Xpres CX-24 User Manual

ULTRAGRAPHICS

Instruction

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CONTENTS

Section 1

Page 1

Section 2

Page 2

Page 3
Page 4

Section 3

Page 5
Page 6
Page 7

Installation & Setup

Setting up the Epson CX6600 Printer

Using CorelDRAW

An introduction to CorelDRAW and its tools
Common tasks using CorelDRAW

CorelDRAW's most common tools

Ultragraphics

Roland CX-24 Front Panel Overview
Using the Roland CX-24
Setting the Media sizes on the Roland CX-24

Pages 8 to 9

Section 4

Page 10 & 11

Section 5

Page 12

Section 6

Page 13

The Ultragraphics process

Producing cut lines

Using CorelDRAW's Drawing tools & Drawing
cut lines

Scanning

Scanning using the Epson CX6600 series printer

Troubleshooting

General troubleshooting

Instructions in this manual refer to Windows XP and CorelDRAW 11 or 12. Other versions
may differ.

Setting up the Epson CX6600 printer

XP4052

To get the best results from the Inkjet Dark paper, you will need to change a few settings on the Epson
CX6600 driver. In Windows XP, browse to your Printers and Faxes folder, right click on the Epson
CX6600 and click on Properties then click Printing Preferences. Follow the instructions below to set
up the printer driver.

Click Advanced

Change to Photo Papers and
Photo. Change colour mode
to Epson Vivid.

Click Save Setting and name
it 'Inkjet Dark'

You have now completed the Epson CX6600 setup for Inkjet Dark transfer paper.

Click OK twice to close the Epson CX6600 properties down.

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Introducing CorelDraw

& its tools

CorelDRAW is an extremely powerful program of which you will probably only need to use half
of the tools and features of the program. In this section we will introduce you to the tools in
CorelDRAW and what they do and also take you through the most common tasks you will need
to complete in CorelDRAW.
Below is an image of the toolbox in CorelDRAW with explanations of the tools.

Pick Tool

Shaping Tools

Zoom Tools

Drawing Tools

Rectangle Tools

Ellipse Tools

Polygon Tools

Basic Shapes Tool

Text Tool

Interactive Tools

Eyedropper Tools

Outline Tool

Fill Tool

Interactive Fill Tool

Each of the tools shown here except the Pick tool and the Text tool
have extra tools hidden in what are called flyout menu's, to access
a fly out menu hold the left mouse button down on the corresponding
button and the menu will pop out allowing you access to the extra
tools.
Each of the flyout menus are shown below giving you a breakdown
of where all the tools are stored, on the next page we will go over the
most common tools and their functions.

Shaping Tools

In order:
Shape Tool, Knife Tool, Eraser Tool, Smudge Brush, Roughen Brush,
Free Transform Tool

Zoom Tools

In order:
Zoom Tool, Pan Tool

Drawing Tools

In order:
Freehand tool, Bezier Tool, Artistic Media Tool, Pen Tool,
Polyline Tool, 3 Point Curve, Interactive Connector,
Dimension Tool

Rectangle Tools

In order:
Rectangle Tool,
3 Point Rectangle

Interactive Tools Eyedropper Tools Outline Tool

In order:
Blend Tool, Contour Tool,
Distortion Tool, Envelope Tool
Extrude Tool, Shadow Tool,
Transparency Tool

In order:
Interactive Fill, Mesh Fill

Ellipse Tools

In order:
Ellipse Tool,
3 Point Ellipse Tool

In order:
Eyedropper Tool,
Paintbucket Tool

Fill ToolInteractive Fill Tools

In order:
Fill Tool, Fountain Fill, Pattern Fill, Texture Fill,
Postscript Fill, No Fill, Colour Docker Window

Polygon Tools

In order:
Polygon Tool,
Graph Paper Tool,
Spiral Tool

Basic Shapes Tools

In order:
Basic Shapes Tool, Arrow Shapes Tool,
Flowchart Shapes, Star Shapes, Callout Shapes

In order:
Outline Pen Tool, Outline Colour Tool, No outline,
Various widths of line, Colour Docker Window

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Common CorelDRAW

Tasks

Grouping & Ungrouping

CorelDRAW allows objects to be grouped with other objects this means that when one object is
moved or resized and other objects grouped with it will also have the same action applied to them.
To group objects, use the pick tool to select the objects and either go to your arrange menu, then
select "Group" or click on the button in the menu bar labelled "Group", to Ungroup do the same
action but select the "Ungroup" option.

Duplicating an Object

To duplicate any object onscreen, select the object and press Ctrl + D to duplicate or click on the
Arrange menu and select Transformations then position.

Notes

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