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1. rer Save Settings Help Advanced Cancel IE Enter the appropriate settings m Type of densitometer X Rite DTP32 DTP41 or X Rite DTP51 m Comm port to which the densitometer is attached Baud Rate m Handshaking to on or off Controlling Color amp Print Quality 33 8 Click Advanced to specify the output of a compensation curve and click OK X Rite CAT colour translation x Dutput Generate compensation curve Compensate for the devices performance Generate performance curve Create a curve that represents the devices performance Cancel 9 Click Connect The display on the densitometer reads Wisp PS CYN applicable for the DTP32 only 10 Insert the linearization chart into the densitometer in the direction of the arrow for each color starting with Cyan the colors are numbered from 1 to 4 The program reads the values communicated by the densitometer Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual To adjust for maximum density 1 Inthe Max density to use for calibration boxes enter the appropriate values for each color referring to your media specifications for guidelines Note For glossy premium paper the CMYK density values are 1 65 1 70 1 25 and 2 10 respectively Import CAT from X Rite DTP x r R5232 Connection Comm Por COM C BEBEEENENENNENNEN BaudRate 5600 Magenta BEBNENENNENNEEE Handshaking o Yellow BEBEEEEEENEEERE T
2. Chromatic Reprod without GCR with 70 Max GCR with 100 GCR Dominant colours Y M Red Complementary col Cyan 1 Example of GCR with brown mixed colour Halftone Image in which the range of tones consists of dots of varying area but of uniform density It creates the illusion of continuous tone when seen at a certain distance Linearization A specific type of calibration in which an output device is adjusted to deliver a straight line relationship between output and input Profile A digital signal processing transform or collection of transforms plus additional information concerning the tranforms and device Resolution The sharpness of a printed image as measured by dots per inch Glossary 39 40 UCR Under Colour Removal Reduction of Cyan Magenta and Yellow inks in image shadows and replacement with Black to lower the total amount of ink 70 50 70 CHRQMATIC REPRODUCTION CHROMATIC REPRODUCTION WITHOUT UCR WITH UCR TOTAL DOT AREA 280 TOTAL DOT AREA 240 2 Example of UCR with brown mixed colour CS 5090 8 colours
3. IV Auto detect image size Build preview again Conversion messages Processing file This is the preview window Use the selection rectangle to select the Cancel area you want to print 46 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Changing measurement units The top section of the Create Preview tab is headed File Information This section contains the name and dimensions of the file displayed in the preview area of the screen To change the units used to measure your image for example from inches to centimeters select the Tile amp Crop tab Click on the Units button at the bottom of the tab The Select measurement units dialog box will be displayed ie Select measurement units Inches In Millimetres mm Feet Ft Mi Points Pt E Click on the down arrow in the units edit box and select the units you want to work in from the drop down list Click on the Done button to close the dialog box Metres m Whenever you change the units in this way you must recreate your preview image Select the Create Preview tab and click on the Build preview again button The Oc Server will update the image dimensions in the newly selected units Note If you are processing a job that does not contain a paper size such as an EPS file the Oc Server will place the image in the bottom left corner of the page by default Check the Auto detect image size checkbox to cause the
4. sem Click on the Settings icon at the top right side of the Oc Server main screen to display a Properties menu option Click on Properties and the System Sende Settings dialog box will open Click on the Print Previews tab within this dialog box System Settings x Message Logging Button Bar Memory Settings Print Spooler Network Printing amp Control Print Previews C Quick and simple previews Settings for complex previews Allow interactive colour correction CAT editing C Display screened image for checking screen angles or halftone type Build previews at the following resolution DPI Cancel Help This text area will display a brief help message describing each control in this dialog box Check the Quick and simple previews checkbox to specify low resolution color previews for your print jobs These previews use less memory Alternatively checking the Complex previews checkbox will enable you to enter settings for complex previews You can either enter a setting to allow color correction or to check image screening If you wish to be able to make color adjustments to your preview images and view the effects on screen check the Allow interactive colour correction CAT editing checkbox The CATs button will then appear on the Button and Information Bar within the Oc Server Previewer If you wish to view halftone types for example check the Display screened image for checking
5. D ec Disconnect All Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Select a Client workstation in the list to activate the Send Message button on the right side of the Remote RIP Server Window Click on the Send Message button to open the Send Message to lt Client name gt dialog box Send Message to Demonstration Macintosh Enter the message The printer ran out of ink while it was printing your job Please print your job to Oc graphics Server again Type in your message and click on the OK button Your message will be displayed on screen at the Client workstation The user at the Client workstation will need to select an OK prompt in order to close the message on the screen For example se JILLS PC in Support Room The printer ran out of ink while it was printing your job Please print your job again Broadcasting a message to all Clients Click on the Broadcast button on the right side of the Remote RIP Server Window The Send Message to All Clients dialog box will open Send Message to All Clients Enter the message The Remote RIP Server will be closing down in ten minutes time Cancel Type in your broadcast message and click on the OK button Your message will be displayed on screen at all Client workstations currently connected As before the message display includes an OK prompt for users to select in order to close the broadcast message on their screen Using the Remote RIP
6. Chapter 1 What s new Configuration 6 Additional functions with PS3 7 Editing with Acrobat 8 Pass through printing 9 Chapter 2 Dual Rip Prerequisites 14 To configure the Dual Rip 15 Load and Job Sharing 17 Prerequisites 17 Load sharing 17 Job sharing 18 Define Load Job sharing groups 19 Chapter 3 CS 5050 5070 5090 drivers Drivers 24 CS5050 5070 24 CS5090 drivers 27 OGSL 6 2 Oc Graphics Server L What s new from version 5 5 to version 6 2 Chapter 1 What s new u Windows 2000 compliance u PostScript 3 a Editing with Acrobat u Pass through printing Configuration OGSL version 6 1 is Windows 2000 compliant Two hard disks are required to get the best performance from OGSL 6 1 Below is the minimum configuration necessary to run OGSL 6 1 at the best m Pentium II 300 MHz or higher processor 256 MB RAM m 5 GB or larger hard drive m 3 5 floppy disc drive m VGA or higher graphics adapter m NE2000 compatible network interface card NIC m CD Rom drive 6 OGSL 6 2 Additional functions with PS3 With OGSL 6 1 you can print files generated for PostScript level 3 raster image processors PS 3 manages the shading functions as in the applications which support this feature Compact format fonts m Idiom recognition m Smooth shading for various blends m PDF rendering What s new Editing with Acrobat With the additional purchase of Acrobat you can edit a prin
7. Introduction The Oc Poster Layout is a page layout tool designed for use with Oc Graphics Server L Oc Poster Layout enables you to import a number of files in a wide range of file formats into the application and lay out the objects contained in the files on a single page The page can then be printed in its entirety to an Oc Graphics Server L spool queue for ripping and output Alternatively you can divide the page into a number of tiles print each tile via a Oc Graphics Server L spool queue and assemble them later by hand This means you can output very large pages for example a design to cover a 20 foot wall or an exhibition stand Oc Poster Layout 150 The Oc Poster Layout is included on your Oc Graphics Server L CD ROM and is automatically installed on your computer at the same time as the Oc Graphics Server L application Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Using Oc Poster Layout The Oc Poster Layout online Help file contains an explanation of the menu options and dialog boxes and instructions on how to use the Oc Poster Layout application You can open this Help file once your application has been successfully installed v To open the Help file 1 Choose Start then Programs then the Oc Graphics Server L program folder 2 From the Oc Graphics Server L program folder choose the Oc Poster Layout Help icon or from within the Oc Poster Layout application a From the Help men
8. including margins and any overlaps Exit and create file Click on the Yes button at the bottom of the About to save changes dialog box to create a Tile amp Crop file and restore the Server main screen The Tile amp Crop file appears in the Active Jobs list described as TESTCHT PS from Tile amp Crop Spooler View Help 1 Oc test Chart Testcht ps do Pg 1 Queue 2 494KB 1 2 TESTCHT PS from Tile amp Crop TESTCHT JPF do Pg4 Queue 2 OKB 1 Tile amp Crop files can also be identified by the file extension JPF In the illustration above TESTCHT PS is the original PostScript file TESTCHT JPF is the Tile amp Crop file Note When you print your Tile amp Crop file make sure that the Use page positioning checkbox in the Paper Sources tab in the Printer Setup dialog box is not checked This is because Tile and Crop performs its own page positioning Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Setting custom paper sizes Click on the Sizes button on the Tile amp Crop tab to design and store paper sizes that may not be contained in the standard drop down list A User Defined Paper Sizes dialog box will open User Defined Paper Sizes Paper Name Width Height Expo_panel 1000 mm 2500 mm Expo panel i Add Hoardi Within this dialog box you can specify modify and delete user defined paper sizes The dialog box will only show user de
9. When there is only one icon displayed in the Print Queue Icon Bar and you click on it the drop down menu offers the additional option to Add Another Queue This option to Add Another Queue is also displayed when there are several icons along the Bar and you click on the most recently added icon However in this case the drop down menu will be extended to include the option to Remove Last Queue Properties Add File To Queue Print File Preview File E Oe test ner E EE Testcht ps TESTCHT JPF Select the Add Another Queue option to cause the Oc Server to assign a spool queue and display the icon for the new queue along the Print Queue Icon Bar By default the Oc Server assigns your new spool queue to a device with the same setup as the one represented by the first spool queue For details of how to change the set up for the device please see chapter 2 Making and saving printer settings on page 11 Note When you have deleted several spool queues and then add new ones the Oc Server assigns settings to the new spool queues based on the deleted spool queue settings which you can modify as needed Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual The icons along the Print Queue Icon Bar are ordered from left to right so each time you add a queue to your system the icon representing the new queue appears in the Bar to the right of the existing icon s When there are seven queues in operation the i
10. um Comm port to which the densitometer is attached Baud Rate 19200 Handshaking off Click Advanced to specify the output of a compensation curve and click OK Click Connect The display on the densitometer shows Wisp PS CYN Adjust the XRite slider position Insert the linearization chart into the densitometer in the direction of the arrow for each colour starting with Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black the colours are numbered from 1 to 4 The program reads the values communicated by the densitometer in a 4 step process Calibration and Profiles 19 20 a BB ND a BR N Step 3 Adjusting the maximum ink values Like all printing system you must specify the colour system with the maximum ink density specific for your printer Oc provides that information for you for every paper ink combination Enter the appropriate values for each colour referring to your media specifications for guidelines Click Use values to calculate the dot area curve for each colour Note f the specifications are higher than Maximum Read use the Maximum Read values as Max Density To Use For Calibration Step 4 Adjusting the dot gain amp save the calibration In the CAT Editor dialog box select the Dot gain checkbox Under Dot Gain click the arrows up or down to set the desired value Most Oc profiles for media ink combinations are optimized for printing with a 22 dot gain Leave the Gamma Brightness and Contrast settings
11. Error W1010 Explanation Driver initialization failed Reason The RIP could not initialize the device driver for your printer Solution Try restarting Windows Error W1020 Explanation Driver launch failed Reason The RIP could not start up the device driver for your printer Solution Make sure the printer driver is in the WISPPS BINx directory Also try restarting Windows Error W1023 Explanation Reprint file creation failed Reason The RIP could not create the files required by the Reprint application Solution Make sure that there is a directory called REPRINT on the hard disk and that the disk has plenty of free space Reprint files are in a form specific to each printer but they can be very large Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Error W1030 Explanation Driver synchronization phase failed Reason The RIP could not initialize the device driver for your printer A printer or printer driver error may have occurred during initialization The printer has no paper no ink or there is a problem with the interface between the RIP and printer Solution Ifa Driver Error is also reported this may indicate the exact nature of the problem Also try restarting Windows Error W1040 Explanation Transfer memory allocation failed Reason There may be no more memory available Solution Try restarting Windows then the RIP Error W1050 Explanation Transfer memory alia
12. Optimizing printing 33 Specifying a printer paper source 34 1 Click on the Paper Sources tab on the Printer Setup dialog box Printer Setup Oc 5350 x Printer Setup Configuration No configuration Change settings manually he Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Separations Output Advanced Papers currently installed in printer Paper Source 1 Roll 60 ba Use Page Positioning Scaling 100 q Print orientation lh Cancel Help E 2 To specify the paper currently installed in your printer click on the down arrow in the Paper Source 1 list box Select the appropriate paper e g 36 roll from the drop down list of paper sources 3 Enter a scaling factor as a percentage and a print orientation if applicable This option is disabled if you select Page positioning All files printed in this queue will apply these settings Note This is possible only if the Paper Sources option was unchecked when you saved the printer configuration in the Configurations tab 4 Click on the OK button at the bottom of the Printer Setup dialog box to save and apply your setting and return to the Server main screen Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Enlarging and reducing the image size Image size and positioning are also selected on the Paper Source tab This selection is possible
13. Press Next to continue the uninstall procedure Select all the components to uninstall and click Next Press Uninstall to begin the uninstall procedure A message is displayed to inform you that the uninstall is completed Before setting up OGSL check all the needed devices are available 1 The OGSL installation CD Rom The Dual Rip dongle The OGSL Dual Support disk Launch OGSL Dual setup 1 Set the Dual Rip dongle on the port Insert the CD Rom and Support disk in the drives The setup programme is launched automatically OGSL 6 2 To configure the Dual Rip 1 From the Windows Start menu select Programs then OGSL 2 From the OGSL menu click Multiple Rip Front end The OGSL window is displayed with two Configuration tabs by default Configuration 1 and Configuration 2 Oc Graphics Server L Configuration 1 Configuration 2 Spooler View Help Abort Print File Preview File 3 Click on the icon in the top left corner and select Settings The Settings window is displayed Settings Configurations Performance Number Names I Deferred Loading Configuration 2 Configuration ta Configuration 5 r Responsiveness 34 Configuration 5 All Equally Responsive Configuration 87 C Foreground More Responsive Configuration 3 I Fast Loading 15 16 Configurations Select the number
14. Server Remote RIP Client install wizard You can also access and run this install wizard across your network if the workstation does not have a CD ROM drive The Oc Server Support Disk Setting up an Oc Server You use the Oc Server Support disk to set up a computer as a Server Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Setting up your printer The Support disk contains programs which convert the output of the Oc Server to a form that is understood by your printer The Apple Macintosh Workstation Setup Disks You use the Apple Macintosh Workstation Setup disks to a Install the necessary programs for you to send PostScript jobs from an Apple Macintosh workstation to the Oc Server m Set up an Apple Macintosh workstation as a Remote RIP Client m Enable support for older versions of applications e g Aldus and QuarkXPpress applications What are the hardware and software requirements v General The recommended hardware for the Oc Server to run on is a Pentium 166 MHz or higher processor a Minimum 64 MB of RAM a VGA or higher graphics adapter a 500 MB or larger hard drive a CD ROM drive a 3 5 floppy disk drive m NE 2000 compatible network interface card NIC a Windows NT Server 4 0 operating system The recommended system configuration for the Oc Server depends upon the number of instances of the Server that you wish to run All aspects of the system have an effect on performance and should the
15. Screening amp Antialiasing tab Printer Setup Queue 3 x Printer T Oc 5350 7 Setup Configuration No configuration Change settings manually Y Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations Paper Sources Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Separations Output Advanced Halftone Type Standard v Configure Select CAM and Profile 3D colour adjustment CAM Profile RGB lineart None s CMYK linear None kA RGB Bitmaps None X CMYK Bitmaps None Select CAT linear colour adjustment None OK Cancel Help Reload list of CATs Using halftone types 20 Many halftone printers can only print a small number of distinct colors When the Oc Server interprets a PostScript file to be printed to such a printer it approximates other color values by putting down a pattern of pixels in the available colors This process is known as halftoning Many newspaper photographs are examples of halftoning Click on the down arrow in the Halftone Type list box to display the drop down list of available Halftone Types Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Standard This option uses the standard PostScript halftone pattern which can be adjusted to your requirements as described in Setting a standard screening configuration on page 22 It is often used to simulate printing or proofing through an imagesetter Error Diffusion Error diffusion diffuses the dot patterns
16. Set as Default Printer Setting the default printer or options will affect Word and all other Windows based applications Once you have set an Oc Server printer as the default printer click on OK in the Print dialog window to automatically print your file to the Server spool queue for that printer Printing from Apple Macintosh applications 18 Note The Oc Server is supplied with an Apple Macintosh Printer Drivers disk This contains all the PostScript Printer Definitions PPDs and Printer Description Files PDFs necessary to set up most available applications on the Macintosh These must be installed on your workstation before you can print to the Oc Server Instructions for installing this disk are in the Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual When Services for Macintosh are installed on the Oc Server any printer queue set up in the Oc Server is automatically published to a Macintosh workstation through the Chooser Select the LaserWriter 8 x printer driver and if your network has zones the AppleTalk zone The Server print queues will appear on the right side of the Chooser under the heading Select a PostScript Printer Select an Oc Server print queue click on the Chooser Setup button and then select the Oc 5350 Large Format PPD Return to your application To send your job across the network to the Server first select Page setup and then Print Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual For exa
17. Standard Halftone 21 System Optimum configuration 101 T Temporary Directory 85 Files 85 Text Printing under image 59 Threads and Multi tasking 104 Transcript window 70 V VMerror PostScript 119 W Windows NT Installing multiprocessor mode 105 162 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Multiprocessor Mode upgrade 104 Z Zoom Print previewer 76 Index 163 Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Oc Technologies B V C Trademarks Products in this manual are referred to by their trade names In most if not all cases these designations are claimed as trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Li Copyright Oc Technologies B V Venlo The Netherlands 1998 All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced copied adapted or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Oc Oc Technologies B V makes no representation or warranties with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose Further Oc Technologies B V reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes Code number 7055890 Edition 1 1 Cus Contents Chapter 1 Read Me First How to use this manual 6 Who should u
18. Windows NT or Apple Macintosh operating systems 67 General Features What does Remote RIP Client enable me to do Running the Oc Server Remote RIP Client on your workstation enables you to access the Server main screen from your workstation If you are a Guest User you can view the Server main screen to see where your job is in a print queue for example or if it has been printed You can also add a file to a print queue If you are a Power User you have greater access rights You can not only view the Oc Server main screen and add a file to a print queue but also manipulate jobs in the print queues and change settings to specify the way in which your individual jobs are printed What does Remote RIP Server enable me to do 68 Running the Oc Server Remote RIP Server on your workstation enables you to control the Remote RIP Clients from your workstation The Remote RIP Server shows you which Client workstations are currently connected You can select an individual Client workstation and send a message to it ir to disconnect it You also have global options to broadcast a message to all the Client workstations or to disconnect them all For example you can use the global options to warn all Client workstations that the Server is about to be closed down before you disconnect them Note Most important in terms of control you set the Administrator password and the Power User password within the Oc Server Remote RIP S
19. archive bit being unset If the archive bit is set the file is active and if it is unset the file is inactive Advanced Features 65 The Archive Bit checkbox is for use on all systems except VMS and UNIX Check this checkbox to retain archive bits even if your system crashes The Internal Tracking checkbox should be used on all operating systems that are not DOS or Windows based such as UNIX and VMS Checking the Internal Tracking checkbox will allow your jobs to move from the active to inactive queue and will retain settings as long as you shut down Windows correctly If however for any reason the system crashes the information relating to the jobs in a queue being active or inactive may be lost Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Using Oc Server macros while printing The Oc Server supports the running of the Oc Server macro files scripts on a queue Scripts take precedence over any print settings and the name of the file running on the queue can be passed to the script See the Oc Server Macro Language section below for more information on building and running macros and scripts with the Oc Server v To run a macro script 1 Select the Advanced tab within the Printer Setup dialog box The bottom section of the tab is headed Execute Script for Job Files Execute Script For Job Files Execute Script Before Job Execute Script After Job Browse Browse 2 Check the Execute Script Before Job prom
20. oc C 55030 Select one of the two drivers 4 or 8 colour Click Printer Setup to display the Settings window Note Setup windows for both 4 colour driver and 8 colour driver are exactly similar Some options specific to the 8 colours are also selectable in the 4 colour driver but they do not work So make sure you selected the correct driver at first The only way to check it is to look at the Setup window Oce CS090 4 Setup or Oc CS5090 8 Setup 27 28 Oce CS5090 4 Setup LS W Frs E nn E 1x8 Cartridge Set v Note Selecting any plot mode other than User Defined will use the predefined settings in the printer firmware for the following options Enhanced mode Print options Print head control Print speed Print quality OGSL 6 2 Print Head control Choose the direction you want the printer to print to from Left to Right or Right to Left or both if you select Bi directional Check Fast to increase the speed Print speed Move the cursor to increase move to the right or decrease move to the left the print speed Cartridge sets Select the cartridge sets you are using on the printer CS5090 4 colour 1x4 Left if you are using the 4 left cartridges 4 3 2 1 m 1x4 Right if you are using the 4 right cartridges Y M C and K m 2x4 if you are using all eight cartridges 2xCMYK CS5090 8 colour m 1x8 if you are using 8 colours Print quality
21. or select one of several dot shapes predefined for you by the Oc Server Screen angles Type in the angles for each of the color planes These can have up to six decimal places this allows the screen angles to be specified more accurately thus reducing possible moir undesirable patterning problems Pressing the Swap button displays the Swap Angles Between Inks dialog box Swap Angles Between Inks x 1st 2nd Red C Red C Green Green C Blue C Blue This allows you to swap the angles of two or more plates This feature is useful when moir patterning is apparent on the output Clicking on the Predefined Sets button displays a list of predefined sets for you to select from This list includes a Default set which returns the angles to their standard values i e 15 for cyan 75 for magenta 0 for yellow and 45 for black CMYK 15 for red 45 for green and 75 for blue RGB Controlling Color amp Print Quality 23 24 The Use Accurate Screens Technology option is useful for high resolution printers However for optimal results do not use this option with the Oc 5350 Screen frequencies By default you type in an approximate number of shades gray levels for each color plane and the Oc Server will dynamically work out the appropriate screen frequency As the number of shades changes so does the screen frequency This takes place even if you subsequently change the printer resolution The for
22. parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error syntaxerror Explanation The PostScript file contains a command that is not correctly formed PostScript Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen for a correctly formed PostScript job A possible cause is a faulty network connection causing odd amounts of data to be lost This error may also occur when binary data has been corrupted such as that found in images A notorious culprit is converting images from Macintosh to UNIX format and vice versa which often converts linefeed characters into carriage return linefeed thus corrupting the image Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job Ensure that the images are not corrupted If the error persists then contact your supplier Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Error timeout Explanation The interpreter timed out while trying to execute a particular function Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen for a correctly formed PostScript job It is probably caused by a corrupt PostScript file or an interpreter dependent or missing file header Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the co
23. screen If you prefer click on the Retrieve To button to open a window within which you can select a destination folder Select Destination Folder for Images ES Desktop Y System Disk amp RPPLESHRRE t Ejeet Demo s Pub Hesktop Sre System Disk heesar ees aj oO ARE allel Again during the retrieval process the File Transfer in Progress message box appears on your screen After retrieval click on the Cancel button in the Retrieve Images dialog box to close this box and return to the Remote Client Window Your selected file s can now be processed in the specified destination folder Logging on as a Power User Select Access from the Remote RIP Client main menu and then the Change Access option The Request Access dialog box will open 86 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Request Access Groups Guest Power User Password Loo OE Check the radio button on the left side of the Power User prompt and type in the Power User password Click on the OK button at the bottom of the dialog box If you type in the Power User password incorrectly clicking on the OK button displays a Password Warning window prompting you to try entering the password again Password Warning A Incorrect password entered Try again When you enter the correct Power User password the Request Access dialog box will close a
24. within a funcdef Local variables have separate values to same named variables outside the funcdef or within other funcdef Within recursive calls each recursively called instance of the funcdef also keeps separate values for its local variables Not Value Returns 0 if value is non zero else 1 OpenWindow Title Output x 0 y 0 width 320 height 240 state 0 Opens a generic window that can be used for output during script execution by functions such as printf The window can optionally be given a title via Title and positioned anywhere on the screen via x y width and height These specify in pixels the top left corner of the window and its width and height If State is set to 1 x y width and height are ignored and the window is Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual maximized Note that OpenWindow will only succeed if a window is not already opened Returns 0 on success 1 on failure Password Prompt Pops up a text entry dialog box displays prompt above it then waits for user input The user s input is shown as characters password style Returns Input string if OK pressed else 0 PostPrintStopSpooler Stop This function can only be used within scripts called through the Execute Script After field in the Advanced Options dialog box If Stop is 1 the spooler will stop spooling any more jobs Printf format param1 param2 Implements the print task statement in C programming lan
25. x Printer oce C55090 8 colour Setup Oc CS 5350 a Oc CS 5050 Oce CS5070 Paper Sources Oce C55090 4 colour sing Separations Output Advanced Oce CS5090 8 colour 3 ations Name to use for this spool queue oc cs5090 Manually select a directory where files for this print queue are stored C ARIP1 Spool2 Browse New jobs appear as inactive Disable jobs in this print queue from printing during spooling Load amp Job Sharing Gt Normal oad shama ti Job shamma Hi cad sharning 2 Job sharing 2 Cancel Help 4 Click Printer Setup to display the Settings window Note Setup windows for both 4 colour driver and 8 colour driver are exactly similar Some options specific to the 8 colours are also selectable in the 4 colour driver but they do not work So make sure you selected the correct driver at first The only way to check it is to look at the Setup window Oc CS5090 4 Setup or Oc CS5090 8 Setup 24 CS 5090 8 colours Oce C55090 8 Setup Note Selecting any plot mode other than User Defined will use the predefined settings in the printer firmware for the following options Enhanced mode Print options Print head control Print speed Print quality 8 colours driver for OGSL 25 Print Head control Choose the direction you want the printer to print to from Left to Right or Right to Left or both if
26. 1 X4 Right 4131211 y mic k 2x4 CS 5090 8 colours Quality mode The quality mode offers one more configuration m 1x8 cartridge This means you use 8 cartridges with 8 different colours m Four basic colours same as for the 4 colours version CMYK Four newly added colours known as diluted colours Light Magenta Light Cyan Medium Magenta Medium Cyan see Diluted colours on page 16 Cartridge set The figure below shows the correct cartridge sequence to follow when using 1x8 cartridge configuration Please follow the right order as shown below from left to right to place the reservoirs and cartridges 1x8 Choose a configuration Choosing between Productivity and Quality mode depends on which criteria you want to privilege speed flexibility Productivity mode or photo quality Quality mode Quality versus Productivity 11 Pros and cons Productivity mode Advantages of the 4 colours m High printing speed m Faster turnaround time m Capacity to hold two different ink sets at the same time m Instant switching from one ink type to another The 12 line ink set system allows to use different ink sets without cleaning the ink lines A simple change of ink reservoirs and heads is needed m Drying system that avoids waiting time before further processing lamination since the print is dryed not after the print is finished but while it is printing Inconveniences
27. 2 Locate and specify the file you wish to preview 3 Click on the Open button within the Preview EPS File window and the Oc Server will preview the file to your printer v Using the Preview File button 3 Preview File 1 Make sure there are no jobs highlighted in the Active and Inactive Jobs Lists 2 Click on the Preview File button in the Server Button Bar The Preview EPS File dialog window will open 3 Locate and specify the file you wish to preview and click on the Open button display it Previewing 75 What can I do in the Previewer 76 The Oc Server Previewer displays a Button and Information Bar across the top of the screen Exit Zoom 1 1 CATs Pos Printer Oc 5350 Paper Roll 36 Pixel Bits 24 Zoom Button Click on the Zoom button to zoom in and out to the image Zoom 1 1 CATs Pos Zoom out by 1 1 Zoom out by 1 2 Zoom out by 1 3 Zoom out by 1 4 Zoom out by 1 5 Zoom out by 1 6 Zoom out by 1 7 Zoom out by 1 8 You can also zoom in and out to the image by using the mouse Click on the left mouse button to select the next zoom in level and center the page image at the position of the mouse Click on the right mouse button to zoom out to the previous level and center the page image in the preview window A x X 0 In xs E BELTS POS button Click on this button to hide or show the Position box This box indicates the exact placement of your mouse pointer Printer The name of the pri
28. For details of how to install the programs please see the Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual 1 Click on the Start menu and choose Programs 2 Choose the Oc Graphics Server L in the Oc Graphics Server L folder to start the Oc Server and display the main screen Spoole View Help 1 Oc test Chart Testcht ps do Pg1 Queue 3 512KB 09 44am O1MAYS7 Oc Linearisation A4 Plina4 ps _do Pat Queue1 341KB 10 47am 10MAR97 Document PostScript ps do 554KB 01 16pm 09APR97 ES Busy ES Error En Spooler Using non banding rasterizer for RGB colours 8 1 Menu bar 2 Button Bar 3 Print Queue Icon Bar 4 Job Information Bar 5 Active Jobs List 6 Inactive Jobs List 7 Settings Icon 8 Status Bar 22 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Receiving jobs in spool queues The middle section of the Oc Server main screen displays the Active Job List 5 and the Inactive Job List 6 All jobs that arrive in one of the spool queues are displayed in the Active Job List jobs waiting to be printed by default Once printed the Oc Server sends a job to the Inactive Job List by default Jobs displayed in the Inactive Job List have either been printed or are on hold Information about each job is displayed such as its name size printer date and time of arrival in queue Printers ready to receive print jobs Each icon displayed in the Print
29. Frequently Asked Questions 35 36 CS 5090 8 colours CS5090 How to use the 8 colours Appendix A Glossary 38 Calibration The procedures to adjust the ink cartridge alignment and line length accuracy see Calibration procedure on page 18 Colour gamut Range of colours that can be formed by all possible combinations of the colours of a colour reproduction system Colour management Use of the appropriate software hardware and methodology to control and adjust colours in an imaging system Colour test To clear the ink cartridges by forcing them to fire rapidly Also to fill the ink lines with ink Continuous tone Variation of density within a photographic or printed image corresponding to the graduated range of lightness or darkness in the original copy or scan Diluted inks Inks that provide lower density colour than the corresponding full density version of the same colour for the same area coverage when printing at 100 coverage For eg Light Magenta Light Cyan Medium Magenta Medium Cyan Dot gain Increase in the size of screen dots caused by printing This can make an image appear darker fuller and or colour shifts can occur DPI Dots per inch dpi the number of dots the printer lays down in an inch CS 5090 8 colours GCR Gray Component Replacement Replacement of Cyan Magenta and Yellow inks with Black when they occur together throughout an image to lower the total ink coverage
30. Guest User 82 View the printing situation By viewing the Oc Server main screen in your Remote Client Window you can see the current printing situation across the network For example you can look at the Active and Inactive Jobs Lists and see how busy the print queues are the position of your job s within one or more queues and whether any of your jobs have been printed To ensure you are always viewing the current situation select View from the Remote RIP Client main menu Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual View offers you a drop down list of options to Update Queues Update Queue Names and Update RIP Status When you select one of these options the update is performed immediately Set Automatic updates on an Apple Macintosh Client workstation When you are running the Oc Server Remote RIP Client on an Apple Macintosh workstation you can set time intervals for your Remote Client Window to be automatically updated Select Updates from the Remote RIP Client main menu and then the Modify Update Intervals option The Update Interval Parameters dialog box will open Update Interval Parameters Queue Period sec al 2 0 0 Background Period sec il D 30 0 Foreground Period sec Tt os Set the Queue Period This sets the time interval for Remote RIP Client to check the Oc Server print queue and display it in your Remote Client Window For example When the Queue Period is set to
31. How to use the 8 colours Chapter 4 Calibration and Profiles Adjust the printer Importance of adjustment Printer adjustment is a very important procedure to apply each time you place new cartridges on the printer Adjusting the CS5090 8 colours is exactly the same procedure as for the CS5090 4 colours To ajust the printer you need to perform several tests m Paper axis test m Colour deadband adjustment Horizontal and vertical adjustment Note Please refer to the CS5090 User manual for more details about adjustment procedures and troubleshooting related to calibration Note It might be more difficult to check the test pattern for the diluted inks Use a magnifying glass to set the correct values and achieve the best possible accuracy Calibration procedure 18 This procedure is as important as the printer adjustment It consists of measuring the Linearization Chart with a Densitometer and calibrating according the Oc Density specifications Note You can also refer to OGSL Reference Manual for more details on the calibration procedure The densitometer measures the densities of the colours actually produced by your printer as a result of different inputs specified OGSL automatically creates a calibration CAT file from these density readings and you can then apply the CAT when printing to achieve smooth graduations CS 5090 8 colours N ou fF Ww 10 The calibration process involves 7 ste
32. Install Disk Setting up workstations 23 Setting up workstations as Remote RIP Clients 24 Installing the programs from the Oc Server Installation CD establishes a subdirectory called CLIENT on your Server For example the path for the CLIENT subdirectory is D WISPPS CLIENT where D is the drive on which you have installed the Oc Server To set up a PC workstation as a Remote RIP Client Make a network connection to the subdirectory CLIENT Refer to the Windows NT 4 0 documentation for the in depth procedure Note The PC client workstation must have an account on the PC that runs the Oc Server Within the CLIENT subdirectory double click on SETUP to start the Remote RIP Client install wizard The Select Destination dialog box will open The default destination for the Remote RIP Client software on the workstation is the drive on which Windows is installed You can select and specify a different location by clicking on the Browse button When you are satisfied with the destination specified in the Select Destination dialog box click on the Next gt button The Oc Server Remote RIP Client install wizard will copy the necessary files to the workstation To start Remote RIP Client from the workstation If the workstation is running under Windows 95 or Windows NT 4 0 Click on the Start menu and select Programs then Client If the workstation is running under Windows NT 3 51 m Select the Client entry in Pro
33. Job field from the Advanced tab of the Printer Setup dialog box It has the effect of turning on Enable 1 or off Enable 0 the logging of information during the execution of the script By default the Oc Server will log job information such as start and end time etc However by calling this function with Enable set to 0 logging of information is disabled Exec FileName Executes FileName as a macro language script file Execution returns to the calling macro or script when execution within FileName is finished Execution may be terminated prematurely within FileName by calling the Return function GetMemory Returns the amount of total memory available to the operating system and the amount of free memory These numbers are in bytes and refer to physical rather than virtual memory within the system Returns A single string comprising two numbers e g 16000 8000 representing the total and unused physical memory GetPapers ContextNo 0 Returns the first available paper source for device 0 is the first position on the paper lift GetParams ContextNo 0 ParamNo Returns The device driver environment parameter identified by ParamNo valid values from 0 to 7 inclusive within the printer context identified by ContextNo These parameters are used to store printer specific settings and their meaning is therefore printer device driver specific GetProfile ApplicationName KeyName DefString FileName Read
34. Medium Magenta 1 Black or Medium Cyan Yellow Magenta Cyan Black To fill the ink reservoirs Access the ink reservoirs on the left side of the printer Unscrew the cap of one reservoir Note Open only one reservoir at a time to prevent contamination with other ink colours Remove cap from the bottle Check that you are using the same type of ink in all the reservoirs and cartridges Fill the reservoir up to 375 ml or no more than 1 2 inch from the top of the reservoir Check that there is no excess ink on the reservoir cap Replace the cap on the reservoir Repeat for the remaining reservoirs Place cartridges v 14 To place a cartridge With the printer powered on press Utility Access menu Access Left to place one of the cartridges 4 3 2 1 or Access Right to place one of the cartridges C M Y K to move the carriage into position for cartridge installation or replacement The cartridges are prefilled and preprimed Remove the cartridge from the sealed bag and remove the shipping cap Place it bottom first into the correct slot on the carriage Note Do not remove the blue tape from the jet plate Tilt the cartridge up until it clicks into place Make sure the cartridge is firmly installed CS 5090 8 colours CS5090 How to use the 8 colours Chapter 3 Diluted colours Diluted colours Description The diluted inks provide lower densiy colour than the corresponding full density ink
