Xerox Fiery ZX 9 Printing Guide

Printing Guide

FIERY ZX-9

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Contents

Preface

How the Fiery ZX works

About PostScript printer drivers and PPDs xi

Before you begin About this manual About the documentation Supported paper sizes

Non-imageable area xv Toner reduction xv

Chapter 1: Printing from Windows Computers

Printing from applications

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

Using the Fiery Downloader to print

Chapter 2: Printing from Mac OS Computers

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1-1

1-12

Printing from applications

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

Using the Fiery Downloader to print

Chapter 3: Printing from UNIX Workstations

Printing to the Fiery ZX

2-1

2-5

3-1

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Chapter 4: Scanning Jobs

Scanning from the copier

Fiery Scan color conversion settings 4-1 Using Fiery Scan 4-2

Chapter 5: Downloading Files and Fonts

The Fiery Downloader

Printing with the Fiery Downloader 5-4 Downloading and managing printer fonts 5-8

Chapter 6: Tracking and Managing Print Jobs

Fiery WebTools

Checking Fiery ZX status with the Status WebTool 6-2 Accessing information with the WebLink WebTool 6-2

Appendix A: Setting Print Options

Where to set print options

Override hierarchy A-2 More information about print options A-6

4-1

5-1

6-1

A-1

Appendix B: Font List

PostScript printer fonts

Adobe Type 1 fonts B-1 TrueType fonts B-3

B-1

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Appendix C: Troubleshooting

Maintaining optimal system performance Troubleshooting

General printing problems C-2 Problems with print quality C-5 Problems with the Fiery Downloader C-7 Problems with Fiery Scan C-7

C-1 C-2

Index

xi About this manual

Preface

The Fiery ZX-9 Color Server enables you to use your color copier as a networked printer. You can use the Fiery ZX to print ﬁnal documents or to proof jobs you will later print on an offset press. You send a print job to the Fiery ZX 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.

Your Fiery ZX-9 Color Server system includes Command WorkStation

software, which enables an operator to manage all jobs sent to the Fiery ZX. Although it may not be the case at all sites, the documentation for this product assumes the presence of an operator who controls and manages jobs sent by users from remote workstations.

This manual uses the term “Fiery ZX” to refer to the Fiery ZX-9 Color Server.

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About this manual

This manual is intended for those remote users who send jobs via the network or via a parallel port connection between the Fiery ZX and a user’s workstation. It covers the following topics:

• Printing from a Windows computer

• Printing from a Mac OS computer

• Printing from UNIX

• Scanning images from the copier using Adobe® Photoshop® and the Fiery ScanTM

plug-in

• Downloading ﬁles and fonts using Fiery Downloader

• Specifying and overriding job settings, a list of fonts installed on the Fiery ZX, and

troubleshooting information

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About the documentation

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

• The

Conﬁguration Guide

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

•

Getting Started

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

• The

Printing Guide

send jobs via remote workstations on the network or via a direct parallel port connection.

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

explains basic conﬁguration and administration of the

describes the printing features of the Fiery ZX for users who

• The

Color Guide

to a Fiery ZX Color Server. It also includes practical color printing tips and application notes that explain how to print to the Fiery ZX from popular Windows and Mac OS applications.

• The

Job Management Guide

including the Command WorkStation, and how they can be used to manage jobs and maintain color quality. This book is intended for an operator or administrator, or a user with the necessary access privileges, who needs to monitor and manage job ﬂow, perform color calibration, and troubleshoot problems that may arise.

•

Release Notes

the problems you may encounter.

provides an introduction to the basics of color theory and printing

explains the functions of the Fiery ZX client utilities,

provide last-minute product information and workarounds for some of

How the Fiery ZX works

The Fiery ZX 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 ZX installed, you can still use the copier to make copies.

xiii Supported paper sizes

When printing from an application, your Windows or Mac OS computer communicates with the Fiery ZX by means of an Adobe® 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 ZX includes information about the features of both the copier and the Fiery ZX Color Server.

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

Supported paper sizes

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

• 8" x 10"

• Letter, Letter-R (8.5" x 11")

• Legal 13 (8.5" x 13")

• Legal (8.5" x 14")

• 9" x 12"

• Tabloid (11" x 17")

• B5, B5-R (182 mm x 257 mm)

• A4, A4-R (210 mm x 297 mm)

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• Docupac (241 mm x 297 mm)

• B4 (257 mm x 364 mm)

• A3 (297 mm x 420 mm)

Before you begin

Before using the Fiery ZX, follow these steps:

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

Conﬁguration 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 the affect color output.

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

Color Guide

for information on print options and application features that

If your site has an operator who controls all printing, you may have access to the Hold queue only. In this case, all jobs you send are spooled to the Fiery ZX and held until the operator sends them to their next stage of processing.

You may also have access to the Print queue. If you send jobs to this queue, jobs spool to the Fiery ZX and proceed to RIP and print according to your job settings—unless someone (you, or an operator, for example) intervenes.

Lastly, you may have access to the Direct connection, which sends jobs straight to the server without spooling.

6. Find out whether the Fiery ZX is set up to use the Fiery WebTools and what y our 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 the Fiery WebSpooler.

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Non-imageable area

The Fiery ZX non-imageable area for 5790 and 5799 color copiers is 8 mm on the leading edge and 3 mm on the trailing, near, and far edges.

Toner reduction

The Fiery ZX maximum toner density for 5790 and 5799 color copiers is 250%.

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1-1 Printing from applications

Chapter 1: Printing from Windows Computers

This chapter describes how to print to the Fiery ZX 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 ZX. If you plan to print ﬁles at another location, you should follow the procedures described in “Saving ﬁles to print at a remote location,” page 1-12.

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

For information on setting up the Windows environment for printing with

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Windows servers connected to the Fiery ZX, see the information on how to connect to the Fiery ZX over the network, install printer drivers, and install the Fiery utilities, see

Getting Started

Conﬁguration Guide

. For

Printing from applications

Once you have installed the Fiery ZX printer driver and set it to the proper port as described in applications. Simply choose the Print command from within your application.

Getting Started

, you should be able to print directly from most Windows

To achieve the best printing results from speciﬁc applications, see the

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 ZX user software, and uses all features of the Fiery ZX.

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

Color Guide

1-2 Printing from Windows Computers

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 ZX, see the Conﬁguration 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 ZX and choose Properties from the File menu.

4. Click the Paper tab.

5. Select the appropriate settings for your print job.

1-3 Printing from applications

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

7. In the Paper type pop-up menu, specify the type of media to use for the job and click

In the Paper size area, specify the page size that your job should print on. In the Paper source pop-up menu, specify the paper tray to use for the job. For

example, you can specify that the job should be printed on pages in the Manual Feed 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 ZX 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.

OK.

1-4 Printing from Windows Computers

8. Click the Fiery Options tab.

9. Click through the Job, Color1, Color2, Color3, and Finishing tabs, and select the appropriate settings for your print job.

These print options are speciﬁc to the Fiery ZX. They override settings in Fiery ZX Printer Setup; the settings can also be changed in the Properties dialog box with the Command WorkStation, or in the Override Print Settings dialog box with the Fiery W ebS pooler or F iery Spooler . F or information about these options and overrides, see Appendix A, “Setting Print Options.”

If you choose server, or the information entered during Setup.

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

11. Click OK to activate the current settings.

Printer’s default, the F iery ZX prints with either the default value for the

1-5 Printing from applications

12. From your application, choose Print.

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

You can 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.

14. Click OK to begin printing.

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.

1-6 Printing from Windows Computers

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 ZX user software, and uses all features of the Fiery ZX.

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 ZX in the Installed Printers box and click the Setup button.

4. Click the Paper tab.

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5. Select appropriate settings for your print job.

In the Paper Source pop-up menu, specify the paper tray to use for the job. For example, you can specify that the job should be printed on pages in the Manual Feed tray. The Paper Source selection is valid for the current job only.

In the Paper Size pop-up menu, specify the page size that your job should print on.

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 ZX 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. Select the appropriate settings for your job and click OK.

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

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

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8. Choose Print in your application.

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

The Color Printer Job Notes dialog box appears.

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.

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

You can 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.

11. Click OK to begin printing.

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. Select the appropriate settings for your print job.

In the Paper Size menu, specify the page size that your job should print on. In the Paper Source menu, specify the paper tray to use for the job. For example, you

can specify that the job should be printed on pages in the Manual Feed 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 ZX 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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