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1. 95 15 Interface customization 96 15 1 Selection of commands 96 15 2 Con guration of toolbars 97 15 3 Shortcut keys 97 15 4 Con guration of the menus 98 15 3 Options 98 15 6 Program accessing 99 15 7 Automatic positioning of oating windows 99 15 8 Windows that hide automatically 100 16 Preferences 101 4 16 1 Edition
2. 54 6 1 8 Advanced options 54 6 1 9 Dither methods 54 6 1 10 Fast dry mode 56 6 2 Ink control 56 6 2 1 Linearization 56 6 2 2 Postlinearization 56 6 2 3 Color balance 58 6 3 Color 58 6 3 1 Output ICC pro le 59 6 3 2 Direct color table 59 6 3 3 Rendering intents 60 6 4 Advanced options 61 6 5 PDF PostScript
3. 10 2 5 2 Installing ICC pro les 10 3 General functions 12 3 1 Zoom options 12 3 2 Page orientation 13 3 3 Hotfolder 13 3 4 Job consumption 15 3 3 SYNC 15 3 4 Control center 16 3 7 Guidelines 16 3 7 1 Contextual menu in the ruler bar 17 3 8 Measurement units 18 3 9 Workspaces 19 3
4. 101 16 2 Color management 102 16 3 RIP 103 16 4 Logging 104 16 5 PDF PostScript documents preferences 104 17 Connectivity 106 17 1 Connection types 106 18 Technical support 108 5 1 Introduction 1 1 Copyright The software described herein is property of the manufacturer for the exclusive use of the registered users The total or partial reproduction of the program is prohibited as well as all its support materials by electronic mechanical photographic or any other means without the express written authorization of the manufacturer Any other trademark mentioned in this manual is Copyright of its owners 1 2 What is this software This program is an image processor program for large format color printing RIP an
5. 85 11 2 1 Dimensional correction 85 12 Contour cutting 86 12 1 Automatic outline 87 12 2 Send directly to cutting plotter 89 12 2 1 Axes 90 12 2 2 Export paths 90 13 Consumption calculation neoControl 91 13 1 General aspect 91 13 2 Cost control 92 13 3 Schemes 92 13 4 Jobs 93 13 5 Export information to an Excel le 94 14 File browser
6. 63 6 6 Scheme backup 63 7 RIP options 65 7 1 General 65 7 2 Pages and copies 66 7 3 Print and cut 67 7 3 1 Export paths 68 3 8 Job queue 69 9 Rapport mode 71 9 1 Opening a document for rapport 71 9 2 Composition options 72 10 Film Separations creation 74 10 1 Preparing the design for printing
7. 74 10 2 Overprints 75 10 3 Multi channel images 76 10 4 Separations dialog 76 10 4 1 Color separation 77 10 4 2 Linearization of the black ink 77 10 5 Halftoning methods 78 10 6 Other separations options 80 10 7 Registration marks 81 10 8 Channel selection 81 10 9 Edition of a prepared separation 82 11 Film printing setup 83 11 1 Printer scheme manager 83 11 2 Advanced options
8. 5 6 1 Color mode Input CMYK and RGB the introduced color will be modi ed afterwards by all the RIP color management applying the selected pro les and all other speci cations so the same color transformations that would be applied to any design charged in the program will also be applicable Device colors the introduced color will be the direct output color which won t be modi ed by the color pro les This mode permits to make color tables for special colors plain colors or uorescent in con gured systems with special inks or multichannel The option Perform density and ink usage adjustment permits linearize the special colors whenever there is a linearization curve for the special colors The option to Perform ink limit control assures that the printing of the color palettes never exceeds the established limit value of the ink 1 Con guration of the parameters with variation of one Deviation it is the maximum percentage of variation of the generated colors with respect to the selected color This variation will be carried out by modifying the four components of the color CMYK Max steps total number of patches to be generated 45 2 4 corners Con guration parameters For this option introduce the patches of each of the corners To introduce each color press on the rectangle of the corresponding color A color edition window will be shown Select the color by either introducing dire
9. The value 4x4 will not de ne with such precision the shape of the dot but it generates more gradations of grey tones To avoid losing dots when reproducing the lightest and darkest tones the program has a controller which eliminates the smallest dots of both extremes in the dither The lightest and darkest dots can be deleted in order to facilitate the print of the design and this is done shortening the dots representation by moving the scale s edges The Pad printing option ensures that the darkest areas always retain their dots so that they don t simply appear as a black mass This is necessary when using lms in this printing system 79 The con gurations that we have created can be saved to re load them in similar works further on Stochastic dither The stochastic dither disperses the dots grouping them more if the tone is dark or separating them more if the tone is light The size of all of the dots is the same This type of dither has the advantage of avoiding the Moir e ect between the di erent colors As in most cases it is not possible to reproduce the size of a dot from a printer and a larger dot needs to be created To do this the program allows the enlargement of the printer s dot to a value in which a larger dot impression can be obtained Using the Dot multiplier it is possible to increase the value in microns 127 microns 0 127 millimeters 10 6 Other separation options T
10. certain printers with special repetition functions which are su ciently precise to carry out continuous Rapport The following image shows the minimum design quantity for minimum Rapport for the next repetition to t perfectly and to generate continuous rapport Width It refers to the amount of the material that we wish to print widthwise With Start the point where the design will start its print on the media can be set both vertical and horizontal positions For instance if we need to leave a margin of 0 3mm to start the printout this is the place to set it 73 10 Film Separations creation The program is especially developed for the generation of lms with ink injection printers The resolution of these printers is very high and capable of completing the majority of jobs with processes that require screen printing When producing very ne dithers the printer can generate moir s and small oscillations mostly produced by the physical resolution of the printer when printing the dither With the studied correction algorithms the program can minimize these imperfections by adapting angles and the frequency of the dither 10 1 Preparing the design for printing There are 3 possible systems for creating a print Creating a 4 color The design will be separated in 4 colors CMYK or 6 colors CMYKOG In order to print them it will reproduce the original colors usually with a dither of do
11. Multiple selection done with the cursor Selected area with two designs Using the handles you can re size the designs graphically By clicking and dragging the corner handles you modify proportionally the measurements of the design Moving the central handles from any side the original proportion will be lost 22 Moving a design is achieved by clicking within it The symbol of a hand will allow you to move it The above actions can also be carried out numerically through the controls located just on top of the window You can introduce the sizes wanted for the design or the scale factor by using the top controls To maintain the proportions the proportional button must be clicked The proportions are maintained horizontal vertical The proportions are not maintained it will be distorted This button will send the chosen design to coordinates 0 0 source of the working area automatically You can also rotate the design by clicking the rotation buttons The Mirror option will make a vertically symmetrical copy of the design That is to say as if seen re ected in a mirror placed at one of its sides 23 While designs are being moved within the working area the program takes into account all the other designs From the Software s preferences window when the function Avoid object overlap is activated the designs will not overlap 4 3 Link between the separations of a design All the created separat
12. image using a diluent ink which will prevent the colors to migrate to areas without printing Notice that the White pixels refer to an image information in which the object has no color always with Photoshop with Illustrator CorelDraw when it comes across a white object Intensity With the Fill ink method diluent ink will be used when the speci ed value doesn t exceed the absolute quantity of other charged inks For example if printing settings are 10 Cyan 25 Magenta and 30 Gray the total quantity is 65 In this particular case neoStampa 8 will automatically add a 35 of diluent ink for a better penetration The recommended value can be 100 for most cases or the channel ink cutting value given on the linearization process e g when Cyan Magenta Yellow etc are cut at 80 this value can be applied too for Intensity Minimum value Specifying a minimum value for the Fill ink method adds certain quantity to the absolute ink value in any case Supposing you x the Intensity at 100 and the Minimum value at 10 and that the absolute inks value is stated at 135 then neoStampa 8 will add a 10 more The e ect is that the ink penetrates more but it can also cause certain migration if over used This value must be handled with a lot of care 6 1 4 hueman Multicolor motor The color engine hueman is established in the following unfolded list The Version 2 should always be used because it provide
13. 1 or drop 2 Between 66 100 it will be either drop 2 or drop 3 So above 33 the nozzle is always ring either drop 1 2 or 3 54 2 Di usion v2 for variable dot printheads only This raster is based on a Smooth Stochastic matrix but adds some error di usion to the nal raster This method puts holes into the regular matrix in order to give the nozzle time for relaxation The aim is to prevent bending occurring from the previously mentioned stress factor The raster method is homogenous as well but since certain dots are removed it might be that the dot placement does not look as perfect as with Smooth Stochastic You can set the Di usion v2 amount of error in the three dots placed next to the drop down list explained later in this tutorial available color modes depend on the printer speci cations By choosing the Ordered Halftoning type we can con gure all its parameters To do this click the Con gure button The following screen will appear Each channel or color can be con gured separately although it is usual for the Frequency and Shape of the point to be the same for all the channels Select the point Shape from the list of supported shapes For ink injection printers we recommend the Round shape although the Euclidean also gives good results The Frequency of the dither can be introduced in lines per inch or per centimeter Depending on the printer s resolution the program calcu
14. 8 will create a spot color under the image whenever a pixel comes up always with Photoshop with Illustrator CorelDraw any time an object has color information such as white Notice that the Full Mask will only be generated when an image is in Greyscale RGB MYK or Lab but not with multi channel les So when you print the linearization targets Full mask will not be printed Shadow Mask neoStampa 8 will create an intelligent grayscale mask under the image s information according to the intensity and darkness of the color Usually this mode is used when printing with white 51 ink as for example working with T shirts Notice that the Shadow Mask is only generated if the image is in Greyscale RGB MYK or Lab but not with multi channel les This is why it will not be seen when printing linearization targets of Shadow mask but it will be generated when you print the ICC target Fill ink This method is usually used with penetration or saturation liquids such as diluent inks Various ink suppliers o er them in order to help the inks with low percentages to penetrate the textile media This method requires that Intensity and Minimum value percentages are speci ed as it will be explain further on Put ink in white pixels usually the white pixels don t require penetration or diluent inks because as the area won t be printed inks will be saved This button helps you create a blocking area around the colored
15. a modi cation name can be assigned to it in the Pro le and Save it It is advisable to print again the same gradient and compare the results to see if there has been an improvement Remember that if you use a di erent lm you will probably have to use a di erent linearization curve too 10 5 Halftoning methods Several methods are displayed from the halftoning list We should select the desired type and establish the desired characteristics with the Setting button Angled screen It is possible to establish for each color the angle of the screen the frequency l in l cm and the dot shape although the most common procedure is to use the same one for all the channels To select the dot shape select the list of supporting shapes for ink jet printers We recommend using the round one even though you can also get good results with the Euclidean 78 The frequency of the dither can be introduced in lines per inch or centimeter Based on the resolution of the printer the program calculates the frequency and angles that best approximates what has been introduced This can be seen by pushing Depending on the value of the selected Super Cell the adaptations of angles and frequencies will di er The value 1x1 is the one which best de nes the shape of the dot calculating the angles and frequency which best matches with the resolution of the printer However it can sometimes lose gradations of grey tones
