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Page 3: ...United States and certain other countries of SyQuest Technology Inc UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories a wholly owned subsidiary of Novell Inc PANTONE is a registered trademar...

Page 4: ...ed 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 a...

Page 5: ...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 t...

Page 6: ...priate United States and foreign government licenses Your failure to comply with this provision is a material breach of this Agreement Government Use Use duplication or disclosure of the Software by t...

Page 7: ...tion Using the Control Panel 1 1 Activity light 1 2 Buttons 1 2 Display window 1 3 Starting and shutting down 1 6 Starting the RIP Station 1 6 Restarting the RIP Station 1 7 Shutting down the RIP Stat...

Page 8: ...reference pages 3 9 CMYK Color Reference pages 3 9 RGB Color Reference pages 3 10 PANTONE reference pages 3 10 Chapter 4 Downloading Files and Fonts Using the Fiery Downloader 4 1 Printing with the F...

Page 9: ...4 Editing simulations 6 5 Managing simulations 6 9 Testing and applying simulations 6 10 Chapter 7 Printing with UNIX Workstations Printing to the RIP Station 7 1 Appendix A Print Options Where to se...

Page 10: ...eshooting Error messages C 1 Basic troubleshooting tips C 3 General printing problems C 4 Problems with print quality C 8 Problems with utilities C 9 Problems with Fiery Downloader C 9 Problems with F...

Page 11: ...esses RIPs those files and then sends them to the printer s print engine Windows and Mac OS computers communicate with the RIP Station by means of a PostScript printer driver and PPDs PostScript print...

Page 12: ...nds for some of the problems you may encounter About this manual This manual includes the following topics Printing from a Windows computer Printing from a Mac OS computer Downloading fonts and files...

Page 13: ...y Windows based computer with an 80386 80486 or Pentium processor and at least 4MB of RAM A mouse supported by Windows A CD ROM drive For installing user software you need a Windows computer with a CD...

Page 14: ...lling user software you need a Mac OS computer with a CD ROM drive You can install printer drivers either from the User Software CD or via the internet with the Fiery WebTools Installer For installing...

Page 15: ...P printing software that conforms to RFC1179 Berkeley lpr protocol Parallel port To use the RIP Station parallel port you need Windows computer with an 80286 processor or higher and at least 1MB RAM P...

Page 16: ...y WebTools Installer Status WebSpooler and WebLink Fiery Downloader Fiery Spooler Fiery Print Calibrator For installation of RIP Station system software CD ROM drive and 50 pin SCSI cable to connect t...

Page 17: ...e the Administrator Guide Using the Control Panel The Control Panel on the front of the RIP Station enables you to access special features and view information about jobs processing and printing It co...

Page 18: ...h a remote computer for example through the Fiery Spooler No light The RIP Station is off Line selection buttons There are four line selection buttons on the right side of the Control Panel Use these...

Page 19: ...ng 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...

Page 20: ...current status of the RIP Station The RIP Station status can be Idle Initializing Busy Processing or Printing Number of MB The space in megabytes available on the RIP Station hard disk Version The sys...

Page 21: ...all Setup settings information about the current simulation and the Ethernet address if applicable of the RIP Station Job Log Prints a log of the last 55 jobs For information on the fields in the Job...

Page 22: ...el If any diagnostics fail more information and instructions appear Contact EPSON if the RIP Station encounters problems while running the diagnostics When the diagnostics are finished the following m...

Page 23: ...nting or Ripping appears on the Control Panel and the activity light is flashing green the RIP Station is busy When these jobs are finished Idle appears on the Info screen 2 Press the Menu button once...

Page 24: ...NOTE Always obtain permission from the network administrator to take the RIP Station off the network TO SHUT DOWN THE RIP STATION 1 Make sure the RIP Station is displays Idle When Printing or Ripping...

Page 25: ...r For information on setting up the Windows environment for printing with Windows servers connected to the RIP Station see the Administrator Guide For information on how to connect to the RIP Station...

Page 26: ...ol panel Printing with Windows 95 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 inf...

