protocols are described:

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN

• RW-470 WINPRINT

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT MAC

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT LPR

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT FTP

The following gives a brief explanation of all RW-470 PLOTCLI-

ENTs. The precise functional descriptions are given in the re-

spective chapters:

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN

RW 470 PLOTCLIENT WIN is available for Microsoft Windows

NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows

95/98/ME and is a program for preparing plot jobs, which it

then sends to RW-470 PLOTBASE. This is done by collating set-

based jobs.

• RW-470 WINPRINT

The Windows printer driver RW-470 WINPRINT allows print jobs

from Windows applications, to then pass them directly to RW-

470 PLOTBASE as a job.

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI

With RW-470 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI you produce HPGL/2-files

from the drawings and documents, which have been produced

in the AutoCAD programs AutoCAD R13, AutoCAD R14, Auto-

CAD 2000, AutoCAD 2000i, AutoCAD 2000 LT or AutoCAD

2000 LTi. The print jobs can be sent to the RW-470 PLOTCLIENT

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WIN program or directly to the RW-470 PLOTBASE server pro-

gram.

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB

The RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB enables you to send print jobs to

RW-470 PLOTBASE both via the Intranet as well as via the Inter-

net. You can stipulate numerous print parameters. Successful

processing of the print processes in RW-470 PLOTBASE can be

controlled via a status message. Equally, you can also have an

e-mail sent to obtain a message on successful job completion.

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT MAC

With the printer driver RW-470 PLOTCLIENT MAC, you can send

print jobs to RW-470 PLOTBASE from applications, which run on

the Macintosh operating system Mac OS 9.x.

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT LPR

With the lpr command, you can send print jobs to RW-470

PLOTBASE via RW-470 WINPRINT, without having to use an ap-

plication program. This printing facility is particularly meant for

UNIX users.

• RW-470 PLOTCLIENT FTP

With the ftp command you can send print jobs to RW-470

PLOTBASE without having to use an application program. This

printing facility is particularly meant for UNIX users.

We wish you every success in your work with RW-470 CLIENTs.

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Manual conventions

In the text, you can come across two possible terms, which are

intended to point out special circumstances or advantages or

even to warn you against certain work steps:

Note: You are free to decide whether you wish to fol-

low the recommendation given in a note or not. Notes are usually used to draw your attention to special circumstances or even to point out useful commands or ones that are easily forgotten and overseen.

Attention: It is advisable to take particular notice of

any possible problems marked with “Attention“ to e.g. avoid problems with your data stocks, etc

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Part I – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN

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INTRODUCTION

Introduction

This part of the manual describes the program RW-470

PLOTCLIENT WIN. RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN is available for

Microsoft Windows NT, for Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME as well

as for Microsoft Windows 2000 and is a program for preparing

plot jobs, which it then sends to the server program, RW-470

PLOTBASE. This is carried out by collating set-based jobs.

The Client-Server architecture of RW-470 PLOTBASE enables

each connected user to define their print jobs and drawing sets

themselves and to send them to RW-470 PLOTBASE for output.

The interface used between RW-470 PLOTBASE and the Client is

the Interpreter, which covers the Clients’ information so that RW-

470 PLOTBASE can easily work through the set requirements.

Compliance of standards in conjunction with the graphic user

interface of Microsoft Windows enables problem-free integration

in existing environments and applications.

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INSTALLATION

Installation

In this chapter you can read about which system requirements

have to be fulfilled and how to carry out the installation. Fur-

thermore, all the new [sub-] directories and file types that you

will find on your harddrive following the installation are listed in

their own section.

System requirements

Please read through the following recommendations carefully.

They can be very helpful in finding the optimum hardware for

your requirements.

• Operating system

Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95/98/ME or Windows 2000. For

Windows 2000 we recommend Service Pack 1. You can use a

higher Service Pack version, too, but if it does not run, please

change back again to Service Pack 1.

• Network interface/Configuration:

10/100 Base T Ethernet, the TCP/IP configuration is necessary

• Processor & System memory

Dependent on your operating system we recommend following

processors and system memory:

Windows 95/98: Pentium II 233 MHz, at least 32 MB RAM

Windows ME: Pentium II 233 MHz, at least 64 MB RAM

Windows NT 4.0: Pentium II 200 MHz, at least 64 MB RAM

Windows 2000: Pentium II 200 MHz, at least 64 MB RAM

• Harddrive

At least 500 MB.

• Monitor

At least 1024 x 768 pixels resolution.

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INSTALLATION

INSTALLATIONINSTALLATION

Installation of the RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN

This section describes the installation of the program and which

file types and directories you should find on your harddrive fol-

lowing the installation.

To install the program, please proceed as follows:

1. Start Windows NT as a user with administrator rights and open Windows NT Explorer.

2. If Windows NT was already started [with administrator rights], please quit all running programs or backup the data stocks.

3. Change via network to installation folder \\<Server>\ Tools \PLOTCLIENT_WIN.

4. Start the file SETUP.EXE.

5. Select the SETUP language, and then click on OK.

6. Click on NEXT.

7. Click on YES, if you agree to the license agreement. Click on NO, if you do not agree and want to abort the installation.

8. Answer the question about the Readme-file, and click on NEXT.

9. Click on NEXT, to confirm the target folder, in which RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN is to be installed.

10. Click on NEXT, to confirm the unchanged or changed program folder.

11. Determine the SSL Spool folder. The standard preset is the folder “\\<Server>\Spool\SSL“. The first part “\\<Server>“ gives the destination computer, on which RW-470 PLOTBASE is installed. The second part “\Spool\SSL“ gives the spool folder released there.

12. RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN is then installed.

13. Read the Readme-file or start RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN.

14. If you now start RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN – for the first time, you will be asked to enter the default values for new SSL print jobs. Answer the query with “OK“.

15. Enter the global job information on the “job“ tab in the job editor job information.

16. Change to the “Default specific“ and “Default additional“ tabs, and enter the detailed defaults. The possible settings in the job editor are described in detail from Page 30.

17. Quit your defaults with “OK“.

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18. Answer the query about preparing a job example.

19. If you answer with “YES“, RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN prepares a job example, which you can send off straight away as the first print job.

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START

START AND QUIT PROGRAM

STARTSTART

Start and quit program

• Start program

The installation program sets up its own program group with program symbols towards the end of the installation. To start RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN, open it via the “Start“ bar or double click on its program symbol.

Your first sample print is easy to manage and will already be started at the end of your installation. For explanations you will have to read in following two chapters „From the drawing to the job“ on page 18 and „Job editor“ on page 30.

• Quit program

You can either quit RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN via the menu item “File - Exit“ or with the usual Windows keyboard shortcut “ALT+F4“.

The program’s functions are now described in the following chapters.

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PROGRAM WINDOW

Program window

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PROGRAM

PROGRAM SEQUENCE

PROGRAMPROGRAM

Program sequence

This chapter provides you with an overview of how the drawing gets into the job list of RW-470 PLOTBASE and is then printed. At the end of the chapter you will find a graphic, which illustrates the job flow. Together with the introductory chapter, this chapter is intended to help you to bet to know the environment and the embedding of the program in it. In addition, the most important terms used in the program are also explained.

Name conventions

Job:

A job is a print job, which includes at least one entry or set of entries, which are to be printed off on the plotter as a specific combination and with individual settings. The job can, inter alia, be complied using RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN and can include an unlimited number of entries.

User: The user, or job producer, prepares the jobs with RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN. The user can simultaneously be the client.

Client: The client places an order, to have one or several drawings printed out via RW-470 PLOTBASE on the plotter. The client can simultaneously be the user. The client is also the recipient of the printed and, optionally folded drawings.