16. con guration Logically it is always possible to change the values manually for each speci c case In other cases after making changes these will come into e ect by clicking this button 3 7 Guidelines The guidelines are lines that can be placed in any position in the design and there may be as many as required 16 To create guidelines either horizontal or vertical click the design rulers and drag the cursor to the desired position Click on the lateral design ruler Drag to the desired position To delete a guide select it and drag it out of the working screen The guidelines are specially useful to align various designs on the same horizontal or vertical line 3 7 1 Contextual menu in the ruler bar You access this menu by clicking the right hand button of the mouse over the ruler bar This menu allows you to activate the guidelines magnetism When an object comes close to a guideline and if the Activate Guidelines option is activated this object will attach itself to the guideline closest to it The option Adjust opens a new window that allows to adjust the guide numerically 17 From this window you can adjust the guides to a speci c numerical position or add and remove guides To modify the position of a guideline click over the value of the position and introduce the new value To add horizontal or vertical guidelines click the button for adding them and introduce the position directly
17. correcting small global color deviations in any of the basic printing channels Thus for example if a printing has a magenta dominant the easiest way to correct it is using this option therefore reducing only the magenta channel to a determined value depending on the dominating quantity This modi cation can be carried out by displacing the controllers manually or by entering the value on the inferior box and pressing enter The Link channels option applies the same modi cation to all the channels 6 3 Color This is the way we tell the program how the device which we are going to use for the printing behaves 58 6 3 1 Output ICC pro le An output pro le contains the information of the printer s usable color space and of the behavior of its inks A wrong output pro le will probably render unexpected results in the printed color so it is very important to select the color pro le or printing outline to the combination of material ink and resolution to be used A color pro le for a printing mode of 720 may not work with a 360 resolution that is to say a pro le for vinyl may not work for paper etc We can choose one of the pro les to do the printing although it is possible to add more by using the Add button 6 3 2 Direct color table If you have any saved any special color or a selection of them you can choose them now from the drop down list available in this section With the E
18. it is recommended that all channels print in the same manner 10 7 Registration marks In this tab options for registration and crop marks can be selected Registration marks they are signs that are printed in the center of the four sides of the design and they are used to allow the program to register the di erent colors at the moment they are being printed Crop marks they are two marks that are situated in the four furthest corners of the design and serve as a reference for the nal cut of the design when its already printed Density and calibration bars generate the printing of signs for each of the colors of the separations Calibration Bar generates the printing of the colors and color combinations samples Document Information Includes information about le name type of dither and printing channel 10 8 Channel selection In the separation window it will appear a list of all the channels that can be separated 81 On the left of each color there is a square that can be marked indicating the channels that we want to separate On the right of each color we are shown information about the dithers that are used for the separations 10 9 Edition of a prepared separation Once the separations are done it is possible to modify several of the design s characteristics relating to size orientation and crop marks from the Control Center dialogue Moreover it is also possible to modify the characterist
19. open a document or to create a new one This is a standard Windows screen with the standard menu bar and buttons to access the main functions It also has the action buttons bar and the zoom bar shown at the top of the window At the center of the window you can see the working area where all the designs will be placed On the right there is the Control Center from where the majority of transformations and con gurations will be carried out The RIP button is to send the design to the printer The information bar situated in the lowest part of the window will systematically show you the messages related to the work you are carrying out or that which is currently selected 3 1 Zoom options In the main window you can see the zoom buttons bar which is used to increase or reduce the size of the objects on the screen 12 The buttons in this order perform the following actions The Zoom in tool this is used to enlarge any area of the design The Zoom out tool this is used to reduce any area of the design The Previous Zoom tool this is used to return to the previous view after having enlarged or reduced The Zoom all tool Using this you can see all the objects of the design t into the screen The Zoom selected objects tool it is the same as the previous one but only showing the selected items The Zoom roll width tool this is used to view the whole working area on the screen The Zoom printer width t
20. parameters can be set to obtain the best possible results This manual does not intend to be a course in color theory However some basic points are covered to enable the correct con guration of the program and therefore achieve optimum printed works 5 1 Input ICC pro les These are the ICC pro les that the program uses to interpret the documents to be processed You can select them from the Control Center The input pro le of the selected document must match the pro le that has been used in the designing program as output pro le If these two pro les di er there can be di erences in the interpretation of colors and therefore in the printed result Each design program CorelDraw Illustrator PhotoShop etc allows to specify the color pro le with which the created design will be saved or exported This is the pro le that has to be selected in Input pro les They can be added to the program by clicking on the square button on the right In case a design comes from an unknown source and the pro le with which it has been generated is not speci ed the most usual work pro les are RGB Generic RGB or CMYK Generic CMYK Take into account though that by selecting those pro les the result is not guaranteed 36 NOTE When a TIFF JPG or EPS image is loaded in the program and one of the pro le lists indicates Embedded it means that the ICC pro le that comes embedded in l
21. to cutting plotter Once generated the cropping path it is possible to send it to a cutting plotter By clicking on the Cut button you will access to the con guration window for the Contour cutting In Plotter you will be able to select the model of plotter you will use To add plotters to the list or con gure your connexions press Con gure Depending on the model of plotter selected it will be possible to control directly the cutting speed as well as its pressure and acceleration It is also possible to select the cutting quality when bends are being cut in the section Curve resolution The option Read registration marks will only be active in the plotters in which the reading of these marks is activated through software that is the program has to indicate the plotter to search for the register marks in order to position itself correctly in the origin of the printing The Plotter options button opens the next window with Advanced options 89 12 2 1 Axes In all plotters that allow con guration you should select the option of rotating 90 the axes since in order to adjust the printing and cut the origin of coordinates is to be found to the right of the plotter For plotters which do not have the function of reading register marks OPOS we recommend using the register marks from the previous branch of the Control Center which only prints angles And place the cut origin on the right mark once the ma
22. you have a speci c Monitor pro le for your equipment you can add it to the system with the Install button The Monitor s Pro le is very important in order to achieve that colors are as close as possible to the real colors of the design The closer the Monitor s Pro le is the better simulations you will obtain and therefore what appears on the screen is will be the same as what is printed There are systems for generating monitor models which calibrate monitors and allow you to view colors very realistically Bear in mind that in order to keep a monitor perfectly calibrated rst of all you need to use a high quality monitor control the environmental light and of course all the monitor s controls 102 The Force Absolute Colorimetric for LAB option can be selected if we want to print a document with Lab parameters In such cases the Rendering Intent will go to Absolute Colorimetric no matter what parameters we have introduced in the scheme The Do not print LAB 100 0 0 option is used when we don t want a simulation to be printed as it might color all the image background Skip automatic spot color detection must only be activated if desired for vectorial images Color Engine The program has several functions that manage color transformations based on the parameters of ink limit linearization and the pro les These functions are in the so called Color Engine We recommend to select Adobe CM
23. 0 5 4 2 Obtaining the color by reading it from a device 41 5 5 Procedure to use special colors 42 5 5 1 Saving a special color selection 44 5 6 Generation of color palettes 44 5 6 1 Color mode 45 6 Add Color libraries 48 6 1 Print mode 49 6 1 1 Custom inks setup 49 6 1 2 Double ink 50 6 1 3 Mask 51 6 1 4 hueman Multicolor motor 52 6 1 5 Quality 53 6 1 6 Bi directional print 53 6 1 7 Cut sheet at end
24. 1 NEOSTAMPA 8 neoStampa Version 8 0 0 21275 Last update January 2015 Index 1 Introduction 6 1 1 Copyright 6 1 2 What is this software 6 1 3 About this User manual 4 2 Installation of the program 7 2 1 Con guration and system requirements 7 2 2 Program protection 7 2 3 Installation 7 2 4 Selection of the printer 8 2 5 Pro les and printing schemes for the RIP option s for the RIP option 9 2 5 1 Installing printing schemes
25. 10 Languages 19 4 Design edition 20 4 1 Loading designs 20 4 1 1 Loading designs in Color Rapport or Film modes 20 4 1 2 Opening documents with their schemes 21 4 2 Measurements and position 22 4 3 Link between the separations of a design 24 4 4 Duplicate graphically 25 4 5 Cropping 25 4 6 Automatic distribution 26 4 6 1 Distribution in page mode 27 4 7 Tiling 27 4 8 Mosaics 28 4 9 L
26. If you wish to eliminate a design rst select it and then press the Del key on the keyboard or select the option from the Edit menu 4 1 1 Loading designs in Color Rapport or Separation mode When you open a design a window with the options to con gure some parameters will automatically appear Most of them are very straightforward to use 20 4 1 2 Opening documents with their schemes When you open a document you may know to what Scheme is associated to You can choose the one you want from the list of all the schemes loaded in your neoStampa 8 related to a speci c printer too A very useful function in the new version of neoStampa is located under the scheme If you tick the Automatic scheme selection the program will search for the scheme a design is associated to Let s suppose that you create a coloration with neoColorations and that you associate it to a scheme When you open this design in neoStampa having the Automatic scheme selection ticked it will be opened with that scheme 21 4 2 Measurements and position When you click on a design 8 marks surrounding it appear which we call Handles So a design is selected and we can act upon it when we see the handles If we wish to select various designs at the same time click on them one after the other maintaining the Ctrl key pressed down or else creating an area by dragging the cursor so that all the items inside it will be selected
27. M although the older Little CMS is also a good choice as it is compatible with previous neoStampa versions 16 3 RIP Memory usage Even though the program con gures automatically this value in systems with limited memory it may be interesting to assign little memory to the program so we can continue working with other programs Bear in mind though that the application will work slowly In any case and particularly for con gurations with high levels of installed RAM memory such as 2GB we recommend never going over the 256MB of memory that will be used by this program Multi thread RIP for computers with various processing cores we can assign to assign the same job to two of them 16 Bit Color Processing It implies better color quality 103 16 4 Logging To Generate a Log File for each RIP job is a utility of the program which generates a log with all the information about the printed job Such le has information of the quantity of ink dots that have been used for the printing the measure of the media used and the printing modes used for the job All this information will be conveniently used so that the program will be able to produce quite a precise costs report Connection with Production Manager the program o ers an extended version of the neoControl called Server Option which is acquired separately and serves to centralize the reception of data from several computers and als
28. abels and numbers 29 4 10 Crop and registration marks 30 4 11 Media size 32 4 11 1 Page selection 33 2 4 11 2 Media size Advanced parameters 34 5 Color management 36 5 1 Input ICC pro les 36 5 2 Proo ng 37 5 3 Using multichannel DCS les 38 5 3 1 Mixed print mode 38 5 3 2 Split print mode 39 5 4 Special colors 39 5 4 1 Input and device color 4
29. an also be installed Remember that only by selecting a scheme you will have con gured all the printing options 48 The browse button on the left will direct you to all your saved schemes in a clean way The buttons on the right are used to add and eliminate schemes or rename them 6 1 Print mode The Print mode refers to the actual way in which the machine prints Some printers allow you to print in various resolutions or modes varying the nal quality of the printing With this option you will be able to select the number of inks for every job If your printer allows it you will be able to place up to 16 inks With ceramics works for example pro les can be created with just 3 inks The K mode will only print in black that is to say in grey scales Multichannel modes like CMYK cmk allow for printers of more than 4 cartridges to work as if each color were totally independent paying no attention as to what ink is charged where For example in printers having CMYKcmk it is possible to place special colors in the free cartridges and the program will use such inks depending on the information given on the color pro le This type of con gurations are usually used for textile printing because the use of special colors is required to gain color gamut 6 1 1 Custom inks setup It is possible to determine the position of each ink and even put two equal colors in di erent positions 49 Clickin
30. arket are Parallel Network converters which perform 106 well An important consideration is that such a converter is of good quality and conforms to the IEE1284 parallel standards If it does not communication with the printer will be slow In the latter cases you will need to con gure the program connection as TCP IP and con gure the IP addresses correctly Other connections Since the program is able to use the drivers of printers installed on Windows SPOOLER it is possible to connect them to any printer with any kind of connection supported by Windows as for example FireWire 107 18 Technical support neoStampa 8 comes with the installation of a TeamViewer QS application Whenever you need individual assistance contact our technical team through the email address support inedit com or by phone and set up a TeamViewer session Search for neoStampa 8 program in your computer and click on In dit Quick Support Then the TeamViewer window will pop up ready to connect with the technician you have previously contacted 108 We hope this manual has been useful to you If you think the contents can be improved in any way you can send your suggestions to quality inedit com In our web www inedit com you will nd further support materials such as video tutorials apart from all the information of the programs and solutions of In dit
31. arks another window appears with several options These will be fully explained further on in point 4 10 The nal paneled result given the above speci cations looks as follows when selecting to print registration and crop marks 4 8 Mosaics With this option we have the possibility of making multiple copies of a same design with absolute ease Access the function from the Control Center Introduce the Number of pieces desired vertically and horizontally or the total of them Below in Distance you can set the distance between copies 28 The working space with the new copies as per above settings will look as follows 4 9 Labels and numbers Still in the mosaic dialogue you can introduce and edit numbering each of the copies First tick on the Labels amp numbers option and the Edit button will become available 29 From the Edit window you can choose format of numbering font and size color of font and position of the number in the copy in respect to the edge of the image And the composition of the images in the working space will look as follows 4 10 Crop and registration marks The speci c dialog to print Registration marks and Document name in your designs is also shared as we have seen by the Tiling option This function in the program o ers a variety of options It is in the Control Center branches 30 The Options displayed below are the following The Registration marks can be s
32. ctly the value CMYK or pressing on the color selection box Press the Ok button and the color will be selected Repeat the operation for each of the four angles Next to the upper left patch there are two selectors where you can introduce the number of vertical and horizontal patches 46 3 CVS les You can import colors or libraries that you already have or know using the following browse button Patch size and separation between patches can be customized from the buttons on the right down part of the window 47 6 Con guring the printer In this section of the manual is explained every detail to con gure your printer and the inks First open the Printer scheme manager window with the button on the upper menu bar Before going through the various tabs of the Scheme manager notice that on the bottom left corner of this window there is the Wizard button This opens a Calibration process which helps you obtain the best printing results Refer to its manual to explore all the possibilities it o ers At the top of the window a Printing scheme can be selected The Scheme contains all the printing parameters including the color pro le and the adjusting of densities Once con gured all the parameters it is possible to save this con guration in a scheme Having the program already con gured for di erent kind of jobs and materials is easy and prevents mistakes As well as the pro les the schemes c
33. d in this way This Operation can be repeated for as many colors of the design we wish 43 Once accepted the color it will show in the list for special colors with the values for original color as well as the modi ed color 5 5 1 Saving special colors con gurations Under the special color window there is the option to save the special color con guration under a name Whenever you want to use that con guration you can select the name given to it from a drop down list in the Direct color table in the Color tab within the Printer Scheme manager 5 6 Generation of color palettes The program is equipped with an assistant for the generation of color palettes that is to say color patches of very little color variations which are de ned by the user The user will also be able to determine the number of squares to appear and the rank of colors between which the color palette will range Pressing the button for the generation of palettes the following screen will appear 44 There are three ways to generate the patches 1 Variation of one starting from a determined color CMYK it will carry out variations between patches of a certain percentage of color 2 4 corner determining the four extreme colors of the angles of a rectangle it will generate the patches through the variation of the color progressively from one angle to the other 3 CSV importing a CSV le with the list of colors to print
34. d or for continuous Rapport printing and or for the creation of separations in lm printing It can be obtained with all three units or separately RIP amp FILM EDITION For color and lm printing RAPPORT For continuous printing FILM EDITION For lm printing exclusively With the program we can import any design in PostScript format or any other image taken from your scanner or other programs and scale these designs to the chosen or necessary measurements The program achieves the enlargement of images with maximum quality and owing to its color correction algorithms and the di erent shades available it will present perfect results ready to send to printers and or cutting machines in large format It also allows the possibility of using ICC printer characterization pro les 1 3 About this User manual This manual covers the three modes of neoStampa 8 program RIP RAPPORT and FILM as there are features common to all three Still there are well di erentiated sections corresponding to each printing mode 6 2 Installation of the program 2 1 Con guration and System Requirements An IBM PC or compatible computer is required with a Pentium or superior type of processor with an environment Microsoft Windows XP Vista or superior versions installed It is advisable to have a minimum RAM memory of 8GB 2 2 Program protection The program comes with a USB protection key which limits its u
35. dit button you will access a window with the list of the special color s When you select one of the colors the button with a hand becomes active from which you will access the color information window where you could eventually change its parameters 59 6 3 3 Rendering intents Simulation consists of obtaining in our printer the same results that would be obtained in another printing system Through several Rendering intents we specify to our color engine what calculations need to be made to transform colors from one color space to another taking into account both origin and target working spaces This program o ers various interpretation methods Perceptual Saturation Relative colorimetric Absolute colorimetric Clear Ink Color Matching and Don t use ICC which we will brie y describe below Perceptual The input range is adapted proportionally to that of the output device This is the most commonly used method for printing photographs something that does not require great accuracy in color but does require a good appearance Relative colorimetric With this method if a certain color CIE L a b value enters into the range of the device it is faithfully represented but with the image still maintaining a good overall appearance To achieve this a lineal relationship is established between the black and white of each of the devices 60 brightness adaptation So for example the white of a monitor di
36. e printer If the multichannel color mode is used the printer s available channels will show in the color column If the CMYK xxx color modes are used the available CMYKxxx channels will appear In order to modify DCS channel assignment to printer cartridges click on the Color column and select the desired cartridge Using multi channel color mode allows for the independent correction of ink density and limits for each of the printer s colors 5 4 Special colors The program has a powerful tool to modify the printing of speci c colors The tool is available from the Control Center or from the icon and it will allow you to 39 1 Modify the printing of any color of the design without modifying the whole print For instance in order to modify a corporative color of a design which is being printed together with an image we can give precision to the color of the logotype without modifying the global color of the image 2 Assign a determinate color to an ink cartridge or a combination of them This is particularly useful for printers with more than 4 ink cartridges where it is possible to use the rest of the cartridges for special colors such as reds greens whites uorescents etc This will allow a part of the design to be printed with a uorescent color for example without modifying the rest of it 3 Modify the printing of any color of the design reading the real color of a sample printed in c
37. e will be used They are usually images coming from Adobe Photoshop 5 0 2 or higher In these cases it is not necessary to select the input pro le since the program recognizes them directly 5 2 Proo ng Proo ng consists of obtaining from our printer the results which would be obtained using another printing system Through di erent Rendering intents we specify to the color engine what calculations need to be made in order to transform colors from one working space to another taking into account both origin and target working spaces There are four main rendering intent groups Perceptual or photographic with this rendering method the whole working space of origin is uniformly scaled with respect to the origin of coordinates until it ts the destination working space Saturation this method is done in two steps The rst is like the perceptual one when the working space of origin is scaled down until it ts into the destination one In the second step the working space is expanded and the points that delimit it meet with the edges of the working space of destination Relative colorimetric when there are di erent color temperatures between working spaces the relative intent detects this variation and equals both spaces before comparing them This method is used when we wish to dismiss the color of the paper or media Absolute colorimetric again when there are di erent color temperatures between w
38. ed up but you could eventually loose some quality instead 53 6 1 7 Cut sheet at end In printers that support cutting the paper once the printing process is over here is the option has been printed it is possible to control that the cut is carried out not activating this option 6 1 8 Advanced options To access speci c con gurations of the selected printer s driver click the Advanced button at the bottom of this page The new window is exclusive for each printer Here you can con gure speci c parameters which can normally be con gured from the printer s own panel This window will therefore change depending on the controller you have chosen 6 1 9 Dither methods The last con guration parameters of the Print Mode tap is Dithering This option allows the choice of dither type to be generated for the print The most frequent ones which are the ones that deliver better results are the ones we indicate next 1 Smooth Stochastic by default This raster is a matrix based method which places the dot matrix in the most homogenous way and is recommended for all types of inkjet printers It is however also a complicated method since especially with n level printheads e g 2bit 3 levels grayscale printheads the nozzle can su er from stress Example With 3 levels of drop sizes above 33 of e ective dot usage the nozzle has to re dots all the time Between 33 66 it will be either drop
39. elected from a long drown drop list Here are some of the choices Calibration and Density bars can also be printed in the document if you like And the Marks color can be changed as a color picker will pop up when clicking on the square Crop marks can be positioned as Inner close to the design and choose the horizontal and vertical bleed or they can delimit the Full frame The lines of such marks can also be edited as for the Width of the line and its Length If you wish to Print the Document name you have three positions to do so and you can decide its distance in respect to the design and the Font Size When you set the parameters you want press Apply at the bottom of the menu Here is an example of a possible result 31 4 11 Media size In Control Center there is also the Media Size branch Pagination is the splitting up of the design so that it can be printed in sections when it is larger than the page measurements The below window is to de ne the useful measurements of the page that is in the printer If the design exceeds the width or length of the page the program will print them in as many parts as it is necessary The option Printable sizes allows entering the values for useful material measures for printing which are usually those provided by the printer or page measures that have to be subtracted from the margins of the printer itself Image paginated widthwise on the bobbin 32 If you
40. ey will have to be entered in Arguments It is possible to add as many programs as it is desired or needed 15 7 Automatic positioning of oating windows When a oating window moves through the working window certain marks will appear enabling the automatic positioning of the oating window In the middle of the screen appears the positioning marks By positioning the cursor of the mouse while pressed on any of the four keys the area represented will be highlighted and the oating window will be positioned there 99 15 8 Windows that hide automatically Floating windows can be con gured as to automatically hide when not used in order to save working space The icon appearing on the window bar representing a tack shows whether the window can be hidden or it is xed The following example indicates that the window is a xed one If pressed the tack mark will assume a horizontal position meaning that the window can be hidden In the case for example of the Job Queue window when it is hidden a tab appears in the inferior part of the working area To make it visible simply place the cursor on the tab the window will automatically be displayed enabling us to work with it 100 16 Preferences To access the Preferences window display the options from the Edit menu on the top menu bar of the program 16 1 Edition In this window we can set the following values which the program wil
41. g on the ink location button the following window will appear Clicking on any of the colors the selection of available colors unfolds With this selection it can be determined what color will be mounted in the selected printer channel The Print button will print a test with the order of colors we have predetermined in the printer in order know their position 6 1 2 Double ink When a color is placed in two di erent ink channels the RIP engine will send the same color information to both cartridges so that the amount of ink will be doubled This option is used for such special cases where it is necessary to apply an extra layer of ink The Double Ink button becomes available and it allows to control individually the behavior of two identical inks for the same print the Start the behavior curve and the end 50 6 1 3 Mask The option Mask becomes available when a special ink such as penetration liquids dilution inks masks or white ink are set in one of the channels You can establish the parameters for each of them in the following window Get from alpha channel as you can tell from the name the image to print requires an Alpha channel which will be added to the image and that must have been created manually from Photoshop The ink uses the information of the channel to print the content Depending on the printer the ink will be printed separately or simultaneously with the other inks Full Mask neoStampa
42. he Option Maintain document overprints is used to preserve the overprint solid ll Clicking on it you save the areas of the lling that have remained under the other colors in such a way that the colors that overlap have a margin to allow they re printed To preserve the overprint solid rules Save the areas of the outline that are underneath other colors The option Do not create empty plates indicates the program that if there is any completely empty channel to discard it In this way unnecessary media is saved In the Custom settings list it is permitted to save the con guration of the entire separation window from the previous operation In this way it is possible to save varied con gurations according to the type of separation required 80 Next to this list there are the buttons to save or delete the con guration from the list Press the OK button on this window to proceed creating the separations When ready to print the separations pay close attention to the quality of the print that is con gured in the program print resolution and the bi directional modes Normally the best results are achieved by selecting the highest resolution and the uni directional mode Bear also in mind that if you want to use the auto distribution function of the program you must rst de activate the design rotation function so that the program will rotate only some channels and not others For the best jobs results
43. ics relating to the dither once the separations are ready To do that we should double click on one of the separations and a window with the dither con guration will appear Notice that some other options are disabled at this stage 82 11 Film printing setup The printing in the FILM mode di ers from the printing in the RIP mode because many functions belonging to color are hidden or inactive 11 1 Printer scheme manager The printing scheme manager contains all the printing parameters Open it with the button Once con gured all the parameters it is possible to save this con guration in a scheme Thus having the program already con gured for the di erent kinds of materials is easy and prevents mistakes Remember that only by selecting a scheme you will have con gured all the printing options Printing quality The printing quality refers to the actual way in which the machine prints Some printers allow you to print in various resolutions or modes varying the nal quality of the printing Bi directional Print This function will send a command to the printer indicating the printhead to move in one or both directions Activating the bi directional Print the job will be done faster but it can lose some printing quality Cut Sheet at End Activates or de activates this option in printers that allow cutting the media after printing 83 Dithering This printing mode has been implemented for p
44. in is carried out Be aware that the exact colors search is very slow and the time for processing designs can be considerably extended Don t use ICC no modi cation is carried out on the entry save for the application of the LUT charts of ink balance that may be already selected 6 4 Advanced options Here is the fourth tab of the Printer scheme manager 61 The option Dimensional correction allows to correct di erences in measurements that may occur during vaporization cleaning or drying processes If for example a printed media that we know must exactly have a 800 millimeters length and the resulting print measures 796 4 millimeters less we can make a correction by clicking on the three dots button beside and a Compensation calculator pops up The option Full page mirroring places out print in mirror mode It is useful when we transfer an image from a sublimation paper to any fabric with the help of an iron plate or similar The option Full width ripping is used in the following cases a On one hand if we have prints of di erent widths the printheads will go over all the width of the media in such a way that the drying time will be the same for all inks b The other application is used for printers with drivers that generate TIFF les Activating this option the dimensions of the les generated will correspond to the media measure and not to that of the design Clicking on Input Defa
45. ing the location for it in the computer In Copy mode the number of copies desired can be introduced The Length mode will only be activated for Rapport prints unlimited copies when the option is activated in the RIP and if a Rapport document has been generated Here you can set up the desired length of the printout The options of establishing Bi directional Print and Cut Sheet at End can be selected on this window too Finally the option Origin Setup can be established here leaving some unprinted media space both lengthwise Pre feed and or widthwise Displacement 70 9 Rapport mode The Rapport printing mode allows for combining and joining repetitions of a single design in such a way so as to produce a continuous design of unlimited dimensions showing no splices between the designs This feature is used for example for continuous textile printing such as fabric reels used for the production of bed sheets curtains etc 9 1 Opening a document for Rapport When opening a document the option Open as has to be selected From the three options Rapport Printing is shown with the icon In the case of Rapport type documents the design will appear repeated in such a way as to cover the whole of the surface that is to be printed If instead of opening a document you choose to open a new document the window that will appear is the following 71 9 2 Composition options When loading a design in Rap
46. inting le is generated for each one of them adding a number to the original name Normally the printer les usually have the extension pro or plt Thus for example from a le named mar tif a printing le mar prn can de generated or in the case of occupying more than one page we would produce les like mar_1 prn mar_2 prn Notice that a printing le may need a lot of space in the hard disk and therefore we will have to check the available space in the unit As a reference printing an image of DIN AO size in a printer of 360 dpi generates a printing le of some 90 Mb Later you can send this le directly to the device with hardly any use of the computer s spare memory For that use the program s Job queue The Start job queue if it s stopped option makes the job queue start up and immediately begin processing or sending jobs The option Keep the job after processed temporarily saves the processed work in case you have to re send the same work again for other copies Once the job has been erased or the job queue nishes the work already processed will disappear For printers which supply status information the Check printer status before sending option allows the program to wait for the printer to be ready to receive information and the program noti es if there is any problem with the printer Only some speci c connection types and printers supply the printer status informa
47. ions which belong to the same design are linked to one another Any change we make in any of these will automatically be applied to the rest of the separations of the same design In this way for example when re sizing one of the separations the others will automatically be resized in the same proportion Resizing a separation All the separations have been resized 24 4 4 Duplicate graphically Any selected design can be duplicated simply by moving it with the Control key pressed down On releasing the mouse button a copy of the selected design will appear 4 5 Cropping This program function allows you to select a speci c area of a design and trim it This is especially useful to carry out printing tests of the most representative areas of a design without having to print the whole design There are two days to this selecting the crop button on the left of the working space or by choosing the branch Cropping from the Control Center When you click on the side button you are able to make a selection of the design graphically This operation can be done as many times as it is required The area selected can also be modi ed by moving the corners of the rectangle 25 If you wish to do make a selection manually rst click on the Cropping option in the Control centre and indicate manually the position of the selection 4 6 Automatic distribution The program has a powerful design distribution too
48. itial state of all the keys by pressing Reset all 15 4 Con guration of the menus To access these functions select the tab Menu In Menu animations you can choose from four di erent modes of displaying the menus Normal Small to large Unfold and Gradual Another interesting e ect which also makes the program s interface more pleasant is the possibility of adding shadow to the menus when they unfold Activate the Menu Shadows option and the menus will appear with shadow in this way 15 5 Options In the options tab we can set the following Show Screen Tips on toolbars To activate or de activate the help which appears when the mouse pointer is placed over a button Show Shortcut keys in ScreenTips To show or not to show with the help the combination of fast access keys if available Large icons To change the size of the button bar icons This is especially useful for screen con gurations with very high resolutions 98 15 6 Program accessing This function allows adding a direct access of a program to the Tools menu This is useful for the most commonly used programs To add programs press the rst key shown on the additional Tools bar and enter the name of the program you wish to appear in the menu In Command enter the complete route of the program s location or press the right side button to search for it in the computer If the program requires any parameter in order to start it th
49. l called Nesting to place the designs on the page wasting the minimum material possible and consequently printing them in the least possible time This option can be accessed by clicking the auto distribution button on the right context menu A dialog will pop up when Nesting is selected with a few options For example the Minimal separation between objects can be set manually which will be the distance left between designs to avoid overlapping 26 When clicking Ok the designs will be distributed in the most e cient way 4 6 1 Distribution in page mode When the printing material consists of loose sheets the program will distribute the documents on each page without splitting the designs except in the case of those that are larger than the size of the page Without distribution Distributed on sheets 4 7 Tiling The program contains a tool for dividing a design into various panels to print separately This option is very useful when the designs are very large and must be printed in sections Click on the tiling button and the window with the available panel features will pop up 27 The number of pieces desired can be set in Rows and Columns as well as the exact measure of Overlap needed which will be that overprint space between panels that will allow an easy assembly When Remove white border usually by default in some images formats is taken away when the option is selected At selecting Add cut m
50. l use by default Displacement with the keyboard the selected objects can be moved using the keyboard s cursor keys Depressing the cursor and Shift and Control keys at the same time can cause the distance moved to be di erent than if not depressed In this section you can con gure the distance the design will move with these keys Adjust movement to Guidelines Here we can determine whether we wish the objects to be snapped by the guide lines and the distance in pixels on screen from which the guide lines will snap the objects 101 Avoid object overlap Activating this option the program avoids that two designs may overlap on one another and in Minimal separation we can determine the minimum separation allowed between them If we want to t a design inside the other we will have to deactivate this option Undo levels Here we con gure the number of operations the program will retain in its memory in case we wish to undo any of the actions carried out Each time a transformation is done on any object it is memorized so that we can use the undo command to return to the previous position NOTE The undo levels use part of your PC system s memory So if your PC has only just enough memory it would be advisable to reduce its value 16 2 Color management In this window you can con gure the color model which will be used by default by the monitor the scanner you will use and the printer for color proofs If
51. lates the frequency and angle which is nearest to the ones we have introduced By activating the Precise option the program will use the adapted frequencies These can be seen by clicking 55 6 1 10 Fast dry mode The other types of dithering methods use variable dot sizes large and small In some printers with variable dot size technology this printing parameters have been set which include the two smallest dot sizes that the printhead can support When the large dot are disabled the media dries faster However take into account that activating this option can result in general paler colors that should be compensated increasing the use of ink 6 2 Ink control In this second tab of the Printer scheme manager we can see very precise adjustments on the behavior of the printer 6 2 1 Linearization Clicking on the button with three dots beside the Linearization le we get the Ink control window where some adjustments can be done into Ink level Ink Limit or Light ink usage 56 In Ink Level the information embedded in the printing scheme is shown and it is related to the ink quantity percentage used for each color with respect to 100 By modifying this value the printing darkens or lightens globally Ink limit shows the value for the maximum quantity of ink that the media admits Too high values could leave an ink excess and not dry properly or get blurry images Low values could cause that vivid color com
52. lor and spot colors we should export the design to Encapsulated PostScript format EPS 10 2 Overprints An overprint occurs when two adjacent colors overlap and the color on top takes some space from the color below This ensures that no white bands between the two colors appear when they are printed The designer must take this characteristic into consideration and create a design in which the colors are mounted properly In the following example we can see a yellow disk encircled by a black border To create this design correctly we use the overprint of black on top of the yellow As you can see in the gure on the right the external and internal lines belong to the black color while the central line belong to the yellow In the printing process the yellow will be printed rst and then the black covering a small part of the yellow area Whatever the design program used it needs to indicate for each object to preserve the overprint This will ensure that when the design is exported in EPS the required information for each object is included 75 10 3 Multi channel images The multi channel images are composed by the normal channels CMYK and other additional channels that are normally used for speci c colors as for example plain colors or Pantone colors The program can also interpret these channels whenever the document is being saved in PostScript DCS The most modern versions of program for gra
53. o manages the cost control of various stations We will write here the server s name and the path to get to that server manager 16 5 PDF PostScript documents preferences 104 Rendering engine Previous neoStampa 7 already had a new rendering engine incorporated for PDF documents The engine that was used in older versions can also be used Rendering resolution The parameters from this function indicate the resolution at which the PDF documents will be rendered As a general rule the divisor 2 will be used with a minimum dpi of 72 and a maximum of 360 To achieve more precise results the divisor can be set to 1 but this option may slow considerable the printing processing Rendering Colorspace It indicates the color space where the PDF doc will be rendered before turning it into something printable Both RGB or CMYK spaces can be selected as to con gure the output or input parameters but you can also select multi channel output This last option will make color conversions directly to the printer allowing color substitution rules to take place 105 17 Connectivity Connecting a computer to a printer may seem a very simple thing to do but in fact there are many aspect to take into consideration some of which are anything less than obvious There are always alternative connecting methods that can be done if regular procedures fail The most common problems in badly implemented connections are
54. o or more parts so that they are printed separately In the menu below unfolded from the Advanced branch are all the options In Pagination overlapping choose the exact area Width and Length that each design shares in order to make an accurate assembly In some printing systems especially those with inks that tend to dry up if not used it is a good idea to print a side bar using all the colors with a Control Bar printing In this way even if a color is not used in an area of the design we kind of force its use in each pass of the printhead This safety band looks like a small rainbow and we can control its total thickness The option to Print Statistics and Comments comes handy when you want the Printout information of a particular design to be seen when it is printed By clicking on the Con gure button a dialog opens 34 From Text formatting you can choose Font and font Size of the text to print In the section Selectable Data you can select which information will be shown in the print out of a large list of options Just tick on the ones you need In User Text you will be able to write any text you wish The editor allows to introduce multi line texts To introduce several lines press the keys Ctrl Enter In the Preview window there is a representation of how the information will look like when printed 35 5 Color management This is perhaps the most important section for color printing Many di erent
55. olor with an spectrophotometer Although this is a variation of section 1 the color entry precision is very useful Clicking on the Special Colors icon a small dropper will appear in the design Select the desired color and a window allowing the modi cation of the special color will appear 5 4 1 Input and device color The Replacement mode allows us to determine the way in which the values of the color we want to obtain will be speci ed We have the following options 1 CIELab which stands for the spatial coordinates of the color and expresses their values a b and luminosity L Although it is a value which is di cult to imagine there are many colors which are usually expressed this way since it is a representation of color which doesn t depend on any device printer screen scanner etc 40 2 RGB Entry possibility of entering the color and its values Red Green Blue If for instance we see a red dominant in the already printed color we can correct only value R by lowering it 3 CMYK Entry possibility of entering the values Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black As in the previous case it is possible to correct the color dominants The options given with the Device color are to 4 Possibility of entering a CMYK or RGB values without their being modi ed by the pro le of the exit color i e we will enter a real value which will be sent to the printer For instance if we want to obtain a p
56. on the list of guidelines Click the button and introduce the value To eliminate any guide line from the list select it and press the Del button on the keyboard The Snap to guidelines option activates or de activates their magnetism 3 8 Measurement units The program can be con gured to show the objects measurement values in di erent units in millimeters by default as we have previously seen Measurement units can always be con gured independently in each of the control options where new values can be introduced 18 3 9 Workspaces On the upper menu bar of the main window you can see the View button It unfolds all the Workspace options that may be visible while you work If not they will be hidden 3 10 Languages From the Tools options on the upper menu bar you can access the Language you want to run your program If you wish to change it select the new language shut the program down and restart it 19 4 Design edition 4 1 Loading designs The program allows you to load various designs in the same working area If no design is opened in the program use the program s Open command or click the open design button If you wish to add a new design in the working area use the Insert command or click the Insert button If you wish to make a copy of a design in the working area select the option from the Edit menu You can also do this by moving the design with the Ctrl key pressed down
57. ool this is used to view on the screen the whole width of the printer 3 2 Page orientation If you are using a bobbin format for printing on the left hand side of the screen appears the beginning of the bobbin the width of the bobbin is in the vertical scale and the length of the bobbin is shown towards the right hand side of the screen In the above image we can see a design placed lengthwise on the bobbin and at the beginning of it 3 3 Hotfolder The Auto button takes to the Hotfolder dialog 13 Click on the New button to open the con guration dialog Del button to erase any or the button Con gure if you want to make changes in any con guration you already have From the square with three dots next to the Path dialog navigate to the directory you want to use as your Hotfolder destination If you tick on the Active option the jobs sent to the hot folder will be printed automatically Page settings as for disposition of designs in the media include Nesting Allow rotation Size of Origin and so on as per below image The Trigging printing condition part of this con guration window allows for choosing number of documents to print and the time interval of inactivity between printing jobs 14 Output settings allow to change printer and options related to the Scheme which are fully explained in section 6 of this manual If you wish to have a de nite Output folder navigate to the directory you want
58. orking spaces the system will ignore this fact and will try to compare colors as it nds them This rendering method is used when we want to take into account the color of paper or media and what it does is subtracting that color from the image color and then we obtain the desired color when printing Logically the precision of the result will depend on the exactness of the color pro les we use 37 5 3 Using Multichannel DCS les This program allows the use of EPS multi channel designs DCS 2 0 for printing These les contain information which has been previously separated into several color channels corresponding to the di erent inks which are to be used for printing When opening a DCS le the program will show information about the channels that are in the le and the color corresponding to each channel Once the le has been opened the program can manage the DCSs in Mixed or Split Modes 5 3 1 Mixed Print Mode Mixed mode means all colors will be mixed with the opacity percentage of each channel to form a single image composed of all colors You may modify opacity levels for each channel by introducing the appropriate value in the opacity column The combination of all the colors of each channel with the established opacity level will be the result which will be printed 38 5 3 2 Split Print Mode Separate mode means that every DCS channel will be sent to only one ink cartridge in th
59. phic design and design are compatible with this option eg Adobe PhotoShop 6 0 Each image channel has to be speci ed with a color and a name for each color so that it can be saved with its name in the document To open the document DCS in the program in the window of separations you will be able to see the channels CMYK more than the special channels that contain the image In order to select the colors that you can print you can remove the CMYK if you only wish to print the colors of the other channels 10 4 Separations dialog To access the preferences window for the generation of separations open the job as Separation Printing The job will only be opened if we have a bitmap or a vectorial design The next window will appear 76 10 4 1 Color separation The Hexachrome Mode option allows us to create hexachrome separations which are CMYK orange and green To create the hexachrome separation you will need to specify in the program what hexachrome color pro le should be used as it will require such a pro le to create the six channels The option to Convert spot colors to process colors indicates that the program should convert all plain inks Pantone to their corresponding CMYK components which are generated through 4 channels only The option Negative allows to make a print in negative that is what is transparent turns black and what is black turns transparent To Apply ICC pro le allows fo
60. port mode we may establish the following executing options for the Rapport by selecting them in the following window Rapport Scheme This is a list of settings that the user may save in order to make it easier to repeat Rapport settings for similar designs The Save and Delete functions allow organizing such items O set with this option it is possible to control the displacement between the copies either horizontally or vertically The default displacement values are 1 2 and 1 3 and are equivalent to shifting the copy by half or by one third of its size In the following image a design and a non displaced copy of it may be observed The design has been designed in such a way as to make it necessary to displace the motifs in order to make them coincide 72 In the following image the copy has been 1 2 half displaced horizontally making the motifs t and when the copies are made the resulting design will be continuous Length is the quantity in length of the loaded design which we wish to print The In nite value shows that there s no length limit and printing will continue uninterrupted until the user decides to stop it The customized value allows us to determine the number of meters which we wish to print The Minimum value is the minimum motif that must be printed for all the design information to be contained and to ensure that when making copies the Rapport will be correct This option is only valid for
61. posed of 2 or more colors will show pale The Ink cut is the individual ink limit for each color channel It may be inferior than 100 for some color channels depending on the kind of calibration carried out 6 2 2 Postlinearization Clicking on the button with three dots beside the Postlinearization le when the whole color separation process is done we get the response curves window We can make some adjustments to those so as to improve the result if certain tones aren t like expected It is possible to modify graphically any of the color channels adding new points by pressing on the line in a zone where there is no point or modify the position of a point by pressing on it and displacing it onto a new position The values of the dots of each curve can also be modi ed numerically by pressing on the chart that contains the Input and Output values and in the inferior controls by raising or lowering the selected value In case few points are entered the option Smooth Curves can be selected so that the resulting curve is smooth and doesn t have rough changes in tonality adjustments The button Copy to all allows copying the reference points of a curve to all the other ones The options Reset Ink and Reset All erase all the points of the selected curves or of all the curves and turns them into straight lines which implies that no linearization will be made 57 6 2 3 Color balance This option allows
62. processed this is already sent The problem with this system is that if the computer is not fast enough or the le to be processed is excessively complex what can happen is that the printer stops while waiting for new information and depending on the materials small bands can appear in the print as a consequence of the ink drying 2 Process and then send This means that the program will process the whole le and when it nishes it will send all the information to the printer This method ensures that all the subsequent information arrives at the printer without interruptions since it is not necessary to make any calculation at the moment of printing The disadvantage of this method is that you will have to wait both for the processing and printing times and might seems too long Also working in this way can generate printing les that are too big and therefore we recommend checking the free space on the disk 65 3 Process only In this case the program will only process the le generating print directories to be sent later to the device In the rst two options we can generate a printing le at the same time as the job is being processed This is achieved by selecting the Keep output le option The advantage of generating a printing le is that several copies of the same job can be made without the need for additional processing In the case of the print occupying more than one page a pr
63. r the speci cation of color pro les for the generation of the CMYK channels If we have a color pro le that is similar or exactly like the one used by the printing system for lm mode then it will be possible to select and generate the CMYK channels with the maximum guarantee of results Bear in mind that if we are separating color from an RGB image only the CMY channels will be produced If on the contrary a section of color is selected it is certain that the 4 channels CMYK can be obtained The Linearize black ink compensates for the di erent types of dot that the lm ink may have and ensures that each tone is reproduced correctly This test can facilitate the printing of gradations of black from 0 to 100 The resulting print is completely uniform with changes in tone from 0 5 to 95 100 Clicking on the Edit button it will open the linearization window 10 4 2 Linearization of the black ink This option should be used to adjust the printer so that it delivers the black tones we need It opens the following window 77 The best way to achieve this is to adjust the printer gradations of black and white and calibrate them in percentages Visually the change in tones must be gradual in both the lighter and darker areas If it is observed for example that from the 80 on only black can be seen then the linearization curve should be corrected approximately at that point Once a curve is corrected
64. rectly corresponds to the white of the paper although they are di erent CIE L a b values The colors that remain outside the range of the output device adapt to the nearest ones This can be used for vector and photographic designs so that the nal result turns out well Absolute colorimetric This method works in a similar way to the relative one but the brightness is not adapted In this way we achieve the most exact reproduction of the input colors The colors that remain outside the range of the output device adapt to the nearest ones This is the method to use in corporate logos with few colors where the best possible color accuracy is essential Saturation This system aims at obtaining results with more vivid colors whilst trying not to lose color quality It works well in vectorial designs that need a certain amount of vividness or in photographs that are not very saturated in order to improve their printed appearance Clean ink In case the design contains pure colors as for instance 100 cyan this will only be printed with cyan ink so the color pro le will not soil the original cyan color Color Matching Each color of the design is transformed when we apply the color pro le according to the indications of the pro le In this way the color deviation which will be obtained according to the color pro le can be calculated and a search for the color which best matches the real color we want to obta
65. rinters with variable dot printing technology The fact of being able to Disable the Large dot makes the print dry sooner this is what we call the Fast dry mode However bear in mind that by activating this option the resulting color could be paler and to compensate this shortage the Ink Usage may have to be increased Ink Control When printing lm it is very important to control the use of ink in order to achieve maximum opacity that ink and polyester lm can absorb The use of ink should be at its top value making sure that the ink dries well and doesn t spill We must also make sure that small details such as dots or ne lines are reproduced If such details are lost it means that there is an ink excess and it should be lowered Once reached the correct amount of ink we should save that scheme so that we don t have to enter the values manually every time But take into account that according to the resolution of each print the value for ink can vary 84 11 2 Advanced options 11 2 1 Dimensional Correction This option allows to correct measure di erences which are usually caused by the printer mechanic imperfections or to faulty adjustments If for example a printed job that we need it has to measure exactly a 40 inches long and the nal job is 39 020 then we can make a correction clicking on the icon Pressing the Ok button the corresponding correction will take place 85 12 Con
66. s Here is the Queu menu bar From left to right the buttons perform the following functions 1 Button to Activate the Job Queue 2 Button to Stop the Job Queue 3 Button to obtain information from a selected job 4 Button to Add a processed le prn plt to the Job Queue 5 Button to process or send the selected job 6 Button to momentarily stop the selected job 7 Button to stop printing any more copies than the one being printed 8 Button to Cancel a job 9 Button to take a job at the head of the queue 10 Button to take a job upper on the list of the queue 11 Button to take a job down on the list of the queue 12 Button to take a job at the bottom of the queue 13 Button to eliminate from the queue the jobs selected 14 Button to eliminate all jobs nished 15 Button to eliminate all jobs whatever their estate 16 Button to access the Cost of printing utility 17 Button to access the con guration of the Job queues A contextual menu which pops up clicking with the right button of the mouse on any particular job shows the same buttons as above in a di erent distribution 69 When selecting the Process Send option the following window is displayed In this window three possible options appear Process Only Process and Send and Send When you Send a job you will be able to set the number of identical copies desired You also have the possibility to send a processed job to a le select