35. Memory Settings Print Spoolei r Define how print spooler print queues are published C Do not publish print queues C Publish queues as local printers visible to programs on this computer only Publish queues as network printers visible to programs on other computers r Configure remote control of print spooler M Start remote server upon RIP startup Remote server status Not running Cancel Help nr Check the Start remote server upon RIP startup checkbox to automatically start the Remote RIP Server whenever you start the Oc Server The Remote RIP Server icon will be displayed on the right side of the Windows taskbar at the bottom of your screen EM 159AM Double click on the Remote RIP Server icon in the taskbar Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual The Remote RIP Server Window will open on your screen Remote Rip Server X Workstations currently connected to this server Machine Type amp Name Setup KEA e erines ETN RES oisemesrat RIP Status Remote Connection Status Active PC MAC Connected RIP Status While the Remote RIP Server is connecting to the Oc Server running on your system the message Searching for RIP is displayed When the connection is made the message Active is displayed If the Remote RIP Server cannot make the connection for example if the Oc Server is not running the message Searching for RIP remains displ
36. Software 75 Disconnecting Client workstations 76 You can select and disconnect an individual Client workstation or disconnect all the Client workstations Disconnecting an individual Client workstation Select the individual Client workstation in the list in the Workstations currently connected to this server section of the Remote RIP Server Window 4 Remote Rip Server 1 client Workstations currently connected to this server Machine Type amp Name Group Coma SONT POWERUSER 113220 Stop Server Setup Send Message Broadcast RIP Status Remote Connection Status Disconnect Active PC MAC Connected Disconnect All TE Select a Client workstation in the list to activate the Disconnect button on the right side of the Remote RIP Server Window Click on the Disconnect button to disconnect the selected Client from the Server Once disconnected the Client details no longer appear in the Remote RIP Server Window 4 Remote Rip Server Workstations currently connected to this server Machine Type amp Name Setup escent sme Ee EEN Dee Er RIP Status Remote Connection Status Active PC MAC Connected At the Client workstation a Disconnected message is displayed in the status bar at the bottom right side of the Remote Client Window and the Title Bar across the top of the Window changes to state No Connection Oc Graphics Server L Sta
37. are available for the Oc Server d1Keep a debugging log Log severe error messages only d2Keep a debugging log Log severe error and warning messages d3Keep a debugging log Log severe error warning and information messages Note The Oc Server will put the above messages in a file called DEBUG LOG in the Windows directory on your system sKeep a startup log A log of internal function calls is sent to the file called STARTUP LOG in the Windows directory on your system tForce Title Bar ON even if this has previously been turned off via Wispps ini nNo banner on start up oStart spooler after the Oc Server startup 1Start 2nd instance of the Oc Server 2Start 3rd instance of the Oc Server 3Start 4th instance of the Oc Server 4Start 5th instance of the Oc Server 5Start 6th instance of the Oc Server 6Start 7th instance of the Oc Server 7Start 8th instance of the Oc Server 8Start Oth instance of the Oc Server Command Reference 145 9Start 1Oth instance of the Oc Server cClient mode used by SWOP EXE hHide window on startup XPass additional parameters to printer driver Printer driver command line parameters dKeep a debugging log in the file called DRIVER LOG in the Oc Server Bin x directory vVerbose mode Note Use the following switches to start up the Oc Server for troubleshooting in relation to Oc Server or printer driver problems wispps5
38. as default Click the Save as icon and cat Give the calibration a name cat Step 5 Printing using the calibrated curve Right click the printer icon in the main window and select Properties Select the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab In the Configuration box select the medium In the Configuration box select Change settings manually In the Select CAT box select the CAT file you have just saved Step 6 Saving the entire configuration Right click the printer icon in the main window and select Properties Select the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab In the Configuration box select Change settings manually Select the Configurations tab Select the Printer driver options and Colour screening amp Antialiasing options checkboxes 6 Give the configuration a name and click Save Then click OK Step 7 Using the new configuration Right click the printer icon in the main window and select Properties Select the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab In the Configuration box select the new configuration and click OK CS 5090 8 colours Why it is important to adjust the 8 colours When using the Quality mode it is even more crucial to adjust correctly the colours to reduce eliminate colour shift Indeed when you choose to print with the Quality mode it means that you need the best possible printer performance and the best image quality at a close distance This can only be achieved with
39. be executed when the button is activated Select Button This list box displays all the button titles of all buttons in the Button Bar you are editing Select the button you want to edit by clicking on its title in this list box The selected button title will be highlighted The entry in the Button Title edit box will change to the selected button and the macro to run for this button will be loaded into the Edit Macro dialog box You can then edit the title in the Button Title edit box the macro via the Edit Macro button and select a different icon using the Change Icon button Note that when you select a different button from this list box any changes you may have made to the last selected button are automatically saved The order in which button titles appear in this list box is the order in which they will appear in the button bar You may use the Up or Down buttons in the Select Button section of the Button Bar tab to change this order Up This button moves the button highlighted in the Select Button list box up one place in the list Down This button moves the button highlighted in the Select Button list box down one place in the list Add New This adds a new button to the button bar The button will be given the default Button Title of New Button and a default icon You should then edit the title in the Button Title edit box enter a macro via the Edit Macro button and select a different icon using the Change Icon button De
40. button in the Oc Server Button Bar The Oc Server will send the job to the printer for which it is queued Printing from Oc Graphics Server 25 Printing a job that is not in a spool queue v 1 2 3 4 v 1 A 2 Print File 26 When you wish to print a PostScript file located on a floppy disk or elsewhere on the network you can still find and print it from within the Oc Server main screen The Print Queue icon method Click the Print Queue icon representing the printer you wish to print the file to Properties Add File To Queue Print File Preview File Select Print File from the drop down menu An Open and Print EPS File dialog window will appear pen and Print EPS File Queue 2 2 x Lookin E Test Suite PS g zz ss ITD eps Emmy xi Fenme Files of type fal Files hd Cancel Help Locate and select the file you wish to print Click on the Open button The Oc Server will interpret and send the file to the printer The Print File button method Make sure there are no jobs selected in the Active and Inactive Jobs Lists Click on the Print File button in the Oc Server Button Bar The Open and Print EPS File dialog window will be displayed Locate and select the file you wish to print and click on the Open button The Server will interpret and send the file to the printer to which the first spool queue set up has been assigned Oc Graphics Server L S
41. corrupt PostScript file or an interpreter dependent file header Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Troubleshooting 89 90 Error execstackoverflow Explanation The execution stack has grown too large exceeding the memory available to it Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen for a correctly formed PostScript job as the memory available to the execution stack is much larger with the RIP than it should ever need to be This is probably caused by a corrupt PostScript file or an interpreter dependent file header Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error tinterrupt Explanation An interrupt such as the receipt of a control C character from the communications channel has been performed while interpreting the file Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen unless a user has manually interrupted the printing process or unless Windows has caused the interpreter to crash Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup
42. eparations Output Advanced Adiusted Inkjet 7 Configure m Select CAM and Profile 3D colour adjustment CAM Profile AGB lineart LinoType ICC Setup AGE LINE 5350 600 SCPGLPHF v CMYK lineart LinoType ICC Setup CMYK LINE 5350 600 SCPGLPF RGB Bitmaps LinoType ICC v Setup AGE BIT 5350 600 SCPGLPHP CMYK Bitmaps LinoType ICC Le Setup CMYK BIT 5350 600 SCPGLPHF v m Select CAT linear colour adjustment Premium Glossy SC m Hal tone Type Controlling Color amp Print Quality 37 v To save the entire configuration 1 Right click the printer icon in the main window and select Properties 2 Select the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab 3 In the Configuration box select Change settings manually 4 Select the Configurations tab Printer Setup 5351 glossy x Rey fl ce 5350 7 Setup Configuration ENHANCED PREMIUM GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK Paper Sources Colour Screening t Antialiasing Separations Output Advanced Print Queue Non PostScript Files lf Enter a name for this configuration as it would appear in the Configurations list box New calibration for premium glossy sc ink Save Select settings to save in this configuration FN Printer driver options Paper sources options FN Colour screening amp antialiasing options Separations options Output options Advanced options Cancel Help
43. for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error sinvalidaccess Explanation The PostScript file has tried to access global rather than local memory Reason This error may be caused by not enough VM Virtual Memory or by a corrupt font Solution Reboot the RIP The RIP should always be restarted if this error occurs as all subsequent files to be interpreted will be affected Make sure that you are using the correct PPD file from the Printer Drivers disk for the platform and operating system that you are using Error itinvalidexit Explanation The PostScript job tried to exit a loop while it was not actually in a loop Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen unless the PostScript file is corrupt Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error invalidfileaccess Explanation The PostScript interpreter tried to read or write to a file or font that did not exist or was read only Reason This error is most likely to occur in network environments where the RIP does not have all access privileges set or the fonts are already in use by another file are corrupt or
44. icon for the currently selected button is displayed on the right side of the Button Title edit box Change Icon Clicking on this button opens the Select an Icon dialog box where you can select icons for buttons in the Button Bar from any program or library file which can run under Windows A vertical list box displays all icons available from a given program EXE or library DLL file Click on an icon to select it Your choice will be highlighted by a button like selection box Then click on OK to confirm your selection or Cancel to revert to the button s original icon The chosen icon is Customizing the button bar 123 124 displayed on the right side of the Button title edit box as the icon for the currently selected button The Oc Server is shipped with a library of icons contained in a file called WSPICONS DLL By default the Select an Icon dialog box will display icons from this library However you may choose any Windows executable program file file extension EXE or library file file extension DLL that contains icons by typing in the filename in the File to look for icons in edit box A convenient way of selecting files is by clicking on the Browse button then selecting the file through the File Open dialog box that pops up Once you have selected a new file press the Tab key to load icons from the new file Edit Macro This edit control lets you enter or edit the Oc Server Macro Language commands that will
45. in the list of installed components under the Services tab the networking software is already installed Connecting the Server to your Network 17 Connecting the Server to Novell NetWare 1 Click on the Start menu and select Settings Then select Control Panel and Network 2 Click on Add in the Services tab within the Network dialog box 3 Select Gateway and Client Services for NetWare from the list of choices then click on OK Checking if the Server can provide TCP IP support If your network uses TCP IP protocol TCP IP networking software must also be installed on your server 1 Click on the Start menu and select Settings then Control Panel 2 Select Network to open the Network dialog box Click on the Protocols tab If TCP IP Protocol is in the list of protocols displayed in the Protocols tab the necessary networking software is already installed 3 Otherwise click on Add in the Network dialog box to open the Select Network Protocol dialog box Select TCP IP Protocol from the Network Protocol list and click on OK 4 Back in the Protocols tab within the Network dialog box click on TCP IP Protocol and then on Properties 5 The Microsoft TCP IP Properties dialog box will open You need to set a TCP IP address and subnet mask for your Server in the IP Address tab within this dialog box Check with your Network Administrator to learn the appropriate way to specify this information 6 Select the Services tab with
46. is selected as the supply type Paper option menu of the printer Don t print top spaces Check this option if you want to skip the blank information at the beginning of a print ne Skipped Automatic wiper Check this option to make the printer automatically wipe cartridge jet plates Use XY calibration Check this option to use the XY calibration of the printer please refer to the Printer user manual for more details about paper axis calibration Horizontal Repeat This option enables to select a number of copies of the same job you want to print on a single horizontal line Note Check if the size of the print fits to the paper roll width If you choose to repeat the job three times and the total size is larger than the roll width your job will not be printed properly as requested It will print until the end of the roll width only Print quality Select the resolution required for the print 300 or 600 dpi OGSL 6 2 CS5090 drivers v To display the printer settings In OGSL right click the printer icon Select Properties Choose among the list the driver for the 8 colours Make sure you select the correct one because two drivers are available for the CS5090 m CS5090 4 colour m CS5090 8 colour Printer Setup Oc 5090 DES d 0ce CS50808 colour x Setup Oc CS 5350 sing Separations Output Advanced ations Name to use for this spool queue
47. left the print speed Enhanced mode Select the number of passes for the print The number of passes indicates how many times the cartridges must fire to lay down the ink for a complete scan line When increasing the amount of passes a higher print quality will be obtained the chance of defects like banding and bleeding will decrease Whereas less print passes means higher speed The tables summarize the predefined passes for every option except User defined CS5050 5070 Plot mode Number of passes Draft One pass Production Two passes Quality Three passes Photo Four passes User defined Ten passes Ink Control Click Ink Management to set Drying time Ink Management Ink Reduction Drying Time Reduce inkage by 125 hrs mins 30 secs M M EKE 2j Cancel Note Ink Reduction is not supported for bitmap information sent to the printer and therefore will not have any effect using OGSL a Drying time Move the cursor to increase or decrease the drying time to apply once the job is printed The printer will be blocked for this time For instance feeding media or cutting can only be activated after the drying time is passed Plot mode Select the quality mode you want to set for the print 25 26 Print options Choose the print option you want to use m Colour m Monochrome Automatic cutter When this option is checked the print is automatically cut once printing and drying are over when roll
48. of rips you want to run using the up and down arrows next to Number You may rename them entering directly the names in the corresponding Names boxes Configurations Number Names 2 4 Rip 1 Configuration 2 Note The Dual Rip dongle allows to configure several rips but can only rip 2 files at the same time Performance Keep Deferred Loading unchecked as in the default setting if you want both instances to be loaded when starting up If you check the option only the first instance is loaded when starting up The other rip would then be loaded only by clicking its tab Responsiveness If All Equally Responsive is checked as in the default setting none of the instances is given the highest priority for the printing On the contrary if Foreground More Responsive is checked the highest priority is given to the currently displayed and selected instance Fast Loading When the option is enabled as in the default setting Rip 2 is loaded even if Rip 1 is busy If you uncheck it then the loading is suspended until Rip 1 has completed its job How to move a job from Rip 1 to Rip 2 You may need to move a job from one rip to another one This action is not possible with a simple drag and drop What you need to do is to configure two similar queues for the two Rips Here is the procedure 1 In Rip 1 right click the queue icon and select Properties Press the Print queue tab
49. only if the Paper Sources option was unchecked when you saved the printer configuration in the Configurations tab 1 Check Use Page Positioning to display an image of the selected paper source and current page positioning Printer fry oce 5350 7 Setup Configuration QUALITY PREMIUM GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK id Advanced Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations iPaper Source si Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Separations Reprint Papers currently installed in printer v Paper Source 1 Poll 36 h Cancel Help Select the paper size that is present in printer s source slot 1 2 Click on the image to open a detailed Page Sizing and Positioning dialog box Optimizing printing 35 The left side of this dialog window shows a representation of the paper loaded on the output device and of the printing area The printing area is represented by the R page icon Page Sizing And Positioning Lx r Specify printing area and size Units Std Sizes Inches In gt as z Rotate By o go C 160 270 Left Bottom fo 701 In 0 36 In width Height Scale To Fit H enr vcn Keep aspect r Select print roll view View Width View Height 54 074 In Fit in Window Ein g Edit image area within page uH s O Left click tabs to stretch page centre to move Right click for alignment menu There are several way
50. printers you can have different colors on paper For this reason RGB and CMYK color spaces are called device dependent color spaces because the RGB or CMYK value and the color it refers to depend upon the particular device There are also device independent color spaces such as CIE Lab or CIE X YZ In this type of color space one particular value of Lab or XYZ always refers to one particular color regardless of the device Colors 113 Color Space Conversion Purpose You use Color Space Conversion to get consistent colors across different color devices The easiest way is to characterize each color in an independent color space such as Lab Thereafter that color is expressed as a Lab value which always refers to one unique color regardless of the device For instance if you convert both input device scanner and output device printer from RGB to Lab and CMYK to Lab respectively you can easily match input and output colors Image capture colour space RGB Colour Output device space colour space conversion CYMK In the process depicted in the figure above the Color Space Conversion converts RGB to Lab and Lab to CMYK Limitations Any given device can deal with only a limited range of colors This range called the color gamut depends on the physical characteristics of the device rather than the type of color space In general different color devices have different color gamuts For example in a case
51. provides each application with more memory to begin with and so there is less need for this feature In this case leave both values at their default values of 1 This means that the Server s memory requirements will grow arbitrarily until Windows memory either real or virtual has been exceeded Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Chapter 8 Troubleshooting This chapter is to help you deal with some of the most common problems you may encounter while using Oc Graphics Server L 87 PostScript error messages 88 Errors generated by PostScript files are trapped by the Oc Server and can either be written to a log file or displayed on screen PostScript error messages tend to be somewhat cryptic unless you are a PostScript expert so we have translated them into plain English Error undefined Explanation If an application has a native language other than PostScript e g QuickDraw on the Macintosh then each application has its own dictionary or header file that contains translations of application specific drawing commands into PostScript specific drawing commands For example the QuickDraw command FrameRect is equivalent to the PostScript command lineto executed four times once for each side of the rectangle The dictionary or header is downloaded with the PostScript file so that the RIP can interpret such commands correctly Reason If the PostScript file was sa
52. screen angles or halftone type checkbox Previewing 79 For more information on color control and screening please see chapter 3 Controlling Color amp Print Quality on page 19 Selecting Complex previews also enables you to specify a resolution for preview images Check the checkbox on the left side of the Build previews at the following resolution DPI prompt You can then type the required number of dots per inch in the edit box to the right of the prompt Click on the OK button at the bottom of the Print Previews tab to save and use any settings made and close The System Settings dialog box Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Chapter 7 Managing Memory Settings This chapter describes how Oc Graphics Server L deals with your computer s RAM memory 81 Introduction Memory settings control the way your computer s main memory RAM is used by the Oc Server During installation the Oc Server sets default values for the memory settings based upon your total system memory reported by Windows To a certain extent however you can optimize the Server s behavior using these options For example if your system has a large amount of memory you may wish to enable a multitasking buffer This will allow the Server to continue rasterizing while your printer is receiving data from this buffer In order to print your files the Server has to convert them to a for
53. select the type of Server Setup you wish to proceed with Select the option Full to automatically install all the available Oc Server components from the CD This is the recommended option However if you are an experienced user of the Oc Server software you may wish to select the Custom option When you select the Custom option an additional dialog box appears within which you can choose the components you wish to install A Customer Details window will open for entry of your name company name and department details in the respective edit boxes Use the Tab key to move to the next edit box All these entries must be completed for the installation to continue Click on the Next gt button The Select Destination Directory dialog box is displayed The default destination directory for the Oc Server programs is WISPPS on the drive containing Windows If you wish to change this default click on the Browse button A Choose Directory window will open within which you can specify a different path and directory Then click on OK in the Choose Directory window to return to the Select Destination Directory dialog box Click on the Next gt button If the specified destination directory does not currently exist on your computer the Oc Server Install Wizard will display a message informing you of this and asking if you wish to create the directory Click on the Yes button The installation will now proceed If the Install Wizard finds an ear
54. set of printer settings that you can make in Oc Server and then store to be used later These settings can include paper type and paper source printing resolution enlargements reductions and rotations You can save different configurations for the same printer and choose the configuration at print time 32 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Selecting a printer configuration The Printer list box on the Printer Setup dialog box displays the type of printer currently selected Printer Setup Queue 1 x ses ac 5350 7 Setup Configuration EVER ada TRETEN a CU Ant The Configuration list box shows the current configuration of the selected printer 1 Click on the down arrow in the Configuration list box to display the full list of available configurations Printer Setup Queue 1 x Printer oce 5350 v Setup Configuration ENHANCED PREMIUM GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK ENHANCED PREMIUM SEMI GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC a ENHANCED PREMIUM PAPER MATTE SC INK FOUALITY PREMIUM GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK QUALITY PREMIUM SEMI GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK QUALITY PREMIUM PAPER MATTE SC INK NORMAL PREMIUM GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK NORMAL PREMIUM SEMI GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK NORMAL PREMIUM PAPER MATTE SC IN 2 To select a new configuration click on it 3 Click on the OK button at the bottom of the Printer Setup dialog box to save and apply your configuration and return to the Server main screen
55. size is specified in the Tile size section of this tab and is normally set to the width and height of the paper you are printing onto To specify a tile size either Click on the down arrow in the edit box and choose from the drop down list or m Type the exact desired Width and Height of the tile size in the appropriate box Press the Tab key to enter your values Check the Land checkbox to select Landscape mode for your tiles Leaving this checkbox unchecked selects Portrait mode for the tiles You can also specify the horizontal and vertical amounts by which each tile will overlap the next by typing in values in the H Overlap and V Overlap edit boxes The following illustration shows which areas of your image relate to each edit box Final Output Size These are the dimensions entered in Final Output Size Tile Size These are the dimensions entered in Tile size Overlap 4 tile Width This is a Horizontal of paper roll Overlap measurement Tiling and Cropping 49 Both positive and negative overlaps can be specified in order to ensure better alignment when the tiles are physically assembled Negative Overlap Positive Overlap When a panel is cut in half by an obstacle When one tile i e tile 1 is designed to such as a panel support you may want butt up to another i e tile 2 a positive the image to continue through the overlap will pri
56. state or the cable to the printer was not connected In the case of a SCSI device its SCSI ID may have been set incorrectly Another possible cause for the error is a broken network connection that may have occurred as the file was being sent or it may be that the interpreter tried to write to a file that was already closed Solution The RIP first interprets the file and then sends it to the printer so this error is only likely to occur at the end of the interpreting pass or the beginning of the pass that sends data to the printer This means that the PostScript file has been successfully sent Find out the cause of the problem with the printer by noting what is in the Printer Driver Error section of the Error dialogue box and then resending your file Error limitcheck Explanation An implementation limit within the interpreter has been exceeded for example too many files have been opened simultaneously or a PostScript path has become too complex Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Reason This is more likely to have occurred because of a very complex vector or clipping path being generated in an application such as Illustrator or PhotoShop Solution There are two possible solutions try tracking down the path that is causing the problem by removing complex paths one at a time from the file and seeing if it will then run through the interpreter with no errors Once you have located the problem path go back to the applic
57. stream of jobs thus reducing idle time The Multiple RIP main screen application controls the various Server instances Select the Multiple RIP Front End icon from the Oc Server programs ue group set up during installation to run the application When the Multiple RIP main screen application runs you can configure it via a Settings dialog box E Click on the icon in the top left corner of the Multiple RIP main screen 1 Select Settings from the drop down menu The Settings dialog box appears 108 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Configurations Performance OK Number Names Cancel 2 Configuration 1 Configuration 2 Responsiveness All Equally Responsive Foreground More Responsive v Fast Loading Configurations section Number Use the up and down arrows to increase or decrease the number of instances of the Oc Server that you want to run The default is two The maximum number possible is nine However the maximum number that can drive an output device is determined by the number of dongle s attached to your machine Names The names that are typed in the edit boxes here will appear on the tabs that are used to switch between the various instances of the Oc Server The number of names that can be edited depends upon how many instances of the Server have been set up i e the figure selected in the Number list box Performance section Deferred Loading When you select this o
58. the Hide menu bar option if you do not wish the Menu Bar to appear Customizing the button bar 125 126 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Appendix E Command Reference This section addresses the needs of advanced users with good programming knowledge who wish to customize specific functions 127 Macro language command index 128 The following is a list of all the Oc Server Macro Language functions In each description the format for the function call is shown with required and optional parameters Optional parameters are enclosed in square brackets with a colon followed by the default value for that parameter if any For example Print FileName Type 0 implies that the function Print takes one required parameter called FileName and one optional parameter called Type the value of which will be taken as 0 if Type was not specified Abort This function aborts the printing of any file Same as selecting Abort from the button bar Returns Nothing About AddFiletoSpoolQueue ColourAdjustmentOptions Contents DeleteFilefromSpoolQueue Exit ExitSpooler FilePreviewOptions Index InteractiveMode MakeSelectedFilesActive MakeSelectedFilesinactive MemoryAndSystemOptions MoveSelectedFilestoBottom MoveSelectedFilestoTop OpenAndPrintEPSFile OpenAndPrintFile PreviewEPSFile PreviewFile Printer
59. the Print Queue Icon Bar Since the Oc Server can have up to fourteen spool queues set up at any one time it is useful to give these queues names which will be most easily understood by yourself and other users when published across the network Setting up spool queue options v 50 Sending new print jobs to the inactive jobs list Simply check the box beside the New jobs appear as inactive prompt within the Print Queue tab in the Printer Setup dialog box Then click on the OK button Any files sent to that spool queue will be displayed on the Oc Server main screen in the Inactive Jobs list These files will be held and not sent to the output device when the Server spooler is started Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Specifying a directory where job files are stored Suppose you have files stored in a directory on your system that you wish to send to a particular Oc Server spool queue for example files stored in a directory on a UNIX system Click on the Print Queue icon for the relevant spool queue and open the Printer Setup dialog box Select the Print Queue tab Tick the checkbox beside the Manually select a directory where files for this print queue are stored prompt You can then enter the path and name of the directory in the edit box beneath the prompt or click on the Browse button to search for and select the directory Click on the OK button to save and use your setting The Oc Server
60. to adjust curves individually Gamma Affects both the brightness and contrast of your image For example the higher the Gamma setting the greater the brightness and contrast Dot Gain Dot Gain is concerned with ink intensities A dot of ink printed on paper will spread To view the effect of your DotGain settings in the Cat Preview window check the Dot Gain checkbox When DotGain is enabled you will be unable to adjust parts of a curve To disable DotGain click again on the DotGain checkbox Adjusting parts of a curve You may find that adjusting a full curve is insufficient to give you the result you require so the Oc Server provides you with two ways to adjust parts of a curve Controlling Color amp Print Quality 43 Editing manually Click on the Manual Edit Mode button The cursor will change in appearance to become a pencil when you position it in the graph section of the CAT Editor You can then edit the controlling color curve by dragging If you select one or more additional colors dragging the controlling color curve simultaneously changes the shape of the other selected color curve s to match the controlling curve ms Manual editing tends to result in a jagged color curve Therefore click on the Smooth Selected Colours button to smooth your curve s Using the spline editing method This is the recommended method for adjusting parts of a curve Splines are pick up points positioned on a curve You then adjust t
61. to which we draw your attention This information is classified as follows Note n a Note information is given about matters which ensure the proper functioning of the machine or application but useful advice concerning its operation may also be given Attention The information that follows Attention is given to avoid damage to your copy or original the copier or printer data files etc Caution The information that follows Caution is given to prevent you suffering personal injury 154 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual User survey Did you find this manual to be accurate Q Yes Q No Were you able to operate the product after reading this manual Q Yes Q No Does this manual provide adequate background information Q Yes Q No Is the format of this manual convenient in size easy to read and layed out well Q Yes Q No Did you find the information you were looking for D Always D Most of the times Q Sometimes Q Notat all How did you find the information you were looking for D Table of contents D Index 14 Neither Are you satisfied with this manual Q Yes Q No Thank you for evaluating this manual If you have any other comments or concerns please explain them on the following page 7055892 Miscellaneous 155 Comments Date This reader s comment sheet is completed by Name optional Occupation Company Phone Address City Country Plea
62. use for rasterizing Rasterizing is the process by which a PostScript file is converted into a bitmap image to be sent to the printer The amount of memory specified here is used either to generate and store the entire page bitmap in non banding mode or is shared between the display list and the band bitmap in banding mode C Min memory to use for a print band less than B This memory setting only has an effect during banding mode It sets a lower limit to the amount of memory used for a band bitmap If during band mode interpretation the Oc Server finds that the intermediate display list is occupying more space than C subtracted from B it will flush the display list to your hard disk and read it again during the banding phase Reducing this memory option will increase the chances of the display list being kept in memory and therefore executing faster However more bands must now be rendered over the same page resulting in a reduction in speed We recommend this amount be set to about half of the value set for B or IMB whichever is less D Size of buffer for temp display list data This memory setting only has an effect during banding mode While rendering from a display list on disk this amount is used for buffering reads from disk When this setting is zero the Oc Server will choose a default value based on your operating system E If larger than this store bitmaps scans on disk This memory setting only has an eff
63. view is stored on your system rather than being held in a current spool queue you can still select and load the file by clicking on the OPEN button on the Log View Button Bar When you click on the OPEN button the Open dialog window will appear i Lx El aij My Documents L Temp Fie nane Files of type Log Files LOG hf Cancel Within this window you can select and open a valid job log file i e a file containing a job log with the filename extension L OG Clicking on the Open button within the Open dialog window loads the selected log file into Log View When the job log file is loaded it will be searched according to the search options currently defined and activated within the Define Search section of the Log View dialog box To carry out a different search on the loaded file simply specify new searches by entering or amending search strings in the appropriate edit boxes and clicking on the appropriate checkboxes to check or uncheck them Note Click on the EXIT button on the Log View Button Bar to close the Log View dialog box and return to the Server main screen Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Creating log files and setting options 1 Click on the Settings icon and select Properties from the drop down menu A to open the System Settings dialog box Settings 2 Click on the Message Logging tab System Settings xi Memory Settings Print Spooler Network Printing amp Con
64. 0 0 seconds Remote RIP Client will continuously check the Server print queue and continuously update your Remote Client Window to display the current print queue situation This setting applies whether you are running Remote RIP Client in the background or in the foreground on your system Set the Background Period This setting applies when you are running Remote RIP Client in the background on your Apple Macintosh i e the Remote Client Window is open but is not selected as the currently active window The setting specifies how often Remote RIP Client will check the Oc Server and completely update your Remote Client Window Using the Remote RIP Software 83 84 For example A setting of 30 0 means that when you are running Remote RIP Client in the background Remote RIP Client will check the Server and completely update your Remote Client Window every 30 seconds Foreground Period This setting applies when you are running Remote RIP Client in the foreground on your Apple Macintosh i e the Remote Client Window is both open and selected as the currently active window Again the setting specifies how often Remote RIP Client will check the Oc Server and completely update your Remote Client Window For example A setting of 0 5 means that when you are running Remote RIP Client in the foreground Remote RIP Client will check the Server and completely update your Remote Client Window every half second Add a file to a print queue There
65. 260 Oce 5350 Configuration settings manually Print Queue N Preview Viewing default printer settings In the Printer Setup dialog box click on the down arrow on the Configuration list box to display the list of available configurations Click on a configuration to select it Printer Setup Queue 1 x Printer m Oc 5350 v Setup Configuration ENHANCED PREMIUM GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK v ENHANCED PREMIUM SEMI GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC a ENHANCED PREMIUM PAPER MATTE SC INK EQUALITY PREMIUM GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK 4 QUALITY PREMIUM SEMI GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK QUALITY PREMIUM PAPER MATTE SC INK NORMAL PREMIUM GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK NORMAL PREMIUM SEMI GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER SC INK NORMAL PREMIUM PAPER MATTE SC INK 12 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Click on the Setup button beside the Printer list box to view the settings for your selected configuration Oc 5350 Setup Output Options 5 Plot Mode 34 LPT1 User Defined Configure Print Options p Print Control Colour Bi directional C Monochrome C LefttoRight IV Fast C Right to Left M Automatic cutter Print Speed M Don t print top spaces sof d gt Automatic wiper E00 Loi ses Use XY calibration Enhanced Mode Quad pass Horizontal repeat fi times Ink Control Ink Management Note The range of settings in the Setup window depend
66. 43 44 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Chapter 5 Tiling and Cropping You can use the Oc Server to tile and crop an individual job by selecting a job from a spool queue and loading it into the tiling and cropping area of the Server The Oc Server will create a preview image on screen divided into tiles By adjusting the controls on screen or by entering exact dimensions you can then crop the image define its final output size and define the size of the tiles and the horizontal and vertical overlap 45 Loading a job into Tile and Crop There are two ways to load a job into the tiling and cropping area of the Oc Server v The do button method Click on the do button of the job you want to import and select Crop Scale and Tile from the drop down menu v The Tile amp Crop button method Click on the job you want to tile or crop in the Server Active or Inactive Jobs list Click on the Tile and Crop button on the Oc Server Button Bar The Tile amp Crop window will open and the Oc Server will create a preview of your image ready for tiling and cropping This preview is displayed on the right side of the Tile amp Crop window The window has two tabs Create Preview and Tile amp Crop Create Preview is the default tab Tile amp Crop 121 x Tile amp Crop Create Preview File Information File D BALL Width 297 2 mm Height 419 9 mm
67. 5 Give the configuration a name and click Save 6 Select the applicable settings for the configuration and click OK Other CAT import options available v Manual entry Suppose you wish to create a calibration CAT but your type of densitometer is not currently supported by the Oc Server You can enter the readings manually from your densitometer You can also manually enter values for an RGB color space to create a CAT 1 Make sure the Select CAT list box within the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab is set to None Print the standard linearisation chart on your selected printer if applicable Launch the CAT Editor 38 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Open the CAT Import list box and select the Manual entry option Click on OK to open the CAT Manual Input dialog box CAT Manual Input BBE 0 5 10 15 20 2 30 35 40 45 50 55 260 _65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 co T T T T T T T T T TT T T T T T T TR 22 A O S T O A T A S T R E O E E III a T 1 sm TT TT T TT TT TT T T TT TT OC Colour Space Min Max Settings G CMYK M Auto C RGB Min Max Default Update Help Cancel The range 0 to 100 displayed across the top of the grid in this dialog box equates to the horizontal x axis input color intensities of the CAT Editor When Auto is checked in the Min Max section of the dialog box the first value for each color is automatically set to 0 and the top value to 1 100 from left to right across the grid Desele
68. 92 nocurrentpoint 93 rangecheck 93 stackoverflow 94 stackunderflow 94 syntaxerror 94 timeout 95 typecheck 95 undefined 88 undefinedfilename 95 undefinedresource 96 undefinedresult 96 unimplemented 96 unmatchedmark 97 unregistered 96 VMerror 97 PostScript Tips Matching Fonts 100 Three Common Don ts 100 Preview CAT editor 43 Print jobs 75 Print editing files in 76 Print setting global options 79 Print jobs Previewing 75 Print preview 161 Opening CAT editor from 76 Printer Calibrating with CAT editor 31 Creating configurations 17 Default configurations 12 Driver options 14 Output options 16 Setting parameters 13 Setup 13 Printing 24 bit color 119 Bitmap files 58 Controlling color 25 Controlling quality 20 Order setting priority 53 Over network 54 PostScript to file 61 Reprint 61 Resolution 80 Setting output options 60 Setting parameters 11 Setting spooler options 52 Text under image 59 To disk file 60 Profiles CAM 26 Publishing Spool queues 54 R Remote RIP Server Commands 146 Reprint 61 Resolution in PostScript files 118 Printing 80 RIP Running multiple instances 108 S Screening Options 14 Separations Plates 63 Working with 62 Settings Memory 83 Printer 13 Setup Printer 13 Spline editing CAT 44 Spool queue Adding 48 Assigning a printer to 12 Naming 49 Previewing print jobs 74 Publishing 54 Removing 49 Setting global options 52 Setting options 50 Spooler Setting options 52