Entry: An entry is a drawing with the corresponding description, required for RW-470 PLOTBASE. This description contains all the information about the drawings, e.g. target format, output medium, drawing header, etc. Entries are compiled in RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN to form jobs or can also represent a job singly.

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The entries or drawings can have the following file formats, which RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN recognizes from the file extension:

• Calcomp [*.906, *.907]

• CALS MIL-STD 1840B,28002A [*.cal]

• DWG [*.dwg]

• HPGL/2, HP-RTL [*.plt, *rtl]

• Intergraph [*.cit, *.tg4]

• PCX [*.pcx]

• RLC [*.rlc]

• T6X [*.t6x]

• TIFF G4 [*.tif]

• Windows Metafile [*wmf]

• Windows OS/2 Bitmap [*.bmp]

As an option, the file format CGM [*.cgm] as well as PDF and postscript, i.e. RW-470 Postscript Level 3 Compatible Option are also available [*.pdf, *.ps]. The file format DWG can only be used if AutoCAD (2000 or 2000i) is installed on RW-470 PLOTBASE server PC.

SSL-file: The SSL-file is automatically produced by RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN when preparing a job and contains all the information about the job itself as well as all the descriptions of the individual entries. The SSL file is required by RW-470 PLOTBASE, to be able to print off a job on the plotter.

Draftsman: The [technical] draftsman/draftswoman produces the drawings for the client, which can later be collated by the user to form jobs.

From the drawing to the job

The following lists the path of a drawing from its preparation through to the job list of RW-470 PLOTBASE. The work steps are presented functionally and not person-related, i.e. that several functions can be carried out by the same person.

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PROGRAM

PROGRAM SEQUENCE

PROGRAMPROGRAM

With the help of this section, the following graphic and the first chapter of the manual, you should be able to grasp the task and possible applications of RW-470 PLOTBASE and the environment.

1. PRODUCTION: The [technical] draftsman/draftswoman produces the drawing using an EDM, CAD or similar system and saves it in one of the following formats, which are identified by RW-470 PLOTBASE from the file extension:

• Calcomp [*.906, *.907]

• CALS MIL-STD 1840B,28002A [*.cal]

• DWG [*.dwg]

• HPGL/2, HP-RTL [*.plt, *rtl]

• Intergraph [*.cit, *.tg4]

• PCX [*.pcx]

• RLC [*.rlc]

• T6X [*.t6x]

• TIFF G4 [*.tif]

• Windows Metafile [*wmf]

• Windows OS/2 Bitmap [*.bmp]

As an option, the file formats CGM [*.cgm] as well as PDF and postscript, i.e. RW-470 Postscript Level 3 Compatible Option are also available [*.pdf, *.ps]. The file format DWG can only be used if AutoCAD (2000 or 2000i) is installed on RW-470 PLOTBASE server PC.

2. DRAG & DROP: The user brings all the drawings intended for printing into RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN using Drag & Drop or using the “insert entry” or “add entry“ functions.

3. PREPARE ORDER: The user collates the drawings to form jobs in RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN, assigns print settings and checks the drawing using check preview.

4. PROVISION: As soon as the user has produced the jobs, they automatically send them via the network [LAN] to the directories provided

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PROGRAM SEQUENCE

using the program command, “File – Print SSL“, thereby making them available for RW-470 PLOTBASE to print.

5. COLLECTION: RW-470 PLOTBASE regularly reads the directories and thus checks whether new jobs are ready for printing. As soon as a job is ready, it is loaded by RW-470 PLOTBASE and immediately appears in the job list.

6. RW-470 PLOTBASE: The jobs are now in the job list ready for printing.

Job and entry in the chart

The following drawing has been prepared functionally, now person-related. It is therefore possible that several functions are simultaneously carried out by one person:

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PROGRAM

PROGRAM SEQUENCE

PROGRAMPROGRAM

Plotter

RW-470

as required change of

- priority

- format

- medium

- copies

RW-470 PLOTBASE

- margin

completed job

LAN

SSL file

entry 1

entry 2

entry x

job

create

e.g.

- control view

- priority

- format

- medium

- copies

- margin

RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN

includes

drawin gs

drawings by

drag & drop

hand over

job creator

draftsman

engineering

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customer

TOOLS

Tools

This section gives you a brief overview of the program’s tools. You can blank out and insert the toolbars using the menu item “view“. You work in the job editor with the main symbol bar, and use the icon bar for the file preview.

Main symbol bar

Send job to the SSL spool folder

View and selection of the SSL spool path

Open view information for the current plotter

Open new job

Open existing job

Backup job

Delete job

Attach entry in entry list

Insert entry in entry list

Delete entry from entry list

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Icon bar

Rotate drawing 90° to the left

Rotate drawing 90° to the right

Rotate drawing through 180°

Drawing in original position

Successively enlarge drawing

Successively reduce drawing

Switch drawing to zoom all

Switch drawing to view 1:1

TOOLS

TOOLSTOOLS

Multipage document: View first page

Multipage document: Back one page

Multipage document: Enter destination page

Multipage document: Forward one page

Multipage document: View last page

Open file information

Display drawing in black & white view

Display drawing in preview in gray tones

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TOOLS

Display drawing in preview lighter,

if gray display – has no effect on printing

Display drawing in preview darker,

if gray display – has no effect on printing

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Presets

Before you begin with the work in RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN, you must first set a few presets as e.g. determine the SSL paths or enter the SSL default values.

Setting the SSL defaults

Setting of the SSL default values is automatically called up following installation, in the very first program start. Enter which values are to be the standard values for all SSL print jobs. Also, after the first program start, these default values can be changed whenever you wish. Simply open the job editor via the menu item “settings - SSL default“. A detailed description of the possible settings is given in Chapter “job editor“ from Page 30.

“General“ tab

The “General“ tab is opened via the menu item “Settings - Options“. RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN takes the information on the directories, which you entered during installation and enters it in the relevant fields:

PRESETS

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• Working directory:

This is the folder, in which RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN temporarily caches the jobs, before they are finally sent to the folder that RW-470 PLOTBASE looks through for jobs. The working folder should always be a local folder, so that the program can quickly access the data. This folder is in the two following fields: “SSL spool path from the view of RW-470 PLOTCLIENT“ and “SSL spool path from the view of RW-470 PLOTBASE“. The default setting is automatically preset after installation of PLOTCLIENT.

Spool-path

• Universal Naming Convention:

:: The Universal Naming Convention guarantees a uniform view of the path details from all the computers connected to your network. If you activate this option, you only need to filly out the field “SSL Spool path“.

• SSL Spool path:

If you want to enter the path name under consideration of the UNC, you only need to enter the folder for print jobs here. Enter the folder exactly as it is to be found in you in-house network. You can set up several SSL spool paths here, so that you can select the current path to be used from several paths.

• Compress all Plots to this Path:

The RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN can compress your jobs. To do this, activate the left-hand option, “Compress all jobs...” above the two “SSL-Spool path“ details. Your jobs will be automatically compressed in zip Format. If you want to send more than one job, you can also collect the jobs in one zip file. If you want the path displayed after sending a print job, in which the zip file is, activate the view of the “ZIP path“ on the “formats“ tab.

• Collect jobs in one archive:

It often happens that you not only want to send one single job by e-mail – as described above, but have several different print jobs. To be able to send more than one print job in only one file via e-mail, RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN can compress all jobs in one single file, which is stored in zip format.

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To do this you must activate the option “Collect jobs in one archive” above the two “SSL Spool path“ specifications. This option can only be activated when “path for compressed jobs“ has been activated. If you want the path displayed, in which the zip file is cached, activate “Show ZIP path after plot“ on the “format“ tab.