67. s can be done at any time even as new materials are being used we recommend doing this when installing the program as they contain density curves resolution parameters and adequate ink limits 2 5 1 Installing printing schemes To install printing schemes in the program les with cps extension select the Printer scheme manager and click the Add button You will see that upon selecting a print scheme all the options from the Printers dialog are con gured along with the corresponding ICC color pro le and the linearization le lut You can use the Browse button to search for the schemes in your computer 2 5 2 Installing ICC pro les To install color ICC pro les select the button Printer scheme manager Color to select pro les and upload them 10 To install the pro les you must click the Add button A window showing the directory where the pro les are will come up Select the ones you require and click the Ok button Bear in mind that the program will only show the parameters which are compatible depending on the type of process selected CMYK CMYKOrGr etc When selecting the parameters for printing it is important that the printing resolution matches as much as possible with the resolution used to create the ICC parameters which is normally speci ed in the color pro le description 11 3 General functions When the program is started the main window opens Choose either to
68. s the best and smoother results for all printers printheads 52 Clicking on the selection button with three dots we access the hueman Multicolor Ink Selector This text window shows if the present combination of inks is acceptable and if it has been detected by the engine s inner mechanism In a normal printing environment a minimum of four inks must always be established Black Cyan Magenta and Yellow In dit is now working on a solution for clay that will allow the above combination without Black If your Selection of inks is not valid rst click on Ok to exit this window Go back in and check if your selection of inks has been activated and it is valid If after accessing the window a second time you still don t see a valid selection then you will have to review if the inks have been placed correctly or if you are missing any of the four compulsory inks In case you have a special request on inks that is not supported by neoStampa 8 do not hesitate to contact In dit to see if there is any possibility to add it 6 1 5 Quality The print quality is the physical printing mode of the machine There are printers that allow printing at various resolutions or at various modes varying the nal quality of the printing 6 1 6 Bi directional print This function will send a command to the printer telling the printhead to move in one or both directions If you activate this function the printing will spe
69. se to the PC it is connected to and without which neoStampa 8 will not work Place the USB protection in a USB port 2 3 Installation Introduce the USB drive that was sent to you in an available unit in your computer Then click on the program s icon and follow the instructions to install it When the program is installed the following window pops up so that you can activate it with your key Press Yes to follow the activation The next window asks to insert the protection dongle in a free unit Then copy your license number xdat that comes in the USB drive Copy it or introduce your activation key which comes in the xdat le 7 If you choose to run neoStampa in demo mode a window will also pop up indicating you so 2 4 Selection of the printer First of all you will have to select the printers you wish to use with the program set connection types and other advanced parameters Click on File and choose the Printer Con guration button from the unfolded list You can also access the window by clicking on the icon The Add and Remove buttons allow you to introduce the printers you require in the list of installed printers The Drivers can also be chosen by speci c Brand drivers lists 8 You can con gure the type of connection used for each printer To do this select the printer from the list and then select the required type of connection in the Connection section Refer to the Connections sec
70. t shapes that create the typical rosette This system is generally used to reproduce photographs or designs with many colors With spot colors The design is prepared with a mass of de nite colors even though it is possible to recreate tones of the same color using dithers Normally this is used to reproduce designs with only a few colors and to reproduce corporative colors e g Pantone Combination of the two systems The design is a combination of the four colors and the spot colors The program enables the creation of lms with the three systems but the design has to come prepared to us as we need them Generally vector design software are used to create originals like CorelDraw Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand How does the program di erentiate a 4 Color system or spot colors A photographic image will only be reproduced with 4 Color except if it has been generated with color layers and it s been saved as a DCS le 74 A vectorial design will be reproduced in 4 Color except those objects whose color is assigned to a color from a xed color palette Pantone Trumatch etc So when we create a design we should assign the objects colors to colors with a xed color palette that has a proper name In the next example we can see a design composed by 4 Color and two spot colors In the cases in which we have a design prepared with colors di erentiated for 4 Co
71. t the correct device which is usually automatically assigned and the communication port where such device is connected Then set the parameters of the port with the con guration button Press Read to make the reading once the spectrophotometer s pointer is on the color sample to be measured This value will be in the color components section 5 5 Procedure to use special colors To use this option printers must have more than 4 colors First from the Printer Scheme manager we will select Print Mode and then Mode and we will choose more than 4 colors for example 8 Color We will then press on the color selecting Special colors in order for the Special color con guration window to appear 42 In this case we will place in the printer in the space of the cartridges for Light Cyan and Light Magenta the cartridges for special colors red uorescent etc If we want to print the color we have selected with just one of the special colors we will enter value 100 for one of the components c m depending on where they are in the printer For instance with the red cartridge in the Light magenta channel m the values will be selected as follows Combinations of cartridges can of course be done If for example we have uorescent yellow in the Light magenta channel of the printer and we want to print a uorescent green composed of 50 uorescent yellow and 50 normal cyan it should be con gure
72. terial has been loaded in the cutting plotter 12 2 2 Export paths All the cutting plots that we may create can be exported to be cut with the CiberCut software special for the vinyl cutting Pressing the button Export paths the le selection window will pop up and it will allow you to enter a le name and select where to save it The generated le has the extension ct5 and it is only valid to be loaded in the program CiberCut This contains the cutting pathway of the design and the exact position so that when cut it will match the printed image if register marks are used OPOS 90 13 Consumption calculation neoControl The cost calculation of printing jobs is an unresolved matter for the majority of digital printing software since it is very di cult to calculate the exact quantity of ink that will be used in each job With neoControl s function you will be able to calculate the cost of any job even before sending it to the print The option neoControl Server which must be acquired with a separate license allows to control all the printers connected to neoStampa 8 This utility allows to organize Job Queues send new jobs erase them or control the costs before printing and all this from an authorized computer with an internet connection Generally speaking neoControl has been created so that you can access to all the information of your printers in an easy and friendly way For this reason all
73. the following a The slowness in sending data makes the printer wait while data is being sent and so it stops b Data interruption problems cause the printer to stop printing or it makes it behave oddly 17 1 Connection Types Parallel Connector Also known as the printer port LPTX This type of system only needs a parallel cable although it is simple to use it can be slow Many modern circuit boards support high speed parallel ports that comply with the IEEE1284 standard However to be able to use these ports any system has two requirements The port must be ECP con gured and use a 32bit operating system WNT 2000 XP and the parallel cable must also comply with this standard If the system complies with these requirements then you should enable this characteristic by con guring the parallel port in the program From the printer s Con guration choose the Lpt1 parallel port connection and with the Options button Use extended ECP mode USB connection Several Parallel to USB converters exist but in this case are installed in the generic printer system using the drivers of the converter Con gure the program connection as SPOOLER and select the printer driver that has been con gured for using the converter Network connection This is the fastest and most secure connection for the transmission of data Some printers already support direct network connection Also available in the m
74. the icons that appear on the several screens as well as the texts in bold will automatically take you to all the information stored in relation to them 13 1 General Aspect From neoStampa you can access neoControl by clicking on the icon from the Jobs Cue Within this application there is an Index section with the options Printers Job Queues and Jobs History and the Setting section with Media Inks Schemes Workstations and Settings options 91 13 2 Cost Control In the Settings section in Medias and Inks you will be able to set the cost of such products Any time you have a new media or type of ink you will be able to set their price by clicking on the new option and also entering name reference supplier etc Material Inks 13 3 Schemes In the Schemes option you will be able to control the parameters of each scheme with its associated information and characteristics 92 13 4 Jobs When you click on a Job you access its information Clicking on Copies a window with the Costs of that job will pop up 93 13 5 Export information to an Excel le Selecting the Jobs History you will view all the jobs that have been completed with neoStampa grouped in three di erent timings Today Yesterday and Calendar Under each job or group of jobs you have the option to Export the data generated from those jobs to an Excel le 94 14 File browser This program has a very practical utili
75. the line that marks the zone with similar color and the pathway which will be created 87 Background color color selected as a reference in order to select the color area which will be used to create the cropping pathway From the selected point the program will search the whole area of the image with a color similar to the one selected and will create a cropping contour in the limits of the area Tolerance similarity value of the accepted colors by the area selection If the value is low and the area that is to be selected contains colors with similar tones the area may be not selected correctly If a high tolerance value is entered the selection can be extended to color zones which are similar although not exactly the same as the chosen one and thus the result will not be satisfactory Cut bounding rectangle this creates a rectangle outside the limits of the design both for images and vectorial designs With this option we can introduce the distance between the contour that will be created and the rectangle marking the limits of the design To select the reference press the color selection button and press directly on the image in a zone with the background color to be selected The program will search all the area of the image with a color similar to that selected and will calculate a cut path with the established distance from the frames that frame the similar color area selected 88 12 2 Send directly