Page 27: ...22 3 Setting print options 4 Choose Properties from the File menu 5 Click the Paper tab and select the appropriate settings for your print job...

Page 28: ...l the job 6 Click the Fiery Options tab and choose the appropriate settings The options in this dialog box are specific to the RIP Station They override settings in Printer Setup on the RIP Station Co...

Page 29: ...e Start menu button choose Settings and choose Printers 2 Right click your printer icon and choose Properties 3 At the Paper tab select a custom page size icon In this example Custom page 1 is selecte...

Page 30: ...nection to the proper printer 4 Select the custom page size and click OK 5 Select the print options for the job 6 Select Print from the application and print the document Printing with Windows 3 1x Yo...

Page 31: ...and select the appropriate settings for your print job For best performance it is recommended to use portrait orientation If you print landscape images rotate them within the application 5 Click the P...

Page 32: ...options They override settings in Printer Setup on the RIP Station Control Panel you can also override some of these settings in the Fiery Spooler or WebSpooler Override Print Settings dialog box For...

Page 33: ...TO SET PRINT OPTIONS AND PRINT FROM WINDOWS NT 4 0 WITH THE MICROSOFT POSTSCRIPT PRINTER DRIVER 1 Click the Windows NT Start button and choose Settings Printers 2 Right click to select the Fiery LX S...

Page 34: ...it is recommended to use portrait orientation If you print landscape images rotate them within the application 7 Click the Advanced tab 8 Under Document Options select Printer Features and then selec...

Page 35: ...oes not support PostScript 3 features so you cannot set any options specific to the RIP Station The Windows NT 4 0 driver does support PostScript 3 features See the Setup Guide for more information Pr...

Page 36: ...ript file in binary format not ASCII verify that the Network Setup option Ignore EOF character is set to Yes You can use the Functions menu on the RIP Station to print the Configuration page to view t...

Page 37: ...lution and media combinations for your printer model For information on installing these files see the Setup Guide CMYK color reference pages The Color Reference folder contains a PostScript file of c...

Page 38: ...les are included for several resolution and media combinations You can open the reference pages with a word processing program such as Microsoft Word or WordPad When you print files using the informat...

Page 39: ...er you have installed the Adobe PostScript printer driver included with the user software you can adjust printer settings in the Print Options dialog box for the RIP Station For information on achievi...

Page 40: ...If your system administrator disabled the connection to one of the queues or the direct connection the corresponding name will not appear in this list 6 With the RIP Station selected click Setup The C...

Page 41: ...ou can also choose a different printer in the AdobePS print dialog box when you print without having to go through the Chooser Setting print options With Macintosh applications print options are set f...

Page 42: ...choose Page Setup from the application s File menu 2 In the Page Setup Page Attributes dialog box specify a paper size a print orientation and a scale percentage For best performance it is recommende...

Page 43: ...the other Print dialog box displays Notes Color Matching and Printer Specific Options and specify the appropriate settings for the job The print options that you should typically use for printing to...

Page 44: ...information appears on the Job Log and you can use it for job identification or accounting purposes In the Print Color Matching dialog box you can specify color management settings For most color prin...

Page 45: ...nt options see Appendix A Print Options Some options in the Printer Specific Options window can also be set from an application If this is true for your application make the setting in the Printer Spe...

Page 46: ...tup choose Custom Page Default 4 Enter the page dimensions and margins You can view the minimum and maximum sizes by using the pull down menu under PPD Limits 5 To save this custom page size enter a n...

Page 47: ...a combinations for your printer model For information on installing these files see the Setup Guide CMYK Color Reference pages The Color Reference folder contains a PostScript file of color reference...

Page 48: ...for several resolution and media combinations You can open the reference pages with a word processing program such as Microsoft Word or SimpleText When you print files using the information in the PAN...

Page 49: ...pter The windows and dialog boxes you see illustrated are the Windows 95 Windows NT version You ll see the Mac OS version only when it is substantially different from the Windows version Using the Fie...

Page 50: ...ctions display in the Toolbar at the top of the window Click a button to perform a specific function The icons are Open Click this button to connect to a different RIP Station Download Click this butt...

Page 51: ...der can save time TO DOWNLOAD A FILE OR FONT WITH THE FIERY DOWNLOADER 1 Save a file in PostScript or EPS format With many applications you can save a PostScript file by selecting the PostScript optio...

Page 52: ...44 4 Downloading Files and Fonts 3 Choose Download from the File menu or click the Download button A dialog box containing a list of files appears...

Page 53: ...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 6 Select the filename and click Add File s The File name field Win...

Page 54: ...d 8 for any other jobs as needed 10 When you have selected the files and fonts click Download 11 To cancel downloading press the Escape key on a Windows computer or Command Period on a Mac OS computer...

Page 55: ...ot already installed on the RIP Station as long as the printer fonts are installed in your System Folder These fonts remain in the RIP Station only until your document has been printed If you print th...

Page 56: ...r 2 Select a font and click the Delete button to delete the font Shift click to select multiple fonts NOTE The printer fonts included with the RIP Station resident fonts are locked Locked fonts appear...

Page 57: ...computers you cannot use the Fiery Spooler with the parallel port Also you cannot use the Fiery Spooler with Windows 3 1x NOTE The Fiery Spooler and Fiery WebTools for Mac OS and Windows computers are...

Page 58: ...ars Print Normal print jobs sent to the RIP Station 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 Hold queue until...

Page 59: ...gions that correspond to the different queues and steps in the printing process You can drag a job to the Print or Hold region of the window to move it to the corresponding queue Available disk space...

Page 60: ...o be printed that have not been processed appear with the Print icon This list shows jobs in the order they will be printed Hold Hold icon Jobs in the Hold queue appear with the Hold icon You can move...

Page 61: ...ptimal network performance turn off automatic updating in the Fiery Spooler Preferences dialog box When you want to view updated information in the Fiery Spooler windows choose Update from the Window...

Page 62: ...users can move delete and configure their own print jobs the RIP Station system administrator or anyone with Fiery Spooler Password access can move delete and configure jobs for all users and can re o...

Page 63: ...you frequently print the same file you can send it to the Hold queue and later drag a copy of the file to the Print queue By copying rather than moving a job you leave a copy of the job in the Hold q...

Page 64: ...Move the selected job to another queue by dragging it to the queue icon of your choice or to the Hold or Print section of the job list For example move a job that is currently in the Hold queue to th...

Page 65: ...ons of the Fiery Spooler main window You can change print settings only for your own jobs system administrators who enter the Fiery Spooler password can change print settings for any job TO CHANGE PRI...

Page 66: ...T AND SAVE THE JOB LOG 1 Choose Show Job Log from the Window menu 2 Specify the period for the Job Log in the window that appears Click All to view all jobs since the Job Log was cleared click Date if...

Page 67: ...w points of a standard paper size the paper size dimensions is reported as the nearest whole numbers For example a custom paper size defined as 10 5 inches by 12 4 inches is displayed in the Job Log a...

Page 68: ...oose Password from the Administrator menu This menu is active only if a password was created on the RIP Station 2 Enter the password in the window that appears This password is set in the Setup on the...

Page 69: ...PageNow username from the Fiery Spooler Administrator menu 3 Enter your User Name 4 Choose Start Error Paging from the Administrator menu to enable automatic paging To stop paging choose Stop Error P...

Page 70: ...tion for WebTool access see the Setup Guide The RIP Station has its own home page from which you can select the following WebTools To use the WebTools via the Internet or your site s intranet you need...

Page 71: ...Enter the IP address or the DNS name of the RIP Station Check with the operator or administrator for this information The RIP Station home page appears 3 Click one of the WebTools buttons on the left...

Page 72: ...wser windows and leave the Status window open to continue checking the status of the RIP Station As long as you keep the Status window open it is dynamically updated Tracking and managing jobs You can...

Page 73: ...a password Linking to other Web sites WebLink links you to the EPSON home page www epson com provided a valid Internet connection is available You can change the WebLink destination by holding down t...