• SSL Spool path as PLOTCLIENT sees:

Here you set the folder, in which RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN sends the jobs for RW-470 PLOTBASE. As the two programs usually work together via the network, the folder for RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN lies on another drive than is the case RW-470 PLOTBASE. If RW-470 PLOTBASE works locally on C:\, this Cdrive is a drive letter e.g. between E and Z for RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN.

• SSL Spool path as PLOTBASE sees:

Here you have to enter the plot path, as RW-470 PLOTBASE sees the path. As RW-470 PLOTBASE and RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN work together via the network, there will be different drives.

Set up SSL spool paths

If you have several devices or types of software in the in-house network for printing you can set up the corresponding SSL spool path here for all these possible print outputs. Proceed as follows:

1. Open the “plot path“ window by clicking once on the button

to the right of the path information.

2. Click once on the “New” button and in the lower row “UNC

plot path“ enter the path:

PRESETS

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3. Click on “Set“ if you want to enter several paths consecutively

or on “OK“ to quit the plot path input.

You can obtain information about the print job recipient connected with the selected SSL spool folder by clicking on the following info button once:

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“Format“ tab

Open the “Format“ tab via the menu item “Settings - Options“. On this tab you set the size unit that is to apply for all work with RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN. You can choose between “Pixels“, “Millimeters“ and “Inches“. The current valid size unit is always displayed in the status row at the lower edge of the screen.

“[600 DPI]“ shows that 600 DPI is the standard value in RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN and all conversions in a conversion of size units always refer to 600 DPI.

After each print job you can also have displayed, where the program has filed the compressed files:

Read in the previous chapter “General“ tab how you can automatically receive your print jobs from RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN compressed. The “General” tab describes how to make the necessary settings.

PRESETS

If you have switched off renewed view of the message and want it displayed again later, activate “Show ZIP Path after plot” on the “Format“ tab.

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JOB EDITOR

Job editor

In the job editor you can change the settings for jobs and the entries included in them. Furthermore, you can also delete jobs or entries. The individual possible settings range from the format size to the selection of the print medium and the output shaft through to details of the position of the drawing header.

“Job” tab

On the “Job“ tab all entries that the user has made in RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN automatically appear. You can change these details:

• Job Name

This is the name of the plot job that the user has chosen.

• User Name

In this field the name of the employee who collated the plot job and sent it for printing is displayed.

• Customer

Here you can enter the name of the customer, for whom the job is carried out.

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• Account

In this field the account number of the client is entered. This can be an account number, which you assign in-house or the receiver of the invoice in-house.

• Notes

This field is free for your notes. You can enter up to maximum 60 characters. Please do not use any quotation marks.

• Distribution

In this field you enter which persons are to receive a copy of the job. You can enter up to maximum 60 characters. Please do not use any quotation marks.

• Collate

Activate this field if the plot job is to be printed out collated. Collated means that the entries of an order are printed out as follows when several copies are required: E.g. you have the entries A, B and C. Three copies of each are to be produced. With activated sort (“ON“) the print outs are in the sequence A, B, C - A, B, C - A, B, C. If the printout is not sorted, the complete number of entries are printed out: A, A, A - B, B, B

- C, C, C.

• Priority

This shows what priority the job has been given by the user: Wait, Low, Normal, High. You can alter the priority here or set it to the highest level.

• Job Copies

Here you can enter the number of job copies.

• Job Flag Sheet

Activate the “ON“ field, if you want an overview of all the information that you have entered in this “Job” tab printed out on a cover sheet. You can add further information in the comments field below this, which may not have more than a maximum 256 characters. Please do not use any quotation marks.

• Plotter

This default cannot be changed. The RW-470 plotter is preset.

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• e-mail

Use of the email function must be switched on in the presets. To be able to use the email function, Microsoft® Outlook must be installed. Furthermore “Internet Mail“ should be installed. Here you can instruct the program to automatically send an email or a message to the user following successful job completion. To send an email, enter the email address of the user.

• Sample Print

Activate this option, if you want to check the quality of a print off. Only the first set of copies will then be printed. The print off of further sets of copies is stopped, so that you can check the quality of the print off. Then you will be asked, whether you would like to continue with the print out or abort.

• Output

In the list field, you are offered two options for the print output at the plotter: front and rear. If a folder has been connected, the rear output is to be chosen for the folder. Otherwise the plot is issued at the front.

• Locked Print

If you have important print jobs, which others should not be able to see, activate the “Security“ option. Your job can then not be viewed in RW-470 PLOTBASE by any other person. In the RW470 PLOTBASE it only has the status “Password“. Print jobs secured in this way can only be printed out by you entering the password, which you have set here in RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN. The job is automatically deleted immediately after it has been printed.

• Delete

If you activate this option, the job is deleted again by RW-470 PLOTBASE immediately after printing.

Default settings area

The following chapters explain which default settings you can set for the entries. The default settings only apply for new entries to be added. The previous settings apply for the older entries.

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“Default Specific“ tab

On the “Default specific“ tab you enter the basic setting for all new entries of a job.

Note: All basic settings apply for newly added entries

except for the number of copies.

• Formats

In this section of the tab you select the drawing format, in which the drawing is to be printed. Apart from the “Original“, “Window“ and “Percent“ options, you will also find the drawing formats, which are the usual standards in Germany, all Europe and in the USA: ISO A/B/C, ANSI A-E and ARC A-E.

In the format setting “Original“ the program obtains the format size from the original file of the drawing. This is the presetting.

If you use the format setting “Window“, you can freely set the values for the format width and format height, whereby the style sheet is set by the window value. The freely settable settings refer both to the alignment as well as the format size and the format margin:

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Scale DX format width

Scale DY format height

If you want to scale the drawing smaller, set the format to “percent“. In this case the “Scaling” input field becomes active and you can enter a value between 1.00 and 999.00.

If you choose one of the standard formats ISO, ANSI or ARC, you can accept the dimensions or freely change them according to your requirements: You can use the “Window“, if you set a standard format e.g. ISO A0 and want to extend the format width and format height. First set the required format and then click in “Window“. You can now change the “Scale DX“ and “Scale DY“ values to meet your requirements.

The value x in the “Maintain ratio“ window represents the side proportions “width = x · height “. If you activate the “Maintain ratio“ option, you can only alter the values above it for the width, i.e. the Scale DX. The Scale DY, or height is then adjusted automatically, i.e. the drawing is scaled proportionally. This can be useful e.g. if you know that the printout of a drawing is too large for the paper size available. In this case, activate the “Maintain ratio“ option and reduce the value slightly, to obtain a proportionally correct printout. The “Maintain ratio“ option is already activated as a standard setting.

• Scaling

The X-scaling input field only becomes active if you have selected the “Percent“ format. Thus you can print off the drawing in a free format of 1.00 % to 999.00 % of the original. The Scale DY input field is automatically filled with the value of the Scale DX, if you have activated the “Maintain ratio“ option. If you then want to enter the Scale DY value independently, you must deactivate the “Maintain ratio“ option. In this case, you must consider that the drawing will be distorted.

• Media type and position

Use this menu to select which type of media the drawing is to be printed on: Any, Paper, Transparency or Film. The selection depends on what roll of medium you have fed in the plotter. The “Position“ field is used to set the symbolic position on the paper

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if the image is to be printed on a larger paper format. E.g. if you have a ISO A4 drawing, which is printed in original size on ISO A1, you can fix here where the drawing is to be positioned on the larger sheet.

