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1. e Check the Crop check box to enable the cropping options e Select Margins from the drop down list of cropping areas e For each side of the page Left Top Right and Bottom enter in the margin width to crop Our sample page has a left right top and bottom margin of one half an inch 0 500in If you do not know the margin size used on your page print the page to a hardware printer and use a ruler to measure the margins on the physical piece paper Printers can add an extra hardware margin width on a printed page that may have to be adjusted for 3 As the source document is a landscape oriented document the Orientation of the printer also needs to be changed to Landscape to match If your source document is portrait the Orientation would be set to Portrait e On the Layout tab select Landscape from the Orientation drop down list Advanced Feahwes 7 Layout Paper Qualty Page Orientation Landscape v 4 Click the OK button on the Document Properties dialog to save the cropping options 5 Click the OK button on the Print Dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 6 Choose where to save your TIFF image file from the Save I mage File dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer 92 Using the Crop Features TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File No items match your search e
2. Lock aspect ratio rae Enter in the new X Resolution for your image You can scale as low as 50 DPI and up to as high as 3600 DPI If Lock aspect ratio is on the Y Resolution will automatically be calculated to prevent distortion of the image Uncheck Lock aspect ratio to enable the Y Resolution field and specify an height for the Y resolution of the image Lock aspect ratio Constrains the image height and width so the image does not get distorted when resampling See Also Resample Using Resolution License Launches the Activation Wizard as described in the Activating TIFF Image Printer section if you are in trial mode If you have already activated TIFF Image Printer you will see a summary of your license information see Viewing Your Activation Status for more details Restore Defaults Restores this tab s settings back to the defaults when the driver was first installed Help Brings up the on line help for this tab 167 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Image Processing TIFF Image Printer Compression The Compression options allow you to choose how to compress the TIFF images created Compressing images generally reduces the amount of physical disk space needed to store the image There are two main ways to reduce the size of the image e use the Color Options on the Save tab to reduce the number of colors used in the image e use the Compression option to compress the image data itself so
3. On Windows Vista Windows Server 2008 For quick access to the options a menu item has been added to the TIFF Image Printer menu in the Windows Start menu You can access this menu item by going to All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Properties TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 148 TIFF Image Printer License Agreement zg Online Help Computer Product Home Pag eb Properties _ Quick Start Guide Set Max Jobs j TIFF Image Printer Quick Start Guide i TIFF Image Printer User Guide Q Uninstall TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Network ct To Control Panel Default Programs Help and Support Start Search p Am You can also find the options by doing either of the following 1 From the Start menu type Printers in the Search box and press the Enter or Return key to open the Printers folder then continue from Step 4 below Type Printers in the search box and press Enter to open the Printers folder J9 Search Everywhere Jj Search the Internet Se sewuasawe i 2 Or from the Start menu select Control Panel 3 Click on the Printer option in the Hardware and Sound section Hardware and Sound p ge Play CDs or other media automatically Click here to open the Printers folder Mouse 149 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference TIFF Image Printer 4 Locate the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 in your list of printers and left click t
4. amp Quick access o H Custom Office Templates a Desktop t Ji ices H PNProdiD AE Downloads E Pictures x T Printers v File name PNProdAU v Text Files txt v Cone The authentication file is verified and you are automatically moved to the Activation Status Results screen aaa ies 17 Activating TIFF Image Printer Manually Activating TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer Activation Status Results This screen displays your activation status Once the product is successfully activated the Activation Status field will display your status as Activated yf Serial Number yf User Information seo A Validation Process cua S 1 activations of the 1 gt Status If you need to purchase more activations please visit your online account at http www peernet com store account php and select view registered serial numbers From there you can select to Click the Finish button to close the wizard Activating TIFF Image Printer Activation Status Results 18 TIFF Image Printer If an error occurred during activation it is displayed in the Activation Status field such as the following error message that occurs if you have exceeded your license activations yf Serial Number Activation Status 5 You have reached your activation limit of 1 times on serial number vf User Information PN XXXXX XXK XXKKKXKKKXKK yf Validation Process If you need to purchase more activations please visit you
5. soo re aie mela True Color 24bpp v f Printer Features Print Quality Lette Printer Features Print Quality This option is not used by the TIFF Image Printer 159 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Advanced Options TIFF Image Printer Page Processing Page processing allows you to modify each page of the document The options shown here are applied to each page of the file before any further processing such as Image Processing FAX TIFF or Watermark options are applied The following properties allow you to set the driver s automatic cropping and trimming features They can be used separately or in conjunction with one another to refine the image and change its dimensions during the output process TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Etraction Emor Reporting Layout Paper Qualiy Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Rotation Rotate portrait pages V counter clockwise Rotate landscape pages v counterclockwise Crop Units English Metric Left 0 000in Right 0 000in Margins v Top 0 000in Bottom 0 000in Trim Rotation Set any rotation options for the incoming pages before they are put into the output file This is in addition to any rotation performed by the application you are printing from Rotation options can be set separately for Portrait and Landscape oriented p
6. 8000000 Crop Option margins default 0 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters 222 TIFF Image Printer 223 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in Crop margin right Crop Option margins 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in Crop margin bottom Crop Option margins 0 000cm 200000 000cm Copy 0 1 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in Copy to width 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in Copy to height 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 default 0 Copy to IAM Left Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths
7. 89 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Using the Crop Features TIFF Image Printer Cropping Margins An example of how to use this feature would be to use the crop features to remove a solid color frame border on each page such as the white border around the page shown below L SamplePPT pdf Adobe Acrobat Reader DC m x File Edit View Window Help x Home Tools Document B fi 27 5 Y In this scenario what we are cropping is the part of the image to be discarded Working With the TIFF Image Printer 90 Using the Crop Features TIFF Image Printer Step by Step Instructions 1 Select File Print from your application Home Insert bal Save R Save As EF Open Close Info Recent New Save amp Send Help Brother HL 2045 Bp row References Mai e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the drop down list of printers e Click the Properties button to open the TIFF Image Printer properties dialog box Home Insert lal Save Gal Save As BF Open Close Print Copies Printer te ite Proper References Mai 4 gt 2 Click on the Page Processing tab in the Document Properties dialog to access the cropping 91 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Using the Crop Features TIFF Image Printer options Layout Paper Qua Rotation Rotate portrait pages r counter clockwise Rotate landscape pages ar
8. If you do not have an internet connection click here to activate the product manually through e mail Use the Next button to move to the next screen Entering Serial Numbers The serial number is case sensitive and it is important to type the serial number exactly as it is received Be sure not to leave any spaces before or after the serial number when typing or pasting and note that the serial number ends with a series of hexadecimal characters 0 9 A F Activating without an internet connection If you are having difficulty connecting to the internet or do not want to activate over the internet you can choose to manually activate the product by clicking the do not have an internet connection and will activate manually check box on this screen Manual activation does not require an Internet connection on the computer the software is installed on but it does require that you have the ability to email an encrypted file to us to authenticate We will return the authenticated file to you which you then import using the Activation Wizard to complete the activation process These files are processed by PEERNET s technical staff from 09h00 to 17h00 Monday to Friday Eastern Standard Time When activating over the internet the Activation Wizard will attempt to validate an internet connection and will prompt with the choice to manually activate it if it cannot connect 11 Activating TIFF Image Printer Entering Your Seria
9. Resample Using Pixels ccccccccccsseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeeeaaaneeeeeeaeanes 110 Resample Using Percentage l l ec eeceeeeececceececeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeaneneeesenss 114 Resample Using Resolution oo o oo o oo cc ceceeceeceececceceeeeececeeeeeeeeeaneneenseaes 118 Extracting Text From the Created File cceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 122 Working with Large Paper Sizes n senenrererrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrerrrrrrrrrn 125 Adding a Custom Paper Form cccccccsseceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeceaeeeeeeeeeaaneeeeeeeas 126 Configure TIFF Image Printer to Use a Custom Paper Size 138 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference BAY OUI ae sacieunseisanncsvinsnan do cecensetearan tase etenereysrsneseg tenes eussek ee eeaegea 153 Pea Or QUINN cits cheers Beatie er ere S EE E S T cutee 155 AGVANCE O PONS inci cxccrrsteeiainogenviencnieensncnbenceuililenanmsibies 157 Page Processing ccd in tigation a aaa EAE rents 160 Image ProCeSSiiG ceteris eee eet 164 fo 12 elect ij o 9 eeeeeerce te eee tee ein een nnee cna eee nee er eee eee eee ee er 168 FAX TIFF ODUOlS visiisiscctscctsiniscienienacssties tie eeceesaedieionde adsense estes 171 Watermark ee rere ee ene eer eee eee eee ee 177 slurs fe o1 U1 Cn rtr rr rrtt rrr tr rt rrr ttrt EEEE rtre Errr 180 Save ee daha E 184 Advanced File Naming 66 siisicstisssttiievcwstssesiwiteevuwasi bday tidtubenumnaanindewweienhcs 191 RUN ee E E E E E E ee
10. Using the Copy To Image Feature Resample The Resample feature allows you to scale the output file to a particular width and height in pixels as a percentage of the original size or by setting a new image resolution DPI These options override any settings you may have chosen in the Advanced Options Dialog Pixels v Resample Pixels y Image Width 200 Auto Lock aspect ratio Enter in the new Image Width in pixels If Lock aspect ratio is on the Image Height will automatically be calculated to prevent distortion of the image Uncheck Lock aspect ratio to enable the Image Height field and specify an height for the image See Also Resample Using Pixels Percentage TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 166 Image Processing TIFF Image Printer V Resample Percentage v Image Width 75 uto V Lock aspect ratio Enter in the new Image Width as a percentage of the original page size You can scale images up to 500 larger but note that if the image is very large to begin with it may not scale successfully due to memory limitations If Lock aspect ratio is on the Image Height will automatically be calculated to prevent distortion of the image Uncheck Lock aspect ratio to enable the Image Height field and specify an height for the image See Also Resample Using Percentage Resolution DPIl V Resample Resolution DPI y X Resolution 200
11. Working With the TIFF Image Printer 94 Using the Crop Features TIFF Image Printer Cropping an Area or Region An example of how to use this feature would be to use the crop features to cut the desired part of the image out of the page Imagine a smaller piece of paper that you can move around on top of a larger piece of paper whatever is under the smaller piece of paper is the cropping area In the sample below we can use TIFF Image Printer to crop the colored area of the page essentially discarding the solid color frame white border on each page In this scenario what we are cropping is the part of the image to be kept L SamplePPT pdf Adobe Acrobat Reader DC E x File Edit View Window Help x Home Tools Document al 275 v 95 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Using the Crop Features Step by Step Instructions 1 Select File Print from your application Home Insert Page Layout References Mai bal Save R Save As gt Open iy Op Print Close Info Recent fo Brother HL 2045 New gt Ready Save amp Send Help TIFF Image Printer e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the drop down list of printers e Click the Properties button to open the TIFF Image Printer properties dialog box Home Insert Page Layout References Mai lal Save j rint Gal Save As it e Copies 1 en a Op Print Close Printer te ite Proper 2 C
12. ap 2 E mail the PNProdID txt to peernet peernet com Status A product authorization file will be returned to you within 48 hours When you have recieved this file launch this wizard again to continue the activation process Use the Back button to return to a previous screen The Finish button is enabled once the PNProdID txt is created 15 Activating TIFF Image Printer Manually Activating TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer A save dialog box will appear prompting you to choose where to save the PNProdID txt product identification file This dialog may look slightly different depending on which version of Windows you are running Save this file in an easy to remember location like your Desktop or your Documents folder tT B Local Disk C gt Users gt ssteeves gt Documents v amp Search Documents P Organize v New folder BE a Name Date modified Type Size Quick access Do Desktop B Documents a Downloads f Pictures I Printers C ETN E Custom Office Templates 6 5 2015 3 22 PM File folder y y y File name v Save as type Text Files txt v a Hide Folders Save Cancel You need to email this file to peernet peernet com For computers with no email capability you can save the file to a shared network drive or use an external storage device such as a USB flash drive or a MicroSD storage card to copy the file to another computer Importing the PNProdAU txt file When you
13. multi page TIFF image files 1 Welcome to TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer Legal Notices TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Copyright 1997 2015 by PEERNET Inc All rights reserved PEERNET is a registered trademark of PEERNET Incorporated Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective holders PEERNET Inc 18 Deakin Street Suite 208 Ottawa Ontario K2E 8B7 Information in this document is accurate up to the time of publication but does not necessarily reflect enhancements made to PEERNET Inc s products which are released without notice The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement It is against the law to copy the software onto any medium or to use the software for any purpose except as specifically allowed in the license agreement No part of this help system may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical for any purpose other than the licensed operator s personal use without the express written permission of PEERNET Inc Welcome to TIFF Image Printer 2 Legal Notices TIFF Image Printer System Requirements Processing full color images places great demands on both the CPU and memory The amount of memory required to process an image is directly proportional to both the dimensions paper size and the resolution DPI or Dots Per I
14. processing settings 209 run settings 209 save settings 209 watermark settings 209 D deprecated features CommandBox ActiveX control 259 control strings 259 dithering methods Bayer 56 Burkes 56 configuring 56 Floyd Steinberg 56 Halftone 56 driver settings 201 append mode 184 bitorder 171 black amp white 155 157 brightness adjustment 160 color 155 157 color image compression 168 color printing mode 157 color reduction 168 compression 168 control strings 201 copyto 164 crop areaorregion 160 crop margins 160 custom file naming 191 custom paper size 199 delete output files 184 dithering method 168 duplex 153 endorsements 180 error display 204 error reporting 204 TIFF Image Printer fax mode 171 fax page alignment 171 fax page rotation 171 fax page scaling 171 fax paper height 171 fax paper width 171 fax resolution 171 grayscale palette 171 greyscale image compression 168 hardware margins 199 image alignment 164 image options 171 image resampling 164 image scaling 164 include JobID 184 indexed image compression 168 monochrome image compression 168 multi page output files 184 naming profiles 191 output directory 184 output filename 184 overwrite always 184 page aspect ratio 164 page orientation 153 page rotation 160 paper size 157 photometric 171 print on both sides 153 print quality 157 printer areamargins 199 Profile C fax 171 Profile F fax 171 Profile S fax 171 prompt whe
15. 42 Saving Files Without Prompting cece eeneeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeenees 44 Automatically View the Created Files ccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 46 Creating a Serialized Sequence of FileS cc cceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 49 Reducing File Size with Color Reduction cceeesseeseeeeeeeeeeeees 56 Reducing File Size with Compression Options ee 60 Automatically Splitting Files 0 eeen 64 Creating Fax Format Fires isiciiiccvicccuerad cite vinwenevourpcaciuevvcncueeidteetuiesnecoteeuiees 66 Creating Monochrome Fax l l eenean eneee nennen ennnen ennnen 67 Creating Color FaX gcic5 c esscuscsanscitesdasnesstedaeieicbentadieeisiaadecenscisotenceaseeeaes 70 Changing the Fax Compression neeneeneeoeeenerernoreorerrrrorrrrerrrrrrrrnne 73 Appending Multiple Files Into a Single TIFF Image 00 0 0 77 TIFF Image Printer Placing Endorsements on Your Pages 000 eee 83 Using the Crop Features 000 cccceceeeeeee cece ee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeaaaaeeeeeeeees 89 Cropping Margins naca ea aAa Eea 90 Cropping an Area or Region naanannnnaana nn nessnnnnerssnrnerrssnnrrressnnreressnnreeeo 95 Using the Trimming Features rere ere 100 Using the Copy To Image Feature cceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 104 Resizing Images Using Resampling eee 109
16. DLL User Exit 1 Path C Test MyUserExit dll Function GatherFaxInformation Funct ionEx User Exit 1 x64 1 Path C Test MyUserExit64 d11l Function GatherFaxInformation Funct ionEx 243 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Automating the Printing Process with the Script File TIFF Image Printer The functions in the DLL have the following prototypes BOOL APIENTRY MyUserExitFunction HANDLE hCommandFile LPCSTR pszDocument BOOL APIENTRY MyUserExitFunctionEx HANDLE hCommandFile HANDLE hPrinter DWORD dwJobID LPCWSTR pwszDocument ry ay The first argument is a file handle that you can use with the WriteFile Win32 API to write control strings see Using control strings Be sure to end each line with an end of line n character Writing control strings to the hCommandFile allows you to change the printer settings set user variables or even cancel the job before it is queued The standard prototype MyUserExitFunction receives the document name as its only other argument The extended version MyUserExitFunctionEx receives the printer handle and job identifier in addition to the document name in Unicode string format If either function returns FALSE the job is canceled and any Run At events are not executed If you want any Run At events to execute use a control string to set CancelJob to 1 and return TRUE The user exit DLL is unloaded as soon as th
17. Image Compression Color Images LZW RGB y Indexed Images LZW v Greyscale Images LZW v e n the Monochrome Images drop down list choose one of the CCITT compression methods 5 Click the OK button on the Document Properties dialog to save the changes to the fax and compression options 6 Click the OK button on the Print dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 7 Choose where to save your TIFF image using the Save I mage File dialog 75 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Creating Fax Format Files TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File x e ot Ev Date modified Type No items match your search e Use the Save in field to choose a folder to store your TIFF image Your Documents folder will be selected for you by default e Inthe File name field enter a name for your TIFF image A default name for your image has been filled in based on the name your application used when it printed your document to the TIFF Image Printer here we have changed it to FaxTIFF e Inthe Save as type drop down list select TIFF Multipaged tif to create a multipage fax format TIFF image This can be changed to TIFF Serialized tif if serialized single page TIFF images are needed Working With the TIFF Image Printer 76 Creating Fax Format Files TIFF Image Printer Appending Multiple Files Into a Single TIFF Image 77 Cre
18. JPG e Packbits e LZW e None Greyscale Images select one of the following compression methods to use when compressing greyscale images e Low Medium or High Quality JPG e Packbits e LZW e None Monochrome Images select one of the following compression methods to use when compressing monochrome images e CCITT Group 4 Fax e CCITT Group 3 2D Fax e CCITT Group 3 1D Fax e CCITT Modified Huffman e LZW e Packbits e None License Launches the Activation Wizard as described in the Activating TIFF Image Printer section if you are in trial mode 169 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Compression TIFF Image Printer If you have already activated TIFF Image Printer you will see a summary of your license information see Viewing Your Activation Status for more details Restore Defaults Restores this tab s settings back to the defaults when the driver was first installed Help Brings up the on line help for this tab TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 170 Compression TIFF Image Printer FAX TIFF Options The FAX TIFF tab is used to create fax format TIFF images This tab is also contains advanced TIFF image file options TIFF Image Printer gives you the following features when creating fax format files e create either Profile F standard monochrome Profile S simplified monochrome or Profile C color fax format faxes e create your fax in various paper sizes e complete control over how
19. JobID profile 1 Use default extension in the Multi page with JobID profile TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 266 Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer Variable Names Use n VariableName where n is the position of VariableName within the format string and VariableName is one of the following OutputFileName JobID FileNumber DocumentPageNumber FilePageNumber FileExtension Year Month Day Hour Minute Second Var0 Var9 You must emit a control string for each variable placeholder in the format string For example to set the serialized profile so that filenames are produced in the format MyFileName_FileNumber emit the following control strings 0 Profile_S_ Extension 0 0 Profile_S_ Format s 3d 0 Profile_S Variable 1l OutputFileName 0 Profile_S_ Variable 2 FileNumber 267 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer Watermark Keywords Watermark Keywords Accepted Values WatermarkEnable 0 Disable 1 Enable WatermarkPortlmg Path to watermark image for portrait pages WatermarkPortBright 100 to 1 darkens the image 0 no change 1 to 100 lightens the image WatermarkLandPos Stretch Stretch to fit Tile Tile Center Center TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 268 Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer Run Keywords Run Command If the Run command is disabled the corresponding RunAtStartEnable
20. New Ready Save amp Send e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the list of printers e Click the OK button on the Print dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 5 The Save I mage File dialog will appear with the Save in File name and image options set as specified in Step 2 Leave this information as shown and click the Save button to create the TIFF images Working With the TIFF Image Printer 54 Creating a Serialized Sequence of Files TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File x G Name Date Type Size Tags J Invoice_00 2015 05 26 10 TIF File Quick access 1 3 EJ Invoice_00 2015 05 26 10 L IY Invoice_00 2015 05 26 10 ria IY Invoice_00 2015 05 26 10 TIF File LY Invoice_00 J2015 05 26 10 TIF File 17 KB File name linvoice Save as type TIFF Serialized C tif V Append to sequence 6 Each page printed from the report is saved as a separate file added at the end of the existing series of files LY Invoice_001 tif y Invoice_002 tif LY Invoice_003 tif LY Invoice_004 tif Ly Invoice_005 tif Ny Invoice_006 tif Ly Invoice_007 tif LY Invoice_008 tif Ny Invoice_009 tif 55 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Creating a Serialized Sequence of Files TIFF Image Printer Reducing File Size with Color Reduction All of the
21. Pages Image File Enter the full path to the image file to be used as the watermark on landscape pages or use the Browse button to search and locate a file Valid file types are bmp jog png and tif Position Use this option to determine how the watermark image is placed on the page e Stretch to fit stretches the image to fit the page e Tile leaves the image at its original size and repeats the image to fill the page e Center will center the image in the middle of the page both horizontally and vertically Brightness Slider Allows you to lighten or darken the watermark image Move the thumb control on the slider to the left to darken the image or right to lighten the image If your watermark image has already been lightened leave the slider in the middle 0 to leave the watermark image alone License Launches the Activation Wizard as described in the Activating TIFF Image Printer section if you are in trial mode If you have already activated TIFF Image Printer you will see a summary of your license information see Viewing Your Activation Status for more details TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 178 Watermark TIFF Image Printer Restore Defaults Restores this tab s settings back to the defaults when the driver was first installed Help Brings up the on line help for this tab 179 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Watermark TIFF Image Printer Endorsements Endorsements are the
22. TestRun TIFF Image Printer 11 0 8 53 log Browse Use this button to set the folder and name of the log file by browsing to an existing log file on your computer View Log Click this button to open the folder where the log files are being saved Debugging Options Create trace files Enable this check box to create detailed trace files for debugging purposes The trace files are always created in the Windows temp folder TEMP for the currently logged in user or the user the printing process is currently running under The tracing files follow the same naming sequence as the log files but the base name and location cannot be changed o x 2 View O Aichelle gt AppData gt Local gt Temp gt v amp Search Temp p Name Date modified Type i __ PNTIF11J DLL TIFF Image Printer 11 0 2 2 b 2015 05 28 7 46 AM PNTIF11J DLL TIFF Image Printer 11 0 3 3 txt 2015 05 28 7 50AM Text Document _ PNTIF11J DLL TIFF Image Printer 11 0 5 4 b 2015 05 28 7 50 AM Text Document Create support files Enable this check box to create a support file that can be sent to PEERNET support for further analysis These files can be very large and should only be sent upon request by a PEERNET support technician The trace files are always created in the Windows temp folder TEMP for the currently logged in user or the user the printing process is currently running under The tracing files follow the same naming sequence as t
23. This PC amp System Information Shortcut BB Desktop GD Task Scheduler 2015 04 24 11 14 Shortcut I Documents 2 Windows Firewall with Advanced Secu 2015 04 24 11 15 Shortcut Downloads Windows Memory Diagnostic 2015 04 24 11 14 Shortcut IB Music E Windows PowerShell x86 2015 04 24 11 29 Shortcut EF Windows PowerShell ISE x86 2015 04 24 11 21 Shortcut IS Pictures 48 Windows PowerShell ISE 2015 04 24 11 21 Shortcut S BB Videos S E gt 21 items Be i 127 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Working with Large Paper Sizes TIFF Image Printer 5 Inthe Print Management window select Print Servers then select the name of your computer Right click on the Forms item then select Manage Forms i Print Management File Action View Help Alel i E A i Print Management gt Custom Filters Name Drivers v J Print Servers T 3 MAM VM Win10 64 lo Forms as i Ports Manage Forms for the selected server More Actions 6 On the Print Server Properties dialog go to the Forms tab Working With the TIFF Image Printer Working with Large Paper Sizes 128 TIFF Image Printer ah Print Server Properties x Forms Ports Drivers Security Advanced Forms on A Delete 10x14 11x17 Save Form Form name My Custom Form Create a new form Define a new form by editing the existing name and measurements Then c
24. Use the Save in field to choose a folder to store your TIFF image file Your Documents folder or any folder you have chosen on the Save tab will have been selected for you by default e Inthe File name field enter a name for your TIFF image file A default name for your file has been filled in based on the name your application used when it printed your document to the TIFF Image Printer Here we have changed the file name to CroppedTIFF e Click the Save button to create the file in the folder you chose 7 Open the new TIFF image file in your Image viewer The white borders or margins have been cropped from document 93 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Using the Crop Features TIFF Image Printer Cropped TIFF Windows Photo Viewer E x File Print E mail Burn Open e Aside effect of cropping the margins has been a change in page size The original document consisted of a landscape oriented Letter sized page 11 00in x 8 50in Removing a 0 50in strip from each side of the page leaves a 10 00in x 7 50in image area If you need to remove the margins and also keep the original page size you need to combine the above steps with the steps outlined in Using the Copy To Image Features CroppedTIFF tif Page Properties ee S Thursday October 02 2008 12 23 24 PM Unknown Unknown TIFF Image Printer 8 0 Not done Value 2250 pixels 7 50 inch 3000 pixels 10 00 inch E
25. an inch 01 Inches or tenths of a millimeter 1 Millimeters is still supported Units 01 Inches Units are in hundredths of an inch Custom Paper Enable 0 Disabled Custom Paper Width 25 8000000 Range in hundredths of an inch default 850 0 250in 80000 000in Range in inches Custom Paper Height 25 8000000 Range in hundredths of an inch default 1100 0 250in 80000 000in Range in inches Hardware Margin Left 0 100 default Range in hundredths of an inch 0 000in 1 000in Range in inches Hardware Margin Top 0 100 default 0 Range in hundredths of an inch 0 000in 1 000in Range in inches Printer Area Margin Left 0 8000000 default Range in hundredths of an inch TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 234 Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Printer Area Margin Top Printer Area Margin Right Printer Area Margin Bottom Extract Text Extract Text Filepath Extract Text Layout Extract Text Encoding 235 0 0 20000000 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 default A PATH Physical Raw Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredth
26. color reduction options are controlled through the Save tab in the Printing Preferences dialog Close any open applications that you are printing from before making changes as not all applications will see your changes until they are re started Changing the color reduction using the following steps is a global change meaning that all applications will use these options when printing to TIFF Image Printer See the following sections for information on color reduction and dithering methods gt Color Reduction gt Dithering Methods Step by Step Instructions 1 From the Start menu go to All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Properties 2 Click the Save tab in the Printing Preferences dialog ash TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Type TIFF Multipaged tif Color Options Calor Reduction Reduce to optimal palette v T Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting y _ Append to file Dithering Method Halftone Output Directory default is your Documents folden Filename excluding extension C Include JobID 0 C Overwrite always C Prompt only when needed C Delete all output files at end of job Advanced File Naming license Restore Defaults Remove file extension from filename Remove product name from filename
27. font size information for the endorsement Choose Points to enter the measurements in points English to enter the measurements in inches or Metric to enter the units in centimeters Width The width of each section can be set individually to allow for text wrapping within each section The default width for each section is the width of the page Height The height of each section can be set individually The default height for each section is 12 points Text Use this text field to enter the data to display in each part of the header or footer The text can be formatted using the formatting codes see complete table below to add page number information to your header or footer text as well as to display the text in different fonts font sizes colors and other text attributes such as bold italic and underline The default font used is Arial 12 points Black Some common examples of header and footer strings are shown below e Place the text Page and the current page number in the upper right corner of each page using the format string Page amp P in the Page Header Right endorsement area This endorsement will be in the default font of Arial 12 point colored black Style Page Header Right v Units English Metric Points Width Height Text Page amp P License Restore Defaults Help TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Endorsements TIFF Image Printer e Place the custom text Internal
28. in the printer property sheets and remain in effect for the duration of the print job Control strings use the following syntax braces denote optional arguments 0 keyword value keyword value keyword value Control strings must conform to the following criteria in order to be processed by TIFF Image Printer e Control strings must contain at least one keyword value pair e No spaces should separate the first three characters 0 e The final character must be a question mark e Control strings must appear at the very beginning of a line e No other text should appear on lines that hold control strings e Values are enclosed in quotation marks when using control strings Microsoft Word you will need to turn off Smart Quotes Control strings formatted with Smart Quotes will not be recognized by the driver Enabling Control Strings In TIFF Image Printer 11 0 unlike earlier versions of the driver control string support is disabled unless explicitly turned on through the Enable Control Strings check box on the Text Extraction dialog box Control strings are processed internally They will not be printed to the output unless they are improperly formatted and thus indistinguishable from regular text If your control strings appear in the output it is a clear sign that one of the criteria above has not been met If your control strings fail to have the desired effect yet do not appear in the output mak