69. After Job Browse Browse Cancel Help Making and saving printer settings Changing the default output options The Output Options setting within the Setup window specifies the port to which your output device is connected If the port shown is incorrect click on the down arrow in the list box displaying the port connection A list of possible ports is displayed with up and down arrows on the right side of the list to enable you to scroll through it Oc 5350 Setup r Output Options gt Plot Mode 34 eri User Defined LPT2 5 LPT3 Print Options Print Control E Colour Bi directional C Monochrome C LefttoRight IV Fast Right to Left M Automatic cutter MER Speed M Dont print top spaces a ri m Automatic wiper 6000 dols sec Use XY calibration Enhanced Mode Jouadpass x Horizontal repeat fi times r Ink Control Ink Management Click on the port to which your output device is connected to select it Note Whenever you change a setting within the Setup window click on the OK button to save your setting and return to the Printer Setup dialog box Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Creating and saving printer configurations Open the Printer Setup dialog box for the printer you want to create a configuration for Select No configuration Change settings manually in the Configurations edit box Clic
70. Chapter 5 Advanced Features Printing bitmap files 58 Setting output options 60 Working with separations 62 Printing epilogue pages 64 Marking files as inactive 65 Using Oc Server macros while printing 67 Oc Server Macro Language 67 Interactive mode 70 Displaying the transcript window 70 Using interactive mode 70 Chapter 6 Previewing Previewing a job to a printer 74 Previewing jobs in a spool queue 74 Previewing jobs not in a spool queue 75 What can I do in the Previewer 76 Setting global preview options 79 Chapter 7 Managing Memory Settings Introduction 82 Viewing memory settings 83 Building bitmap files 83 What do the memory settings mean 84 Chapter 8 Troubleshooting PostScript error messages 88 Oc Server error messages 98 PostScript tips 100 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Appendix A Optimum System Configuration Hard disk subsystem 102 Processors Operating system 102 Hardware Abstraction Layer HAL 103 Threads and multitasking 104 Updating Windows NT from uni to multiprocessor mode 104 Physical memory RAM 105 Appendix B Running simultaneous instances Introduction 108 Configurations section 109 Performance section 109 Responsiveness section 110 Appendix C Colors Working with colors 112 Ways of describing colors 112 Color Spaces 113 Color Space Conversion 114 Maintaining color consistency 115 Choosing printer profiles 115 Determining input files 116 Adding n
71. Check the directory where files are stored v Manually select a directory where files for this print queue are stored FARIPI Spoall Browse Click on Rip 2 tab and repeat steps 1 and 2 Enter the same directory in the above box The job present in Rip 1 queue is now also available in Rip 2 queue OGSL 6 2 Load and Job Sharing Prerequisites These two print sharing options are available along with the Dual Rip option so you need the Dual Rip dongle to be set to use them Otherwise the options are greyed Note The Load Job sharing options will only work via the network and not from the OGSL application itself Load sharing Note Load and Job sharing are only available for new jobs sent from workstations Principle When you send a job to any printer part of a same load sharing the job is printed not inevitably on the selected printer but on the load sharing printer with the shortest queue Example Printer A and Printer B are part of the Load Sharing 1 group You need to print a 50 pages document You send it to Printer A OGSL checks the queues of every printer belonging to load sharing 1 Printer A has 10 active jobs in its queue Since Printer B has no active jobs in its queue your document is printed on Printer B 17 Job sharing 18 Principle When you send a job to any printer part of a job sharing the job is printed not only on that printer but on all the printers part of the same j
72. File Open dialog box Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual The FileFilter parameter changes the files searched for and displayed in the dialog box The format is File DescriptionlFilterlFile Description 2IFilter2 For example PostScript Filesl PSIAII Files searches for files with the extension PS when the user selects PostScript Files from a list box and searches for when the user selects All Files InitialDirectory sets the directory to do the search in Defaults to the directory in which Windows was installed Returns The complete file name plus path that the user selected if OK was pressed else 0 if Cancel was pressed GetPrinterName Returns the name of the current printer as shown in the Properties box when you click on the Spool Queue icon below the button bar GetSelectedFile QueueNumber Returns the complete path of the first file selected from one of the spooler queues If the QueueNumber parameter is not passed both the active and inactive queues are searched in that order for a selected file If QueueNumber is 1 only the inactive queue is searched If it is 0 only the active queue is searched Returns 0 if no files selected else the complete path amp filename of selected file If TestParam MacroToExec Determines whether or not to execute a macro The macro executes if TestParam is not 0 else it does not execute if TestParam is 0 The second argument mus
73. Halftone type Click OK Modifying a profile configuration From the Printer Setup dialog box select Colour Screening amp Antialiasing From the Configuration list top of dialog box select No configuration Change settings manually From the list of CAMs next to the type of input source you want to use click the arrow and select a Linotype ICC profile Click the Setup button next to the list box A Setup ICC Profile Configurations dialog box appears At the top there is a list of Available Profile Configurations displaying the Name Type and Description for each available profile Click the Name of the profile configuration you want to modify That profile s Configuration Properties appear Click the arrow on the list to select the property you want to modify When finished click Save Click Exit Setup Creating a new profile configuration From the Printer Setup dialog box select Colour Screening amp Antialiasing From the Configuration list top of dialog box select No configuration Change settings manually From the list of CAMs next to the type of input source you want to use click the arrow and select a Linotype ICC profile Click the Setup button next to the list box A Setup ICC Profile Configurations dialog box appears Select an input profile corresponding to your input device scanner or the default profile Select an output profile along with media Select a proxy file if you are simulating another p
74. If or IfElse For example suppose you want to input a file name using the GetFileName function and you want to print that file only if OK was pressed GetFileName returned non 0 else not You could do the following if Dup GetFileName Print Dup 1 The first Dup duplicates the name returned by GetFileName which is embedded into the If function The second Dup duplicates the copy of the file name and passes it as the first parameter to Print Returns A copy of the top object on the parameter stack or the parameter passed in to Dup FirstRun Tests whether this is the first time the Oc Server has been run since installation Returns 1 if first run since install else 0 GetColourDepth Returns the bits per pixel per color plane for the current printer A halftoning printer can print up to 8 bits 256 colors and a continuous tone printer can print up to 24 bits 3 bytes or 1 6 million colors Returns 1 if halftoning printer 8 if continuous tone printer GetColourSpace Returns the number of color planes supported by the current printer Returns 1 if monochrome printer 3 if RGB printer 4 if CMYK printer GetFileName Prompt Open File FileFilter InitialDirectory Windows Directory Displays a File Open dialog box and allows the user to select a file The dialog box can be configured by passing optional parameters The Prompt parameter is used to replace the title of the
75. If wildcards are specified first file in new search is returned else next file Returns Valid filename or O if there are no more files Search is done with flags A NORMAL unless other flags are specified in attribs MakeDirectory filename Returns 0 if no error 1 if error occurs DeleteDirectory filename Returns 0 if no error 1 if error occurs AttribToStr atr Converts attributes returned by atr to a string form Attrib filename setattrib Returns attributes of files if no setattrib specified else nothing and sets attributes If attributes returned they are in the form of a number that can be converted to a string form via the AttribToStr function Attribute characters are AHNRDSV for ARCHIVE HIDDEN Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual NORMAL READONLY DIRECTORY SYSTEM TEMPORARY Open filename mode Mode is combination of the following chars CDXPRWV Returns Handle or 1 on error Close handle Closes a file handle opened by Open Write handle string Writes string to file handle opened by Open Returns Count of bytes written Read handle count Returns read string from file handle opened by Open Seek handle count origin Moves to a position in a file Handle is the file name count is the number of bytes origin is the starting point Beep Value 0 Creates a beep sound Value may change the sound depending on your system setup Returns Nothing C
76. Installation Manual contains instructions for installing the appropriate software and setting up workstations When you are ready to print to the Server from within your application select Page Setup and then Print For example Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Suppose you have created a printable file in Microsoft Word Version 6 0 First select Page Setup from the File menu to specify Margins Paper Size Paper Source and Layout Page Setup Margins Paper Size if Paper Source if Layout Top pur Preview Bottom 254 cm fF Left 217 cm G Right 217 cm El Butter focm fF From Edge Header 125cm E Margins Footer 1 25 cm E Apply To Whole Document z 8 Then select Print from the File menu to specify print details such as the number of copies required and page ranges Printer Print What Document Copies f amp Page Range Current Page O Selection NIC Pages Enter page numbers and or page ranges c separated by commas For example 1 3 5 12 Print to File Print Jan Pages in Range X Collate Copies Printing from an application 17 The Print dialog box contains a Printer button Click on this button to display the Print Setup window where you can select and set the appropriate Oc Server printer as the default printer Print Setup Default Printer Oc 5350 Queue 1 Printers Options Oc 5350 Queue 1 n
77. Introduction About this manual This manual is aimed at explaining the 8 colours system on the CS5090 printers configuration m calibration and profiles m dilutions m use of the 8 colours m pros and cons of the 8 colours Note This manual is an addendum to the CS5090 user manual and does not replace it This manual only refers to the 8 colours version 6 CS 5090 8 colours Further documentation This manual is dedicated to the specific use of the 8 colours To get more information about the general use of the CS5090 printer you can refer to m the CS5090 User Manual m the Online Maintenance and troubleshooting guide the Product Information Sheets available on www oce com Introduction 7 Introducing the 8 colours The Oc CS5090 range are wide format colour printers that give professional quality output with all the brilliance and gloss of liquid ink These printers reduce production time while maintaining exceptional graphics quality In order to increase even more the print quality and consequently to respond to the expectations of users Oc offers an innovative eight colour technology for superb colour results and breakthrough printing performance With the CS5090 you can choose between two different modes m The Productivity mode two sets of cartridges using 4 colours CMYK It offers a great improvement in terms of print speed m The Quality mode one set of 8 different colours CMYK Ci Mj C
78. MYK space Steps 2 and 3 of this process ensure that the output colors on your print copy match as closely as possible the colors on the scanned original when using the appropriate profiles Choosing printer profiles Oc provides you with printer profiles adapted to the printer for a variety of Oc inks and paper Each combination of ink and paper has its own profile since colors can differ depending on the type of paper and ink For best results use the profile designated for the particular combination of paper ink chosen Oc printer profiles have names that enable you to identify the ink paper combination for which it is designated This string joined by underscores designates in order the type of printer the type of ink the type of paper and a unique number and ends with the extension cam Example 5350_ga_glospap_001 cam You use this printer profile for the Oc 5350 with Graphic Arts ink and glossy paper Colors 115 Determining input files Using the input device profile The input device determines the proper input profiles to use For instance if the files for print originate from a scanner you must use the appropriate scanner profile If your input device did not come with profiles contact its vendor Generating a profile You can also generate an input profile by using an appropriate Color Management software package Commercially available CMS packages such as Linotype Hell ScanOpen are suitable Usi
79. Oc Server to use the actual area of the object on the page to create and size the preview If you use the Auto detect image size option in this way you must recreate your preview image by clicking on the Build preview again button in the Create Preview tab Tiling and Cropping 47 Specifying final image size 48 Select the Tile amp Crop tab Tile amp Crop Create Preview m Select the area to print Select the entire picture Width Height 805 7 mm nes mm Sizes X Offset Y Offset fo mm fo mm M Use tiling mode Tiles to pint m Set the size of one tile Width Height Froc 7 mm 1462 mm Sizes m Set the overlap between tiles H Overlap V Overlap o mm o mm Select measurement units The top section of this tab headed Final print size displays the final current size of the image created when all the tiles are joined together This would normally be larger than the paper you are printing onto To specify a final print size either Click on the down arrow in the edit box and choose from the drop down list or Type the desired Width or Height of the final image in the appropriate box and then press the Tab key When you enter a Width or Height and press Tab the Server will automatically size the other dimension proportionally for you Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Specifying tile size Select the Tile amp Crop tab Tile
80. Oc Graphics Server L EE Startup Manual Oce Technologies B V a Trademarks Products in this manual are referred to by their trade names In most if not all cases these designations are claimed as trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Copyright Oc Technologies B V Venlo The Netherlands 1999 All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced copied adapted or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Oc Oc Technologies B V makes no representation or warranties with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose Further Oc Technologies B V reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes Code number 7055891 Edition 1 2 Cs Table of Contents Chapter 1 Read Me First Introduction 8 What is Oc Graphics Server L 8 Oc Graphics Server L RIP 8 Oc Graphics Server L on the network 8 Oc Graphics Server user documentation 9 Installation Manual 9 Start Up Manual 9 Reference Manual 9 Online Help files 10 How to use this manual 11 Chapter 2 Printing from an application Settings from within the PostScript Printer Description PPD 14 Printing from Windows applications 16 Printing from Apple Macintosh app
81. Options SpoolerHelpContents SpoolerOptions StartSpooler StopSpooler ViewErrors ViewTranscriptWindow These functions all have exactly the same effect as selecting the command of the same name from the Oc Server main window menus For commands that bring up a dialog box that prompts for user input use the WaitDialog function to determine when the dialog box has been dismissed by the user For example About WaitDialog Show About box was shown brings up the About dialog box waits for the user to press OK and then displays the message About box was shown Returns All these functions return nothing AddMenu Menu_Title Item_Title Macro Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual This function adds a new menu command to the main window drop down menu with the name Menu_Title The new command will have the title displayed in the menu of the text passed in for the Jtem Title parameter The macro functions passed in for the Macro parameter will be executed when the user selects the new item Remember to enclose the Macro parameter within braces and If a drop down menu with name Menu_ Title is already present the new command will be added to that menu If Menu Title does not exist a new drop down menu with this name will be created If the command tem_Title is already present in Menu_Title the Macro parameter specified will replace any existing macros Any u
82. Queue Icon Bar represents a printer The presence of the icon in the Bar means that the device represented has a spool queue assigned to it and is set up ready to receive print jobs m re Fr Queue 1 Queue 2 Queue 3 This icon in your Print Queue Icon Bar represents the Oc Server Previewer The Previewer does not produce hard copy printouts but displays files spooled to it on screen for you to preview Printing from Oc Graphics Server 23 Automatically starting print jobs Le E Start Au Stop W Pause Abort 24 The Oc Server will automatically send any files found in the Active Job List to the appropriate printer when the spooler is started Click on the START button on the Button Bar 2 to start the Server spooler Click on the STOP button on the Button Bar when you want the Server to complete the current job but accept no more jobs from the Active Jobs list Click on the PAUSE button on the Button Bar when you want to pause the automatic printing process The Server will complete the processing of an image but will not send it to the printer If a job was printing the Server will complete that image but will not send additional copies When PAUSE is selected a dialog box opens on screen prompting you to select OK when you wish to continue Click on the ABORT button on the Button Bar and push the RESET button on the printer console when you want to cancel the current job The Server will the
83. Select m the resolution required for the print 300 or 600 dpi m the number of passes for the print The number of passes indicates how many times the cartridges must fire to lay down the ink for a complete scan line When increasing the amount of passes a higher print quality will be obtained the chance of defects like banding and bleeding will decrease Whereas less print passes means higher speed 29 30 The tables summarize the predefined passes for every option except User defined 1x4 cartridge set Plot mode User defined Production Photo Enhanced 2x4 cartridge set Plot mode User defined Production Photo Enhanced 1x8 cartridge set Plot mode User defined Production Photo Enhanced Number of passes Ten passes Two passes Four passes Six passes Number of passes Five passes used to improve quality Two passes Three passes Four passes Number of passes Ten passes Two passes Four passes Six passes Plot mode Select the quality mode you want to set for the print Print options Choose the print option you want to use For CS5090 4 colour m Monochrome a CMYK For CS5090 8 colour a CMYK a 6 ink CMYK a 8 ink CMYK a CMYKOG m 6 ink CMYKOG Automatic cutter When this option is checked the print is automatically cut once printing and drying are over when roll is selected as the supply type Paper option menu of the printer OGSL 6 2 Don t print top s
84. Server Previewer provides you with the following three additional buttons on the right side of the CAT Editor graph Clicking on this button to select it will close the CAT Editor and d save any changes you have made X Clicking on this button to select it will close the CAT Editor without saving any changes made ES Clicking on this button to select it replaces the full version of the F4 CAT Editor on screen with a reduced version for convenience in working Previewing 77 CAT Editor CTIOIxX Gamma Brightness Contrast DotGain lx e RGB env A More Darker 0 Brighter Brighter Less Brighter Click on the button to restore the full version of the CAT Editor to your screen Click on the CATs button again in the Preview Button and Information Bar to allow for a choice of Full or Split Screen viewing Exit Zoom 1 1 cars Pes Printer B v Full Previews 50 Split Previews x 0 2 Y 10 Selectable Split Previews CAT Editor Changes you make here have no effect on the printed output unless you save them to a new CAT file or manually add your changes to the existing CAT you have set for that queue For more information on color control see chapter 3 Controlling Color amp Print Quality on page 19 Exit Click on this button to exit the Previewer and return to the Oc Server main screen Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Setting global preview options
85. This function can only be used within scripts called through the Execute Script Before field in the Advanced Options dialog box The string passed in as Msg is logged to the Oc Server log file Use this function to log errors which occur during script execution SetExternPrintCount Count This function can only be used within scripts called through the Execute Script Before field in the Advanced Options dialog box It sets the count of prints done by the script that was executed if any Use this function to inform the Oc Server of the total count of prints done by the script file Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual SetExternRetCode RetCode This function can only be used within scripts called through the Execute Script Before field in the Advanced Options dialog box Scripts use this function to tell the Oc Server what to do once script execution has terminated By default the Server will skip the job file whose execution caused the script to be called By setting different values through this function however it is possible to change this behavior The possible values for RetVal and the corresponding behavior are 0 Execute the job file through the interpreter as if it were a PostScript file 1 Skip the job file default This means that the job file is treated like a normal PostScript job would be after being successfully interpreted through the spooler 2 Treat the job file as if an error had occurred during execu
86. a dialog box or a Choose Index from the Help menu in the main window of the Oc Server or m Choose the Oc Server Help icon from the Oc Graphics Server program folder Oc Graphics Server L also has an online Quick Start Guide tutorial intended for new users who would like an introduction to the product It explains just the main features of Oc Server and contains step by step procedures for carrying out some basic tasks with the software To open the Quick Start Guide m Choose the Quick Start Guide icon from the Oc Graphics Server program folder Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual How to use this manual This manual is divided into the following chapters Chapter 1 Read Me First introduces you to the product and explains how to use the user documentation in general and this manual in particular Chapter 2 Printing from an application describes how to print a PostScript file from an imaging application to Oc Graphics Server L from an Apple Macintosh or Windows PC workstation Chapter 3 Printing from Oc Graphics Server describes how to use the basic features of the Oc Graphics Server main window and how to manage and print files arriving in spool queues Chapter 4 Optimizing printing describes how to set printing options such as paper source image rotation and scaling from the Oc Server main window Chapter 5 Tiling and Cropping describes how to use the Tile and Crop module built into the Oc Server
87. a good adjustment Calibration and Profiles 21 Profiles New Profiles for the 8 colours With the launching of the 8 colours and the use of diluted inks Oc had to define new profiles that are optimized for every ink media combination To obtain the best results from the Quality mode use these profiles in combination with the standard colour calibration procedure Note 4 colours profiles cannot be used for the 8 colours printer Why new profiles 22 As 4 colours profiles cannot be used for the 8 colours printer Oc defined new profiles for the 8 colours in order to prevent negative effects such as bleeding drying coalescence Profiles were made only for the media for which photographic quality could be guaranteed This is the reason why you will not find profiles for all existing media Note You can find more information about the media in the Product Information Sheets available in your OGSL directory OGSL Info P roduct_Information_ Sheets You can also refer to www oce com for more details CS 5090 8 colours CS5090 How to use the 8 colours Chapter 5 8 colours driver for OGSL CS 5090 Driver v To display the printer settings 1 In OGSL right click the printer icon 2 Select Properties 3 Choose among the list the driver for the 8 colours Make sure you select the correct one because two drivers are available for the CS5090 m CS5090 4 colour m CS5090 8 colour Printer Setup Oc 5090
88. alizing 46 Using from print previewer 76 Color Index Banding 119 Calibrating printer for 31 Defined in PostScript files 118 Maintaining consistency 115 Options 14 Printing 24 bit 119 Separations 62 Space Conversion 114 Spaces 113 Theory 112 Using CAM profiles 26 Using CAT files 28 Commands Oc Remote RIP Server 146 Oc Server command line parameters 145 Oc Server index 128 Configuration Printer 12 Setting screening 22 Tab 13 Configurations Setting up printer 17 Copies Making 61 Curves Editing CAT color 42 D Directory Temporary 85 Dot Gain CAT editor 43 E Error Diffusion Halftone type 21 Errors Oc Server messages 98 PostScript 88 159 F File Marking as inactive 65 Printing out header 64 Printing out name 64 Printing to 60 Files AUTOEXEC MAC 69 Bitmap 83 Deleting after printing 53 Editing CAT 41 Non PostScript 58 Temporary 85 FM Halftone type 21 Fonts Matching 100 118 Frame mode 83 G Gamma Adjusting in CAT editor 43 H Halftone Screening Dot shapes 24 Screen angles 23 Screen Frequencies 24 Halftone type Error Diffusion 21 FM 21 Standard 21 Hard disk 102 Hardware Abstraction Layer HAL 103 Header File 64 Help Oc Poster Layout 151 el l Icons Changing 123 Installation Multiprocessor mode 105 Interactive mode 70 Internal Tracking 66 J Jobs Viewing before printing 75 Macro Oc Server Macro Language 67 128 Running while printing 67 Manua
89. anation The printer configuration requested by a PostScript job could not be satisfied Reason If this error occurred during printer selection you may not have enough memory or disk space available If the error occurred during print job execution the job may be requesting a paper type that is not available or a print resolution that is not supported Solution Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job Error dictstackoverflow Explanation The memory available to the dictionary stack has been exceeded Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen for a correctly formed PostScript job as the memory available to the dictionary stack is much larger with the RIP than it should ever need to be This is probably caused by a corrupt PostScript file or an interpreter dependent file header Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error dictstackunderflow Explanation An attempt has been made to remove the last element from the dictionary stack when it was already empty Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen for a correctly formed PostScript job This is probably caused by a
90. anual The consistent style that is used in this manual enables you to quickly become familiar with the use of this manual and ultimately the Oc Graphics Server L Description Each section or subsection contains a description of the feature or operation identified in the title It might also include possible applications as well as any guidelines that you should bear in mind Procedures A description is followed by a procedure A procedure always begins with a phrase which briefly describes the procedure followed by a series of numbered steps that take you step by step through all phases of performing the operation Figures and tables Figures and tables are titled and numbered sequentially throughout this manual Figures include pictures of product components screen dumps examples and diagrams of concepts discussed in the description Attention getters There are several types of information to which we draw your attention This information is classified as follows Note n a Note information is given about matters which ensure the proper functioning of the machine or application but useful advice concerning its operation may also be given Attention The information that follows Attention is given to avoid damage to your copy or original the copier or printer data files etc Caution The information that follows Caution is given to prevent you suffering personal injury 92 Oc Graphics Server L Sta
91. are two ways to add a printable file stored elsewhere on your system to a print queue The Print Queue icon method Click on the Print Queue icon representing the print queue you wish to add a file to and the option Add File To Queue will be displayed Select this option to open the Add File To Queue dialog box within which you can locate your file and add it to the queue Add File To Queue ES Desktop Y c System Disk amp RPPLESHRRE Cheeser alias O Coldview List Files of Type The drag and drop method Locate the file you wish to add to a print queue If you are running Remote RIP Client under Windows 95 or Windows NT drag the file and drop it in your Remote Client Window If you are running Remote RIP Client on an Apple Macintosh workstation drag the file and drop it on the Remote RIP Client icon You may find it convenient to create an alias for this icon on your desktop for this purpose Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual The Send lt filename gt To Server window will open Sending scan3 tif To Server Destination Details File scan3 tif Queue spggr 1 vj Progress Select the print queue you wish to send your file to from the list box beside the Queue prompt in the Destination Details section of the Send filename To Server window Then click on the Send button When your file has been transferred the title of the Send button will change to Co
92. ate thread Thus one instance of the Server may be sending to an output device while another is interpreting a PostScript file Even if you have a single processor machine multiple window applications benefit from multithreading because threads can be associated with different windows one thread can be calculating while another is waiting for input Updating Windows NT from uni to multiprocessor mode 104 To take advantage of the multiprocessor capabilities in Windows NT you must install an additional processor in the computer running it Once the processor has been installed various settings within Windows NT need to be changed so that the operating system can take full advantage of the new processor This is made simple with the UpToMP utility that is available from Microsoft or the supplier of your hardware To use the utility you must know the drive your Windows NT installation software is on this can be a floppy disk CD ROM or network drive and the type of processor you are installing this information should be included with the processor Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Please follow these instructions Choose Run from the Start menu Enter A UPTOMP at the command line and click on OK Specify the drive that contains the installation software in the New HAL file path edit box and choose your processor type HAL from the HAL to Install pull down list box Click on OK The updated system files will
93. ation that created it and reduce the number of control points in the path In some applications such as FreeHand there is an option in the print dialogue box to split complex paths this may be a quick and easy solution if your application supports this option If you cannot locate the problem path try giving the interpreter more memory to work with You can do this in the RIP by going into the Memory Settings tab within the System Settings dialog box and setting a lower value for option B amount to use for rasterizing This should free up some memory for the interpreter to build more complex paths Error nocurrentpoint Explanation The PostScript file has tried to draw a line from point A to point B but point A doesn t exist This error may occur when drawing vector images or rendering fonts Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen unless the PostScript file is corrupt Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error rangecheck Explanation The PostScript file has tried to set an operand to be outside the range acceptable to the operator For example it tried to access element 11 in a 10 element array Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen unless the PostScript file is cor
94. ayed Remote Connection Status The Remote Connection Status message indicates successful network connections and which type of Remote RIP Clients it is available for For example the message PC Connected means that the Server has made successful network connections and is available for Remote RIP Clients on workstations running under the Windows 95 NT operating systems The message MAC Connected means the Server is available for Macintosh Client workstations and the message PC MAC Connected means the Server is available for both PC and Macintosh Client workstations An error message is displayed if the Server fails to connect to the network Setting the Administrator and the Power User passwords When the Oc Server Remote RIP Server is first installed quasar is set as both the Administrator and the Power User password Set your own passwords to replace quasar You have to set the Administrator password before you can set the Power User password Using the Remote RIP Software 71 Select the Setup button on the right side of the Remote RIP Server Window The Server Setup dialog box will open Server Setup Change Power User Password Change Administrator Password About Server Close v To set the Administrator password 1 Select the Change Administrator Password button The Change Administrator Password dialog box will open Change Administrator Password Administrator Password New Administra
95. be copied onto the hard disk and the system will restart Windows NT will now be running in multiprocessor mode Physical memory RAM The minimum recommended RAM to be installed in the machine is 64 MB for each instance of Oc Server to be run The values in the Memory Settings tab within the System Settings dialog box should be set so that each instance of Oc Server has its own area of memory The minimum and maximum physical memory limit values in this dialog box should be set to between 12 and 20MB to reduce the probability of memory swapping taking place Refer to chapter 7 Managing Memory Settings on page 81 for further information Optimum System Configuration 105 106 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Appendix B Running simultaneous instances This appendix provides general guidelines for achieving optimal performance when running multiple instances of the Oc Server on the same computer 107 Introduction The Oc Server can run multiple RIP instances on the same computer Windows NT can support multiple processors built in to the operating system For example if your machine has two processors you can run a separate instance on each processor This feature has several advantages If you are driving a relatively slow output device then one RIP can interpret a file while another sends to the device In this way you can provide the device with a constant
96. bjects which contain bitmaps patterns or crosshatches If the current printer selected within the Oc Server has a significantly different resolution from the printer for which the PostScript was created such objects may appear corrupted Commands using printer specific color spaces The PostScript file may specify object colors in a particular printer s native color space For example the colors may be specified in devicegray or devicergb color spaces The Oc Server will convert these colors to its current printer s color space using standard PostScript Level 2 procedures Commands dealing with VM virtual memory Each PostScript interpreter has a certain amount of VM virtual memory associated with it If a given Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual application creates PostScript files using more VM than Oc Server has available a PostScript VMerror will result Note PostScript VMerrors are nearly always due to a lack of available disk space on the Oc Server for example not enough space to store scans Often many PostScript generation options can be selected from within the application In general you need to select options that would include the maximum amount of information within the PostScript files For example page size and fonts should be included in the PostScript file The paper size selected should closely match the paper for which the document was created Also the creating application should be configur
97. bs from one list to the other and insert them at a specific position first drag them from one list and drop them on the other Then insert them by clicking between the two jobs where you want them to be inserted m Any single selected job can be dropped onto any Print Queue icon and it will be immediately printed to that queue rather than the queue where it is resident unless there is a job already running through the interpreter v Keyboard functions When dropping a job on a Print Queue icon you can hold down the Ctrl and or Shift keys on your keyboard for increased flexibility a Drop a job on a Print Queue Icon to print the job to that queue Hold down the Ctrl key and drop a job on a Print Queue Icon to move the job to that queue permanently Hold down the Shift key and drop a job on a Print Queue Icon to preview the job to that queue Printing from Oc Graphics Server 29 Deleting jobs from queues Drop selected jobs on to the Discard Icon Discard Controlling the Server main screen from a workstation Installing the Oc Server Remote RIP Server on your network and the Oc Server Remote RIP Client on your workstation will enable you to both see the Server main screen and carry out many of the functions described in this section from your workstation For further details on the Oc Remote RIP Client software please see chapter 7 Using the Remote RIP Software on page 67 Note Advanced printing featu
98. c Server Macro Language functions Advanced Features 69 Interactive mode Interactive mode allows you to type in and send PostScript commands to Oc Server This feature is particularly useful for troubleshooting problems Displaying the transcript window The section of the Oc Server main screen that displays the Active and the Inactive Job Lists is also used for the Transcript Window display You can choose to display the Transcript Window to show any messages generated by the Oc Server as it interprets and prints your jobs instead of displaying the Active and the Inactive Job Lists To display the transcript window From the View menu choose View Transcript Window The screen display will change from the Active Inactive Job Lists to the Transcript Window When the Transcript Window is displayed on your screen the View menu option to View Transcript Window is replaced by the View Spool Queue Window option Select View Spool Queue Window to replace the Transcript Window with the Active and the Inactive Jobs Lists on your screen Using interactive mode 70 The View menu also has an Interactive Mode option Selecting this option when the Server spooler is not running and the Transcript Window is displayed causes a PS gt prompt to appear in the Transcript Window You can then type PostScript commands at this prompt and your command s will be sent to the Oc Server when you press the Enter key Use the Backspace ke
99. cal effects in your printer such as media and ink types The Oc Server Graphic Server L comes with generic CAT files to adjust the colors for your printers in order to obtain maximum benefit from the Oc profiles Selecting a CAT file Click on the down arrow in the Select CAT list box to select the appropriate CAT to apply to your print job Updating the list of CAT files Click on the Update button to ensure the Select CAT list comprises the full range of currently existing CAT files Launching the CAT Editor Click on the Edit button to launch the CAT Editor if you wish to create your own CAT file or edit your selected CAT Click on the RGB Mode button to define the colors in terms of red green and blue ink intensities Click on the CMYK Mode button to define the colors in terms of cyan magenta yellow and black ink intensities The CAT Editor displays the relationship between the input color intensities color specified by your PostScript print job and the output color intensities color output by your printer as four different curves on a graph e g one curve for cyan one for magenta one for yellow and one for black The horizontal axis x axis of the graph represents input intensities from 0 to 100 The vertical axis y axis of the graph represents output intensities from 0 to 100 Controlling Color amp Print Quality 29 Suppose your PostScript print job specifies an input of 50 magenta You want to know what pe
100. checked a Retry dialog box will be displayed on screen and a timer will be set If there is an error the Oc Server will automatically try to resend until the timer reaches zero before continuing with the next job An alarm sounds while the Retry dialog box is displayed and you can pause the Oc Server by clicking on the Pause button in the dialog box Retry Information Oc 5350 Connection attempt t timed out Time before auto retry 9 seconds Infinite Retries If you check both the Show messages on screen while logging and the No countdown message boxes options a warning dialog box will be displayed on screen if there is an error You will then need to click on OK in the warning dialog box before the Oc Server will continue with the next job 5 A Cannot open this PortRite port Leaving both the Show messages on screen while logging and the No countdown message boxes options unchecked means the job will produce an error and Oc Server will continue with the next job No warning dialog boxes will be displayed on screen Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Chapter 7 Using the Remote RIP Software This chapter describes how to set up and use the Oc Graphics Remote RIP software on client workstations The Oc Server Remote RIP Server runs under the Windows NT Server 4 0 operating system Remote RIP Clients can be set up on workstations running under the Windows 95
101. click on the To Fit button to automatically scale the printing area of your image to the sizes set in the View Width and View Height edit boxes Note Due to the way in which some PostScript jobs are created page positioning may not always operate as expected If you have problems with page positioning for a particular Post Script file uncheck the Use Page Positioning option on the Paper Sources tab to enlarge the job using Oc Poster Layout or Tile amp Crop Similarly when configuring spool queues within Oc Server in order to print files created by the Oc Poster Layout application the Use Page Positioning option in the Paper Sources tab must be unchecked This is because Oc Poster Layout creates its own page sizes Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Rotating the image The Page Sizing and Positioning dialog window has a Rotate By option To rotate your image on the paper click on the appropriate option Choices are 0 90 180 270 Page Sizing And Positioning Ea E Units Std Sizes finches In a3 x Rotate By Co 3G C 180 C 270 Left Bottom fo In 1 382 In Width Height Scale Io Fit H enr V Ent Keep aspect Select print roll view N View Width View Height Ssi 54 074 In Fit in Window im mi Edit image area within page i NN EN EN Left click tabs to stretch page centre to move Right click for alignment menu If you check 0 rotatio