• Cut Mode

The selections available is “Format“. If don´t activate “Format”, the plotter cuts the drawing immediately after the last data has been printed, it means synchronous. This results in optimum paper or medium use, because it produces the smallest amount of waste. On the other hand, if you want the printout to always be cutted to a standard format, no matter how much space remains unprinted, activate “Format“. The plotter then always cuts to the next largest format. This can be a disadvantage if e.g. a drawing is only around 0.5 cm larger than a ISO A5 page is printed on a ISO A4 page and thus almost 50 % of the sheet remains unused. The advantage is that some folders require exact formats and you can match them using the “Format“ setting.

• Copies

You can enter any number of copies between 1 and 999 to be printed by the job .

Note: The number of copies is not the default for newly

added entries

• Title block

As many folders expect title blocks in different positions, you can alter the title block to match the folder to ensure that it is on the top after folding. If you do not know the position of the title block, you can activate the drawing header symbol using the question mark. The folder then automatically uses the optimum folding format for the folder. If you know the position, activate one of the four possible title block positions:

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Position of the title block unknown, i.e. there is no optimized folding of the drawing

Title block in the top left-hand corner

Title block in the top right-hand corner

Title block in the bottom right-hand corner

Title block bottom left-hand corner

With this setting, you inform RW-470 PLOTBASE, on which side the title block is located. The program then rotates the drawing into the position required for the folder.

Attention: This setting refers to the original position of

the drawing in the preview window. The drawing can be rotated to its original position by clicking on the button shown below. As soon as the original position is displayed, the symbol is deactivated:

• Rotate

Here you can say whether the drawing is to be rotated or not during plotting. Rotations of 0°, 90°, 180° and 270° are possible. When set to “Auto“, RW-470 PLOTBASE rotates automatically if this results in less waste paper

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• Border

If you want a white border around the drawing, activate the “ON“ field and enter the required spacing for all side borders. The current dimensional units are given in the status bar at the bottom of the screen.

• Media Source

Here you can select the trays in which the rolls with the different Printing materials (paper, transparent, etc.) are located. They can also have varying widths. If you select the “Automatic“ setting, the plotter chooses the input tray, which matches the format size of the drawing. Should this input tray be empty, the plotter uses the tray (roll) with the next largest format.

• Invert

If you activate this option, the drawing is inverted, i.e. black and white colors are swapped.

“Default Additional“ tab

The “Default additional“ tab is used to enter mirroring, stamping and pen details.

The stamp editor and the pen settings (Calcomp, HPGL) are each explained in their own chapter. Please read the separate “Stamp editor” section at the end of this Chapter from Page 40 ff. and the separate chapter on “Pen settings“ from Page 47 ff.

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• Mirror

In this area you can set whether the drawing is to be mirrored or not during plotting. The individual fields mean the following:

OFF: The drawing is not mirrored during plotting.

X: The drawing is mirrored horizontally.

Y: The drawing is mirrored vertically. XY: The drawing is mirrored about both axes simultaneously;

equates to a 180° rotation.

You usually use these settings if the drawing has been scanned and saved with a mirror inversion. This is especially important if a transparency has been scanned with mirror inversion to increase the contrast.

“Entry“ area

You can read here, which adjustments can be made for an individual entry.

If you want to alter the settings for the individual entries i.e. alter the drawings, you can do this on the two “Specific“ and “Additional“ tabs, which can be used to make the same adjustments as described in the “Defaults“ tabs.

To begin altering the settings of an entry you must mark it in the left-hand entry list. The “Specific“ and “Additional“ tabs are then opened and can be edited. If you want to change back to the job settings or defaults, click once on the “Job“ or “Defaults“ button above the entry list.

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If you want to make entries in the “Specific“ tab, read the information given for the “Default Specific“ tab from Page 32.

If you want to alter the settings on the “Additional“ tab , read the details for the “Default Additional“ given on Page 37.

You can open a tab for the pen settings on the “Additional“ tab. To do this, click on the “Pen settings“ button. When an entry or a drawing is marked, the program automatically identifies the format and opens the Calcomp or HPGL settings itself. Please read the separate sections on the pen settings for Calcomp pens from Page 55 and the HPGL pens from Page 48.

The main task with RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN is to collate plot jobs for RW-470 PLOTBASE. You are free to choose whether you compile a job with one entry or with several entries. The way of compiling jobs will be explained in the separate chapter „Collate jobs“ on page 61.

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Stamp editor

The stamp settings can be altered on two levels. To configure a stamp for an individual entry, select the “Additional“ tab under “Entry“. Now click on the “Settings” button under “Stamp“. The same button can be you in the “Defaults“ area on the “Extended Defaults “ tab. The settings in the “Defaults“ area are basic settings, in which the following must always be noted:

Note: Changes to the basic settings always only apply

to new entries that are added. Entries already included in a job retain their settings.

In stamp editor you have two tabs in which you can alter settings. These are the “Settings“ and “Data“ tabs. You can define as many stamps as you like per drawing.

Make stamp

This chapter describes how you can name and save new stamps. Proceed as follows to configure a new stamp:

1. The first stamp entry is preliminarily named “000“. Click on

the following symbol to edit the stamp name:

2. You can now delete the existing name entry and enter your

own name for the first stamp.

3. Now you can either enter your own settings for the stamps,

as described in the following chapters or use an existing stamp configuration. To do the latter, click on the “Open“ button under “Configurations“. Now select a configuration that you have saved previously (read the following chapter “Stamp Configurations“) from the file selection. Now save

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this configuration for the defaults or the entry by clicking on the button with the same name; i.e. “Save“. This configuration is now saved under the marked stamp name in the “Select Stamp “ window.

4. You can produce as many stamps as you wish for a draw-

ing. If you now also want to configure an additional new stamp, click on the following button:

5. Enter a name and set the desired configurations, as already

described under Step 3.

Stamp configurations

The stamp settings are usually saved for specific entries. This means that these settings only apply for one entry or a limited number of entries. However, you can also backup a stamp configuration in its own “Stamp File“. It can then be used at any time for producing a new stamp, which you would like to use for other entries. The stamp files have the file extension [*.stp] and it is advisable that this extension is always retained. Should you want to call up the configuration, you must use the “Open“ button. The “Open“, “Save [as]“ or overwrite old stamp files steps are the same as those used in general file management.

Edit or delete stamp

If you want to make changes to the stamp configurations produced, first click on the correct stamp in the “Select stamp “ window and then change the settings. If you now change to another stamp or close the window by clicking on “Ok“, all the settings are saved.

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To delete a stamp, first mark it and then delete it by clicking on the following button:

“Settings“ tab

General details, e.g. on mirroring, rotation, stamp type and stamp position are made in the “settings“ tab:

• Mirror

The standard orientation of the text is always the reader direction. You can mirror the text here in four ways: None: The text is not mirrored and is in the reader direction. X-mirror: The text is mirrored horizontally. Y-mirror: The text is mirrored vertically. XY-mirror: The text is mirrored about both axes simultaneously, which equates to a rotation of 180°.

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• Rotation

The standard orientation of the text is always the reader direction. Here you can alter the text rotation of in 1° steps.

• Stamp mode

The standard setting for the type of stamp is always “covering“. There are three possible settings:

- Covering

The stamp overwrites the area of the drawing beneath it.

- Transparent

In the “Transparent“ setting the inserted stamp lies “beneath“ the existing drawing, which means that parts of the stamp can be overwritten.

- Inverting

It is only the “Inverting“ setting that allows both the drawing as well as the stamp to be identified in the plot, because the overlapping areas are shown inverted.

• Stamp placement

This is where you fix the actual position of the stamp on the drawing. The frame equates to the drawing, so that you can choose from the entries for the nine positions from “top“, “centered“ to “bottom“. In addition, you can shift this fixed position in the field to the right of it by a valid size unit. You set the currently valid size units for RW-470 PLOTBASE in the configuration program and it is displayed at the bottom of the screen in the status bar.