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Page 75: ...cannot use the Fiery Print Calibrator with Windows 3 1x NOTE The Fiery Print Calibrator for Mac OS and Windows computers are fundamentally the same differences are noted in this chapter The windows a...

Page 76: ...M SWOP Commercial 3M Match Print SWOP COM F SWOP Commercial FujiColorArt Match Print Custom simulations defined by editing existing simulations DuPont Color Proofing The two DuPont qualified simulati...

Page 77: ...ion on a per job basis choose Print from your application s File menu Under the Printer Specific Options set CMYK Simulation to one of the standard press goals DIC Cromalin EuroSTD or SWOP COM M or ch...

Page 78: ...ON ABOUT THE CURRENT SIMULATION 1 Start the Fiery Print Calibrator 2 Select the RIP Station in the Chooser window and click Connect or OK The text under the Select Simulation button in the Fiery Print...

Page 79: ...he Control Panel Functions menu Editing simulations You can edit the current simulation and save the changes as a new simulation This allows you to fine tune the simulation on your RIP Station to meet...

Page 80: ...ION 1 Click the Select Simulation button in the Fiery Print Calibrator window A dialog box displays a list of simulations available on the RIP Station 2 Select a simulation and click OK Use Local to s...

Page 81: ...e channels to edit You can view the channels for all four color channels Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black or any combination of these Working only with one or two channels at a time helps you to fine tun...

Page 82: ...ve you selected appears and points along the curve are marked so that you can adjust them NOTE You should adjust points in this way after you have entered values in the other area of the window If you...

Page 83: ...ons are saved in a folder called Backup in the folder where Fiery Print Calibrator is located You can save simulations for safekeeping You should always save simulations before updating RIP Station sy...

Page 84: ...RIP Station You can print Comparison Page This page is provided with Fiery Print Calibrator and shows a comparison of an image with and without the simulation User defined CALIB EPS in Hold Queue You...

Page 85: ...e color values click Set Default Simulation This sets the default simulation on the RIP Station Users can choose different simulations when they print by using the CMYK Simulation option 2 Select the...

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Page 87: ...administrator for the name of your queues NOTE FOR ADMINISTRATORS The internal rp names must be matched exactly when setting up printing to the RIP Station These names are printer specific and are co...

Page 88: ...of your RIP Station 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...

Page 89: ...q command to check the job number For example to remove job number 123 from the Print queue of your RIP Station named print_Server type lprm Pprint_Server 123 The lprm command reports the names of any...

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Page 91: ...ser software and the Windows NT 4 0 printer driver you can specify and override job settings when you print a job See Chapter 3 Printing with Mac OS Computers and Chapter 2 Printing with Windows Compu...

Page 92: ...SWOP COM M SWOP COM F Euroscale Cromalin EuroSTD DuPont WaterProof DIC Custom 1 Custom 2 Custom 3 Custom 4 Custom 5 None The default is SWOP COM M for English language systems and Euroscale for Europ...

Page 93: ...r When using a media type for which there is not a corresponding setting on the printer choose Other on the printer Pure Black Text and Graphics Off On The default setting reflects the Pure Black Text...

Page 94: ...rce Phosphors Hitachi EBU Hitachi Ikegami NTSC Radius Pivot SMPTE Trinitron Specifies the phosphors for a custom RGB Source RGB Source must be Other RGB Source White Point 5000 K D50 5500 K 6500 K D65...

Page 95: ...mm x 364 mm B5 1 2 7 16 x 10 12 182 mm x 257 mm B5 Landscape 1 10 12 x 7 16 257 mm x 182 mm Letter 1 2 8 5 x 11 215 9 mm x 279 4 mm Letter Landscape 1 2 11 x 8 5 279 4 mm x 215 9 mm Legal 1 2 8 5 x 14...

Page 96: ...rts and graphs must be used when using a press simulation Print Mode Media Resolution PQ InkJet Paper 720 Photo Quality InkJet paper 720 x 720 PQ InkJet Paper 1440 1440 x 720 PQ Glossy Paper 720 Photo...

Page 97: ...antGarde Book AvantGarde BookOblique AvantGarde Demi AvantGarde DemiOblique Bodoni Bodoni Bold Bodoni Italic Bodoni BoldItalic Bodoni Poster Bodoni PosterCompressed Bookman Demi Bookman DemiItalic Boo...

Page 98: ...gold MonaLisa Recut NewCenturySchlbk Roman NewCenturySchlbk Bold NewCenturySchlbk Italic NewCenturySchlbk BoldItalic Optima Optima Bold Optima Italic Optima BoldItalic Oxford Palatino Roman Palatino B...

Page 99: ...ArialMT Arial BoldMT Arial ItalicMT Arial BoldItalicMT Chicago Geneva HoeflerText Regular HoeflerText Black HoeflerText Italic HoeflerText BlackItalic HoeflerText Ornaments Monaco NewYork TimesNewRom...

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Page 101: ...cation error There is a problem with the printer power or cable connection Make sure the printer is turned on Make sure that the cable between the RIP Station and the printer has not come loose The RI...

Page 102: ...ter s control panel to determine which ink is out No paper tray ___ The specified paper tray is missing or not installed properly Paper jam There is a paper jam in the printer The RIP Station will res...

Page 103: ...ned on in the Chooser on a Mac OS computer open Print Monitor to see the printing status If the status messages indicate the RIP Station is processing or printing your file the RIP Station is still wo...

Page 104: ...ther there may be a problem with the way the second Mac OS computer is connected to the network Check all the cabling and other connections and verify that the network is properly terminated If there...

Page 105: ...g Windows 95 or Windows NT is your NET_WSCK INI file set up correctly This file must be set up for Windows 95 and Windows NT printing with TCP IP and IPX SPX See the Setup Guide for instructions Print...

Page 106: ...eue View the Fiery Spooler or WebSpooler main window to see which queue you printed to If you selected the Hold queue you must move your job to the Print queue to print If you are printing over an IPX...

Page 107: ...BIOS setting for the parallel port make sure that it is set to Compatible mode and not to Bi Directional ECP EPP or any other mode If you are using Windows 95 open the System Properties control panel...

Page 108: ...rong you might need to run a cleaning cycle or print head alignment See your Printer Guide for more information Your printed file appears too dark Adjust the image s Brightness setting in the Print Op...

Page 109: ...g difficulties printing an EPS file with Fiery Downloader print the file from the application in which it was created Print the EPS file on the media in the manual feed tray Because EPS files contain...

Page 110: ...this happens Try this You can t move or delete jobs Choose Password from the Administrator menu and enter the password that was created on the RIP Station Control Panel If you do not enter the passwor...

Page 111: ...ac OS 3 9 Windows 2 13 CMYK Simulation option 6 3 A 2 color problems C 8 Color Charts pages printing from Control Panel 1 5 Color Mode option A 2 Color Reference pages Mac OS 3 9 Windows 2 13 Configur...

Page 112: ...fonts downloading 4 6 to 4 7 Format Disk option 1 7 For software update or setup press any key message 1 6 FujiColorArt simulation 6 2 Functions menu 1 4 H Hold queue 5 2 home page of Fiery WebTools 5...

Page 113: ...werPoint Mac OS 3 10 Windows 2 14 power switch 1 6 PPDs see PostScript printer description files preferences for updating Fiery Spooler 5 5 Presentation rendering style A 6 Print dialog box Mac OS 3 5...

Page 114: ...t 6 2 testing 6 10 to 6 11 Solid Color rendering style A 6 specifications server xv Spooler see Fiery Spooler starting the server 1 6 status displaying C 3 status messages Control Panel 1 3 Status Web...

Page 115: ...tup 2 6 printing with 2 6 setting PostScript options 2 7 Windows 95 Adobe PostScript printer driver 2 2 printer properties 2 3 printer setup 2 2 printing with 2 2 Windows NT 3 51 2 11 Windows NT 4 0 2...

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