29. individually set to 0 not visible or 1 visible By default all of the property pages are visible 1 Property pages Compression 1 Image Options 1 Save 1 Run 1 Watermark 1 Advanced Features 1 Error Reporting 1 Page Processing 1 Image Processing 1 Text Extraction 1 Endorsements 1 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 212 Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Scripting file The configuration file can be used to enforce the same printing defaults for all uses at runtime by setting the configuration file as the master script file For more information on the Scripting file section see Automating the Printing Process Keyword Accepted Description Value Use_this_file_as_master_script FALSE Uses the configuration file as the master script True file Script PATH Full path to the script file 213 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults Devmode settings Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting TIFF Image Printer Orientation Portrait Landscape Resolution 1200 720 600 400 360 300 254 240 200 150 120 100 75 60 50 Color 1 Color 0 Black and white Paper Size Letter Letter Small Tabloid Legal Statement Executive A3 A4 A4 Small A5 B4 B5 Folio Quarto 10x14 11x17 Note Envelope 9 Envelope 10 Envelope 11 Envelope 12 Envelope 14 C Size Sheet D Size Sheet E Size Sheet F Size Sheet Env
30. open TIFF images installed on your computer 1 From the Windows Start menu go to All Programs TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Properties 2 Click on the Run tab in the Printing Preferences dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer 46 Automatically View the Created Files TIFF Image Printer ga TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Document Properties x Layout Paper Qualty Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF oe Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Show settings for ee a End of job settings a V Enabled a Parameters Start in Wait for completion Wait with exit code Do not wait Promptto continue Do you want to continue License Restore Defauts Hep Cancel e Inthe Show settings for area select the End of job radio button e Click Enabled to turn on the options for End of job e In the Command field type in the macro OutputFilePath if it is not there already 3 Click the Apply button and then the OK button to set the changes What are Macros Macros are special strings that have been pre defined by TIFF Image Printer and are replaced with values supplied internally In the above case the macro OutputFilePath is automatically replaced with the full path and name of the TIFF image file you are creating When TIFF Image Printer tries to run or open the TIFF image file Windows will automat
31. os a Ren Devices and Printers folder R Computer Magnifier Control Panel Devices and Printers Default Programs Help and Support Shut down iDa Locate the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 in your list of printers and right click the printer Select Printing Preferences from the context menu to display the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences dialog The tabs across the top of the dialog show the different settings that can be customized Working With the TIFF Image Printer Setting Printing Preferences TIFF Image Printer dy TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Orientation Print on Both Sides A None o v On Windows Vista Windows Server 2008 For quick access to the options a menu item has been added to the TIFF Image Printer menu in the Windows Start menu You can access this menu item by going to All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Properties Working With the TIFF Image Printer 32 Setting Printing Preferences TIFF Image Printer License Agreement zg Online Help Computer Product Home Pag eb Properties _ Quick Start Guide Set Max Jobs j TIFF Image Printer Quick Start Guide i TIFF Image Printer User Guide Q Uninstall TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Netw
32. previous file e Click the Overwrite always check box to turn on the automatic overwrite option If an image file of the same name already exists it will be replaced by the new file and no warning dialog will be shown e Click the Prompt only when needed check box to turn off the Save As dialog 3 Click the Apply button and then the OK button to set the changes If the output directory you typed in does not exist you will be prompted to confirm creation of the new directory 4 Printing to TIFF Image Printer from any application now saves the output files into the chosen directory without displaying the Save I mage dialog box 45 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Saving Files Without Prompting TIFF Image Printer Automatically View the Created Files It is often convenient to have your output file automatically opened after it has been created You can configure TIFF Image Printer to do this using the Run properties All output options are controlled through the Printing Preferences dialog Close any open applications that you are printing from before making changes as not all applications will see your changes until they are re started Step by Step Instructions Changing the Run properties using the following steps is a global change meaning that no matter what application you use when printing to TIFF Image Printer the created file will automatically be opened This method will only work if you have an application that can
33. printer ah TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Hardware Margins and Custom Paper Units English Metric Hardware Margins Left Right 0 000in Top Bottom 0 000in Enable Custom Paper Paper Size Printer Area Margins Width 8 500in Left 0 000in Top 0 000in Height 11 000in Right 0 000in Bottom 0 000in Units Determines the unit of measure used to enter any hardware margins and paper size options Choose English to enter the measurements in inches or Metric to enter the units in centimeters You can enter units with up to three digits of accuracy or to an eighth of an inch 0 125in or 0 318cm Hardware Margins The hardware margins option allows you to customize the size of the printer supplied edge on your outputted image Hardware margins cannot be larger than 1 00in 2 54cm on each side of the paper Left Right Enter the Left and Right hardware margins settings into the appropriate fields Top Bottom enter in the Top and Bottom hardware margin settings into the appropriate fields 199 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Advanced Features TIFF Image Printer Enable Custom Paper Enable this check box to use a custom paper size for your output file Note that this selection overrides any other paper size selec
34. run command This option is useful if you are using the Run commands to do additional processing on the output file and do not want to leave any local copies on disk Remove file extension from filename Some applications include a file extension with the document name Enable this check box if you want TIFF Image Printer to automatically remove the file extension from the filename Remove product name from filename Some applications precede the document name with the name of their product Enable this check box if you want TIFF Image Printer to automatically remove the product name from the filename Split after size Enables file splitting based on a size threshold The file will be split wnen the size exceeds the threshold When file splitting is enabled the serialized naming profile is always used to name each file in the sequence File size and page count splitting can be used together The file size entered must be a minimum of 1MB and less than 2GB 2048MB v Split after 10 MB File splitting only applies to multipaged TIFF Images TIFF Multipaged TIFF Multipaged tif See Also Automatically Splitting Files Split every N pages 189 Enables file splitting based on the page count When file splitting is enabled the serialized naming profile is always used to name each file in the sequence You can split by both page count and file size at the same time The page count must be a minimum of 1 page If the page co
35. the driver over a network or use push software such as SMS to distribute the driver to users and computers within an organization TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 208 TIFF Image Printer Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer is installed with pre determined or factory defaults for all of its settings The installation program also creates a folder containing all the setup files to the TIFF Image Printer installation folder on your hard disk If you have installed the driver in the default location the setup files will be located in the following folder C Program Files TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Setups You can use the PNTIF11C INI configuration file in this folder to customize the install to your specifications including e change the factory defaults e installing the driver on other machines with customized settings e controlling which of the property pages tabs are visible on the Printing Preferences dialog Applying the Driver Changes If you make changes to the PNTIF11C INI configuration file in the Setups folder you will need to run the PNSetup exe program also located in the Setups folder to re install the printer and see your changes Alternatively you can copy the edited PNTIF11C INI into the following folder On a 32 bit operating system C Windows System32 spool drivers w32x86 3 On a 64 bit operating system C Windows System32 spool drivers x64 3 Windows Vista and Windows 7 Permissions On Wind
36. the fax image is scaled and its alignment on the page TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Enable fax mode Fax Profile Profile F v Fax Paper Width Letter v Fax Resolution 204x196 v Fax Paper Height Fixed v C Use Printer Resolution when creating print job Fax Page Scaling Actual Size v Shrink page ff larger than fax paper v Auto otat to fit f Horizontal Align Middle y P R poge u Apap Maintain page aspect ratio Vertical Align Middle v Cl Use 256 greyscale palette TIFF Monochrome Options TIFF General Options V EOLs byte aligned Include creation date and time C Reverse bit order C Use Motorola format C Invert photometric See Creating Fax Format Files for step by step instructions to create fax format files When Profile F or Profile S fax mode is chosen a reduced fax mode palette is used With this palette light or pale colors such as yellow will get reduced to white and will appear to be missing in the document 171 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference FAX TIFF Options TIFF Image Printer Fax Mode Options Enable fax mode Enable this check box to create faxable files Fax Profile Select a fax format profile for your output file Different fax profiles allow different fax resolutions with Profile F hav
37. tif v ClAppendtofie Color Options Color Reduction Reduce to optimal palette v Output Directory default is your Documents folder Filename excluding extension o C Include JobID 2 in filename Remove file extension from filename C Overwrite always Remove product name from filename L Prompt only when needed aft 1024 C Delete all output files at end of job Li Sa 10000 Advanced Fie Naming L Spit evey license Restore Defauts Hep TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 184 Save TIFF Image Printer Type These options control how each page of your document is saved These options also appear on the Save Image As dialog when filename prompting is enabled Select the type of output file you want to create serialized or multipaged TIFF images TIFF Multipaged tif oo TIFF Serialized tif Type C Append to file Color Q Serialized Files Type TIFF Serialized tif v _ Append to sequence Select this option if you want each page of your document to be saved as an individual file Each file is named uniquely based on its page number For example using the default settings when printing a three page Word document named 3pages doc will yield the following three files e 3pages_001 tif e 3pages_002 tif e 3pages_003 tif Multi page Type TIFF Multipaged tif v _ Append to file Select this option if you want your entire document a
38. when TIFF Image Printer is installed on a computer that has no access to the internet or the computer is configured such that the user cannot access the internet This can also happen if a firewall program or anti virus software blocks our attempt to connect with our license server If you do have to activate manually you will need to follow the steps below 1 Use the Activation Wizard to create the encrypted file PNProdID txt 2 Email the file to peernet peernet com to be activated For computers with no email capability you can save the file to a shared network drive or use an external storage device such as a USB flash drive also known as thumb drives or a MicroSD storage card to copy the file to a computer with email capabilities 3 A file named PNProdAU txt will be emailed back to you Copy this file back to the computer where TIFF Image Printer is installed and restart the Activation Wizard to complete the license activation Exporting the PNProdl D txt file To create the file click the Create the PNProdlD txt product identification file button in the middle of the screen yf Serial Number Manual activation does not require an internet connection bu n T sg panne up to 48 hours to process i i yf User Information To activate this program manually create the PNProdID txt by dicking on yf Validation Process the button below gt Step 1 Export Create the PNProdID txt product identification file Import
39. 1 tif e Invoice_002 tif e Invoice_003 tif Printing another database report of 4 pages and appending it to the same sequence would add the following four files e Invoice_004 tif e Invoice_005 tif e Invoice_006 tif e Invoice_007 tif The serialized and append options are controlled through the Save tab on the Printing Preferences dialog Close any open applications that you will be printing from before making changes as not all applications will see your changes until they are re started Changing the options using the following steps is a global change meaning that all applications will use these settings when printing to TIFF Image Printer Creating Serialized Files From a Single File The following steps show how to create a series of TIFF images one per page from a single file or in this case a report of invoices printed from a database Step by Step Instructions You can make the same changes outlined below through the Properties button on each applications s Print dialog as you print your files but it is generally easier to make this change once and then print all the files 1 From the Windows Start menu go to All Programs TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Properties 2 Click on the Save tab in the Printing Preferences dialog 49 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Creating a Serialized Sequence of Files TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Document Properties T Include JobID lo i
40. 28 days 0 15 30 e have a serial number and want to activate my copy Select this option if you have your serial number and want to activate your product When the product is activated the evaluation watermark is no longer placed on created files e do not have a serial number and want to purchase Selecting this option will take you to our on line store where the product can be purchased Once purchased an order confirmation notification containing your serial number will be sent to you by email e want to continue evaluating Selecting this option allows you to evaluate the product An evaluation watermark will be placed on all files created 9 Activating TIFF Image Printer Launching the Activation Status Dialog TIFF Image Printer If your trial period has expired If your trial period has expired you can only activate the product with your purchased serial number or go to our on line store to purchase the product To begin the activation process now select the have a serial number and want to activate my copy button This will launch the Activation Wizard which will guide you step by step through the activation process Click here to launch the Activation Wizard Thank you for taking the time to evaluate this product I have a serial number and want to activate my copy I do not have a serial number and want to purchase Your evaluation copy has EXPIRED To cont
41. 29 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Setting Printing Preferences TIFF Image Printer On Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 For quick access to the options a menu item has been added to the TIFF Image Printer menu in the Windows Start menu You can access this menu item by going to All Programs TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Properties d TIFF Image Printer 11 0 E Configure PDF to Print In High Qual gi Copy Printer License Agreement A License Online Help _ Product Home Pag 4 Properties M _ Quick Start Guide Set Max Jobs _ TIFF Image Printer Quick Start Guide Default Programs _ TIFF Image Printer User Guide Q Uninstall TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Help and Support 4 Back Computer Control Panel Devices and Printers Search programs and files Shut down You can also find the options by doing either of the following 1 From the Start menu type Printers in the Search box and press the Enter or Return key to open the Devices and Printers window then continue from Step 3 below Type Printers in the search box and press Enter to open the Devices and Printers folder P See more results Working With the TIFF Image Printer 30 Setting Printing Preferences TIFF Image Printer 31 2 Or from the Start menu select Devices and Printers Documents ssi amp Sticky Notes Pictures QR Snipping Tool Music Paint J Click here to open the
42. 3 or Windows 2000 1 Close any open applications 2 Open the Printers folder from the Start Menu If you do not have the Printer and Faxes icon in your start menu go to Control Panel Printers Tour Windows XP ts Copy Printer 2 Help and Support i Files and Settings Transfer Y Search Click here to open the Printers and Faxes folder wizard I Run A Log Off fo Shut Down All Programs gt 3 Select File Server Properties from the menu amp Printers and Faxes i Edit view Favorites Tools Help Add Printer Server Properties Set Up Faxing 4 Onthe Print Server Properties dialog go to the Forms tab Working With the TIFF Image Printer 136 Working with Large Paper Sizes TIFF Image Printer amp Print Server Properties Forms Ports Drivers Advanced Forms on Create your new form Save Form Formname My Custom Form Create a new form Define a new form by editing the existing name and measurements Then click Save Form Form description measurements Units Metric English Paper size Printer area margins width 24 00in Left 0 00in Top 0 00in Height 36 00in Right 0 00in Bottom 0 00in e Check the Create a new form check box to enable the form fields e Inthe Form name field type in a name for your new form such as My Custom Form e Inthe Form description section S
43. 4 4318 J Built In 3049 2795 Built In 3810 2794 Built In 920 1651 Built In 2286 2794 Printer 11890 5940 f Manage Forms for the selected server 7 On the Print Server Properties dialog go to the Forms tab gt Print Server Properties gt Forms ong Create your new form Delete Form name My Custom Form F Create a new form Define a new form by editing the existing name and measurements Then dick Save Form Form description measurements Units Metric English Paper size Printer area margins Width 2400n Left 0 00in Top 0 00in Height 36 00in Right 9 00in Bottom 0 00in 133 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Working with Large Paper Sizes TIFF Image Printer e Check the Create a new form check box to enable the form fields e Inthe Form name field type in a name for your new form such as My Custom Form e Inthe Form description section Set the Units to Metric centimeters or English inches Set the Paper Size Width and Height to the desired valued It is important to make your Width value less than your Height value and to use the Landscape orientation property when printing Set any Printer Area Margins you need 8 Click the Save Form button on the upper right corner of the tab then click the OK button 9 You will now see your new custom paper size in the list of forms available on your computer it can now be used in your ap
44. Address field is left blank Email addresses entered here are only used by PEERNET to notify you of updates to your product or other products that may interest you We will never rent or sell our customer s and client s information to third parties 13 Activating TIFF Image Printer Entering Your User Information TIFF Image Printer Validating Your Information This screen summarizes the information entered in the previous screens The Back button can be used to return to the previous screens and change any information if needed f Serial Number The following information will be used to activate your serial number yf User Information gt Validation Process Status Check your information here Press the Back button to change the information shown above Press Next to start the activation process Use the Next button to move to the next screen or Back to return to a previous screen If you are activating your product over the internet If you are activation over the internet skip the next section and go to Activation status results If you are activating manually no internet connection If you are using manual activation you will be taken to the manual activation export screen Activating TIFF Image Printer 14 Validating Your Information TIFF Image Printer Manually Activating TIFF Image Printer In most cases you will not have to activate your product manually This only happens
45. Any parameters needed for the command RunAtEndWndActivate 0 Do not activate window 1 Activate window RunAtEndWait 0 Wait for completion 1 Wait with exit code 2 Do not wait 3 Prompt to continue TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 270 Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer Error Reporting Keywords Error Reporting Accepted Values Keywords LogEnable 0 Disable 1 Enable LogFile Full path to a file to be used as the log file default is TEMP PNTIF11 log MessageBoxStyle None Timed Standard 271 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer User Variables and Other Keywords CancelJob 1 cancel the job Var0 Var9 string or number to set into the user variable TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 272 Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer Index A activation 5 6 11 18 errormessages 18 evaluation period 5 6 expiredtrial 6 license server 5 11 manual activation 11 serialnumber 6 11 status dialog 5 6 18 20 trial period 5 6 user information 13 validation 14 Adobe Photoshop document viewing 39 Advanced Features custom paper size 199 hardware margins 199 printer areamargins 199 restore defaults 199 Advanced File Naming format string 191 naming profiles 191 restore defaults 191 variables 191 B BMP image viewing 39 brightness adjustment 160 C color reduction configuring 56 reduce to 16 color palette 56 reduce to 256
46. Brother HL 2045 New Ready Save amp Send Help e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the drop down list of printers e Click the Properties button to open the TIFF Image Printer properties dialog box Click on the Endorsements tab in the Document Properties dialog to access the endorsement options The first step is to add the text Page and the current page number as a header endorsement in the top right corner of each page in the default font of 12 point Arial black Working With the TIFF Image Printer 84 Placing Endorsements on Your Pages TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image P Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Fea Metric English Width Height e Check the Enable endorsements check box to enable the endorsement options e Select Page Header Right from the Style drop down list e Add the endorsement text string Page amp P into the Text field The formatting code amp P will be replaced with the current page number 2 The next step is to add the text Internal Use Only Confidential at the bottom center of each page The footer text is formatted so that it is Verdana 14 point colored red with the words Internal Use Only in bold text and placed at the bottom center of each page 85 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Placing Endorse
47. Brother HL 2045 New wy Ready Save amp Send Add Printer Print to File Help T Print One Sided EE Only print on one side o e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the drop down list of printers e Click the Properties button to open the TIFF Image Printer properties dialog box 73 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Creating Fax Format Files TIFF Image Printer Home Insert Page Layout References Mai dh TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Nace eens Se Run Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Use Printer Resolution when creating print job e In the Fax Profile drop down list choose Profile F e In the Fax Resolution drop down list choose the desired fax resolution Common fax resolutions are 200x200 204x196 and 204x98 e The remaining options can be left as they are for now You are encouraged to play with these options at your convenience See the FAX TIFF tab in the Properties Reference section for more details 4 Click on the Compression tab in the Document Properties dialog to access the compression options Working With the TIFF Image Printer 74 Creating Fax Format Files TIFF Image Printer dab TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF TIFF
48. C Split after 1024 MB C Split every 10000 pages Help Cancel Working With the TIFF Image Printer Reducing File Size with Color Reduction 56 TIFF Image Printer e Inthe Color Options section e change the Color Reduction as needed The default setting of Reduce to optimal palette will reduce each page down to the smallest number of colors required to represent each page e Select a Dithering Method to use when converting color to black and white monochrome the default is Ha ftone dithering Ca Reduce to optimal palette yl 3 Click the Apply button and then the OK button to set the changes 4 Printing to TIFF Image Printer from any application will now use the color reduction settings chosen Color Reduction There are eight choices for color reduction Color Reduction What it does Reduce to optimal palette Reduces each page down to the smallest number of colors needed to represent the page Each page is counted separately meaning the end result can be a TIFF containing a mix of black and white greyscale and color pages If your pages are mixed black and white with occasional color this method will often result in the smallest size file 57 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Reducing File Size with Color Reduction TIFF Image Printer Color Reduction What it does Reduce to greyscale palette Pages are reduced to a greyscale image composed exclusively of shades of neutral gra
49. CCITT Group4 Fax compression CCITT Group3 2D Fax compression CCITT Group3 1D Fax compression CCITT Modified Huffman compression LZW compression Packbits RLE compression No color compression No color compression CMYK color Packbits RLE compression Packbits RLE compression CMYK color High quality JPEG compression Medium quality JPEG compression Low quality JPEG compression LZW compression LZW compression CMYK color No color compression Packbits RLE compression High quality JPEG compression Medium quality JPEG compression Low quality JPEG compression LZW compression No color compression Packbits RLE compression High quality JPEG compression Medium quality JPEG compression Low quality JPEG compression LZW compression TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Watermark Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting Enable Disabled First page only Watermark every page Portrait image PATH Path to watermark image for portrait pages Tile Tile across and down page Portrait brightness 100 100 100 to 1 darkens the image default is 0 0 no change 1 to 100 lightens the image Landscape position Stretch Stretch to fit page Center Center on page TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 220 Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Processing Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting
50. Command Line TIFF Image Printer Retrieving Print Job Information You can retrieve state information about print job specific variables at runtime by using the variable syntax These macros can be used to specify arguments to commands and DLL function calls through the job events Start of Page Each Page File Close End of Job on the Run tab TIFF Image Printer will perform instant macro expansion of all parameters and control string values in the variable format Because the state of these variables may change from page to page during a print job you may want to instruct TIFF Image Printer to perform deferred macro expansion instead Deferred macro expansion waits until the event happens to fill in the appropriate data Use an extra dollar sign for this purpose that is use variable rather than variable The macro values of the following variables can be retrieved at runtime Output Variables OutputDir Output directory OutputFileName Base output filename before formatting CustomFileName Formatted output filename OutputFilePath Final output file path FileExtension Output file extension FilePageNumber Current page number in output file DocumentPageNumber Current document page number JobID Current job ID maintained by the driver this number is unique 255 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Retrieving Print Job Information TIFF Image Printer Page Variables PageOrie
51. F Compression Keywords Accepted Values TIFFColorCompression TIFFGreyscaleCompression Uncompressed RGB Uncompressed CMYK LZW RGB LZW CMYK High quality JPEG Medium quality JPEG Low quality JPEG Packbits RGB Packbits CMYK Uncompressed LZW High quality JPEG Medium quality JPEG Low quality JPEG Packbits TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Deprecated Features 264 TIFF Image Printer FAX TIFF Keywords FAX TIFF Keywords Accepted Values FaxMode 0 Disable fax mode 1 Enable fax mode FillBits 0 EOLs not byte aligned no fillbits 1 EOLs byte aligned use leis DateTime 0 Do not write date time tag to TIFF file 1 Write date time tag to TIFF file 265 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer Advanced File Naming Keywords Advanced File Naming Accepted Values Keywords Profile _S Format Format string for the Serialized profile Profile S Variable List of driver variables used to build the filename see Variable Names below for more information Profile SJ Extension 0 Do not use default extension in the Serialized with JobID profile 1 Use default extension in the Serialized with JobID profile Profile _M_Format Format string for the Multi page profile Profile _M_Variable List of driver variables used to build the filename see Variable Names below for more information Profile _MJ_Extension 0 Do not use default extension in the Multi page with
52. FF Image Printer 11 0 Document Properties Delete all output files at end of job Advanced File Naming In the Type drop down list of file formats select TIFF Serialized tif as the type of file to create Check the Append to sequence check box to turn on append mode This will cause the new files to be added at the end of the existing series of files In the Output Directory field type in the folder where you want to save your TIFF images This has to be the same folder that contains the current existing series of TIFF images You can also use the Browse button to find a folder on your computer If the field is left blank the Documents folder is used by default In the Filename field type in the base name you want to use for your TIFF image This has to be the same base file name used on the existing series of files For example to continue from invoice_003 tif use invoice as the filename Changing this name cause a new sequence of files to be started Click the Apply button and then the OK button to set the changes Open your document and select File Print from your application In our sample this would be Working With the TIFF Image Printer Creating a Serialized Sequence of Files TIFF Image Printer another invoice report from a database Home Insert Page Layout References Mai la Save Gal Save As e iba Open Gy Op Print fay Close Info Recent Brother HL 2045
53. File Explorer Search Run Shut down or sign out gt Desktop 3 Select Devices and Printers to open the folder Working With the TIFF Image Printer Setting Printing Preferences TIFF Image Printer All Control Panel Items E x t gt Control Panel gt All Control Panel Items v amp Search Control Panel p Adjust your computer s settings View by Largeicons A f i N ak rja Spa ee Administrative Tools Autodesk Plot Style era Autodesk Plotter Manager FA Manager g la ji AutoPlay X BitLocker Drive Encryption od Color Management Credential Manager pia Date and Time Default Programs 4 Device Manager di Devices and Printers Display Ease of Access Center 4 Locate the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 in your list of printers and right click the printer 5 Select Printing Preferences from the context menu to display the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences dialog The tabs across the top of the dialog show the different settings that can be customized Working With the TIFF Image Printer Setting Printing Preferences 28 TIFF Image Printer dh TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Gualty Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Orientation Print on Both Sides None v
54. Items gt amp EB gt Control Panel gt All Control Panel Items Adjust your computer s settings Add features to Windows Fo tS Autodesk Plotter Manager ag AutoPlay Sa A fee p A Administrative Tools od Color Management Credential Manager 4 Device Manager ag Default Programs QO x v Search Control Panel 2 View by Largeicons A er Autodesk Plot Style Manager a BitLocker Drive Encryption P gii Date and Time are Devices and Printers 4 Double click Print Management gt Administrative Tools File Home Share View 4 T All Control P gt Administrative Tools A A SS ae ana Uptimize Urives i Desktop a Disk Cleanup B Documents Event Viewer AE Downloads G amp iSCSI Initiator Pictures x ia Local Security Policy aca ODBC Data Sources 32 bit are ODBC Data Sources 64 bit Bt impict amp Performance Monitor F final images ra Oo x v amp Search Administrative Tools Pp Date modified Type 2 2U19 U4 24 1114 SMOMTCUT 2015 04 24 11 22 Shortcut 2015 04 24 11 14 Shortcut 2015 04 24 11 14 Shortcut 2015 04 24 11 20 Shortcut 2015 04 24 11 18 Shortcut 2015 04 24 11 15 Shortcut 2015 04 24 11 14 Shortcut 2015 04 24 11 20 Shortcut final images A Resource Monitor 2015 04 24 11 14 Shortcut ee fae Services 2015 04 24 11 14 Shortcut fi System Configuration Shortcut
55. Measurement Units The configuration file now accepts units entered in inches 8 50in or centimeters 21 59cm provided the unit designation of inches in or centimeters cm is given To maintain compatibility with previous versions of the driver the old method of entering units in as hundredths of an inch 01 Inches or tenths of a millimeter 1 Millimeters is still supported Units 01 Inches Units are in hundredths of an inch Trim left Do not trim left side of page Trim top Do not trim top of page Trim right Do not trim right side of page Trim bottom Do not trim bottom of page Trim Threshold 0 100 Color intensity used to limit trim color default 0 Enable cropping Crop margins 0 aor Range in tenths of a millimeter default 0 000cm Range in centimeters 200000 000cm 221 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm Crop width Crop Option region 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in Crop height Crop Option region 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 8000000 Crop margin left Crop Option margins default 0 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm Crop margin top 0