• Scale position

With the “Scale position“ you determine whether the stamp always retains its position relative to the edge of the drawing when the size is changed or whether the distance to the edge of the drawing should be scaled too.

• Stamp all pages

If you are editing a Multipage document, i.e. a job order contains several drawings, you can fix here whether all the drawings are to be stamped.

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• Frame

Activate the “Enable frame“ field if you want a stamp frame to be printed. Three default settings can be set for the stamp frame. Here too, the settings refer to the currently valid size unit, which you can see in the status bar: Upper setting - stamp border: With the upper of the three settings you set the distance of the stamp to the edge of the drawing. Middle setting – Stamp content: The middle setting gives the distance of the stamp content to the stamp frame. Lower setting. The lower setting is used to fix the thickness of the stamp frame.

“Data“ tab

On the “Data“ tab the user specifies the stamp text and logo. You can also change the text and text attributes on this tab or even change the logo:

• Stamp type

Before you can begin to enter the settings or change the other fields, you must first select the stamp type, whereby the two symbols are clear: With the “A“ you activate the “Text“ field, with the

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colored symbol you let the program know that there is a logo and activate the “Logo orientation“ field.

• Text

In this text field you can enter the text to be “Printed“ with your stamp. In the text field you can edit in the same way as in common word processing programs. Change lines be entering return [

↵ ], you can jump to the start and end of the rows using

the “Home“ and “End“ keys, and if your text is very long, use the “CTRL + Pos1“and “CTRL + End“ keys to move to the first or last rows respectively..

• Font

The “Font“ button opens the usual WINDOWS dialogue for the font attributes. Only the font color setting does not have any effect, because the color is fixed in RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN with black.

• Preview

Use the “Preview” button if you want to view the stamp again before the final print. In this window you can move the directional arrows to move from side to side and enlarge or reduce the view using “+“ and “–“. The left-hand mouse button can be used to enlarge a selected area. However, the preview only applies to the stamp itself and the arrangement of its logo and its text. The preview does not show you the stamp’s position on your drawing, which you set on the “settings“ tab!

• Macros

You can use a macro to enter a text field, which is not filled out until printed. In the preview you can only see the field function. All the file details always refer to the drawing or the entry on which the stamp(s) are printed. The following macros are available:

- User defined: You can use this macro to issue the text that

appears in the registry path “Software - RW-470“ for the “Custom label” key produced by you.

- User name: The user name gives the user, who carried out

the stamp function.

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- Computer name: The computer name is the PC at which the

stamp was inserted.

- File name: This macro inserts the whole file name of the

drawing or the entry, including the path and prints it on the drawing.

- File title: This macro only gives the actual file name of the

drawing or of the entry without the path details.

- Date: With this macro, RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN inserts the

current date of the print.

- Consecutive number: This macro is suitable if you have lots

of drawings or entries with the same stamp text and you want to differentiate between them by numbering them. If you want to have a consecutive number printed on the plot, you must enter the first number under “Enumeration“.

- Path: This macro only gives the path of the drawing or the

entry without the file name.

- SSL commands: Precise information about the SSL com-

mands is given in the appendix to this manual.

- Time: This macro inserts the time the drawing was stamped.

• Text color

As black is the only color available in this version of RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN you cannot alter any settings here.

• Start count at

If you have selected the field function “Consecutive number“ as a macro, you must enter the first number here

• Logo

Select a graphic using the “Browse“ button, which is to appear in the stamp as a logo. For example, your firm's logo. The file formats that can be used are: BMP, Calcomp, CALS, CGM, CIT, EPI, EPS, HPGL, HPGL/2, HPGL-RTL (b/w), PCX, PDF, RW-470 PS, RLC, TG4, T6X and TIFF G4. You can select from four possible positions for the logo relative to the text: above, below, right or left of the text. Select a position by clicking on it.

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Pen settings

You can change the pen settings on two levels. On the one hand in the “Defaults“ area of the “Extended defaults “ tab and on the other in the “Entry“ area on the “Additional“ tab. The settings in the “Defaults“ area are basic settings, for which the following must always be noted:

Note: Changes to the basic settings always only refer

to new entries that have been added. Existing entries already in the job retain their settings.

You can only change pen settings if the entry has either a HPGL/2 or Calcomp file format. There are three tabs each for both file formats, on which you can change the settings. These are the “Pens“, “Colors“ and “General“ tabs.

In the “Defaults“ settings you must use the separate “Calcomp settings...“ and “HPGL settings...“ buttons, because a job can contain several drawings with different formats.

If you alter the settings for an entry, RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN immediately identifies the format and automatically opens the respective HPGL or Calcomp tabs via the “Pen settings...“ button.

View the changes

RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN provides you with an additional function, which allows you to look at the changes to the pen sizes and some of the pen colors before printing in the preview file, if changes have been made to a certain entry. To do this, proceed as follows:

1. Activate the view using the “View - Preview file“ menu item.

2. Mark an entry in the entry list.

3. In the job editor change to the “Additional“ tab and open

the “pen settings...“.

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4. Make your changes.

5. Now change to the “General“ tab and activate the pen

source as “user“.

6. Quit the pen settings.

7. Double click on the entry that has just been changed.

The changes are visible in the file view. You may have to enlarge the view if e.g. the pen widths have only slightly changed.

Note: It is possible that if you change colors you will

not see any large changes in the preview file, if you only change from 50% gray to 60% gray for gray shades say. Clear changes are e.g. visible if you set the color of all pens to “White“, but then you don’t have to print the drawing either!

HPGL/2 - Pens

The pen attributes are set in the “Pen“ tab:

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• Pen size

Enter the pen size directly in the first column under “Size” using the keyboard. The maximum values that you can enter depend on the size unit, which you set in the configuration program. The current valid size unit is given in the status bar at the lower edge of the screen. If you want to “Switch off“ a pen, you can enter the pen widths as “0“or set the pen color as “White”.

• Pen colors

Select the pen color in the second column under “Color“. Click on the arrow to the right of the color setting and drag the mouse to the desired color. If you want to “Switch off“ a pen, you can enter the pen color as “White“ or the pen widths as “0“. The individual pen color should only be considered as being a “symbolic equivalent“ for a gray scale value. Each color is equivalent to a %-value of gray: thus e.g. “yellow“ could be represented by 10 %-Gray, “red“ with 50 % gray and “blue” with 80 %- gray etc. You can set which gray scale a color represents on the “Color“ tab. If the plotter is definitely to use the pen attributes from the entry’s corresponding SSL file, you must activate the “File“ field on the “General” tab as the pen and/or color source.

• Grey (%)

The gray scale can only be adjusted if you have chosen “Gray“ as the color. The changes are also made directly using the keyboard.

• Fill

With “Fill“ the program offers you a comfortable way of simultaneously setting the attributes for all 256 pens. First set the pen widths, the pen color and the gray scale and then click once on “Fill“:

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HPGL/2 - Colors

To assign the required gray scale to each of the individual colors, open the “Colors“ tab:

In this window you can change the gray scale, which has been assigned to each color. If you do not want to change each color, you can set all pens to “Gray” on the “Pens“ tab and there you can set the individual gray values for each pen.

You can change the percentage value directly using the keyboard. Click on “OK“ to quit the window and your settings are saved. If you do not want to save your changes, quit the window with “Cancel“ or “ESC“.

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HPGL/2 - Misc

• Pen Source:

If you activate the “File“ field you instruct the plotter to use the pen width details when plotting, which are entered in the entry’s SSL file and that it should not use the settings in the “Pens“ tab. If no pen widths have been defined, the program uses your settings. If you activate “User“, your settings are always used.

