XEROX 5000AP User Manual

User Guide

FIERY X2

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January 1, 1996—Council Directive 70/80/CCO amended by Council Directive 93/68/EEO. Approximation of the laws of the member states related to low voltage equipment.

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W ARNING: In or der to allow this equipment to operate in proximity to industrial, scientiﬁc, and M edical (ISM) equipment, the external radiation fr om ISM equipment may have to be limited or special migration measures taken.

FCC Information

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

Class B Declaration of Conformity

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

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

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

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

Industry Canada Class B Notice

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

Avis de Conformation Classe B de l’Industrie Canada

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

Certiﬁcate by Manufacturer/Importer

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Bescheinigung des Herstellers/Importeurs

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RFI Compliance Notice

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

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

Compliance with applicable regulations depends on the use of shielded cables. It is the user who is responsible for procuring the appropriate cables. Einhaltung mit betreffenden Bestimmungen kommt darauf an, dass geschirmte Ausfuhrungen gebraucht werden. Fuer die beschaffung richtiger Ausfuhrungen ist

der Betreiber verantwortlich.

Software License Agreement

Before using the Software, please carefully read the following terms and conditions. BY USING THIS SOFTWARE, YOU SIGNIFY THAT YOU HAVE ACCEPTED THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. If you cannot or do not accept these terms, you may return the entire package within ten (10) days to the Distributor or Dealer from which you obtained them for a full refund.

Electronics for Imaging, Inc. grants to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the software and accompanying documentation (“Softwar e”) included with the Fiery X2 you have purchased, including without limitation the PostScript

software provided by Adobe Systems Incorporated.

You may: a. use the Software solely for your own customary business purposes and solely with Fiery X2; b. use the digitally-encoded machine-readable outline and bitmap programs (“Font P rograms”) pro vided with Fiery X2 in a special encrypted format (“Coded Font

Programs”) to reproduce and display designs, styles, w eights, and versions of letters, numerals, characters and symbols (“Typefaces”) solely for your o wn customary business purposes on the display window of the Fiery X2 or monitor used with Fiery X2;

c. use the trademarks used by Electronics for Imaging to identify the Coded Font Programs and Typefaces reproduced therefrom (“Trademarks”); and d. assign your rights under this Agreement to a transferee of all of your right, title and interest in and to Fiery X2 provided the transferee agrees to be bound by all

of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. You may not:

a. make use of the Software, directly or indirectly, to print bitmap images with print resolutions of 600 dots per inch or greater, or to generate fonts or typefaces for use other than with Fiery X2;

b. make or have made, or permit to be made, any copies of the Software, Coded Font Programs, accompanying documentation or portions thereof, except as necessary for use with the Fiery X2 unit purchased by you; provided, however, that under no circumstances may you make or have made, or permit to be made, any copies of that certain portion of the Software which has been included on the Fiery X2 hard disk drive. You may not copy the documentation;

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

Proprietary Rights

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

Conﬁdentiality

You agr ee to hold the Software and Coded F ont P rograms in conﬁdence, disclosing the Softwar e and Coded Font P rograms only to authoriz ed users having a need to use the Software and Coded Font Programs as permitted by this Agreement and to take all reasonable precautions to prevent disclosure to other parties.

Remedies

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

Limited Warranty And Disclaimer

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General

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Contents

Preface

About the documentation

About this manual xiv Terminology and conventions xiv

How the Fiery X2 works

About PostScript printer drivers and PPDs xv

Supported paper sizes Fiery X2 job environments

Permissions xvii

Before you begin

Chapter 1: Using the Control Panel

Introduction to the Control Panel

Activity light 1-2 Buttons 1-2 Display window 1-3 Functions menu 1-5

Starting and shutting down the Fiery X2

Starting the Fiery X2 1-6 Restarting the Fiery X2 1-7 Shutting down the Fiery X2 1-8

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xvi xvi

xviii

1-1

1-6

Safety warnings Cleaning the Fiery X2

1-8 1-8

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Chapter 2: Printing from Windows Computers

Printing from applications

Setting options and printing from Windows 95 2-1 Setting options and printing from Windows 3.1x 2-6 Setting options and printing from Windows NT 4.0 2-9 Printing to the parallel port 2-11 Saving ﬁles to print at a remote location 2-12

Using Fiery Downloader to print

Chapter 3: Printing from Mac OS Computers

Printing from applications

Selecting the Fiery X2 in the Chooser 3-1 Setting print options and printing from Mac OS computers 3-2

Using Fiery Downloader to print

Chapter 4: Printing from UNIX Workstations

Printing to the Fiery X2

Chapter 5: Scanning

2-1

2-12

3-1

3-4

4-1

Scanning from the copier

Fiery Scan color conversion settings 5-1 Using Fiery Scan 5-2

Chapter 6: Downloading Files and Fonts

Using Fiery Downloader

Printing with the Fiery Downloader 6-3 Downloading and managing printer fonts 6-7

5-1

6-1

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Chapter 7: Tracking and Managing Print Jobs

Tools for job tracking and management

Fiery WebTools 7-1 Fiery Spooler 7-1

About Fiery WebTools

Access privileges 7-2 Checking Fiery X2 status with the Status WebTool 7-4 Accessing information with the WebLink WebTool 7-5

Fiery WebSpooler and Fiery Spooler for Windows

Job management features 7-8 Job List window 7-9 Job icons 7-15 Spool area 7-15 RIP area 7-16 Print area 7-17 Job commands 7-18 Overriding print settings 7-20 Thumbnails and full-screen previews in DocBuilder 7-22 Using the Job Log 7-33 Differences between Fiery WebSpooler and Fiery Spooler

for Windows 7-35

Fiery Spooler for Mac OS computers

The job list 7-38 Duplicating, copying, moving, and deleting jobs 7-40 Changing print settings for a job 7-43 Using the Job Log 7-44

7-1

7-2

7-6

7-36

Chapter 8: Color Calibration

Introduction to color calibration Understanding calibration

How calibration works 8-3 Scheduling calibration 8-4 Checking calibration status 8-6

8-1 8-2

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Calibrating with AutoCal from the Control Panel

Removing calibration 8-8

Calibrating with Fiery Print Calibrator

Using a densitometer 8-8 The Calibration Mode window 8-12 Measurements 8-13 Measuring values with a DTP32 densitometer 8-14 Testing and applying calibration 8-18 Calibration checklist 8-20 Calibrating the densitometer 8-21

Chapter 9: Advanced Fiery Print Calibrator Topics

Using advanced calibration features

Choosing a measurements ﬁle 9-1 Working with targets 9-2 Customizing calibration targets 9-5 Backing up Fiery X2 targets 9-9 Deleting custom targets 9-10 Removing calibration 9-10

Using advanced simulation features

Working with simulations 9-11 Using the Simulation Mode window 9-12 Checking the current simulation 9-13 Editing simulations 9-14 Managing simulations 9-17 Testing and setting a new default simulation 9-17

8-6

8-8

9-1

9-10

Appendix A: Print Options

Where to set print options

Print options and override hierarchy A-2 More information about print options A-6

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Appendix B: Font List

PostScript printer fonts

Adobe Type 1 fonts B-1 TrueType fonts B-5

Appendix C: Troubleshooting

Error messages Maintaining optimal system performance Troubleshooting

General printing problems C-5 Problems with Fiery Downloader C-8 Problems with Fiery WebTools C-9 Setup error messages C-9 AutoCal error messages C-10

Index

B-1

C-1 C-4 C-5

xiii About the documentation

Preface

The Fiery X2 Color Server enables you to use your color copier as a networked printer . You can use the Fiery X2 to print ﬁnal documents or to proof jobs you will later print on an offset press. You send a print job to the Fiery X2 as you would to any other printer—you select it from the Printers dialog box on Windows computers, or in the Chooser on Mac OS computers—and then print from within any application.

Users with the necessary access privileges can monitor and manage jobs sent to the Fiery X2 and perform color calibration of the color server. Additionally, with Fiery X2 user software, you can also download ﬁles and fonts to the Fiery X2 and scan images from the copier into Adobe Photoshop.

About the documentation

This manual is part of a set of Fiery X2 documentation that includes the following manuals for users and system administrators:

• The

Administrator Guide

Fiery X2 for the supported platforms and network environments. It also includes guidelines for setting up UNIX, Windows NT, and Novell NetWare servers to provide Adobe PostScript printing services to clients.

•

Getting Started

Fiery X2. Speciﬁcally, it describes installation of PostScript™ printer drivers, printer description ﬁles, and other user software provided on the User Software CD. It also explains how to connect each user to the network.

describes how to install software to enable users to print to the

explains basic conﬁguration and administration of the

• The

User Guide

jobs via remote workstations on the network or via a direct parallel port connection. It also explains how to use the Fiery WebTools and Fiery X2 client utilities to manage jobs and maintain color quality, and provides troubleshooting information for problems that may arise.

•

Release Notes

the problems you may encounter.

describes the printing features of the Fiery X2 for users who send

provide last-minute product information and workarounds for some of

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About this manual

This manual covers the following topics:

• Using the Fiery X2 Control Panel

• Printing from Windows computers

• Printing from Mac OS computers

• Printing from UNIX workstations

• Scanning images from the copier using Photoshop and the Fiery Scan plug-in

• Downloading ﬁles and fonts using Fiery Downloader

• Tracking and managing jobs and accessing information using Fiery WebTools™ and Fiery client utilities

• Calibrating the Fiery X2

• Creating custom simulation and calibration targets

™

• Specifying and overriding job settings, a list of the printer fonts installed on the Fiery X2, and troubleshooting information

Terminology and conventions

The Fiery X2 supports Empress (5750), Regal (5790), and Regal II (5799) digital copier printers. The term “copier” is used to refer to all supported copiers.

Speciﬁc terms are explained as they are introduced. However, the following general terms are used throughout:

PostScript (PS)

• Fiery X2 uses this language for imaging the page and for communication with applications and with the print engine.

Job

•

—A ﬁle consisting of PostScript commands and comments that describe the graphics, sampled images, and text that should appear on each page of a document, and the printer options that should be used in printing, such as media or color rendering style.

Spool

•

—Write to a disk. Usually used here to refer to a PostScript print job being

saved to the Fiery X2 hard disk in preparation for processing and printing.

—A computer language designed as a page description language. The

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RIP

•

—Acronym for raster image processing, which changes text and graphics commands into descriptions of each mark on a page. In common use as a noun, a “raster image processor ” (RIP) is the computer processor that performs this function.

•

—The process of rendering, or imaging, a page or a job on a printer.

These concepts can explain how the Fiery X2 Color Server and the copier work together as a powerful printing system. The Fiery X2 PostScript RIP changes text and graphics commands in PostScript into color speciﬁcations for each dot of toner deposited on a page by the copier.

How the Fiery X2 works

The Fiery X2 receives ﬁles from computers on the network, processes (RIPs) those ﬁles, and then sends them to the copier’s print engine for printing. Even with the Fiery X2 installed, you can still use the copier to make copies.

When printing from an application, your Windows or Mac OS computer communicates with the Fiery X2 by means of a PostScript printer driver and a PostScript printer description ﬁle (PPD).

About PostScript printer drivers and PPDs

A PostScript printer driver is an application that manages printing communication between your application software and the printer. It interprets the instructions generated by the application software, merges those instructions with printer-speciﬁc PPD options you specify (see below), and translates all that information into PostScript, a language the printer understands. In other wor ds, the printer driver writes a PostScript ﬁle based on your original ﬁle and the options you set from the Print dialog box.

A PPD ﬁle contains information about a particular device’s features and capabilities (for example, what paper sizes and media types are supported). The PostScript printer driver reads the information in the PPD ﬁle and presents that information to you in the form of options you can choose from the Print dialog box. The PPD for the Fiery X2 includes information about the features of both the copier and the Fiery X2 Color Server.