56. Preferences You can configure your printing preferences or printer settings each time you print a document or you can configure the default printing preferences to be the same for all documents that you send to a printer If you always need to create a particular type of TIFF image follow the steps in Setting Printing Preferences for All Documents Setting Printing Preferences from within an Application You can access the preferences each time you print a file from the Print dialog when printing from most applications This will only change the printer settings for this document at the time of printing In most applications the printing preferences are located on the Print dialog normally found on the program s File menu In most applications you will need to click a button labeled similar to Options Preferences or Advanced Options This will depend on the application you are running Home Insert Page Layout References Mai la Save rint A Save As Bo Copies 1 pen Printer Properties New Save amp Send Example print dialog from Microsoft Word Setting Printing Preferences for All Documents Setting the preferences through the Printers folder this is the Devices and Printers folder on Windows 7 and later or the Printers and Faxes folder on Windows Vista and earlier will set them globally so that the same options will be used when you print to TIFF Image Printer from any application Working Wit
57. Recent is Brother HL 2045 New a Ready Save amp Send Add Printer Print to File Help iene ided Only print on one side o e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the drop down list of printers e Click the Properties button to open the TIFF Image Printer properties dialog box Working With the TIFF Image Printer Creating Fax Format Files TIFF Image Printer Home Insert Page Layout References Printer Properties 3 Select the FAX TIFF tab in the Document Properties dialog to access the fax settings d TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Layout Paper Qualty Page Processing Enable fax mode Fax Profile Profle F y Fax Paper Width Letter v Fax Resolution 204x 196 v Fax Paper Height Fixed v Use Printer Resolution when creating print job e Enable fax settings by checking the Enable fax mode check box e In the Fax Profile drop down list choose either Profile F or Profile S to create a monochrome fax image e Inthe Fax Resolution drop down list choose the desired fax resolution Profile S is a simplified fax format and only supports a small selection of resolutions Profile F offers more choices Common fax resolutions are 200x200 204x196 and 204x98 e The remaining options can be left as they are for now You are encouraged to play with these options at your convenience See the FAX TIFF tab in the Pr
58. RunAtPageEnable RunAtFileEnable or RunAtEndEnable flag must be set to 1 in a control string in order for the application to run as scheduled The application can be temporarily disabled by setting the flag to 0 Because some applications interpret backslashes as line separators use forward slashes rather than backslashes to designate paths and other values in your control strings to ensure they work properly Run Keywords Accepted Values RunAtStartEnable 0 Disable 1 Enable RunAtStartParams Any parameters needed for the command RunAtStartW ndActivate 0 Do not activate window 1 Activate window RunAtStartW ait 0 Wait for completion 1 Wait with exit code 2 Do not wait 3 Prompt to continue RunAtPageEnable 0 Disable 1 Enable RunAtPageParams Any parameters needed for the command RunAtPageWndActivate 0 Do not activate window 1 Activate window RunAtPageWait 0 Wait for completion 1 Wait with exit code 2 Do not wait 3 Prompt to continue 269 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer Run Keywords Accepted Values RunAtFileEnable 0 Disable 1 Enable RunAtFileParams Any parameters needed for the command RunAtFileW ndActivate 0 Do not activate window 1 Activate window RunAtFileW ait 0 Wait for completion 1 Wait with exit code 2 Do not wait 3 Prompt to continue RunAtEndEnable 0 Disable 1 Enable RunAtEndParams
59. Start parameters RunAtPage parameters RunAtFile parameters RunAtEnd parameters 0 1 0 0 1 Path to executable Path to file lt Path to DLL gt EventName Path to executable Path to file lt Path to DLL gt EventName Path to executable Path to file lt Path to DLL gt EventName Path to executable Path to file lt Path to DLL gt EventName PARAMETER LIST PARAMETER LIST PARAMETER LIST PARAMETER LIST Disabled Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Enabled Disabled Enabled Executable to call File to open DLL to load use angle brackets Event to signal use curly braces Executable to call File to open DLL to load use angle brackets Event to signal use curly braces Executable to call File to open DLL to load use angle brackets Event to signal use curly braces Executable to call File to open DLL to load use angle brackets Event to signal use curly braces Parameters for the command Parameters for the command Parameters for the command Parameters for the command TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer RunAtStart directory PATH Function in DLL RunAtPage directory PATH Function in DLL RunAtFile directory PATH Function in DLL RunAtEnd directory PATH Function in DLL RunAtStart window Normal Minimized Maximized Hidden RunAtPage window Normal Minimized Maximized Hidden RunAtFile window Normal Minimized Maxi
60. TIFF Image Printer Using the Copy To Image Feature TIFF Image Printer options Image Size Image Area Margins Height 11 000in Right 9 000in Bottom 0 000in recor Aon e Check the Copy To check box to enable the copy to options e Enter the Width and Height of the new image size here we are using a width of 8 50in anda height of 11 00in e Set mage Scaling to Fit to Page and uncheck Maintain page aspect ratio This will make the image to fit the page edge to edge with no white borders e Choose Middle for both Horizontal Align and Vertical Align This will center the image on the page When using the Fit to Page option you will most often keep the Maintain page aspect ratio option checked to keep the images from becoming distorted The above example works as the remaining image has the same aspect ratio the ratio between the width and the height of the image as the page it is being copied to When the aspect ratio between the source and the destination is different you can end up with images that look stretched or squished 3 Click on the Page Processing tab in the Document Properties dialog to access the cropping options Working With the TIFF Image Printer 106 Using the Copy To Image Feature TIFF Image Printer 107 Layout Paper Qual Rotation Rotate portrait pages counter clockwise Rotate landscape pages ar counter i Enable the Crop options on i the Page Processin
61. Use Only Confidential at the bottom center of each page Format the text so that it is in Verdana 14 point colored red and with only the words Internal Use Only in bold text For this use the format string amp KFFO000 amp Verdana amp 14 amp Blinternal Use Only amp B amp Arial Confidential in the Page Footer Center endorsement area Style Page Footer Center v Units English Metric Points Width Height Text amp KFFO0008 Verdana amp 144Bintemal Use Only amp B amp Anal Confidental See Also Placing Endorsements on Your Pages Header and Footer Formatting Codes The following formatting codes are used to format the text strings placed in the headers and footers gP This code is replaced by the current page number Turns italic formatting on and off All text after the first occurrence of the formatting code will be italicized until the same formatting code is encountered again TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 182 Endorsements TIFF Image Printer Turns font strike though formatting on and off All text after the first occurrence of the formatting code will be struck though a line down the middle of the text until the same formatting code is encountered again Sets the font size in points to be used for the following text where n is replaced with the desired point size All text after the occurrence of the formatting code will be printed in the specified font size unt
62. V Enable Text Extraction F this field is empty the text file will be created in the same output directory and with the same base filename as the image file Layout Physical y Format UTF 16 v Windows v Emit page breaks The text extraction feature was not designed to be OCR Optical Character Recognition software As much text as possible will be extracted Formatting of the text is approximated and may not be exactly the same C Enable control strings Some applications break up the 0 making it impossible to detect the string control string Set the prefix and suffix to a character you know will not be ised in your documents in order to workaround thi ue Pretix Suffix License Restore Defaults Help The text extraction feature was not designed to be Optical Character Recognition OCR software Only straight text will be extracted and formatting of the text file may not be exact Text Extraction Enable Text Extraction Enable this check box to turn on text extracting If you leave the field below empty a file with a txt extension will be created in the same directory and named with the same name as the output file If you want to create the text file with a particular name enter the full path to the file you want to 201 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Text Extraction TIFF Image Printer use for this purpose or use the Browse button to search and locate a file on disk Layout Choose the layout for the t
63. Version 11 0 PEERNET Inc Copyright 1997 2015 Updated 6 17 2015 TIFF Image Printer Table of Contents Welcome to TIFF Image Printer Legal INU Sct trees cece 2 System FRE CIUIIN TINCT S cs tess es eases tee chasis eae areca east eens 3 Typographic Conventions ccccceeeeeeee cece tees ee ee ae ee eeteeeeeeeeeeeeeaeaaaeeees 4 Activating TIFF Image Printer Launching the Activation Status Dialog 00 eee 6 Entering Your Serial Numbev cccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeeeeeeees 11 Entering Your User Information 0 eee eee teen eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 13 Validating Your Information cece cece cece ee cece cece ee aeeaeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeees 14 Manually Activating TIFF Image Printer 0 0 eerie 15 Activation Status Results eeren eerren 18 Viewing Your Activation Status oeeeeeeooeeeeeeeererr ereer rr rrrerr rrene 20 Working With the TIFF Image Printer About Multi page and Serialized TIFF Images cee 23 Setting Printing Preferences ccccceeeeeeeee cece este ee aeeaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 24 Creating Your First TIFF Image ccccceceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetees 37 Viewing Your Images ccceeeeeeeeeeneeneeteteeeeeeeeeeeeeaeaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeenees 39 Changing Where the Files are Saved ccccceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
64. You can also find the options by doing either of the following 1 From the Start menu type Printers in the Search box and press the Enter or Return key to open the Devices and Printers window then follow from Step 4 below _ Devices and Printers ej Control panel Settings a View devices and printers O nrintare an cala EE My stuff P Web Pe printers j TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 142 TIFF Image Printer 143 2 Or from the Start menu select Control Panel Programs and Features Power Options Event Viewer System Device Manager Network Connections Disk Management Computer Management Command Prompt Command Prompt Admin Task Manager Control Panel File Explorer Search Run Shut down or sign out gt Desktop 3 Select Devices and Printers to open the folder TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference TIFF Image Printer All Control Panel Items E x t gt Control Panel gt All Control Panel Items v amp Search Control Panel p Adjust your computer s settings View by Largeicons A f i N ak rja Spa ee Administrative Tools Autodesk Plot Style era Autodesk Plotter Manager FA Manager g la ji AutoPlay X BitLocker Drive Encryption od Color Management Credential Manager pia Date and Time Default Programs 4 Device Manager di Devices and Printers Display Ease of Access Center 4 L
65. ader and the left center and right of the bottom of the page the footer Page Header Left Page Header Center Page Header Right Page Footer Left Page Footer Center Page Footer Right An endorsement contains text such as titles and page numbers The text in each endorsement can be formatted for font size style and color The steps below will add both a header and a footer endorsement on each page created by TIFF Image Printer The header endorsement is the text Page and the current page number printed in the top right corner of each page This endorsement will be in the default font of Arial 12 point colored black The footer endorsement is the text Internal Use Only Confidential placed at the bottom center of each page The footer text is formatted so that it is Verdana 14 point colored red and with only the words Internal Use Only in bold text While the sample only shows a single endorsement in each header and footer you can have separate endorsements in each left center and right section at the same time Working With the TIFF Image Printer Placing Endorsements on Your Pages TIFF Image Printer Step by Step Instructions 1 Select File Print from your application The example below uses Microsoft Word your print dialog may look different from what is pictured here Home Insert Page Layout References Mai Save Print Gal Save As gt Ope oe Print fap Close am Printer Recent 5
66. ages e Pages can be rotated 0 90 180 or 270 counter clockwise e f adash appears no extra rotation will be done TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 160 Page Processing TIFF Image Printer Crop Sets any cropping options you want to apply to the incoming pages The concept of image cropping is comparable to scissors that cut away sections of paper In this case the TIFF Image Printer removes portions of the image and leaves a remaining visible area that is smaller than the original If any rotation is chosen cropping is applied as if the page was not rotated For example rotating a portrait page 90 counter clockwise and cropping a 1 margin from the Top will crop a 1 margin off the left hand side of the rotated page which was originally the top of the page Cropping can be specified in either of two ways as page Margins or as a central Area or Region on the page Crop Check this box to enable the cropping options Units Determines the unit of measure used to enter any cropping options Choose English to enter the cropping measurements in inches or Metric to enter the units in centimeters You can enter units with up to three digits of accuracy or to an eighth of an inch 0 125in or 0 318cm Margins Crop Enter the desired measurements in inches or centimeters to crop margins of that width from the Left Top Right or Bottom of the image If all four fields Left Top Right an
67. aling options chosen in this dialog e Variable fax paper height will vary the image length depending on the size of the document sent to the printer and its resulting size after being scaled to fit the chosen Fax Paper Width Available heights in pixels when using Fixed fax paper are maso auso Baso 100x100 1100 1400 1169 1654 1390 200x200 2200 2800 2338 3308 2780 204x196 2156 2744 2291 3421 2724 300x300 3300 4200 3507 4962 4170 173 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference FAX TIFF Options TIFF Image Printer maso aoso 84 SO 400x400 4400 5600 4676 6616 5560 408x391 4301 5474 4570 6467 5434 600x1200 13200 16800 14028 19848 16680 Use Printer Resolution when creating print job Renders each page using the printer resolution and not the chosen fax resolution This prevents the creation of extra pages from some applications such as Excel when forced to render a document at Fax resolution Fax Page Scaling Determines how the original information is placed on the fax sized image e Fit to Page will scale the original page to fit on the fax paper size chosen scaling up to a larger page size or down to a smaller page size as needed Pages will maintain their aspect ratio if the Maintain page aspect ratio check box is checked e Actual Size keeps the original information at the same size Any part that does not fit on the fax paper is cut off If Shrink page if larger than fax paper is checked then yo
68. ard All Programs gt A Log OFF o Shut Down 2 Locate the TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 in your list of printers and left click to select it 3 Right click on the printer and select Printing Preferences from the context menu to display the T FF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences dialog The tabs across the top of the dialog show the different settings that can be customized 35 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Setting Printing Preferences TIFF Image Printer S TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Document Properties FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Advanced Features Text Extraction I Error Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression Orientation Portrait Landscape Print on Both Sides None Flip on Long Edge Flip on Short Edge Working With the TIFF Image Printer 36 Setting Printing Preferences TIFF Image Printer Creating Your First TIFF Image You need to be able to open and print your original document in order to create a TIFF image For example to create a TIFF image from a PDF file you would need to have Adobe Reader or another PDF viewer that has printing capabilities installed on your computer Step by Step Instructions 1 Open the document you want to convert into a TIFF image 2 Select File Print from your application Home Insert Page Layout References Mai lal Save Save As F f Copie
69. are 15 exporting PNProdID txt 15 firewall 15 importing PNProdAU txt 15 license server 15 multi page TIFF files 77 appending 77 creating 77 N naming profiles Multi page 191 Multi page w JobID 191 Serialized 191 Serialized w JobID 191 275 P PDF document viewing 39 PNG image viewing 39 print job variables 255 date and time 255 email 255 macro expansion 255 other 255 output 255 page 255 retrieving at run time 255 printer automation calling a dll function 240 COM object 239 creating copies of the printer 240 PNTIF11S INI 240 samples 239 script file 240 setting max jobs 240 signalling events 240 printing preferences 24 application level 24 global 24 howtoset 24 Properties Advanced Features tab 199 Advanced File Naming dialog 191 Advanced Options dialog 157 Compression tab 168 Endorsements tab 180 Error Reporting tab 204 FAX TIFF Options tab 171 Image Processing tab 164 Layouttab 153 Page Processing tab 160 Paper Quality tab 155 Runtab 196 Save tab 184 Text Extraction tab 201 viewing printer properties 140 Watermark tab 177 TIFF Image Printer R resampling 110 114 118 aspect ratio 110 114 118 using percentage 109 114 using pixels 109 110 using resolution 109 118 Run command 196 each page 196 endofjob 196 file close 196 parameter 196 prompt 196 restore defaults 196 startin 196 start of job 196 wait 196 window 196 working directory 196 run command calling dl
70. atch your search e Use the Save in field to choose a folder to store your TIFF image Your Documents folder will be selected for you by default e Inthe File name field enter a name for your TIFF image A default name for your image has been filled in based on the name your application used when it printed your document to the TIFF Image Printer here we have changed it to ColorFaxTIFF e Inthe Save as type drop down list select TIFF Multipaged tif to create a multipage fax format TIFF image This can be changed to TIFF Serialized tif if serialized single page TIFF images are needed e Click the Save button to create the image The image will be created in the folder you chose Working With the TIFF Image Printer 72 Creating Fax Format Files TIFF Image Printer Changing the Fax Compression The compression used in your fax image can only be changed for Profile F fax images The selected compression method in the Monochrome Images drop down list on the Compression tab determines the compression method If the current setting is not applicable the default compression setting for that fax profile will be used instead Step by Step Instructions 1 Open the document you want to convert into a faxable TIFF image 2 Select File Print from your application Home Insert Page Layout References Mai lal Save Print Save As F se Copies 1 en iy Op Print Gif Close a Printer Recent
71. ate with the associated printer during the printing and file creation process It replaces and greatly enhances the older script file methodology used in the previous versions of the printer Through the PNSrv11 COM Interface you can e set file naming and conversion preferences on a per file basis e easily wait until the file has been created to continue your workflow e use a pool of printers to increase processing capacity e attach to events to add custom processing at key points e track the files printed and the output files associated with each file e retrieve detailed information about the output files created e interact with the printer in a thread safe manner To learn more about the COM interface you can download the PNSrv11 user guide from the TIFF Image Printer Support and Documentation page 239 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Automating with the PNSrv11 COM Interface TIFF Image Printer Automating the Printing Process with the Script File TIFF Image Printer s advanced automation features allow you to accomplish the following workflow related tasks e perform thread safe batch printing and workflow management e change driver settings on the fly before any print job e display a custom dialog box at the point of print job submission e collect and pass user data to a back end process e signal events at critical points during the printing process e call functions in a user DLL at critical points during the printing proce
72. ating a single multi page TIFF file from several different documents is an easy task with TIFF Image Printer Once append mode is turned on and the name and location of the output TIFF file is set simply print the files to TIFF Image Printer in the order in which you want them to appear in the TIFF file The TIFF append options are controlled through the Save tab on the Printing Preferences dialog Close any open applications that you will be printing from before making changes as not all applications will see your changes until they are re started Changing the options using the following steps is a global change meaning that all applications will use these settings when printing to TIFF Image Printer Step by Step Instructions You can make the same changes outlined below through the Properties button on each application s Print dialog as you print your files but it is generally easier to make this change once and then print all the files The following steps show how to turn on the append mode and set up the resulting file name to create a TIFF file containing a fax header page printed from Microsoft Word followed by an e mail message printed from Microsoft Outlook 1 From the Windows Start menu go to All Programs TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Properties 2 Click on the Save tab in the Printing Preferences dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer Appending Multiple Files Into a Single TIFF Image TIFF Image Printer
73. based on file size or page count gt Creating Your First TIFF Image gt Creating a Serialized Sequence of TIFF Images gt Appending Multiple Files Into a Single TIFF Image gt Save TIFF Images Without Prompting Custom File Naming Pre set the file name and where it will be saved or have the driver prompt you each time Advanced file naming can be used to set customized naming conventions gt Changing Where the Files are Saved Color and Monochrome Fax Produce fax ready images using standard fax profiles New fax scaling and alignment options give you complete control over the fax image you create gt Creating Faxable TIFF Images Compression Settings Color reduction options dithering methods and individual compression settings for color indexed Working With the TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer greyscale and monochrome images combine to give you full control over the file size of your TIFF images gt Changing the Compression Methods Endorsement Options Add header and footer endorsements such as text and page numbers to your pages as you create them Font style size and color can all be customized gt Placing Endorsements on Your Pages Page Processing Take advantage of the built in page processing features auto rotate your pages crop sections of your page automatically trim the margins and adjust the page brightness in one easy step gt Using the Crop Features gt Using the Trimming F
74. ch text as it can from the printed document This feature will not necessarily produce the same results as Optical Character Recognition OCR software Any text formatting is approximate and may not completely match your original document All of the text extraction settings are controlled through the Text Extraction tab in the Printing Preferences dialog Close any open applications that you will be printing from before making changes as not all applications will see your changes until they are re started Changing the text extraction settings using the following steps is a global change meaning that all applications will use these options when printing to TIFF Image Printer Working With the TIFF Image Printer 122 Extracting Text From the Created File TIFF Image Printer Step by Step Instructions The steps below will set enable text extraction and create UTF 8 encoded files The Physical layout is used to try and match the format of the text in the original file as much as possible 1 From the Start menu go to All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Properties 2 Click the Text Extraction tab in the Printing Preferences dialog TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Enable Text Extraction F this field is empty the text file will be c
75. ches of the image will be cropped out If you do not know the size of the area you wish to crop print the page to a hardware printer and use a ruler to measure the area on the physical piece paper 3 As the source document is a landscape oriented document the Orientation of the printer needs to be changed to Landscape to match If your source document is portrait the Orientation needs to be set to Portrait e On the Layout tab select Landscape from the Orientation drop down list 97 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Using the Crop Features TIFF Image Printer Advanced Features _ Layout Paper Quality Page Orientation Landscape X 4 Click the OK button on the Document Properties dialog to save the cropping options 5 Click the OK button on the Print Dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 6 Choose where to save your TIFF image file from the Save I mage File dialog TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File No items match your search e Use the Save in field to choose a folder to store your TIFF image file Your Documents folder or any folder you have chosen on the Save tab will have been selected for you by default e Inthe File name field enter a name for your TIFF image file A default name for your file has been filled in based on the name your application used when it printed your document to the Working With t
76. ci iride iiie e e di e ieii 260 Advanced File Naming Keywords ssiiiescncs iscscsceissaianncranananinnstnecvanscnmnanndiananaincannnsiin 260 Watermark KeyWords wesieouacssiisscnleasnniadeyicwacanaynlansnahdiovanpsainainbsiiendeasinanbanievieosineienenita 260 RUM SW OAS sect incre i tine eects niente E EEA 260 Error Reporting KeywordS csisncciciescteninensnasin cana diienndabilenshenineniedinenedaverpesiesiaes 260 Index User Variables and Other Keywords TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer Welcome to TIFF Image Printer Thank you for choosing TIFF Image Printer 11 0 The TIFF Image Printer is installed on your computer in the same manner as a hardware printer that creates paper copies TIFF Image Printer is based on the Microsoft universal printer core which is included with Windows This ensures that TIFF Image Printer will work with any Windows application that provides a print function Printing to the TIFF Image Printer is the same as printing to any other printer driver The difference is that TIFF Image Printer creates serialized and multi page TIFF images and stores them on your computer instead of creating a paper copy This makes TIFF Image Printer ideal for document imaging and electronic document delivery because you do not have to first print and scan hard copies It also allows you to distribute your documents on a truly universal scale virtually any imaging program document management solution or fax file viewer can read
77. ck box to have the creation time and date added to your outputted TIFF file Use Motorola format Enable this check box to create TIFF images using Motorola big endian byte order The default format is ntel little endian byte order This option does not apply if you enable fax mode and select Profile S as your fax profile TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference FAX TIFF Options TIFF Image Printer License Launches the Activation Wizard as described in the Activating TIFF Image Printer section if you are in trial mode If you have already activated TIFF Image Printer you will see a summary of your license information see Viewing Your Activation Status for more details Restore Defaults Restores this tab s settings back to the defaults when the driver was first installed Help Brings up the on line help for this tab TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 176 FAX TIFF Options TIFF Image Printer Watermark The Watermark tab allows you to place an image based watermark behind the text and images on your original pages Watermark images can be color greyscale or black and white but the image will be converted to greyscale before being placed on the page The following image types can be used as a watermark image gt TIFF tif images gt JPEG jpg images gt CompuServe PNG images gt Windows Bitmap bmp TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Qualty Page Processing Ima
78. color palette 56 reduce to black and white 56 reduce to greyscale 56 reduce to optimal 56 reduce to optimal 16 color 56 reduce to optimal 256 color 56 command line printing 254 Compression color images 168 color reduction 168 dithering method 168 greyscale images 168 indexed images 168 JPG image 60 monochrome images 168 PDF file 60 reduce to black and white 168 reduce to greyscale 168 reduce to optimal palette 168 restoring defaults 168 TIFF image 60 configuring automatically open created file 46 color reduction 56 compression methods 60 dithering methods 56 file splitting by page count 64 file splitting by size threshold 64 save dialog prompting 44 save location 42 control strings deprecated features 260 copy to features 104 actual size 104 alignment 104 fit to page 104 maintain page aspect ratio 104 page size 104 creating fax images changing the fax compression 66 73 color 66 70 monochrome 66 67 crop features area or region 89 95 margins 89 90 cropping area or region 160 margins 160 custom paper size adding new paper sizes 125 customizing driver defaults advanced features settings 209 advanced file naming 209 compression settings 209 273 customizing driver defaults configuration file 209 211 devmode settings 209 email advanced settings 209 email settings 209 error reporting settings 209 hiding property pages 209 211 image options settings 209 installing a customized printer 209 238 PNTIF11C INI 209
79. ctory REG_SZ DsDriver StartTime REG_DWORD 0x0000003c 60 F DsSpooler Status REG_DWORD 0x00000080 128 F PrinterDriverData StatusExt REG_DWORD 0x00000000 0 txTimeout REG_DWORD 0x0000afc8 45000 a Ti p p D D0000 TIFF Image Printer 11 0 atunse BEGDAORD f Providers v lab Scripting file REG_SZ C Scripts MyTIFFScript INI lt gt T omputer HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Print Printers My TIFF Printer I TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 246 Automating the Printing Process with the Script File TIFF Image Printer Using the Configuration File to Indicate the Script File Using the configuration file to indicate the script file To enforce the same printing defaults for all users at runtime you can use the configuration file as the master script file See Editing the Configuration File for more details on changing the configuration file To use the configuration file as the script file make your desired changes to the PNTIF11C INI configuration file and change the Use_this_file_as_master_script value to TRUE in the Scripting file section Scripting file Use_this_file_as_master_script TRUE To specify a different file to be used as the script file for all users enter the following lines in the Scripting file section Scripting file Use_this_file_as_master_script FALSE Script C Scripts MyPrinterSettings INI If you d
80. d Bottom are 0 00in then no cropping is performed Here we are cropping a 1 00in margin on each side of the page The darker part of the image shown is the result i 1 j i i i i i 161 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Page Processing TIFF Image Printer Area or Region V Crop Units English Metric Left 2 00in With 6 00in Height 5 00in Area or Region z in fea Top 2 00in Enter the desired measurements in inches or centimeters to crop out a section of the page e The Left and Top are the starting points for your cropped area the left and topmost edges of the remaining visible area e The Width and Height are the actual dimensions of the area you want to crop from the original page If all four fields Left Top Width and Height are 0 00in then no cropping is performed Here we are cropping a 6 00in x 5 00in area that is 2 00in from the left and top of the page The darker part of the image shown is the result 1 I AA aa ei l j 1 I See Also Using the Crop Features Trim Trimming is similar to cropping TIFF Image Printer will automatically remove all areas on the chosen sides Left Right Top or Bottom of the image that fall at or below the chosen intensity level The intensity levelis used to decide what pixels get thrown away Colors are converted to a grayscale palette and then compared to the chosen intensity level Trimming o
81. d is not eedsThresholdEnabled enabled SplitFileSizeThresholdinB 0 2147483648 The file size threshold in bytes at which to split the ytes file The file is split when the file size gets larger than this value The default is 1073741824 bytes or 1GB 229 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Advanced File Naming Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting Format string S FORMAT STRING Format string for Serialized profile see Advanced File Naming for details Format string M FORMAT STRING Format string for Multi page profile see Advanced File Naming for details Use default extensionS 1 Use default file extension Use default extension 1 Use default file extension Use default extension 1 Use default file extension M Use default extension 1 Use default file extension Variables S LIST OF Commaz delimited list of variables that correspond to VARIABLES the placeholders in FORMAT STRING Variables M LIST OF Comma delimited list of variables that correspond to VARIABLES the placeholders in FORMAT STRING TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 230 Customizing Driver Defaults TIF Ru 231 F Image Printer n Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting RunAtStart enable RunAtPage enable RunAtFile enable RunAtEnd enable RunAtStart command RunAtPage command RunAtFile command RunAtEnd command RunAt
82. d the job If you have renamed the printer to a custom name or are using a copy of the printer with a different name that name is used to create the log file names The JobID from the Save tab is also used to create a unique filename The custom naming is as follows PNTIF11 TIFF Image Printer 11 0 6 543 log Log file name Printer Name Job Id in JobID fron printer PEERNET queue printer The default logging settings Eror Log T Log all errors to _ Browse _Vew Log Default location is your Documents folder Will create log files named similar to the following the bolded numbers will change for each print job SUSERPROFILE S Documents PNTIF11 TIFF Image Printer 11 0 6 50 log Customizing the output folder for the log file as shown a E Log all errors to CALogs Browse Default location is your Documents folder Will create log files in the folder C Logs and named similar to the following the bolded numbers will change for each print job C Logs PNTIF11 TIFF Image Printer 11 0 7 51 log Customizing the name and location of the log file as shown T Log all erors to CALogs TestRun log Browse Default location is your Documents folder e TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Error Reporting TIFF Image Printer Will create log files with a base name of TestRun and located in the folder C Logs the bolded numbers will change for each print job C Logs