• Color Source:

If you activate the “File“ field, you instruct the plotter to use the pen color information when plotting, which are entered in the entry’s SSL file and that the settings on the “Pens“ tab are not to be used. If no pen colors are defined, the program uses your settings. If you activate “User“, your settings are always used.

• Pen Scale:

Activate the check box, if the pen widths are to be scaled with the drawing. To avoid possible loss of information during the printout, you must ensure that you have entered at least one minimum pen width in “Pen settings“ if the drawing is to be reduced

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in size and at least one maximum pen width if the drawing is to be enlarged

• Clipping:

The clipping command removes the white edges on the border of the drawing. Most plotter languages differ from each other in many ways to a greater or lesser extent – including with respect to the section, which, put simply, refers to the paper size. This fact means that undesirable printing results are obtained, if a drawing is only printed in sections or in the most unfavorable case a white sheet of paper comes out of the plotter. The “Clipping” function is considered in the context of the widely used reference plotter “HP DesignJet 650 C / C 2859b“: If you activate the check box, the drawing is printed in exactly the same way as it was printed on the “HP DesignJet“ plotter. However, undesirable printing results can result, if the plotter language of your plotter differs greatly from that of the “HP DesignJet“. If you deactivate the function, RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN looks for the drawing dimensions itself and thus guarantees that the whole drawing is plotted.

• Ignore pen width

You can only activate this option if you have not activated the “clipping“ option. Activate the option, e.g. in case of a drawing that is exactly ISO A4 size to guarantee that it is printed on an A4 sheet and not on a printout with the next format because the pen widths are too large and the A4 format is slightly exceeded, causing unnecessary wastage. In all cases where a drawing has exactly the same size as a standard formats, you can ensure that this drawing is printed off on this format and thus avoid unnecessary waste paper.

• Pen Limits (mm)

− Min

Using the keyboard, enter the minimum pen widths. The entry here affects all HPGL pens. As there are plotters in which even at the finest resolution the individual pixels are not reliably reproduced, a minimum pen size is indispensable in these cases.

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Should one of your settings not cover the plotter circumstances and no longer guarantee the printout of a drawing object, RW470 PLOTCLIENT WIN automatically adjusts the pen widths.

− Max

Using the keyboard, enter the maximum pen widths. The entry affects all HPGL pens. Analog to the problem with the minimum pen widths, you can set the maximum thickness that the pen draws, e.g. to prevent the drawn objects from overlapping when printed. Setting the maximum pen widths on the other hand is less seldom necessary. Should one of your settings not cover the plotter circumstances and no longer guarantee the printout of a drawing object, RW470 PLOTCLIENT WIN automatically adjusts the pen widths here too.

• Steps/cm

Some time ago, most plotters had stepper motors, which ran at a varying number of steps per centimeter. In the meantime, the standard is 400 steps per centimeter. The RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN therefore enters 400 as a default value, which does not normally have to be altered. Nevertheless, it is sometimes advisable to ask the customer what step number per centimeter they are used to working with to guarantee plot consistency. Furthermore, it can be necessary to make a change to reduce the DPI, to release more system memory for large drawings:

Attention: If you enter a larger value, you will obtain a

s m a l l e r drawing: The entry 1 equates to 0.25 %. Example: if you enter 401, the drawing is reduced to

99.75 %.

• HPGL Font path

Here you inform the program, in which folder the fonts are to be used when printing HPGL files.

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• Dither mode / RTL

Here you can select gray value patterns for bitmap graphics. You can choose between the gray value patterns “Symmetric pattern“ or “diffusion pattern“. Test them and see which pattern best suits your graphic. To do this, you have to reload the drawing in the preview file after each change.

• Pattern Style

There are four fill patterns that you can use to influence a vector graphic. “Round“ means that a certain colored area is filled with a certain number of filled circles, which are given a certain arrangement on the area, to achieve the intended color saturation. In “Random“ on the other hand a percentage of color saturation is determined for the same colored area, which is then converted into the necessary number of pixel, which are randomly arranged over the area to achieve the intended color saturation. Which is why that when circle patterns are overlapped, the covered areas cannot be as clearly identified as if two random patterns are overlapped. The recommended default setting is therefore “Random“, because you can achieve the best results. As the “Round“ setting has been installed as a standard to date, this option has been retained of you do not see the need to print the same drawings differently in future. In addition, you can also select the gray value patterns “Symmetric pattern“ and “Diffusion pattern“. As the name suggests, the “Symmetric pattern“ produces a symmetrical gray value pattern. If you select the “Diffusion pattern” as the gray value pattern, a pattern is loaded. Try and see which pattern produces the best printing results.

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Calcomp - Pens

The pen attributes are set on the “pen“ tab:

• Pen size

The pen sizes are entered directly using the keyboard in the first column under “Size“. The maximum values that can be entered depend on the size unit, which you set in the configuration program. The current valid size unit is shown in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. If you want to “Remove” a pen, you can set the pen widths as “0“ or as the pen color “White“. The standard values for the pen widths of the 16 Calcomp pens are given in the technical manual (Chapter “Calcomp commands and pens“).

• Pen color

Select the pen color from the second column under “Color“. Open the pull down menu and select the required color. If you want to “remove“ a pen, you can set the pen color as “White“ or the pen widths as “0“. You can set the gray shade that a color represents on the “Colors“ tab.

• Grey (%)

The gray scale value can only be adjusted if you have selected “Gray“ as the color. Here too the changes are made directly using the keyboard.

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• Fill

The “Fill“ option allows you to set the pen attributes for all 16 pens simultaneously. To do this, first set the pen widths, the pen color and the gray scale value and then click once on “Fill“:

Calcomp - Colors

To assign the required gray scale value to each individual color, open the “Color“ tab:

The change to the percentage figure is made directly using the keyboard. Quit the window with “OK“ and your changes will be saved. If you do not wish to save your changes, quit the window with “Cancel“ or “ESC“.

In this window you can change the gray scale value, which has been assigned to each color. If you do not want to change each color, you can set all pens to “Gray” on the “Pens“ tab and then set the individual gray values for each pen.

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Calcomp - Misc

• Pen Source

If you activate the “File“ field, you instruct the plotter to use the pen width information in the entry’s SSL file when plotting and not the settings from the “Pens“ tab. If no pen widths are defined, the program uses your settings. If you activate “User“ your settings are always used

• Pen Scale

Activate this field if the pen widths are to be scaled at the same time as a drawing is scaled. To avoid the possible loss of information when printed ensure that have set at least one minimum pen width if the drawing is to be reduced in size and at least one maximum pen width, if the drawing is to be enlarged by scaling.

• Ignore pen widths

Activate this option, e.g. if a drawing is exactly the same size as a ISO A4 sheet, to guarantee that it is plotted on an A4 sheet and not on the next larger format because the pen widths were too large causing the drawing to slightly exceed the A4 format, thereby causing unnecessary waste paper. In this way, you can ensure that a drawing that has exactly the same size as a standard format is printed on this size paper thereby avoiding an unnecessary waste of paper.

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• Pen Limits (mm)

− Min

Enter the minimum pen widths using the keyboard. The information entered here affects all Calcomp pens. As there are plotters in which even at the finest resolution the individual pixels are not reliably reproduced, a minimum pen size is indispensable in these cases. Should one of your settings not cover the plotter circumstances and no longer guarantee the printout of a drawing object, RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN automatically adjusts the pen widths.

− Max

Using the keyboard, enter the maximum pen widths. The entry affects all Calcomp pens. Analog to the problem with the minimum pen widths, you can set the maximum thickness that the pen draws, e.g. to prevent the drawn objects from overlapping when printed. Setting the maximum pen widths on the other hand is less seldom necessary. Should one of your settings not cover the plotter circumstances and no longer guarantee the printout of a drawing object, RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN automatically adjusts the pen widths.