76. tion and this is generally the case with printers connected through network wiring TCP IP The Print selected objects only separately option will only print the selected designs at that speci c moment ignoring those which are not 7 2 Pages and copies A few options are o ered in the second tab of the RIP window 66 When a design is bigger in size to the de ned page the program generates the pagination automatically that is to say it divides the design as in many pages as it needs to print it In Page Selection you can set if you want all the pages printed at once or just select a few Notice that letters A B C correspond to the columns and 1 2 3 to the lines So the page A1 would correspond to the bottom left page In the box Number of copies one can specify the number of times that the same work will be automatically repeated without having to establish the copies manually The option Pause between copies generates a pause of a few seconds before sending the following copies With certain printers if when sending several copies the printer loses data or a transmission error appears this can be avoided by establishing this value in a few seconds for instance 6 7 3 Print and cut The third tab of the printing options window corresponds to the printing options for those printers that allow simultaneous printing and cutting 67 Although it is more common to do the printing rst and the c
77. tion 18 to nd out more about the various possibilities the program o ers If you have various printers installed only one of them will be the default printer It is the one that will always be used when the program is started and when a new document is opened To set the default printer place the mouse on it click it with the right hand button of the mouse and select the option from the menu that appears A non default printer can also be selected for a speci c document To select a printer from the list double click on the printer and a sign will appear on the left to indicate that this printer will be selected for the current document 2 5 Pro les and printing schemes for the RIP option Once the printer or printers required for the program have been selected you must select the schemes that you intend to use with each printer 9 The program allows two types of pro le les 1 Standard ICC Color Pro les These are the ICC les that contain the color information for each material Normally they are standard les available from the manufacturer but they can also be created with speci c programs 2 Color Schemes cps These are the ICC color pro les together with all the printing parameters and linearization con guration A scheme contains all the information that we would select separately in the various tabs of the printing scheme manager Although installing schemes and color pro le
78. to use from the square with three dots Finally two options are given in relation to Processed les Once again the option to move les to speci c folders is done with the button with three dots 3 4 Job consumption The dollar icon in the upper context menu opens a dialog where you can see the quantity of ink that will be needed to print the job you have prepared With this value you can already have a close idea of the cost of your print 3 5 SYNC This option situated in the upper context menu exports calibrations schemes to In dit s neoColorations program This is a useful tool in case you want to print colorways with the speci ed scheme 15 3 6 Control center The Control Center is a dialog box which is used to control most of the functions that the program carries out along with its con gurations The operation tree is at the top of the Control Center These functions appear and disappear depending on the objects selected and the possible actions that might be undertaken at each moment Most of the functions are branches of the main section Selection To hide them you just have to click on the Folded branch Unfolded branch In the boxes where you can add numeric values you must click the Enter button in your keyboard in order to validate them In some of the options of the Control Center branches the Save button is available so that the parameters introduced are kept for the same
79. tour cutting This program function allows us to create a cutting path for those printers that support contours cut Print amp Cut or for plotters with cutting system We access this option from the Control Centre The options for the creation of the contour are None the function to create contours is not activated and therefore nothing will be cut By stroke color This option only applies to vectorial designs since a llet color will be assigned as cutting path The program interprets the design and locates all stroke colors adding them to the stroke list These must be spot colors 86 When choosing a color from the list you can see on the screen that the llets with that particular color are seen as a dotted line This shows that it is a cutting line In this image you can see an outside cutting outline The option Print selected paths o ers the possibility that the stroke can be printed and cut In this case both the original color llet and thickness and the dotted line will be shown The PostScript clip paths option allows the cutting of areas of image trimming generated directly in Photoshop Consult the Adobe Photoshop manual to know about how to generate layouts in a document and include them in a Photoshop EPS together with the image 12 1 Automatic outline It allows the generation of an irregular contour following areas of similar color Its options are Distance distance between
80. ty to access to all the printable designs we have without having to browse through all the les in our disk which might be sometimes quite confusing You can open the File Browser clicking on the Workspace list which unfolds from the View tap It is usually located on a small tab at the bottom of the working area It shows a Favorites section where all the folders and les you need can be located To add a folder in the Favorite section we will browse the folders of our computer starting from the section Desktop and opening the folders we wish Once the desired folder is found we will click on the Add to Favorite button and enter the name we wish it to have In the preview area of the designs we will be able to see a small image of each design The size of the preview image is adjustable Click on the right button on this area to select a desired size 95 15 Interface customization To access this window click on View Workspace and then Customize from the top context menu The following window will pop up with several tabs each with a particular function 15 1 Selection of commands In Categories as seen in the above image appears a list of all the possible commands grouped just as they appear on the menus To insert a new command on a bar simply select it and drag it to the desired bar If there is an icon associated to that command it will be placed on the bar too If there isn t any the text
81. ults you will access a new window In it you will be able to pre determine some parameters which values will be applied to the new documents associated to the scheme you are working with 62 636 5 PDF PostScript This option is exclusive for documents generated in PDF or else created with the Photoshop program Description of this tap is described in section 16 of Preferences 6 6 Scheme backup At the bottom of the Printer Scheme manager there is the Backup button This is to save any changes made in the scheme Any time you make changes on a nished scheme they will be stored in a new zip le This is a very useful function as you may want to use a previous versions of the scheme The rst version is saved as a _zip0 cpz le and the following ones will continue numeration 63 When you browse through the schemes list in your computer you will be able to see all the versions from a scheme 64 7 RIP Options On selecting the RIP button from the program you access the con guration window for the printing options 7 1 General Following are described the three processing options and other options in this window tab 1 Process and Send simultaneously This means that at the same time that the le is being processed the information that has already been processed is being sent to the printer This method is the one which makes the printing start faster because the moment some data has been
82. ure red we can specify the values Magenta M 100 Yellow Y 100 Minimize dE With this function the program looks for the color with the less di erence dE to the original For that it makes an exhaustive search within the printer s pro les Automatic light inks In case our printer has light inks such as light magenta grey etc we can specify a multichannel replacement color By default we must enter the values of all the colors but keeping the Automatic Light Inks option activated the program will be the one to calculate automatically the ink percentages The option Perform density and ink usage adjusted linearizes the special colors whenever we have a linearization curve for special colors The option Perform ink limit control ensures that the printing of the color palettes never exceeds the established limit value of the ink In the Components section we will introduce the values for the desired color following the substitution mode selected 5 4 2 Obtaining the color by reading it from a device It is possible to enter a color value by reading it directly from a color reading device or spectrophotometer This proceeding will add a lot of precision since we will be measuring a color directly from a real sample Press the Measure button once the spectrophotometer is correctly placed consult the list of devices supported by neoStampa to your usual provider The following window will be shown 41 Selec
83. utting straight after we may also be interested in doing it in two separate stages Thus for example if we have to laminate a design rst it will do the printing rst and then once laminated we will reintroduce the laminated print into the plotter in order to cut out the outline The options for activating or deactivating printing and cutting are found in the above window If the cutting option is activated we can adjust the settings of the plotter in cutting mode such as speed pressure and acceleration these last two if the plotter allows it The two options at Printing and cut size adjust allow correcting little deviations between what is printed and what is cropped generally caused by the printer Here it is possible to make such correction adjustments 7 3 1 Export paths All the cropping paths created can be exported to be crop with the CiberCut software special for the vinyl cutting Clicking on the button Export paths the le selection window will be shown and it will allow you to enter a le noun and select where to save it The generated le has the extension ct5 and it is only valid to be loaded in the program CiberCut It contains the cropping path of the design and the exact position so that when cropping it will match the printed image if register marks are used OPOS 68 8 Job queue The window showing the Job Queue which appears at the bottom of the working area is as follow
84. will be placed instead 96 15 2 Con guration of toolbars Here you can activate or de activate any of the Toolbars The program can also show the explanation text to help learn the buttons more easily and to recognize them The only inconvenience with this option is that it occupies more space The button bar as installed by the program only shows the image which reminds you of the function being carried out Select Show text labels by selecting the desired button bar and the buttons will appear with the text reminding you of their function 15 3 Shortcut keys We can con gure freely all the program s fast access keys eliminating changing or adding the combination of keys we want All the commands appear in the Key tab sorted by categories just as they appear in the menus When selecting one of the commands the current key combination to access that command will appear in Current assignment if that combination has been de ned To remove that combination select it and click the remove button 97 If no combination has been de ned we can add one by depressing the key combination we want to assign in the Press new shortcut key box If therefore for example we want to assign the combination Ctrl P we must maintain the control key depressed and at the same time depress the P key Once the desired combination has been entered press the Assign button If you wish you can go back to the in
85. work with a bobbin you can either set the length of the page or deactivate it since the printer s limit is very high and it is unlikely to surpass it in one single printing operation If we deactivate Media Length this will indicate that we are working with reel and the remaining length is not important You can modify graphically the position where pagination will take place if you decide to do it in a di erent part of the design for example in a design where texts and faces appear In this way they will not be a ected by the cut Click on the pagination line in order to move it downwards to the required position In the section Margins the physical margins of the printer will be shown but it is possible to modify them in case we are interested in displacing the design with respect to the loaded paper 4 11 1 Page selection If several pages are going to be used for example when the design exceeds the measurements of the width of the bobbin or if various designs have to be printed in page format we can decide which pages we want to print By activating the printing RIP option the program shows a window with three tabs one corresponding to Pages and Copies There you can specify what pages you want to print if not all 33 4 11 2 Media size Advanced parameters When the design to be printed outsizes the width of the material an automatic pagination is carried out that is the design is divided into tw

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