83. dh TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences Type Color Options Color Reduction Reduce to optimal palette v Dithering Method Hatftone i Output Directory default is your Documents folder C Users Public Documents Invoices Filename excluding extension Faxinvoice C Include JobID 0 in filename Remove file extension from filename C Overwrite always Remove product name from filename L Prompt only when needed C Split after 1024 MB C Delete all output files at end of job every 10000 Advanced Fle Neming LI Spit License Restore Defaults Help e Select TIFFMultipaged tif from the Type drop down list box e Click the Append to file check box to turn on append mode Append mode will append to an existing file if that file already exists or it will create a new file if no file of that name is found e Inthe Output Directory field type in the folder where you want to save your TIFF images You can also use the Browse button to find a folder on your computer If the field is left blank the Documents folder is used by default e Inthe Filename field type in the base name you want to use for your TIFF image This name needs to be the same each time you print for the pages to be appended 3 Click the Apply button and then the OK button to set the changes If the output directory you typed in does not exist you will be prompted to confirm creation of the new directory 4 Open your f
84. e from the drop down list of resampling options e Enter in the percentage by which to resize the image Any amount under 100 will shrink the image and any amount greater than 100 will enlarge the image A percentage of 100 leaves the image at its original size For our sample page we have checked the Lock aspect ratio check box and entered 50 for the Image Width This will give an image half the size 50 of the original 3 As the source document is a landscape oriented document the Orientation of the printer needs to be changed to Landscape to match If your source document is portrait the Orientation needs to be set to Portrait e On the Layout tab select Landscape from the Orientation drop down list Advanced Features Layout Paper Qualty Page Orientation Landscape v 4 Click the OK button on the Document Properties dialog to save the resample options 5 Click the OK button on the Print Dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 6 Choose where to save your TIFF image file from the Save I mage File dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer 116 Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File No items match your search e Use the Save in field to choose a folder to store your TIFF image file Your Documents folder or any folder you have chosen on the Save tab wi
85. e and file save options set as specified in Step 2 The TIFF image created in Step 5 is now listed in the folder Click the Save button to append add the new page s to the existing TIFF image Working With the TIFF Image Printer 80 Appending Multiple Files Into a Single TIFF Image TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File x Save in E invoices e aga WA I J Faxinvoice tif Quick access Desktop 8 When you open the new TIFF image in your TIFF viewer you will see that all pages from the two documents are in the file In our sample each file had a single page this resulted in a two page TIFF image Please note that not all image viewers will properly display multi page TIFF images 81 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Appending Multiple Files Into a Single TIFF Image E Faxlnvoice Windows Photo Viewer File v Print v E mail Burn Working With the TIFF Image Printer Appending Multiple Files Into a Single TIFF Image Open v E Faxlnvoice Windows Photo Viewer File v Print v E mail Burn EVENT INFO TIFF Image Printer Open fone see ye vem Gate Evert Time Ever Adres Oty ST b 82 TIFF Image Printer Placing Endorsements on Your Pages 83 Endorsements are header and footer information containing text that can be added to the top and bottom of each printed page Separate endorsements can be added to the left center and right of the top of the page the he
86. e Width For our sample page we have unchecked the Lock aspect ratio and entered the Image Height and Image Width height and width separately 3 As the source document is a landscape oriented document the Orientation of the printer needs to be changed to Landscape to match If your source document is portrait the Orientation needs to be set to Portrait e On the Layout tab select Landscape from the Orientation drop down list Advanced Feshues Layout Paper Quality Page Orientation Landscape X 4 Click the OK button on the Document Properties dialog to save the resample options 5 Click the OK button on the Print Dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 6 Choose where to save your TIFF image file from the Save I mage File dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer 112 Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File No items match your search e Use the Save in field to choose a folder to store your TIFF image file Your Documents folder or any folder you have chosen on the Save tab will have been selected for you by default e Inthe File name field enter a name for your TIFF image file A default name for your file has been filled in based on the name your application used when it printed your document to the TIFF Image Printer Here we have changed the file name
87. e a fax resolution TIFF image as determined by Fax Profile and Fax Resolution settings Profile F Profile S Profile C 200 x 100 resolution Profile S F 200 x 200 resolution Profile S F C 204 x 98 resolution Profile S F 204 x 196 resolution Profile S F 300 x 300 resolution Profile F C 400 x 400 resolution Profile F C 408 x 391 resolution Profile F 300 x 600 resolution Profile F 400 x 800 resolution Profile F 204 x 391 resolution Profile F 600 x 600 resolution Profile F C 600 x 1200 resolution Profile F 1200 x 1200 resolution Profile F C 100 x 100 resolution Profile F C Do not use printer resolution Use printer resolution Letter Legal A4 ISO B4 ISO A3 ISO Auto 216 TIFF Image Printer Fax Paper Height Fax Page Scaling Fax Page Scaling Auto Rotate Fax Page Scaling Lock Aspect Ratio Fax Page Scaling Shrink Larger Fax Page Scaling H Align Fax Page Scaling V Align Fax Page Use 256 Greyscale Palette Fill order EOLs Byte Aligned Photometric Include DateTime Motorola Format 0 1 0 1 Left Middle Right Top Middle Bottom 0 1 LSB2MSB MSB2LSB 0 1 MinlsWhite MinlsBlack 0 Variable height Fixed height Fit to Page Actual Size Do not auto rotate the page Auto rotate the page if needed Do not maintain fax page aspect ratio when scaling Maintain fax page aspect ratio when scaling Do not s
88. e call returns For back end processing and workflow integration you can use the Run At events to launch applications call DLL functions or signal events For more information see the Using Run Commands to Call DLL Functions topic Note If both MyUserExitFunction and MyUserExitFunctionEx are specified in the INI file the MyUserExitFunctionEx takes precedence TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 244 Automating the Printing Process with the Script File TIFF Image Printer Creating Copies of the Printer If you are automating the printing process using the script file it is a good practice to use a copy of the printer for your automation process to use This allows you to automate and not interfere with the regular use of the printer This also protects your automation process from other programs and process who may be using this printer as well It is also good practice to associate a unique script file with each printer See the next section for details on how to do this 1 From the Start menu use go to Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Copy Printer 2 Type in a name for your new printer instance and click OK PEERNET Copy Printer x To create a copy of the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 with a different name enter the new name below and press OK New Printer Name Copy of TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Cancel Help To create a copy of the printer programmatically you can call PNCopyPrinter1 1 exe from the command l
89. e if WAIT_TIMEOUT dwWait AfxMessageBox _T TIMEOUT on event signal else TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 252 Signaling Events Using Run Commands TIFF Image Printer AfxMessageBox _T FAIL on event signal 253 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Signaling Events Using Run Commands TIFF Image Printer Printing From the Command Line The following table lists the command line parameters for printing to the TIFF Image Printer from various commonly used applications Command Line Printing When printing through the command line please note that not all applications will close after printing the requested file AcroRd32 exe t filename printer name driver name port if using Acrobat Writer substitute Acrobat exe for AcroRd32 exe TIFF Images WINDOWS kodakprv exe p filename AWD fax documents WINDOWS kodakprv exe p filename Printing a font file WINDOWS fontview exe p fonttile rundll32 exe WINDOWS SYSTEM MSHTML DLL PrintHTML filename URL Microsoft HTML document OFFICE msohtmed exe p filename HTM Microsoft PowerPoint file Office PowerPnt exe p filename PPT Microsoft Word Docs Office winword exe x filename DOC MS Outlook files Office outlook exe p filename MSG Webshots Screensaver WSST EXE p filename wss Write documents WORDPAD EXE p filename WRI PDF file Internet URL shortcuts TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 254 Printing From the
90. e number of colors is counted for each page and the appropriate type of output file black and white 2 color image 256 colors greyscale or true color is created for that page Reduce to black and white reduces a color image to a black and white or Monochrome image using one of the dithering methods described below Reduce to greyscale palette reduces a color image to a greyscale image composed exclusively of shades of neutral gray varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest Reduce to 256 color palette reduces or promotes all images to 256 color palette Reduce to 16 color palette reduces or promotes all images to 16 color palette Reduce to optimal palette max 256 colors this option is the same as Reduce to optimal palette except that any pages that have more then 256 colors will be reduced to a 256 color palette Reduce to optimal palette max 16 colors this option is the same as Reduce to optimal palette except that any pages that have more then 16 colors will be reduced to a 16 color palette Dithering Method Dithering greatly enhances the appearance of color images that have been reduced to black and white Because the same dithering method may produce different results in different situations it is best to experiment when trying to determine the best dithering method for a given source image Color Options Color Reduction Reduce to optimal palette y Dithering methods available a
91. e sure that the keywords they reference are recognized by TIFF Image Printer Changing the control string prefix and suffix By default the prefix of 0 and suffix of are used to recognize a control string pattern in a printed document Some applications will break this string and print each character separately making it impossible for us to detect the control string From the Text Extraction tab you can set the control string prefix and suffix to a single Unicode character value By using this feature products like Crystal Reports and Adobe Reader can be configured so the product recognizes control strings Control Strings Keywords The tables in the next sections list the keywords can be set through control strings A value in bold text represents the default value for that keyword TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 260 Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer Save Keywords Compression Keywords FAX TIFF Keywords Advanced File Naming Keywords Watermark Keywords Run Keywords Error Reporting Keywords User Variables and Other Keywords VV VV VV V WV 261 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer Save Keywords Save Keywords T 0 Yo AET OutputDir Full path to a directory OutputFormat Included for backwards support for older TIFF and PDF Image Printer drivers use OutputFileFormat see below instead Multipage Serialized ColorReduction none No color reduction opti
92. e where to save your TIFF image file from the Save I mage File dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer 120 Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File No items match your search e Use the Save in field to choose a folder to store your TIFF image file Your Documents folder or any folder you have chosen on the Save tab will have been selected for you by default e Inthe File name field enter a name for your TIFF image file A default name for your file has been filled in based on the name your application used when it printed your document to the TIFF Image Printer Here we have changed the file name to ResampleTIFF 121 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer Extracting Text From the Created File This feature will create a separate text file containing all of the textual elements of your printed document These text files are often paired with the output files when stored in archival systems to allow searching and retrieval of the files using textual data By default all of the text extraction files are stored in the same directory with the same base name as the original document For example creating a TIFF image with a base name of JanuaryMemo tif will also create a file JanuaryMemo txt containing all the text in file A Text Extraction and Optical Character Recognition The text extraction feature extracts as mu
93. eatures Image Processing Copy each page of the document to a larger or smaller page with full alignment options Resample each page to a particular width and height in pixels as a percentage of the original size or by setting a new image resolution DPI gt Using the Copy To Image Feature gt Resizing Images Using Resampling Custom Paper Size Supports user defined paper sizes allowing virtually any size paper including large paper sizes for use in AutoCAD programs gt Working with Large Paper Sizes Run Programs and Commands Specify commands to be run at the start of the print job at the end of the print job at each page and on file close gt Automatically View the Created TIFF Image Text Extraction Includes text extraction capabilities with support for creating ASCII UTF 8 and UTF 16 encoded files gt Extracting Text From the TIFF Image Working With the TIFF Image Printer 22 TIFF Image Printer About Multi page and Serialized TIFF Images TIFF is an acronym for Tagged Image File Format It is the de facto standard for archival documents and is used widely as a faxable document when faxing through your computer using software Serialized TIFF Images A serialized TIFF image is a single file containing a single page of your document When creating serialized TIFF images from a document with multiple pages the images are created and stored sequentially normally using a numerical naming scheme For e
94. ected above does not change the multi page or serialized setting for your image file it only changes how the filename is Set Profile Format Specification Format String s_ 3d Variables OutputFileName Add FileNumber Delete Clear ouput rece OutputFileName Use default extension Cancel Help Restore Defaults ox Naming Profiles There are four different naming profiles to customize Which naming profile is used depends on your current settings for the Serialized or Multi page and Include JobID options on the Save tab It is the combination of these settings that determines which profile is used to build the filename Serialized or Multi page Include JobID Naming Profile Serialized Serialized Multi paged Multi page Select one of the four available profiles to display its default settings These settings are used to view and or modify the default settings for a given profile affecting how all documents using that profile are saved Changing the selected profile here does not affect your settings on the Save tab 191 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Save TIFF Image Printer To see how the naming profiles differ consider the following settings and how the filename changes The Format String and Variables list are explained in more detail below Output Directory Ci Test s OutputrleName Use default extension Profile Format String Variables and Resulting File Names Ser
95. eld choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the drop down list of printers e Click the Properties button to open the TIFF Image Printer properties dialog box Home Insert lal Save Gal Save As BF Open Close Print Copies Printer te ite Proper References Mai 4 gt 2 Click on the Page Processing tab in the Document Properties dialog to access the trimming 101 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Using the Trimming Features TIFF Image Printer options ae ae eee area a Layout Paper Quality Page Processing J imaf Enable the Left Top Right and Bottom trim options on Rotation the Page Processing tab Rotate portrait pages counter cloc Rotate landscape pages gt counter clockwise Crop e Enable any one or all of the Left Top Right or Bottom check boxes to trim that side of the document For our example we need to trim all four sides of the document so all four check boxes have been checked Click and drag the intensity slider to choose the level of grey to remove If the slider is all the way to the left or White only pure white pixels will be removed For a scanned image the border is generally not pure white so the Intensity should be moved to the right The darker the grey on the border the further towards Black you will need to move the slider Click and drag the slider to adjust the intensity If you were printing a docu
96. elect All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 License from the Windows Start menu License Agreement EY Online Help _ Product Home Page _ Quick Sta Le JEL IV x JC _ TIFF Image Printer Quick Start Guide _ TIFF Image Printer User Guide Q Uninstall TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Recent Items Computer Connect To Control Panel Default Programs Help and Support Start Search RD mmm ME Activating TIFF Image Printer Launching the Activation Status Dialog TIFF Image Printer Starting the Activation Process The Activation Status dialog displays different options when your trial period has expired than when you are still in trial mode If you have time remaining in your trial If you still have time remaining in your trial period you can e choose to activate the product with your purchased serial number e go to our on line store to purchase the product e continue to evaluate the product To begin the activation process now select the have a serial number and want to activate my copy button This will launch the Activation Wizard which will guide you step by step through the activation process Thank you for taking the time to evaluate this prod Click here to launch the Activation Wizard cA I have a serial number and want to activate my copy I do not have a serial number and want to purchase I want to continue evaluating Your evalution copy will expire in
97. elope DL Envelope C5 Envelope C3 Envelope C4 Envelope C6 Envelope C65 Envelope B4 Envelope B5 Envelope B6 Envelope Italy Envelope Monarch Envelope Personal US Std Fanfold German Std Fanfold TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults Paper orientation Number of dots per inch Print files in color or black and white Standard paper sizes available Other are also available 214 TIFF Image Printer 215 German Legal Fanfold ISO B4 Japanese Postcard 9x11 10x11 15x11 Envelope Invite Letter Extra Legal Extra Tabloid Extra A4 Extra Letter Transverse A4 Transverse Letter Extra Transverse A Plus B Plus Letter Plus A4 Plus A5 Transverse B5 Transverse A3 Extra A5 Extra B5 Extra A3 Transverse A3 Extra Transverse A1 594 x 841 mm AO 841 x 1189 mm B3 ISO 353 x 500 mm B2 ISO 500 x 707 mm B1 ISO 707 x 1000 mm B3 JIS 364 x 515 mm B2 JIS 515 x 728 mm B1 BO JIS 728 x 1030 mm JIS 1030 x 1456 mm TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults Image Options TIFF Image Printer Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting Fax Fax Profile Fax Resolution Fax Use Printer Resolution Fax Paper Width TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults 0 1 o O N O oa A WwW N O O a a oO I JG Do not create a fax resolution TIFF image Creat
98. els t SamplePPT pdf Adobe Acrobat Reader DC O X File Edit View Window Help x Home Tools Document i a 27 5 v Working With the TIFF Image Printer 110 Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer Step by Step Instructions 1 Select File Print from your application the example below uses Microsoft Word Home Insert Page Layout References Mai lal Save Gl Save As Open iy Op Print Close Info Recent Brother HL 2045 New gt Ready Save amp Send Help e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the drop down list of printers e Click the Properties button to open the TIFF Image Printer properties dialog box Home Insert Page Layout References Mai la Save i Print E Save As H a z eal Copies 1 7 Open Print Gf Close Printer Printer Properties 2 Click on the Image Processing tab in the Document Properties dialog to access the 111 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer Resample options V Resample Pues Image Width 1280 E Lock aspect ratio Image Height 1024 e Check the Resample check box to enable the resampling options e Select Pixels from the drop down list of resampling options e Leave Lock aspect ratio checked if you want TIFF Image Printer to automatically determine the Image Height of the image based on the value entered for the Imag
99. ent to the printer 5 The Save Image File dialog will appear with the Save in File name Save as type and image options set as specified in Step 2 Leave this information as shown and click the Save button to create the TIFF images 51 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Creating a Serialized Sequence of Files TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File x vein TIFF Images gt cx Fav G Name z Quick access Date modified Type No items match your search T Desktop Libraries This PC a File name linvoice ti gt Save as type TIFF Serialized tif 6 Each page printed from the report is saved as a separate TIFF image file LY Invoice_001 tif TIF File 2015 05 26 10 08 AM 22 LY Invoice_002 tif TIF File 2015 05 26 10 08 AM 34 I Invoice_003 tif TIF File 2015 05 26 10 08 AM 25 LY Invoice_004 tif TIF File 2015 05 26 10 08 AM 22 LY Invoice_005 tif TIF File 2015 05 26 10 08 AM 17 Adding to an Existing Sequence of Files The following steps show how to add additional TIFF image files to the end of an existing sequence or series of existing TIFF image files Step by Step Instructions 1 From the Windows Start menu go to All Programs TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Properties Working With the TIFF Image Printer 52 Creating a Serialized Sequence of Files TIFF Image Printer 53 2 Click on the Save tab in the Printing Preferences dialog TI
100. ents Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Hardware Margins and Custom Paper Units English Metric Hardware Margins Left Right 0 000in Top Bottom 0 000in Enable Custom Paper Paper Size Printer Area Margins Width 8 500in Left 0 000in Top 0 000in Height 11 000in Right 0 000in Bottom 0 000in 3 Check the Enable Custom Paper check box and enter in the Width and Height of the desired paper size Here we are creating a custom paper size that is 15 wide by 17 high The Printer Area Margins are left at 0 Working With the TIFF Image Printer 138 Working with Large Paper Sizes TIFF Image Printer 139 Click the Apply button and then the OK button to set the changes Printing a document to the TIFF Image Printer will now create a TIFF image file that is 15 wide and 17 high You can determine this by dividing the width in pixels by the horizontal resolution and the height in pixels by the vertical resolution 15 inches 17 inches 4500 pixels 300 DPI 5100 pixels 300 DPI fe CustomPaperSizeTIFF Windows Photo Viewer 0 x File Print E mail Bum Open Qe eee tere ete 5 mmg 1 CustomPaperSizeTIFF Properties x General Securty Details Previous Versions Working With the TIFF Image Printer Working with Large Paper Sizes TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference This section contains technical doc
101. er Activate window Enable this check box if you want the window in which your application runs to be activated that is in the foreground Wait for completion Select this option if you want the print job to wait until the command terminates Wait with exit code Select this option if you want the print job to wait until the command terminates successfully If the command exits with an error the print job will be canceled Do not wait Select this option if you do NOT want the print job to wait until the command terminates Prompt to continue Select this option if you want to be prompted to continue once the command has executed This feature allows you to review the results before accepting them If you choose No from this prompt the print job will be canceled You can enter a customized prompting string up to 64 characters in length License Launches the Activation Wizard as described in the Activating TIFF Image Printer section if you are in trial mode If you have already activated TIFF Image Printer you will see a summary of your license information see Viewing Your Activation Status for more details Restore Defaults Restores this tab s settings back to the defaults when the driver was first installed Help Brings up the on line help for this tab TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 198 Run TIFF Image Printer Advanced Features The Advanced Features allow you to control the paper size and margins of the
102. er aided design software is being used This type of software is often used by engineers and architects when making large scale drawings Some applications require that you create custom forms or paper sizes in order to print to a particular paper size There are two ways to have TIFF Image Printer use a larger paper size gt Configure TIFF Image Printer to Use a Custom Paper Size gt Adding a Custom Paper Form 125 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Working with Large Paper Sizes TIFF Image Printer Adding a Custom Paper Form The following steps outline how to create a custom paper size or form and use it in your application You will need to close your application before doing these steps Windows Vista and Windows 7 Permissions On Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems you will need administrative permissions to add custom paper sizes Adding custom paper sizes on Windows 10 Windows Server 10 1 Close any open applications 2 Goto Start Control Panel to open Control Panel applet Programs and Features Power Options Event Viewer System Device Manager Network Connections Disk Management Computer Management Command Prompt Command Prompt Admin Task Manager File Explorer Search Run Shut down or sign out gt Desktop 3 Click Administrative Tools Working With the TIFF Image Printer 126 Working with Large Paper Sizes TIFF Image Printer EA All Control Panel
103. et the Units to Metric centimeters or English inches Set the Paper Size Width and Height to the desired valued It is important to make your Width value less than your Height value If your paper size is wider than it is high you need to use the Landscape orientation property when printing Set any Printer Area Margins you need 5 Click the Save Form button on the upper right corner of the tab then click the OK button 6 You can now use your new custom paper size in your application or as a paper size on TIFF Image Printer s Advanced Options dialog 137 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Working with Large Paper Sizes TIFF Image Printer Configure TIFF Image Printer to Use a Custom Paper Size The steps below will configure TIFF Image Printer to use a custom paper size of 15 wide x17 high Close any open applications that you will be printing from before making changes as not all applications will see your changes until they are re started Changing the custom paper size settings using the following steps is a global change meaning that all applications will use these options when printing to TIFF Image Printer 1 From the Start menu go to All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Properties 2 Click the Advanced Features tab in the Printing Preferences dialog TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsem
104. etc in a folder named C Test Other settings that you have changed in the Printing Preferences and have not set in the script file i e anything not on the Save tab will still apply Experiment with some of the other settings if you want Delete the script file from the TEMP folder once you are finished or all other print jobs will be affected by this file Programmatically creating the script file You can use the Win32 API WritePrivateProfileString to edit the script file programmatically TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 242 Automating the Printing Process with the Script File TIFF Image Printer Important Script File Sections There are three sections in the script file that apply to automation in particular EventNames There are three events that can be signaled by the printer e CommandsProcessed e DocumentSpooled e DocumentCanceled If you are changing printer settings between print jobs you must set the CommandsProcessed to the name of an event you have created and are waiting on in order to know when the printer has finished reading the script file and it is now safe to move on and change the values in the script file for the next print job This is to ensure that each job is matched with the appropriate settings thread safe batch printing ina multi thread multi process environment It is the responsibility of the printing application to create and block the event The printer will automatically signal the e
105. ew folder C Users Public Documents TIFF Images 3 Click the Apply button and then the OK button to set the changes If the output directory you typed in does not exist you will be prompted to confirm creation of the new directory 4 Printing to TIFF Image Printer from any application now displays the Save I mage dialog box starting in the directory chosen Universal Naming Convention You can also save to mapped network drives and drives specified using Universal Naming Convention syntax Commonly abbreviated to UNC universal naming convention is a common syntax for describing a shared network resource such as a file or directory The UNC syntax for Windows is ComputerName SharedFolder Resource 43 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Changing Where the Files are Saved TIFF Image Printer Saving Files Without Prompting Each time you print the TIFF Image Printer will prompt you with the Save I mage File dialog to choose where you want save the output file You can change this so that the output file is always saved in the same location without showing the dialog All output options are controlled through the Printing Preferences dialog Close any open applications that you will be printing from before making changes as not all applications will see your changes until they are re started Step by Step Instructions Changing the prompting options using the following steps is a global change meaning that no matter what app
106. ext in your file e Physical attempts to match the format of the text in the original file e Raw saves the text in the order in which it is was sent to the driver This may not be the same order as the text in the original file e None No formatting is attempted All text is written to the file in the order in which it is received from the printing application Format Choose the encoding format and end of line encoding for your text file Depending on the operating system the text file will be used on you may need to choose the appropriate line return code e UTF 16 UTF 8 8 bit and 16 bit Unicode encoding e ANSI uses the current ANSI code page e Windows lines end with the carriage return line feed CRLF r n used by Windows e Unix lines end with the line feed LF n used by UNIX e Mac lines end with the carriage return CR r used by Macintosh Emit Page Breaks Enable this check box to have insert a page break or form feed f in your text file for every page in your original document Enable Control Strings Enable this check box to turn on support for control strings While you can still use control strings this feature is being deprecated It is retained in the driver for backwards compatibility See Using Control Strings in the Deprecated Features section for more information Prefix Suffix By default the prefix of 0 and suffix of are used to recognize a control string pattern in a printed d
107. for the output file type in this case tif If you uncheck this box no extension will be present unless you specify one Restore Defaults Restores this dialog s settings back to the initial defaults when the driver was first installed Help Brings up the on line help for this dialog 195 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Save TIFF Image Printer Run When creating your output files the creation of each file can be split into four separate stages or events At each one of these stages you can specify a command or program to be run These events in particular the End of job event are often used to perform a custom task such as sending the file to a document management system or uploading the file to an FTP server once it has been created You can also use the Run commands to call functions in a DLL See Using Run Commands to call DLL Functions for more information TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Show settings for Start of job Each page File close End of job End of job settings _ Enabled Command S OutputFilePath rowse Parameters Start in Browse Wait for completion Window Normal Wait with exit code v Activate window Do not wait Prompt to continue Do you want to continue Show sett
108. g an End User License to an Unlimited End User License within the same product version It cannot be used to upgrade between product versions i e you cannot use this button to upgrade a version 10 0 install to a version 11 0 Status Activated Serial Number PN XXXXX XXX XXXXXXXXXXXX License Type Your License Type Name Your Name Organization Your Company EMail Address address company com lt Activating TIFF Image Printer 20 Viewing Your Activation Status TIFF Image Printer Working With the TIFF Image Printer 21 Create your files using the TIFF Image Printer in 3 easy steps Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Open and print your Set printer settings Save your file document P TIFF Image Printer This section is designed as a How To guide and describes the most common basic tasks you will use when working with TIFF Image Printer The objective is to familiarize you with the features available and give a brief overview of how each feature works You can jump directly to the topic for each feature from the table below or you can refer to the table of contents for a complete list of How To topics and step by step instructions Save Options Save your TIFF images as either serialized files one image per page per file or as multi paged files all images in one file Use the Append feature to combine files or to create sequences of images File splitting can be used to create sequences of files
109. g tab e Check the Crop check box to enable the cropping options e Select Margins from the drop down list of cropping areas e For each side of the page Left Top Right and Bottom enter in the margin width to crop Our sample page has a left right top and bottom margin of one half an inch 0 50in If you do not know the margin size used on your page print the page to a hardware printer and use a ruler to measure the margins on the physical piece paper Printers can add an extra hardware margin width on a printed page that may have to be adjusted for As the source document is a landscape oriented document the Orientation of the printer needs to be changed to Landscape to match If your source document is portrait the Orientation needs to be set to Portrait e On the Layout tab select Landscape from the Orientation drop down list Layout Paper Quality Page Orientation Landscape v Click the OK button on the Document Properties dialog to save the copy to and cropping options Click the OK button on the Print Dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer Choose where to save your TIFF image file from the Save I mage File dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer Using the Copy To Image Feature TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File No items match your search e Use the Save in f