• Step size/cm

Some time ago, most plotters had stepper motors, which ran at a varying number of steps per centimeter. In the meantime, the standard is 800 steps per centimeter. The RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN therefore enters 800 as a default value, which does not normally have to be altered. Nevertheless, it is sometimes advisable to ask the customer what step number per centimeter they are used to working with to guarantee plot consistency. Furthermore, it can be necessary to make a change to reduce the DPI, to release more system memory for large drawings:

Attention: If you enter a larger value, you will obtain a

s m a l l e r drawing: The entry 1 equates to 0.125 %. Example: if you enter 801, the drawing is reduced to

99.875 %.

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• Pattern Style

Three types of patterns are defined for Calcomp drawings, in which the “Pattern“ command is used. “Round“ means that a certain colored area is filled with a certain number of filled circles, which are given a certain arrangement on the area, to achieve an intended color saturation. In “Random“ on the other hand a percentage of color saturation is determined for the same colored area, which is then converted into the necessary number of pixels, which are randomly arranged over the area to achieve the intended color saturation. Which is why that when circle patterns are overlapped, the covered areas cannot be as clearly identified as if two random patterns are overlapped. The recommended default setting is therefore “Random“, because you can achieve the best results. As the “Round“ setting has been installed as a standard to date, this option has been retained of you do not see the need to print the same drawings differently in future. Finally, you can also select the gray value pattern “Symmetric pattern“. As the name suggests, the “Symmetric pattern“ produces a symmetrical gray value pattern. Try and see which pattern produces the best printing results for your graphic. To do this you must reload the drawing in preview file after each change.

• Synchronization

Synchronization is used to check the completeness of the Calcomp files, which have been sent from the application program. Four pieces of information are used for the synchronization settings:

• Sync character

• End character

• Double Sync

• Test sum

You can either let RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN determine the values or you can enter the necessary settings yourself. If the program is to determine the values, activate “Auto detection“.

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to make a change or to find out more on the topic, compare the settings with those in your CAD system or read the following section in the “Calcomp Inc.“ manual:

“CALCOMP - ONLINE REFERENCE MANUAL“ in the section “Data Message Format“.

The standard settings are: Sync character: 2 End character: 0

→ [setting from 0 to 127 possible] → [setting from 0 to 31 possible]

Double Sync: OFF Test sum: OFF

The following two examples serve as possible comparisons:

• AutoCAD12:

Sync character: 22 End character: 13 Double Sync: ON Test sum: ON

• FordCAD:

Sync character: 2 End character: 3 Double Sync: OFF Test sum: ON

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Collate jobs

Your main task with RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN is to collate [Plot] jobs for RW-470 PLOTBASE. You are free to choose whether you compile a job with one entry or with several entries. You can prepare fully new jobs or open existing jobs and add further entries.

To collate a new job you must proceed as follows:

1. Open a new job, either via the menu item “File - New“ or by

clicking once on the relevant button:

2. Assign a name to your new job.

Attention: The extension “*.ssl“ must be retained, so

as to guarantee that RW-470 PLOTBASE can recognize the job.

3. Now you add new entries to the job. Your have three possible

options for adding an entry. Refer to the following section “Add entries“.

4. As soon as you have included all the entries in the job, you

begin to enter the settings, which RW-470 PLOTBASE needs to be able to print off the job as required. Please refer to the chapter “Job editor“ from Page 30.

5. Finally, send the job to RW-470 PLOTBASE by either selecting

the menu item “File – Print SSL“ or by clicking on the relevant button:

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Add entries

Newly inserted entries can have the following file formats, which are identified by RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN from the file extension:

• Calcomp [*.906, *.907]

• CALS MIL-STD 1840B,28002A [*.cal]

• DWG [*.dwg]

• HPGL/2, HP-RTL [*.plt, *rtl]

• Intergraph [*.cit, *.tg4]

• PCX [*.pcx]

• RLC [*.rlc]

• TIFF G4 [*.tif]

• Windows Metafile [*wmf]

• Windows OS/2 Bitmap [*.bmp]

The file formats CGM [*.cgm] as well as PDF and postscript, i.e. RW-470 Postscript Level 3 Compatible Option [*.pdf, *.ps] are available as an optional feature. The file format DWG can only be used if AutoCAD (2000 or 2000i) is installed on RW-470 PLOTBASE server PC.

Add with button

To add an entry with the help of the button, proceed as follows:

1. Mark an entry in the entry list, before or after the place where

the new entry is to be inserted. If you do mark an entry, new entries are always inserted at the end of the list.

2. Click on the relevant button on the Entry toolbar. If the new

entry is to be inserted after the marked entry, click on:

If the new entry is to be inserted in front of the marked entry, click on:

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3. Select the required file, which has one of the above file for-

mats and confirm with “OK“. You can now mark several files to insert lots of drawings in one go, as in the File Manager.

Add using the right-hand mouse button

To add an entry using the right-hand mouse button, proceed as follows:

1. Mark an entry in the entry list before or after which the new

entry is to be inserted. If you do mark an entry, new entries are always inserted at the end of the list.

2. Keep the mouse cursor on the entry list and click the right-

hand mouse button:

3. If the new entry is to be inserted in front of the marked entry,

select “Insert“. If the new entry is to be inserted after it, choose “Add“. The program opens a file selection window.

4. Select the required file, which has one of the above file for-

mats and confirm with “OK“. As in Windows Explorer, you can now mark several files to insert lots of drawings in one go.

Add with menu item

To add an entry with menu item, proceed as follows:

1. Mark an entry in the entry list, before or after the place

where the new entry is to be inserted. If you do mark an entry, new entries are always inserted at the end of the list.

2. Select the relevant menu item from the “Edit” menu. If the new entry is to be inserted after the marked entry, select:

Edit- add entry...

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If the new entry is to be inserted in front of the marked entry, select:

Edit – insert entry...

The program opens a file selection window.

3. Select the required file, which has one of the above file formats and confirm with “OK“. You can now mark several files to insert lots of drawings in one go, as in the File Manager.

Add with Drag & Drop

To add an entry using Drag & Drop, proceed as follows:

1. Open Windows NT Explorer or File Manager and arrange the two windows of RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN and Explorer or File Manager so that they are positioned next to each other or on top of each other.

2. Mark an entry in the entry list of RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN, after which the new entry is to be inserted. If you want to insert a new entry in front of an existing entry, mark the entry in the entry list before the existing entry! If you do not mark any entry, new entries will always be inserted at the end of the list.

3. Change to the folder in Explorer or File Manager from which you want to fetch the new entry.

4. Click on the required file with the left-hand mouse button and holding the mouse button pressed down, drag the file to the file list of RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN. You can also add several drawings in one go as in Explorer or File Manager by marking several files.

Add multiple entries

Sometimes, a customer job order is such that an entry has to be printed several times with different settings: e.g. if an entry is to be plotted once with A0 format on paper and the second time with A1 format on a transparency. To do this, you can also add an entry several times.

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However, the program only physically inserts an entry once and if you add an entry several times, it simply sets a reference to the first entry.

Example: You insert the file “ABC.tif“. This file is to be printed in format A0. For the second print out in format A1, insert the file “ABC.tif“ a second time. At this moment, RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN recognizes that there is already a file with the same name in the entry list and only sets a reference to the already inserted file.

This approach of the program has two particular advantages for you. On the one hand it saves space on your harddrive, is the files are very large and on the other hand, you cannot inadvertently insert a file with the same name but different content.