102. cons for any new queues added are displayed along a second row on the Bar Removing a spool queue Simply click on the icon representing the last queue added to your system and select the Remove Last Queue option from the drop down menu Note This option is not available when only one icon is displayed on the Print Queue Icon Bar Naming a spool queue Select the Properties option from the drop down menu of the Print Queue icon representing the output device you wish to name the spool queue for Add File To Queue Print File Preview File 1 Oc test Chart Add Another Queue 2 Remove Last Queue Spool Queues 49 Selecting Properties opens the Printer Setup main dialog box Printer Setup Queue 3 x Printer T Oc 5350 Setup Configuration BEST QUALITY COATED PAPER hoai Paper Sources Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Separations Output Advanced Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations Name to use for this spool queue Queue 3 Manually select a directory where files for this print queue are stored Browse New jobs appear as inactive Cancel Help ee ee Click on the Print Queue tab and then key in your own name for the spool queue in the edit box beneath the prompt Name to use for this spool queue Click on OK at the bottom of the Printer Setup dialog box The name you keyed in will be saved and displayed below the icon on
103. converts linefeed characters into carriage return linefeed thus corrupting the image Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job Ensure that the images are not corrupted If the error persists then contact your supplier Error VMerror Explanation A PostScript virtual memory error occurred Reason This error may be caused by the RIP being unable to access the Directory to use for temp files setting from the Memory Settings tab within the System Settings dialog box The error can also be caused by the temporary directory being set correctly but to a root directory for example D Solution Create a new temporary directory on a disk or partition with plenty of free space and set the Directory to use for temp files in the Memory Settings tab to this directory Try giving more virtual memory to the RIP by increasing the difference between the A and B settings in the Memory Settings tab Troubleshooting 97 Oc Server error messages 98 Error UserAbort User signalled an abort causing the print job to be discarded Error W1000 Explanation Data transfer to driver failed Reason While printing the printer driver signalled an error to the RIP Solution If there is also a Driver Error the information displayed here may indicate the exact nature of the error
104. crosoft PC network 16 N Network Appletalk 16 Microsoft PC 16 Novell Netware 18 Other networks 19 Requirements 10 TCP IP 18 Unix 18 Novell Netware network 18 P PC workstations Setting up 22 Setting up as Remote RIP Clients 24 PPD files Aldus 28 Installing 27 Oc Server Mac 27 QuarkXpress 29 Q QuarkXPress 29 31 R Remote RIP Clients Setting up Windows PC 24 T TCP IP network 18 U UNIX network 18 32 Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Oc Graphics Server L ee Oc Poster Layout Oce Oc Technologies B V EIaLO LI Trademarks m Products in this manual are referred to by their trade names In most if not all cases these designations are claimed as trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies arse Copyright Oc Technologies B V Venlo The Netherlands 1998 All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced copied adapted or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Oc Oc Technologies B V makes no representation or warranties with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose Further Oc Technologies B V reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes Code numb
105. ct the Auto option to enter your own Min and Max values Select CMYK or RGB color space as appropriate and enter your values for each of the colors on the grid Clicking on the Default button will clear all the values you have entered on the grid Click on the Update button for the Oc Server to create a CAT from the values entered and display the CAT as a graph in the CAT Editor When entering values manually you must invert the CAT data by clicking the Invert button This obtains the CAT that actually linearizes your printer Controlling Color amp Print Quality 39 v Import from text You can also import ASCII delineated text files to create a CAT for example a table of numbers created within an application such as Excel These numbers can either be imported from a text file stored on your system or from the Windows clipboard 1 Make sure the Select CAT list box within the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab is set to None Launch the CAT Editor 2 Open the CAT Import list box and select the Import from text option Click on OK to open the Import CAT from Data Table dialog box as shown on the next page 3 Follow the instructions at the top of the dialog box to import your values and create a CAT For example Import CAT From Data Table Import CAT From Data Table l First you need to specify a source for the data This can l First you need to specify a source for the data This can leither be from the cli
106. ct the job you wish to preview by clicking on it Hold down the Shift key and drag and drop the job onto the Print queue icon representing the printer you want to preview the file to Using the do button for files in the inactive spool queue Click on the do button beside the name of the job you wish to preview Select Preview File from the do button drop down menu Testcht ps d Change Settings TESTCHTAPF c Print File Preview File Preview for CAT Adjustments Crop Scale and Tile The Oc Server will preview that job to the printer for which the job is queued Using the Preview File button for files stored on your hard disk Select the job you wish to preview by clicking on it 2 Click on the Preview File button in the Oc Server Button Bar The Server will preview that job to the selected printer Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Previewing jobs not in a spool queue When there is a PostScript file elsewhere on the network that you wish to preview you can still find and preview it from within the Server main screen v Using the Print Queue icon 1 Click on the Print Queue icon representing the printer you wish to preview the file to and then select Preview File from the drop down menu A Preview EPS File dialog window will open Preview EPS File Queue 3 2 x Look in J Test Suite PS e f Emme 2 Filename Files of type All Files Y Cancel Help
107. cted the dryer firmware is active it monitors the ambient temperature and humidity but does not take into account any printing operation In this case the dryer is not activated m Automatic when this mode is selected the dryer firmware monitors the ambient temperature and humidity and calculates the best drying time to apply for each print job It can also increase the output temperature whenever the print job requires it for e g when a chosen print mode results in an increasing print speed the increase is automatically detected by the firmware which adjusts the drying time consequently m On when this mode is selected it applies maximum dryer output temperature for every print job whatever the ambient temperature and humidity is m Fans only when this mode is selected the dryer is working but without the heaters swithched on It is blowing only cold air It is advised to select this mode when using specific media that do not support heating Blowing cold air prevents the media from curling and deforming Note For more details about the media pleae refer to the Media Product Information Sheets on www oce com OGSL 6 2 CS 5090 8 colours How to use the 8 colours Oc Technologies B V Copyright Oc Technologies B V Venlo The Netherlands 2001 All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced copied adapted or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission
108. d searches This enables you to define more precisely the job or group of jobs for which you are seeking information Suppose for example that you wish to search for information on a job with the filename TESTCHT PS printed to an inkjet printer on spool queue number two on or before the 25th of March 1997 You would enter the search details as shown below Log View D WINDOWS OGSL LOG Lx EXIT OPEN INC PREYS ON VIEW LIST PRINT HELP ABOUT Jobs Logged 316 Items Found 1 File Size 236 0 KB 316 Oc test Chart do 8100 Inkjet 2 C1 T 00 00 43 Define Search DD MM YY Format Inkjet M BySpoolQueue Testcht ps M By File Name g EE From Date By User By Paper 5 o3 a7 F Two points to remember when defining searches m Searches are not case sensitive This means you can type in your search string in either UPPER CASE or lower case or in a Combination of the two m Partial search strings are allowed This means you can type in part of a name in a search edit box e g Inkjet instead of Inkjet Queue 2 in the By Spool Queue edit box In this case Log View will match any spool queue which contains the string Inkjet 62 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Printing search results To print the results of a search click on the PRINT button on the Log View Button Bar The Print Setup dialog window will appear Print Setup 2 x r Printer Name Oc Ser
109. d y axis will be numbered in steps of 20 To turn the grid off select Off as the Grid Divisions setting Select a numerical setting as the Check Divisions option to display indicators sub dividing each grid square For example a Check Divisions setting of 2 50 will display indicators at 50 intervals along each square To remove the indicators select Off as the Check Divisions setting Checkboxes in the Axis Controls section of the CAT Editor Properties dialog box enable you to display the percentage numbers as specified in the Grid Divisions setting along the x axis and the y axis shade in the axes or display neither shading nor percentage numbers along the axes Note 7o save and apply any settings that you make in the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab click on the OK button at the bottom of the tab Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Chapter 4 Spool Queues This chapter explains how to create spool queues and set spool queue options 47 Adding a spool queue 48 The Oc Server automatically assigns a spool queue to each output device represented by an icon in the Print Queue Icon Bar Clicking on any icon in the Print Queue Icon Bar displays a drop down menu of options This menu is specific to the Print Queue icon clicked on and any settings made will only apply to jobs in that print queue Properties Add File To Queue Print File Preview File
110. dard as the Halftone Type the Configure button to the right of the Halftone Type edit box becomes active Click on this button to open the Configure Standard PostScript Screening dialog box Configure Standard PostScript Screening x Screen angles Red Green Blue 15 75 0 Predefined Sets Swap Use Accurate Screens technology Screen frequencies 30 30 30 Iv Automatically use a frequency that will generate upto shades for each ink Dot shape detaut z naipe at 25 50 75 Use above settings in preference to settings in PS file Cancel Select a dot shape The most common way of controlling the halftoning process is by specifying a screen frequency a screen angle and a spot function Consider the method used by most printers in the printing process The printer lays down a fine array of pixels over the printing area The interpreter conceptually lays down a grid also known as a halftone screen over the printer pixel array It then treats each rectangle of the grid as a halftone cell Each cell can then be made to approximate a different color intensity by painting some of the cell s pixels with that color s ink and leaving the rest unpainted In general a square halftone cell N pixels to the side can represent N 1 different intensities The size of the grid is determined by the screen frequency and the printer s resolution usually specified as the number of pixels the printer puts
111. devices connected via the parallel port Please note that driving two printers simultaneously from one Oc Server will generally be slower than running one printer on each of two separate Servers If you have plugged the dongle into the parallel port of your Oc Server but the Server does not start and a dialog box saying Dongle Protection Failed is displayed ensure that the parallel port has been activated in the PC s BIOS setup For further information contact your dealer Installing the Software 11 Installing the Oc Server programs 12 Make sure your hardware protection device dongle is plugged into a parallel port Insert the Oc Server Support disk in the floppy disk drive Insert the CD in the CD ROM drive If your computer supports AUTORUN double click on the CD icon and the setup will start automatically Otherwise follow Step 3 Run EASETUP EXE where E is the drive letter of your CD ROM drive The Oc Server Support Disk Location dialog box will appear The default floppy disk drive is A If this is incorrect for your computer either type in the appropriate drive letter directly or click on the Browse button to select and specify the appropriate drive letter When the drive letter is specified correctly click on OK The Oc Server Install Wizard will load the files that it needs to operate and display a Welcome dialog box After reading this click on the Next gt button You will then be prompted to
112. dia for instance The new 8 color configurations as supplied by Oc make sure that the active dryer is activated only when allowed Halftoning 34 When should I use which halftoning In general we recommend to use the normal inkjet halftoning CS 5090 8 colours Print quality Why doesn t the print quality look as good on A4 prints as on large prints Normally print quality for both A4 and large size prints is identical But in most cases the viewing distance for large size prints is larger compared to A4 which results in less visible graininess and other potential artefacts What is coalescence and why is it more visible with 8 colours Coalescence is the sticking of ink together Because with 8 colour prints more ink light tones is used the physical habit of sticking together will increase By using the Oc configurations and profiles coalescence is minimised What are the differences between 4 colours and 8 colours prints 8 colour prints use light and medium ink to reduce the graininess and improve the sharpness of the images It increases the apparent resolution of images Why do the colours look the same with 4 colours and 8 colours By using light and medium Cyan and Magenta the color gamut is not expanded It only increases the apparent resolution of the image and thus reduce the graininess By using the Oc profiles and the integrated Heidelberg ICC colour management colour differences are minimised
113. ding or Frame Mode In this mode the entire bitmap for a page is built and kept in memory The Oc Server uses this mode if the amount of memory required for the page bitmap is less than the B Amount to use for rasterizing setting specified in the Memory Settings tab The PostScript file is converted directly into this bitmap The main advantage of this mode is speed especially when printing files with large scans in them Managing Memory Settings 83 Banding Mode If the Oc Server finds that the memory required for the page bitmap is too large to fit into its memory it uses banding mode In this mode the Server first interprets your PostScript file converting it into an intermediate format known as a display list Depending upon the settings in the Memory Settings tab the Server then determines an optimum amount of memory to use for a subsection of the page bitmap known as a band It converts the part of the display list that overlaps this band into the band bitmap This band of converted information is transferred to the printer as part of the page The Server then converts the next band for the page into the same memory space that had been occupied by the previous band This mode has the advantage of using much less memory than non banding mode However because the PostScript to bitmap conversion is now essentially a two stage process it may be considerably slower What do the memory settings mean 84 B Amount to
114. down per vertical and horizontal inch A screen frequency of F means the interpreter will use F halftone cells per inch For example a screen frequency of 40 for a Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual 400 dots per inch dpi printer means there will be 400 40 10 pixels per halftone cell this implies 10 1 101 different color intensities Note These halftone screens are defined independently for each of the printer s color planes usually one for each of the inks used by the printer Also each color s halftone screen can be at a different angle relative to the others in fact for best results it should be different This angle is determined by the screen angle The pattern that is used to fill each cell is determined by the spot function This is a PostScript procedure that accepts the coordinate of each pixel in the halftone cell A pixel at the center of the cell has coordinates 0 0 one at the top right corner is numbered 1 1 and one at the bottom left is numbered 1 1 The spot function must return to the interpreter a number within the range 1 and 1 which denotes that pixel s ordering in the halftoning process As the intensity of a color varies from full to none the first pixel not painted with that color is the one whose spot function value is the lowest The Oc Server allows you to enter the screen frequency and angle for each of the printer s color planes You may also create your own spot function
115. e By User By Pape BE mm ToDate To define a search type a search string in the appropriate edit box and press the Enter key Search strings can be up to 254 characters long To activate the search click on the appropriate checkbox A checkmark appears in the checkbox to show the search has been activated For example in the illustration above a simple search has been activated for the PostScript job called Testcht ps Search by Spool Queue This searches for all jobs matching the spool queue name entered in the By Spool Queue edit box Search by User This searches for all jobs matching the user name entered in the By User edit box Search by Filename This searches for all jobs matching the name entered in the By File Name edit box If the log for the individual job does not contain a filename Log View will try to match the DOS filename of the job with the name entered in the By File Name edit box Search by Paper This searches for all jobs matching the paper name entered in the By Paper edit box Search from Date This searches for all jobs that were spooled after and including the dates entered in the From Date edit boxes Search to Date This searches for all jobs that were spooled before and including the dates entered in the To Date edit boxes Note Epilogue job logs are ignored by all of the searches Monitoring status and log files 61 The real value of the Log View searches is the ability to activate compoun
116. e Testcht ps FN By File Name B BE From Date By User By Paper BE To Date There is a VIEW button in the middle of the Button Bar across the top of the Log View dialog box When this button is captioned VIEW LIST the middle section of the dialog box shows a complete list of the selected job logs which match the search requirements For example the illustration above shows a VIEW LIST resulting from a search by file name for a file called Testcht ps The scroll bar on the right side of the list enables you to scroll through the complete list The Log View dialog box operates in a manner similar to a standard Windows dialog box The job print histories logs show m The title of the job m The user who printed the job m The queue on which it was processed m The number of pages printed m The time taken to complete the job If a job log is highlighted in red it has either been interrupted or has produced error messages that were recorded in the log file Otherwise if you click on a job log to select it it will be highlighted in green You can expand the list view of the job logs to view the complete log information for a specific job There are three ways to do this Monitoring status and log files 59 a Double click on an individual job log in the list a If a job log is highlighted in green click on the VIEW button on the Oc Server Button Bar a Click on the do button for an individual job log and selec
117. e type in the page number To enter several specific pages type in each page number separated by a comma Example Typing in 15 17 23 will print pages 15 and 17 and 23 To make the job print mirrored Check the Print Mirrored checkbox Printing from Oc Graphics Server 27 Click on the OK button at the bottom of the Job Settings For dialog box to save your settings and return to the Oc Server main screen The Oc Server will apply the settings when you print the job Adding a PostScript or bitmap file to a spool queue Most jobs are printed to the Oc Server spool queues from within applications However sometimes you may wish to locate a PostScript or bitmap file stored on your network system and add it to a spool queue from within the Oc Server main screen To do this 1 Click on the Print Queue icon of the target printer spool queue 2 Select Add File To Queue from the drop down menu An Add File to Spool Queue dialog window will open Add File To Spool Queue Queue 2 2 x Look in Windows X ek Ea L Forms L NetHood L Start Ment Config LI Help LI Pif LI Sysbckup Cursors L Inf L Recent L System Desktop CJ Media LJ SendTo LJ Temp Favorites LL MsApps LJ ShellNew Fonts I Msremote sfs LI Spool n File name Files of type Postscript Files PS Y Cancel Help 3 Locate and select the file you wish to print 4 Click on the Open button The file appears as a job
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120. e currently selected epilogue page file a default epilogue page called WISPEPI PS is supplied as part of your Oc Server package Click on the Browse button to open the Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Select Epilogue Title PostScript File window to locate and select an alternative epilogue page Select Epilog Title PostScript File 2 x Look in X Windows BE e LI Forms LJ NetHood LJ Start Ment Config LJ Help LI Pif LI Sysbckup Cursors LJ Inf L Recent I System Desktop LJ Media LL SendTo LJ Temp Favorites LI MsApps L ShellNew LI Msremote sfs LI Spool Fie nane Files of type PostScript Files PS m Cancel Help Click on the down arrow in the Print Epilogue to list box A drop down list of your current print queues will be displayed Select the queue for the printer where you want the Oc Server to print the epilogue page Epilogue Page IV Print epilogue page after each job Print epilog to OGSLPS Queue 2 Y RE F Queue 1 Mark Inactive Files Using Faure na Queue 3 Note Epilogue pages are not printed when you print a file that is already in the inactive queue Marking files as inactive Select the Advanced tab within the Printer Setup dialog box The middle section of the tab is headed Mark Inactive Files Using Mark Inactive Files Using Archive Bit C Internal Tracking The Oc Server identifies files to be added to the Inactive Job List through the
121. e requested for the job whose execution resulted in the script file being called GetSpooledFile This function can only be used within scripts called through the Execute Script Before field in the Advanced Options dialog box It returns the name of the job whose execution resulted in the script file being called GetSpooledFileStatus This function can only be used within scripts called through the Execute Script After field in the Advanced Options dialog box It returns the status of the job that was executed before the script was called Returns 0 on no error 1 on PostScript execution error 2 on user abort Command Reference 137 138 GetWindowText Returns The title text of window currently having focus else 0 if error or no such window Inc Param Increments by 1 the parameter Param and returns it The string Param is searched for the first numeric substring and this is incremented If no numeric substring is found then a 0 is appended e g inc 0 returns 1 inc hello returns helloO inc helloO returns hello1 inc 10hello returns 11hello IsButtonChecked ChildTitle ParentTitle Returns the status of the check box titled ChildTitle within the parent window entitled ParentTitle If either of these is not specified the window or check box currently having the focus is used instead Returns 1 if checked 0 if not 1 if failure Local l1 12 13 Declares local variables 11 12 13 etc
122. e the Services tab Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Click on the Add button The Select Network Service window appears Select Services for Macintosh from the list and click on OK Specify the path to the Windows NT Server Version 4 00 distribution files for example E i386 Insert your Windows NT Server Version 4 0 installation CD if necessary Click on Continue If no NTFS partitions exist a warning message appears Partitions defined within Windows NT can be either FAT backwards compatible with MS DOS and Windows 95 or NTFS AppleShare server volumes can only be set up on an NTFS partition printers can be published as LaserWriters whether the partitions are FAT or NTFS Click on OK Various files are copied to the hard disk Click on the Close button in the Network dialog box The Microsoft AppleTalk Protocol Properties dialog box appears with the General tab selected Select the default network adapter and AppleTalk zone from the pull down lists The Routing tab allows your computer to be configured as an AppleTalk router Refer to your Windows NT Version 4 00 Server documentation for further information Click on OK Click on Yes to restart the computer When it restarts Services for Macintosh will be installed Checking if the Server can already connect to Novell NetWare Click on the Start menu select Settings and then Control Panel Double click on Network If Gateway and Client Services for NetWare is
123. e will be displayed You can then either choose to Quit the install wizard or Continue if you wish to re display the install choices menu and enable support for older versions of Aldus applications Using older versions of Aldus and QuarkXPress 28 Aldus For each workstation on which you are running Aldus Pagemaker Version 4 x or earlier and or Aldus Freehand Version 3 x or earlier you will need to install Aldus PPD files The installation process will require you to specify the root folder for each Aldus application To install Aldus PPD files on an Apple Macintosh workstation Go to the install choices menu window on the Apple Macintosh PPDs Workstation Setup disk For details please see Installing the necessary PPD files on workstations on page 27 Make sure that Install Aldus PPD s is highlighted as the selected option Click on the Install button A Select ALDUS Application Folder window will open for you to begin selecting and specifying the location on the workstation for the installation Click on the Open button in the window to move down through the levels of folders When the root folder for the appropriate Aldus application appears Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual click on it to highlight it The Install into foldername button at the bottom of the window will display the name of the selected folder Click on the Install into foldername button to begin the installation The progress of the i
124. eTalk Zones Servers Demo_Room1 ata Support Room Select the Server to enable the Connect button Choose Remote Server to connect to AppleTalk Zones Servers GUIDE I Support_Room Connect Cancel Click on the Connect button to connect to the Remote Server selected and close the dialog box Using the Remote RIP Software 81 Once the connection is made with the Remote Server the Remote Client Window will display the Oc Server main screen HE Oc Server Remote Connection 0 To JILLS_PC Support_Roon a EL SPOOL 1 Active Jobs Status Printer Pg 2 SPOOL 1 PLINA4 PS from Tile amp Crop Inactive Jobs Oc Linearisation 44 Pg 1 SPOOL 1 O Busy E Error E Spooler usi nq non banding rasterizer for RGB colours When the Remote Client Window is active you can access the dialog box to choose a Remote Server to connect to by selecting File from the main menu and then selecting the Connect to Server option The options to Reconnect Last i e reconnect to the last Remote RIP Server running on your system to which you were connected Disconnect i e disconnect from the Remote RIP Server you are currently connected to and Quit Exit are also available under File Note The first time the Remote Client Window is opened on a workstation you are automatically logged on as a Guest User What can I do as a
125. ect during banding mode While interpreting PostScript files with bitmaps scanned images in them the scans may be stored within the Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual display list or they may be stored separately on disk This setting tells the Oc Server the size limit of scans saved within the display list There are several things to consider here A scan saved in the display list will be accessed quicker and rendered faster However it may make the display list larger and more prone to being completely flushed to disk and therefore being executed much more slowly The default setting is 1 for this option which means it always saves scans separately on disk Defaults for C E Clicking on this button causes the Oc Server to calculate defaults for the memory settings C through to E Directory to use for temp files The Oc Server uses this directory for temporary files during interpretation For example during banding mode rasterizing the display list and associated scans may be stored in this directory Intermediate files produced during the interpretation phase may be quite large so we recommend that you have at least 100MB free on the drive on which the temporary directory exists The directory should be located on a different physical hard disk from the one that is used to read the PostScript files i e the top level directory where the print spooler will store jobs specified in the Print Spooler tab of the Sy
126. ed as closely as possible to the printer you will be printing on If any Level 2 features are available enable them If resolution options are available set them up to match as closely as possible the resolution of the final page Color banding and printing in full 24 bit color Some applications were not designed to print in full 24 bit color at high resolution and as a result banding may result in what should print as smooth gradients when standard screening is used The way to get around this problem is to set the halftone screen frequency lines per inch or lpi in the device driver to a low value for example 15 Ipi instead of 60 lpi and let the Oc Server manage the graduation In general the higher this value is set the lower the number of graduations the application will allow to be printed Colors 119 120 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Appendix D Customizing the button bar Server button bar 122 The Button Bar is the strip of buttons along the top of the Oc Server main screen This appendix describes how you can customize the bar to best suit your own particular requirements When you first install the Oc Server a default set of buttons is set up for the button bar Whenever a button is used a specified set of commands is executed These commands are in the Server Macro Language format You can change the appearance of the button bar and change t
127. efined four reproduction methods called rendering intents that you can use for your specific needs m Perceptual Each color may change slightly depending on the color gamut but in such a way that its relative position remains the same This is a typical method used for scanned photographs m Absolute Colorimetric Colors within the color gamut remain the same Colors beyond this limit change to colors that are on the edge of the color gamut The lightness remains the same while saturation changes m Saturation Colors become more saturated and contrast can decrease This is a typical method used for computer generated images and business graphics m Relative Colorimetric This method is similar to absolute colorimetric intent The difference is in the matching of white points color matching is then performed relative to these white points Simulating another printer The Server L can also simulate another printer on your Oc 5350 This process involves three profiles an input profile an output profile for the simulated printer and a proxy file for the simulating printer To simulate the colors of an offset printer on your Oc 5350 there are two standard offset presses provided SWOP US standard and EUROSCALE European standard Colors 117 Printing existing files 118 Bear in mind that each application produces PostScript files in a slightly different way Many of these differences result from the application fine
128. elect it The selected color will be shown as a square This means it is the controlling color and when you begin editing you will be able to make changes to this color curve Colors not currently selected are shown as small diamonds Suppose you wish to make the same changes simultaneously to several color curves First select the controlling color and then hold down the SHIFT key and select the other required color s The controlling color will still appear as a square The additional selected colors will appear as circles Gamma Brightness Contrast DotGain Darker Darker ue Dake TEES LE 1 00 qm mpl M 100 Brighter Brighter Ds Bier In 93 Out 23 5350 300DPI Paper This time when you begin editing changes made to the controlling color curve will be applied simultaneously to the other selected color curve s Clicking on a color to select it without using the SHIFT key automatically deselects the other colors Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Using CAT Preview E Click on the Preview button to open the CAT Preview window and display the color circle This is helpful in determining the effect of the adjustments you make Adjusting a full curve Adjustthe full curve or curves of your selected color s by setting Gamma Brightness and Contrast in the Colour Controls section of the CAT Editor It is normally better to first adjust all the curves together and then make new color selections
129. ening amp Antialiasing Separations Output Advanced Combine separated PS files Cancel Help Enable Combine separations mode Each page within a PS file is sent as a named separation to printer Check the Combine pre separated PS files checkbox The Oc Server can merge up to eight separations for example the four process colors and up to four spot colors You can also use this feature to see the effects of any trapping and overprinting effects Print the file as separations from the application then merge them using this feature When you check the Combine pre separated PS files option the following two additional controls appear Automatically determine order of separations Check this prompt when you want the Oc Server to detect the order of separations Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual E Combine Separations Order Sep 1 CYAN Sep 2 MAGENTA Sep 3 YELLOW Sep 4 Empty Sep 5 PANTONE li ms i Sep 6 Empty Sep 7 Empty Sep 8 Empty 4 Select the name of each separation within the list box corresponding to the separation s order within the PS job Select default order of separation plates Click on this button when you want to manually specify the order via the Combine Separations Order dialog box Note If you select the Send output to a reprintable file radio button in the Output tab the Oc Server Reprint
130. entering your image Click the H Cntr and V Cntr buttons to center your image horizontally and vertically in the paper preview on the dialog box Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual v By aligning your image Right click with the mouse on the left side of the Page Sizing and Positioning dialog box An alignment menu will be displayed Select one of the icons Your image will be aligned as shown on the icon siis seien Cropping an image There is an Edit image area within page option at the bottom of the Page Sizing and Positioning dialog box You can use this option as a cropping tool Check the option to change the left side of the Page Sizing and Positioning dialog box to show only the white R Page icon This represents the image area inside your page and will typically be as large as the entire page Optimizing printing 41 Drag the black handles in each corner of the R Page to modify the area of the image you wish to print thereby cropping the image Page Sizing And Positioning x Specify printing area and size Units Std Sizes Inches In v 3 E Edit Papers Left Bottom fo In 0 In Left click tabs to stretch page centre to move A The gray area on the page is the part of the image that will not print The white area is the remainder of the image that you do wish to print i e your cropped image You can move your cropped image at this point by clicking in the center of the white area and d
131. er Edition 1 1 Cus Contents Introduction 6 Oc Poster Layout versions 6 Using Oc Poster Layout 7 Contents Oc Graphics Server L Oc Graphics Server L Oc Poster Layout Guide This guide explains how to install and use the Oc Poster Layout application Oce Introduction Oc Poster Layout is a page layout tool designed for use with Oc Graphics Server L Oc Poster Layout enables you to import a number of files in a wide range of file formats into the application and lay out the objects contained in the files on a single page The page can then be printed in its entirety to an Oc Graphics Server L spool queue for ripping and output Alternatively you can divide the page into a number of tiles print each tile via an Oc Graphics Server L spool queue and assemble them later by hand This means you can output very large pages such as a design to cover a 20 foot wall or an exhibition stand Oc Poster Layout versions The Oc Poster Layout application is included on your Oc Graphics Server L CD ROM and is automatically installed on your computer at the same time as the Oc Graphics Server L application 6 Oc Graphics Server L Using Oc Poster Layout or The Oc Poster Layout online Help file contains an explanation of the menu options and dialog boxes as well as instructions for the use of the Oc Poster Layout application You can open this Help file once your application
132. erver Window Initially all users at Remote RIP Client workstations log on as Guest Users Setting a Power User password then enables users who know the password to log on as Power Users and have greater access rights with respect to the Server main screen Setting or changing the Power User password first requires entry of the correct Administrator password providing an additional level of security Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Using Remote RIP Server software The Oc Server Remote RIP Server is very simple to operate First you must start the Server and set the Administrator and the Power User passwords Then you can explore the facilities for seeing which Client workstations are currently connected how to send messages how to disconnect Client workstations and how to stop the Server Starting the Oc Server Remote RIP Server v Remote You can start the Remote RIP Server manually or automatically To start manually from inside the Server Click on the Remote button in the Oc Server button bar The Remote RIP Window initializes and opens on your screen To start automatically Click on the Settings icon in the Server main screen and select Properties from the drop down menu The System Settings dialog box will open Using the Remote RIP Software 69 2 Select the Network Printing amp Control tab System Settings x Message Logging Button Bar Print Previews
133. es menu window from the Apple Macintosh Client Workstation Setup disk For details please see Setting up Apple Macintosh workstations on page 26 2 Make sure Install LaserWriter 8 x is highlighted as the selected option Click on the Install button 3 The progress of the installation will be displayed on screen When completed an Installation was successful message will be displayed You can then either choose to Quit the install wizard or Continue if you wish to redisplay the install choices menu and set up the workstation as a Remote RIP client Installing the necessary PPD files on workstations v To install the necessary PPD files on an Apple Macintosh workstation 1 Insert your Apple Macintosh PPDs Workstation Setup disk in the floppy disk drive 2 Double click on the Oc Server Mac PPDs Setup icon which appears on your desktop The Oc Server Mac PPDs Setup window will open Double click on the Oc Server Mac PPD Setup icon to start the install wizard Setting up workstations 27 3 Click on Continue in the Welcome window The message Preparing to 4 5 install will appear followed by the install choices menu window Install the following Install Standard PPD s Make sure that Install Standard PPDs is highlighted as the selected option Click on the Install button The progress of the installation will be displayed on screen When completed an Installation was successful messag
134. ew profiles 116 Using input and output profiles 116 Using rendering intents 117 Simulating another printer 117 Printing existing files 118 Color banding and printing in full 24 bit color 119 Appendix D Customizing the button bar Server button bar 122 Changing button bar icons 123 Setting button bar display options 125 Table of Contents Appendix E Command Reference Macro language command index 128 Command line parameters 145 Oc Server 145 Oc Server Remote RIP Server 146 Appendix F Oc Poster Layout Introduction 150 Oc Poster Layout 150 Using Oc Poster Layout 151 Appendix G Miscellaneous How to read this manual 154 User survey 155 Addresses of local Oc organizations 157 Index 159 6 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Chapter 1 Read Me First This manual explains the advanced features of Oc Graphics Server L for advanced users See the Oc Graphics Server L Start Up Manual for information on basic features How to use this manual This manual includes the following chapters Chapter 1 Read Me First gives a summary of the contents of this manual Chapter 2 Making and saving printer settings describes how to set optimum printer settings for the Oc 5350 printer in Oc Graphics Server L and to save these settings in a printer configuration Chapter 3 Controlling color and print quality explains how to adjust half toning settings to impr
135. exe s d3 X d v Using these switches will cause Wisp PS to keep STARTUP LOG DEBUG LOG and when you carry out any printing DRIVER LOG You can send these LOG files to your Oc representative to help determine the cause of problems Oc Server Remote RIP Server 146 The following command line parameters are available for the Oc Server RIP Server mMinimize on startup pUse unique password file default share instance 0 password file iXStart instance X where X 0 1 2 normal mode NOT Slave qEnable the Change Scanned Image Location option s X Y Start Master version of Remote RIP Server and Slaves For example starts instance 0 as Master and instances X Y as Slaves Slaves will attach themselves to the Master instance Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual tXStart Slave instance of Server The Master instance must have been started already X instance Note You cannot have a master instance of the Remote RIP Server running and a normal instance 0 also running If you have a Slave instance X running you cannot have a normal instance X also running To use the Master Slave mode you must start the Remote RIP Server using the s command line parameter Command Reference 147 148 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Appendix F Oc Poster Layout This chapter explains how to install and use the Oc Poster Layout application 149
136. fined paper sizes for example a paper size designed for tiles to fit the panels on an exhibition stand Standard paper sizes cannot be edited v To define a new paper size 1 Type a unique name in the Paper name edit box This will be used to identify the new paper in the future 2 Enter the width and height measurements of the new paper size in the Width and Height edit boxes 3 Click on the Add button 4 Click on the Done button Your new paper size will be available in the Tile size and Select an area to crop drop down lists within the Tile amp Crop tab v To modify a paper size 1 Scroll through the list beneath the Paper name edit box and select the paper size you wish to modify 2 Typeaunique name in the Paper name edit box This will be used to identify the modified paper in the future 3 Enter the width and height measurements to modify the paper size in the Width and Height edit boxes 4 Click on the Modify button 5 Click on the Done button Tiling and Cropping 53 v To delete a paper size 1 Scroll through the list below the Paper name edit box and select the paper size you wish to delete 2 Click on the Delete button 3 Click on the Done button Editing a tile and crop file To change the settings in a Tile and Crop file in a spool queue simply load the file into the tiling and cropping part of the Server 54 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Oc Graphics Server L Startup Man
137. for preparing and printing out tiles that will later be assembled to make up very large format posters and wall coverings Chapter 6 Monitoring status and log files explains how to use the features of Oc Server that allow you to keep track of your files and workload Chapter 7 Using the Remote RIP software explains how to use the Remote Oc Server RIP software module which allows client workstations on the same network as the Oc Server to see the main Server window directly Appendix Miscellaneous contains a list of Oc offices worldwide and a reader s comment sheet Index A quick reference section Read Me First 11 12 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Chapter 2 Printing from an application This chapter explains how to send files to the Oc Server from graphics and word processing applications on your Windows PC or Apple Macintosh network workstation 13 Settings from within the PostScript Printer Description PPD From Macintosh or PC workstations you can select the following options from the PPD at print time Each setting affects the corresponding value at the RIP for that job only It does affect values unless you specify so from within OGSL v To make settings from within the PPD From the Windows Start menu select Settings then Printers Select the printer and right click to display a short cut menu Select Document defaults Click the Advanced tab a
138. for rendering colors thereby creating a much smoother effect Error diffusion generates a random pattern of dots rather than a fixed pattern as with normal halftoning and represents more closely full 24 bit contone continuous tone coloring Error diffusion produces sharpened edges in images FM This option uses frequency modulation to create a type of random diffusion dot pattern This is similar to error diffusion but is generated during interpretation so is much faster It will produce coarser results than the other options Normal Inkjet This option is similar to Adjusted Inkjet except that it is a second order dispersed dot halftone In this case several pixels are grouped together then switched on or off to produce the halftone pattern Adjusted Inkjet This option is a first order dispersed dot halftone which means that individual machine pixels are laid down in a random order to allow printers that are not contone to approximate more closely to a true contone device This produces a photorealistic quality of output and is the preferred choice for inkjet printers 200 300 dpi Electrostatic This is a dispersed dot halftone that has been customized to improve low resolution printing 400 dpi Electrostatic This is a dispersed dot halftone that has been customized to improve printing at resolutions of 400 to 600 dpi Controlling Color amp Print Quality 21 Setting a standard screening configuration 22 When you select Stan
139. from Oc Oc Technologies B V makes no representation or warranties with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose Further Oc Technologies B V reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes Edition 1 0 Contents Chapter 1 Introduction About this manual 6 Further documentation 7 Introducing the 8 colours 8 Chapter 2 Quality versus Productivity Cartridge configuration 10 Productivity mode 10 Quality mode 11 Choose a configuration 11 Pros andcons 12 Productivity mode 12 Quality mode 12 Install reservoirs and cartridges 14 Fill the reservoirs 14 Place cartridges 14 Chapter 3 Diluted colours Diluted colours 16 Description 16 Visual benefits of diluted colours 16 Chapter 4 Calibration and Profiles Adjust the printer 18 Importance of adjustment 18 Calibration procedure 18 Why it is important to adjust the 8 colours 21 Profiles 22 New Profiles for the 8 colours 22 Why new profiles 22 Contents Chapter 5 8 colours driver for OGSL CS 5090 Driver 24 Chapter 6 Frequently Asked Questions Inks 32 Profiles 33 Calibration 33 Media 34 Halftoning 34 Print quality 35 Appendix A Glossary 4 CS 5090 8 colours CS5090 How to use the 8 colours Chapter 1
140. ft PC network 1 Click on the Start menu choose Settings and then Control Panel Double click on Network Click on Add within the Adapters tab Follow the instructions on the screen If you are unsure of the kind of network adapter you have check with your Network Administrator When you set up a network adapter Windows 95 NT Version 4 0 automatically sets up the software components that you need to use Microsoft Windows for Workgroups After setting up the network software you need to give Windows 95 NT Version 4 0 some information to identify your computer on the network For example your network administrator may have assigned your computer to a particular workgroup Select the Identification tab in the Network dialog box Enter a name for your Oc Server the workgroup name and a brief description of the Server This will be visible to other users on the network To avoid problems with other kinds of servers that may be on your network it is best not to use spaces in the name entered here For example call the computer 5350_Server Configuring the Server to connect to an AppleTalk network 16 When Services for Macintosh are installed on the Server any print queue icon configured in the Server is automatically published on the AppleTalk network as a LaserWriter To install Services for Macintosh Click on the Start button go to the Settings entry and then choose Control Panel Double click on Network then choos
141. g search results 63 Including previewed jobs in searches 63 Searching for printing histories on your system 64 Creating log files and setting options 65 4 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual es Chapter 7 Using the Remote RIP Software General Features 68 What does Remote RIP Client enable me to do 68 What does Remote RIP Server enable me to do 68 Using Remote RIP Server software 69 Starting the Oc Server Remote RIP Server 69 Setting the Administrator and the Power User passwords 71 Client workstations currently connected 74 Sending messages to Client workstations 74 Disconnecting Client workstations 76 Hide Server option 77 Change Scanned Image Location option 77 Stopping the Server 79 Using Remote RIP Client software 80 Opening the Server Remote Client Window 80 What can I do as a Guest User 82 Logging on as a Power User 86 What can I do as a Power User 88 Appendix A Miscellaneous How to read this manual 92 User survey 93 Addresses of local Oc organizations 95 Index 97 Table of Contents Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Chapter 1 Read Me First This manual has been written to guide you through the basic tasks you will carry out using Oc Graphics Server L It is intended for all users Introduction What is Oc Graphics Server L Oc Graphics Server L is a powerful software application that allows you to print full color PostScript and bitmap f
142. given color without a generally accepted standard There are several standard ways of describing color using color models m RGB red green blue m CMYK cyan magenta yellow and black a HLS hue lightness and saturation Hue is our perception of an object s color such as red yellow etc Lightness is the degree of a color s luminous intensity Saturation is a measure of a color s vividness or dullness The diagram below depicts color models in a three dimensional representation Yellow 112 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Color Spaces A color space is simply a three dimensional representation of color There are different types of color spaces such as RGB CIE Lab CIE X YZ and CMYK which is a four dimensional representation These color spaces share one common aspect the ability to describe a color using its coordinates in three or four dimensional space In general most scanner and monitor input devices use RGB space while most printer output devices use CMYK space However since all input or output devices have different color characteristics RGB and CMYK color spaces are not suitable when attempting to get color consistency For example when you scan the same color on different scanners you can have different RGB values or when you display the same picture on different monitors RGB device you can see different colors or when you print a color with a particular CMYK value on different
143. gram Manager Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Setting up Apple Macintosh workstations The software necessary to set up your Apple Macintosh workstations to print to the Oc Server and to operate as Remote RIP Clients is included on your two Apple Macintosh Workstation Setup disks Each workstation that will print to the Oc Server needs to have PostScript Printer Definition PPD files installed on it You will also need to install LaserWriter 8 x on the workstation if it is not already installed The Apple Macintosh Client Workstation Setup Disk provides you with an option to install LaserWriter 8 x If you are running older versions of Aldus and QuarkXPress applications on a workstation you may need to install files in particular locations to support these applications Setting up workstations 25 Setting up Apple Macintosh workstations v 26 To set up an Apple Macintosh workstation as a Remote RIP Client Insert your Apple Macintosh Client Workstation Setup disk in the floppy disk drive Double click on the Oc Server Client amp LJDrv Setup icon which appears on your desktop The Oc Server Client amp LJDrv Setup window will open Double click on the Oc Server Mac Client amp LJDrvs Setup icon to start the Install Wizard Click on Continue in the Welcome window The message Preparing to install will appear followed by the install choices menu window Install the following Install Re
144. guage Format is a format specifier string that may contain constant strings interspersed with special escape characters that insert special characters such as new line or specify insertion of param1 param as strings The following escape characters are supported s insert one of param param etc depending on position n Insert new line Output is sent to any window opened via the OpenWindow function For example s1 carrots s2 turnips printf s are vegetables nas are s s1 s2 results in the following output carrots are vegetables as are turnips Returns Nothing Command Reference 139 140 Quit Terminates The Oc Server application Reboot Reboots the computer as if from a warm reset The operating system is started again Repeat MacroString Times Executes the macro in MacroString a number of times specified by Times The repeat macro is exited prematurely if the Return function is called within MacroString Restart Restarts Windows This function only works if all programs currently running within Windows can be closed down by Windows Return retval Returns immediately from a funcdef a macro executing within a while function loop a repeat function loop or a macro file executed via the Exec function Within a funcdef a parameter passed to Return is pushed onto the stack This can be used to return values from funcdefs SetExternErrorMessage Msg
145. hangeWorkingSet Min Max Fine tunes the application s physical memory usage by telling the OS to use between Min and Max KB of RAM for the application Command Reference 143 FPrintf freset file format param1 param2 C programming language style fprintf Writes a string to the file specified by the filename file If freset is 1 and the file exists the previous contents are discarded before string is written else the string is appended to the file Format gives the string to write with n r or t for line feed carriage return and tab characters Any s strings within format are replaced by param1 param2 etc GetlnstanceNo Returns the instance number of the RIP If 2 RIPs are running this function will return O in the first RIP 1 in the second RIP GetSystembDir Returns the windows system directory e g C WINNT S YSTEM32 GetWindowDir Returns the windows directory e g C WINNT GetAppDir Returns the directory from which this application was started e g C WISPPS BIN32 ShowBuildinfo Displays a dialog box containing build information about this application Returns Nothing Value In Returns n This is useful for setting the value of variables MyVar Value Hello MyVar is set to Hello Var2 Value MyVar Var2 is set to Hello 144 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Command line parameters Oc Server The following command line parameters
146. has been successfully installed To open the Help file Choose Start then Programs then the Oc Graphics Server L program folder From the Oc Graphics Server L program folder choose the Oc Poster Layout Help icon from within the Oc Poster Layout application a From the Help menu choose Contents to open the Windows Help utility and display the Oc Poster Layout Help Contents page a From the Help menu choose Search for Help to open the Windows Help utility and display the Search dialog box Choose the desired topic from the list From the Help menu choose How To Use Help this provides information on how to use the Windows Help utility Oc Graphics Server L Oc Graphics Server L What s new from version 5 5 to version 6 2 Oc Technologies B V Copyright Oc Technologies B V Venlo The Netherlands 2001 All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced copied adapted or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Oc Oc Technologies B V makes no representation or warranties with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose Further Oc Technologies B V reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes Edition 4 0 Contents
147. he Change Scanned Images Directory dialog box will open SE Change Scanned Images Directory x Scanned images directory path poems 0 Cancel Browse Position the cursor in the edit box beneath the Scanned images directory path prompt to type in the path and directory where the files containing your scanned images are stored Or if you prefer click on the Browse button in the Change Scanned Images Directory dialog box The Choose Folder dialog box will open within which you can locate and select the directory amp 5 Choose Folder Look in A Scans e x iscan tif B scan2 tif t scan3 bmp Select the directory to return you to the Change Scanned Images Directory dialog box Click on the OK button to confirm the directory and path for the scanned image files Click on Close to close the Server Setup dialog box When remote RIP Clients are connected to the Server they will be able to select and retrieve files from the specified directory via an Images option in their main menu Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Stopping the Server Click on the Stop Server button on the right side of the Remote RIP Server Window First the message Removing Connections will be displayed in the Remote Connection Status section of the Server Window followed by the message Killing Server The Remote RIP Server Window will automatically close when the Server is stopped Using the Remote RIP S
148. he Save As dialog box The Oc Server saves all CAT files in a particular directory on your system set up during installation If you have changed a CAT file and not selected either the Save or Save As option a Warning dialog box will open when you exit the CAT Editor Creating a new CAT i Click on the New CAT button to display a linear CAT curve ready for you to adjust in the graph section of the CAT Editor Loading an existing CAT Ta Lar Click on the Load CAT button to open the Select CAT to Load dialog window Within this window you can select the CAT you wish to work with from the list of existing CAT files Exiting the CAT Editor returns you to the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab within the Printer Setup dialog box Controlling Color amp Print Quality 45 Changing the appearance of the CAT editor 46 You display the CAT Editor Properties dialog box using the CAT Editor Cat Editor Properties x Grid Divisions 20 50 Check Divisions 2 250 Double Buffer Screen Vv Axis Controls C No axis indicators C Shade in axis Number axis Cancel Properties button on the CAT Editor button bar Within this dialog box you can change the appearance of the CAT Editor on screen For example setting 5 20 as the number of Grid Divisions will divide the graph section of the CAT Editor into a grid five squares by five squares If the Number Axis option is also checked the x axis an
149. he commands executed by using these buttons For example you can add up to 16 buttons to the button bar display them with text and icons or as icons only and you may execute any command available through the Server Macro Language A list of available functions is given in Macro language command index on page 128 Button bar settings are changed through the Button Bar tab within the System Settings dialog box Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Changing button bar icons a Click on the Settings icon and select Properties from the drop down menu The System Settings dialog box will open Select the Button Bar tab Settings System Settings x Memory Settings Print Spooler Network Printing amp Control Print Previews Message Logaing Button Bar Edit Button Button Title Start Change Icon Edit Macro Select Button a Add New Up Down Pause James u Der St Delet 5 ti op a Delete Separator Abort Revert to default buttons Make all buttons same size Show Text lcons Show ToolTips C Show Icons Only Hide menu bar Cancel Help zl Controls available in this tab enable Button Title The title for the currently selected button is displayed in this edit box You can edit this title or enter a new one The title will be displayed on the button if you select the Show Text Icons option The Button Title is also used to identify buttons in the Select Button list box The existing
150. he shape of the curve by selecting the appropriate spline and dragging Click on the Spline Point button A window will open to enable you Tm to specify how many splines you wish to position along your selected curve s The default number of splines is 8 Click on the Spline Edit Mode button to enable you to carry out your spline editing The appearance of the cursor will change to a cross when you position it over a spline When you select a spline that is between two others on a curve the two others are the limits to which you can drag the selected spline to the right or to the left Double click on a curve to insert an additional spline To remove a single spline position the cursor over the spline and double click To remove all splines click again on the Spline Point button Click on the Smooth Selected Colours button if you wish to smooth zm your curve s when spline editing Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Other useful editing tools Click on the Undo button to cancel the last editing change you made Click on the Linear button to change your selected color curve s to a straight diagonal line Click on the Invert button to invert your selected color curve s Saving your CAT Gl Click on the Save button to save any changes made to your CAT If your CAT file is Untitled the Save As dialog box will open so that you can key in a description and a filename Click on the Save As button to open t
151. hics Server L What s new from version 5 5 to version 6 2 Chapter 3 CS 5050 5070 5090 drivers Drivers v To display the printer settings 1 In OGSL right click the printer icon 2 Select Properties 3 Choose among the list the printer you want to set 4 Click Printer Setup to display the Settings window Note There are differences of menus options terminology between the printer settings for the CS 5050 5070 and the CS 5090 CS5050 5070 m Output Options r Plot Mode 4 eri x Contour Print Options 3 Print Control Colour Bi directional Monochrome C Leftto Right IV Fast Right to Left Automatic cutter Print Speed T Don t print top spaces E qe M Automatic wiper 10 l Slow 10 Fast M Use XY calibration m Enhanced Mode Onepss m Harizontal repeat fi times Ink Control gt 399 dpi Ink Management 600 dpi cs Note Selecting any plot mode other than User Defined will use the predefined settings in the printer firmware for the following options Enhanced mode Print options Print control Print speed Print quality 24 OGSL 6 2 Print Control Choose the direction you want the printer to print to from Left to Right or Right to Left or both if you select Bi directional Print speed Move the cursor to increase move to the right or decrease move to the
152. ile tried to find a predefined resource that did not exist In Level 2 PostScript the fonts are classed as resources and so this error may also occur if the font does not exist Reason This error is most likely to occur when the predefined font or other resource is corrupt or missing Solution Make sure that none of the fonts or other resources are missing in use by another computer or corrupt Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution Ipi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error tundefinedresult Explanation This error is caused by an incorrect mathematical operation in the PostScript file that would produce a meaningless result or one that cannot be represented by a number for example division by zero Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen unless the PostScript file is corrupt or is interpreter dependent Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error unimplemented Explanation This PostScript function has not been implemented on this version of the RIP Reason Some very specialized functions have not yet been implemented on the RIP Though these a
153. iles to your Oc 5350 inkjet printer Oc Graphics Server L RIP Oc Graphics Server L is a Raster Image Processor RIP Its main function is to receive the complex descriptions of pages with integrated text graphics and images that comprise PostScript files and translate each page into a format that is understood by your printer Oc Graphics Server L on the network Oc Graphics Server L also acts as a print server It allows you to send drawings from a Windows PC or Macintosh workstation to a print queue on the server workstation from which the files are submitted to the printer You can create up to 14 print queues for each Oc 5350 printer connected to the Server workstation and publish them over the network 1 Oc Graphics Server L on the network 8 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Oc Graphics Server user documentation Oc Graphics Server L includes the following set of user documentation Since not all users are interested in knowing how to use all aspects of the software the following summary indicates which parts of the documentation are probably most relevant to different types of users Installation Manual The installation manual explains how to install the Oc Graphics Server L software on your server workstation It also explains how to connect your server to your network and how to set up workstations on the network so that they can send files to the server to be printed I
154. in the Active Jobs or Inactive Jobs list depending on the setting in the Printer Setup PrintQueue tab Note f there is already a file with the same name as the one you are adding the message Copy error Could not open destination file appears in the status bar at the bottom of the main screen The new file does not go over to the spool queue Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Rearranging jobs in queues You can select and deselect a single job or several jobs at a time from the Active and Inactive Job Lists Selected jobs are highlighted on screen and once selected can be moved around v To select jobs m Click on the job to select a single job a Click and drag across the jobs to select two or more adjacent jobs Hold down the Ctrl key and click on each job to select two or more jobs that are not adjacent to each other m To deselect jobs position the cursor in the list where the job or jobs are located and right click v To move jobs around m To move jobs around simply drag and drop them In this way you can move jobs between the Active and Inactive Job lists and change their position in either list This operation may take several seconds m When you are moving jobs around in the same list you can insert them at a specific position To do this select the job s for insertion and then click between the two jobs currently in the list between which you wish to insert the selected job s m When you want to move jo
155. in the Network dialog box Click on Add to open the Select Network Service dialog box Select Microsoft TCP IP Printing from the list and click on OK 7 Restart your computer Checking if the Server can already connect to a UNIX network 1 Click on the Start button go to the Settings entry and then select Control Panel 2 Double click on Network If SunSoft PC NFS or some other NFS client software appears in the list of installed components under the Services tab it is already installed 18 Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Connecting the Server to a UNIX network 1 Click on the Start menu and select Settings Then select Control Panel and Network The Network dialog box will open Click on Add and click on the Have Disk button in the Select Network Service dialog box You will need to insert the floppy disk with the NFS client software when prompted Follow the instructions on screen The Oc Server must be able to log on to the UNIX server as a valid user Give the Oc Server an easily recognizable username such as PUBLISHER and a password Click the right mouse button on the Start menu and select Explore Click on Network Neighborhood This will bring up a dialog box showing all the computers in your workgroup any NetWare servers you are connected to and an icon called Entire Network Click on the Entire Network icon any UNIX servers will appear in the right hand section of the window The st
156. ing priority by queue order checkbox means that jobs sent to spool queues will be positioned in the Active Jobs List according to their spool queue number For example if a job is sent to spool queue 3 it will appear in the Active Jobs List below any jobs sent to spool queues 1 and 2 but above any jobs sent to spool queues 4 and 5 When the checkbox is not checked all jobs will appear in the Active Jobs List in the order in which they are picked up by the Oc Server Print spooler file deletion policy The matter of when to delete files that have been successfully printed is always important in relation to the amount of hard disk space available to you This section of the Print Spooler tab offers you three mutually exclusive options Click on the checkbox beside the Never delete jobs after printing option if you wish the Oc Server to store all jobs in the Inactive Jobs List once they have been printed Click on the checkbox beside the Delete jobs after successful spool printing option if you wish the Oc Server to delete such jobs instead of storing them in the Inactive Jobs List Click on the checkbox beside the Delete inactive jobs older than option if you wish to specify a time period for the Oc Server to store all jobs in the Inactive Jobs List once they have been printed before deleting them When you check this option the edit box on the right side of the option becomes active for you to enter a time period defined in hours For e
157. ing system may read and write to this file arbitrarily the highest performance system configuration for running multiple copies of the Oc Server will therefore have yet another controller and hard disk solely for use by the operating system Processors Operating system 102 In general the greater the amount of processor resources that are available in the system the higher the performance will be Windows NT supports multiple processors Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Hardware Abstraction Layer HAL Windows NT can support up to 32 processors In practice the maximum number possible is limited by the hardware in your machine This ability is made possible through Windows NT s use of the hardware abstraction layer HAL The HAL is a layer of software that deals directly with your computer hardware and operates at a level between the hardware and the Windows NT operating system and any applications that are running The HAL hides hardware dependent information from the system Applications and device drivers do not talk to the hardware directly but must deal with HAL routines to determine hardware specific information Therefore the HAL acts as a filter allowing different hardware configurations to be accessed by applications in the same manner This is shown in the following diagram Single Dual Processor System Processor System Windows NT Windows NT operating s
158. int queues C Publish queues as local printers visible to programs on this computer only Publish queues as network printers visible to programs on other computers Configure remote control of print spooler F Remote server status Not running Create Workstation Install Disk Cancel Help This text area will display a brief help message describing each control in this dialog box Checking the first option Do not publish print queues means that spool queues set up within the Oc Server will not be created in the Printers folder Checking the second option Publish queues as local printers means that spool queues set up within the Oc Server will be created in the Printers folder but will not be shared This option is more applicable if you are running the Oc Server on a stand alone system as opposed to on a network Checking the third option Publish queues as network printers means that spool queues set up within the Oc Server will be created in the Printers folder as shared ready for use by other users on your network Spool Queues 55 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Chapter 5 Advanced Features This chapter describes some of the advanced features of Oc Graphics Server eprinting bitmap files setting output options eusing Reprint to print copies emanaging separations printing epilogue pages erunning Oc Server macros using interac
159. ion that defines the spot as a diamond Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Use above settings in preference to settings in PS file Checking this box will enable the downloading of the spot functions to the interpreter as well as locking the screen frequency and angles so PostScript files submitted as print jobs will not be able to change them Unchecking the box will still save changes you may have made to spot functions but will not send them to the interpreter In addition although screen frequency and angle information will still be sent to the interpreter it will not be locked This means that spot function frequencies and angles can be set by individual PostScript jobs Controlling the color on your print The aim of the Oc ICC based output profiles for the Oc 5350 600 printer is to help you perform color management as accurately as possible To achieve this use the generic CAT provided in conjunction with the Printer Configuration to set up OGSL in the appropriate Printing Mode Oc creates profiles based on a calibrated system for specific ink media combinations For this reason Oc also supplies the CAT Color Adjustment Table along with the profile Always use this CAT to set the printer in the same calibrated mode as it was when the profile was generated However to compensate for the minimal variations in each printer such as changes in environmental temperature humidity cartridge age etc it ma
160. ividual job and select Change Settings from the drop down menu of options Any settings made with this option are specific to the individual job associated with the do button you click on Select Change Settings to open the Job Settings For dialog box The box shows all the header information for that job and allows you to make three job specific settings Job Settings For Oc Test Chart Lx Header information in file Testcht ps Type Adobe 3 0 Creator Aldus FreeHand 4 0 Laser writer 8 B1 8 1 1 Title Oc test Chart Date 1 59 pm Monday October 30 1995 For 8100 Pages 1 Force copies to Print following pages only Print Mirrored OK Cancel Help To specify the number of copies to be printed Check the Force copies to checkbox and type the number of copies required in the edit box The setting you make here will override the copies command in a PostScript file Monitoring status and log files 57 To print a selection of pages If you have a multi page document you may wish to print only a selection of those pages To do this check the Print following pages only checkbox and then enter the required page numbers in the edit box To print a range of pages type in the first page number followed by two dots and then the last page number Example Typing 1 7 will print pages 1 to 7 To enter a single specific page type in the page number To enter several specific pages t
161. k on the Setup button and enter your required settings in the Setup window Select each tab within the Printer Setup dialog box that you wish to specify settings for and enter your settings Select the Configurations tab Check the relevant options for which you have entered settings Type in a name for your configuration in the appropriate edit box and click on the Save button on the right side of the edit box Once saved in this way your configuration will be available to you to use again via the Configurations list Click on the OK button at the bottom of the Printer Setup dialog box This will apply your configuration to the printer represented by the Print Queue icon you originally clicked on to access the Printer Setup dialog box Making and saving printer settings 17 18 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Chapter 3 Controlling Color amp Print Quality This chapter explains how to set the options on the Colour Screening and Antialiasing tab on the Printer Setup dialog box It also explains how to use the CAT editor and CAM profiles to enhance the quality of your color prints Controlling the quality of your print Click on the appropriate Print Queue icon and select Properties from the drop down menu to open the Printer Setup dialog box When you want to set your own options select No configuration Change settings manually from the Configurations box Select the Colour
162. l editing CAT 44 Memory Banding mode 84 Introduction 82 Non Banding or Frame Mode 83 Physical usage 85 Previewing files 74 RAM 105 Viewing settings 83 Virtual definition in PostScript files 118 Windows virtual 85 Mode Banding 84 Frame 83 Non Banding 83 Multitasking 85 N Network Printing 54 Publishing spool queues 54 Non Banding mode 83 Non PostScript files 58 160 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual O Oc Server Macro Language 128 Server macros 67 Oc Poster Layout Demonstration version 150 Online Help files 151 Using 151 Oc Server Errors UserAbort 98 99 W1000 98 W1010 98 W1020 98 W1023 98 W1030 99 W1040 99 W1050 99 Options Advanced 15 CAT import 38 Color 14 Output 60 Screening 14 Setting print preview 79 Spool queue 50 Output Setting options 60 a P Page Size Add Papers 151 Paper size in PostScript files 118 Parameters Printer 13 Personalizing Button bar 122 Physical usage Memory 85 Port Setting output options 16 Poster Layout Application 150 PostScript Index Color definiton 118 Files resolution 118 Fonts 118 Paper size definition 118 Printing to file 61 Using interactive mode 70 Virtual memory 118 PostScript error VMerror 119 PostScript Errors configurationerror 89 dictstackoverflow 89 dictstackunderflow 89 execstackoverflow 90 interrup 90 invalidaccess 90 invalidexit 90 invalidfileaccess 91 invalidfont 91 invalidrestore 92 ioerror 92 limitcheck
163. les check the Print following selection only option and type in the appropriate tile numbers separating each number with a comma Tile numbers are displayed on the preview image inside each tile box This selection is often used when you have already printed all the tiles and one is damaged Click on the Done button to save your selection of tiles to print and return to the Tile amp Crop window When you are ready to print click on the OK button at the bottom of the Tile amp Crop window An About to save changes dialog box will open This informs you that your settings will be written to a file called lt filename gt from Tile amp Crop on your spool queue Click on the Yes button to exit the Tile amp Crop feature and create the file Your Tile amp Crop file will appear in the Active Jobs list within the Oc Server main screen ready for you to print automatically or manually For example suppose a PostScript file called TESTCHT PS is loaded from the Active Jobs list into the tiling and cropping area of the Oc Server Tiling and Cropping 51 52 After tiling and cropping the image click on the OK button at the bottom of the Tile amp Crop window to open the About to save changes dialog box About to save changes 2 These settings will be written to TESTCHT PS from Tile amp Crop on your print queue You have selected 4 tiles to print out of 4 total The size of the biggest tile is 6 35 In X 8 765 In
164. les or 0 to print them as normal PS files To print TEST PS as an EPS file you would enter the text Print TEST PS 1 For single parameters which may contain spaces you should enclose the entire parameter within double quote characters The function Show displays a test string in a box To get it to display the text Hello World you would enter Show Hello World Functions may also return values which can be passed as parameters to other functions For example the function GetFileName displays a file selection dialog box and if the user selects a file and presses OK returns the file s name as the return value To prompt the user for a file and print it you would enter Print GetFileName Instead of passing the text GetFileName to Print as a parameter the Oc Server will first execute the function GetFileName with no parameters hence the characters and pass the returned value to Print as a parameter Sometimes you may want to pass functions to other functions as parameters instead of their return values To do this enclose the functions to be passed as parameters within braces i e the characters and In the following example the function YesNo displays its parameter as a prompt in a dialog box that has two buttons Yes and No It returns 0 if No is pressed or 1 if Yes is pressed The function If takes two parameters If the first parameter is n
165. lete This deletes the button currently selected highlighted in the Select Button list box Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Separator This button puts a space between two buttons when they are displayed on the button bar Using this button will create a Separator at the bottom of the list Use the Up and Down buttons to move the separator between two buttons Revert to default buttons This button discards all changes you may have made to the Button Bar and installs the default Oc Server buttons Setting button bar display options Show Text Icons Show Icons Only These radio buttons determine the way buttons in the Button Bar will be displayed With Show Text lcons selected each button will show an icon on top and a button title below it With Show Icons Only selected each button will show just the icon Make all buttons the same size By default the size of each button is adjusted to fit around the title text for that button If you check this check box the Oc Server will adjust all buttons to have the same width the width of the button with the widest text Show Tool Tips When this option is checked positioning the cursor over an Oc Server default button within the Server main screen will display a brief message indicating the purpose of the button Hide menu bar The Oc Server Menu Bar consisting of Spooler View and Help is displayed by default across the top of the Server main screen Check
166. lications 18 Chapter 3 Printing from Oc Graphics Server Starting the Oc Server 22 Receiving jobs in spool queues 23 Printers ready to receive print jobs 23 Automatically starting print jobs 24 Printing individual jobs 25 Printing a job from a spool queue 25 Printing a job that is not in a spool queue 26 Changing settings for an individual print job 27 Adding a PostScript or bitmap file to a spool queue 28 Rearranging jobs in queues 29 Deleting jobs from queues 30 Controlling the Server main screen from a workstation 30 Table of Contents Chapter 4 Optimizing printing Opening the Printer Setup dialog box 32 What is a printer configuration 32 Selecting a printer configuration 33 Specifying a printer paper source 34 Enlarging and reducing the image size 35 Rotating the image 39 Positioning the image on paper 39 Cropping animage 41 Changing units 43 Changing your view of the paper 43 Chapter 5 Tiling and Cropping Loading a job into Tile and Crop 46 Changing measurement units 47 Specifying final image size 48 Specifying tile size 49 Cropping an image 50 Printing tiles 51 Setting custom paper sizes 53 Editing a tile and crop file 54 Chapter 6 Monitoring status and log files Server status 56 Viewing the current status of the server 56 Viewing the current status of a job being printed 57 Changing settings for an individual print job 57 Viewing printing histories 58 Searching for specific printing histories 61 Printin
167. lier version of the Oc Server already on your computer you will be offered the choice of installing the new Oc Server Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual 10 11 application and backing up older files or leaving the old software in place and installing the new version in another directory The second option may overwrite important files that the Server needs so unless you are very familiar with the file structure of the Oc Server click on the Next gt button A window will appear informing you of the progress of the installation The Setup Complete dialog box appears Make sure the option to restart your computer now is selected and click on the Finish button Your computer will then restart Installing the Software 13 14 Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Chapter 3 Connecting the Server to your Network The Oc Server will connect to virtually any network as its networking is based on simple principles Oce Checking if the Oc Server is already configured to use a network If Windows NT Version 4 0 prompts you for a network password at startup and if the Network Neighborhood icon appears on the desktop your Server is already configured to use a network Note Have the Windows NT installation CD floppy disks available You may be prompted to insert these when connecting your Oc Server to your network Configuring the Server to use a Microso
168. lp 4 Click OK to close the dialog box 5 Right click the printer icon and select Add file to queue A browser appears a Testcht ps File name Plina4 ps Files of type Postscript Files PS Cancel 6 From the OGSL folder select Calib Plina4 ps and click Open 7 From the List of active jobs select Oc linearization A4 Check that you have switched on the printer 8 Right click and select Print file 9 When printing completes cut out the A4 size chart and allow it to dry completely Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual To read values using the densitometer Right click the icon of the printer to calibrate and select Properties Select the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab to display the printer setup dialog box From the Configuration box select Change settings manually Click Edit The CAT editor window appears Click the Import Modules button CAT Import x Available import filters Import from text Manual entr Rite DTP import v2 This filter will allow you to import from an X Rite DTP attached to a serial port Cancel From the CAT import dialog box select X Rite DTP import and click OK to open a settings dialog box Import CAT from X Rite DTP x R8232 Connection Comm Port Com Cyan Baud Rate i200 Magenta Handshaking Off lt Yelw Type X Rite DTP32_ Black Description
169. lution to this problem is to connect more than one hard disk to the hard disk controller Note that both IDE and EIDE controllers can only connect to two hard disks SCSI controllers can connect to seven However the best solution is to have each hard disk driven by its own controller The controller should have the highest bandwidth possible to enable the greatest amount of data to be transferred in the same period of time Bus mastering controllers are preferable since they have their own local CPU This offloads most of the I O processing from the main CPU leaving it free to concentrate on running the RIP s In terms of the way the controller communicates with the rest of the system Peripheral Component Interconnect PCI is the interface bus of choice since it provides the highest data transfer rates The Directory to use for temp files entry in the Memory tab of the System Setup dialog box for each instance of the Oc Server must then be configured appropriately Both the Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems use a disk based swap file as part of their normal operation If all the physical memory RAM in the machine is used up then part of its contents are saved to a file and the free RAM now available can be used by other applications In this way the data is swapped out hence the name swap file This swap file is often referred to as Windows virtual memory to distinguish it from the real memory the RAM The operat
170. m acceptable by your printer This form is actually a bitmap a pixel by pixel image that is built up in memory and then transferred to your printer These bitmaps can occupy a large amount of memory and the Server uses two different methods to build them depending upon their size Memory settings tell the Server how much memory it can use when building bitmap files and printing them thereby affecting the speed at which you obtain your prints Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Viewing memory settings Click on the Settings icon at the top right side of the Oc Server main screen ee and select the Properties menu option The System Settings dialog box will Is open Click on the Memory Settings tab within this dialog box System Settings x Message Logging Button Bar Memory Settings Print Spooler Network Printing amp Control Print Previews Total system memory reported by Windows Amount to use for rasterizing Size of buffer for temp display list data BREED A B C Min memory to use for a print band less than B D E If larger than this store bitmaps scans on disk F Minimum physical memory limit G Maximum physical memory limit Defaults for C E 7 Use Multitasking Directory to use for temp files E TEMP Cancel Help Building bitmap files The Oc Server uses two different methods to build bitmap files depending upon their size Non Ban