110. ge Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Enable watermark Watermark the first page only Portrait Pages Image File Browse Position Stretch to fit v Darken Lighten Landscape Pages Image File Browse Position Stretch to fit v Darken Lighten Enable Watermark Enable this check box to use the watermark feature 177 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Watermark TIFF Image Printer First Page Only Enable this check box if you want the watermark to be applied to the first page only Portrait Pages Image File Enter the full path to the image file to be used as the watermark on portrait pages or use the Browse button to search and locate a file Valid file types are bmp jog png and tif Position Use this option to determine how the watermark image is placed on the page e Stretch to fit stretches the image to fit the page e Tile leaves the image at its original size and repeats the image to fill the page e Center will center the image in the middle of the page both horizontally and vertically Brightness Slider Allows you to lighten or darken the watermark image Move the thumb control on the slider to the left to darken the image or right to lighten the image If your watermark image has already been lightened leave the slider in the middle 0 to leave the watermark image alone Landscape
111. h programs and files You can also find the options by doing either of the following 1 From the Start menu type Printers in the Search box and press the Enter or Return key to open the Devices and Printers window then continue from Step 3 below Type Printers in the search box and press Enter to open the Devices and Printers folder P See more results TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 146 TIFF Image Printer 2 Or from the Start menu select Devices and Printers Documents ssi amp Sticky Notes Pictures QR Snipping Tool Music Paint J Click here to open the os a Ren Devices and Printers folder R Computer Magnifier Control Panel Devices and Printers Default Programs Help and Support Shut down iDa 3 Locate the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 in your list of printers and right click the printer 4 Select Printing Preferences from the context menu to display the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences dialog The tabs across the top of the dialog show the different settings that can be customized 147 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference TIFF Image Printer dy TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Qualty Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Orientation La Print on Both Sides None v
112. h the TIFF Image Printer 24 Setting Printing Preferences TIFF Image Printer On Windows 10 Windows Server 10 For quick access to the options a menu item has been added to the TIFF Image Printer menu in the Windows Start menu You can access this menu item by going to All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Properties TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Configure PDF to Print In Hi Copy Printer License Agreement T License Online Help Product Home Pace Properties Quick Start Guide Set Max Jobs TICE lemme Dandas laas Frc ccal a 5 Power l Back 25 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Setting Printing Preferences TIFF Image Printer You can also find the options by doing either of the following 1 From the Start menu type Printers in the Search box and press the Enter or Return key to open the Devices and Printers window then follow from Step 4 below 4 Devices and Printers Control panel Settings a View devices and printers O mrintare an cala EE My stuff P Web Pe printers j Working With the TIFF Image Printer 26 Setting Printing Preferences TIFF Image Printer 27 2 Or from the Start menu select Control Panel Programs and Features Power Options Event Viewer System Device Manager Network Connections Disk Management Computer Management Command Prompt Command Prompt Admin Task Manager Control Panel
113. have received the product authentication file PNProdAU txt from PEERNET Inc you will need save the file in an easy to remember location like your Desktop or your Documents folder If you need to move the authentication file back to the computer where TIFF Image Printer is installed do so now On the computer where TIFF Image Printer is installed restart the Activation Wizard by following the steps outlined in Launching the Activation Status dialog The Activation Wizard will automatically start at the import screen Activating TIFF Image Printer 16 Manually Activating TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer Press the Import the PNProdAU txt product authentication file button in the middle of the screen i s Click to import th Veiner aaa iE User Information 4 Click the button below to import the file yf Validation Process Ir the PNProdAU txt product authorization file gt Step 2 Import Status Use the Next button to move to the next screen or Back to return to a previous screen The Next button will be enabled when the PNProdAU txt file has been imported A browse dialog box will appear This dialog may look slightly different depending on which version of Windows you are running Locate where you saved the PNProdAU txt file you received from PEERNET and click the Open button to import the file t B gt ThisPC gt Documents v amp Search Documents P Organize v New folder B O
114. he TIFF Image Printer 98 Using the Crop Features TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer Here we have changed the file name to CroppedTIFF 99 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Using the Crop Features TIFF Image Printer Using the Trimming Features The trimming feature is an easy way to remove unwanted margins or borders from your pages While similar to cropping trimming is an automatic process All areas to the eft top right and bottom of the document where the color falls at or below the chosen intensity level are removed As soon as a color that is above the intensity level is found trimming on that side stops A common use of this feature would be to remove the lighter shades of grey on scanned images as we do in the example below This also works with color images as TIFF Image Printer will use a greyscale representation of the page to determine trimming Scannedimage pdf Adobe Acrobat Reader DC z 0 x File Edit View Window Help x Home Tools Document a e The borders of the scanned image to be trimmed Notice the image is not aligned on the page Working With the TIFF Image Printer 100 Using the Trimming Features TIFF Image Printer Step by Step Instructions 1 Select File Print from your application Home Insert bal Save R Save As EF Open Close Info Recent New Save amp Send Help Brother HL 2045 Bp row References Mai e In the printer fi
115. he log files but the base name and location cannot be changed TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 206 Error Reporting TIFF Image Printer a O x View sers gt Michelle gt AppData gt Local gt Temp gt v amp Search Temp P CO Name Date modified Type 3 Size L PNTIF11Job TIFF Image Printer 11 0 18 5 bin 2015 05 28 7 59AM BIN File L PNTIF11Job TIFF Image Printer 11 0 19 6 bin 2015 05 28 8 00AM BIN File L PNTIF11Job TIFF Image Printer 11 0 20 7 bin 2015 05 28 8 00 AM BIN File License Launches the Activation Wizard as described in the Activating TIFF Image Printer section if you are in trial mode If you have already activated TIFF Image Printer you will see a summary of your license information see Viewing Your Activation Status for more details Restore Defaults Restores this tab s settings back to the defaults when the driver was first installed Help Brings up the on line help for this tab 207 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Error Reporting TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts The following topics describe the more advanced functionality of TIFF Image Printer If you only need to create TIFF images files from applications on your desktop you most likely will not need the following information These topics are geared towards programmers who need to automate printing to the TIFF Image Printer in their own software or IT personnel who need to install
116. hortcut J Downloads SG Recent Places Libraries Documents a Music E Pictures E Videos jE Computer amp Local Disk C S T Drive Vade G W drive Vade Ga Network t 7 Print Management Date modified 14 08 2009 12 04 PM Shortcut Component Services A Computer Management Data Sources ODBC Event Viewer e amp iSCSI Initiator aa Local Security Policy 14 07 2009 12 41 14 07 2009 12 41 14 07 2009 12 42 14 07 2009 12 41 14 08 2009 12 05 Shortcut Shortcut Shortcut Shortcut Shortcut Shortcut Task Scheduler Windows Firewall with Adve Windows Memory Diagnostic Windows PowerShell Modules Size 1 23 KB Working With the TIFF Image Printer Working with Large Paper Sizes 14 07 2009 12 41 14 07 2009 12 41 14 07 2009 12 41 14 07 2009 12 52 OnE Shortcut Shortcut Shortcut Shortcut Shortcut Shortcut Date created 14 08 2009 12 04 PM TIFF Image Printer 6 Inthe Print Management window select Print Servers then select the name of your computer in this example our computer is named Andromeda Right click on the Forms item then select Manage Forms v File Action View Help KEII mE e Print Management gt Custom Filters a Print Servers 4 Andromeda Form Name Type Width 0 1mm u Height 0 1 gd 101 Built In 2540 za a104 Built In 2540 3556 da7 Built In 279
117. hrink fax to fit on page Shrink fax to fit on page Align image left Align image in the center Align image right Align image top Align image in the center Align image bottom Use the smaller 64 grayscale palette Use 256 grayscale palette Least significant bit to most significant bit Most significant bit to least significant bit EOLs not byte aligned no fillbits EOLs byte aligned use fillbits DateTime field not included in file DateTime field included in file Use Intel byte order Use Motorola byte order 217 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Rotate portrait 0 90 180 or 270 Degrees of rotation counter clockwise Rotate landscape 0 90 180 or 270 Degrees of rotation counter clockwise TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 218 Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer TIFF File Format Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting 219 BW compression Color compression Indexed compression Greyscale compression None Group4 Group3 2D Group3 1D MH LZW Packbits Uncompressed RGB Uncompressed CMYK Packbits RGB Packbits CMYK High quality JPEG Medium quality JPEG Low quality JPEG LZW RGB LZW CMYK Uncompressed Packbits High quality JPEG Medium quality JPEG Low quality JPEG LZW Uncompressed Packbits High quality JPEG Medium quality JPEG Low quality JPEG LZW No black and white compression
118. i Letter Graphic jo pee Print Quality 300 x 300 dots per inch Image Color Management ICM Method ICM Disabled i ICM Intent Pictures f Document Options Advanced Printing Features Enabled Pages per Sheet Layout Right then Down a Booklet Binding Edge On Left Edge Color Printing Mode True Color 24bpp f Printer Features i Print Quality Letter Quality Paper Output Defines the dimensions of each page in the output file Paper Size Allows you to choose the page size of the pages in your output file Depending on your regional settings this normally defaults to Letter or A4 for Europe and the UK Clicking the underlined text will display a list of paper sizes to choose from TIFF Image Printer supports all standard international sizes If you want to use a custom paper size instead add a custom paper size as shown in the Adding custom paper sizes section or use the custom paper option on the Advanced Features tab 157 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Advanced Options TIFF Image Printer 2 Paper Output In Graphic D D ra a il e A4 ISO 210 x 297 mm 20 Image Colot A4 Extra ee ICM Met A4 Long i ICM Inte E A4 Plus Bie Document Optil A4 Rotated owe Advanced P E A4 Small H Pages per Sk gt Graphic A4 Transverse Specifies the print resolution or DPI Dots Per Inch of the output file Higher resolution
119. ialized S_ 3d OutputFileName FileNumber C Test Invoice_001 tif C Test Invoice_002 tif C Test Invoice_003 tif Multi page S OutputFileName C Test Invoice tif Profile Format Specification Format String The format string field is used in conjunction with the variables see below to build the filename A format string is built up using regular text and place holders for string and numeric variables supplied by the driver A S is used as a place holder for string variables and a d is used for numeric variables To pad numeric values with zeroes place a number between the and the d see the format string above for Serialized The order of the place holders must match the order of the variables numeric variables must have a numeric place holder and string variables must have a string place holder All other characters appearing in the format string will be reproduced literally as is when building the filename For example with the Save tab set to the following TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 192 Save TIFF Image Printer 193 Type TIFF Serialized tif vj V Append to sequence Color Options Color Reduction Reduce to optimal palette o v Dithering Method Halftone v Output Directory default is your Documents folder C Test Filename excluding extension Invoice ii and using these settings for the filename Output Director
120. ically open the file in the default viewer for TIFF image files More Information Regarding the Run Commands When converting your document to a TIFF image file the process can be split into four separate stages or events At each one of these stages you can specify a command or program to be run These events in particular the End of job event are often used to do an extra step such as 47 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Automatically View the Created Files TIFF Image Printer uploading the file to an FTP server once the image has been created In the above case we were only concerned with the last stage End of job which we used to automatically open the created file See the Run tab properties reference for more information Working With the TIFF Image Printer 48 Automatically View the Created Files TIFF Image Printer Creating a Serialized Sequence of Files In certain instances such as a database report of invoices where each invoice is on a separate page you may want to create a single file for each page of your document This is called a serialized sequence and can be created from a single input document or combined with the append feature created from a series of documents Each file is named uniquely based on its page number or its place on the sequence if you are appending sequences together For example a three page report from an invoice database would create the following three files e Invoice_00
121. ield to choose a folder to store your TIFF image file Your Documents folder or any folder your have chosen on the Save tab will have been selected for you by default e Inthe File name field enter a name for your TIFF image file A default name for your file has been filled in based on the name your application used when it printed your document to the TIFF Image Printer Here we have changed the file name to CropAndCopyTIFF Working With the TIFF Image Printer 108 Using the Copy To Image Feature TIFF Image Printer Resizing Images Using Resampling The Resample options on the Image Processing tab allow you to create TIFF images in custom sizes The resampling features are not a replacement for choosing the proper page size on the Advanced Options dialog or setting up a custom paper size through the Advanced Features tab You can resample images by choosing Pixels Percentage or Resolution DPI To prevent image distortion a stretched or squished image Lock Aspect Ratio can be left checked to have TIFF Image Printer calculate the height needed automatically See the following sections for step by step guides to using the cropping features gt Resample Using Pixels gt Resample Using Percentage gt Resample Using Resolution 109 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer Resample Using Pixels The steps below use the file pictured here to demonstrate resampling using pix
122. il another font size formatting code is encountered again The default font size is 12 points Allows the insertion of an ampersand character into the text License Launches the Activation Wizard as described in the Activating TIFF Image Printer section if you are in trial mode If you have already activated TIFF Image Printer you will see a summary of your license information see Viewing Your Activation Status for more details Restore Defaults Restores this tab s settings back to the defaults when the driver was first installed Help Brings up the on line help for this tab 183 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Endorsements TIFF Image Printer Save The Save tab directly controls the naming and storing of the output files From this tab you can do the following gt choose to create serialized or multi paged files turn append mode on or off pre set the file name for your output file turn off the Save Image As dialog prompt configure the driver to always save in the same location use the Advanced File Naming to customize automatic file naming VV VV WV split the output file based on the number of pages or a file size threshold dah TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Quaity Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Type TIFF Mutipaged
123. iles TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Setups PNTIF11S INI to your temp folder You can find your temp folder by opening the My Computer icon this is just Computer on Windows Vista and Window 7 and typing TEMP in the address bar then pressing Enter OW p Computer Organize v we Favorites E temp ME Deskto Search for temp B Downl Organize Si Recent il Ye Favorites 4 Hard Disk Drives 1 ME Desktop Local Disk C b Downloads 5 il 37 4 GB free of 47 8 GB Recent Places Eas 2 The script file is read only to start you will need to remove the read only property on the file you just copied to your temp folder Right click the script file select Properties from the context menu then remove the check mark from the Read Only attribute at the bottom of the General tab You can now change this file manually using Notepad or WordPad Look for the Save section in the file and replace the matching lines with the changes below These settings configure the driver to create serialized TIFF images with a base name of Serial_Test in the folder C Test It will not prompt for a file name Save Prompt 0 Overwrite 1 Output directory C Test Output filename Serial_Test Remove filenam xtension 1 Output File Format TIFF Serialized Create the output folder C Test Print any file to TIFF Image Printer 11 0 You will now see files named Seria _Test_001 tif Serial_Test_002 tif Serial_Test_003 tif
124. ine as shown C Program Files TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Setups PNCopyPrinter11 exe TIFF Image Printer 11 0 My New Printer Note Uninstalling the printer driver through Ada Remove Programs will remove all instances of the printer from your computer Deleting a printer from the Printers and Faxes windows does not remove the printer driver just the printer icon from the Printers and Faxes window 245 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Automating the Printing Process with the Script File TIFF Image Printer Using Separate Script Files for Each Copy of the Printer If you create multiple copies of the printer on the same machine the same script file applies to all To use a separate script file for each printer you can add a registry key to the registry information for each printer This registry key tells the printer where to look for it s script file 1 Open the registry key for the desired printer Here we are opening the registry key for the printer named My TIFF Printer HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Print Printers My TIFF Printer PrinterDriverData 2 Create a new string value named Scripting file 3 Set the data in the new string value to the complete path to the script file to use with this printer for example a C Scripts MyTIFFScript INI BY Registry Editor File Edit View Favorites Help Fax Name Type Data asakinsia dacs b Share Name REG_SZ y b SpoolDire
125. ing the most e Profile F standard monochrome fax e Profile S simplified monochrome fax e Profile C color fax Fax Resolutions Profile S Profile F 100x100 200x200 204x196 300x300 600x1200 Fax Resolution The Fax Profile chosen determines what resolutions are listed Not all profiles support all resolutions The resolution selected here overrides any other resolution selection that you may have set on through the Advanced Options Fax Paper Width Sets the width of the fax paper to be used when creating the faxable image If you choose one of the paper sizes Letter Legal A4 ISO A3 ISO or B4 ISO the width of your original document will be scaled to fit this selection based on the scaling options chosen on this dialog If you choose Auto the original paper size of your source document will be used to find the closed match of the five paper sizes and that size will be used Available widths in pixels are TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 172 FAX TIFF Options TIFF Image Printer Letter Legal A4 ISO A3 ISO B4 ISO 100x100 1216 1024 200x200 1728 2432 2048 204x196 1728 2432 2048 300x300 2592 3684 3072 400x400 3456 4864 4096 408x391 3456 4864 4096 600x1200 5184 7296 6144 Fax Paper Height Sets the height of the fax image e Fixed fax paper height will limit the image length based on the Fax Paper Width chosen above Any scaling required is done based on the sc
126. ings for The four radio buttons at the top of the tab correspond to four distinct events during the printing process You can configure a separate command to run for each event Start of job occurs when the document is first sent to TIFF Image Printer Each page each time we start processing a new page in the document TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 196 Run TIFF Image Printer each time the output file is closed this can happen more than File cl 970036 once for a single file occurs when the created file or each file if serialized output has been chosen is complete and ready to be viewed End of job Event Settings 197 The settings shown in these fields correspond to the radio button selected above Enabled Enable this check box if you want the command to run Command Enter the full path to the command you want to launch A command is limited to 128 characters in length The command does not have to be an executable that is exe com or bat In this case the application associated with the file extension will open If the command is not an executable and there is already an instance of the opening application running then the Wait for completion and Wait with exit code options will not work Instead they will be replaced by a prompt Parameters Type any parameters you need to send to your application A list of parameters is limited to 255 characters When entering parameters e Use blan
127. inter Quick Start Guide A EC Software gt TIFF Image Printer User Guide Uninstall TIFF Image Printer 11 0 a Notepad m ge TIFF Image Printer 11 0 gt M Raster Image Printer 11 0 gt CUTE TEC Pn PDF Image Printer 11 0 P Log OFF fo Turn OFF Computer ey Start You can also find the options by doing the following 1 From the Start menu select Printers and Faxes Tour Windows XP ey Copy Printer o Help and Support x Files and Settings Transfer Y Search Wizard All Programs gt A Log OFF o Shut Down 2 Locate the TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 in your list of printers and left click to select it 3 Right click on the printer and select Printing Preferences from the context menu to display the T FF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences dialog The tabs across the top of the dialog show the different settings that can be customized 151 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference TIFF Image Printer S TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Document Properties I Watermark l Endorsements Save Advanced Features Text Extraction Error Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression Orientation Portrait Landscape Print on Both Sides None Flip on Long Edge Flip on Short Edge Setting Global Defaults Global defaults are the default properties for all users of the printer To set printing defaul
128. inue using this product it must be activated e have a serial number and want to activate my copy Select this option if you have your serial number and want to activate your product When the product is activated the evaluation watermark is no longer placed on created files e do not have a serial number and want to purchase Selecting this option will take you to our on line store where the product can be purchased Once purchased an order confirmation notification containing your serial number will be sent to you by email Activating TIFF Image Printer 10 Launching the Activation Status Dialog TIFF Image Printer Entering Your Serial Number To activate your product you need to enter in the serial number that was included with your order confirmation email You can also find your serial number in your on line store account Enter the serial number into the box on the screen If you copy your entire serial number from your email and then return to this dialog it will automatically be filled in to the box Enter your serial number here D gt Serial Number Enter your serial number into the field below to start the o activation process User Information Your serial number can be found in your order confirmation e Validation Process your on ine store account Status TI do not have an Internet connection and will activate manually You need to be connected to the internet to activate on line
129. ion Status Dialog The Activation Status dialog is used to display your current license status If you are running Windows 10 or Windows Server 10 To launch the Activation Status dialog select All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 License from the Windows Start menu TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Configure PDF to Pri Copy Printer License Agreement License Online Help Product Home Page Properties Quick Start Guide Set Max Jobs TIFF Image Printer User Guide Power E Back Activating TIFF Image Printer Launching the Activation Status Dialog TIFF Image Printer If you are running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 To launch the Activation Status dialog select All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 License from the Windows Start menu J TIFF Image Printer 11 0 m Configure PDF to Print In High Qual eb Copy Printer wi License Agreement A License Online Help _ Product Home Page 4 Properties _ Quick Start Guide WB Set Max Jobs _ TIFF Image Printer Quick Start Guide _ TIFF Image Printer User Guide Uninstall TIFF Image Printer 11 0 4 Back m Computer Control Panel Devices and Printers Default Programs Help and Support Activating TIFF Image Printer Launching the Activation Status Dialog TIFF Image Printer If you are running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 To launch the Activation Status dialog s
130. ion at runtime that is not provided by the Print Job Information macros you can use the registry key syntax to store and retrieve environment settings from the registry at runtime TIFF Image Printer will perform instant macro expansion of all values in the registry key format These may be run command parameters save directories and filenames and control string values Because registry data may change during a print job you may want to instruct TIFF Image Printer to defer macro expansion when using control strings Use an extra dollar sign for this purpose that is use registry key rather than registry key The complete path to a valid registry key value must appear in the string For example HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Config 0001 Display Settings Resolution TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 258 Retrieving Print Job Information TIFF Image Printer Deprecated Features The following features are being deprecated They are currently available for use for backwards compatibility for clients upgrading from previous versions of the driver 259 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer Using Control Strings Warning A The following features have been deprecated No new functionality will be added to these features Control strings can be used to manipulate TIFF Image Printer settings dynamically during print jobs Control strings embedded in your documents override settings
131. irst document and select File Print from your application In our sample this would be the fax header printed from Microsoft Word Working With the TIFF Image Printer 78 Appending Multiple Files Into a Single TIFF Image TIFF Image Printer Home Insert Page Layout References Mai lal Save Gal Save As Copies 1 BF Open Close Print Info Recent Brother HL 2045 New Ready Save amp Send Add Printer Print to File Help Print One Sided Only print on one side o e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the list of printers e Click the OK button on the Print dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 5 The Save Image File dialog will appear with the Save in File name and other file save options set as specified in Step 2 Leave this information as shown and click the Save button to create the TIFF image 79 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Appending Multiple Files Into a Single TIFF Image TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File x Save in E Invoices aa a G Name 5 Date modified Type No items match your search Desktop 6 Open the second document and select File Print from your application In our sample this would be the e mail message printed from Microsoft Outlook 7 The Save Image File dialog will again appear with the Save in File nam
132. it takes up less space ae TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF TIFF Image Compression Color Images LZW RGB M Indexed Images LZW v Greyscale Images LZW v Monochrome Images CCITT Group 4 Fax y TIFF Image Compression Compression methods with the exception of JPEG compression do not affect the image quality You may need to experiment with the compression methods to find the best balance between the size of the TIFF file and the quality of the images See Also Reducing File Size with Compression Options Color Images select one of the following compression methods to use when compressing color TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 168 Compression TIFF Image Printer TIFF images e Uncompressed RGB or CMYK e Low Medium or High Quality JPG e Packbits RGB or CMYK e LZW RGB or CMYK CMYK Compression and Viewing TIFF Images Not all image viewers understand CMYK compression and as a result may not display the TIFF image correctly For example Microsoft Document Imaging is known to have this problem while Windows Photo Gallery on Vista or Windows Picture and Fax Viewer on XP do display the TIFF correctly Indexed Images select one of the following compression methods to use when compressing indexed images e Low Medium or High Quality
133. ith Large Paper Sizes TIFF Image Printer Lr eal oax O gt Control Panel gt System and Securty p Search Contran P Control Panel Home System and Security Network and Internet Hardware and Sound Programs User Accounts Appearance and Personalization Clock Language and Region Ease of Access Action Center Review your computer s status and resolve issues Change User Account Control settings Troubleshoot common computer problems Restore your computer to an earlier time Windows Firewall Check firewall status Allow a program through Windows Firewall System View amount of RAM and processor speed Check the Windows Experience Index Allow remote access See the name of this computer Device Manager Windows Update Turn automatic updating on or off Check for updates View installed updates Power Options Require a password when the computer wakes Change what the power buttons do Change when the computer sleeps Backup and Restore Back up your computer Restore files from backup BitLocker Drive Encryption Protect your computer by encrypting data on your disk Manage BitLocker your hard drive rtitions View eventlogs Schedule tasks 5 Double click Print Management PoE Te 1 gt Control Panel System and Security Administrative Tools Search Administrative Tools Fr Favorites BD Desktop Name Date modified Type 14 07 2009 12 46 S
134. k spaces to separate parameters e Enclose parameters that contain spaces in double quotation marks The default parameter for Each Page File Close and End of Job is OutputFilePath a variable which is replaced at runtime with the file path of the current document Parameters in the format variable will be replaced by runtime values before being passed to your application You can also access registry data directly with the registry key syntax and pass environment settings from the registry as parameters to your applications See the Retrieving environment settings topic for more information Start in You can specify a default working directory for your application Note that some applications do not allow their default working directories to be overridden The working directory is limited to 128 characters in length Window Use this drop down list to specify the window setting for your application Note that some applications do not allow their default window settings to be overridden e Normal the application is displayed in its normal state If the window is already open and TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Run TIFF Image Printer minimized or maximized its original size is restored e Maximized the application is displayed as a maximized window e Minimized the application is displayed as a minimized window its icon is visible on the task bar e Hidden the application is launched hidden from the us
135. l Number TIFF Image Printer Click the Cancel button to begin the manual activation process or the Retry button to try connecting to the internet again Authentication Server could not be contacted from this machine Click Cancel to activate manully or Retry to try connecting to the internet again Please connect to the Internet and press Retry to try again Press CANCEL to obtain a license using an email process Note y If you suspect your firewall or anti virus software has blocked the connection adjust your firewall or anti virus software and click the Retry button Activating TIFF Image Printer 12 Entering Your Serial Number TIFF Image Printer Entering Your User Information The next screen asks for your contact information If possible your Name and Organization information is automatically picked up from your system settings The information in these fields can be changed if required yf Serial Number gt User Information Validation Process Status Enter your information in these fields Use the Next button to move to the next screen or Back to return to a previous screen Email Address address company com a We occasionally notify registered users about special offers promotions and other items of interest If you do not wish to hear about these special offers please check this box Customer Privacy You cannot continue if either the Name or the Email
136. l functions 249 each page 196 endofjob 196 file close 196 signalling events 251 start of job 196 Ga Save append mode 184 custom file naming 184 delete output files 184 include JobID 184 multi page output files 184 output directory 184 output filename 184 overwrite always 184 prompt when needed 184 remove file extension 184 remove productname 184 restoring defaults 184 serialized output files 184 script file Event Names 240 243 276 TIFF Image Printer script file User Exit 1 x64 240 243 User Exit 1 240 243 User variables 240 243 associating witha printer 240 specified in the configuration file 240 serialnumber 6 activation 5 6 activation limit 18 on line purchase 6 serialized files 49 appending toasequence 49 creating 49 system requirements 3 T TARGA image viewing 39 text encoding 201 ANSI 201 UTF 16 201 UTF 8 201 Text Extraction 201 emit control strings 201 encoding 201 line feeds 201 output file 201 page breaks 201 restore defaults 201 text layout 201 TIFF Images 23 creating 37 multi page 23 serialized 23 viewing 23 39 trademarks 2 trimming intensity 160 trimming features 100 margins 100 trim intensity 100 viewing JPG Images 39 Microsoft Office Document Imaging 39 multi page viewers 39 Windows 2000 39 Windows 2003 39 Windows Photo Gallery 39 Windows Picture and Fax Viewer 39 Windows Vista 39 Windows XP 39 viewing TIFF images 39 Microsoft Office D
137. le contents can also determine how well the chosen compression method will work For instance full color publication from Microsoft Publisher or similar will compress better using JPG compression than using Packbits because JPG compression was designed to compress images with lots of color variation while Packbits works best with runs of solid colors in the image The default compression methods chosen by TIFF Image Printer upon install will often give a good balance between file size and quality When changing compression methods take care to note the settings on the following tabs These settings will affect the color model of the output file which controls which compression method is used e the Color setting on the Paper Quality tab e any Color Reduction settings on the Save tab reducing the amount of color needed to represent the image can also have a significant impact on the disk size of the resulting file e if fax mode is enabled in the FAX TIFF tab All of the TIFF image compression options are controlled through the Compression tab in the Printing Preferences dialog Close any open applications that you are printing from before making changes as not all applications will see your changes until they are re started Changing the compression methods using the following steps is a global change meaning that all applications will use these options when printing to TIFF Image Printer Step by Step Instructions 1 From the S
138. lication you use when printing to TIFF Image Printer the Save Image As dialog will not appear 1 From the Windows Start menu go to All Programs TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Properties 2 Click on the Save tab in the Printing Preferences dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer 44 Saving Files Without Prompting TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Document Properties x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Type TIFF Multipaged tif Append to file Color Options Color Reduction Reduce to optimal palette v Dithering Method Output Directory default is your Documents folder CAUsers Public Documents TIFF Images Browse Delete all output files at end of job Advanced File Naming I Spit every 10000 pages License Restore Defauts Help ok Canes e In the Output Directory field type in the folder where you want to save your output files You can also use the Browse button to find a folder on your computer If the field is left blank the Documents folder is used by default e Leave the Filename field blank to have TIFF Image Printer use the name submitted by the application when the file is printed as the output file name If you specify a filename and have the Overwrite always option checked each print will overwrite the
139. lick Save Form Form description measurements Units O Metric English Paper size Printer area margins Width 24 00in Left 0 00in Top Height 36 00in Right 0 00in Bottom e Check the Create a new form check box to enable the form fields e Inthe Form name field type in a name for your new form such as My Custom Form e Inthe Form description section Set the Units to Metric centimeters or English inches Set the Paper Size Width and Height to the desired valued It is important to make your Width value less than your Height value and to use the Landscape orientation property when printing Set any Printer Area Margins you need 7 Click the Save Form button on the upper right corner of the tab then click the OK button 8 You can now use your new custom paper size in your application or as a paper size on TIFF Image Printer s Advanced Options dialog 129 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Working with Large Paper Sizes ifm Print Management File Action View Help e 2ml X B Bie i Print Management gt Custom Filters v j Print Servers gt Drivers i Forms gt Ports gt Printers gt Deployed Printers v J MAM VM Win10 64 lo Form Name a Letter Small a Letter Transverse y Custom Form a Note a Organizer J Organizer K a Organizer L a Organizer M iy PRC 16K ky PRC 16K Rotated Eh PRC 32K Eh PRC 32K Rotated iy PRC 32K Big mM AIIM M s l
140. lick on the Page Processing tab in the Document Properties dialog to access the cropping Working With the TIFF Image Printer Using the Crop Features 96 TIFF Image Printer options Pe ee ee wa Layout Paper Quality pe Proc Rotation Rotate portrait pages r counter clockwise Rotate landscape pages counterclockwise mw i mpn Enable the Crop options on the Page Processing tab I e Check the Crop check box to enable the cropping options e Select Area or Region from the drop down list of cropping areas e For each of the Left Top Width and Height fields enter in the following In the Leftfield enter in how far from the left hand side to start cropping For the sample page 0 50in is entered to start the cropping after the 1 2 inch white margin on the left Inthe Top field enter in how far down from the top edge of the page to start cropping For the sample page 0 50in is entered to start the cropping after the 2 inch white margin on the top of the page In the Width field enter in the width of the area to crop For the sample page we want a width of 10 00 inches This means that starting at 1 2 an inch from the left side of the page 10 00 inches of the image will be cropped out In the Height field enter in the height of the area to crop For the sample page we want a height of 7 50 inches This means that starting at 2 an inch from the top of the page 7 50 in
141. ll have been selected for you by default e Inthe File name field enter a name for your TIFF image file A default name for your file has been filled in based on the name your application used when it printed your document to the TIFF Image Printer Here we have changed the file name to ResampleTIFF 117 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer Resample Using Resolution The steps below use the file pictured here to demonstrate resampling an image to a particular resolution or dots per inch DPI An image can be resampled from 50 DPI up to 3600 DPI The higher the resolution the more space the image will take store on disk and the more memory will be needed both to create and view the image L SamplePPT pdf Adobe Acrobat Reader DC m x File Edit View Window Help x Home Tools Document i EN 256 9 Working With the TIFF Image Printer 118 Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer 119 Step by Step Instructions 1 Select File Print from your application the example below uses Home Insert Page Layout References Mai lal Save R Save As gt Open ap Op Print Close Info Recent Brother HL 2045 Bp row New Save amp Send Help Adobe Reader e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the drop down list of printers e Click the Properties button to open the TIFF Image Printer prope
142. locate a runtime environment for your DLL The driver passes the pointer that you return from Init_User_DLL to all subsequent function calls within the same DLL Terminate User DLL When the driver unloads the DLL at the end of a print job it looks for a function named Terminate_User_DLL The purpose of this function is to free any resources allocated with nit_User_DLL TargetFunction Replace TargetFunction with the name you wish to use for your DLL function The parameter list is passed to the target function as a single command line style string in accordance with the prototype Unlike the other run commands the End of Job run command executes even if a job has been canceled thereby giving you the opportunity to free resources The JobStatus variable is set to 0 if a job has been cancelled otherwise it is 1 On 64 bit Operating Systems On 64 bit operating systems a 32 bit DLL is still needed when calling a DLL from the Run commands Example Calling A DLL Function from End of Job Use the following fields on the Run tab to call a function in a DLL Command lt Path to DLL gt Use angle brackets around the path to designate that this is a DLL Parameters Parameters Start in Name of function in the DLL to call The following sample shows how you can configure the End of Job run command to call a function in a 249 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Using Run Commands to Call DLL Functions TIFF Image P
143. m requirements in order to achieve real time processing of an 8 5 X 11 image in full color no swapping to disk 600 DPI 256 megabytes 300 DPI 64 megabytes 200 DPI 32 megabytes If you encounter heavy disk activity during the printing process and find that the process as a whole takes an inordinately long time to complete you can remedy the situation in any of the following ways choose one 1 Lower the resolution 2 Print in black and white 3 Disable all of the driver options listed above 4 Decrease the paper size 5 Add more RAM 3 Welcome to TIFF Image Printer System Requirements TIFF Image Printer Typographic Conventions Menu commands are displayed in bold text with a hyphen separating the menu name and the command For example Click File New instructs you to select the File menu then select the New command while Click Edit Paste instructs you to select the Edit menu the select the Paste command Terminology conventions This guide uses terminology common to Windows applications The following terms are used throughout the guide Action Description Select Highlight an item using the left mouse button or the appropriate keyboard commands Point to an item with the mouse pointer then press and immediately release the left mouse button without moving the mouse Double click Point to an item with the mouse pointer then press the left mouse button twice in rapid succession without m
144. mal Reduce to optimal palette grey Reduce to greyscale palette BW Reduce to black and white 256Colors Reduce all pages to 256 colors 16Colors Reduce all pages to 16 colors optimalMax256Colors Reduce to optimal palette maximum number of colors per page is 256 optimalMax16Colors Reduce to optimal palette maximum number of colors per page is 16 Append 0 Create a new file See Append Mode for more information 1 Append to existing file or sequence of files on disk Prompt Deprecated this control string is not longer supported Prompting can only be controlled through the driver preferences the script file or by using the PNSrv11 COM Object SkipOn 0 Stop skipping pages resume 1 Start skipping pages exclude from output RemoveProductName 0 Leave product name in filename 1 Remove product name from filename TempDir Full path to a directory to use as the temporary folder TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 262 Deprecated Features TIFF Image Printer Save Keywords Accepted Values PrintRange Comma and dash delimited list of pages and ranges to print e g 3 6 9 12 15 25 RotatePortrait 0 90 180 or 270 degrees counter clockwise Append Mode Until a new filename or directory is specified pages will continue to be written to the same file even after append mode is turned off 263 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Deprecated Features Compression Keywords TIFF Image Printer TIF
145. ment with a white border directly to the TIFF Image Printer you could leave the ntensity slideron White to remove the border If the slider is moved all the way to Black then trimming operation would effectively remove the entire document In these cases the trimming operation is not performed 4 Click the OK button on the Document Properties dialog to save the trimming options 5 Click the OK button on the Print Dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 6 Choose where to save your TIFF image file from the Save I mage File dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer 102 Using the Trimming Features TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File e Use the Save in field to choose a folder to store your TIFF image file Your Documents folder or any folder your have chosen on the Save tab will have been selected for you by default e Inthe File name field enter a name for your TIFF image file A default name for your file has been filled in based on the name your application used when it printed your document to the TIFF Image Printer Here we have changed the file name to TrimmedTIFF 103 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Using the Trimming Features TIFF Image Printer Using the Copy To Image Feature The Copy To feature is used to copy the output image to a new page of a different size If you have a document consisti
146. ments on Your Pages TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Qualty Watermark Endorsements Enable endorsements Style Page Footer Center y Unts Engish Metric Points Text amp KFFO0008 Verdana amp 148Bintemal Use Only amp B amp Aval Confidental e Select Page Footer Center from the Style drop down list e Add the endorsement text string amp KFFOO00 amp Verdana amp 14 amp Binternal Use Only amp B Confidential into the Text field The formatting codes used in this string are o amp K to set the color of the text to red using the RGB color code FF0000 o amp fontname to set the font to Verdana o amp 14 to set the font size to 14 points o amp B to define the start and end positions of the endorsement string to be displayed in bold text 3 Click the OK button on the Document Properties dialog to save the endorsement options 4 Click the OK button on the Print Dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 5 Choose where to save your TIFF image file from the Save I mage File dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer 86 Placing Endorsements on Your Pages TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File No items match your search e Use the Save in field to choose a folder to store your TIFF image file Your Documents folder or any folder y
147. mized Hidden RunAtEnd window Normal Minimized Maximized Hidden RunAtStart window active 0 1 RunAtPage window 0 active RunAtFile window active TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults Working directory path DLL function to call Working directory path DLL function to cal Working directory path DLL function to cal Working directory path DLL function to cal Window state Window state Window state Window state Do not activate window Activate window Do not activate window Activate window Do not activate window 232 TIFF Image Printer RunAtEnd window active Do not activate window RunAtStart wait Wait for completion Do not wait RunAtPage wait Wait for completion Do not wait RunAtFile wait Wait for completion Do not wait RunAtEnd wait Wait for completion Do not wait RunAtStart prompt lt PROMPT STRING gt Prompt string RunAtFile prompt lt PROMPT STRING gt Prompt string 233 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Advanced Features Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting Measurement Units The configuration file now accepts units entered in inches 8 50in or centimeters 21 59cm provided the unit designation of inches in or centimeters cm is given To maintain compatibility with previous versions of the driver the old method of entering units in as hundredths of
148. mple as double clicking the new image file in a File Explorer Windows Explorer on older operating systems The sections below outline the various image viewers available for older operating systems Viewing Images Using Windows Photo Viewer Windows Photo Viewer is normally included on Windows operating systems starting with Windows 7 If you are viewing an image that has more than one page you will see a page navigation control just below the image that allows you to move from page to page When viewing a serialized image the page navigation control is not shown as there is only one page i quickstart Windows Photo Viewer i O x File v Print v E mail Burn Open 7 La r r P Mamaa aaa ma a ee 39 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Viewing Your Images TIFF Image Printer Viewing Images on Windows Vista Windows Server 2008 On Windows Vista you can view both serialized and multi paged images using Windows Photo Gallery which is normally installed as part of the operating system If you are viewing an image that has multiple pages you will see a page navigation control just below the image that allows you to move from page to page When viewing a serialized image the page navigation control is not shown as there is only one page Working With the Printer tif Windows Photo Galle oe g ry are Add Folder To Gallery File v Fix Print r E mail Org Cropeeng Trmmeng and Aon nating Scaing ard Ae
149. n any side stops as soon as a pixel is encountered that is greater the chosen level Trim Intensity v W TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 162 Page Processing TIFF Image Printer Left Right Top Bottom Check the appropriate box for the side or sides of the document to be trimmed Intensity Move the thumb control on the slider to the left or right to set the intensity level desired When the intensity is set all the way to the left on White 0 only pure white pixels will be removed The higher the intensity the more colors will removed If the intensity is set to Black 100 the entire page will in effect be trimmed and the trimming operation is abandoned See Also Using the Trimming Features Brightness Adjustment This allows you to lighten or darken the images or text on your incoming pages Darkening the page can help to make light colored text more readable or reversely lightening a page can make a dark image more visible Move the thumb control on the slider to the left or right to adjust the Brightness Brightness Adjustment Darken f Lighten License Launches the Activation Wizard as described in the Activating TIFF Image Printer section if you are in trial mode If you have already activated TIFF Image Printer you will see a summary of your license information see Viewing Your Activation Status for more details Restore Defaults Restores this tab s settings back to
150. n filename V Remove file extension from filename V Overwrite always V Remove product name from filename J Prompt only when needed Split after Moza l Split atte MB U ea Mineo r M Split every foo page Cancel e Inthe Type drop down list of file formats select TIFF Serialized tif as the type of file to create e Inthe Output Directory field type in the folder where you want to save your TIFF images You can also use the Browse button to find a folder on your computer If the field is left blank the Documents folder is used by default e Inthe Filename field type in the base name you want to use for your sequence of TIFF images 3 Click the Apply button and then the OK button to set the changes If the output directory you typed in does not exist you will be prompted to confirm creation of the new directory 4 Open your document and select File Print from your application In our sample this would be the invoice report from a database Working With the TIFF Image Printer 50 Creating a Serialized Sequence of Files TIFF Image Printer Home Insert Page Layout References lal Save GA Save As 3 Open fay Close Info Recent Brother HL 2045 New Save amp Send e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the list of printers e Click the OK button on the Print dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the docum
151. n needed 184 reduce to black and white 168 reduce to greyscale 168 reduce to optimal palette 168 remove file extension 184 remove product name 184 resolution 157 restoring defaults 160 164 runateach page 196 runatendofjob 196 run at file close 196 run at start of jobo 196 runcommand 196 save options 184 serialized output files 184 274 TIFF Image Printer driver settings 201 text extraction 201 trace files 204 trim 160 trim intensity 160 watermark images 177 E Endorsements adding headers and footers 83 180 formatting 83 180 formatting codes 180 height and width 180 restoring defaults 180 text 180 units 180 environment settings registry keys 258 retrieving at run time 258 error display no message boxes 204 standard message boxes 204 timed message boxes 204 Error Reporting error file 204 restore defaults 204 trace files 204 _F FAX TIFF bitorder 171 fax mode 171 fax page alignment 171 fax page rotation 171 fax page scaling 171 fax paper height 171 fax paper width 171 fax resolution 171 grayscale palette 171 photometric 171 Profile C fax 171 Profile F fax 171 Profile S fax 171 restoring defaults 171 file splitting by page count 64 by size threshold 64 image resampling aspect ratio 164 percentage 164 pixels 164 resolution 164 image scaling actual size 164 alignment 164 fit to page 164 J JPG Images viewing 39 L legal notices 2 manual activation 15 anti virus softw
152. nch of the image If either of the following driver settings are used the amount of memory required to process the image will be considerably higher 1 The Watermark option is enabled 2 The Color Reduction option is set to Reduce to optimal palette and you are printing in color As an example of the amount of memory involved consider a standard 8 5 X 11 document printed in color at 600 DPI In order to perform any of the operations listed above the entire image must first be loaded into memory The calculation of the amount of memory required is memory required number of pixels in image X number of bytes per pixel The total number of pixels in an image is equal to the width of the image X the horizontal resolution X height of the image X vertical resolution Furthermore each pixel in a full color image uses 3 bytes to store color information Our calculation therefore expands to memory required 8 5 X 600 X 11 X 600 X 3 100980000 bytes 96 3Mb No less than 96 megabytes of memory is required to hold the image in memory If this much physical memory RAM is not available for the printing process Windows will use virtual memory The resultant I O reading writing operations to and from the hard disk significantly slows down the entire process Although there are no minimum requirements except that virtual memory must be enabled for using TIFF Image Printer to process full color images the following are the minimu
153. new image size chosen scaling up to a larger image or down to a smaller one as needed Pages will maintain their aspect ratio if the Maintain page aspect ratio check box is checked e Actual Size keeps the original information at the same size Any part that does not fit on the new image size will be cut off If Shrink page if larger than image size is checked then you also have the choice of maintaining the aspect ratio Shrink page if larger than image size TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Image Processing TIFF Image Printer Scales the image down to fit the new image size fax paper if the original image is larger Maintain page aspect ratio Turn this option on to prevent distortion when scaling larger or smaller image to different image sizes When this option is on the height and width of the page change in relation to one another Horizontal Alignment Choose how to horizontally align the incoming image e Leftwill align the left side of the image to the left side of the new image e Middle will center the image in the horizontal middle of the new image e Right will align the right side of the image to the right side of the new image Vertical Alignment Choose how to vertically align the incoming image e Top will align the top of the image to the top of the new image e Middle will center the image in the vertical middle of the new image e Bottom will align the bottom of the image to the bottom of the new image See Also
154. ng With the TIFF Image Printer Creating Fax Format Files 70 TIFF Image Printer 71 Home Insert Page Layout References Mai lal Save GR Save As z Copies 1 Ey Open Print Ga Close Info oh TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Adva Layout Paper Qualty Page Processing Imag FAX TIFF Use Printer Resolution when creating print job e Enable fax settings by checking the Enable fax mode check box e In the Fax Profile drop down list choose Profile C for color fax images e In the Fax Resolution drop down list choose the desired fax resolution Profile C offers resolutions ranging from 100x100 up to 1200x1200 A common fax resolution that is a good balance between quality and size is 200x200 e The remaining options can be left as they are for now You are encouraged to play with these options at your convenience See the FAX TIFF tab in the Properties Reference section for more details Click the OK button on the Document Properties dialog to save the changes to the fax options Click the OK button on the Print dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 6 Choose where to save your TIFF image using the Save I mage File dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer Creating Fax Format Files TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File No items m
155. ng of a mix of Letter Legal and other paper sizes the Copy To can be used to create a TIFF image where each page is the same size It can also be used in conjunction with Cropping and Trimming to remove unwanted margins and borders and then place the image back onto the same size page as shown in the steps below In this scenario after cropping the margins from the original 11 00in x 8 50in page below the resulting smaller image will be scaled and placed on an 11 00in x 8 50in image t SamplePPT pdf Adobe Acrobat Reader DC a x File Edit View Window Help x Home Tools Document 11 27 5 v Working With the TIFF Image Printer 104 Using the Copy To Image Feature TIFF Image Printer Step by Step Instructions 1 Select File Print from your application the example below uses Microsoft Word Home Insert Page Layout References Mai bal Save R Save As gt Open iy Op Print Close Info Recent fo Brother HL 2045 New Ready Save amp Send Help e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the drop down list of printers e Click the Properties button to open the TIFF Image Printer properties dialog box Home Insert Page Layout References Mai bal Save Print Gal Save As Copies 1 Open B op Print G Close Printer q Printer Properties 2 Click on the Image Processing tab in the Document Properties dialog to access the copy to 105 Working With the
156. ntation Portrait or Landscape PageHeight Page height in pixels PageYDPI Page Y DPI pixels per inch PageBitsPerPixel The bits per pixel for the page ImageHeight Height of the image in pixels ImageRotationInDegrees Rotation of the image 0 90 180 or 270 ImageYDPI ImageY DPI pixels per inch Date and Time Variables Year Year job was started Day Day job was started Minute Minute job was started Other Variables Other Variables Runtime Value UserName Name of user that submitted job TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 256 Retrieving Print Job Information TIFF Image Printer Other Variables Runtime Value PrinterName Name of printer that submitted job JobStatus 1 indicates success 0 indicates failure Collate 0 if collate was not checked 1 if it was checked FormName Paper form used i e Letter Legal A4 etc In addition to the predefined variables listed above ten variables Var0 Var9 are made available to you for personal use during print jobs Var0 Var9 You can use the printer script file or control strings to assign values to these variables see the Using Control Strings and Automating the Printing Process sections of this document for more information 257 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Retrieving Print Job Information TIFF Image Printer Retrieving Environment Settings If you need to retrieve informat
157. nter clockwise 225 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Endorsements Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting R Newlines in Endorsement Strings If you are editing header or footer strings manually in the configuration file or the script file and want to include the newline character n the line need to be marked as escaped to be passed correctly to the driver You do not need to do this when editing the endorsement strings through the printer properties tabs Escaped Characters to Use E E Sample INI Endorsement Section with Escaped Lines Endorsements Enable 1 HeaderCenterFormat lt cdata gt First Line x0D x0ASecondLine lt cdata gt ia Enable Do not add endorsements HeaderHeightInPoints The height of the header area in points The default is 12 points HeaderCenterWidthInPoints The width of the center section of the header area in points The default is the width of the page HeaderLeftFormat The text with formatting codes as needed to put in the left section of the header HeaderRightFormat The text with formatting codes as needed to put in the right section of the header FooterLeftWidthInPoints The width of the left section of the footer area in points The default is the width of the page TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 226 Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer rt ri FooterRightWidthInPoi
158. nts The width of the right section of the footer area in points The default is the width of the page FooterCenterFormat The text with formatting codes as needed to put in the center section of the header 227 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Save Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting Prompt Prompt only if output path is invalid Overwrite Prompt before overwriting files Use JobID Do not include JobID in filename Append Output is new file s Output directory PATH Output directory path default is My Documents folder Remove product name Leave product name in filename Remove filename Leave product filename extension in filename extension Delete files Do not delete output files at end of job Output File Format TIFF Multipaged TIFF Multipaged tif Color reduction none No color reduction Reduce to black and white using selected dithering method 256Colors Create all pages as 8 bit color 256 colors optimalMax256Col Reduces to lowest color count needed for each page ors any pages over 256 colors are reduced to 256 colors TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 228 Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Dithering method None No dithering Burkes Burkes dithering Halftone Halftone dithering File splitting based on page count is enabled SplitFileWhenFileSizeExc 0 File splitting based on file size threshol
159. o not specify the full path for the script file i e Script MyScript INl the driver will assume the file is located in the Temp directory If you do use the configuration file to determine the location of the script file you will need to follow the steps in Editing the Configuration File regarding changing the file and the steps in Installing the Customized Printer to re install the printer with the new modified settings 247 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Automating the Printing Process with the Script File TIFF Image Printer Settings Max Jobs Setting Max Jobs The TIFF Image Printer will by default process print jobs in parallel The higher the number of print jobs processed at a time the greater the demand on your system resources To control this you can set the maximum number of jobs that can be run at any one time This limit is shared between all version 11 0 drivers on your computer By default this limit is set to 0 meaning there is no limit This is fine for anyone using the print driver interactively as part of their daily tasks If you are automating using the TIFF Image Printer it is very easy to flood the print queue with print jobs and overload your system If you are porting your automation code from the version 6 0 drivers there is a chance that you will need to set this limit Any automation code that fills the print queue with spooled documents will likely run into this scenario To set the ma
160. o select it 5 Click on Select printing preferences in the toolbar or right click the printer and select Printing Preferences from the context menu to display the T FF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences dialog The tabs across the top of the dialog show the different settings that can be customized TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Orientation Print on Both Sides A None v Advanced On Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 For quick access to the options a menu item has been added to the TIFF Image Printer menu in the Windows Start menu You can access this menu item by going to All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Properties TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 150 TIFF Image Printer a Outlook Express Windows Media Play 33 Windows Messenger Tour Windows XP Games gt an Startup gt i Internet Explorer 32 bit E Configure PDF to Print In High Quality ed Copy Printer License Agreement License Online Help 3 Outlook Express Product Home Page p Remote Assistance Properties Files and Settings Tr s Fe Wizard 9 C Windows Media Player Quick Start Guide A 8 Windows Messenger Set Max Jobs ma Tis E windows Movie Maker TIFF Image Pr
161. ocate the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 in your list of printers and right click the printer 5 Select Printing Preferences from the context menu to display the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences dialog The tabs across the top of the dialog show the different settings that can be customized TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 144 TIFF Image Printer dh TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Gualty Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Orientation Print on Both Sides None v 145 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference TIFF Image Printer On Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 For quick access to the options a menu item has been added to the TIFF Image Printer menu in the Windows Start menu You can access this menu item by going to All Programs TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Properties d TIFF Image Printer 11 0 E Configure PDF to Print In High Qual ee Copy Printer License Agreement Hh License Online Help _ Product Home Pag 4 Properties M _ Quick Start Guide Set Max Jobs _ TIFF Image Printer Quick Start Guide Default Programs _ TIFF Image Printer User Guide Q Uninstall TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Help and Support 4 Back Computer Control Panel Devices and Printers Searc
162. ocument Some applications will break this string and print each character separately making it impossible for us to detect the control string This features allows you to set the control string prefix and suffix to a single Unicode character value By using this feature products like Crystal Reports and Adobe Reader can be configured so the product recognizes control strings License Launches the Activation Wizard as described in the Activating TIFF Image Printer section if you are in trial mode If you have already activated TIFF Image Printer you will see a summary of your license information see Viewing Your Activation Status for more details Restore Defaults Restores this tab s settings back to the defaults when the driver was first installed TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 202 Text Extraction TIFF Image Printer Help Brings up the on line help for this tab 203 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Text Extraction TIFF Image Printer Error Reporting This tab controls the error reporting features of the printer driver including disabling the display of any error dialogs customizing the location of any error log files created and enabling advanced debugging options TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Eror Display S
163. ocument Imaging 39 multi page viewers 39 Windows 2000 39 Windows 2003 39 Windows Photo Gallery 39 Windows Picture and Fax Viewer 39 Windows Vista 39 Windows XP 39 W Watermark brightness 177 first page only 177 image format 177 landscape pages 177 position 177 restoring defaults 177 Watermark tab portrait pages 177 277
164. oes not already exist If the following files already existed e 3pages tif then printing the same Word document 3pages doc once more this time with Append to file enabled will add three new pages to the file 3pages tif for a total of six pages in the file See Also Appending Multiple Files Into a Single TIFF Image Color Options Color Reduction Several color reduction options are available for reducing the number of colors in the output files In general the fewer the colors in an image the smaller the file size The color reduction settings are only applied if you have chosen to print in Color from the Paper Quality tab It will have no effect if Black and White has been chosen from the Paper Quality tab TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 186 Save TIFF Image Printer Color Options Color Reduction Reduce to optimal palette None Dithering Method Reduce to optimal Reduce to black and white z lt Reduce to greyscale palette utput Directory defautt is Reduce to 256 color palette Reduce to 16 color palette Reduce to emma palette max 256 colors Reduce to opti alette max 16 colors lename excluding extensio None produces only true color images with no color reduction Reduce to optimal palette directs TIFF Image Printer to automatically reduce each page of your document to an image with the fewest number of colors possible without affecting image quality Th
165. of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Disable Copy options Enable Copy options Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm 0 8000000 default 0 0 20000000 default 0 0 000in 80000 000in 0 000cm 200000 000cm Copy to IAM Top Copy to IAM Right Copy to IAM Bottom Copy H align Left Middle Right Copy V align Top Middle Bottom Copy Page Scaling 0 1 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeter
166. on a page count e split the file as soon as it exceeds a size threshold If both file splitting options are enabled the file will be split at the first condition that is met File splitting only applies to multipaged TIFF Images TIFF Multipaged TIFF Multipaged tif When file splitting is enabled the serialized naming profile is always used to name each file in the sequence For example printing a 15 page report from an invoice database to a multipaged TIFF image and setting the file splitting page count to 5 pages will result in 3 output files each with 5 pages named as follows e Invoice_001 tif e Invoice_002 tif e Invoice_003 tif Step by Step Instructions Changing the file splitting options using the following steps is a global change meaning that all applications will use these options when printing to TIFF Image Printer The following steps demonstrate setting the file splitting to occur when there are 100 pages in the file or if the size of the file exceeds 10MB 1 From the Windows Start menu go to All Programs TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Properties 2 Click on the Save tab in the Printing Preferences dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer 64 Automatically Splitting Files TIFF Image Printer 65 h TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Ero
167. only controls how the source file is sent to the printer the other settings on the various driver 155 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Paper Quality TIFF Image Printer properties tabs will determine the color mode of the output file If fax mode is enabled on the FAX TIFF tab and you are creating a Profile S or Profile F fax format image the color option is ignored and a black and white file will be created instead The setting for the Color Reduction option on the Save tab can also override the color setting chosen here If you are printing in color and have chosen to Reduce to black and white you will end up with a monochrome output file Opens the Advanced Options dialog box where you can select the color mode as well as the paper size and print quality DPI of your TIFF image TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 156 Paper Quality TIFF Image Printer Advanced Options The Advanced Options tab displays all of the options already presented on the Layout and Paper Quality tabs along with some new options It is from this tab that you can set the Paper Size which controls the dimensions of each page in the output file you are creating Also available from here is the Print Quality or resolution used by the printer Print Quality is also often referred to as DPI which stands for Dots Per Inch TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Advanced Options x a TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Advanced Document Settings B83 Paper Output
168. operties Reference section for more details 4 Click the OK button on the Document Properties dialog to save the changes to the fax options 5 Click the OK button on the Print dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 6 Choose where to save your TIFF image using the Save I mage File dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer 68 Creating Fax Format Files TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File x e of Ee Date modified Type No items match your search 69 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Creating Fax Format Files Creating Color Fax TIFF Image Printer Many newer fax machines now support color faxing as well as black and white The following steps will walk you through creating a faxable color TIFF image Step by Step Instructions 1 Open the document you want to convert into a faxable TIFF image 2 Select File Print from your application Home Insert Page Layout References Mai lal Save Print R Save As pas K Copies 1 7 Open ey OP Print Close Info Recent is Brother HL 2045 New a Ready Save amp Send Add Printer Print to File Help iene ided Only print on one side o e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the drop down list of printers e Click the Properties button to open the TIFF Image Printer properties dialog box Worki
169. ork ct To Control Panel Default Programs Help and Support Start Search p Am You can also find the options by doing either of the following 1 From the Start menu type Printers in the Search box and press the Enter or Return key to open the Printers folder then continue from Step 4 below Type Printers in the search box and press Enter to open the Printers folder J9 Search Everywhere Jj Search the Internet Sa Beasawe i amp 2 Or from the Start menu select Control Panel 3 Click on the Printer option in the Hardware and Sound section Hardware and Sound p Play CDs or other media automatically Click here to open the Printers folder Mouse 33 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Setting Printing Preferences TIFF Image Printer 4 Locate the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 in your list of printers and left click to select it 5 Click on Select printing preferences in the toolbar or right click the printer and select Printing Preferences from the context menu to display the T FF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences dialog The tabs across the top of the dialog show the different settings that can be customized TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Orientation P
170. ortant Changes for TIFF Image Printer 11 0 The configuration file section names and values have been modified from what was used in earlier versions of TIFF Image Printer These changes were done to accommodate underlying improvements in the software as well as to make the configuration file easier to read New sections have been added some properties have been renamed moved between sections or removed completely and some properties now use different values Most older sections names and values are backwards compatible but it is highly recommended that you update any customized configuration file to use the new section names and values as listed in Important Configuration File Changes For more information on the Scripting file section see Automating the Printing Process Configuration File Section Printing Preferences Tab Property pages Devmode settings Layout oe er Qualit TIFF File Format Compression Processing Page Processing Image Processing Save Save Advanced Features Advanced Features Text Extraction 211 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Property Pages This section controls which property pages on the Printing Preferences dialog are visible to the end user The Layout and Paper Quality tabs are supplied by the Windows printing subsystem and cannot be hidden All other tabs can be controlled Each property page or tab can be
171. our have chosen on the Save tab will have been selected for you by default e Inthe File name field enter a name for your TIFF image file A default name for your file has been filled in based on the name your application used when it printed your document to the TIFF Image Printer Here we have changed the file name to EndorsedTIFF e Click the Save button to create the file in the folder you chose 6 Open the new TIFF image file in your Image viewer The extra header and footer information has been added to each page 87 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Placing Endorsements on Your Pages f Endorsed TIFF tif Windows Photo Viewer TIFF Image Printer File v Print v E mail Burn v Open 7 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Placing Endorsements on Your Pages 88 TIFF Image Printer Using the Crop Features The cropping features in TIFF Image Printer are used to crop or cut away the outer parts of the page and keep the inner area While most often associated with editing photos cropping also works to remove unwanted areas of your printed pages A side effect of cropping the margins or an area can be a change in outputted page size If you need to remove the margins and also keep the original page size see the section on Using the Copy To Image Features See the following sections for step by step guides to using the cropping features gt Cropping Margins gt Cropping an Area or Region
172. oving the mouse Welcome to TIFF Image Printer 4 Typographic Conventions TIFF Image Printer Activating TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer is installed as a 30 day trial by default When the install is complete the Activation Status dialog is automatically displayed You do not need a serial number to evaluate TIFF Image Printer Click the button labeled want to continue evaluating to activate the trial version of the product for 30 days Thank you for taking the time to evaluate this product I have a serial number and want to activatg Click here to start your trial I do not have a serial number and want to Burs I want to continue evaluating Your evalution copy will expire in 28 days Oo 0 i5 30 The progress bar at the bottom displays how many days you have left in your trial While in evaluation mode the Activation Status dialog is displayed every time you print At any point in your trial period you can go directly to our on line store by clicking the button labeled do not have a serial number and want to purchase to purchase the product If you have purchased a copy of TIFF Image Printer you will receive a serial number as part of your order confirmation Upon receipt of your serial number follow the steps outlined starting with Launching the Activation Wizard to activate your product 5 Activating TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer Launching the Activat
173. ows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems you will need administrative permissions to access this folder 209 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Important Configuration File Changes If you are using the configuration file to customize the printer driver defaults the following table outlines the configuration file sections names and values that have changes from previous releases of the TIFF Image Printer and what the new sections name and values are for the current version of TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 7 0 TIFF Image Printer 9 0 TIFF Image Printer 8 0 TIFF Image Printer 10 0 TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Output format Save Output File Format Dithering method Save Dithering method Color compression TIFF File Format Color compression Greyscale TIFF File Format Greyscale compression compression Watermark Portrait brightness Watermark Value range has changed from Landscape brightness 0 100 new range is 100 100 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 210 Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Editing the Configuration File To change the default settings factory defaults you need to edit the PNTIF11C INI configuration file The configuration file contains the following sections that match to the tabs on the Printing Preferences dialog Each section of the configuration file is described in detail by following the links below Imp
174. placing of additional header and footer information at the top and bottom of each page Header and footers can contain text such as titles and page numbers The default height of both the header and the footer is 12 points this can be adjusted individually as needed TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Enable endorsements Style Page Header Left Me Units English Metric Points Width Height Text Enable Endorsements Enable this check box to use the endorsements feature Style Use this drop down list to select the area for which you want to edit the endorsement text Both the page header and the page footer are made up of three separate sections a left section a center section and a right section for a total of six areas in which to place text Text in the top left and bottom left section is always left justified text in the top center and bottom center section is always centered and text in top right and bottom right sections is always right justified TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 180 Endorsements TIFF Image Printer 181 Page Header Left Page Header Center Page Header Right Page Footer Left Page Footer Center Page Footer Right Units Determines the unit of measure used to enter any section width or height or
175. plication or as a paper size on TIFF Image Printer s Advanced Options dialog ES File Action View Help e9 4M Xsliaf ic Print Management FormName Type Width 0 1mm u Height 0 1 F S Letter Extra Transverse Built In 2413 3048 4 rint Servers 3 r a Ul ionar amp Letter Plus Built In 2159 3223 More Action gt nee amp Letter Rotated Built In 2794 2159 Pe g Letter Small Built In 2159 2794 My Custom Form i Er Ports amp Letter Transverse Built In 2159 2794 More Actions gt sea Pae My Custom Form User Defined 6096 9144 Deployed Printers amp Note Built In 2159 2794 amp PRC 16K Built In 1880 2600 amp PRC 16K Rotated Built In 2600 1880 amp PRC 32K Built In 1300 1840 PRC 32K Rotated ___BuiltIn__ 1240 1300 sh lt m Adding custom paper sizes on Windows Vista Windows Server 2008 1 Close any open applications 2 Open the Printers folder from the Start Control Panel Hardware and Sound Printer Hardware and Sound a ge Play CDs or other media automatically Click here to open the Printers folder Mouse 3 Right click in the window and select Run As Administrator Server Properties Working With the TIFF Image Printer 134 Working with Large Paper Sizes TIFF Image Printer from the context menu If Vista s User Account Control UAC is enabled click the Continue button at the UAC permission prompt Undo Copy Ctrl Z Add Prin
176. py it to a 8 5 x11 sized image with the original page contents centered on the new image Copy To TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 164 Image Processing TIFF Image Printer 165 Check this box to enable the Copy To options Units Determines the unit of measure used to enter any Image Size and Image Area Margin dimensions Choose English to enter the cropping measurements in inches or Metric to enter the units in centimeters You can enter units with up to three digits of accuracy or to an eighth of an inch 0 125in or 0 318cm Image Size Image Size Width 8 500in Height 11 000in The Width and Height are the actual dimensions of the new image Image Area Margins Image Area Margins Left 0 000in Top 0 000n Right 0 000in Bottom 0 000in Enter the desired Left Right Top and Bottom image area margin settings for the new image The original page will be copied inside this area using the scaling options as selected The combined Left and Right image area margins must be less than the Width of the new page The combined Top and Bottom image area margins must be less than the Height of the new page Image Scaling Image Scaling Fit to Page v Horizontal Align Middle v v Shrink page f larger than image size V Maintain page aspect ratio Vertical Align Middle y Determines how the original page is placed on the new image e Fit to Page will scale the original page to fit on the
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178. r 0 23 depending on your system preferences The unique job ID used by the printer This is set to zero when the driver is first installed and is automatically incremented by the driver at the start of every print job The JobID is often used to ensure that all files created have unique names The status of the print job 1 for success 0 for failure The name of the computer the print job is running on The minute in numeric format that the print job was submitted to the printer from 0 59 The month in numeric format that the print job was submitted to the printer from 1 12 The contents of the OutputFileName field If this field is empty the name the printing application used when submitting the print job is used The second in numeric format that the print job was submitted to the printer from 0 59 The name of the user who submitted the print job The year in numeric format that the print job was submitted to the printer This is the same as the Output Directory on the Save tab Changing the Output Directory on this tab will change the Output Directory on the Save tab OutputFileName TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Save 194 TIFF Image Printer This is the same as the Filename field on the Save tab Changing the OutputFilename on this tab will change the Filename on the Save tab Use default extension Leave this box checked if you want files to be saved with the default extension
179. r Reporting Type TIFF Multipaged tif y o Color Options Color Reduction Reduce to optimal palette Halftone Output Directory default is your Documents folder C Users Public Documents TIFF Images filename Remove file extension from filename Remove product name from filename L Prompt only when needed Splt after 10 C Delete all output files at end of job ev 100 e Inthe Output Directory field type in the folder where you want to save your output files You can also use the Browse button to find a folder on your computer If the field is left blank the Documents folder is used by default e Leave the Filename field blank to have TIFF Image Printer use the name submitted by the application when the file is printed as the output file name If you specify a filename and have the Overwrite always option checked each print will overwrite the previous file e Click the Split after check box to enable file splitting by size and type in the file size threshold in megabyes MB to use The file will be split after this size is exceeded e Click the Split every check box to enable file splitting by page count and type in the maximum number of pages you want per file Click the Apply button and then the OK button to set the changes If the output directory you typed in does not exist you will be prompted to confirm creation of the new directory Printing to TIFF Image Printer from any application now saves the outp
180. r online account at http www peernet com store account php and select gt Status view registered serial numbers From there you can select to purchase additional activations When you have used all your license activations you will not be able to use the product on this computer until additional activations have been purchased 1 Close the Activation Wizard and restart the activation process as explained in the section Launching the Activation Status dialog 2 Choose Ido not have a serial number and want to purchase to go to our on line store where addition licenses can be purchased If you are moving your license to a new computer or if you have to re install the software on your computer due to a crash please contact PEERNET Sales at peernet peernet com with your current serial number for assistance 19 Activating TIFF Image Printer Activation Status Results TIFF Image Printer Viewing Your Activation Status To view your activation status launch the Activation Wizard by going to All Programs TIFF Image Printer 11 0 License from the Windows Start menu See Launching the Activation Status dialog section for detailed instructions If you have purchased the product the Status field will display Activated and your serial number name organization and email address are also displayed The Change License button can be used to change your license For example you would use this button when upgradin
181. re e None e Floyd Steinburg 187 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Save TIFF Image Printer e Burkes e Bayer e Halftone See Also Reducing File Size with Color Reduction Output Directory This is the default directory for saving your output files If this field is empty the Documents folder is used as the default directory Enter in the absolute path for example C My Files of the directory to be used or you can use the Browse button to search and locate the desired folder See Also Changing Where the Files are Saved Filename This is the base filename for your output file The base filename excludes any directory path and file extension If you want your images to always use the same filename enter that name here You can also use the Browse button to search and locate the desired filename from an existing file on your computer If this field is empty TIFF Image Printer will name the file using the name the printing application uses when printing the file TIFF Image Printer automatically inserts the appropriate file format extension If you enter your own extension for example myfile xyz then another extension is added to the filename for example myfile xyz tif The custom file naming option OutputFileName on the Advanced File Naming page will can override this field See Advanced File Naming for more information on customizing file names Include JobID in Filename The JobID is se
182. reated in the same output directory and with the same base filename as the image file Layout Physical y Format UTF 16 yv Windows v Emit page breaks The text extraction feature was not designed to be OCR Optical Character Recognition software As much text as possible will be extracted Formatting of the text is approximated and may not be exactly the same C Enable control strings Some applications break up the 0 making it impossible to detect the tring is a control string Set the prefix and s e itfix to a character you know will not be used in your documents in order to workaround this SSUue Prefix Suffix 3 Check the Enable Text Extraction check box eoyvur j opovwuomy j io Advanced Features Enable Text Extraction Jivessomiy sous vec 4 Inthe Layout drop down choose the Physical layout and choose UTF 8 from the Format drop down Leave the other options as they are 123 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Extracting Text From the Created File TIFF Image Printer 5 Click the Apply button and then the OK button to set the changes 6 Printing to TIFF Image Printer from any application will now also create a text file with the textual contents of the original file Working With the TIFF Image Printer 124 Extracting Text From the Created File TIFF Image Printer Working with Large Paper Sizes Large paper sizes are commonly needed when CAD comput
183. references dialog Close any open applications that you are printing from before making changes as most applications will not see your changes until they are re started Step by Step Instructions Changing the save location using the following steps is a global change meaning that all applications will start with this location in the Save Image As dialog when printing to TIFF Image Printer 1 From the Start menu go to All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Properties 2 Click the Save tab in the Printing Preferences dialog TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Document Properties x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Error Reporting Type TIFF Muttipaged tif Append to file m Color Options Color Peduction Reduce to optimal palette v Dithering Method Halftone X Output Directory default is your Documents folder CAUsers Public Documents TIFF Images Browse lenong eACIUGHIC EXLETISNK er 1024 MB very 10000 pages Working With the TIFF Image Printer 42 Changing Where the Files are Saved TIFF Image Printer e Inthe Output Directory field type in the folder where you want to save your output files You can also use the Browse button to find a folder on your computer If the field is left blank the Documents folder is used by default In the above dialog we are creating a n
184. ression Options TIFF Image Printer Low Medium and High JPEG and the JPEG Quality Factor When using JPEG compression a quality setting or Q factor is often used to determine the quality and level of compression With JPEG compression which is a lossy compression algorithm a higher quality factor produces a better image but a larger file A lower quality factor will produce a smaller file but the image quality can be degraded The Q factor used by TIFF Image Printer is a range of 1 to 100 with the individual compression levels set at follows e JPEG Low Quality uses a Q Factor of 30 e JPEG Medium Quality uses a Q Factor of 75 e JPEG High Quality uses a Q Factor of 85 100 for grey or indexed compression Image Color Model Compression Methods Used When Color Images Uncompressed RGB e Color is chosen on the Paper Quality Uncompressed CMYK tab and Low Quality JPG Color Reduction on the Save tab Medium Quality JPG is set to Reduce to optimal and High Quality JPG there are more than 256 colors in Packbits RGB een Packbits CMYK Color Reduction on the Save tab Er sete is set to None LZW CMYK Indexed Images Low Quality JPG e Color is chosen on the Paper Quality Medium Quality JPG tab and High Quality JPG Color Reduction on the Save tab Packbits is set to Reduce to optimal and LZW there is less than 256 colors in the document None Greyscale Images Low Quality JPG e Color is chosen on the Paper Quality Medium Quali
185. rint on Both Sides A None v Advanced On Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 For quick access to the options a menu item has been added to the TIFF Image Printer menu in the Windows Start menu You can access this menu item by going to All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Properties Working With the TIFF Image Printer Setting Printing Preferences 34 TIFF Image Printer a Outlook Express Windows Media Play 33 Windows Messenger Tour Windows XP Games gt an Startup gt i Internet Explorer 32 bit E Configure PDF to Print In High Quality ed Copy Printer License Agreement A License 2 Online Help sy Product Home Page 3 Outlook Express s Remote Assistance Properties Files and Settings Tr z Fe Wizard C Windows Media Player Quick Start Guide A 8 Windows Messenger Set Max Jobs ma Tis E windows Movie Maker TIFF Image Printer Quick Start Guide A EC Software gt TIFF Image Printer User Guide Uninstall TIFF Image Printer 11 0 fa TIFF Image Printer 11 0 b a Notepad M Raster Image Printer 11 0 gt CUTE TEC Pn PDF Image Printer 11 0 P Log Off fo Turn OFF Computer ey Start You can also find the options by doing the following 1 From the Start menu select Printers and Faxes Tour Windows XP ey Copy Printer o Help and Support x Files and Settings Transfer Y Search Wiz
186. rinter DLL In this sample the DLL is named FTPUpload dil and the function to upload the file is called UploadFile The function takes the full path to the file as a single argument End of job settings V Enabled Command lt C Test FTPUpload dll gt Parameters OutputFilePath UploadFile Start in Wait for completion Window Wait with exit code v Activate window Do not wait Prompt to continue Do you want to continue See Also For more details on how run commands can be used to call your own DLL functions see the TIFF Image Printer Support and Documentation page TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 250 Using Run Commands to Call DLL Functions TIFF Image Printer Signaling Events Using Run Commands Each of the run commands can be used to identify events for the driver to signal This is useful for signaling to your application that a critical point in the printing process has been reached for example a page has been written an output file has been released by the driver or the print job has completed See the Run tab for more information about the individual run events The driver only opens and signals the events It is your responsibility to create and block on the events in your own code Use the following field on the Run tab to configure a run command to signal an event Command EventName Use curly braces around the event name to designate to the driver
187. roperties Reference Layout TIFF Image Printer e None duplex printing is not enabled e Flip on Long Edge duplex printing is enabled pages are flipped on the side or long edge of the paper or e Flip on Short Edge duplex printing is enabled pages are flipped on the bottom or short edge of the paper Advanced Opens the Advanced Options dialog box where you can select the paper size and print quality DPI of your output file as well as the color mode TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 154 Layout TIFF Image Printer Paper Quality The Paper Quality tab is used to select the color of your TIFF image file This option can be overridden by the Color Reduction option in the Save tab or through some of the fax mode settings on the FAX TIFF tab Tip To convert documents to black and white while maintaining the highest possible image quality select Color on this tab and choose Reduce to black and white on the Save tab TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Ectraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Black amp White Color Color Color Defines the color mode in which the input is sent to the printer e Black amp White Source file is sent to the printer as black and white or monochrome e Color Source file is sent to the printer as color This
188. rties dialog box Home Insert Page Layout References Mai i Printer Properties 2 Click on the Image Processing tab in the Document Properties dialog to access the Working With the TIFF Image Printer Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer Resample options e Check the Resample check box to enable the resampling options e Select Resolution DPI from the drop down list of resampling options e Enter in the resolution to resample the image to You can enter any number between 50 DPI and 3600 DPI For our sample page we have checked the Lock aspect ratio check box and entered 700 DPI for the X Resolution so 700 DPI will also be used for the Y Resolution If you need a different resolution for the Y Resolution uncheck the Lock aspect ratio check box and enter in the desired value 3 As the source document is a landscape oriented document the Orientation of the printer needs to be changed to Landscape to match If your source document is portrait the Orientation needs to be set to Portrait e On the Layout tab select Landscape from the Orientation drop down list Advanced Feohwes 7 Layout Paper Quality Page Orientation Landscape v 4 Click the OK button on the Document Properties dialog to save the resample options 5 Click the OK button on the Print Dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 6 Choos
189. s 237 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Installing the Customized Printer In many cases you will need to install your customized printer on many workstations within your office environment The steps below outline how this can be done 1 Install the TIFF Image Printer on a single computer You do not have to license the software at this point 2 Make a copy of the Setups subdirectory of the installation tree for your own use Commonly the folder is copied to a shared network location accessible from the other computers 3 In your copy of the Setups folder edit the configuration file PNTIF11C INI as needed The configuration file sections are outlined in the section Customizing Driver Defaults 4 Have your installation program call PNSetup exe from your Setups folder or run PNSetup exe directly yourself to install the driver with your desired settings 5 License the software as needed Hint If you do not want the users to be able to edit your customized settings you can hide the individual tabs in the Printing Preferences dialog as needed See Hiding and Showing Property Pages for details on how to do this TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 238 Installing the Customized Printer TIFF Image Printer Automating with the PNSrv11 COM Interface Automating with the PNSrv11 COM Interface The PNSrv11 COM Interface provides the ability to control and communic
190. s Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Align the copied image horizontally Align the copied image vertically Fit to page Actual Size 224 TIFF Image Printer Copy Page Scaling 0 Do not shrink page to fit Shrink Larger Shrink page to fit Copy Page Lock Aspect Do not maintain page aspect ratio when scaling Ratio Maintain page aspect ratio when scaling Resample Disable resampling options Enable resampling options Resample Units Pixels Percentage DPI Resample Lock Aspect Do not maintain page aspect ratio when resampling Ratio 1 Maintain page aspect ratio when resampling Resample Pixels Width 0 4294967295 Desired width in pixels default is 200 Resample Pixels Height 0 4294967295 Desired height in pixels default is 200 Resample Width 1 500 Change the width as a percentage of the original Percentage default is 100 size Resample Height 1 500 Change the height as a percentage of the original Percentage default is 100 size Resample X DPI 50 3600 Change the X resolution of the image default is 200 Resample Y DPI 50 3600 Change the Y resolution of the image default is 200 Brightness Adjust 100 100 100 to 1 darkens the image default is 0 0 no change 1 to 100 lightens the image Rotate portrait 0 90 180 or 270 Degrees of rotation counter clockwise Rotate landscape 0 90 180 or 270 Degrees of rotation cou
191. s 1 7 Open iy Op Print Gif Close Info Recent New Save amp Send Add Printer Print to File Help Print One Sided SN Only print on one side o e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the list of printers e Click the OK button on the Print dialog or the appropriate button on your application s print dialog to send the document to the printer 37 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Creating Your First TIFF Image TIFF Image Printer 3 Choose where to save your TIFF image from the Save Image File dialog TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Save Image File No items match your search Save as type TIFF Muttipaged tif Append to file e Use the Save in field to choose a folder to store your TIFF Image Your Documents folder will be selected for you by default In the File name field enter a name for your TIFF image A default name for your image has been filled in based on the name your application used when it printed your document to the TIFF Image Printer e Inthe Save as type field select TIFF Multipaged tif as the type of file to create e Click the Save button to create the image The image will be created in the chosen folder with the name specified Working With the TIFF Image Printer 38 Creating Your First TIFF Image TIFF Image Printer Viewing Your Images As most newer operating systems already include the Windows Photo Viewer viewing an image is as si
192. s a single multi page file For example using the default settings when printing a three page Word document 3pages doc will yield a single TIFF file e 3pages tif this file contains three images one for each page Append to file Append to sequence 185 Append mode will add the new pages to a sequence of files on disk or if TIFF Multipaged tif is selected the new pages will be added to an existing TIFF image If append mode is enabled and the requested sequence or file does not yet exist on disk it is created Serialized with Append to sequence Type TIFF Serialized tif v V Append to sequence If Append to sequence is enabled this option will continue an existing sequence of serialized files on disk or begin a new sequence of serialized files if one does not already exist TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Save TIFF Image Printer If the following files already existed e 3pages_001 tif e 3pages_002 tif e 3pages_003 tif then printing the same Word document 3pages doc once more this time with Append to sequence enabled will yield three new files following the same numbering sequence e 3pages_004 tif e 3pages_005 tif e 3pages_006 tif See Also Creating a Serialized Sequence of Files Multi page with Append to file Type TIFF Multipaged tif v Append to file This option will append the new pages to an existing multi page TIFF image file on disk or create a new file if one d