For information on the PPD options for your Fiery X2, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

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Supported paper sizes

The Fiery X2 supports printing at 400 dpi (dots per inch) on the following paper sizes:

• Postcard (4" x 6")

• 8" x 10", 8" x 10"-R

• Letter, Letter-R (8.5" x 11")

• Legal 13 (8.5" x 13")

• Legal (8.5" x 14")

• 9" x 11", 9" x 11"-R

• 9" x 12"

• Tabloid (11" x 17")

• 12" x 18"

• A6 (105 mm x 148 mm)

• B5, B5-R (182 mm x 257 mm)

• A4, A4-R (210 mm x 297 mm)

• Docupac (241 mm x 297 mm)

• B4 (257 mm x 364 mm)

• A3 (297 mm x 420 mm)

OTE

Postcar d, 8" x 10"-R, 9" x 11", 9" x 11"-R, 12" x 18", A6, and B5-R paper sizes are supported on the 5750 color copier only; the Docupac paper size is supported on 5790 and 5799 color copiers only.

Fiery X2 job environments

The Fiery X2 supports several levels of control of printing, job management, and setup, and offers you the ﬂexibility to choose the conﬁguration that corresponds to the requirements of your site. If desired, the administrator can implement various controls that limit user access to certain Fiery X2 functions, including Fiery X2 conﬁguration (Setup), calibration, job overrides, and font management.

xvii Fiery X2 job environments

The spectrum of control that an administrator can implement is described fully in the

Administrator Guide

Permissions

Support for various types of job environments is achieved by a combination of Fiery X2 Setup options. By default, anyone can access Setup, but the administrator can limit access to Setup by specifying an Administrator password for the F iery X2 (see the

Administrator Guide

Also by default, anyone can log in to Fiery WebSpooler or Fiery Spooler and control job ﬂow, but an administrator can restrict access to these functions by specifying an Operator password.

The three security levels from greatest to least control are:

Administrator

•

person who has access to Setup can control the printing and job management environment by choosing which print connections are enabled, and by electing to set passwords. The Administrator can also set a common web link for all users who log in to the Fiery X2 using their web browser.

—confers control of Setup and is the highest level of control. The

•

Operator

—includes control of print jobs that arrive at the server and the ability to

perform calibration.

Guest

•

—allows users to view the status of active jobs and the list of stored jobs. They cannot make changes to jobs. A password is not needed to log in as Guest and view jobs from the Fiery WebSpooler or Fiery Spooler windows.

This manual describes the features of the Fiery WebTools and Fiery client utilities and all privileges, whether those privileges are available to everyone or are exclusive to only certain people. It also includes descriptions of administrator functions, sometimes referring you to other manuals for more information.

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Before you begin

Before using the Fiery X2, follow these steps:

1. Conﬁrm that the system administrator has completed Setup as described in the

Administrator Guide

2. Find out what printer defaults the administrator speciﬁed in Setup.

These default settings can affect the results of your print jobs. Check with your administrator or operator for information on these default settings.

3. Conﬁrm that the user software is installed correctly on your workstation, as described in

Getting Started

4. Consult Appendix A for information on print options that affect color output.

5. Find out how your workstation is conﬁgured for printing on the network.

You may have access to both the Print queue and the Hold queue. If you send a job to the Print queue, the job spools to the Fiery X2 and proceeds to RIP and print according to your job settings—unless someone intervenes with Fiery WebSpooler or Fiery Spooler.

If you send a job to the Hold queue, the job spools to the Fiery X2 and is held until someone intervenes with Fiery WebSpooler or Fiery Spooler sends them to their next stage of processing.

You may also have access to the Direct connection, which sends jobs straight to the server without spooling and is used to download printer fonts to the Fiery X2 disk.

6. Find out whether the Fiery X2 is set up to use Fiery WebTools and what your access privileges are.

The administrator may or may not have enabled access to the server via the Internet (or an intranet). If access is enabled, a password may be required to perform job management with Fiery WebSpooler or Fiery Spooler.

1-1 Introduction to the Control Panel

Chapter 1: Using the Control P anel

Activity light

Display window

Menu button

You can use the Fiery X2 Control Panel to view status information, print special pages, and set up printing.

Introduction to the Control Panel

The Control Panel, shown belo w on the front of the F iery X2, comprises the following parts:

Line selection buttons

Up/down button

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Activity light

The activity light indicates current Fiery X2 activity. If the light is: Solid red An error has occurred causing the Fiery X2 to be disabled. Flashing red There is an error causing printing to be disabled, but the

Fiery X2 is capable of processing. Solid green The Fiery X2 is idle. Flashing green The Fiery X2 is processing or printing a job, or

communicating with a remote computer. No light The Fiery X2 is off or starting up.

Buttons

Line selection buttons

Up/down button

Menu button Press this button to view other screens. Under normal

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

Control Panel. Use these buttons to select the command

displayed on the corresponding line of the display window.

When a button is active, a special character (>) appears in the

display window next to the button.

Use this button to scroll to different screens in multi-screen

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

and to scroll alphanumeric characters.

operation, the Control Panel displays the Info, RIP, or Print

Status screen with information about the status of the

Fiery X2. If you press the Menu button, the Functions menu

is displayed and you can perform additional operations (see

page 1-5). If a job is processing or printing, press the Menu

button to cycle among the active screens.

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Display window

The display window provides information about the status of the Fiery X2, displays menu information, and enables you to view and edit information in the Setup menus.

The last line of the display window displays text that tells you what screen you are looking at and highlights one of the icons to indicate what the Fiery X2 is doing. Only the icons for the screens that are currently available appear. The menu button cycles among the active screens as follows:

Alert Status If there is a problem with processing a job or printing functions, an error message

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

Print Status When the Fiery X2 is printing or scanning a job, the Print Status screen appears.

This screen displays the following:

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

printing.

User name—The name of the user who sent the job currently processing. Pages/Total—The number of copies of the current job printed and the total

number of copies of the job requested.

RIP Status When the Fiery X2 is processing a job, the RIP Status screen appears. This screen

displays the following:

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

processing. The Fiery X2 cancels the job before printing begins.

Document name—The name of the document currently processing. User name—The name of the user who sent the job currently processing. Kilobytes—The size (in kilobytes) of the job processed so far.

NOTE: This number is always displayed in kilobytes, even if the amount goes over

1000KB; for example, 10MB is displayed as 10000KB.

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Info Status When the Fiery X2 is not processing or printing a job, it displays information

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

Server Name—The Fiery X2 name. Status—The current status of the Fiery X2. The Fiery X2 status can be: Idle,

Initializing, Busy, Processing, or Printing.

Megabytes—The space (in megabytes) available on the Fiery X2 hard disk, for

example, 756MB.

Version—The system software version running on the Fiery X2.

Functions You can press the Menu button to display the Functions menu. Use the up/down

button to scroll through the list. Press the line selection button to the right of a command to select that command. See page 1-5 for more information.

Network The network icon appears at the bottom left of any of the other screens when a

job is being sent to the Fiery X2, either over the network or through the parallel port. The network icon also appears, together with a ﬂashing green activity light, when a remote utility is running.

Print Pages

Suspend Printing

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Functions menu

Print special pages from the Fiery X2. You can print the following pages from the submenu that appears:

Test Page—A Test Page enables you to conﬁrm that the Fiery X2 is properly

connected to the copier, and provides color and grayscale samples to troubleshoot problems with the copier or the Fiery X2. The follo wing settings ar e among those listed on the Test Page: Server Name, Printer Model, color settings, calibration information, date and time the Test Page was printed.

Configuration—Prints the Conﬁguration page, which gives the current server and

device conﬁguration. This page lists general information about the hardware and software conﬁguration of the Fiery X2, the current options for all Setup settings, information about the current calibration, and the Ethernet and Token Ring addresses of the Fiery X2.

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

Log and on printing it in other forms, see Chapter 7, "Tracking and Managing Print Jobs."

Control Panel Map—Prints the Control Panel Map, which is an overview of the

screens you can access from the Control P anel. For information about using these screens to set up the Fiery X2, see the Administrator Guide.

Color Charts—Prints samples of the R GB, CMY, and PANT ONE colors available

from the Fiery X2.

Font List—Prints a list of all fonts currently on the Fiery X2 hard disk.

Suspend communication between the Fiery X2 and the copier. You must suspend printing if you want to interrupt the current Fiery X2 job so that you can use the copier to make copies. Jobs continue to process on the Fiery X2. After you make the copies, select Resume Printing to continue printing jobs from the Fiery X2 and networked users.

Resume Printing

Run Diagnostics

Reboot Server

NOTE: Do not select Suspend Printing while printing duplex or sort jobs.

Resume communication between the copier and the Fiery X2 after you have ﬁnished making copies.

This function is provided for service representatives only. Contact your authorized service/support technician for information about running diagnostics.

Shut down all Fiery X2 activity in the correct manner and then restart. You should use this option instead of the power switch on the back of the Fiery X2.

Power switch

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Starting and shutting down the Fiery X2

Generally, you can leave the Fiery X2 running all the time. This section describes how to shut down and restart the Fiery X2 when necessary.

Starting the Fiery X2

To start the Fiery X2, move the power switch on the back of the Fiery X2 to the On position. If the copier is also powered off, power it on before powering on the Fiery X2.

Diagnostic messages appear on the Fiery X2 Control Panel. If any diagnostics fail, more information and instructions appear. Contact your service representative if the Fiery X2 encounters problems while running the diagnostics.

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

For software update or setup, press any key.

If you want to change Setup option settings, press any button; if you do not press a button, the Fiery X2 continues starting up and displays the message ready to receive data.

NOTE: If an Administrator password has been set, you are required to enter it to access

Setup.

Idle when it is

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If you press a button, the following options appear. For information about the Setup menus and options, see the Administrator Guide.

Choose: To do this:

Exit Setup Server Setup Network Setup Printer Setup PS Setup Color Setup Job Log Setup Calibration

Change Password Clear Server

Exit the Setup menus; the Fiery X2 reboots. Enter the Server Setup menus. Enter the Network Setup menus. Enter the Printer Setup menus. Enter the PostScript Setup menu. Enter the Color Setup menu. Enter the Job Log Setup menu. Calibrate the Fiery X2 using AutoCal. For more information,

see “Calibrating with AutoCal from the Control Panel” on page 8-6 and the Administrator Guide.

Change the Administrator password. Clear all jobs in all server queues as well as the Job Log.

Check with your administrator or operator before choosing Clear Server.

Restarting the Fiery X2

You should use the procedure described below to restart the Fiery X2 rather than using the power switch on the back of the Fiery X2.

TO RESTART THE FIERY X2:

1. Make sure that the Fiery X2 is not receiving, processing, or printing a job.

The status message on the Control Panel should read Idle.

NOTE: If a job from the Print queue is processing, it will continue processing and print

after the Fiery X2 is restarted; if a job sent to the Direct connection is processing, it will not ﬁnish processing or printing.

2. Press the Menu button to display the Functions menu.

3. Use the up/down button to scroll to the last screen and choose Reboot Server.

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Shutting down the Fiery X2

You may need to shut down the Fiery X2 for service. When you do so, fonts that have been downloaded to the hard disk drive are not deleted. Print jobs in the Hold and Printed queues and jobs that have been processed but not printed are not deleted and are available for printing when you restart the Fiery X2.

TO SHUT DOWN THE FIERY X2:

1. Make sure that the Fiery X2 is not receiving, processing, or printing a job.

Make sure that the status message on the Control P anel is Idle. If a job has just ﬁnished processing or printing, wait at least ﬁve seconds after the Control Panel status message switches to Idle before proceeding to step 2.

NOTE: If a job from the Print queue is processing, it will continue processing and print

after the Fiery X2 is restarted; if a job to the Direct connection is processing, it will not ﬁnish processing or printing.

2. Power off the Fiery X2 by moving the power switch on the back to the Off position. N

OTE: After powering off the Fiery X2, make sure to also power off the copier. Leaving

the copier powered on while the Fiery X2 is powered off can lead to ex cessiv e drain on the Fiery X2 motherboard battery.