Delete entries

If you want to delete an entry from the list, use one of the two following possible methods

1. Mark the entry in the entry list that you want to delete and select the menu item “Edit – Delete entry “.

2. Mark the entry to be deleted and click on the following button once:

To delete several entries you can also use the multiple selection of entries. When selecting several entries in the entry list to delete, proceed exactly as before, as you are used to from Windows NT Explorer or File Manager: Either click with the mouse on an entry and drag the mouse cursor down to the last entry to be deleted and while keeping the mouse key depressed, where the entries to be deleted are listed one after the other or use the SHIFT- key. To mark several entries that are not listed one after the other, use the Ctrl Key, as in Explorer.

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After you have inserted or appended the entries, adjust the settings for the jobs and individual entries in the job editor. To do this, read the following chapter.

Entry information

Before you can begin with a possible change to the settings, you can view a summary of all the currently loaded settings. Click on the white “i” for information display in the “View” toolbar:

For most file formats you can only see the “Misc“ tab. It contains e.g. the information about the file format, the drawing size and used pens. If you open a HPGL- or Calcomp drawing, you can read on this tab information about general settings (“Pen Source”, “Pen Scale”, “Pattern Style” etc.) which you can change in the job editor.

The tabs “Drawing” and “Pens” appear only, if you open an HPGL- or a Calcomp drawing file. On the tab “drawing” you get the information about the file format, the drawing size, the used colors etc.. The tab “Pens” informs you of the pen settings. There can also be two symbols which inform you of the setting status: The red exclamation marks point out that the pen is used with several pen sizes and only the last set pen size can be shown. The green check shows, that a pen is used for the current drawing.

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Introduction

The Windows printer driver RW-470 WINPRINT allows print jobs to be recorded from Windows applications, to then pass them directly to RW-470 PLOTBASE as a plot job.

So you use your printer driver RW-470 WINPRINT as any other printer via your Windows application menus „file – print“.

The RW-470 WINPRINT will be installed on the server PC where the server software RW-470 PLOTBASE is running. On your client PC you only have to share via network this printer driver on the server PC.

No matter, if you send your print job from a 16 bit (Windows 95/98/ME) or 32 bit (Windows NT 4.0/Windows 2000) operating system, the RW-470 WINPRINT is able to manage your print job and will send it directly to RW-470 PLOTBASE.

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Installation

Before you can use the RW-470 WINPRINT, you have to install it on your client PC as a „network printer“, as you have already done with every in-house network printer on your PC before.

To install RW-470 WINPRINT as network printer, please proceed as follows:

1. Open „Printers“ window via „Start – Settings – Printers“.

2. Open „Add Printer“ and click on „Next“.

3. Choose „Network Printer“ and click on „Next“.

4. Type printer name including complete network path of the

server PC, where RW-470 PLOTBASE is running or click „Next“ to browse in your in-house network.

5. Search for the server PC and choose RW-470 WINPRINT.

6. Choose RW-470 WINPRINT as standard printer or not and

finish installation.

Now you can choose the RW-470 WINPRINT from your Windows application menu „file – print“.

In the next chapter you will read about how to configure the printer parameters.

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Configuration

This section describes the set up of the print parameters. After entering these settings, your RW-470 WINPRINT printer driver is ready for printing. The following chapters only differ in the user interfaces that depend on the different operating systems. Nevertheless it will be the same RW-470 WINPRINT for all operating systems. There are only internal differences between the described RW-470 WINPRINT (16 bit operating systems) and RW-470 WINPRINT (32 bit operating systems).

Print Parameters of RW-470 WINPRINT (16 bit)

This section describes the settings of the print parameters on client PCs with following 16 bit operating systems:

• Windows 95

• Windows 98

• Windows 98 SE

• Windows ME

As soon as you have installed RW-470 WINPRINT as a „network printer“ on your client PC, you can now send a print out from a Windows program to RW-470 PLOTBASE. First you must determine several settings for the print out. In the “Print“ menu of your Windows application first select the RW-470 WINPRINT from the list field and then click on the “Properties“ button. You can set the print parameters for RW-470 WINPRINT ( 16 bit ) on three tabs:

• Details

• General Settings

• Job Processing

“Details“ tab

• Print to following port

Give the correct path of the connection to which the print job is to be sent.

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• Print using the following driver

If the printer driver RW-470 WINPRINT does not automatically appear in this list field, you have to set it yourself.

“General Settings“ tab

• Media Source

You can select one of the plotter rolls offered. In addition, you can also choose the “automatic“ or “bypass“ options. The “automatic“ option means that the plotter itself selects a suitable roll, which corresponds to the given format. The “bypass“ option means that you feed the print medium in the input tray yourself.

• Output

You have two possible ways to have your plots issued by the plotter: Front (output at the front), rear (output at the rear).

• Paper Size

In this section of the tab you select the drawing format, to be used for printing the drawing. You will find the drawing formats: ISO A/B/C, ANSI A-E and ARC A-E.

• Media Type

In the lower part of the window select what type of medium is to be used for the print: Paper, transparency, film or recycled paper. The selection depends on what you have loaded your plotter with.

• Orientation

You can choose between portrait and landscape.

• Quality

In this version there are hardly effects on the print out. We recommend to use „Production“ as standard setting.

• Dithering

This is where you enter the settings that influence the print out with respect to the gray tones. In a black & white print out the gray tones are represented by different sized dots and different sized spacings too, so that the viewer from a distance has the impression of gray tones. This technique is called “Dithering“. You have several options for the setting. Error diffusion e.g. is suitable for photos or photo-lie prints. However, overall we rec-

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ommend that you find the optimum settings for your work using test plots as it is not possible to give a definitive recommendation.

• Intensity

Set the brightness of the print here.

“Job Processing“ tab

• Sample Print

Activate this option, if you wish to test the quality of a print. Only the first set of copies is printed. The print out of further sets of copies is stopped so that you can check the quality of the print. So you will go to the server and plot it. Then you decide whether to continue or to cancel the plot according to message display.

• Delete after Plot

If you activate this option, the job is deleted after printing.

Print Parameters of RW-470 WINPRINT (32 bit)

This section describes the settings of the print parameters on client PCs with following 32 bit operating systems:

• Windows NT 4.0

• Windows 2000

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All the settings categories are listed in the upper section. If you wish to specify a more precise setting, choose one of the categories. The actual setting options then appear in the lower section. You have the following setting options:

• Paper size

In this section of the tab you select the drawing format, to be used for printing the drawing. You will find the drawing formats: ISO A/B/C, ANSI A-E and ARC A-E.

• Orientation

You can choose between portrait and landscape.

• Copy Count

You can print up to 99 copies of a drawing file.

• Media Source

You can select one of the three plotter rolls offered. In addition, you can also choose the “automatic“ or “manual“ options. The “automatic“ option means that the plotter itself selects a suitable

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roll, which corresponds to the given format. The “manual“ option means that you feed the print medium in the input tray yourself.

• Output

You have two possible ways to have your plots issued by the plotter: Front (output at the front), rear (output at the rear).

• Media Type

In the lower part of the window select what type of medium is to be used for the print: Paper, transparency, film or recycled paper. The selection depends on what you have loaded your plotter with.

• Sample Print

Activate this option, if you wish to test the quality of a print. Only the first set of copies is printed. The print out of further sets of copies is stopped so that you can check the quality of the print. You are then asked, whether you wish to continue or abort the plot.

• Delete after Plot

If you activate this option, the job is deleted after printing.

• Color adjustment for raster images

More detailed information on using this module is available in the context sensitive Help. Click on the question mark in the head of the row. The mouse cursor changes into a question mark. Now click on the function to which you have a question with the left-hand mouse key. A small popup window opens with information.

After you have altered all the settings, close all the windows with “OK“ and start the printing process.

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Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual