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Summary of Contents for 27AO

Page 1: ...RW 470 Technical Manual Final Version...

Page 2: ...Entwicklungen GmbH Hamburg Germany Calcomp is a registered trademark of Calcomp Inc CALS is a registered trademark of U S Department of Defense USA CGM is a registered trademark of Henderson Software...

Page 3: ...Technical Data 7 Installing the Controller into your PC 8 Troubleshooting 8 Frequently asked questions 10 Overview of the file formats 14 Additional font paths 17 Producing SSL files 18 Structured com...

Page 4: ...with technical data and background information for the RW 470 plot management system programs We wish you every success in working with the RW 470 pro grams Package list The delivery includes Installa...

Page 5: ...e Bus 133 Mhz System memory Use a system memory with at least 256 MB RAM With this system memory you can plot or scan the maximum drawing size However a system memory of 512 MB RAM is recom mended if...

Page 6: ...an and plot degree is 1 bit pixel Usage of average document complexity Usage of 128 MB for operating system Windows 2000 and related drivers Estimated with compression average PC memory in MB Scan onl...

Page 7: ...n 190 mm x 128 mm PCB dimension 174 63 mm x 106 8 mm power supply 3 3 Volts max power consumption type 7 5 W max 15 W max memory on board 96 MB Connection to copier Ricoh IF cable max cable length 5 m...

Page 8: ...the controller 1 Switch off your PC before you install the controller 2 Select a free PCI slot according specification above Note that on certain computers the PCI slot 5 is not fully com patible to...

Page 9: ...l driver device driver Printer Controller RW 470Drv is not running Start event viewer START Programs Administration Eventviewer and find out reason for failure Only if the PRINTER CONTROLLER RW 470DRV...

Page 10: ...ceive jobs from RW 470 PLOTBASE If you want to recreate the online mode press the interrupt button A file has not been included in the job list 1 Check the status bar to see whether the interpreter is...

Page 11: ...defined larger than the drawing format 3 Others a Check whether the required type of media is avail able b Check the width of the available plotter rolls A file has not been plotted the job in the jo...

Page 12: ...ust be fixed without variances it is necessary to print on a larger roll even if a drawing is only 0 1 mm larger than the roll se lected by you This can e g be the case if unfavorable pen widths or sc...

Page 13: ...e the minimum pen widths when scaling C f Pen widths Pen widths Ensure that you observe the minimum pen widths for vector images Scaling a drawing smaller and scaling the pen widths too can lead to lo...

Page 14: ...which not Format Related documenta tion color depth com pres sion Read Write remark uncom pressed CCITT 3 1D FAX CCITT G3 FAX CCITT G4 TIFF Tagged im age file format TIFF Revi sion 6 0 Adobe Devel op...

Page 15: ...Inter graph Corpo ration b w FAX CCITT Tiled Group 4 yes yes HPGL HPGL 2 The HPGL and HPGL 2 command set Hewlett Packard 256 pens Palette Color 8 bit as speci fied in refer ence yes no b w 1 bit HP RT...

Page 16: ...Palette color 4 PS EPS Gray 4 PS EPS Gray 8 PS EPS Palette color 8 PS EPS RW 470PS RW 470PS Level III Com patible Op tion RBG 24 PS EPS yes no b w CGM Palette color 8 CGM CGM NIST CGM ATA Release 2 0...

Page 17: ...cking on the file name 2 The existing entry Font of the above figure is based on the following syntax rules Full stop the font path is in the current folder Semicolon begins a new font path Full stop...

Page 18: ...mands A job begins with BeginJob name and ends with EndJob The defaults for the plot files are defined immediately below Be ginJob and are based on commands related to the set and plot file The block...

Page 19: ...ame ROS Account MAGIC Notes TEST EXAMPLE Distribution TO KSC JGE Copies 2 JobCollate on JobFlagSheet Job Input Defaults OrigDirectory C TEST HpglPens off FileEmulation auto Output Defaults Stamp text...

Page 20: ...he ENTRY area The ENTRY area is located between a BeginOutput and the corresponding EndOutput This is where the commands are which exactly concern a plot file namely those which are clearly labeled wi...

Page 21: ...SSL and no default ssl The SSL commands are listed in the following There are three different types of SSL commands which are labeled in different ways Currently supported commands commands that you c...

Page 22: ...rdereddither ignorepensize on off autodetect on off checksum on off doublesync on off eom int sync int D auto auto 800 auto auto not current CalcompColorEmulation SC JOB ENTRY C Determines the corresp...

Page 23: ...d of the row is ignored and is lost when processed by the program See also Note SY Comment any or any D Confirmation SC JOB C When switched on stops the processing after the first plot Replaced by Tri...

Page 24: ...h identifies the generating applications SY CreationAppl string D Customer SC JOB C Text which identifies the job s customers SY Customer string D CutMethod SC JOB ENTRY C standard Standard formats ar...

Page 25: ...your image directories SY Directory string D Distribution SC JOB C Distribution which can be printed on the JobFlagSheet SY Distribution string D EarliestPlotTime SC JOB C Earliest time at which the s...

Page 26: ...filepencolor on Pen colors from the plot file off Pen col ors from the ENTRY penscale on Pen widths are scaled too off Pen widths are preserved clipping on Drawing size is taken from the file off Draw...

Page 27: ...th 0 mm maxwidth 10 mm stepsize 400 patterntype load ablepattern ignorepensize off bicolorrgb 0 dithermode ordereddither HpglColorEmulation SC JOB ENTRY C Determines the gray scale values correspondin...

Page 28: ...the stamp and the file names further control commands are possible job set One sheet per set set copy text Free text with macros header trailer in front of or behind the set tray int roll from which...

Page 29: ...normal low wait immediate D normal Margin SC JOB ENTRY C Adds a white margin to the drawing SY Margin off all real unit margins margins right real unit left real unit top real unit bottom real unit D...

Page 30: ...lc leftcenter cc centercenter rc rightcenter bl bottomleft bc bottomcenter br bottomright D ul MediaType SC JOB ENTRY C Medium on which the plot is printed SY MediaType bond paper recycled paper vell...

Page 31: ...xt set continue continue with the next entry query display message and hold the plot until operator inter cedes SY OnError abort continue query D continue OperatorMode SC JOB C on The plot software ca...

Page 32: ...are retained auto the zoom setting determines the size of the printout SY OutputSize auto manual papersize win dow proportional papersize DIN ANSI ARC DIN DIN A B C 0 1 2 3 4 5 ANSI ANSI A B C D E AR...

Page 33: ...paper in x and y co ordinates or as a simple position SY Placement real real unit position position ul upperleft uc uppercenter ur upper right lc leftcenter cc centercenter rc rightcenter bl bottomlef...

Page 34: ...immediate and DeleteAfterPlot The set cannot be edited without a password SY SecurityPrint off on code code 32 Hex Digits MD5SUM Password D off SetCopies SC JOB C Number of set copies only in JOB SY...

Page 35: ...g stampoption position stpposition coordinate real real font systemfont fontsize int fontattribute normal bold italic under line strikeout bmp string bmporientation bmpposition bmpdistance real real f...

Page 36: ...ormation SY Unit cm mm inch points pt pixel D mm UserName SC JOB C User name to be able to assign the jobs SY UserName string D Zoom SC JOB ENTRY C Scaling factor Determines the size of the drawing on...

Page 37: ...er cfg tiger tif Copy this CFG file together with the drawing file in the spool directory e g C spool cfg of the RW 470 PLOTBASE Always send the CFG files first then the drawing files Otherwise there...

Page 38: ...docu ment MIRROR OFF X Y XY OFF Mirror the docu ment about a cer tain axis FOLD OFF 1 xx OFF Folding program of the connected folder SCALEMODE ORIGINAL PERCENT FORMAT WINDOW ORIGINAL Scaling mode to...

Page 39: ...36 WHITE Pen thicknesses in mm for HPGL pens Tip HPGL pen numbers have three digits HPGL HPGL2 PEN001 0 9 99 mm COLOR 0 36 GRAY 50 HPGL HPGL2 PEN002 PEN255 0 9 99 mm COLOR 0 36 BLACK as above RED BLAC...

Page 40: ...PRODUCING CFG FILES 40 RW 470 BORDERTOP 0 xxxx 0 Borders in mm BORDERBOTTOM 0 xxxx 0 as above BORDERLEFT 0 xxxx 0 as above BORDERRIGHT 0 xxxx 0 as above...

Page 41: ...we have listed all the HPGL 2 commands that the program fully or partially supports command is fully supported command is partially supported Configuration and status group DF IN IP IR IW PG RO SC Ve...

Page 42: ...2 COMMANDS AND PENS 42 RW 470 RR WG Line and Fill Attributes Group AC FT LA LT PW RF SM SP UL WU Character Group AD CP DI DR DT DV ES LB LO SA SD SI SL SR SS TD Technical Graphics Extensions BP CT DL...

Page 43: ...nds are supported Digitizing Extension No commands are supported Default values for HPGL pens All 256 HPGL pens have the pen thickness 0 35 mm as their default value They have the following default va...

Page 44: ...at the end of the chapter command is fully supported command is not supported 951 Commands paper cutter top of form async start of plot force plot plot copies plotter select negate pattern fill hatch...

Page 45: ...erase user symbol set Circles Commands chordal tolerance circle command for circles circle command for arcs Dashlines Commands dash bypass dashline Additional Commands no operation pass through 8 bit...

Page 46: ...COMP COMMANDS AND PENS 46 RW 470 Pen Pen width in mm Pen width in pixels 4 0 25 4 5 0 32 5 6 0 38 6 7 0 44 7 8 0 51 8 9 0 57 9 10 0 64 10 11 0 70 11 12 0 76 12 13 0 83 13 14 0 89 14 15 0 95 15 16 1 02...

Page 47: ...r they occur several times with respect to their meaning Key name SOFTWARE RW 470 PLOTBASE PLOTSERVER 3 0 Name AccountDelimiter Type REG_DWORD Data Comment Separator in the accounting SDF file Name Ac...

Page 48: ...b Comment Path Name of the database used by the Plot Server Name Dynaset Type STRING Data SELECT ALL FROM T_PLOTBASE_job Comment An enquiry of the database must not be altered Name DataPath Type STRIN...

Page 49: ...tted are deleted until the value is less than the limiting value Name JobHistoryDeleteDate Type REG_DWORD Data 3b00e979 Comment Delete jobs which are older than the given date in ternal system format...

Page 50: ...Comment Name of the plot server Name ServerExe Type STRING Data C RW 470 PLOTBASE PROGRAM PbDbRu exe Comment Path name of the server program Name SpoolDirectory Type STRING Data F spool Comment Spool...

Page 51: ...Comment Fileview on off Name DBOn Type REG_DWORD Data 00000001 Comment internal value for the start of the controller and the server Name SslOn Type REG_DWORD Data 00000000 Comment Reader on off Name...

Page 52: ...switched on 0 Logging switched off Name LogLevel Type REG_DWORD Data 00000000 Comment If logging switched on 1 error message 2 Warn ings 3 Traces 4 Reg INI entries Key name SOFTWARE RW 470 PLOTBASE PL...

Page 53: ...he job list The RGB colors are given in hexadecimal figures The last six figures are used for this Moving from right to left the first two numbers stand for R the next two G then B Example The color b...

Page 54: ...ader Config Registration Name ConfigCount Type REG_DWORD Data 00000002 Comment Number of spool paths Key name SOFTWARE RW 470 PLOTBASE PLOTSERVER 3 0 PBReader Config Registration 0 Comment settings fo...

Page 55: ...ent Activate reader 0 False 1 True Name ConfigDefSSLFile Type REG_SZ Data default ssl Comment Name of the default SSL file Name ConfigDefCFGFile Type REG_SZ Data default cfg Comment Name of the defaul...

Page 56: ...out for the parser Name ConfigReadyFile Type REG_DWORD Data 00000000 Comment Activate Ready File Action 0 False 1 True Name ConfigParserOn Type REG_DWORD Data 00000001 Comment Activate reader 0 False...

Page 57: ...G_SZ Data C RW 470 PLOTBASE PROGRAM ReSslru exe Comment Path of the reader Name TypeName Type REG_SZ Data SSL Interpreter Comment Name of the reader Name TypeReadyFilePossible Type REG_DWORD Data 0000...

Page 58: ...e Reader ReadyFiles are proc essed 0 False 1 True Name TypeWithDeaultSsl Type REG_DWORD Data 00000001 Comment Setting whether a default SSL is used do not change Key name SOFTWARE RW 470 PLOTBASE SCAN...

Page 59: ...REG_SZ Data SeIfD1Ru dll Comment File name of the scanner driver Name SSLDefaultFile Type REG_SZ Data Default SSL Comment Name of the default SSL Name MainWindow Type REG_DWORD Data 0 1 32000 32000 1...

Page 60: ...00000ffh Comment Save the brightness values in the file view Name HpglCfgFile Type REG_SZ Data C RW 470 PLOTBASE HPGL HCF Comment Path for the HPGL configuration file Name CcpCfgFile Type REG_SZ Data...

Page 61: ...ent Start number for ScanToFile file Name ScanToFileDigits Type REG_DWORD Data 00000004 Comment Digits for the consecutive numbering Name ScanToFileAutoStart Type REG_DWORD Data 00000000 Comment Autom...

Page 62: ...ber of stamps used do not change Name ScannerSettings Type REG_DWORD Data 1287732 2013061208 1333112 1412768 1333120 1412776 35 366 310 733 Comment Position of the Scanner Settings window Name ActiveO...

Page 63: ...REGISTRY ENTRIES RW 470 63...

Page 64: ...ype REG_SZ Data SCANBASE SSL Comment File name of the last drawing set saved Key name SOFTWARE RW 470 PLOTBASE SCANTOOL 3 0 Splitter 0 Comment Window division Name DX Type REG_DWORD Data 000001e5 Comm...

Page 65: ...TH Type REG_SZ Data Comment This is the path for the Ratio HPGL font files Name HPGL_CONFIG_FILE Type REG_SZ Data Comment This is the path for the Config File where the basic settings for HPGL HPGL2 a...

Page 66: ...D Data This is where the tile height is when saving this format there are no facilities in the application for adjusting this value Comment Default value 512 Key name SOFTWARE RW 470 PLOTBASE PLOTSERV...

Page 67: ...here the default image width is with which the WMF should be loaded Comment Default value 512 Name Default DY Type REG DWORD Data This is where the default image height is with which the WMF should be...

Page 68: ...ype REG DWORD Data 0 BiColorMode switched on 1 BiColorMode switched off Comment Is set internally Name EnableLogging Type REG DWORD Data 0 for Logging switched off 1 for Logging switched on Comment De...

Page 69: ...alfToneMode Type REG DWORD Data 0 Background manipulation 1 General manipulation 2 Grayscale manipulation Comment Grayscale manipulation Name HalfToneSpotFunction Type REG DWORD Data ComboBox selectio...

Page 70: ...Comment Default 1 Key name SOFTWARE RW 470 PLOTBASE PLOTSERVER 3 0 FORMATS RW 470PS EPS Name BasePath Type REG_SZ Data Basic path to the ghostscript files Comment Should always be set to so that the g...

Page 71: ...ed on 1 BiColorMode switched off Comment Is set internally Name EnableLogging Type REG DWORD Data 0 for Logging switched off 1 for Logging switched on Comment Default 0 Name HalfToneAccurateScreens Ty...

Page 72: ...0 Background manipulation 1 General manipulation 2 Grayscale manipulation Comment Grayscale manipulation Name HalfToneSpotFunction Type REG DWORD Data ComboBox selection 0 22 Comment Grayscale manipul...

Page 73: ...ng Type REG DWORD Data 0 Halftoning switched off 1 Halftoning switched on Comment Default 0 Name UseScaling Type REG DWORD Data 0 Scaling switched off 1 Scaling switched on Comment Default 1 should us...

Page 74: ...ve 5 Hardware 5 HPGL 2 Commands 41 M Memory 6 Monitor 6 N Network 5 P PCI Bus 5 Printer Controller 7 Problems Colored drawings 11 Data exchange 10 Lines not visible 12 Loss of quality 12 No Entry 10 N...

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