Safety warnings

The Fiery X2 display window is a liquid crystal display (LCD) that is made of glass and can break. Do not subject it to strong shocks.

If the display window breaks and the liquid crystal material leaks out, do not inhale, ingest, or touch it. If the material gets on your skin or clothing, wash it off with soap and water immediately.

Cleaning the Fiery X2

Clean the Fiery X2 with a soft cloth moistened with isopropyl alcohol or ethyl alcohol. Never use water or ketone as these may permanently alter the display.

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Chapter 2: Printing from Windows Computers

This chapter describes how to print to the Fiery X2 from Windows 95, Windows 3.1x, and Windows NT 4.0.

You can print from a networked Windows computer, or from a Windows computer connected to the parallel port on the Fiery X2. If you plan to print ﬁles at another location, you should follow the procedures described in “Saving ﬁles to print at a remote location” on page 2-12.

Another way to print from a Windows computer is to download PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), or Portable Document Format (PDF) ﬁles using Fiery Downloader.

NOTE: For information on setting up the Windows environment for printing with

Windows servers connected to the Fiery X2, see the Administrator Guide. For information on how to connect to the Fiery X2 over the network, install printer drivers, and install the Fiery utilities, see Getting Started.

Printing from applications

Once you have installed the Fiery X2 printer driver and set it to the proper port as described in Getting Started, you can print directly from most Windows applications. Simply choose the Print command from within your application.

Setting options and printing from Windows 95

To print from Windows 95, use the Adobe PostScript printer driver for Windows 95. The driver is included with the Fiery X2 user software, and uses all features of the Fiery X2.

Once you have installed the Adobe PostScript printer driver and Fiery X2 PostScript Printer Description ﬁle (PPD), you can specify print settings. You can also change settings for a particular job when you print it to the Fiery X2. Before printing, make sure that the correct print options are set.

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To print from Windows 95 applications over a network, you must be connected to a print server. This can be a Novell NetWare server, an NT server , or a UNIX server. For information about connecting a server to the Fiery X2, see the Administrator Guide. Alternatively, you can print from Windows 95 without connecting to a print server via SMB printing. For information about setting up SMB printing, see Getting Started.

TO SET PRINT OPTIONS AND PRINT WITH THE ADOBEPS PRINTER DRIVER

FROM WINDOWS 95:

1. Double-click the My Computer icon.

2. Double-click the Printers icon.

3. Select the icon for the Fiery X2 and choose Properties from the File menu.

4. Click the Paper tab.

5. Specify the appropriate settings for the print job.

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6. To select a speciﬁc media type, click More Options.

7. From the Paper type menu, choose the type of media to use for the job and click OK.

In the Paper size area, specify the page size for the job. From the Paper source menu, choose the paper tray for the job. For example, you can

specify that the job should be printed on pages from the Bypass tray. The Paper source selection is valid for the current job only.

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

type than that of the job you are sending, the Fiery X2 displays an error message and the job will not print. You should then load the correct paper in the selected tray or cancel the job.

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8. Click the Fiery Options tab.

9. Go to the Job, Color1, Color2, Color3, and Finishing tabs, and specify the appropriate settings for the print job.

These print options are speciﬁc to the Fiery X2. They override settings in Fiery X2 Printer Setup; the settings can also be changed in the Override Print Settings dialog box with the Fiery WebSpooler or Fiery Spooler. For information about these options and overrides, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

If you choose Printer’s default, the Fiery X2 prints with the default setting speciﬁed during Setup.

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

11. Click OK.

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12. From your application, choose Print.

13. Enter text messages in the Notes 1 and Notes 2 areas.

14. Click OK.

Enter user and job identiﬁcation information for accounting purposes, or whatever information is required at your site. These notes will appear in the Job Log.

OTE: The Fiery X2 does not support printing the Cover Page from the AdobePS

printer driver.

Saving and loading print option settings

Print option settings can be saved to a settings ﬁle on your hard disk. S aving a settings ﬁle enables you to easily load speciﬁcally conﬁgured settings for a particular job.

TO SAVE PRINT OPTION SETTINGS:

1. After conﬁguring the options from the Job, Color1, Color2, Color3, and Finishing tabs, click Save Settings.

2. Name the settings ﬁle and browse to a location on your hard disk where you want to save the ﬁle.

3. Click OK.

The settings ﬁle is saved to the location you speciﬁed.

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TO LOAD PRINT OPTION SETTINGS:

1. From the Fiery Options tab, click Load Settings.

2. Browse to the settings ﬁle.

3. Select the settings ﬁle from the list and click OK.

The options from the Job, Color1, Color2, Color3, and Finishing tabs are automatically conﬁgured with the saved settings.

Setting options and printing from Windows 3.1x

To print from Windows 3.1x, use the Adobe PostScript printer driver for Windows

3.1x. The driver is included with the F iery X2 user software, and uses all features of the Fiery X2.

TO SET PRINT OPTIONS AND PRINT WITH THE ADOBEPS PRINTER DRIVER

FROM WINDOWS 3.1X:

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

2. Double-click the Printers icon.

3. In the Printers dialog box, select the Fiery X2 in the Installed Printers box and click the Setup button.

4. Click the Paper tab.

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5. Specify the appropriate settings for the print job.

From the Paper Source menu, choose the paper tray for the job. For example, you can specify that the job should be printed on pages in the Bypass tray. The Paper Source selection is valid for the current job only.

In the Paper Size menu, specify the page size for the job.

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

type than that of the job you are sending, the Fiery X2 displays an error message and the job will not print. You should then load the correct paper in the selected tray or cancel the job.

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6. Click the Features tab.

7. Specify the appropriate settings for the job and click OK.

These print options are speciﬁc to the Fiery X2 (you may need to scroll to see all the pop-up menus). They override settings in Fiery X2 Printer Setup; the settings can also be changed in the Override Print Settings dialog box with the Fiery WebSpooler or Fiery Spooler. For information about these options and overrides, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

If you choose Printer’s default, the F iery X2 prints with either the default value for the server, or the information entered during Setup.

8. Choose Print in your application.

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9. If necessary, enter your name in the User area.

10. Enter text messages in the Notes 1 and Notes 2 areas.

11. Click OK.

Once you enter your name in the User area, it appears automatically in this dialog box when you print subsequent jobs.

NOTE: This entry cannot be changed without deleting and reinstalling the printer.

Enter user and job identiﬁcation information for accounting purposes, or whatever information is required at your site. These notes will appear in the Job Log.

OTE: The Fiery X2 does not support printing the Cover Page from the AdobePS

printer driver.

Setting options and printing from Windows NT 4.0

You can print from Windows NT 4.0 using the printer driver included with Windows NT.

TO SET PRINT OPTIONS AND PRINT WITH THE MICROSOFT POSTSCRIPT

PRINTER DRIVER FROM WINDOWS NT 4.0:

1. Choose Print in your application and click Properties.

2. Click the Advanced tab.

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3. Specify the appropriate settings for the print job.

In the Paper Size menu, specify the page size for the job. From the Paper Source menu, choose the paper tray for the job. For example, you can

specify that the job should be printed on pages in the Bypass tray. The Paper Source selection is valid for the current job only.

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

type than that of the job you are sending, the Fiery X2 displays an error message and the job will not print. You should then load the correct paper in the selected tray or cancel the job.

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4. Scroll down to Printer Features, and select the appropriate settings for the print job.

If you choose Printer’s default, the Fiery X2 prints with the default setting speciﬁed during Setup.

5. Click OK, then click OK in the Print dialog box. NOTE: The Fiery X2 does not support printing the Cover Page from the Windows

NT 4.0 PostScript printer driver.

Printing to the parallel port

The Fiery X2 has a parallel port that enables you to print most ﬁles directly from a Windows computer if your network administrator has connected the Windows computer’s parallel port to the Fiery X2 parallel port.

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

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TO PRINT FILES TO THE PARALLEL PORT:

1. Make sure the parallel port is enabled on the Fiery X2.

Check with your site administrator to see whether printing to the parallel port is enabled. See Getting Started for information on setting up parallel port printing on your Windows computer .

2. Select the printer port that is connected to the Fiery X2 parallel port.

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

3. Print from within your application.

Saving ﬁles to print at a remote location

If you do not have a Fiery X2 and are preparing files to take to a service bureau or other location, print the final files to the File port (as opposed to one of the local ports). You can also print to the File port to create a ﬁle to be downloaded using Fiery Downloader. For instructions, see your Windows documentation.

Using Fiery Downloader to print

Downloading ﬁles with Fiery Downloader is generally faster than printing from application software. You can use Fiery Downloader to print PostScript, EPS, or PDF ﬁles.

TO PRINT USING FIERY DOWNLOADER:

1. When you create a PostScript, EPS, or PDF ﬁle, specify the appropriate print options and include (embed) any necessary fonts not resident on the Fiery X2.

For a list of fonts resident on the Fiery X2, see Appendix B, “Font List.”

2. Launch Fiery Downloader and connect to the Fiery X2.

For instructions on setting up Fiery Downloader, see Getting Started.

3. Select the ﬁle(s) you want to download, and specify any necessary options.

4. Click Download.

For details, see Chapter 6, “Downloading Files and Fonts.”

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Chapter 3: Printing from Mac OS Computers

TO SELECT THE FIERY X2 AS THE CURRENT PRINTER:

You can print to the Fiery X2 just as you would print to any other printer from any application software. First, select the Fiery X2 as the current printer in the Chooser, and then print the ﬁle from within your application.

Another way to print from a Mac OS computer is to download PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), or Portable Document Format (PDF) ﬁles using Fiery Downloader.

Printing from applications

Before you can print to the Fiery X2 from applications, you must select the Fiery X2 in the Chooser. Then, using the Adobe PostScript printer driver and the correct PostScript Printer Description ﬁle (PPD), you can control many Fiery X2 printing features by specifying job settings from print dialog boxes.

Selecting the Fiery X2 in the Chooser

Before you print a job, make sure the Fiery X2 is the currently selected printer.

1. Make sure the Fiery X2 is connected to the network and turned on.

2. Choose Chooser from the Apple menu.

3. Click the AdobePS icon to select it.

4. If the network is divided into zones, select the zone in which the Fiery X2 is located.

5. Select the Fiery X2 by <Server Name>_<Device Name>_<Queue Name> from the “Select a PostScript Printer” list.

The names of all supported printers in the zone appear in the scroll list on the right. For information about setting up the Fiery X2 in the Chooser, see Getting Started.

NOTE: If your system administrator has not enabled the connection to the Print queue

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

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6. Make sure that AppleTalk is set to Active, and then close the Chooser window.

The Fiery X2 remains selected as the current printer until you choose a new printer in the Chooser.

Setting print options and printing from Mac OS computers

In Mac OS applications, print options are set from both the P age S etup dialog box and the Print dialog box. For details, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

NOTE: Some default print options are set by the administrator during Setup. Check

with the administrator for information on the current server default settings.

TO SET PRINT OPTIONS AND PRINT WITH THE ADOBEPS PRINTER DRIVER:

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

The PSPrinter Page Setup dialog box appears.

2. In the Paper menu, specify the page size for the job and click OK.

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

OTE: Print dialog boxes vary across applications.

If the Print dialog box lets you choose from a pop-up menu of available printers, choose the Fiery X2.

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4. From the General pane, choose Job Notes.

5. From the Job Notes pane, choose Printer Speciﬁc Options.

6. Specify the appropriate settings for the print job.

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

type than that of the job you are sending, the Fiery X2 displays an error message and the job will not print. You should then load the correct paper in the selected tray or cancel the job.

In the Notes 1 and Notes 2 areas, enter user and job identiﬁcation information for accounting purposes, or whatever information is required at your site. These notes will appear in the Job Log.

These print options are speciﬁc to the Fiery X2 (you may need to scroll to see all the options). They override settings in Fiery X2 Printer Setup; the settings can also be changed in the Override Print Settings dialog box with the Fiery WebSpooler or Fiery Spooler. For information about these options and overrides, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

If you choose Printer’s default, the Fiery X2 prints with the default setting speciﬁed during Setup.

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7. If you want to make the new settings the default settings, click Save Settings.

8. Click Print.

Some PPD options are ones that could also be set from an application (for example, Reverse Order printing or Collation). In these cases, use the PPD option to perform the function, rather than setting it from the application. The application may not set up the ﬁle properly for printing on the Fiery X2 and may also take longer to process.

OTE: The Fiery X2 does not support printing the Cover Page from the AdobePS

printer driver.

Using Fiery Downloader to print

Downloading ﬁles with Fiery Downloader is generally faster than printing from application software. You can use Fiery Downloader to print PostScript, EPS, or PDF ﬁles.

TO PRINT USING FIERY DOWNLOADER:

1. Create a PostScript, EPS, or PDF ﬁle . Specify the appr opriate print options and include (embed) any necessary fonts that are not resident on the Fiery X2.

For a list of fonts resident on the Fiery X2, see Appendix B, “Font List.”

2. Launch Fiery Downloader and connect to the Fiery X2.

For instructions on setting up Fiery Downloader, see Getting Started.

3. Select the ﬁle(s) you want to download, and specify any necessary options.

4. Click Download.

For details, see Chapter 6, “Downloading Files and Fonts.”

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Chapter 4: Printing from UNIX Workstations

You can print to the Fiery X2 directly from UNIX. Jobs printed to the Fiery X2 are sent to the Print queue or Hold queue and can be manipulated from Windows and Mac OS computers on the network using Fiery WebSpooler or Fiery Spooler.

NOTE: If you print to the Hold queue, an operator must intervene from

Fiery W ebS pooler or Fiery Spooler for the job to print; jobs sent to the Hold queue are spooled to disk and held.

The queue name and Fiery X2 printer name are established by your system administrator. Contact your system administrator for the names of your queues.

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

Printing to the Fiery X2

You can use UNIX commands to print PostScript ﬁles and text ﬁles to the Fiery X2. In general, the basic print commands (lpr, lpq, lprm) can be used to send print jobs to a Fiery X2. See your UNIX manual pages or other documentation for information about UNIX commands.

NOTE: Only PostScript or text ﬁle formats can be printed from UNIX.

TO PRINT FROM UNIX:

• On a system running SunOS 4.1.x or another BSD-based variant, use the lpr command to send a job to the Fiery X2 as follows:

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

For example, if the Print queue of your Fiery X2 is named print_Server, your ﬁle is named Sample, and you want to print two copies, type:

lpr -Pprint_Server -#2 Sample

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• On a system running Solaris® 2.x or any System V implementation of UNIX, use the lp command to send a job to the Fiery X2 as follows:

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

For example, if the Print queue of your Fiery X2 is named print_Server, your ﬁle is named Sample, and you want to print two copies, type:

lp -d print_Server -n 2 Sample

TO DISPLAY A LIST OF JOBS IN THE QUEUE:

• On a system running SunOS 4.1.x or another BSD-based variant, use the lpq command to see printer jobs in the queue as follows:

lpq <-Pprinter>

For example, if the Print queue of your Fiery X2 is named print_Server, type:

lpq -Pprint_Server

Your workstation displays the contents of the queue.

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

lpstat -o <printername>

For example, if the Print queue of your Fiery X2 is named print_Server, type:

lpstat -o print_Server

Your workstation displays the contents of the queue.

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TO REMOVE JOBS FROM THE QUEUE:

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

• On a system running SunOS 4.1.x or another BSD-based variant, use the lprm command to remove jobs from the queue as follows.

lprm <-Pprinter> <job #…>

You can use the lpq command to check the job number.

For example, to remov e job number 123 from the P rint queue of y our F iery X2 named

print_Server, type: lprm -Pprint_Server 123

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

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

cancel <printername> <job ID>

For example, to remov e job number

print_Server, type: cancel print_Server 123

123 from the Print queue of your F iery X2 named

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Chapter 5: Scanning

This chapter describes how to scan images from the copier using the Fiery Scan plug-in for Adobe Photoshop.

NOTE: The Windows and Mac OS versions of Fiery Scan are fundamentally the same;

differences are noted in this chapter. Where a window or dialog box is illustrated, the Windows version comes ﬁrst, followed by the Mac OS version.

Scanning from the copier

With the Fiery Scan plug-in for Photoshop, you can scan an image from the copier directly into Photoshop on your computer.

The following requirements and constraints apply:

• Fiery Scan requires a network connection; it cannot be used with the parallel port.

For information on supported networking protocols, see Getting Started.

• The Fiery Scan (TWAIN) plug-in must be installed in the Photoshop Plug-ins

folder.

• Photoshop’s Monitor Setup should be currently using the Calibrated RGB

(Mac OS) or Calrgb.ams (Windows) settings. See Getting S tarted for information on loading this ﬁle.

Fiery Scan color conversion settings

Fiery Scan offers two color conversion choices for scanned data:

• Calibrated RGB creates an RGB scan optimiz ed for printing with F iery X2 Rendering

Styles (CRDs) or ICC proﬁles, as well as for viewing on the monitor.

• Match Copy creates a CMYK scan that, when printed on the Fiery X2, looks like a

copy of the original made with the copier.

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Using Fiery Scan

With Fiery Scan, you ﬁrst create a prescan of the image; then you can select part, or all, of the prescan for ﬁnal scanning.

TO PRESCAN A DOCUMENT:

1. Start the Photoshop application.

2. Place the original you want to scan on the copier.

3. From Photoshop’s File menu, choose either Import or Acquire.

The choice depends on which version of Photoshop you are using.

4. For Windows, choose Select TWAIN_32 Source from the submenu. For Mac OS, choose Fiery Twain Select from the submenu.

5. Select Fiery Scan in the window that appears, and click Select (Windows) or OK (Mac OS).

6. From the File menu, choose either Import or Acquire.

The choice depends on which version of Photoshop you are using.

7. For Windows, choose TWAIN_32 from the submenu. For Mac OS, choose Fiery Twain Acquire from the submenu.

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8. Select the Fiery X2 in the Chooser window and click OK (Windows) or Connect

9. Select the appropriate settings in the Fiery Scan dialog box.

(Mac OS).

If the Fiery X2 does not appear in the Windows Chooser list, you must conﬁgure the connection to the Fiery X2. For instructions, see Getting Started.

Prescan size

—Choose the paper size of the original from the pop-up menu.

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Resolution—Specify a value for the resolution. Changing the resolution also changes

the image size. The maximum resolution supported by the Fiery X2 appears in the dialog box.

Scan Mode—Specify the type of scan you want: Full Color, Grayscale, or Black & White.

10. Click Prescan.

The prescan image appears on the left side of the dialog box.

NOTE: After prescanning, you must complete the scan before the Fiery X2 is able to

begin RIPping and printing any new jobs.

TO SELECT OPTIONS AND COMPLETE THE SCAN:

1. Drag the cursor to select the area of the prescan image that you want to acquire, or enter the area to acquire in the Selection area.

In the Selection area, you can specify:

Units—Specify the ruler units that appear around the preview image. Width and Height—Enter the Width and Height of the area to scan; or, select an area

of the page with the selection marquee. If you use the marquee to select the scan area, the dimensions appear in these text boxes. If you do not specify a scan area, the default is to acquire the entire scan.

To select a portion of the image using the marquee, you can move the selection marquee around by positioning the Hand tool inside the marquee and dragging the marquee to a new location. You can change the size of the frame by clicking and dragging one of the handles on the corners of the selection frame. If you want to deselect the area you have selected, double-click anywhere.

The Fiery X2 scans at a maximum resolution that is dependent on the size of the selected area. When you select an area to be scanned, F iery Scan displays the maximum resolution possible for that area. You can enter a dpi value which is less than the maximum resolution.

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2. Click Options to display the Fiery Options dialog box (Windows) or Scan Options dialog box (Mac OS).

Original Photograph if you are scanning a continuous tone photographic image and Offset Print or Copy

slightly more time but reduces moiré patterns in scans.

Color Conversion—Choose a color conversion: Calibrated RGB or Match Copy. Use Calibrated RGB if you will print the image using a Fiery X2 Rendering Style (CRD).

Use Match Copy to match the colors in a copy made b y the copier as closely as possible, assuming that you are going to print the image to the same copier and you do not want to use a Rendering Style. Also see “Fiery Scan color conversion settings” on page 5-1.

3. Specify the appropriate settings and click OK.

4. Click Scan in the main window to acquire the scan.

The progress bar displays how much of the image has been processed. You can click Esc (Windows) or Command-. (Mac OS) to cancel acquiring the scan.

When the scan is acquired, the scanned image is displayed in Photoshop.

—Choose a resampling interpolation method. In general, you should choose

if you are scanning a printed document. The Offset Print or Copy mode takes

6-1 Using Fiery Downloader

Chapter 6: Downloading Files and Fonts

Fiery Downloader allows you to send PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), and Portable Document Format (PDF) ﬁles directly to the Fiery X2 without using the application they were created in. It also enables you to manage printer fonts on the Fiery X2.

You can use Fiery Downloader from a remote workstation. Fiery Downloader requir es a network connection—you cannot use Fiery Downloader with the parallel port. For information on supported networking protocols, see Getting Started.

NOTE: The Windows and Mac OS versions of F iery Downloader ar e fundamentally the

same; differences are noted. Single windows or dialog boxes illustrated depict the Windows version.

Using Fiery Downloader

You can use Fiery Downloader to:

• Print PostScript, EPS, and PDF ﬁles to the Fiery X2

• Check the status of the Fiery X2

• Manage the PostScript printer fonts stored on the Fiery X2 hard disk (this feature

requires that the Direct connection is published on the Fiery X2)

NOTE: Fiery Downloader was designed speciﬁcally for the Fiery X2; you cannot use it

with any other printer. You can also use standard LaserWriter downloaders, such as the Adobe Font Downloader, with the Fiery X2.

TO VIEW INFORMATION WITH FIERY DOWNLOADER:

1. Double-click the Fiery Downloader icon or choose Fiery Downloader from the Start>Programs menu.

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2. Select the Fiery X2 in the Chooser window and click OK (Windows) or

Displays server status and user and document name of the job currently printing

Displays server status and user and document name of the job currently processing

Dynamically displays the progress of the job

Connect (Mac OS).

The Fiery Downloader Status window appears and you see the Fiery Downloader Toolbar, menus, and the status bar at the bottom of the screen.

Displays the amount of available disk space

Buttons for some menu functions appear in the Toolbar at the top of the window.

Open Click to connect to a different Fiery X2.

Download Click to download a ﬁle or font to the Fiery X2.

Status If you are viewing the font list, click to display the

status window for the current Fiery X2.

Font list If you are viewing the status window, click to

display a list of printer fonts on the Fiery X2 hard disk.

About Fiery Downloader (Windows only)

Click to view version information about Fiery Downloader.

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You can click the font list button or choose Font List from the File menu to view font information in the window.

3. To select a different Fiery X2, choose Open from the File menu or click the Open button.

4. Select the Fiery X2 in the dialog box that appears, and click OK (Windows) or Connect (Mac OS).

5. To close the status window, choose Close from the File menu; to quit Fiery Downloader , choose Exit (Windows) or Quit (Mac OS) from the File menu.

Printing with the Fiery Downloader

Printing ﬁles with Fiery Downloader is fast—generally faster than printing from within applications. If you regularly print large ﬁles, be sure to try printing with Fiery Downloader.

TO DOWNLOAD A FILE OR FONT WITH FIERY DOWNLOADER:

1. Use your application to generate a ﬁle.

You can save a PostScript or PDF ﬁle by selecting the appropriate option in the application’s Print dialog box. With some applications, you can also save EPS ﬁles.

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

2. Launch Fiery Downloader.

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

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4. Choose the ﬁle type to display from the Files of type (Windows) or Show (Mac OS)

5. Choose the Connection Type (Windows) or Queue (Mac OS) to which you will download

menu.

You can leave this at the default All Known Formats or choose All Files. All Known Formats lists all ﬁles in formats supported by Fiery Downloader.

You can download ﬁles and fonts in the same batch. If the fonts are used by ﬁles in the same batch, the fonts should be downloaded ﬁrst.

To download fonts, you must use the Direct connection (make sure that the Direct connection is published on the Fiery X2). If you do not have access to the Direct connection, you must embed any special fonts used by the ﬁle in the ﬁle when you generate it.

the ﬁles.

The options available to you in this menu depend on the setup at your site. The potential selections are Print Queue (Windows) or Print (Mac OS), Hold Queue (Windows) or Hold (Mac OS), and Direct Connection (Windows) or Direct (Mac OS). If your administrator has not enabled one or more of these connections, you cannot select it.

PDF ﬁles cannot be printed with the Direct connection. If you choose the Direct connection, the job is spooled to the Print queue and then printed. If the Print queue is not enabled, the job is spooled to the Hold queue and must be released for printing by the operator.

6. Select the ﬁlename and click Add File(s) (Windows) or Add (Mac OS).

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

You can navigate to different drives and directories to select ﬁles to download. Click Add All (Mac OS) to add all ﬁles in a folder.

To select multiple sequential ﬁles, select the ﬁrst ﬁle and then Shift-click the last ﬁle. Control-click to select multiple non-sequential ﬁles.

If you change your mind about a ﬁle, select the ﬁlename in the Files to Download list and click Remove File(s) (Windows) or Remove (Mac OS).

Click Remove All (Mac OS) to remove all ﬁles from the Files to Download list.

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7. To change the attributes of a ﬁle to be downloaded, select it and click Options.

PostScript Options dialog box (Windows)

PostScript Options dialog box (Mac OS)

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

The options you set apply only to the selected ﬁle. You can set different options, or leave the default settings, for each ﬁle.

Copies—Specify the number of copies. Brightness (PostScript and EPS ﬁles only)—Change the Brightness setting if a ﬁle

appears to be too dark or too light. Choose 85% for a substantially lighter image, 115% for a substantially darker image, or one of the options in between.

NOTE: Some applications, including Adobe Photoshop, pro vide transfer functions that

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

PDF Options dialog box (Windows)

PDF Options dialog box (Mac OS)

‘showpage’ after EPS ﬁles (Windows) or ‘showpage’ (Mac OS) (PostScript and EPS

ﬁles only)—In most cases, you do not need to use this option. Select the ‘showpage’ option only if an EPS ﬁle fails to print without it. This option adds a ‘showpage’

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9. Click Download File(s) (Windows) or Download (Mac OS).

10. To cancel downloading, press Escape (Windows) or Command-. (Mac OS).

PostScript language command at the end of the print job . S ome applications omit this necessary PostScript language command when they generate EPS ﬁles. Select this option when printing EPS ﬁles generated by these applications. If you select this option unnecessarily, extra blank pages may print.

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

Page range (PDF ﬁles only)—Specify the page range you want to print.

Downloading and managing printer fonts

The Fiery X2 includes 136 PostScript fonts; for a complete list, see Appendix B, “Font List.” In addition, two Adobe Multiple M aster fonts are included and ar e used for font substitution in PDF ﬁles.

NOTE: The Direct connection must be published on the Fiery X2 in order to download

and manage fonts, and to view the font list.

Before downloading a ﬁle that uses fonts not resident on the Fiery X2, you must download the fonts (unless the fonts are embedded in the ﬁle). To see what fonts are resident on the Fiery X2, choose Font List from the File menu or click the Font List button (see page 6-9).

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

The screen fonts that correspond to the printer fonts installed on the Fiery X2 are not automatically installed on your Windows system.

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

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

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Printer fonts and Mac OS screen fonts

Like all PostScript fonts, the fonts included with the Fiery X2 come in two forms: printer fonts and screen fonts. The printer fonts are installed permanently on the Fiery X2 hard disk. The screen fonts, which are included with the Fiery X2 user software, should be installed on your Mac OS computer . I f you are using these fonts in documents you print on a LaserWriter, they are probably already installed. If not, you will need to install them yourself. For instructions, see Getting Started.

Occasionally, you may want to use Adobe Type 1 (Windows) or PostScript (Mac OS) fonts that are not included with the Fiery X2. If so, you will need to install both the screen fonts and the printer fonts on your computer . To do this, follow the instructions from the font manufacturer.

Downloading printer fonts to the Fiery X2

In general, each time you print from within a Mac OS application, the application automatically downloads any fonts used in your document that are not already installed on the Fiery X2, as long as the printer fonts are installed in your System Folder. These fonts remain in the Fiery X2 only until your document has printed. If you print the same document again, your application must download the fonts again.

If you regularly use one or more fonts from Windows or Mac OS applications that are not already installed in the Fiery X2, you can save time by downloading them to the Fiery X2 hard disk with Fiery Downloader. Fonts you download to the Fiery X2 hard disk remain installed until you remove them using Fiery Downloader, no matter how many times the Fiery X2 is turned off and on. You’ll probably want to download fonts you use on a regular basis to the Fiery X2 hard disk.

Before you download P ostScript or EPS ﬁles with F iery Downloader, make sure that all fonts included in your ﬁle are installed on the Fiery X2 or embedded in your ﬁle; otherwise the text in these fonts will not print correctly and may not print at all. For PDF ﬁles, font substitution occurs automatically for fonts not installed on the Fiery X2. Two multiple master fonts (a serif font and a sans serif font) stored on the Fiery X2 are used exclusively for substitution with PDF ﬁles.

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TO VIEW FONT INFORMATION, UPDATE, PRINT, AND DELETE FONTS:

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

The Font List window appears with Update, Print, and Delete buttons in the title bar. The printer fonts included with the Fiery X2 (resident fonts) are locked. Locked fonts appear with a lock icon next to the name and cannot be deleted.

Click to print the font list to the Print queue

Click to update the information in the font list window

Lock icon

Select a font and click to delete it

7-1 Tools for job tracking and management

Chapter 7: Tracking and Managing Print Jobs

Fiery X2 user software includes a variety of tools that allow you to track and manage print jobs. The particular tools, and the access privileges for them, that are available to you depend on the conditions implemented by your site administrator. This chapter describes the functions of the Fiery WebTools and the Fiery utilities that let you track and manage jobs sent to the Fiery X2.

Tools for job tracking and management

Depending on the workstation you use and the setup at your site, you may be able to choose between several Fiery X2 job tracking and management tools.

Fiery WebTools

If your site administrator has enabled Web Services on the Fiery X2, you can access Fiery WebTools from Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, and Mac OS computers with an Internet browser. The Fiery WebTools that provide job tracking capabilities are Fiery WebSpooler and the Status WebTool. Fiery WebSpooler also provides job management capabilities, provided you have the necessary access privileges (see page 7-2). For speciﬁc information on the browsers supported with Fiery WebTools, see Getting Started.

Fiery Spooler

Fiery Spooler, like Fiery WebSpooler, provides job tracking and job management capabilities. Fiery Spooler can be installed from the User Software CD on Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, and Mac OS client computers, and requires only a network connection to the Fiery X2. If your network administrator has not enabled Web Services on the Fiery X2, or if you do not have the necessary system support to use Fiery WebTools, you may choose to use Fiery Spooler for job management. For information on the system and network requirements for the Windows and Mac OS versions of Fiery Spooler, see Getting Started.

NOTE: The interface of Fiery Spooler for Windows is virtually identical to that of the

Fiery WebSpooler; therefore, the descriptions of both are combined into one section beginning on page 7-6. The interface of Fiery Spooler for Mac OS is signiﬁcantly different from that of the Fiery WebSpooler; it is described in detail starting on page page 7-36.

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About Fiery WebTools

Fiery WebTools reside on the Fiery X2 but can be accessed over the network from Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, and Mac OS client computers. The Fiery X2 has a home page that lets remote users view server functions and manipulate jobs. For speciﬁc information on the browsers supported with Fiery WebTools, see Getting Started.

The following Fiery WebTools can be accessed from the Fiery X2 home page.

WebTool: Summary: For more information:

Status Shows you the jobs currently processing

and printing.

W ebSpooler Allows you to view , manipulate, r eor der,

reprint, and delete jobs currently spooling, processing, or printing on the Fiery X2. Also allows you to view, print, and delete the Job Log. Most of these functions require an Administrator or Operator password, if one has been set.

WebLink Provides a link to another web page,

provided you have a valid Internet connection. The WebLink destination can be changed; this function requires the Administrator password, if one has been set.

Installer Allows you to download Fiery X2

printer ﬁle installers directly from the server.

WebSetup Allows you to modify the Fiery X2

conﬁguration (Setup) remotely. This function requires the Administrator password, if one has been set.

See page 7-4

See “Fiery WebSpooler and Fiery Spooler for Windows” on page 7-6

See page 7-5 and the

Administrator Guide

See Getting Started

See the Administrator Guide

Access privileges

The Fiery X2 system allows the site administrator to choose and implement a level of access and control appropriate for your particular site. The levels of access allowed to remote users depend on whether the administrator has enabled use of the

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Fiery WebTools, and whether a password is required to use certain features of the Fiery WebT ools.

The three possible levels of access to Fiery WebTools are Administrator, Operator, and Guest. To enable maximum password protection, Administrator and Operator passwords must be speciﬁed in Setup (see the Administrator Guide).

NOTE: An Operator password can be set only by using Fiery WebSetup.

When both an Administrator password and an Operator password have been speciﬁed, the access levels are as follows:

Access level: Privileges and password requirements:

Administrator Has full access to all Fiery WebTools and Fiery X2 Control

Panel functions; Administrator password required

Operator Has access to all functions of Fiery WebTools except

Fiery WebSetup and clearing the Job Log from Fiery WebSpooler; Operator password required

Guest Can view job status, but cannot make changes to jobs or Setup,

If you have been given the Operator password, you can manage job ﬂow and override print settings of your jobs with Fiery WebSpooler (or Fiery Spooler for Windows). If not, you can still log in as Guest and use these tools, and the Status WebTool, to track the status of your jobs. Check with your site administrator for information on your access privileges.

TO ACCESS FIERY WEBTOOLS:

1. Start up your Internet browser application.

See Getting Started for information about supported platforms and browsers.

2. Enter the IP address or the DNS name of the Fiery X2.

Check with the operator or administrator for this information.

and cannot view the Job Log; no password required

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3. If the Log In dialog box appears, select a login lev el, enter the passw or d, and click OK.

4. When the Fiery X2 home page appears, click to select one of the Fiery WebTools.

The Log In dialog box appears only if the administrator has set an Administrator or Operator password (or both).

Move the cursor over the buttons to display information about the selections.

NOTE: The Conﬁgure button appears only if you logged in as Administrator. With

Administrator privileges, you can click this button and specify which of the Fiery WebTools are available to other users.

Checking Fiery X2 status with the Status WebTool

You can use the Status WebTool to see what jobs are currently processing and printing. The Status WebTool does not require any special access privileges. If the administrator has enabled Web Services in Setup and has provided you with the IP address of the Fiery X2, you can use the Status WebTool to monitor the status of print jobs as they are rasterized and printed.

To access the Status W ebTool, point your browser to the Fiery X2 home page and click Status. The current RIP Status and Printer Status appear in the window.

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To open a new browser window for the Status display, click Float. You can then close other browser windows and leave the Status window open to continue checking the status of the Fiery X2. As long as you keep the Status window open, it is dynamically updated.

To obtain more information about the status of jobs, use Fiery WebSpooler or Fiery Spooler.

Accessing information with the WebLink WebTool

The WebLink button on the Fiery X2 home page provides a link to another web page or to multiple web pages, provided you have a valid Internet connection. The WebLink destination is initially set to www .eﬁ.com/w eblink/x er ox. From this page, you can link to either the Xerox home page or the Electronics for Imaging home page (www .eﬁ.com). The administrator at your site can set the WebLink destination. Check the WebLink sites for any information available there.

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Fiery WebSpooler and Fiery Spooler for Windows

Fiery WebSpooler and Fiery Spooler for Windows both pro vide a windo w on Fiery X2 and copier functions, and an interface from which you can control those functions.

NOTE: After launching, the Fiery WebSpooler and Fiery Spooler for Windows

interfaces are virtually identical. Following the explanations of how to launch each tool, the remainder of this section uses the term “Fiery WebSpooler” to refer to both Fiery W ebSpooler and F iery Spooler for W indows. Wher e differences exist between the two, they are noted.

TO LAUNCH FIERY WEBSPOOLER:

1. From the Fiery X2 home page window, click WebSpooler.

For instructions on how to access the Fiery X2 home page window, see page 7-3.

2. To log in as Administrator, enter the Administrator password and click OK. To log in as Operator, enter the Operator password and click OK. To log in as Guest, click OK, without entering any password.

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The Fiery WebSpooler window appears in a new browser window.

TO LAUNCH FIERY SPOOLER ON A WINDOWS COMPUTER:

1. Choose Fiery Spooler from the Start>Programs menu.

2. Select the Fiery X2 in the Chooser window that appears.

For information on setting up the connection to the server, see Getting Started.

NOTE: A TCP/IP network connection is necessary to use Fiery Spooler on a Windows

computer. For more information, see Getting Started.

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3. Click OK.

The Fiery Spooler main window appears.

Job management features

NOTE: The Fiery WebSpooler and Fiery Spooler for Windows interfaces are virtually

identical. The following sections use the term “Fiery WebSpooler” to refer to both Fiery WebSpooler and Fiery Spooler for Windows. Wher e differ ences between the two exist, they are noted.

Unless passwords have been deﬁned in Fiery X2 Setup, you can log in to Fiery WebSpooler without entering a password, and you are given full privileges which include:

• A view of current printing jobs and jobs stored on the Fiery X2

• Control of printing jobs and a view of the Job Log

• Ability to clear the Job Log

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After the Administrator has performed Setup and speciﬁed passwords, user options depend on your login level. If you log in to Fiery WebSpooler as Guest, you have the ﬁrst option only. If you log in as Operator, you have the ﬁrst two options. If you log in as Administrator, you have all three options. For information about Setup and specifying passwords, see the Administrator Guide.

You can use the Fiery WebSpooler to perform the following functions from your workstation:

• Override current job option settings

• Delete jobs

• Duplicate or rename jobs

• RIP a job and hold the raster data

• Hold jobs in the spooled area or the RIPped area

• Remove raster data from RIPped ﬁles

• Change the priority of jobs

• Edit and merge raster data jobs (DocBuilder)

• Display, print, or delete the Job Log

Most of these functions require the Administrator or Operator password. However, even without a password, you can log in to the Fiery WebSpooler as Guest with viewonly privileges.

Job List window

Your ﬁrst view of Fiery WebSpooler is the Job List window, which is divided into three areas by Spool, RIP, and Print status bars. The Job List window is surrounded by a frame that includes slider buttons and menus. System information indicators at the bottom of the window show the current availability of hard disk space and RAM on the currently selected Fiery X2 server.

When the Fiery X2 is receiving and processing print jobs, the Job List window is a dynamic display, ﬁlled with the names of jobs and their characteristics. Status bars animate in real time as new jobs are processed and printed, and jobs move to different display areas.

Menu bar

pool status bar

Spooled jobs

RIP status bar

Rasterized (RIPped) jobs

Print status bar

Printed jobs

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System information indicators

The Spool, RIP, and Print areas of the Job List window represent the stages of printing a job. Jobs come in at the top level (Spool) and drop down to the Print level, unless they are held along the way.

• Spooled jobs—Jobs listed in the area below the Spool status bar area are PostScript

ﬁles stored on the Fiery X2 disk. These jobs were sent to either the Print queue (white icons) or the Hold queue (yellow icons). These PostScript ﬁles are saved on the server’ s har d disk. P ostScript f iles can come in packets fr om the network, or from another place on the server hard disk. Jobs are added to a queue in the order in which they arrive, and they generally move to another queue in the same order unless an operator has intervened to change the order.

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• RIPped jobs—Jobs listed in the area below the RIP status bar are ready to print.

They have already been rasterized (RIPped, or processed for printing) and are waiting, in order , for access to the printer. Rasterized jobs can also be held; held jobs are shown with a yellow icon. During RIPping, PostScript commands are interpreted in the Fiery X2 to allow the copier to print the ﬁle the way its originator intended. The result of this interpretation is a raster ﬁle associated with the original PostScript ﬁle. In this raster ﬁle (raster image), color data is associated with each dot that can be rendered by the print engine. The color data tells the print engine whether or not to apply cyan, magenta, yellow, or black toner to each position on the page.

• Printed jobs—Jobs listed in the area below the Print status bar have already been

printed. Printed jobs can be stored on the Fiery X2 disk. The number of jobs that can be stored (from 1 to 99) is deﬁned in Setup. While the PostScript ﬁle is usually saved to disk, raster images are held in RAM during and after each print job. However, you can request that the Fiery X2 save the raster image to disk along with the PostScript ﬁle. Saving the raster image to disk offers some advantages—raster ﬁles are already processed so they print quickly, and each part of the raster ﬁle is still identiﬁed with a page in the original document, which means that individual pages of a saved raster ﬁle can be accessed.

Errors—Jobs with an error are shown in red. To display the error, double-click the

•

job line.

If you are logged in as Administrator or Operator, you can interact with a job in the window by selecting it and choosing a command from the Job menu, or by double clicking it and setting print option overrides. (However, if passwords have been set and you are logged in as Guest, you can only view jobs; you cannot interact with them.)

The job icons displayed in the Fiery WebSpooler window are explained on page 7-15.

NOTE: If your job does not appear anywhere in the Fiery WebSpooler window, it may

have already been printed; if so, it will appear in the Job Log. To view the Job Log, choose Show Job Log from the Windo w menu. (F or more information on the J ob Log, see page 7-33.)

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Menu bar

The menu bar has ﬁve menus. When an action is not available in the current context, the command is dimmed. When a command is marked with a check, selecting it again reverses, or toggles, the command.

Menu: Choose this: To do this:

File Print Job Log Print the Job Log

Delete Job Log Delete the Job Log Exit Log out from the server and exit Fiery WebSpooler

Job (For more information on these commands, see page 7-18)

Delete Job(s) Delete one or more selected jobs Duplicate Job(s) Duplicate one or more selected PostScript data jobs in the Spool or Print areas Rename Rename a selected job Hold Hold the selected job(s); see page 7-14 RIP and Hold RIP and then hold the selected job(s); see page 7-14 Print Print the selected job(s); see page 7-17 Print and Hold Print the selected job(s) and then hold it in the RIP area; see page 7-14 Process Next Give top priority to this job Remove Raster Remove the raster information from the selected job(s); see page 7-20 Override Print

Settings Thumbnail A Open a selected held raster data job in the Thumbnail A window where you

Thumbnail B Open a selected raster data job (not necessarily a held job) in the Thumbnail B

View and edit print settings for the selected job(s); see page 7-20

can view a full-screen preview of the job, edit the job, or merge it with raster data from other jobs; see page 7-22

window for viewing or for copying pages into a job in the Thumbnail A window; see page 7-24

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Menu: Choose this: To do this:

Page (DocBuilder commands for Thumbnail A)

Window Show Job List Show the Job List window

Help About View the Fiery WebSpooler information screen

Delete Delete the selected page(s) Duplicate Duplicate the selected page(s) Preview View a full-screen preview of the selected page; see page 7-32 Undo Undo previous Page menu commands (multiple undos available)

Show Job Log Show the Job Log window

Status bars

Jobs actively involved in the three processes (spooling, rasterizing, and printing) are listed in the status bars that span the Job List window.

Status bars show the ﬁlename and user name for the active process, and an indication of its progress. Each status bar heads the list of jobs that have completed the process. Thus, beneath the Spool status bar, you see a list of spooled ﬁles; beneath the RIP status bar, you see a list of rasterized (RIPped) ﬁles. Beneath the Print status bar, you see a list of jobs that have already been printed.

NOTE: In the Spool status bar, the ﬁlename and user information always appear as

“Unknown” (as shown below). This information is not available until the job has ﬁnished spooling to the Fiery X2 disk.

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Active jobs and Held jobs

You can hold a job at any stage of the process we have described, as illustrated below. I n the ﬁgure, boxes indicate types of job icons you would see in the Job List window.

Spool

Spooled and held

Spooled for printing

RIP

RIPped and held

Print*

RIPped for printing

Print and hold

Printed

*A copy of the held job is printed; the held job remains in the RIP area.

Jobs that are held are shown with a yellow icon, just beneath the Spool or RIP status bar. Jobs that are held must be activated with a command in order to print.

Active jobs are shown with white icons; new jobs are added above older jobs.

PostScript and raster data

Deleted

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Job icons

There are three types of icons that are used for both active jobs and jobs on hold.

Icon:

Printer icons

Raster icon

Active jobs:

(white icons and rows)

PostScript or raster data headed for printing (top) or after printing (bottom)

PostScript and raster data after printing, ready for fast reprint

PostScript data headed for

and Hold

printing (

PostScript data already rasterized and held

Jobs on Hold:

(yellow icons and rows)

or job on Hold after

Hold)

Spool area

The job icons in the Spool area are described below:

Spool area icon: What it indicates: How long you see the job:

Yellow printer icon

Yellow job row

White printer icon White job row

PostScript data from a user on the network; no destination is deﬁned

PostScript data headed for

Until a destination is chosen

Until the RIP is free

Yellow raster icon

White job row

Yellow printer icon

White job row

PostScript data headed for

RIP and Hold

PostScript data headed for

Print and Hold

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The Spool area is both the receiving area for jobs from users on the network (Hold queue) and the waiting area for jobs that will be RIPped (jobs in the Spool queue).

Hold queue jobs When printing requires an operator (because the Print queue and

Direct connection are disabled), the operator must assign a destination to all jobs received from users on the network (icon 1 in the table above). Once assigned, jobs (icons 2, 3, and 4) move down the Spool queue for processing. All jobs printed to the Hold queue require routing by an operator.

Print queue jobs When printing does not require an operator, network jobs sent to

the Print queue appear in the Spool area where they are shown with a white printer icon (icon 2). When they reach the head of the queue, they are RIPped and printed without operator intervention.

Direct connection jobs Jobs printed to the D irect connection are not displayed in the

job lists. They are displayed brieﬂy in the status bars (where they cannot be selected) and are included in the Job Log.

RIP area

The job icons in the RIP area are described below:

RIP area icon: What it indicates: How long you see the job:

Yellow raster icon

Yellow job row

White printer icon

White job row

After a job is rasterized, it goes into the RIP area. The RIP area holds only raster data (i.e., jobs that have been rasterized). Jobs in the RIP area are either waiting for the copier to be free (Print queue jobs, icon 2 in the above table), or they are being held.

Raster data, no destination deﬁned; may have been printed before and held

Raster data headed for in its turn; no hold deﬁned

Until it is deleted or stripped of its raster data and sent to the Spool area

Until copier is free to print the job

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Held jobs in the RIP area have already been rasterized (RIP and Hold) or they have been printed and their raster data has been routed back to the RIP area (Print and Hold), where they are shown in yellow rows (icon 1).

NOTE: Raster jobs in the RIP area that are waiting to print (icon 2 in the table above)

cannot be manipulated by job commands.

Jobs held in the RIP area remain there until the operator deletes them. Printing these jobs does not remove them from the RIP area. Instead, a copy of the job is cr eated and printed.

NOTE: For all rasterized jobs, the print option settings, in addition to the current

calibration state of the Fiery X2, remain with the saved raster data each time the job is reprinted. To print the job with new print option settings and with new calibration data, you must remove the raster data and reRIP the job.

Print area

The job icons in the Print area are described below:

Print area icon: What it indicates: How long you see the job:

White printer icon

White job row

White raster icon

White job row

The Print area, also referred to as the Printed queue, contains jobs that have already been printed. These jobs were assigned the Print destination (white printer icon in the Spool or RIP areas) without any Hold instructions; therefore, they all hav e white icons and rows.

NOTE: A job row that appears in light red indicates that a PostScript error occurred

while printing the job. To see the error, double-click anywhere in the row.

PostScript data only—raster data has been deleted

Raster and PostScript data If RAM is needed to RIP an

active job, the raster data is deleted and the job gets the PS icon (icon 1, above)

Until the job limit is reached

Until the job is reprinted or the job limit is reached

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Newly printed jobs are added to the Printed queue, and ar e shown at the top of the list. Jobs are saved in the Printed queue until the job limit is reached. When the ﬁrst job over the limit is printed, the oldest job is deleted from the disk. The default job limit is 10 jobs. The value for Jobs Saved in Printed Queue can be changed in Setup by the administrator.

NOTE: If you reprint a job in the Printed queue, the job returns to its original position

in the Printed queue after it is printed.

While it is printing, a job consists of PostScript and raster data. The raster data in RAM is not cleared until memory is needed to rasterize the next job. As long as the raster data is intact, the job can be reprinted from the Printed queue. Printed jobs that still have their raster data are represented by a white raster icon in the Printed queue (icon 2 in the previous table); jobs with only PostScript data r emaining are r epresented by a white PS icon (icon 1). If the job was printed from a held raster job (in the RIP area), the raster data in the RIP area remains and can be used to reprint the job after the raster data has been cleared from the Printed queue.

Job commands

Using the commands in the Job menu, you can alter the destinations, priorities and other characteristics of jobs that appear in the Fiery WebSpooler window.

Job commands are used to assign a selected job to a new destination or process. These commands are available from the Job menu (see page 7-12). The job commands available at a given time depend on the context; unavailable commands are dimmed.

The job commands available for selected jobs in the Job List window are listed in the following table. The table also describes the effect of each command on raster data associated with the affected job(s).

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Choose this: To do this: Raster data is:

Delete Job(s) Delete the job(s) Deleted Duplicate Job(s) Duplicate one or more selected PostScript data

jobs in the Spool or Print areas. You can use the duplicate job(s) for different print options or a different destination. (The Duplicate command actually creates a reference to the original job, with the same name)

Rename Rename the job (PostScript ﬁle with or without

raster)

Hold Hold the job in the current place (except for a job

in the Print area, which is moved to the Spool or RIP area, depending on whether it still has raster

data associated with it) RIP and Hold RIP the job and hold it in the RIP area Held in RIP area indeﬁnitely Print Print the job in its turn (RIP it ﬁrst if it does not

have raster data)

After printing, keep the printed job in the Print

area until the job limit is reached.

Print and Hold (Like the user print option Save Fast Reprint)

Print the job in its turn (RIP it ﬁrst if it does not

have raster data)

After printing, hold the PostScript data and the

raster in the RIP area

n/a (The Duplicate command is not available for raster jobs)

Unaffected, but associated with the new name

OTE: If the renamed job is printed, the J ob Log

reﬂects the job’s original name. Held in RIP area, if included with job

Temporarily held in RAM after printing until memory is needed for another job (If the job was printed from a held job in the RIP area, the raster data in the RIP area is kept indeﬁnitely)

Held in RIP area indeﬁnitely (saved to disk)

Process Next Give top priority to this job

RIP (and then print) it as soon as the processor is

free, before other waiting jobs

Option is dimmed if there are no other waiting

jobs

n/a

OTE: This command is available only for jobs in

the Spool area that are not currently held.

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Choose this: To do this: Raster data is:

Remove Raster Remove the raster data from a job that has raster

data (indicated by a raster icon); leave the

PostScript data unaffected Override Print

Settings

Thumbnail A Open the selected held raster data job in the

Thumbnail B Open the selected raster data job (not necessarily

View and override print settings for a selected job

or a group of selected jobs

Thumbnail A window where you can view a full-

screen preview of the job, edit the job, or merge it

with raster data from other jobs

a held job) in the Thumbnail B window for

viewing or for merging into a job in the

Thumbnail A window

Overriding print settings

When logged in as Operator or Administrator , you can use the Ov erride P rint S ettings command to check and override the print option settings (properties) of all jobs as follows.

• To override a setting based on printed output or other print device conditions

• To change settings for a duplicate of the original job

Deleted

OTE: If you remove raster from a job in the RIP

area, the job is sent to the Spool area. Possibly deleted and regenerated, depending on

whether you change any settings that require reRIPping

May be changed if job is edited

Unchanged

• To print a single copy of a job before printing the number of copies required by the user

TO CHANGE JOB OPTIONS:

Indicates reRIPping is required

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• Double-click the job line or select the job and choose Override Print Settings from the Job menu.

If necessary, scroll down to see all the various job options.

PDF Settings dialog box for PDF ﬁles

Override Print Settings dialog box for PostScript ﬁles

The options you set here are the same ones you set from the P rint dialog box when you print from an application. For information about print options, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

For some options, changing the setting requires that the job be reRIPped; these options show an icon to the left of the option name.

For PDF ﬁles, you can only override number of copies and page range from the Properties dialog box.

NOTE: If you want to retain a copy of the job with its original settings, duplicate the job

and rename the duplicate before you change any settings (see “Job commands” on page 7-18).

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The Override Print Settings dialog box displays all the job settings encoded by the PostScript printer driver that can be decoded by the Fiery X2. If you (as operator) have not changed anything, these are the settings a user entered before sending the job.

NOTE: Some print options that are available in the printer driver are not displayed in

the Override Print Settings dialog box.

For information on print option settings, see Appendix A, “Print Options.”

Thumbnails and full-screen previews in DocBuilder

The Fiery WebSpooler includes a powerful DocBuilder™ tool that allows you to preview and edit raster data. (For information on how to identify a raster data job, see page 7-15.) DocBuilder consists of two thumbnail windows and several pagemanipulation commands (listed in the Page menu).

• In the Thumbnail A window, you can see thumbnails of the currently RIPping job,

as it is processed, or of any raster data job.

• From the Thumbnail A window you can open a full-screen preview of a raster ﬁle.

• Using the Thumbnail A and Thumbnail B windows together, you can merge raster

data from more than one ﬁle, even if the ﬁles were printed from different applications on different computer platforms.

DocBuilder’s merge features eliminate the limitations of particular software applications. You can merge raster pages of documents of different types, and even different computer operating systems. You can merge color pages from graphics programs with text pages from a word processor.

Previewing print jobs

You can use the Thumbnail A window to preview pages of the currently RIPping job. You can also use Thumbnail A, as well as Thumbnail B, to preview any raster data job in the RIP or Print areas.

The thumbnail windows also allow you to open an editable thumbnail view of a held raster job in the RIP area and perform electronic collation or document merging. This feature, called DocBuilder, is described on page 7-24.

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To see the progress of jobs as they are RIPped, you can leave the Thumbnail A window open in RIP preview mode.

TO VIEW THUMBNAILS OF THE CURRENTLY RIPPING FILE:

1. Click the Thumbnail A tab at the right of the Job List window to open the slider.

2. Click the RIP preview icon at the left side of the window.

In this mode, Thumbnail A displays each page of the currently processing job after it has been RIPped.

Click to display the currently rasterizing job

TO VIEW THUMBNAILS OF ANY RASTER DATA FILE:

Click to close the

thumbnail window

3. Choose a PS ﬁle in the Spool or Print area and select RIP and Hold, Print, or Print and Hold.

As pages are RIPped, they are displayed in the Thumbnail A window.

4. When you have ﬁnished viewing, click the Thumbnail A tab to close the thumbnail window.

1. Select any raster data job in the RIP or Print area.

2. Choose Thumbnail A or Thumbnail B from the Job menu.

If you choose Thumbnail A, make sure the raster data preview icon (at the left side of the window) is selected.

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NOTE: Wait until all pages have been displayed before opening another raster ﬁle with

Thumbnail A. If the job contains many pages, it may take some time for the entire job to be displayed.

Raster data preview icon

Click to close the

thumbnail window

3. When you have ﬁnished viewing, click the Thumbnail A or Thumbnail B tab to close the thumbnail window.

Editing and merging ﬁles with DocBuilder

When you select a raster data job and choose the Thumbnail A or Thumbnail B command from the Job menu, the corresponding Thumbnail slider opens automatically , displaying thumbnails of the editable ﬁle. To close the Thumbnail slider, click anywhere in the tab along the right edge of the Thumbnail window. When the Thumbnail window is open, the arrows in the tab point to the right, indicating that clicking the tab retracts the slider.

With the Thumbnail A window you can see thumbnail views of any raster data job— that is, any ﬁle that is currently RIPping, or any ﬁle that has been RIPped and held to disk. You can also use the Thumbnail A window to edit a raster ﬁle—you can change the sequence of pages, delete pages, duplicate pages, and copy pages from other raster ﬁles into the Thumbnail A window. You can save the edited raster ﬁle as a new printable document.

Click to expand or retract the Thumbnail B window

Thumbnail B (source)

Click to expand or retract the Thumbnail A window

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The Thumbnail B window can also display thumbnails of a raster job, and the document displayed in Thumbnail B can be used as a source for editing the document shown in Thumbnail A.

NOTE: Be careful not to delete a Thumbnail job entirely without ﬁrst saving a copy.

Click here to close the Thumbnail B window

Thumbnail A (target)

Click here to close the Thumbnail A window

You can merge documents by dragging (copying) one or more entire pages from Thumbnail B to Thumbnail A. This creates a new document in the Thumbnail A window. If you select one or more pages in the Thumbnail A window, the commands in the Page menu give you additional editing possibilities. Multiple undos of Page menu commands are possible.

You can merge pages from multiple documents into the Thumbnail A document by opening documents one after another in the Thumbnail B window. Documents in the Thumbnail B window are view-only, and while you can copy pages from Thumbnail B to Thumbnail A, you cannot edit the Thumbnail B document. A merged document that you create in Thumbnail A can be saved (with a different name) as a new raster data ﬁle.

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The ability to work with raster ﬁles gives you new opportunities to combine documents from different sources into a single printer ﬁle. For example, you can combine full color covers and chapter head pages created in a page layout application with two-color text pages created in a document processing application. Or, you can customize a slide presentation by inserting slides from a different presentation.

You can display two raster ﬁles at once: a source ﬁle and a target ﬁle. The target ﬁle is displayed in the Thumbnail A window, the source in Thumbnail B. Both ﬁles must be held raster jobs in the RIP area.

NOTE: You cannot create a new PostScript ﬁle in this process; you must print the

merged raster ﬁle, which has references to the original P ostScript ﬁles. Before editing or merging ﬁles with DocBuilder, make sure the source ﬁles were RIPped using the print option settings and the resident calibration you want for the ﬁnal output. Raster ﬁles edited with DocBuilder cannot be reRIPped.

TO VIEW AND EDIT RASTER DATA JOBS:

1. Select a raster data job and choose Thumbnail A from the Job menu.

The ﬁle must be a held raster job in the RIP area.

2. In the Thumbnail A window, right-click a thumbnail image to see the commands available for pages in Thumbnail A.

These commands can also be accessed from the Page menu (see page 7-13) as well as from buttons along the left side of the Thumbnail A window (see illustration below).

Click to open a full-screen preview of the page

Click to duplicate a page

Click to delete a page

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To scroll through the pages in Thumbnail A, you can click in the empty area to the left or right of the slider bar, or click on the arrows.

Delete deletes the currently selected page. Duplicate duplicates the currently selected page. Open Preview opens a full-screen preview of the currently selected page (see

“Full-screen previews” on page 7-32).

Undo undoes the previous DocBuilder command—this command is available only from

the Page menu.

3. To move pages within Thumbnail A, left-click to select the page(s) and hold down the mouse button as you drag the selected page(s) to the new location.

Shift-click to select multiple, sequential pages; Ctrl-click to select multiple, nonsequential pages. Make sure to release the Shift or Ctrl key before moving the pages.

If you move the page(s) on top of existing page(s), the page(s) will be overwritten.

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If the icon does not have an arrow, the page(s) will be replaced; if the icon has an arrow, the page(s) will be inserted.

…

eplace single page Replace multiple pages

…

Move single page Move multiple pages

between two pages between two pages

…

Move single page Move multiple pages

before first page before first page

…

Move single page Move multiple pages

after last page after last page

4. When you are ﬁnished editing, click the Thumbnail A tab.

If you have edited the job, you are prompted to save the job (click Yes) and enter a new name.

5. Enter a new name and click OK.

The new raster ﬁle is now in the RIP area, ready to print. If you saved the edited ﬁle with a new name, the original source ﬁle remains held in the RIP area.

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TO MERGE TWO RASTER DATA JOBS:

1. In the Thumbnail A window, display the document you wish to edit.

The ﬁle must be a held raster job in the RIP area.

2. Right-click another source document ﬁle (a held job with a raster icon) and select Thumbnail B.

The Thumbnail B tab opens a second thumbnail view which cannot be edited but can be a source for pages added to the document in Thumbnail A.

NOTE: To merge documents, the page sizes of the source document and the target

document must be the same.

3. In the Thumbnail B window, left-click to select the page(s) and hold down the mouse button as you drag the selected page(s) to the new location in Thumbnail A.

Shift-click to select multiple, sequential pages; Ctrl-click to select multiple, nonsequential pages. Make sure to release the Shift or Ctrl key before moving the pages.

To scroll through the pages in Thumbnail A and Thumbnail B, you can click in the empty area to the left or right of the slider bar, or click on the arrows.

To replace page(s), drag Thumbnail B page(s) on top of page(s) in Thumbnail A; to add page(s), drag the page(s) to a new position between pages, before the ﬁrst page, or after the last page in Thumbnail A (see the icons on page 7-28).

NOTE: To insert a Thumbnail B page directly after the last Thumbnail A page, drag the

Thumbnail B page so that it is just to the right of the last Thumbnail A page and shows an arrow pointing to the right. If the Thumbnail B page is placed too far to the right of the last Thumbnail A page, the Thumbnail B page will replace the last Thumbnail A page.

Thumbnail B

Page 4 copied from the document in Thumbnail B

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Multiple undos are available; use the Undo command (from the Page menu) to undo all the way back to your ﬁrst edit. There is no Redo function.

NOTE: Make sure to save the merged job before deleting any of the source jobs you used

to create the merged job. Thumbnail B pages moved into Thumbnail A adopt some speciﬁc attributes of the

Thumbnail A job, such as the document and user name. However, many color-related print options that are set in the Thumbnail B page, such as CMYK Simulation and Rendering Style, remain with the speciﬁc page. This could r esult in a merged job being made up of pages with different attributes.

Generally, the print option settings speciﬁed for the Thumbnail A job that are adopted by the pages copied from Thumbnail B do not require reRIPping to take effect. The one exception is the setting speciﬁed for the Save Fast Reprint option, which requires reRIPping if you want to change it.

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4. To close the Thumbnail view, click once on the same tab you used to open it

5. If you have edited Thumbnail A, you are pr ompted to save the job (click Y es) and enter

The print option settings that remain with the pages copied from Thumbnail B into Thumbnail A are generally those that do require reRIPing to take effect.

Attributes that do not require reRIPping can be changed for the newly merged job without having to reRIP any original PostScript ﬁles. A ttributes that require r eRIPping result in reRIPping of the original PostScript ﬁle(s) associated with Thumbnail A.

(Thumbnail A or Thumbnail B tab).

a new name. Enter a new name and click OK.

The new raster ﬁle is now in the RIP area, ready to print, together with the original source and target ﬁles.

NOTE: If you print the edited raster ﬁle, it appears in the Job Log with the name of the

original job, not the new name you speciﬁed for the edited job. Since you cannot create a new P ostScript ﬁle by merging two raster data jobs, you must

print the merged raster ﬁle, which has references to the original PostScript ﬁles. If a merged job is reRIPped and printed, then only the pages of the original PostScript job in Thumbnail A will be processed and printed.

NOTE: In cases where multiple users are connected to the Fiery X2 via

Fiery W ebSpooler and/or F iery S pooler , and one user makes changes to a Thumbnail A job, not all users may see the results of those changes. If you are unable to view changes in a job, or if selecting a Thumbnail windo w results in a message indicating z ero pages, then close and relaunch Fiery WebSpooler or Fiery Spooler.

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Full-screen previews

Double-clicking any page in the Thumbnail A window opens a full-screen preview of the page. The full-screen preview is a view-only display, and it takes time to retrieve the data. Once begun, the process cannot be canceled.

NOTE: If you have edited a raster job with DocBuilder, you must save the edited ﬁle

before you can view full-screen previews of all its pages.

Using the icons in the full-screen preview, you can display adjacent pages, rotate the page, or close the preview.

Click to view adjacent pages

Click to rotate 90 degrees clockwise

Click on arrows, in empty spaces, or move bar to scroll left or right

Click to

close the

full-screen

preview

Click on

arrows, in

empty

spaces, or

move bar

to scroll

up or down

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Using the Job Log

From the Fiery WebSpooler, you can view and print a log of all jobs printed by the Fiery X2, including jobs downloaded with the Fiery Downloader.

NOTE: If you logged in as Administrator, you can delete the Job Log from the

Fiery WebSpooler (see page 7-34). The Job Log is not available if you logged in as Guest.

TO DISPLAY, UPDATE, PRINT, DELETE, AND SAVE THE JOB LOG:

1. Choose Show Job Log from the Fiery WebSpooler Window menu.

2. Click All or specify a date range.

3. Click OK.

The Job Log appears in a new browser window.

NOTE: The Delete button appears only if you logged in as Administrator.

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Update

Delete

The Job Log displays each job and the following information: status, document name, user name, date, start time, end time, process time, ﬁle size, device, paper size, media, number of originals, number of color pages, number of black-and-white pages, total number of pages, Note1, and Note2.

The Status column provides the following information about jobs:

OK ERROR CANCEL

4. To update the Job Log, click the Update button.

5. To print the Job Log, choose Print Job Log from the File menu or click the Print button.

The information displayed in the Job Log window prints to the current Fiery X2. When you print the Job Log, totals are printed for all appropriate columns.

6. If you logged in as Administrator, you can choose Delete Job Log from the File menu or click the Delete button to clear the Job Log.

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

The job was printed normally. An error occurred during processing or printing. The job was canceled before printing was completed.

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Differences between Fiery WebSpooler and Fiery Spooler for Windows

Though the interfaces for both Fiery Spooler for Windows and Fiery WebSpooler are almost identical, there are some feature differences.

Connecting to a different Fiery X2

With Fiery Spooler, you can connect to a different Fiery X2 from within the application using the following procedure.

TO CONNECT TO A DIFFERENT FIERY X2:

1. Choose Open Fiery from the File menu.

2. Select the Fiery X2 in the Chooser window that appears.

For information on setting up the connection to the server, see Getting Started.

3. Click OK.

The Fiery Spooler main window appears.

Saving the Job Log as a ﬁle

With Fiery Spooler, you can save the Job Log as a ﬁle that you can view with a different application.

TO SAVE THE JOB LOG AS A FILE:

1. Choose Export Job Log from the File menu or click the Export button at the top of the Job Log window.

2. In the File name area, enter a name for the Job Log ﬁle (the default name is Fiery Job Log.txt).

Export button

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3. Browse to the location where you want to save the ﬁle, and click Save.

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

separated by tabs.

Fiery Spooler for Mac OS computers

For Mac OS computers, the Fiery Spooler interface and functionality differs from the Fiery WebSpooler, and the Windows version of Fiery Spooler.

On a Mac OS computer, Fiery Spooler jobs can be in one of the following queues: Print Normal print jobs sent to the Fiery X2 appear in the Print queue. You

can move and manipulate these jobs as described below.

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

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

Printed The jobs most recently sent to the Fiery X2 are saved in the Printed

queue. You can drag these jobs back to the Print queue to print additional copies. The number of jobs saved in the Printed queue is set by your system administrator in Fiery X2 Setup.

Jobs in the queues are stored on the Fiery X2 hard disk. Make sure that you leave enough space on the hard disk for fonts and other Fiery Spooler jobs.

You can use the Fiery Spooler Job Log to view information about jobs printed to the Fiery X2 for job accounting purposes, or saved for reference. The Job Log can be printed to the Fiery X2 or saved as a ﬁle and viewed in other applications.

TO LAUNCH FIERY SPOOLER ON A MAC OS COMPUTER:

Server name or IP address of Fiery X2

Current Print and RIP status

Name of the job currently printing

Name of the job currently processing

Scroll list of every document sent to the Print queue

Scroll list of every document sent to the Hold queue

Jobs with PostScript errors appear in Printed queue with Alert icon

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1. Double-click the Fiery Spooler icon.

2. If your network is divided into zones, select the zone in which the Fiery X2 is located.

3. Select the Fiery X2 from the list of servers that appears, and click Connect.

The Fiery Spooler main window appears.

Available space on Fiery X2 hard disk

4. To access Administrator functions, choose Password from the Administrator menu.

This menu is active only if a password was created on the Fiery X2.

5. Enter the password in the window that appears, and click OK.

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The job list

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

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

Buttons appear above the scroll list: Update Click this button to update the information in the Fiery Spooler main

window.

Duplicate and Print

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

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

Delete/ Cancel

The icons provide information about the job:

Printing Printing icon The job that is currently printing appears in this list; it can be selected

Waiting Printing icon Jobs that have been processed and are waiting to print appear in this

Ripping RIP icon Jobs that are processing appear in this list; they can be selected and

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

this button to print it to the Print queue.

this button to move it to the Hold queue.

Drag a document onto this button or select the document and click this button to delete it or cancel processing or printing it. You will be asked to verify that you want to delete the job. You can eliminate the veriﬁcation notice by turning off the Conﬁrm ﬁle deletion option in the Preferences dialog box.

and deleted to cancel printing.

list, but they are dimmed because their settings cannot be changed and they cannot be moved or canceled.

deleted to cancel processing.

XEROX 5000AP User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Preface

About the documentation

About this manual

Terminology and conventions

About PostScript printer drivers and PPDs

Supported paper sizes

Permissions

Before you begin

Chapter 1: Using the Control P anel

Introduction to the Control Panel

Activity light

Buttons

Display window

Functions menu

Safety warnings

Chapter 2: Printing from Windows Computers

Printing from applications

Setting options and printing from Windows 95

Saving and loading print option settings

Setting options and printing from Windows 3.1x

Setting options and printing from Windows NT 4.0

Printing to the parallel port

Using Fiery Downloader to print

Chapter 3: Printing from Mac OS Computers

Printing from applications

Setting print options and printing from Mac OS computers

Using Fiery Downloader to print

Chapter 4: Printing from UNIX Workstations

Chapter 5: Scanning

Scanning from the copier

Fiery Scan color conversion settings

Using Fiery Scan

Chapter 6: Downloading Files and Fonts

Using Fiery Downloader

Printing with the Fiery Downloader

Downloading and managing printer fonts

Printer fonts and Mac OS screen fonts

Chapter 7: Tracking and Managing Print Jobs

Tools for job tracking and management

Fiery Spooler

Access privileges

Accessing information with the WebLink WebTool

Job management features

Job List window

Menu bar

Status bars

Active jobs and Held jobs

Job icons

Spool area

RIP area

Print area

Job commands

Overriding print settings

Thumbnails and full-screen previews in DocBuilder

Previewing print jobs

Using the Job Log

Fiery Spooler for Mac OS computers

The job list