171. mmand Reference gives a list of PostScript commands interpreted by the Oc Server in conjunction with a short description of each command as well as a list of Oc Server command line parameters Appendix F Oc Poster Layout explains how to install and use the optional Oc Poster Layout application Appendix G Addresses of Oc offices and reader s comment sheet Index Read Me First 9 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Chapter 2 Making and saving printer settings This chapter describes how to view stored printer configurations and how to set up and save your own configurations Selecting a printer for a spool queue v To select a printer for a spool queue 1 On the Print Queue Icon Bar click the icon representing the printer to which you want to assign the spool queue 2 Select Properties from the drop down menu to open the Printer Setup dialogue box Note f you are setting up a new spool queue and wish to select a specific printer for it click on the last printer on the Print Queue Icon Bar and select the Add Another Queue option A new Print Queue icon appears Click this icon and select Properties to open the Printer Setup dialogue box 3 Within this dialogue box click on the arrow of the drop down list next to the printer icon A list of available printers appears 4 Select a printer from the list Printer Setup 5350 1 x Printer As oce 5
172. mote Rip Client Install LaserWriter 8 4 E Installs the Remote Rip Client software The Remote Rip Client software gives you control from your workstation of your colour printing across a network 4 Make sure that Install Remote Rip Client is highlighted as the selected option Click on the Install button The Select disk to install onto window will appear The default is to install Remote RIP Client on your System Disk Click on the Switch Disk button to cycle through and select an alternative available location on your system Click on the Install button to carry out the installation You can then follow the progress of the installation on screen When the process is completed an Installation was successful message will be displayed You can then either choose to Quit the install wizard or Continue if you wish to re display the install choices menu window and install Laser Writer 8 x on the workstation The Remote RIP Client software will be installed on the workstation in a folder called Remote Rip in the location you specified in step 4 above Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual v To start Remote RIP client from the workstation Double click on the Remote Rip folder to open it Within the Remote Rip window double click on the Remote Rip Client icon Installing Laser Writer 8 x on workstations v To install Laser Writer 8 x on an Apple Macintosh workstation 1 Access the install choic
173. mple Suppose you have created a printable file in QuarkXPress Open the file in QuarkXpress and select Page Setup from the File menu LaserWriter 8 Page Setup 82 Layout 1 Up v us ud Reduce or 100 Options pac Mew Orientation Screen Border O Calibration Bars Labels Trensfer CO Registration Marks Negative Irenstero Bleed O Corner Crop Marks Emulsion Down O Caption Center Crop Marks Interpolation Click on the OK button to save your settings Then select Print from the File menu to open the Printer dialog box 86 Printer OGSL 0ce 5350 600 v Destination Printer specie options PercentScale1000 Default v PercentScale100 Default v PercentScale10 Default v PercentScalel Default fotateby esit 7 PrintMirrored Default v _Screentyper Default Cr Click on the Print button to print your job across the network to the Oc Server Printing from an application 19 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Chapter 3 Printing from Oc Graphics Server This chapter explains how to print files manually and automatically from the Oc Graphics Server and how to manipulate jobs in spool queues 21 Starting the Oc Server Installing the programs from the Oc Server Program Installation CD creates an Oc Server entry on your machine
174. mplete Click on Complete to close the Send lt filename gt To Server window and return to your Remote Client Window The Active Jobs List displays your file Retrieve files of scanned images from the Server A path and directory where files of scanned images are stored can be specified at the Remote RIP Server An example would be images scanned on a color laser copier When a directory has been specified you will see the item Images in your main menu and you can access and retrieve the files in the specified directory Click on Images in the main menu and select the Retrieve Images option The Retrieve Images dialog box will open Retrieve Images Available Images Total Size File Name File Size 9 KB 9 KB scan2 tif 9 KB scan tif 8 KB Retrieve Retrieve To Default Destination Folder System Disk Desktop Folder Cancel This dialog box lists all the files in the specified directory Click on a file to select it and enable the Retrieve and Retrieve To buttons Hold down the SHIFT key and click to select several files in the list Using the Remote RIP Software 85 Click on the Retrieve button to place the selected file s in the Default Destination Folder displayed in the bottom left corner of the Retrieve Images dialog box It is the location from which Remote RIP Client starts During the retrieval process a File Transfer in Progress message box appears on your
175. mula used to calculate the screen frequency for a given output resolution and shade gray level count is frequency device resolution square root shades required Note that requesting a high gray level count on a low resolution printer will result in a very coarse screen frequency Unchecking the Automatically use a frequency that will generate up to shades for each ink option enables the Screen frequencies edit box so you can key in the screen frequency to use as opposed to entering the number of shades for each ink Unchecking this option also displays the Set different frequencies for each ink prompt and checkbox Check the Set different frequencies for each ink option if you wish to specify a different screen frequency for each color plane Otherwise the screen frequency specified is a global parameter used by all four color planes Dot shape Select the appropriate spot function to use from the pull down list A diagram may appear to the right of the pull down list this shows how the dot shape changes with an increase in tonal value Default Selects the default spot function This is know as a Euclidean spot function and is basically a round dot that changes to a square at 50 density Ellipse Selects a spot function that defines the spot as an ellipse Line Selects a spot function that defines the spot as a straight line Circle Selects a spot function that defines the spot as a circle Rhomboid Selects a spot funct
176. n your image is restored to its original size Positioning the image on paper The Page Sizing and Positioning dialog window has several ways to specify where your image is positioned on the paper v By clicking and dragging The fast way to change the position of your image on the paper is to simply click on the R Page icon and drag it to where you want it to print If the R Optimizing printing 39 Page is dragged partially off the paper only the portion of the image that remains positioned on the paper will print Page Sizing And Positioning x Specify printing area and size Units Std Sizes Inches In a Edit Papers Rotate By c go C 180 270 Left Bottom 25 083 In 2 382 In Width Height Scale To Fit H en V Cntr Keep aspect r Select print roll view View Width View Height 35 417 In 54 074 In Fit in Window iuf m ot Edit image area within page Cancel Help Left click tabs to stretch page centre to move Right click for alignment menu By entering exact values The values displayed in the Left and Bottom edit boxes give the current position of your image in relation to the left and bottom edges of the paper loaded in the printer A 0 value in each edit box positions your image in the bottom left corner of the paper Type in different values to reposition the image and press Tab to see the effect By c
177. n continue with the next job in the Active Jobs list You can also Start and Stop the Oc Server spooler by clicking on Spooler in the Oc Server Menu Bar 1 and selecting Start Spooler and Stop Spooler from the drop down menu Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Printing individual jobs This is useful if you need to print an individual job manually Printing a job from a spool queue v v 1 2 v 1 A 2 Print File When the individual job you wish to print is in a spool queue it will be stored in either the Active Jobs List or the Inactive Jobs List You then have three ways of printing it manually from within the Oc Server main screen The drag and drop method Select the job you wish to print by clicking on it Then drag and drop the job onto the Print Queue icon representing the printer you want to print the file to This method also allows you to select several jobs at the same time The do button method Click on the do button beside the name of the job you wish to print Select Print File from the do button drop down menu 1 Document PostScriptps d l Baa dE Change Settings H2 Oc test Chart Testcht ps d i Preview File Preview for CAT Adjustments Crop Scale and Tile The Oc Server will send the job to the printer for which the job is queued The Print File button method Select the job you wish to print by clicking on it Click on the Print File
178. n your documents edit them in your scanning or paint application prior to including them in your document This will speed up RIP times A good rule of thumb simplify the graphic or in the case of a scan scan in the image at the correct resolution or down sample it before including it in the document Note If you wish to print a scan at 400dpi on a page and it is going to occupy a space 5 across multiply 400 x 5 2000 Thus 2000 is the maximum width in pixels of the scanned image Matching Fonts If your file prints with a Helvetica font you didn t expect the RIP was not able to access the font used to create the job If you have set up a substitute table then the replacement font will be printed instead of the one used in the document However the font metrics are likely to be different causing the document to look different on the page Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Appendix A Optimum System Configuration This appendix explains how to set up your system to obtain the very best performance from the Oc Graphics Server L 101 Hard disk subsystem The main objective is to minimize the chances of simultaneous reading from and writing to the same hard disk in the machine If this occurs the heads on the disk have to move from one place to another which takes a measurable amount of time This in turn reduces the overall level of performance The intermediate so
179. nced Halftone Type Adjusted Inkjet j Select CAM dt aid 3D colour adjustment Profile RGB lineart free s Setup RGB LINEART TO OCE 5350 LT CMYK linear LinoTypelCC v Setup fMyConfigih x AGE Bitmaps LinoType ICC Y Setup AGE BITMAP TO OCE 5350 LTF CMYK Bitmaps LinoType ICC Setup MyConfigih Select CAT linear colour adjustment Oce 5350 G High GI v Edit Cancel Help Select a profile for converting colours for CMYK lineart to RGB CMYK 2 From the Configuration list top of dialog box select No configuration Change settings manually v Selecting a profile configuration From the heading Select CAM and Profile middle of dialog box select a profile configuration for RGB line art CMYK line art RGB bitmaps and CMYK bitmaps respectively 26 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Note The distinction between RGB and CMYK applies to the type of input color space Bitmap type information is described as pixel by pixel Line art type information is described as a PostScript command or instruction The Oc Graphics Server L detects automatically if the printing information is of bitmap or of line art type or of both For each type of RGB and CMYK information click the arrow on the list of CAMs to select a LinoType ICC profile A list of Profile configurations appears next to the Setup button Select the appropriate profile configuration for each type of information Select a CAT and a
180. nction provides a way to wait until the user presses OK or Cancel then continues running the rest of the macro Returns 1 if OK was pressed by user else 0 YesNo Text1 Text2 Text3 Displays all parameters passed to it in a message box with two buttons Yes and No If no parameters are passed displays whatever was on the top of the macro interpreter s parameter stack Returns 1 if Yes was pressed else 0 Buttons Title Info Button1 Button2 Displays a list of buttons titles Button1 Button2 etc and returns the button selected by the user Title is displayed as the button dialog box s window title and Info is displayed above the buttons to prompt the user Returns 0 on cancel 1 2 3 etc if button selected CheckFile filename Verbose 1 Checks if filename file exists If verbose is 1 message is displayed in any OpenWindow window showing file check progress Returns 1 if file exists else O CloseWindow Closes any window opened using the OpenWindow function Returns Nothing CopyFile sourcefile destinationfile Copies file sourcefile to file destinationfile Command Reference 135 136 Returns on success 1 if out of memory 2 if could not open source 3 if could not open destination 4 if source file is 0 bytes in size 5 if file read error 6 if file write error EnableLog Enable This function works only within scripts called through the Execute Script Before
181. nd go to Document options in the arborescence Select PostScript options The following window displays the available options a fF WON g OGSL Oce 5350 Default Document Properties 24 x Page Setup Advanced Sy PercentScale1 000 lt Default gt PercentScale100 lt Default gt PercentScale10 lt Default gt PercentScale1 Default b PrintMirrored lt Defaul gt wy ScreenT ype lt Default gt A CropMarks lt Default gt SA PrintJobTitle lt Default gt M CombineSeparations Default En OutputMethod Default Change RotateBy Setting O Use Current Setting in the Printer 14 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual PPD options settings Function Screen type Selects a different screening option m Standard a Error Diffusion a FM m Normal Inkjet m Adjusted Inkjet Note When printing to the Oc 5350 select m 400 dpi Electro adjusted inkjet as all profiles delivered with the m 200 300 dpi Electro printer are optimized for this screening method Combine separa tions a On applies the same plate order as specified in the RIP settings a Off Output method Direct to printer sends data to the printer as it is processed m Save to file then print saves the processed file in a temporary buffer directory before sending it to the printer a Print via REPRINT stores the file in a special format for post printing Percentage scaling Selects a scaling factor fo
182. nd return you to the Remote Client Window logged on as a Power User Using the Remote RIP Software 87 If Remote RIP Client was last run on a workstation with a Power User logged on the next time Remote RIP Client is started the Request Access dialog box will open Request Access Groups Guest amp Power User Password To enable Remote RIP Client to continue you must either enter the Power User password to log on again as a Power User or check the radio button beside the Guest prompt to log on as a Guest User What can I do as a Power User 88 As a Power User you can do everything a Guest User can do but you also have increased access rights to the Server main screen displayed in your Remote Client Window Control the Server Spooler When you are logged on as a Power User the Spooler entry in the Remote RIP Client main menu is enabled Select Spooler to Start and Stop the Server spooler or to Abort the current print job Manipulate jobs in the print queues You can select and deselect a single job or several jobs at a time from the Active and Inactive Job Lists Selected jobs are highlighted on screen and once selected can be moved around To select jobs a Click on the job to select a single job a Click and drag across the jobs to select two or more adjacent jobs a Hold down the Ctrl key and click on each job to select two or more non adjacent jobs To deselect jobs position the curs
183. nderlined characters in the Menu_Title or Item_Title parameters must be preceded by an amp character For example to add an item Test Item to the Files menu that displays the message Hello World execute the following function AddMenu amp Files amp Test Item Show Hello World Returns Nothing DeleteMenu Menu Title Item Title Deletes a command item from the Oc Server main window menu This function takes two optional parameters If no parameters are passed the entire main window menu bar will be removed If just the Menu_Title parameter is specified that entire drop down menu will be removed If tem Title is also specified only that command will be removed from the drop down menu Any underlined characters in the Menu_Title or Item_Title parameters must be followed by an amp character For example DeleteMenu Deletes the main menu bar DeleteMenu amp View Deletes the View menu DeleteMenu amp View amp View Errors Deletes the View Errors entry from the View menu Use RestoreMenu to get back to the default menu configuration Returns 1 if something was deleted else 0 Command Reference 129 130 Dup Duplicates the top object on the macro interpreter s parameter stack This is useful for example when you pass a first parameter to If or IfElse but want to pass the same parameter to a function passed as a parameter to the
184. ng The left side of the Status Bar displays the three Busy Spooler and Error buttons These buttons are normally green When the Oc Server is busy processing a job the Busy button will turn yellow Click on the Busy button when it is yellow to cancel the current processing activity This has the same effect as clicking on the Abort Print button on the Oc Server Button Bar When the Oc Server spooler has been started the Spooler button on the Status Bar will turn yellow to show that the spooler is active and that jobs in the Active Jobs List are printing When there is an error in interpreting a job the Error button on the Status Bar will turn red Click on the Error button when it is red to display error information 56 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Viewing the current status of a job being printed When a job is being printed a Job Information Bar appears just above the Active Job List Printing graffitips Cp Pg 1 1 g This bar displays the job s PostScript filename which copy of total set of copies is currently printing if marked as a the copies command is at the end of the PostScript file and will not show until interpretation is complete which page of total set of pages is currently printing and small page icons to help you see at a glance which page is printing and how many pages you have left Changing settings for an individual print job Click on the do button for the ind
185. ng the sRGB profile If the input device is unknown or an input profile is unavailable you can use an sRGB profile for RGB image types This ICC recommended profile does not perfectly match the input device but it can give a very good approximation Using the CMYK profile When your bitmap image is of CMYK type you need a CMYK input profile and a CMYK output profile for the 5350 printer If the input device is unknown you can use the Euroscale or SWOP profile as the input profile If the input device is known use the device s profile Adding new profiles You add new profiles to the WispPS Cams Profiles folder located in the Oc Graphics Server L installation folder Do not put unrelated files in this folder Using input and output profiles 116 Color matching corrections involve two profiles an input profile describing the color characteristics of the input device and an output profile describing the color characteristics of the output device These two profiles are combined in a profile configuration To get expected results you must apply the appropriate type of profile to the particular color space such as an RGB profile for an RGB input image type Color matching corrections should generally be done on the Oc Graphics Server L However you must turn off this option if another application has already performed the color corrections Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Using rendering intents ICC has d
186. nk But with diluted inks the light tones are made out of light inks That is why with the 8 colours printer you are using a greater volume of light colours than full colours What is the extra ink costs using 6 or 8 colours compared to 4 colours The ink costs will be higher as you will use more diluted ink light colours than normal ink in case of 4 colours How much higher depends on many factors such as the medium the profile the calibration the original file What is the UV behaviour of the diluted colours The UV behaviour for diluted inks is identical to the full inks CS 5090 8 colours Profiles Why are there no 8 colours profiles available for SC2 inks GC is a high quality ink good gamut UV stable These characteristics perfectly fit to the quality mode Moreover less drying problems are expected using GC inks compared to SC2 For these reasons Oc has not developped yet the profiles and configurations for SC2 inks Why are not all media profiled for the 8 colours To get the best optimal quality for the quality mode for 8 colours we have chosen to start only with the media that generate the best quality glossy satin matt film and backlits This is why Oc developped profiles only for these specific high quality media Why did Oc choose for 8 pass speed 5 To get the best optimal quality for the quality mode for 8 colours Oc chose to minimise the risks of print quality artefacts usually kno
187. ns how to install the Oc Server software from the Program Installation CD and the Support disk on your PC The software is very easy to install because the Oc Server Install Wizards present straightforward options for you to choose from Oce Before you begin What should my Oc Server package contain Your Oc Server package should include the following m Oc Server Program Installation CD m Oc Server Support Disk 2 x Apple Macintosh Workstation Setup Disks m User documentation Dongle a hardware protection device to be attached to your computer What do I use each disk for v The Oc Server Program Installation CD Setting up an Oc Server You use the Oc Server Program Installation CD to set up a computer as a Server Setting up an Oc Server Remote RIP Server When you install the programs from the Oc Server Program Installation CD on your computer the Oc Server Remote RIP Server software is included as part of the installation This means that installing these programs not only sets up your computer to act as a print server on your network in the normal way but also sets up your computer as an Oc Server Remote RIP Server Setting up PC workstations as Remote RIP Clients The Oc Server Remote RIP Client software is also contained on the Oc Server Program Installation CD To set up a PC workstation on your network as a Remote RIP Client insert the CD at the workstation and run an Oc
188. nstallation will be displayed on screen When completed an Installation was successful message will be displayed You can then either choose to Quit the install wizard or Continue if you wish to re display the install choices menu and carry out further installations on the workstation For example you may wish to install the Aldus PPDs into a different root folder for a second Aldus application QuarkXPress The Oc Server Mac PPDs Setup window includes a QUARKPPD folder gr Mac PPDs Setup ai 5 items 517K in disk 899K available e Ey a m Oc Server Mac PPD Setup EXTPPD ALDUSPPD ALDUS APD For each workstation on which you are running QuarkXPress Version 3 x or earlier you must manually copy the QuarkPDF contained in the QuarkPPD folder to your QuarkPDF folder on the workstation Setting up workstations 29 30 Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Index A Aldus PPD files 28 Apple Macintosh Setting up workstations 25 AppleTalk network 16 D Dongle 11 H Hardware and Software Requirements Disk Drives 10 Display 9 General 9 Memory 9 Network 10 Operating System 10 Processor 9 Hardware Protection Device 11 iS l Installation Creating installation disks 22 Dongle 11 Hardware amp Software Requirements 9 Introduction 15 21 LaserWriter 8 x 27 Oc Server programs 12 Package 8 PPD files 27 Index L LaserWriter 8 x Installing on workstations 27 M Mi
189. nt Queue tab 3 Inthe Load amp Job Sharing section select Load Sharing 1 19 Name to use for this spool queue Printer 4 Manually select a directory where files for this print queue are stored F RIP1 Spooll Browse New jobs appear as inactive Disable jobs in this print queue from printing during spooling Load amp Job Sharing C Off Normal Load sharing 1 C Job sharing 1 C Load sharing 2 C Job sharing 2 4 Repeat steps 1 to 3 for printer B Printers A and B now belong to the same Load Sharing group which means whenever you send a job to one of those printers the job will be printed only on that printer with the smallest queue lowest load How to configure job sharing groups Case scenario you need to configure Printer C and Printer D together in the Job Sharing 2 Config 1 Config 2 Spooler View Help oie ii Pause Stop Abort mj m 1 Right click on Printer C icon and select Properties 2 In the Printer Set up dialog box click Print Queue tab 3 Inthe Load amp Job Sharing section select Job Sharing 2 OGSL 6 2 BIGUISE BUYS 4 Repeat steps 1 to 3 for printer D Printers C and D now belong to the same Job Sharing group which means whenever you send X copies of the same job to one of those printers this number of copies will be printed on Printer C and Printer D 21 22 OGSL 6 2 Oc Grap
190. nt an extra amount on the support To do this you would define a edge of each tile to ensure a good negative overlap alignment i e 20 mm i e 20 mm Cropping an image 50 Select the Tile amp Crop tab To visually adjust the cropping area click and drag on the corners of the preview image To define a cropping area more precisely check the Select an area to crop checkbox You can then either choose from a drop down list or type in the exact Width and Height of the cropped image Check the Land checkbox to select Landscape mode for your cropping area Leaving this checkbox unchecked selects Portrait mode for the cropping area Enter values in the X Offset and Y Offset edit boxes to offset the cropping area from the left and bottom edges of the image The origin 0 0 for X and Y Offsets is the bottom left as this is the PostScript standard Press the Tab key to enter your values Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Printing tiles Select the Tile amp Crop tab Click on the Tiles button at the bottom of this tab A Select tiles to print dialog box will open Select tiles to print Print all tiles amp Print following selection only 14 24 34 44 To print only your selection enter the tile numbers separated by eg 14 28 Check the Print all tiles option when you wish to print all the tiles shown on the preview image When you wish to print only a few of the ti
191. nt setting Returns Nothing RestoreMenu Restores the main window menu to the default values This is useful for undoing the effects of an AddMenu or DeleteMenu function Returns Nothing Run FileToRun Runs an external program The program file name including the path if any for the EXE file plus any command line parameters for the program to be run are passed in the FileToRun parameter Returns 1 if program started successfully else 0 Show Text1 Text2 Text3 Command Reference 133 134 Displays all parameters passed to it in a message box The parameters are shown on separate lines If no parameters are passed displays whatever was on the top of the macro interpreter s parameter stack Returns Nothing StrCat p1 p2 p3 p4 Concatenates the two or more parameters p1 and p2 and returns the concatenated value For example StrCat Hello There returns Hello There Returns The two parameters passed in combined into a single text TraceErrors OnOff Turns macro debugging messages on or off If OnOff parameter is 1 debugging messages are turned on if 0 they are turned off The normal state when a macro starts executing is debugging messages off When debugging is on the macro interpreter will put up a message box which will display any errors that occur during macro interpretation Errors tend to cascade one error may set off another so usually only the firs
192. nt temperature and humidity is a Fans only when this mode is selected the dryer is working but without the heaters switched on It is blowing only cold air It is advised to select this mode when using specific media that do not support heating Blowing cold air prevents the media from curling and deforming Note For more details about the media please refer to the Media Product Information Sheets on www oce com 8 colours driver for OGSL 29 30 CS 5090 8 colours CS5090 How to use the 8 colours Chapter 6 Frequently Asked Questions Inks 32 Why am I using hardly any Black ink with the 8 colours profiles Diluted inks Light Cyan and Magenta Medium Cyan and Magenta reduce significantly the graininess of the images The only inks that are not diluted are Yellow and Black Yellow does not contribute to the graininess contrast is not big enough whereas Black really increases graininess That is why the amount of Black should be limited by not applying any UCR or GCR UCR and GCR reduce colour inks and replace them by Black ink In order to get the least grainy images Oc s profiles for the 8 colours hardly apply any UCR GCR Consequently there is more colour ink used and less Black ink used Why am I using so many light colours rather than full colours An image usually consists of more light and mid tones than full tones When printing with 4 colours the light colours are made out of full i
193. nter for which the preview page was created is displayed next to this heading on the Preview Button and Information Bar Paper The paper for which the preview page was created is displayed next to this heading on the Preview Button and Information Bar The paper for which the preview page was created is the paper currently selected as Paper Source 1 in the Paper Source tab within the Printer Setup dialog box Pixel Bits The bits per pixel for the preview page image is shown next to this heading on the Preview Button and Information Bar The number of bits per pixel depends upon the type of preview you have selected CATs button Depending upon your global preview settings a CATs button may also be displayed on the Preview Button and Information Bar For further Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual details of these global preview settings please see Setting global preview options on page 79 When the CATs button is displayed you can carry out interactive color correction CAT editing Click on the CATs button to launch the CAT Editor CAT Editor Contrast DotGain Darker Darker More Darker OOS 7 z 2 0 x 1 00 0 0 0 LOTS g 0 m z 0 T m 100 0 0 0 Brighter Brighter Less Brighter In 2 Out 80 New CAT Note The Oc Server CAT Editor can also be launched in the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab within the Printer Setup dialog box However launching the CAT Editor from within the Oc
194. o parameters are passed displays whatever was on the top of the macro interpreter s parameter stack Returns 1 if OK was pressed else 0 Pop Discard the top object on the macro interpreter s parameter stack Returns Nothing Preview File 1 0 ContextID 0 Copies 0 Previews the file passed in as the File parameter Pass in the second parameter as 1 to process an EPS file o 0 default as a PS job ContextID identifies the printer queue to preview for Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Copies forces the copy count use 0 default to print number of copies requested by the PS file Returns Nothing Print FileName 1 0 ContextID 0 Copies 0 Prints the file passed in as the File parameter Pass in the second parameter as to process an EPS file or 0 default as a PS job ContextID identifies the printer queue to print to Copies forces the copy count use 0 default to print number of copies requested by the PS file Returns Nothing ResizeWindow Left Top Width Height Changes the size of the Oc Server window or moves it Left specifies the top left X coordinate in screen pixels or distance from the left edge of the screen to the left edge of the Server window Top specifies the distance from the top of the screen to the top of the window Width and Height are the width and heights of the window in pixels Any window size parameter that is not passed in remains unchanged from the curre
195. ob sharing Note The amount of copies will be multiplied by the amount of job shared printers Example Consider you want to print 50 copies of a job Printer A and Printer B are part of the same job sharing group Job Sharing 1 When you send the job to Printer B it is printed not only on that printer but on Printer A In other words 50 copies are printed on Printer A and 50 copies on Printer B OGSL 6 2 Define Load Job sharing groups Both options rely on the same basic principle several print devices belonging to a same sharing group You can group printers together between two different load sharing groups Load Sharing 1 and Load Sharing 2 m two different job sharing groups Job Sharing 1 and Job Sharing 2 1 Inthe OGSL main window right click on the printer icon and select Properties The Printer Setup dialog box is displayed 2 Click the Print Queue tab The Job amp Load Sharing options are available in the bottom box C Load sharing 1 C Job sharing 1 Load sharing 2 C Job sharing 2 3 Select the option you need v How to configure load sharing groups Case scenario you need to configure Printer A and Printer B together in the Load Sharing 1 group Oc Graphics Server L Config 1 Config 2 Spooler View s wo 1 Right click on Printer A icon and select Properties 2 Inthe Printer Set up dialog box click Pri
196. of the 4 colours m More graininess m Less sharpness Note Both inconveniences are only visible at distances closer than 1 or 2 meters Quality mode 12 Advantages of the 8 colours m unmatched tonal gradation m less graininess m improved sharpness m outstanding colour fidelity m photo realistic results CS 5090 8 colours Inconveniences of the 8 colours m more ink and water used on the paper An image usually consists of more light and mid tones than full tones AII light colours are usually made out of full ink using CMYK But with diluted inks Light and Medium Cyan and Magenta the light tones are made out of light inks That is why with the 8 colours printer you are using a higher volume of light colours than full colours Note 6 colour printers present the same characteristic of higher ink consumption m possible bleeding or coalescence if you do not use Oc s configurations These configurations are aimed at minimizing these negative effects to get the best possible quality m more risks on drying problems if non Oc profiles are used and if heating is on when using certain types of media normal print speed Quality versus Productivity 13 Install reservoirs and cartridges Fill the reservoirs Note 7o place the ink reservoirs in the right order see the sticker on the carriage Observe the ink order from left to right as follows 4 Yellow or Light Magenta 3 Magenta or Light Cyan 2 Cyan or
197. oftware 79 Using Remote RIP Client software The Oc Server Remote RIP Client enables you to access the Oc Server main screen in a Remote Client Window at your workstation This is particularly useful when you wish to add a file to an Oc Server print queue as you can simply drag and drop the file into the Remote Client Window or in the case of an Apple Macintosh workstation drop the file onto the Remote RIP Client icon What you can see and do within the Remote client window depends upon whether you are a Guest User or a Power User Opening the Server Remote Client Window uf 80 If your computer is running under Windows 95 or Windows NT Version 4 0 click on the Start menu and select Programs If your computer is running under Windows NT Version 3 51 select the Client entry in Program Manager If you are working on an Apple Macintosh computer select the Remote RIP Client icon on your desktop The Remote RIP Client will search for the last Remote RIP Server running on your system to which it was connected The Remote Client Window will open However if there was no previous Server connection Remote RIP Client cannot display the Oc Server main screen within the Window Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Therefore the first time you select the Remote RIP Client entry after installing the software a dialog box opens asking for the choice of a Remote Server Choose Remote Server to connect to Appl
198. oftware on your server workstation and how to connect your server to your network Oce How to use this manual Who should use this manual This manual is intended for systems administrators or advanced users responsible for setting up the Server workstation and the client workstations on the network Once the software has been successfully installed see the Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual for information on how to use the software How is this manual organized This manual is divided into the following chapters Chapter 1 Read Me First describes the contents of this manual and how to use it Chapter 2 Installing the server and printer software describes what you need to do before you install the software package and how to install the server software and the necessary printer files for the Oc 5350 printer Chapter 3 Connecting the Server to the network describes how to connect your Oc Server to your network This chapter describes the connection procedure for several different types of networks Chapter 4 Setting up workstations explains how to set up Apple Macintosh and Windows PC workstations that are on the same network as the Oc Server so that users can send files from their workstations to the Oc Server Index A quick reference section 6 Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Chapter 2 Installing the Software This chapter explai
199. on 24 Power User loggingon 86 remote rip client 86 setting password 73 Previewer 23 Print Queue Icon Bar 22 Printer configuration 32 setup 32 Printing automatically starting jobs 24 from apple macintosh applications 18 from oc graphics server 21 from windows applications 16 print histories 58 search results 63 tiles 51 Printing histories searching 61 viewing 58 98 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual R Reducing image size 35 Remote RIP Client 68 guest user 82 opening 80 power user 86 using as guest 82 using as power user 88 Remote RIP Server 68 disconnecting clients 76 starting 69 stopping 79 Rotation 39 S Scaling 38 Search results printing 63 Settings Icon 22 Spool queues adding files 28 deleting jobs 30 re arranging jobs 29 receiving jobs 23 START button 24 Status Bar 22 56 STOP button 24 T Tile size specifying 49 Tiling and Cropping 45 U Units changing in tile and crop 47 Z Zero margins 42 Index 99 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oce Technologies B V a Trademarks Products in this manual are referred to by their trade names In most if not all cases these designations are claimed as trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Copyright Oc Technologies B V Venlo The Netherlands 1999 All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced copied adapted or transmitted in any form or by any means with
200. or outside the list where the job or jobs are located and click Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual To move jobs around To move jobs around simply drag and drop them In this way you can move jobs between the Active and Inactive Job lists and move them to the top or to the bottom of either list Print individual jobs Select the job you wish to print by clicking on it then drag and drop the job onto the Print Queue icon representing the printer you want to print the file to Alternatively click on the do button beside the name of the job you wish to print and select Print File from the do button drop down menu Change settings for individual print jobs Before printing an individual job you may wish to change the settings for example to make the job print mirrored Click on the do button beside the name of the job whose settings you wish to change and select Change Settings from the do button drop down menu The Job Settings dialog box will open Job Setting PLINA4 PS from Tile amp Crop For O Force copies to Print Mirrored Delete jobs from a print queue Click on the do button beside the name of the job you wish to delete and select Delete File From Queue from the do button drop down menu Using the Remote RIP Software 89 90 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Appendix A Miscellaneous Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual 91 How to read this m
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202. ot 0 it executes the second parameter or else it does not If YesNo Print the file TEST PS Print TEST PS The Oc Server executes the function YesNo Print the file TEST PS Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual 2 Ifthe user enters Yes the function returns value and continues to the function Print TEST PS If user enters No the function returns 0 and none of the functions and parameters within and can execute Note More than one parameter or function can exist within and Everything executes as a single function Functions can be executed one after another in the same macro by separating them with spaces or semicolon characters For example the following function first previews the file then prints it Preview TEST PS Print TEST PS A useful function to execute before others is TraceErrors If you pass it a parameter of 1 any errors encountered are shown in a message box along with the name of the function in which the error occurred Passing 0 as a parameter will turn off error tracing AUTOEXEC MAC is a file located in the same directory that contains the WISPPS EXE file usually within the WISPPS BINx directory It is executed whenever the Oc Server is started up You can put the Server Macro Language commands within this file to autoconfigure the Server on startup See the section Macro language command index on page 128 for a list of all the O
203. out written permission from Oc Oc Technologies B V makes no representation or warranties with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose Further Oc Technologies B V reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to time in the content hereof without obligation to notify any person of such revision or changes Code number 7055892 Edition 1 2 Cs Table of Contents Chapter 1 Read Me First How to use this manual 8 Chapter 2 Making and saving printer settings Selecting a printer for a spool queue 12 Viewing default printer settings 12 Changing the default output options 16 Creating and saving printer configurations 17 Chapter 3 Controlling Color amp Print Quality Controlling the quality of your print 20 Using halftone types 20 Setting a standard screening configuration 22 Controlling the color on your print 25 Selecting and loading a CAM profile 26 Selecting and loading a CAT file 28 Using the CAT editor to calibrate the printer 31 Other CAT import options available 38 Editing a CAT file 41 Changing the appearance of the CAT editor 46 Chapter 4 Spool Queues Adding a spool queue 48 Removing a spool queue 49 Naming a spool queue 49 Setting up spool queue options 50 Setting global spooler options for print jobs and spool queues 52 Publishing spool queues 54 Table of Contents
204. ove print quality and deals with advanced color calibration using the CAT editor and CAM profiles Chapter 4 Spool queues explains how to create spool queues and set spool queue options Chapter 5 Advanced settings describes some of the advanced features of Oc Graphics Server L Chapter 6 Previewing describes how to use the Oc Graphics Server L preview to see what your files will look like before printing them on paper Chapter 7 Managing memory settings describes how Oc Graphics Server L deals with your computer s RAM and how you can change memory settings to obtain the best performance from your system Chapter 8 Troubleshooting gives you some solutions to problems you may encounter using Oc Graphics Server L and in particular when dealing with PostScript error messages Appendix A Optimum system configuration explains how to set up your system to obtain the best performance from Oc Graphics Server L Appendix B Running simultaneous sessions gives guidelines for achieving the best performance when running multiple Oc Server sessions on the same computer Appendix C Colors presents a summary of color theory and gives some advice on maintaining color consistency on your prints 8 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Appendix D Customizing the button bar shows you how you can customize the Oc Server graphical user interface such as changing and removing icons on the button bar Appendix E Co
205. ower the maximum ink values and reduce the ink drying time The calibration process involves four phases m Printing out a color linearization chart from your printer m Reading the values from the chart using a densitometer X Rite DTP32 DTP41 and DTP51 m Adjusting the maximum ink values m Adjusting the dot gain Note Before you start verify that your printer and ink cartridges are in good working order and that you have installed the media and ink for which you want to calibrate See your printer documentation for details v To print the color linearization chart 1 Right click the icon of the printer to calibrate and select Properties 2 Select the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab Controlling Color amp Print Quality 31 3 In the Configuration box select Calibration setup No color correction applied to turn off all setting as shown below Printer Setup Oc 5350 600 Eg Rance fs oce 5350 600 7 Setup Configuration CALIBRATION SETUP NO COLOUR CORRECTION APPLIED gt Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations Separations Output Advanced adiusted Inkjet Configure m Select CAM and Profile 3D colour adjustment Paper Sources m Halftone Type CAM Profile RGB lineart None E CMYK lineart None E RGB Bitmaps one Y CMYK Bitmaps iN one y rm Select CAT linear colour adjustment iNeng gt Edit Update Cancel He
206. paces Check this option if you want to skip the blank information at the beginning of a print f 0O Image Skipped Automatic wiper Check this option to make the printer automatically wipe cartridge jet plates Use XY calibration Check this option to use the XY calibration of the printer please refer to the Printer user manual for more details about paper axis calibration Horizontal Repeat This option enables to select a number of copies of the same job you want to print on a single horizontal line Note Check if the size of the print fits to the paper roll width If you choose to repeat the job three times and the total size is larger than the roll width your job will not be printed properly as requested It will print until the end of the roll width only 31 Ink Control Click Ink Management to set Drying time Ink Management Ink Reduction Drying Time Reduce inkage by 125 Ohrs mins 30 secs UN EE EE g Cancel Note Ink Reduction is not supported for bitmap information sent to the printer and therefore will not have any effect using OGSL a Drying time Move the cursor to increase or decrease the drying time to apply once the job is printed The printer will be blocked for this time For instance feeding media or cutting can only be activated after the drying time is passed Dryer control Select the mode you want to apply for the printer dryer m Off when this mode is sele
207. passes Photo Four passes Enhanced Six passes Plot mode Select the quality mode you want to set for the print Print options Choose the print option you want to use a CMYK a 6 ink CMYK CMYK Medium Cyan amp Medium Magenta m 8 ink CMYK CMYK Light Cyan amp Light Magenta Medium Cyan amp Medium Magenta m CMYKOG CMYK Orange amp Green 6 ink CMYKOG CMYK Orange amp Green Medium Magenta amp Medium Cyan Automatic cutter When this option is checked the print is automatically cut once printing and drying are over when roll is selected as the supply type Paper option menu of the printer Don t print top spaces Check this option if you want to skip the blank information at the beginning of a print aS Skipped 8 colours driver for OGSL 27 28 Automatic wiper Check this option to make the printer automatically wipe cartridge jet plates Use XY calibration Check this option to use the XY calibration of the printer please refer to the Printer user manual for more details about paper axis calibration Horizontal Repeat This option enables to select a number of copies of the same job you want to print on a single horizontal line Note Check if the size of the print fits to the paper roll width If you choose to repeat the job three times and the total size is larger than the roll width your job will not be printed properly as requested It
208. pboard or you can choose a file on the disk leither be from the clipboard or you can choose a file on the disk Press Next to continue Press Next to continue Current Data Current Data C Use contents of clipboard Select a file C Use contents of clipboard Use contents of a plain text file No file selected E T ables numbers txt Help Cancel Next gt gt Help Cancel Next gt gt 40 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Import CAT From Data Table Import CAT From Data Table 2 You can import these values in either CMYK or RGB mode 3 Please select the FIRST value for the Red curve by clicking Select one and press next the mouse on the FIRST Red value in the text area below and pressing next Current Data Current Data 20 30 10 15 20 25 30 25 35 45 55 65 Red Green Blue and White C Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black Specify the colour space CMYK RGB j Select First Red value Help Cancel lt lt Back Help Cancel lt lt Back You will then be prompted in turn to specify a FIRST value for your Green Magenta curve your Blue Yellow curve and your White Black curve 4 When you have completed specifying the data press Finish Import CAT From Data Table xl import CAT From Data Table x M Please select the SECOND value for the Red curve This will IB The data will be imported as listed below Press Finish to be used to determine the gap between successive numbers load Pre
209. program is responsible for combining separations Advanced Features 63 Printing epilogue pages 64 Oc Server has an option to allow you to print out epilogue pages An epilogue page is a PostScript page which can print customer and job information such as a logo file name header number of copies etc For example the top half of the page can contain your own PostScript file perhaps with your company logo and customer information The bottom half of the page will consist of the header and print information of the job just printed Select the Advanced tab within the Printer Setup dialog box The top section of this tab is headed Epilogue Page Printer Setup Queue 3 x Printer T Oc 5350 v Setup Configuration No configuration Change settings manually Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations Paper Sources Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Separations Output Advanced Epilogue Page Print epilogue page after each job Print epilog to Mark Inactive Files Using C Internal Tracking Execute Script For Job Files Execute Script Before Job Execute Script After Job Browse Browse Cancel Help aaa E Checking the checkbox within the Epilogue Page section will cause the Oc Server to print an epilogue page after each job printed through that spool queue The edit box and Browse button beneath the checkbox are both activated when you check it The edit box displays th
210. ps Step 1 Printing out a colour linearization chart from your printer Right click the icon of the printer to calibrate and select Properties Select the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab In the Configuration box select Calibration set up No colour correction applied to turn off all setting Click OK Right click the printer icon and select Add file to queue A browser appears To calibrate the printer Oc has developped a linearisation test print file This file is available in OGSL directory OGSL Calib Plinaa4 ps From the List of active jobs select Oc linearization A4 Check that you have switched on the printer Right click and select Print file Make sure that the file is being printed A4 portrait do not apply any rotation nor any scaling When printing completes cut out the A4 size chart and allow it to dry completely Follow the trim lines when cutting the document Step 2 Reading the values from the chart using an X Rite DTP32 densitometer Right click the icon of the printer to calibrate and select Properties Select the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab to display the printer set up dialog box From the Configuration box select Change settings manually Click Edit The CAT editor window appears Click the Import Modules button From the CAT import dialog box select X Rite DTP import and click OK to open a settings dialog box Enter the appropriate settings Type of densitometer X Rite DTP32
211. pt and enter the path and name of a script file to run a script before each job in the queue or Check the Execute Script After Job prompt and enter the path and name of a script file to run a script after each job in the queue 3 Click on the appropriate Browse button to open the Select Script File window to locate and select an Oc Server script file Oc Server Macro Language This macro language provides a set of commands that access commonly used functions in the Oc Server By linking macro language commands with button bar buttons you can configure these to perform most actions Macro commands can also be linked to the main menu bar items or executed automatically from a file called AUTOEXEC MAC at Server startup Advanced Features 67 68 Commands in the macro language are called functions Each function has a unique name and may take one or more parameters Function names are always followed by a pair of parentheses i e the characters and Any parameters for the function appear inside these parentheses For example to execute the function Print which prints a PostScript file and pass it the name of the file to print TEST PS as a parameter you would enter the following text Print TEST PS If a function takes more than one parameter you can separate individual parameters with comma or space characters Print takes an optional second parameter which can be to print files as EPS fi
212. ption only the first instance is loaded at startup other instances are loaded when you click on their tabs When you clear this option all instances are loaded at startup Deferred loading is the default option Running simultaneous instances 109 Responsiveness section 110 All Equally Responsive Clicking on this radio button makes all the instances of the Oc Server equally responsive in terms of how much priority the operating system gives them This is the default setting Foreground More Responsive This option gives the foreground instance of the Oc Server a slightly higher priority than all of the other instances The foreground instance is the one actually visible on screen and is the currently selected tab Fast Loading If this option is checked the other instances of the Oc Server will load even if the foreground instance is busy If it is unchecked then the loading will be suspended until the foreground instance has completed its current task and has gone idle The default is for fast loading to be enabled Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Appendix C Colors Working with colors Ways of describing colors How green is green This is a very important question in digital reproduction Our perception and interpretation of color are highly subjective Each person sees the same color slightly differently which makes it difficult to describe accurately a
213. r a single print a PercentageScale1000 mPercentageScalel00 Example f you select 0 from 1000 s 3 from 100 s m PercentageScale10 7 from 10 s and from 1 s you get a 375 scaling m PercentageScalel factor for that print only Rotate by Rotates the print job from the PPD m 0 90 180 270 Print Mirrored Mirrors the print job a On a Off Crop Marks Adds crop marks to the print from PPD only a Off a Outline draws a dotted outline around the image outside print area a Corners draws normal corner crop marks outside print area a OutlineWithinPrintArea m CornersWithinPrintArea Marks position m MarksOutsidePrintArea places crops on the edge of the image a MarksInsidePrintArea places crops 3mm inside the image to simulate bleed Printing from an application 15 PPD options settings Function Print Job Title Adds text under the image m No text m Print Job Name m Print Date and Time m Print Job Name and Date and Time To keep modified settings 1 In the OGSL main window right click the printer icon and select Properties 2 Select the Output tab 3 Enable the option Allow jobs to control printer via PPD settings Printing from Windows applications Note n order to print to the Oc Server from your workstation the PostScript Printer Definition files PPDs which describe the Oc Server to your application must be installed on your workstation The Oc Graphics Server L
214. ragging it to a new position on the page When you check the Edit image area within page option a Zero margins button appears on the right side of the Page Sizing and Positioning dialog window Click on the Zero margins button if you wish to restore the original image area inside the page and undo any cropping 42 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Changing units Click on the down arrow in the Units edit box to select from inches feet millimeters meters or point units to work with while sizing Page Sizing And Positioning x af Specify printing area and size Units Std Sizes Inches In v 183 Y Changing your view of the paper The values in the View Width and View Height edit boxes indicate the dimensions of the paper loaded on your printer If you have roll paper loaded the view width will not change but you can adjust the view height in order to see more of the paper unrolled If you have cut sheet paper loaded the dimensions are for viewing purposes only Click on the Fit in Window button to scale the paper view to fit in the available space in the dialog box When you are satisfied with the size and position of your image on the paper click on the OK button to save your settings and return to the Paper Sources tab in the Printer Setup dialog box Click on the OK button at the bottom of the Printer Setup dialog box to save and apply settings and return to the Server main screen Optimizing printing
215. rcentage of magenta will actually be output by your selected printer as a result To map this input output relationship draw an imaginary vertical line from 50 on the x axis to intercept the magenta curve Then draw an imaginary horizontal line from the intercept point on the magenta curve to the y axis The point at which your horizontal line meets the y axis is the output intensity level For example when the magenta curve is a straight diagonal line linear 50 magenta input will map to 50 magenta output When you position the mouse pointer in the graph section of the CAT Editor the input output relationship at the position of the mouse pointer is displayed in the bottom left corner of the CAT Editor e g In 29 Out 31 You can therefore use the mouse pointer to trace along the line of a curve and see accurately what the input output relationship is at any point along the curve Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Using the CAT editor to calibrate the printer Your output print can vary depending on factors that affect your printer such as cartridge age environmental conditions temperature humidity inks and media To correct these variations you calibrate the printer This calibration process linearizes the actual dot area of the printer To get the benefits of the Oc profiles the calibration process also adjusts the dot gain to specified values for the media and ink combination If necessary this adjustment can l
216. re very few in number you may have managed to find one Solution Record the information in the error box and send this with the PostScript file to your Oc representative for assistance If there is already an upgrade that includes this function your supplier will know and can offer assistance as to how to upgrade Error unregistered Explanation This is an internal interpreter error Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Reason This should never occur but if it does then it is most likely a bug in the interpreter Though these are very few in number you may have managed to find one Solution Record the information in the error box and send this with the PostScript file to your Oc representative for assistance If there is already an upgrade that includes a fix or workaround your supplier will know and can offer assistance as to how to upgrade Error unmatchedmark Explanation The interpreter tried to find a mark object on the operand stack but none was present Examples of operators requiring mark objects are gt gt and cleartomark Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen for a correctly formed PostScript job A possible cause is a faulty network connection causing data to be lost This error may also occur when binary data has been corrupted such as that found in images A notorious culprit is converting images from Macintosh to UNIX format and vice versa which often
217. refore be considered as a whole rather than individually Processor Number of processors Number of instances of the Oc Server Memory Memory Minimum 64 MB x Number of instances of the Oc Server Display Although the Oc Server can operate with a standard VGA display adapter a monitor and video card capable of displaying at least 256 colors at 640 x 480 dpi resolution is recommended A system with support for 65 536 Installing the Software 9 10 or even 16 7 million colors will give appreciably better color quality and is required for on screen color correction Disk Drives The speed of the hard disk subsystem is very important since it is used for storage of incoming jobs sent by workstations and for temporary files that the Oc Server generates during processing For best performance both the operating system and each instance of the Oc Server should have their own hard disk ideally with each driven from its own PCI bus mastering hard disk controller The bandwidth of the controller should be the highest possible Therefore when running two instances of the Oc Server three hard disks are required Details of how to configure the system to make best use of the available hard disk resources are given in the Oc Server Reference Manual Network The Oc Server is compatible with any network interface card NIC and protocols that are compatible with the host operating system Examples of the hardware include Ethe
218. res of Oc Server are described in the Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual 30 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Chapter 4 Optimizing printing This chapter describes the many features of Oc Graphics Server L which you can use to optimize the ease and quality of your printing 31 Opening the Printer Setup dialog box 1 Click on the Print Queue icon of the printer spool queue for which you wish to specify the settings 2 Choose Properties from the drop down menu The Printer Setup dialog box will open Printer Setup Queue 2 x Printer T Oc 5350 Setup Configuration No configuration Change settings manually m Paper Sources Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Separations Output Advanced Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations Name to use for this spool queue Queue 2 Manually select a directory where files for this print queue are stored Browse New jobs appear as inactive Cancel Help This text area will display a brief help message describing each control in this dialog box Note Any settings made within the Printer Setup dialog box will apply to all files printed through that spool queue What is a printer configuration The quality of your printouts will depend upon factors such as the type of paper and inks you have loaded in your printer A printer configuration is a
219. rinter Please see Maintaining color consistency on page 115 for more information Select Rendering Intent Controlling Color amp Print Quality 27 10 11 Give the Profile Configuration a new name and description Note The Profile Configuration name must not exceed 30 characters Click Save Click Exit Setup Viewing your color settings From the Printer Setup dialog box select Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Click the arrow in the Configuration list box Select the configuration with the color settings that you want to see All settings appear Click Cancel Selecting and loading a CAT file 28 The bottom section of the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab is headed Select CAT linear color adjustment CAT Editor OL X Gamma Brightness Contrast Dot gain V Darker Darker More Darker O10 pO misa if 22 ig 1 00 0 0 22 sop p uec m em m 100 0 0 22 Brighter Brighter Less Brighter In 0 Out 61 New CAT Z OGSL uses the CAT Color Adjustment Table to linearize and adjust the printer output to a specified dot gain Each CAT file defines output color intensities color output to the printer for each possible input color intensity Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual color specified by the PostScript print job The CAT Editor allows each color channel red green and blue RGB or cyan magenta yellow and black CMYK to be linearized in order to take into account the physi
220. rnet 10BASE 2 Thinnet 1OBASE 5 Thicknet 10BASE T Twisted pair and Token Ring The network protocols include TCP IP Microsoft Windows Networking and AppleTalk although there are many others Please see chapter 3 Connecting the Server to your Network on page 15 for further information Operating System Windows NT Version 4 0 is the necessary operating system for running multiple instances of the Oc Server This is because unlike Windows 95 and Windows NT Version 3 51 Windows NT Version 4 0 supports multiple processors Windows NT Version 4 0 is available in two forms Windows NT Workstation and Windows NT Server Windows NT Server includes the Services for Macintosh network software which is required when connecting the Server to Macintosh workstations Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual What is a dongle A dongle is a hardware protection device The Oc Server is delivered with a Sentinel SuperPro dongle Each dongle is a small rectangular cream colored device with a 25 pin plug at one end and a socket at the other The number of dongles supplied in your Oc Server package depends upon how many printers that you wish to drive at the same time For each additional printer there will be an additional dongle The dongles should be plugged into the LPT parallel port of your Oc Server piggy back style A maximum of five dongles can be connected this way The dongles are completely transparent to any other
221. rocessing comments in the current log file This means the log file will grow in size very quickly To disable the comment output select Disable PostScript Comment Output from the View menu Advanced Features 71 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Chapter 6 Previewing Oc Graphics Server L allows you to preview a job to your printer to see what a final printout will look like without actually printing the job on paper 73 Previewing a job to a printer When you select a PostScript file to preview the Oc Server looks at the current printer to determine printer independent issues such as which paper is in use the dimensions the unprintable area of the paper and whether or not halftoning is required It then passes this information along with an image of the final page to the Oc Server file Previewer Your image is displayed on screen in the Previewer The Oc Server also keeps the image in memory allowing you to scroll up and down to view different parts of a page Because of this a very large image created by the Server may consume a large amount of memory Previewing jobs in a spool queue v a Preview File 74 1 When the job you wish to preview is in a spool queue it will be stored in either the Active or the Inactive Jobs List You then have three ways of previewing it Dragging and dropping for files in the active or inactive spool queue Sele
222. rrect parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error typecheck Explanation An incorrect type of operand was passed to a PostScript operator for example an integer instead of a string was passed to the show operator Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen for a correctly formed PostScript job It is probably caused by a corrupt PostScript file or an interpreter dependent or missing file header Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error undefinedfilename Explanation The PostScript file tried to find a font or other file that did not exist or was corrupt Reason This error is most likely to occur when the requested font or other file is corrupt or missing Solution Make sure that none of the fonts or other files are missing in use by another computer or corrupt Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Troubleshooting 95 96 Error undefinedresource Explanation The PostScript f
223. rtup Manual User survey Did you find this manual to be accurate Q Yes Q No Were you able to operate the product after reading this manual Q Yes Q No Does this manual provide adequate background information Q Yes Q No Is the format of this manual convenient in size easy to read and layed out well Q Yes Q No Did you find the information you were looking for 1 Always D Most of the times Q Sometimes D Not at all How did you find the information you were looking for D Table of contents D Index 4 Neither Are you satisfied with this manual Q Yes Q No Thank you for evaluating this manual If you have any other comments or concerns please explain them on the following page 7055891 Miscellaneous 93 Comments Date This reader s comment sheet is completed by Name optional Occupation Company Phone Address City Country Please return this sheet to Oc Technologies B V Attn ITC User Documentation P O Box 101 5900 MA Venlo The Netherlands Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Addresses of local Oc organizations Oc Australia Ltd P O Box 363 Ferntree Gully MDC VIC 3165 Australia Oc Osterreich GmbH Postfach 95 1233 Vienna Austria Oc Belgium N V S A Avenue J Bordetlaan 32 1140 Brussels Belgium Oc Brasil Com rcio e Industria Ltda Caixa Postal 3187 01060 970 Sao Paulo SP Brazil Oc Canada Inc 525 Logan Avenue T
224. rtup Manual v Disconnecting all Clients currently connected Click on the Disconnect All button on the right side of the Remote RIP Server Window Hide Server option Click on the Hide Server button to close the Remote RIP Server Window on screen and instead display the Remote RIP Server icon on the right side of the Windows taskbar at the bottom of your screen EM 1 59AM The Oc Server Remote RIP Server continues to run on your system when hidden in this way Double click on the Remote RIP Server icon in the taskbar to reopen the Server Window on screen Change Scanned Image Location option This option is primarily for use when your output device is a color laser copier for example with scanning facilities It enables you to specify a path and directory where the scanned images are stored All Remote RIP Clients whether they are logged on as Guest Users or Power Users can then access the specified directory of scanned images If you are running Remote RIP and the Server the option is disabled by default To enable the option please refer to the section on Command Line Switches in the Reference Manual If you are running Remote RIP and the Server this option becomes available by default To select the option when it is available click on the Setup button on the right side of the Remote RIP Server Window Select Change Scanned Image Using the Remote RIP Software 77 Location from the Server Setup dialog box T
225. ructure of this window is hierarchical from network to workgroup to individual computer If you cannot see the UNIX server move down the hierarchy by double clicking on the icons until you do Double clicking on the icon for the UNIX server will show the shared directories on this computer Select Map Network Drive from the File menu Make sure the Reconnect at logon checkbox is checked This will assign the next available letter e g G on Server to point to this shared directory on the UNIX server In the Oc Server you will need to replace the path of the directory where files for each spool queue are stored e g from D RIP1 Spool to a path with the letter assigned to the proper directory on your UNIX server such as G Spool1 You do this in the Print Queue tab within the Printer Setup dialog box for each Print Queue icon Connecting the Server to other networks Some other applications from the MS DOS and UNIX environment may not allow you to choose where you create your PostScript file If your application has this capability set it up to print the files to one of the directories you set up on the Oc Server If not you may have to let your application create the PostScript file where it wants and copy it to one of the directories you configured on the Oc Server Note f your network is not included above please contact your dealer for advice Connecting the Server to your Network 19 20 Oc Graphics Server L Installa
226. rupt or interpreter dependent Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Troubleshooting 93 94 Error stackoverflow Explanation The operand stack has grown too large exceeding the amount of memory available to it Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen for a correctly formed PostScript job as the memory available to the operand stack is much larger with the RIP than it should ever need to be This is probably caused by a corrupt PostScript file or an interpreter dependent file header Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error stackunderflow Explanation An attempt has been made to remove an object from the operand stack when it was already empty Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen for a correctly formed PostScript job as an object would not be removed from the stack unless it was there in the first place This is probably caused by a corrupt PostScript file or an interpreter dependent file header Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct
227. s a value within a INI file The ApplicationName section within the file FileName which should have the extension INI is looked up for a Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual KeyName Value line and the Value part is returned If this is not found DefString is returned instead Returns Value read or DefString GetSelectedContext ActiveOrlnactive 1 Returns The printer context of the first file found in the spooler queues Only the active queue is searched if ActiveOrInactive is 0 only the inactive queue is searched if itis 1 and both are searched if itis 1 A printer context is a number that uniquely identifies each of the printer instances for which the Oc Server maintains independent settings 0 identifies the default printer context GetSelectedCopies ActiveOrlnactive 1 Returns Path and filename of first active selected file if ActiveOrlnactive is 0 then from active list if 1 then from inactive list if 1 then from either searching active first If none found returns 0 GetSpooledContext This function can only be used within scripts called through the Execute Script Before field in the Advanced Options dialog box It returns the identifier of the Printer Context that is active during the execution of the script GetSpooledCopies This function can only be used within scripts called through the Execute Script Before field in the Advanced Options dialog box It returns the number of copies that wer
228. s creation failed Reason There may be no more memory available Solution Try restarting Windows then the RIP Error W9000 Explanation No paper trays installed in printer Reason Before printing a job the printer informed the RIP that no paper trays were installed and so the job was not printed Solution Make sure that all the paper trays are pushed firmly into place on the printer Troubleshooting 99 PostScript tips v 100 Three Common Don ts in the PostScript World Don t cover a mess on a document with a white rectangle Clean up the mess by deleting it or start a new file Putting files into one another is called nesting Nesting files more than two levels deep is more likely than not going to cause trouble It can also slow down the RIP Don t scale down graphics by large amounts especially if they are photographs or illustrations with lots of curves or minute detail This will require the RIP to down sample enormous amounts of data in order to reduce the size of the image The RIP has to scale down the image while maintaining all the detail even though it may be so tiny you can t see it on the printed page For example avoid shrinking a 16MB scan file to matchbox size When you crop images on screen using the cropping tool the RIP still has to build the total image and then throw away the parts you have cropped This requires the RIP to perform a great deal of unnecessary work Rather than crop images i
229. s for the same area coverage when printing at 100 coverage Using the diluted inks greatly improves the tonal gradation of your print and simulates continuous tone effects excellent skin tones for instance Diluted colours associated to CMYK enable users to achieve smooth gradation even in the lightest areas of shades Visual benefits of diluted colours 16 Without diluted colours With a traditional 4 colours printer CMYK you can only choose one tone for each colour When your job contains lighter colours the printer must use halftone technology to create the appearance of such lighter tones Halftoning consists of placing fewer dots in a larger area From a given distance your eye mixes the dots and the white area and your brain interprets it as a lighter shade The inconvenience is more graininess which becomes more visible when you get closer to the print because then it becomes easier to distinguish the dots and the white area Use of diluted colours With an 8 colour printer many of the grainy effects are eliminated Since the printer has lighter inks available Light Magenta Light Cyan Medium Magenta Medium Cyan middle and light tones can be easily reproduced on the print There are more dots placed on the print and consequently less white area Quality is really improved even when you watch closely to the print It becomes really hard for your eye to detect the individual dots CS 5090 8 colours CS5090
230. s to enlarge or reduce the size of your image for printing 36 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual By dragging This is a quick way to visually change the size of your image Click on a black rectangle in a corner of the R page icon and drag it By selecting a standard or custom size 1 Click on the down arrow in the Std Sizes edit box A list of standard sizes will be displayed 2 Click on the required size The currently selected size is displayed in the Std Sizes edit box You can also create and save your own custom sizes by clicking on the Edit Papers button to access the Paper Sizes window Paper Name Width Height expotile 34 In 40 In expotile roll2 S Bar Modify Done Delete Help By entering exact width and height values You can specify the exact size of the printing area of your image by typing in the desired values in the Width and Height edit boxes Press the Tab key to see the effect of your settings Optimizing printing 37 38 Check the Keep Aspect box to automatically calculate the other dimension of the print area when you type a new figure in the Width or Height edit box and press Tab By scaling your image Click on the Scale button on the Page Sizing and Positioning dialog window and enter a percentage by which to scale your current page size Apply Scaling x Scale by Percent Enter a percentage to scale current page size by Alternatively
231. s upon the printer currently selected Your ability to change settings in the Setup window will depend upon the particular printer configuration currently selected The settings that apply to the selected configuration are grayed out In addition to these optimum settings for the selected printer default configurations supplied as part of the Oc Server package may also hold optimum settings for Advanced options Color Screening and Anti aliasing and Separations for example These are set in the appropriate tabs on the Printer Setup dialog box Again your ability to change settings in any of these tabs will depend upon the particular printer configuration currently selected Default settings are grayed out on the screen To check the full range of settings saved as part of a selected configuration click on the Configurations tab within the Printer Setup dialog box Making and saving printer settings 13 14 Checked options within the Select settings to save in this configuration section of the Configurations tab indicate that settings relating to these options have been saved as part of the configuration Printer Driver options relate to the printer settings viewed via the Setup button as described above Each of the remaining options listed relates to a tab within the Printer Setup dialog box Click on the relevant tab to view the settings Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations Enter a name for this configura
232. scribing each control in this dialog box The path to the current top level directory where the Oc Server print spooler stores jobs is displayed in the edit box beneath the first prompt within the Print Spooler tab for example D RIP1 The Oc Server automatically organizes this top level directory to store the jobs in their appropriate spool queues You can create a new top level directory by typing the new path in the edit box and clicking on the Create button The Oc Server will begin using the new directory when you exit the System Settings dialog window by clicking on the OK button to save and use your settings Click on the Browse button to browse your network for example to see if a particular top level directory has already been created Assigning printing priority by queue order Each time you add a spool queue the Print Queue icon for that queue is added along the Print Queue Icon Bar to the right of any existing icon s A maximum of seven icons are displayed along the top row of the Bar before a second row is started with any Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual subsequent icons again ordered from left to right This means that the icon on the far left end of the top row of the Print Queue Icon Bar represents the output device for spool queue 1 The next icon along the top row represents the output device for spool queue 2 and so on up through spool queue 14 Checking the Jobs for all queues are assigned print
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234. se this manual 6 How is this manual organized 6 Chapter 2 Installing the Software Before you begin 8 What should my Oc Server package contain 8 What do I use each disk for 8 What are the hardware and software requirements 9 What is a dongle 11 Installing the Oc Server programs 12 Chapter 3 Connecting the Server to your Network Checking if the Oc Server is already configured to use a network 16 Configuring the Server to use a Microsoft PC network 16 Configuring the Server to connect to an AppleTalk network 16 Checking if the Server can already connect to Novell NetWare 17 Connecting the Server to Novell NetWare 18 Checking if the Server can provide TCP IP support 18 Checking if the Server can already connect to a UNIX network 18 Connecting the Server to a UNIX network 19 Connecting the Server to other networks 19 Contents Chapter 4 Setting up workstations Setting up your PC workstations 22 Setting up workstations for printing 22 Setting up workstations as Remote RIP Clients 24 Setting up Apple Macintosh workstations 25 Setting up Apple Macintosh workstations 26 Installing Laser Writer 8 x on workstations 27 Installing the necessary PPD files on workstations 27 Using older versions of Aldus and QuarkXPress 28 4 Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Chapter 1 Read Me First This installation manual explains how to install the Oc Graphics Server L s
235. spooler will look for print jobs for that individual spool queue in the directory you have specified as opposed to looking in the default directory For further details see Setting global spooler options for print jobs and spool queues on page 52 Should you wish to make the Oc Server spooler look in the default directory again uncheck the box beside the Manually select a directory where files for this print queue are stored prompt and click on the OK button Spool Queues 51 Setting global spooler options for print jobs and spool queues T fy Settings 52 Click on the Settings icon at the top right side of the Oc Server main screen to display a drop down menu Click on Properties and the System Settings dialog box will open Click on the Print Spooler tab within this dialog box System Settings x Message Logging Button Bar Memory Settings Print Spooler i Network Printing amp Control Print Previews Path to top level directory where the print spooler will store jobs D RIP1 Browse Jobs for all queues are assigned printing priority by queue order Print spooler file deletion policy Never delete jobs after printing Delete jobs after successful spool printing Delete inactive jobs older than hours v Ask for confirmation when jobs deleted via drag and drop v Automatically start print spooler when RIP is started Cancel Help This text area will display a brief help message de
236. ss next when you have finished Current Data r Current Data 20 30 40 50 60 Red 10 000 20 000 30 000 40 000 50 000 60 000 70 00 10 15 20 25 30 Green 5 000 10 000 15 000 20 000 25 000 30 000 35 00 25 35 45 55 65 Blue 15 000 25 000 35 000 45 000 55 000 65 000 75 00 white 10 000 15 000 20 000 25 000 30 000 35 000 40 C Select Second Red value Check data and press Finish Help Cancel lt lt Back Help Cancel lt lt Back The Oc Server will create your CAT and display it as a graph in the CAT editor Finish Editing a CAT file You can edit your CAT to adjust a full curve or to adjust parts of a curve First you need to select the color or colors of the curves you wish to edit Controlling Color amp Print Quality 41 Selecting colors for editing curves When you are editing your CAT you may wish to adjust a curve i e the input output relationship for one color for each color individually or for all the colors in the same way Gamma Brightness Contrast DotGain T Darker Darker More Darker uu Tr A 0 Pa 0 a t mm 0 0 A E 0 0 0 W 1 00 0 0 Brighter Brighter Less Brighter In 93 Out 23 5350 300DPI Paper Colors available for selection are displayed down the left side in the Colour Controls section of the CAT Editor Red blue green and white when you are in RGB mode Cyan magenta yellow and black when you are in CMYK mode Click on a color to s
237. stall Disk When the connection has been made applications running on the workstation see the Server spool queue as a printer Users can then select the spool queue as a printer and print to it from within their applications For example in Microsoft Word Version 6 0 the Server spool queue will be listed as a printer in the Printers list box within the Print Setup window To set up a workstation From the Start menu choose Settings and then Printers From the Printers folder select Add Printer Connect to Printer Follow the instructions on screen As you follow the instructions m Specify that you wish to connect to the Oc Server as a Network Shared Printer at the appropriate stage of the process m If you are prompted to enter a network path click on the Browse button to display a window showing the network printers available for you to connect to Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual For example Browse for Printer 2 x Select the network printer that you want to add Note Printers are usually attached to computers Network Neighborhood D Entire Network E dh Workgroup er s qiqueue 1 iB Jane If you cannot see the Oc Server move down the display by double clicking on the icons until you do Double clicking on the Oc Server icon will show the current Server spool queues on the Server Note f you are prompted to install a printer driver use the appropriate Workstation
238. stem Settings dialog box Use Multitasking Check this option to enable a multitasking buffer which allows the Oc Server to continue rasterizing while your output device is receiving data from this buffer This allows input and output to overlap If you are using a fast output device you may not see an increase in performance This will increase the Server s memory usage by about 1 MB over the B setting Physical Memory Usage Minimum Maximum physical memory limit A normal application running under Windows NT usually has 2MB of physical memory allocated to it The application s demand for more memory is initially satisfied by the Windows NT Memory Manager via Windows virtual memory As the application s memory usage increases more physical memory is used to back up this virtual memory These two values tell the Windows NT Memory Manager how much physical memory to use to back up the Oc Server memory allocation Managing Memory Settings 85 The defaults for these values are 1 in each case which means they are not used The values should only be changed if you notice a lot of hard disk activity when the Server is sending data to the printer This may cause banding on the output Configure the values at 8000K and 12000K respectively and observe the hard disk activity Set them to 12000K and 15000K if it is still noticeable and so on in upward increments For an Oc Server with at least 64MB of RAM the Windows NT Memory Manager
239. sure that it is seen by your type manager Finally resend the complete file and your problem should be solved However if you don t have access to the application that created the PostScript file then you could try Troubleshooting 91 92 substituting the font on the interpreter if you know which font it is Consult your supplier for details on to how to do this Error invalidrestore Explanation An improper restore operator has been encountered in the PostScript file which would cause certain data on the dictionary execution or operand stacks to become corrupted Reason Under normal circumstances this is very unlikely to happen unless the PostScript file has been corrupted in some way Solution Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution lpi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error ioerror Explanation An exception other than the end of file has occurred You may have run out of disk space making the job incomplete or a file expected by the print job such as a Level 2 resource may not be present on the system If there is also a Wnnnn error where nnnn is a four digit number this may indicate that the printer device driver has failed to execute correctly Reason The error may be caused by a problem with the printer either because it was switched off in a paused
240. t Expand Job Information from the drop down menu Log View D WINDOWS OGSL LOG INC PREYS OFF VIEW EXPD PRINT HELP ABOUT Jobs Logged 314 Items Found 46 File Size 234 7 KB START Mon Mar 24 15 38 34 1997 Printing Testcht ps from HP DesignJet 750CH2 Size 512KB Created 03 05pm 20M4R97 JoblD 00000000 Pages Printed Details RGB CMYK GRAY Mode RGB Output Continuous Toned PostScript Header Information Type Adobe 3 0 Creator Aldus FreeHand 4 0 Laserwriter 8 B1 8 1 1 xl Define Search DD MM YY Format BySpoolQueue Testcht ps v By File Name B Bn From Date By User By Paper E EN ToDate The VIEW button on the Oc Server Button Bar will then be captioned VIEW EXPD To restore the view from expanded mode to list mode simply click on the VIEW button Note When you click on the do button for an individual job log the second option on the drop down menu is Copy Job To Clipboard Select this option to copy the complete job log information for that specific job to the clipboard 60 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Searching for specific printing histories You can use searches to identify an individual job or groups of jobs as required The search options are displayed in the Define Search section across the bottom of the Log View dialog box Define Search DD MM YY Format BySpoolQueue Testcht ps FN By File Name I T From Dat
241. t be a valid set of functions enclosed within and braces IfNot TestParam MacroToExec Determines whether or not to execute a macro The macro executes if TestParam is 0 else it does not execute The second argument must be a valid set of functions enclosed within and braces Returns Nothing Command Reference 131 132 IfElse TestParam MacrolfNotZero MacrolfZero Conditionally executes one of the macros passed in as the MacrolfZero and MacrolfNotZero parameters The MacrolfNotZero is executed if TestParam is not 0 else MacrolfZero is executed The second and third parameters must each be a valid set of functions enclosed within and braces Returns Nothing Input Prompt Displays an input dialog box prompting you to enter some text When you enter a prompt it shows up the prompt text You must enclose the prompt parameter within double quotes Returns 0 if the user pressed Cancel else the text entered by the user IsEqual param1 param2 Checks for equality of the passed parameters Two parameters are considered to be equal if ALL characters within both parameters are the same and in the same order For example Hello and Hello are NOT the same as the second parameter contains an additional space Returns 1 if both parameters are the same else 0 OkCancel Text1 Text2 Text3 Displays all parameters passed to it in a message box with two buttons OK and Cancel If n
242. t error that occurred is significant The message shown may display position information such as error occurred at 21 This is the character position within the macro at which the interpreter was when the error occurred This may or may not be the actual position of the error The errors reported by the macro interpreter are a INVALIDPARAM The parameter passed to a function was not of the form expected by the function a INVALIDPARAMCOUNT The wrong number of parameters was passed to a function a CANNOTEXECCMD The command specified could not be executed for some reason m NOSUCHFUNCTION The function name specified in a macro does not specify a valid function m FUNCSTACKOVERFLOW Too many functions were called in a nested fashion one within the other a PARAMSTACKOVERFLOW The total number of parameters being passed to all functions within a macro exceeds the macro interpreter s limit mu FUNCSTACKUNDERFLOW The macro interpreter expected to find a function to execute but failed a PARAMSTACKUNDERFLOW Too few parameters were passed to a function Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual m OUTOFMEM Not enough memory left to execute macro m SYNTAX A syntax error unrecognized macro format occurred Returns Nothing Waits for a dialog box put up by one of the main window menu functions to terminate Normally these functions display the dialog box then return and the macro containing them keeps running The WaitDialog fu
243. t is intended for systems administrators or advanced users responsible for setting up the Server workstation and the client workstations on the network Start Up Manual This manual explains the basic features of Oc Graphics Server L that most users will need to know It is aimed at two types of user m users who are connected to the Oc Server on the network and need to know how to print a file to the spool queue from their workstation m users who will be using Oc Graphics Server L from the Server workstation and need to know how to use the main features of the Oc Server Reference Manual This manual explains the advanced features of Oc Graphics Server L and is intended for m advanced users who will be using the Oc Server from the Server workstation and will be dealing with issues such as color calibration setting up spool queues and creating printer configurations Read Me First 9 a systems administrators responsible for setting up and configuring the Oc Server workstation and setting up the Server to be used over the network a advanced users dealing with PostScript programming and troubleshooting Online Help files Oc Graphics Server L has its own Windows online Help file Once the software has been correctly installed you can consult the online Help if you need a quick explanation of a menu or dialog box option or a task to perform To open the Oc Server Help file a Click on a Help button in
244. t job in PDF m If the file is in PDF it will open in Acrobat for editing m If the file is in PS it will distill first then open for editing v To edit with Acrobat m From the do button select Edit with Acrobat do Change Settings Print File Preview File Crop Scale and Tile Edit with Acrobat When you save images edited in Acrobat bear the following in mind m Check that you have deselected the down sampling option in Acrobat File menu Preferences For colour conversions select the unchanged option in Acrobat see Acrobat documentation for additional information m Save the new PDF file in the OGSL queue directory 8 OGSL 6 2 Pass through printing You can set up print queues for HPGL files as pass through queues This allows the RIP to relay the files directly to the HPGL interpreter in the printer Pass through printing only supports the following file manipulations a Do add file to queue a Do print file Delete via drag and drop Caution When using the pass through function do not use unsupported manipulations such as preview as this will stop the RIP v To add a pass through queue From the Spooler menu select Add another queue Right click the new queue and select Properties A dialog box appears From the Print queue tab in the Name to use box enter Bypass Click OK BR ND Printer Set
245. tartup Manual Changing settings for an individual print job Click on the do button for the individual job and select Change Settings from the drop down menu of options Any settings made via this option are specific to the individual job associated with the do button you click on The Job Settings For dialog box opens This box shows all the header information for that job and allows you to make three job specific settings Job Settings For Oc Test Chart Lx Header information in file Testcht ps Type Adobe 3 0 Creator Aldus FreeHand 4 0 Laserw riter 8 B1 8 1 1 Title Oc test Chart Date 1 59 pm Monday October 30 1995 For 8100 Pages 1 Force copies to Print following pages only Print Mirrored OK Cancel Help To specify the number of copies to be printed Check the Force copies to checkbox and type in the number of copies required in the edit box The setting you make here will override the copies command in a PostScript file To print a selection of pages If you have a multi page document you may wish to print or preview only a selection of those pages To do this check the Print following pages only checkbox and then enter the required page numbers in the edit box To print a range of pages type in the first page number followed by two dots and then the last page number Example Typing 1 7 will print pages 1 to 7 To enter a single specific pag
246. that you have enough disk space in that location as the reprint file is a bitmap and will therefore be very large Sending your Oc Server output to a printable file instead of directly to your printer means that you can then print the file using the Server Reprint program and get reprints without having to reinterpret the PostScript file each time Once you have your bitmap file you can launch the Reprint program from the Reprint button in the Server main screen Beneath the Print output mode section of the tab is a prompt to Allow jobs to control printer via PPD settings Checking the checkbox beside this prompt means that settings contained in individual PostScript jobs will apply to those jobs as opposed to the settings specified for the printer via the Setup button at the top of the Printer Setup dialog box Advanced Features 61 Working with separations 62 The Oc Server can merge preseparated PostScript files often referred to as EPSF 5 or DCS files into a composite image These files are usually intended to be output on a monochrome device such as an imagesetter This makes the Oc Server an ideal color proofer for imagesetter output Click on the Separations tab within the Printer Setup dialog box Printer Setup Queue 3 x Pinter rt Oc 5350 Setup Configuration No configuration Change settings manually X Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations Paper Sources Colour Scre
247. their paths are incorrectly mapped Solution Make sure that you have given all network privileges to the network spooling directory and that none of the fonts are missing or in use by another computer this is only possible in font sharing environments Restart the RIP Make sure that you have selected the correct parameters on your printer setup for example printer type resolution Ipi and paper size and resend the job If the error persists then contact your supplier Error invalidfont Explanation This error is often followed by OffendingCommand setfont OffendingCommand makefont or OffendingCommand setfont and means that the font asked for by the PostScript file could not be accessed Reason The main reason for this error is that only the screen font was available to the type manager handling your fonts When the PostScript file was generated it could not find the outline printer font file to include with the PostScript file so assumed it was already resident on the RIP However the RIP is supplied with the standard LaserWriter Plus set of 35 fonts Therefore when it is requested to load a non resident font an invalidfont error is reported Solution The easiest solution is to verify the location and validity of the font in question Delete the fonts one at a time from the job and resend it to determine which font is causing the problem Then reload that font onto your system and en
248. tings manually Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations Paper Sources Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Separations Output Advanced Pri o E pi ore sending to printer C Send output to a reprintable file this can be printed via REPRINT EXE I Allow jobs to control printer via PPD settings Cancel Help SSS SSS The options listed in the Print output mode of this tab are mutually exclusive Check the radio button for the appropriate option to specify where the Oc Server will print the jobs for the selected spool queue Selecting the Print directly to the printer radio button will cause the Oc Server to print your jobs directly to the printer to which the selected spool queue is assigned Selecting the Buffer output to disk file before sending to printer radio button will cause the Oc Server to first print your jobs to a disk file and then print the image from disk to the printer Selecting the Send output to a reprintable file radio button will cause the Oc Server to send your job to a printable file on disk instead of directly to a printer As with the Buffer output to disk file before sending to printer option when you select the Send output to a reprintable file radio button the additional Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Reprint prompt edit box and Browse button are displayed for you to select and specify the location for saving the file Make sure
249. tion The job will be returned to the inactive queue with an error marked against it WaitSeconds Seconds Yield 0 Suspends script execution for Seconds seconds If the Yield parameter is non zero other applications are allowed to execute while waiting While ConditionMacr ExecuteMacr Repeatedly executes ConditionMacr For each execution if the result of the execution is non zero the ExecuteMacr macro is executed When the result is 0 the While function terminates Execution can also be terminated by ExecuteMacro calling the return function Examples of while functions while 1 Show This will execute forever while isequal Buttons Choose Press a button Press me to finish Press me to continue 1 Command Reference 141 142 Show Still executing WriteProfile ApplicationName KeyName String FileName Writes an entry into an INI file The entry of the type KeyName String is written to the ApplicationName section of the INI file FileName Use this to save settings for later use The String parameter can subsequently be read through the GetProfile function If a KeyName key already exists within the ApplicationName section its value is replaced by the String parameter If String has the value NULL the KeyName value pair is removed If KeyName has the value NULL the entire ApplicationName section is removed FindFile wildcards attribs
250. tion as it would appear in the Configurations list box BEST QUALITY COATED PAPER Save Select settings to save in this configuration IV Printer driver options Paper sources options M Colour screening amp antialiasing options I Separations options v Reprint options v Advanced options OK Cancel Help For example if Colour Screening amp Antialiasing options is checked click on the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab Paper Sources Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Separations Output Advanced Normal Inkjet m Select CAM and Profile 3D colour adjustment CAM Profile RGB linear LinoType ICC Setup RGB LINEART TO OCE 5350 LT y CMYK lineart LinoType ICC Setup CMYK LINEART TO OCE 53501 y AGE Bitmaps LinoType ICC Setup RGB BITMAP TO OCE 5350 LT CMYK Bitmaps LinoType ICC Setup CMYK BITMAP TO OCE 5350 LT y Select CAT linear colour adjustment ace 5350 G High GI v Edit Update Halftone Type OK Cancel Help Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual If Advanced options is checked click on the Advanced tab Paper Sources Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Separations Output Epilogue Page Print epilogue page after each job Print epilog to Browse Queue 1 gt m Mark Inactive Files Using Archive Bit Intemal Tracking Execute Script For Job Files Execute Script Before Job M Execute Script
251. tion Manual Oc Graphics Server L Installation Manual Chapter 4 Setting up workstations This chapter explains how to install the necessary software and set up Windows PC and Apple Macintosh workstations so that users can send files from their workstation to an Oc Server spool queue Oce 21 Setting up your PC workstations You can set up Windows PC workstations on the network so that users can send files directly from their workstations to the appropriate spool queue Users see spool queues as printers on their workstations and send files to an Oc Server spool queue exactly as if they were sending them to a printer Setting up workstations for printing 22 For each workstation you need to install the appropriate PostScript Printer Definition PPD files and make the necessary connection to a Server spool queue using the Printers facility in Windows When you make a connection from the PC workstation to the Oc Server via the Windows Printers facility Oc Server automatically installs the appropriate PPD files Note You also have the option of making a workstation install disk from the Oc Server and using this disk to install the PPD files This option is only recommended if you are having problems installing the appropriate files via the Windows Printer facility To make an Install Disk click on the Network Printing amp Control tab of the System Settings dialog box and then click on Create Workstation In
252. tive mode 57 Printing bitmap files 58 The Oc Server does not only print PostScript files You can also use it to print your bitmap files such as TIFF BMP and PCD files Refer to the online help for the list of valid file types To print a non PostScript file Click on the Print Queue icon representing the printer you wish to print your bitmap files to and select Properties from the drop down menu The Printer Setup dialog box will open Click on the Non PostScript Files tab within the Printer Setup dialog box to enable you to specify settings which are of particular use when printing bitmap files for example scanned photographs Printer Setup Queue 3 xi Printer T Oc 5350 v Setup Configuration BEST QUALITY COATED PAPER m Paper Sources Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Separations Output Advanced Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations These settings let you control how non PostScript files are printed These include Tiff Windows Bitmap Targa JPeg Photo CD and many other formats Temp directory to use during conversion to PS C TEMP IV Print text under image use s for image name s Cancel Help Sess The Oc Server uses a temporary directory when interpreting and printing bitmap files Type the path and name of the directory you would like the Server to use in the edit box beneath the prompt Temp directory to use during conversion to PS Because bitmap files tend
253. to be large the drive you specify should ideally the one on which you have the most available free disk space Also any temporary directory specified must actually exist Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Use the Print text under image use s for image name edit box to print the name of your file and or a title beneath the image To print the file name leave the default setting s in the box below the prompt To print the file name and a title type the title in the box and retain the default s To print only a title delete the default s and type the title To enlarge your image to fit the paper currently specified for your printer check the Scale image to fit paper checkbox For example if your printer has a 36 paper roll and your image is A3 size checking the Scale image to fit paper checkbox will scale your print to 36 wide If you do not check the box your image will be printed pixel by pixel on the paper Note This example applies only if the Use Page Positioning option is unchecked in the Paper Sources tab when configuring your printer setup If Use Page Positioning is checked then the Scale image to fit paper option will enlarge the image to fit the paper format selected in the setup Advanced Features 59 Setting output options 60 Click on the Output tab within the Printer Setup dialog box Printer Setup Queue 3 xi Printer T Oc 5350 Setup Configuration No configuration Change set
254. tor Password Verify Administrator Password Cancel 2 Type in quasar as the Administrator Password and press the TAB key If the Administrator password is entered incorrectly e g in UPPER CASE instead of in lower case a prompt window will inform you that the password is incorrect Password Warning Q Incorrect administrator password Click on OK in the prompt window to close the window and reposition the cursor in the Administrator Password edit box Type in the correct password and press the TAB key to position the cursor in the New Administrator Password edit box 72 Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Type in your new administrator password maximum 20 characters and press the TAB key to position the cursor in the Verify Administrator Password edit box Type in your new Administrator password again to verify it Select the OK button to close the Change Administrator Password dialog box The new Administrator password you entered and verified will take effect immediately To set your own Power User password Select the Change Power User Password button on the Server Setup dialog box The Change Power User Password dialog box will open Change Power User Password _ Administrator Password ll New Power User Password Verify Power User Password I nj Cancel The Change Power User Password dialog box operates in the same way as the Change Administrator Password dialog box The req
255. trol Print Previews Message Logging Button Bar Configure message logging M Log error messages to file OGSLLOG M Show messages on screen while logging M No countdown message boxes View messages now Delete older messages Cancel Help This text area will display a brief help message describing each control in this dialog box The name of the current log file is displayed in the edit box in the Configure message logging section of this tab The Server default setting is for a log file named WISPPS LOG located within the WINDOWS folder on your system To create a new log file enter the path and a name for the file in the edit box When you click on the OK button at the bottom of the System Settings dialog box your settings will be saved and your new log file will become the current log file Click on the View messages now button to open the Log View dialog box Click on the Delete older messages button to delete the contents of the current log file Monitoring status and log files 65 66 Check the Log error messages to file option to cause the Oc Server to record error information as well as job information in the log file Use the Show messages on screen while logging option and the No countdown message boxes option to specify the action taken by the Server when a print job error occurs If you check the Show messages on screen while logging option and leave the No countdown message boxes un
256. tuning the PostScript file for a particular printer or interpreter When printed on the Oc Server these differences may cause the final printed page to look different from the page composed within your application Certain printer specific instructions within the PostScript file may also result in the Server generating a warning or error message The cause of such problems can most often be traced to the application using the following types of commands Commands dealing with font information The PostScript file may not contain some of the fonts it uses because the creating application considers these fonts to be resident in the target printer If this is the case and the font is not available to the Oc Server the RIP will generate a warning and use one of its built in fonts Helvetica instead Commands dealing with paper sizes The PostScript file may be formatted for a certain paper size available to a certain printer The generating application may also have taken into account the non printable area of the paper to format the page If the requested paper size is not currently available to the Oc Server it may abort the job with a PostScript configuration error or try and adjust the print job to fit on one of the available papers Commands dealing with or using printer resolution The PostScript file may contain objects built by the application using a specific printer s resolution dots per inch Most often these are o
257. u choose Contents to open the Windows Help utility and display the Oc Poster Layout Help Contents page m From the Help menu choose Search for Help on to open the Windows Help utility and display the Search dialog box Choose the topic required from the list From the Help menu choose How To Use Help this provides information on how to use the Windows Help utility Oc Poster Layout 151 152 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Appendix G Miscellaneous 153 How to read this manual The consistent style that is used in this manual enables you to quickly become familiar with the use of this manual and ultimately the Oc Graphics Server L Description Each section or subsection contains a description of the feature or operation identified in the title It might also include possible applications as well as any guidelines that you should bear in mind Procedures A description is followed by a procedure A procedure always begins with a phrase which briefly describes the procedure followed by a series of numbered steps that take you step by step through all phases of performing the operation Figures and tables Figures and tables are titled and numbered sequentially throughout this manual Figures include pictures of product components screen dumps examples and diagrams of concepts discussed in the description Attention getters There are several types of information
258. u Mab It offers a real improvement in the tonal gradation of your prints thanks to the diluted colours Light and Medium colours see chapter 3 Diluted colours on page 15 With 8 colours you can also print with two other colours Orange and Green which enable to expand the colour gamut This expanded gamut mode is not supported by Oc yet l L Light M Medium 8 CS 5090 8 colours CS5090 How to use the 8 colours Chapter 2 Quality versus Productivity Cartridge configuration Productivity mode 10 With the Productivity mode the CS5090 printer offers three different options in terms of cartridge configuration m 2x4 cartridge you can install 8 different cartridges but only 4 colours CMYK m 1x4 Left using only the 4 left cartridges m 1x4 Right using only the 4 right cartridges There are two main characteristics in the Productivity mode m speed the Productivity mode provides 2x4 printing for fast four colour process printing m flexibility With the two cartridge sets you can use at the same time two different ink sets For instance you can install 4 Outdoor Colour cartridges on the left and 4 Standard Colour cartridges on the right Cartridge set The figure below shows the correct cartridge sequence to follow when using 2x4 1x4 Left or 1x4 Right cartridge configuration Please follow the right order as shown below from left to right to place the reservoirs and cartridges 1 X 4 Left
259. ual Chapter 6 Monitoring status and log files The Server main screen displays a variety of information to help you monitor the progress of your printing It also produces log files containing the printing history of print jobs so you can analyze the Oc Server workload and performance To help with your analysis you can perform a variety of different operations on the log files These operations include Searching for the printing history of selected jobs Printing a condensed list of the printing history of selected jobs Printing a summary of the printing history of selected jobs 55 Server status Viewing the current status of the server The Oc Server has a Status Bar across the bottom of the main screen Busy Error E3 Spooler Using banding rasterizer for CMYK colours When you start the Oc Server the right hand section of the Status Bar will display whether the interpreter is in banding or non banding mode and whether the default spool queue the first Print Queue Icon is setup for an RGB CMYK or monochrome color space Throughout the printing process this section of the Bar will keep you informed of the status of the interpreter with messages such as Interpreting Error Aborted Sending to Printer etc It will also display special driver information such as Press F4 to Pause These messages are often driver specific and the ones you see will depend upon the device you are drivi
260. uirement that you enter the correct Administrator password before the Power User password can be changed provides an additional level of security Note When you have set your own Administrator password and Power User password select the Close button to exit the Server Setup dialog box Using the Remote RIP Software 73 Client workstations currently connected Client workstations are listed in the middle section of the Remote RIP Server Window when they connect to the Server Remote Rip Server 1 client Workstations currently connected to this server Machine Type amp Name Group Cona Demonstration Macintosh POWER USER 11 32 20 RIP Status Active Remote Connection Status gt PC MAC Connected Disconnect All Sending messages to Client workstations You can send a message to an individual Client workstation that is currently connected or you can broadcast a message to all currently connected Client workstations Sending a message to an individual Client workstation Select the individual Client workstation in the list in the Workstations currently connected to this server section of the Remote RIP Server Window Remote Rip Server 1 client Workstations currently connected to this server Machine Type amp Name Demonstration Macintosh POWER USER 11 32 20 RIP Status Active Remote Connection Status PC MAC Connected
261. up bypass x i Oc CS 5070 No configuration Change settings manually BIGWSE ss What s new 9 10 To configure the bypass queue Right click the pass through queue you have just added and select Properties The printer setup dialog box appears In the Printer drop down list select Bypass Printer Setup bypass OGSL 6 2 3 OMAN OW n Click Setup A dialog box appears Bypass to printer 192 9 2 100 HP JetDirect Port 1 fenabieHPGL zl ER cr Select the option Send to a network address Enter the printer s TCP IP address Enter the port number or select a standard port Select the option Send preamble before print data In the drop down list of commands select Enable HPGL Click OK What s new 11 12 OGSL 6 2 Oc Graphics Server L What s new from version 5 5 to version 6 2 Chapter 2 Dual Rip This optional feature enables to use two rips at the same time on the same machine In this chapter you will find a how to install and use the Dual Rip option in OGSL a how to use the Dual Rip related features Job and Load Sharing Prerequisites 14 To set up the Dual Rip option you need to install OGSL If OGSL is already installed you must uninstall it Uninstall OGSL In the Windows Start menu select Programs OGSL and then Uninstall The Uninstall OGSL screen is displayed
262. ved to disk with a header then the RIP should have no difficulty in processing the file as the header information required to translate the PostScript has been incorporated in the file However if the file was saved without the header then the successful execution of the file will depend on whether the correct header is resident in the RIP This is unlikely as few items can be permanently downloaded to the RIP If the correct header is present the entire file should execute normally If it is not when you send the file to the RIP you will receive a Error undefined PostScript error message Generally the header contains the dictionary for the PostScript file and so the first part of this error message will often be followed by a message giving a clue as to which header is missing For example Error undefined OffendingCommand md if the Apple Dictionary is missing or 9 Error undefined OffendingCommand AldusDict if it is the Aldus dictionary Solution Some applications have a Download Header check box to include the header The Microsoft PostScript driver for Windows has a Send Header option and the Adobe PostScript Driver for Windows has a Download Header option in the Job Control section Search your particular application and or PostScript driver for such options and make them active where appropriate Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Error configurationerror Expl
263. ver 5350 1 Properties Status Ready Type WISPPSLF PPD Where Oc Server 3 Comment 1 3 Oc 5350 CMYK Halftone Paper r Orientation Size Ad X Portrait Source Automatically Select x Landscape Network Cancel Select the printer to use the paper size for your printout the paper source and portrait or landscape orientation Click on the Properties button if you wish to specify other options such as multiple copies The details shown in the printed log file will depend upon the width of the paper used More details will be shown if the paper is wide enough to accommodate them A summary of the jobs is also given This includes the number of copies for particular paper sizes and the total number of copies for certain spool queues Including previewed jobs in searches You can use the INC_PREVS button on the Log View Button Bar to specify whether previewed jobs should be included in your searches When the button is captioned INC_PREVS ON previewed jobs will be included When the button is captioned INC_PREVS OFF previewed jobs will not be included Click the button to toggle between INC_PREVS OFF and INC_PREVS ON Monitoring status and log files 63 Each time you click the INC PREVS button Log View performs a new search to make sure that the selected jobs correctly match the search requirements Searching for printing histories on your system 64 If the job log file you wish to
264. where the color gamut of the scanner is smaller than that of the printer certain colors printed may have been improperly scanned Conversely if the gamut of the printer is smaller than that of the scanner certain colors cannot print out correctly The conversion process takes into account the difference in color gamuts between input and output devices and attempts to minimize the effect of colors that it cannot exactly match 114 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Maintaining color consistency The Oc Graphics Server L uses color space conversions to maintain a high degree of color consistency across devices To achieve this the Oc Graphics Server L uses a Color Matching Module that uses ICC International Color Consortium profiles ICC profiles are 3 dimensional descriptions of hue saturation and brightness that characterize the color space of a color device A profile contains all the necessary information to do a conversion between RGB and Lab RGB profile or between CMYK and Lab CMYK profile The following is a typical process when combining an RGB profile such as from a scanner with a CMYK profile such as from an inkjet printer 1 The scanner generates colors in device dependent RGB space 2 The scanner profile converts from device dependent RGB space into device independent Lab space 3 The printer profile converts from Lab into device dependent CMYK space 4 The printer prints colors in device dependent C
265. will print until the end of the roll width only Ink Control Click Ink Management to set Drying time Ink Management Ink Reduction Drying Time Reduce inkage by 125 Ohrs Omins 30 secs M M EIER M Cancel Note nk Reduction is not supported for bitmap information sent to the printer and therefore will not have any effect using OGSL a Drying time Move the cursor to increase or decrease the drying time to apply once the job is printed The printer will be blocked for this time For instance feeding media or cutting can only be activated after the drying time is passed Dryer control Select the mode you want to apply for the printer dryer m Off when this mode is selected the dryer firmware is active it monitors the ambient temperature and humidity but does not take into account any printing operation In this case the dryer is not activated m Automatic when this mode is selected the dryer firmware monitors the ambient temperature and humidity and calculates the best drying time to apply for each print job It can also increase the output temperature whenever the print job requires it for e g when a chosen print mode results in an increasing print speed the increase is automatically detected by the firmware which adjusts the drying time consequently CS 5090 8 colours m On when this mode is selected it applies maximum dryer output temperature for every print job whatever the ambie
266. wn when printing on an inkjet printer like banding and coalescence Quality will be optimal on every Oc CS5090 inkjet printer using the the 8 pass mode speed 5 Calibration How can colour calibrate the diluted colours The normal colour calibration procedure not only calibrates the normal colours CMYK but also makes sure that the diluted colours light and medium Cyan and Magenta are calibrated and linearised When applying the calibration procedure as described in the Printer User Manual optimal colour reproduction is guaranteed How often do I need to calibrate The 8 colours do not need to be calibrated more often than 4 colours In general calibration is needed when cartridges have been changed or replaced when the media has been changed or when preheaters are changed When large changes in the environment temperature or humidity take place it is also advised to calibrate Frequently Asked Questions 33 Media Why can t we use every media with the 8 colours To get the best optimal quality for the quality mode for 8 colours we have chosen to start with only those media that generate the best quality Oc has generated profiles only for the best in class media glossy satin matt film and backlits When should I not use drying via the heater In some circumstances using certain media or ink the heated dryer can result in unwanted interactions like curling media This is the case for some outdoor me
267. xample entering 24 00 in this edit box will cause the Oc Server to store printed jobs for twenty four hours before deleting them Spool Queues 53 Discard Jobs which appear in the Active or the Inactive Jobs Lists can always be deleted by dragging and dropping them on to the Toilet icon Confirm File Delete x 2 Delete file D RIP15Spool1 Plina4 ps Oc Linearisation 44 No Cancel Check the Ask for confirmation when jobs deleted via drag and drop checkbox to display a Confirm File Delete dialog box when a job is about to be deleted in this way To save and use any settings that you enter in the Print Spooler tab click on the OK button at the bottom of the tab Publishing spool queues The Oc Server automatically assigns a spool queue to each output device represented by an icon in the Print Queue Icon Bar When you set up a spool queue by default the Server also creates the queue in the Printers folder accessed via Settings from the Start menu To specify the way in which your spool queues are created Click on the Settings icon and select Properties to open the System Settings dialog box Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual Click on the Network Printing amp Control tab System Settings x Message Logging Button Bar Memory Settings Print Spooler Network Printing amp Control Print Previews Define how print spooler print queues are published C Do not publish pr
268. y to delete and correct errors Note The Oc Server will automatically cancel interactive mode when you redisplay the Active and the Inactive Job Lists on your screen by selecting the View Spool Queue window option from the View menu Select the View Errors option from the View menu to open a window on your screen which displays error information if any for the last job printed You Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual can also open this window by clicking on the Error button on the Server Status Bar 8 If you have a problem printing an individual PostScript file you can select the Enable PostScript Command Output from the View menu send the job to the printer and then view the Transcript Window Comments about the job will appear in the Transcript Window Here is part of a sample comment output BeginSetup EndSetup IncludeFont Symbol IncludeFont TimesNewRomanPS IncludeFont Univers BoldOblique IncludeFont Univers Bold These comments can often help you to determine the cause of the problem For example if the Oc Server fails to print a job and the last comment is IncludeFont Univers Bold it may be that the Oc Server cannot find this font or a substitution for it Try changing Univers Bold to another font and then see if the job prints In addition to displaying the comments in the Transcript Window selecting Enable PostScript Comment Output will also cause the Oc Server to record all job p
269. y be necessary to modify the generic CAT or even generate a specific CAT to adapt to your printer For further instructions see Using the CAT editor to calibrate the printer on page 31 CAMs Color Adjustment Modules are ICC International Color Consortium profiles that use three dimensional descriptions of hue saturation and brightness to characterize the color space of your device Profiles for the Oc 5350 were created using the Heidelberg PrintOpen software See Working with colors on page 112 for a detailed explanation of color spaces and profiles m CATs are one dimensional correction tables that change the density of a particular ink color CATs regulate the output of different printers to obtain the same calibrated output in terms of density and gain maximum benefit from Oc profiles Controlling Color amp Print Quality 25 Selecting and loading a CAM profile The Oc Graphics Server L comes equipped with several predefined printer configurations for various media ink combinations However you can also set your own options and customize your configurations v To control print color 1 From the Printer Setup dialog box select Colour Screening amp Antialiasing Printer Setup Queue 3 x Printer fes Oc 5350 Setup Configuration No configuration Change settings manually Print Queue Non PostScript Files Beleza Paper Source ing il Separations Output Adva
270. you select Bi directional Check Fast to increase the speed Print speed Move the cursor to increase move to the right or decrease move to the left the print speed Cartridge sets Select the cartridge sets you are using on the printer m 1x4 Left if you are using the 4 left cartridges 4 3 2 1 m 1x4 Right if you are using the 4 right cartridges Y M C and K m 2x4 if you are using all eight cartridges 2xCMYK m 1x8 if you are using 8 colours Print quality Select m the resolution required for the print 300 or 600 dpi m the number of passes for the print The number of passes indicates how many times the cartridges must fire to lay down the ink for a complete scan line When increasing the amount of passes a higher print quality will be obtained the chance of defects like banding and bleeding will decrease Whereas less print passes means higher speed The tables summarize the predefined passes for every option except User defined 1x4 cartridge set Plot mode Number of passes User defined Ten passes Production Two passes Photo Four passes Enhanced Six passes 2x4 cartridge set Plot mode Number of passes User defined Five passes used to improve quality Production Two passes Photo Three passes Enhanced Four passes CS 5090 8 colours 1x8 cartridge set Plot mode Number of passes User defined Ten passes Production Two
271. ype Black SRRRRERRREREEE j Data Received Save Settings Help Cancel Use Values m Densities TU Maximum Read Max Density To Use For Calibration Cyan 1 89 1 65 Magenta 2 35 1 70 Yellow 1 4 1 25 Black 2 65 2 10 Controlling Color amp Print Quality 35 2 Click Use values to calculate the dot area curve for each color as shown below CAT Editor v To adjust the dot gain and save the calibration Note Oc profiles are optimized for printers printing with a 22 dot gain at 4096 input 1 In the CAT Editor dialog box select the Dot gain checkbox 2 Under Darker click the arrows up or down to set the desired value or to 22 Ei for Oc profiles 3 Click the Save as icon and give the calibration a name cat Save CAT As Premium Glossy SC sme Premium Glossy SC Ca 36 Oc Graphics Server L Reference Manual To print using the calibrated curve 1 Right click the printer icon in the main window and select Properties 2 Select the Colour Screening amp Antialiasing tab 3 In the Configuration box select Change settings manually 4 Select the the CAT you have just saved 5 In the Configuration box select the medium and click OK Printer Setup Oc 5350 600 x Printer fl ace 5350 600 7 se Configuration No configuration Change settings manually X Print Queue Non PostScript Files Configurations
272. ype in each page number separated by a comma Example Typing in 15 17 23 will print pages 15 and 17 and 23 Note This also applies when previewing a selection of pages To make the job print mirrored Check the Print Mirrored checkbox Click on the OK button at the bottom of the Job Settings For dialog box to save your settings and return to the Oc Server main screen The Oc Server will apply the settings when you print the job Viewing printing histories G View Log 58 Use the Log View dialog box to view the log files that the Server produces To open the Log View dialog box you can either Click on the View Log button on the Oc Server Button Bar or Oc Graphics Server L Startup Manual Click on the Search log for information button in the Job Settings For dialog box Log View D WINDOWS OGSL LOG x INC PREYS ON VIEW LIST PRINT HELP ABOUT Jobs Logged 314 Items Found 138 File Size 234 7 KB 39 Oc test Chart do 8100 DIRECTORY 1 c T 00 00 12 E 79 Oc test Chart do 8100 DIRECTORY 1 c T 00 00 13 80 Oc test Chart do 8100 DIRECTORY 1 C1 T 00 00 10 81 Oc test Chart do 8100 DIRECTORY 1 C1 T 00 00 08 82 Oc test Chart do 8100 DIRECTORY 1 CA T 00 00 10 83 Oc test Chart do 8100 DIRECTORY 1 C1 T 00 00 12 84 Oc test Chart do 8100 DIRECTORY 1 Gal T 00 00 06 Define Search DD MM YY Format BySpoolQueu
273. ystem operating system and applications and applications Uniprocessor HAL Multiprocessor HAL Processor Processor Processor number 1 number 1 number 2 Optimum System Configuration 103 Threads and multitasking A thread is one portion of a computer program which can be executed in parallel with other portions or threads For example one thread can perform a lengthy input output I O operation while another thread processes data All of the threads in an application share the same virtual address space therefore multithreaded applications can run in a system without requiring large amounts of memory Both the Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems support multithreading Windows NT is a symmetric multiprocessing SMP operating system This means that all tasks are shared equally between the CPUs that are available Compare this to the asymmetric multiprocessing AMP that was often used in the past In this case one processor would be dedicated to handling system tasks and another to input output I O When running Windows NT on a symmetric multiprocessor machine sometimes called an SMP machine it is possible to achieve a substantial speed increase on numerically intensive tasks by dividing the work among different threads the operating system will automatically assign the different threads to different processors When running multiple instances of the Oc Server each instance is a separ

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