193. s normal as most image viewers do not understand the TU L a b color model required by the FAX standard A Profile C fax will appear correct when printed by a fax machine that supports color fax images A non faxable color TIFF image stores the image information using the YCbCr color model while a faxable TIFF image Profile C stores the image information using the TU L a b color model Most image viewers today display TIFF images as if they were created using the YCbCr color model Trying to display a color fax image using the YCbCr color model is what causes the images to have the blue or green color tint The type of faxable image you will need to create will depend on the requirements of your faxing software or hardware TIFF images are among the most commonly used formats Check the documentation that came with your faxing software or hardware to see its specifications Working With the TIFF Image Printer 66 Creating Fax Format Files TIFF Image Printer Creating Monochrome Fax 67 Fax images are most often created as monochrome or 1 bit TIFF images The following steps will walk you through creating a faxable black and white TIFF image Step by Step Instructions 1 Open the document you want to convert into a faxable TIFF image 2 Select File Print from your application Home Insert Page Layout References Mai lal Save Print R Save As pas K Copies 1 7 Open ey OP Print Close Info
194. s of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Range in hundredths of an inch Range in tenths of a millimeter Range in inches Range in centimeters Disabled Enabled Path to file receiving extracted text Match the format of the text in the original file Saves the text in the order in which it was sent to the driver This may not be the same order in the original file No formatting is attempted All text is written to the file as it is received ASCII encoded text UTF 8 encoded text TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer UTF 16 encoded text Lines end with the LF line feed Extract Text Emit Page 0 Page breaks are not emitted Breaks Control Strings Enabled Disabled Control String Prefix Unicode character The prefix to use to recognize the start of a control string pattern default is 0 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 236 Customizing Driver Defaults TIFF Image Printer Error Reporting Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting Error Reporting _ JAccepted ValuesfDescription Enable 0 Disable logging dt Enable logging Log filepath Path to log file Use timed 5 second message boxes Do not create debugging trace files CreateSupportFiles Do not create support file
195. s produce graphic images that are sharper and show finer detail but are also very large if they are not compressed Low resolution images are not of as high a quality but they take up less disk space In general TIFF Image Printer will perform a readable text conversion at any resolution If your document contains graphics you may want to use one of the higher resolution settings Print Quality Click the underlined text to choose a resolution from the drop down list The screenshot below only shows a portion of the available resolutions you can choose from 50 x 50 dots per inch up to 1200 x 1200 dots per inch iu Graphic SEa Image Color owe ICM Metho Document Options 600 x 600 dots per inch 1200 x 1200 dots per inch E 720 x 720 dots per inch E 600 x 600 dots per inch 2 400 x 400 dots per inch 360 x 360 dots per inch Lists available options for printing Only the Color Printing Mode option is used by TIFF Image Printer the other Document Options settings are ignored Color Printing Mode This option reflects the Color settings chosen on the Paper Quality tab Changing the Color Printing Mode here will also change it on the Paper Quality tab Reference 158 TIFF Image Printer Properties Advanced Options TIFF Image Printer f Document Options m Advanced Printing Features Enabled ve Pages per Sheet Layout Right then Down Booklet Binding Edge On Left Edge
196. s you need to change Go to Editing the Configuration File to see a listing of the values you can set in the script file the script file uses the same values as the configuration file When automating a script file should be dynamically created on an as needed basis and then deleted when you are finished with it A common use of the script file is to change settings in between prints jobs for example to customized the name of the file created A pseudo code outline of the process would look like the following 1 Collect any needed information and create the script file with the necessary settings Print the required document to the TIFF Image Printer Wait for the driver to signal that it has read the script file Delete the script file It is now safe to loop to step 1 and convert another file Ow Wh TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 240 Automating the Printing Process with the Script File TIFF Image Printer This is only a very simple example The above steps work for a single threaded process but extra care must be taken when printing in multiple threads to share access to the script file For more details on automation see the TIFF Image Printer Support and Documentation page 241 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Automating the Printing Process with the Script File TIFF Image Printer How Does it Work To see how the script file works you can follow the steps below to try it out J Copy the file C Program F
197. saring Another common multi page image viewer is Microsoft Office Document I maging which is included in Microsoft Office XP Office 2003 and Office 2007 Working With the TIFF Image Printer 40 Viewing Your Images TIFF Image Printer 41 On Windows XP Windows Server 2003 On Windows XP you can view both serialized and multi paged TIFF images using Windows Picture and Fax Viewer which is normally installed as part of the operating system If you are viewing an image that has multiple pages you will see a page navigation control just below the image that allows you to move from page to page When viewing a serialized image the page navigation control is shown but the Next Page and Previous Page controls are disabled a Working With the Printer Windows Picture and Fax Viewer ang Caspe Trevenre ord Bi Leng aing ond Be saree re Use these controls to navigate the pages Qo EZE TI l Pf NOBAD XS amp Another common multi page image viewer is Microsoft Office Document I maging which is included in Microsoft Office XP Office 2003 and Office 2007 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Viewing Your Images TIFF Image Printer Changing Where the Files are Saved The TIFF Image Printer will save all output files to the Documents folder this is the My Documents folder on Windows XP by default You can change this to any desired folder on your desktop All file output options are controlled through the Printing P
198. ss Automation with the TIFF Image Printer uses a script file named PNTIF11S INI to control the printer settings A script file will override any settings chosen in the Printing Preferences tabs A sample script file is included the Setups folder created by the installation folder If you have installed the driver in the default location the setup files will be located in the following folder C Program Files TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Setups PNTIF11S INI A Important Changes for User Moving from Previous Versions of TIFF Image Printer The script file section names and values have been modified from what was used in earlier versions of TIFF Image Printer These changes were done to accommodate underlying improvements in the software as well as to make the configuration file easier to read New sections have been added some properties have been renamed moved between sections or removed completely and some properties now use different values The topic Important Configuration File Changes includes a table outlining the changes the table also applies to the script file as both the configuration file and the script file use the same values Most older sections names and values are backwards compatible but it is highly recommended that you update your script file to use the new section names and values The default script file provided lists all the settings that can be changed Normally you would write to the script file only the setting
199. t TIFF Image Printer Type Built In Built In User Defined 6096 Built In Printer Printer Printer Printer Built In Built In Built In Built In Built In motes Adding custom paper sizes on Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 1 Close any open applications 2 Goto Start Control Panel to open Control Panel applet Working With the TIFF Image Printer Working with Large Paper Sizes 130 TIFF Image Printer 131 a Remote Desktop Connection Control Panel Devices and Printers Default Programs Help and Support Shut down gt In the Control Panel applet click System and Security e E3 Control Panel Click here to open the System Ii and Security folder Adjust your computer s settings System and Security f Back up your computer Find and fix problems _ Network and Internet j View network status and tasks Choose homegroup and sharing options Hardware and Sound View devices and printers Add a device Programs Uninstall a program Get programs 4 Click Administrative Tools View by Category 7 User Accounts Change account type Appearance and Personalization Change the theme Change desktop background Adjust screen resolution Clock Language and Region Change keyboards or other input methods Change display language Ease of Access Let Windows suggest settings Optimize visual display Working With the TIFF Image Printer Working w
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201. t to zero when the driver is first installed and is automatically incremented by TIFF Image Printer at the start of every print job You can set the JobID to any value between 0 and 4294967295 at any time The JobID is often used to ensure that all files created have unique names It is also used to determine which naming profile to use See Advanced File Naming for more information on naming profiles and customizing file names Overwrite always Turns off prompting when the driver is about to overwrite an existing file When not enabled a confirmation dialog prompt is shown when TIFF Image Printer tries to save a file with the same name as an already existing file Enable this check box if you do not want to be prompted when the driver overwrites existing files Prompt only when needed Turns off the Save As Image dialog prompt and uses the options in the Output Directory and TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 188 Save TIFF Image Printer Filename fields see above to name and store the file If the filename entered in the Filename field is not valid and the source document itself does not have a valid filename you will be prompted Enable this check box if you do not want to be prompted for a filename with the Save As Image dialog box See Also Saving Files Without Prompting Delete all output files at end of job Enable this check box if you want all output files deleted at the end of the print job after the final
202. tandard Message Boxes hd Eror Log C Log all errors to Browse Default location is your Documents folder in Debugging Options C Create trace files C Create support files Enabling the Debugging Options may slow down the printing process considerably Error Display Choose how to display error messages e Standard Message Boxes standard message dialog box that requires you to dismiss them This is the default e Timed Message Boxes similar to standard message dialogs these message boxes automatically that disappear after 5 seconds e None no error messages are displayed at all TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 204 Error Reporting TIFF Image Printer Error Log 205 Log All Errors Enable this check box to activate error logging A log file is only created if errors occur during the printing process When no path is entered all log files are created in the Documents folder of the USERPROFILE directory for the logged in user or the user the printing process is currently running under If you are running Windows 7 or Windows Vista this is a folder named Documents On Windows XP and earlier this folder is called My Documents The directory name or a full path to custom log file name can be used to name the log file A custom naming sequence is imposed on all logging files so that every job will create its own unique log file The log file name always includes the name of the printer that printe
203. tart menu go to All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Properties 2 Click the Compression tab in the Printing Preferences dialog Working With the TIFF Image Printer 60 Reducing File Size with Compression Options TIFF Image Printer as TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF CCITT Group 4 Fax e Inthe TIFF Image Compression section change the compression method to use for each color model of TIFF image as desired Click the Apply button and then the OK button to set the changes 4 Printing to TIFF Image Printer from any application will now use the compression methods chosen if any to compress the file About the TIFF Compression Methods The default compression methods chosen by TIFF Image Printer upon install will often give the smallest TIFF image When changing compression methods take care to note any Color Reduction settings on the Save tab or any Color set on the Paper Quality tab as these properties determine the color model of the TIFF image Changing the compression method for Color Images to Medium Quality JPG when printing in Black and White or with Color Reduction set to Reduce to black and white will have no effect on the resulting black and white TIFF image 61 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Reducing File Size with Comp
204. ter Server Properties Run as administrator gt Add Printer Server Properties 4 Onthe Print Server Properties dialog go to the Forms tab ry Print Server Properties x Forms ong Create your new form Formname My Custom Form Create a new form Define a new form by editing the existing name and measurements Then click Save Form Form description measurements Units Metric English Paper size Printer area margins Width 24 00in Left 0 00in Top 0 00in Height 36 00in Right 0 00in Bottom 0 00in e Check the Create a new form check box to enable the form fields e Inthe Form name field type in a name for your new form such as My Custom Form e Inthe Form description section Set the Units to Metric centimeters or English inches Set the Paper Size Width and Height to the desired valued It is important to make 135 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Working with Large Paper Sizes TIFF Image Printer your Width value less than your Height value and to use the Landscape orientation property when printing Set any Printer Area Margins you need 5 Click the Save Form button on the upper right corner of the tab then click the OK button 6 You can now use your new custom paper size in your application or as a paper size on TIFF Image Printer s Advanced Options dialog Adding custom paper sizes Windows XP Windows Server 200
205. that this is an event name You do not need to specify the curly braces when creating and using the event name in your code 251 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts Signaling Events Using Run Commands TIFF Image Printer Example Using End of Job to Signal an Event The following sample shows how you can configure the End of Job run command to signal an event that you could then wait for in your code Run Command Settings for End of Job End of job settings V Enabled s Parameters Start in Browse Wait for completion Window Wait with exit code V Activate window Do not wait Prompt to continue Do you want to continue Sample C Code Below is a C code snippet showing the creation of the event and how to wait for the driver to signal the event before continuing the processing of the file DWORD dwWait WAIT_TIMEOUT Create the event m_hEvent CreateEvent NULL FALSE E _T Global JobComplete if m_hEvent NULL AfxMessageBox _T Failed to create the event return do some other coding here such as printing the document wait for event 2 min dwWait WaitForSingleObject this gt m_hEvent 120000 if WAIT_OBJECT_0O dwWait AfxMessageBox _T Success on event signal do something with the complete file here such as uploading to an FTP site or an in house archive system els
206. the defaults when the driver was first installed Help Brings up the on line help for this tab 163 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Page Processing TIFF Image Printer Image Processing Image processing allows you to gt use the Copy To feature to copy each page of the document to a larger or smaller page gt use the Resample options to change the size of the output image The options shown here are applied to each page of the file after any previous processing such as Page Processing FAX TIFF or Watermark options are applied dah TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Copy To Units English Metric Image Size Image Area Margins Height 11 000in Right 0 000in Bottom 0 000in Image Scaling Fit to Page v Horizontal Align Middle v Shrink page f larger than image size nT 3 Vertical Align Middle v Maintain page aspect ratio Resample Pixels y Image Width 200 Lock a t ratio Image Height Auto Copy To Sets any copying options you want to apply to the outgoing pages The concept of image copying is similar to enlarging or shrinking a page using a photocopier with the added ability to position the page on the new image using the scaling and alignment options For instance you could output an Tabloid sized page 11 x17 and co
207. tions that you have set Paper Size Enter the desired Width and Height for the custom paper size Printer Area Margins Enter the desired Left Right Top and Bottom printer area margin settings for the custom paper size The combined Left and Right printer area margins must be less than the Width of the custom paper The combined Top and Bottom printer area margins must be less than the Height of the custom paper License Launches the Activation Wizard as described in the Activating TIFF Image Printer section if you are in trial mode If you have already activated TIFF Image Printer you will see a summary of your license information see Viewing Your Activation Status for more details Restore Defaults Restores this tab s settings back to the defaults when the driver was first installed Help Brings up the on line help for this tab TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 200 Advanced Features TIFF Image Printer Text Extraction This feature will create a separate text file containing all of the textual elements of your printed document These text files are often paired with the TIFF images when stored in archival systems to allow searching and retrieval of the files using textual data os TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting
208. to ResampleTIFF 113 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer Resample Using Percentage The steps below use the file pictured here to demonstrate resampling an image as a percentage of its original size An image can be resampled from 1 of its original size up to 500 larger than its original size L SamplePPT pdf Adobe Acrobat Reader DC oO x File Edit View Window Help x Home Tools Document i Ei 27 5 v Working With the TIFF Image Printer 114 Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer 115 Step by Step Instructions 1 Select File Print from your application the example below uses Home Insert Page Layout References Mai lal Save R Save As gt Open ap Op Print Close Info Recent Brother HL 2045 Bp row New Save amp Send Help Adobe Reader e In the printer field choose the TIFF Image Printer 11 0 from the drop down list of printers e Click the Properties button to open the TIFF Image Printer properties dialog box Home Insert Page Layout References Mai i Printer Properties 2 Click on the Image Processing tab in the Document Properties dialog to access the Working With the TIFF Image Printer Resizing Images Using Resampling TIFF Image Printer Resample options Image Width e Check the Resample check box to enable the resampling options e Select Percentag
209. ts you must have the appropriate security privileges 1 Open the Printers folder 2 Inthe Printers folder right click TIFF Image Printer and select Properties 3 On the Advanced tab click the Printing Defaults button TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 152 TIFF Image Printer Layout The Layout tab is used to select the paper size print quality orientation and page order of your output file Some of these options can be overridden by the settings chosen in other tabs For instance if you have Orientation set to Portrait but have also set rotation options for portrait pages on the Page Processing tab the settings on the Page Processing tab will be used instead TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Printing Preferences x Watermark Endorsements Save Run Advanced Features Text Extraction Eror Reporting Layout Paper Quality Page Processing Image Processing Compression FAX TIFF Orientation Print on Both Sides lf None Orientation Specifies how the document is positioned on the page e Portrait orients the paper vertically e Landscape rotates the paper 90 clockwise Print on Both Sides This option has no effect on the output file created It can however be used by other applications that support duplex or double sided printing A common use for this option is to determine how to position the page number which is often placed on opposite sides of the page in duplex mode 153 TIFF Image Printer P
210. ty JPG tab and High Quality JPG Color Reduction on the Save tab Packbits is set to Reduce to optimal and LZW there are only greyscale colors in the document Color Reduction on the Save tab is set to Reduce to greyscale None Monochrome Images CCITT Group 4 Fax e Black amp White is chosen on the CCITT Group 3 2D Fax Paper Quality tab CCITT Group 3 1D Fax e Color is set on the Paper Quality tab CCITT Modified Huffman and None Color Reduction on the Save tab is set to Reduce to optimal and there are only 2 colors black and white in the document Color Reduction on the Save tab is set to Reduce to black and white Working With the TIFF Image Printer 62 Reducing File Size with Compression Options TIFF Image Printer Image Color Model Compression Methods Used When CMYK Compression and Viewing TIFF Images Not all image viewers understand CMYK compression and as a result may not display the TIFF image correctly For example Microsoft Document Imaging is known to have this problem while Windows Photo Gallery on Vista or Windows Picture and Fax Viewer on XP do display the TIFF correctly 63 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Reducing File Size with Compression Options TIFF Image Printer Automatically Splitting Files When creating multipaged output the files created can be automatically split into a sequence of smaller files using one or both of the following criteria e split the file based
211. u also have the choice of maintaining the aspect ratio Horizontal Alignment Choose how to horizontally align the incoming image on the fax sized paper e Left will align the left side of the image to the left side of the fax paper e Middle will center the image in the horizontal middle of the fax paper e Right will align the right side of the image to the right side of the fax paper Vertical Alignment Choose how to vertically align the incoming image on the fax sized paper e Top will align the top of the image to the top of the fax paper e Middle will center the image in the vertical middle of the fax paper e Bottom will align the bottom of the image to the bottom of the fax paper Auto rotate page to fit fax paper The original image is rotated to fit on the fax sized paper if the rotated image will fit without having to scale the image TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 174 FAX TIFF Options TIFF Image Printer Shrink page if larger than fax paper Scales the image down to fit the fax paper if the original image is larger Maintain page aspect ratio Turn this option on to prevent distortion when scaling larger or smaller pages When this option is on the height and width of the page change in relation to one another Use 256 grayscale palette Turn this option on to allow Fax Mode to use a full 256 grayscale palette when dithering to black and white The default is to use a 64 grayscale palette to reduce the size of the fa
212. umentation for each of the property pages found on the Printing Preferences dialog There are numerous references to the instructions in the Working with the TIFF Image Printer section so you can see step by step instructions to show you how to do what is being described TIFF Image Printer is installed as a regular printer also referred to as a printer driver in the Printers folder and works just like a physical printer except that it creates a non searchable TIFF image file on your computer instead of printing a paper copy of your document Just as you would use the Printing Preferences on a LaserJet printer to change the size of the paper you are printing on the options that control the TIFF image file output are set through the same dialog This dialog is also available from the Print dialog within most applications Viewing TIFF Image Printer Properties On Windows 10 Windows Server 10 For quick access to the options a menu item has been added to the TIFF Image Printer menu in the Windows Start menu You can access this menu item by going to All Programs TIFF I mage Printer 11 0 Properties TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 140 TIFF Image Printer TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Configure PDF to Print In Hi Copy Printer License Agreement License Online Help Product Home Pace Properties Quick Start Guide Set Max Jobs 141 TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference TIFF Image Printer
213. unt provided is greater than the number of pages in the document no file splitting will take place v Splitevery 25 pages File splitting only applies to multipaged TIFF Images TIFF Multipaged TIFF Multipaged tif See Also Automatically Splitting Files TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Save TIFF Image Printer Advanced File Naming Shows the Advanced File Naming dialog where you can customize how the images are named License Launches the Activation Wizard as described in the Activating TIFF Image Printer section if you are in trial mode If you have already activated TIFF Image Printer you will see a summary of your license information see Viewing Your Activation Status for more details Restore Defaults Restores this tab s settings back to the defaults when the driver was first installed Help Brings up the on line help for this tab TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference 190 Save TIFF Image Printer Advanced File Naming This dialog box allows you to further configure and customize how your output files are named If you need to set up file naming to create each file with a unique name or you need to include certain information in every filename such as the date or who printed the file this is where you would make those changes Advanced File Naming x Show naming profile for Serialized Serialized w JobID Multi page Multi page w JobID NOTE Changing the profile sel
214. ut files into the chosen directory split into sequenced files Each file in the sequence is no more than 100 pages or just larger than 10MB Working With the TIFF Image Printer Automatically Splitting Files TIFF Image Printer Creating Fax Format Files TIFF Image Printer can create Profile F Profile S and Profile C TIFF images compatible with fax software or a hardware fax board When fax mode is enabled the images created are restricted to the chosen fax paper size and fax resolutions as well as in what compression methods are be used See the following sections for step by step guides to creating fax format TIFF images gt Creating Monochrome Fax gt Creating Color Fax gt Changing the Fax Compression Fax Compression The compression method used will depend on the fax profile selected and in the case of Profile F the setting for Monochrome Images on the Compression tab If the current compression mode setting does not match one of the supported compression methods for that fax profile the default compression method for that fax profile is used instead Profile F CCITT Group 4 Fax CCITT Group 4 Fax CCITT Group 3 2D Fax CCITT Group 3 1D Fax Profile S CCITT Group 3 1D Fax CCITT Group 3 1D Fax Profile C JPEG JPEG Viewing Fax Images Most image viewers will be able to display Profile F and Profile S fax images correctly Profile C fax images are viewable but may display the image with a blue or green color tint This i
215. vent when it has finished reading the script file The DocumentSpooled and DocumentCanceled events are signaled by the printer when the print job has finished being spooled successfully or has failed to spool respectively Document Spooled DocumentCanceled Events These events do not mean the conversion process has completed unless the printer is configured to Print directly to the printer User variables Use these variables to store information you wish to pass on to your code or to use as parameters to any program which you have attached to any one of the Run events There are 10 user variables available to use Var0 Var9 When referencing these variables as a parameter they require the macro expansion syntax Var0 Var9 User Exit 1 User Exit 1 x64 This user exit is invoked when an application starts to print and gives you an opportunity to augment the information or gather additional information that needs to be part of this conversion process For example you could prompt for fax information or have the user select from a preset list of locations to store the file This user exit calls a function contained in a DLL that you have produced The User Exit 1 section is used by 32 bit applications The User Exit 1 x64 is used on 64 bit operating systems If you are using the User Exits and need to support both 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems you will need to provide both a 32 bit and a 64 bit version of your
216. x and eliminate low intensity colors used normally to shape areas TIFF Monochrome Options EOLs byte aligned Enable this check box to align rows of CCITT Group 3 1D and 2D image data on word boundaries This option only applies if the Monochrome compression option on the Compression tab is set to use either CCITT Group 3 2D Fax or CCITT Group 3 1D Fax Reverse Bit Order Reverse bit order also known as fill order is used to specify the bit order in which the image data ina CCITT compressed TIFF file should be stored Enable this check box to store the image data in Least Significant Bit LSB to Most Significant Bit MSB order If this check box is not checked the data is stored in MSB to LSB order This option does not apply if you enable fax mode and select Profile S as your fax profile Profile S fax images are always created as LSB to MSB Invert Photometric The photometric interpretation option determines the order of the black and white palette entries for a monochrome TIFF file A monochrome TIFF file has a palette of exactly two colors white and black e MINISWHITE the palette entry for 0 is white This is will give you black text on a white background e MINISBLACK the palette entry for 0 is black This will give you a reverse or inverted effect of white text on a black background Enable this check box to select MINISBLACK order TIFF General Options 175 Include creation date and time Enable this che
217. x job limit 1 Goto Start All Programs TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Set Max J obs 2 Enter in how many jobs you wish to run in parallel A value of 0 means there is no limit to the number of jobs et PEERNET Set Job Limit x Set the number of print jobs that can be processed at the same time The higher the number the greater demand on your system resources Low end computers should set this number to 2 or below Faster or multi processor machines may be able to increase this number A valiue of 0 will allow an unlimited number of print jobs to run Number of Concurrent Processes Cance To set the number of jobs programmatically you can call PNSetMaxJobs11 exe from the command line with the number to set as shown below C Program Files TIFF Image Printer 11 0 Setups PNSetMaxJobs11 exe 3 TIFF Image Printer Advanced Concepts 248 Automating the Printing Process with the Script File TIFF Image Printer Using Run Commands to Call DLL Functions The Run commands can be used to call DLL functions instead of running another program or batch file The DLL must expose the following three functions with the following prototypes PVOID APIENTRY Init_User_DLL void BOOL APIENTRY TargetFunction PVOID pEnv LPCSTR pszParams void APIENTRY Terminate_User_DLL PVOID pEnv Init_User_DLL The first time the driver loads a user DLL it looks for a function named nit_User_DLL The purpose of this function is to al
218. xample a three page document could be stored as 3 separate TIFF image files named file _001 tif file_002 tif and file_003 tif Multi page TIFF Images A multi page TIFF image is a single consolidated file containing multiple pages similar to how a Word or Publisher document can have more than one page As an example when scanning in a user manual it is usually easier to store one TIFF file that contains 120 pages than to store 120 separate files With TIFF Image Printer you can convert documents of any size into multi page TIFF images directly from any Windows application by simply printing the entire document as you normally would if you were producing a paper copy of the document Viewing Multi page TIFF images Many professional photo retouching software systems do not read multi page images of any kind unless they are proprietary to the manufacturer However most recent fax file viewers and imaging applications will be able to read these images All Windows operating systems starting with Windows 2000 come with a standard imaging tool that reads most multi page TIFF image files The TIFF Image Printer can be set to automatically launch the imaging application to view the TIFF file when created See the section on Viewing Your images or the section Automatically View the Created TIFF Image for more information 23 Working With the TIFF Image Printer About Multi page and Serialized TIFF Images TIFF Image Printer Setting Printing
219. y Reduce to 16 color palette Reduce each page down to 16 colors Reduce to optimal palette max 16 colors Reduces each page down to the smallest number of colors needed to represent the page Any color pages that result in more than 16 colors are reduced to 16 colors Working With the TIFF Image Printer 58 Reducing File Size with Color Reduction TIFF Image Printer Dithering Methods The chosen Dithering Method only applies when Reduce to black and white is chosen Dithering improves the appearance of color images that have been reduced to black and white It is best to experiment when trying to determine the best dithering method for a given source image as the same dithering method may produce different results in different situations An example of the different methods and the resulting images are show below x Burkes Halftone Dithering As halftone dithering simulates the image using black dots of varying size and spacing ona white background it is only applied when the image is being reduced to black and white If halftone dithering is selected and a color image is being created Floyd Steinberg dithering is used instead 59 Working With the TIFF Image Printer Reducing File Size with Color Reduction TIFF Image Printer Reducing File Size with Compression Options Changing the compression options can have a large impact on the size of the file but care must be taken when choosing compression methods as the fi
220. y C Test Set Profile Format Specification FormatString Archive_ d_ s Variables Year OF aed Delete Clear _ OutputFileName Invoice Use default extension will create filename of C Test Archive_2010_Invoice tif Variables Use the Add and Delete buttons to create a list of variables that match the place holders in the format string above Use the Clear button to clear all the entries in the variable list Type and Format NV E Vat 1e String Place Description Holder Day The day in numeric format that the print Numeric d job was submitted to the printer from 1 31 DocumentPageNumber The page number of the document being Numeric rd rined FileExtension The file extension for the type of file String s being created TIFF Image Printer Properties Reference Save Type and Format Variable String Place Holder FileNumber Numeric d Numeric d Numeric d JobStatus Numeric d MachineName String s Minute Numeric d Month Numeric d OutputFileName String s Second Numeric d UserName String s Year Numeric d Output Directory TIFF Image Printer Description The file number of the sequence of files For multipaged output this is always 1 For serialized output this is the number of the file in the sequence The hour in numeric format that the print job was submitted to the printer 1 12 o

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