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HP GL/2/HP RTL Driver User Guide, v 7.0 - ELJO Document

1. 14 PLOT NESTING 2 corsets Pete agen retten ere EL rne dee ete gue 15 MEDIA MISMAT CH lees tt inet oreet add geek eet end 15 JOB PRIORDIDY icti tee tet tace eee t tte aant 16 Graphics Tab occorre tene e eterne duds rix RR re 17 Monochrome Tab cccccceseeceeseceeceeeeeneceensneeceeneeneceenenseseaneeneceenenaeeeensae 18 Device Options Tab eee ia satiate asada dened a aes eed 19 Appearance and Purpose of the NT4 0 Printer Properties Dialog 21 Tabs of the NT4 0 Printer Properties Dialog 22 General Tab rniressa dedu dada eda Y edad a edad V nde 22 Ports po E E E 23 Scheduling Tab inier bee RET RARE 24 Sharing Tab tct qo apa e ie pag d RE eae 25 Security T aD usd nnne t e det f e edet 26 Device Options Tab e i e eet te Ree en sea 27 Appearance and Purpose of the Windows 2000 Printer Properties Dialogni MT S 29 Tabs of the Windows 2000 Printer Properties Dialog 30 General Tab enden ee odd A d ndo x a dd ents 30 Sharing Tab Idee red e E e d ue dd gd 31 Ports Taba tide este e opti die bero tectae 32 Advanced TaD i etr bett tem el pnt ertet a 33 Color Management Tab ssssssssseeeeene ene 34 Securiy Eo 35 Device Options Tabie aaaea aaea aaa eia aiana a aai Eea 36 From the Print Command of your Application 38 Accessing the Document Properties Dialog 38 IN WINDOWS 95 98 NT 4 0 38 I
2. XEROX XES Synergix 8855 and 8855 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8850 and 8850 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8825 and 8825 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8830 and 8830 Digital Solution XES Synergix Scan System the digital box icon AccXES and the acronym XES are trademarks of XEROX CORPORATION OXESystems Inc 2001 All rights reserved Printed in the U S A 701P36885 July 2001
3. Do NOT change this setting If you change this setting your print jobs will be using the wrong driver to print to your printer As a result your job may not print correctly If you click on Print Processor you can change the default Windows output data type used only if your application does not specify a data type If the data type is RAW the Windows print processor does not modify your document Leave this setting at the factory default of RAW Click on Separator Page to have a separator page printed to make it easier to locate your document among others at the printer Note that you will have to click Browse to find a suitable sep file Tabs of the NT4 0 Printer Properties Dialog continued Ports Tab The Ports Tab allows you to select the currently active port for the displayed printer or allows you to add delete or configure ports as required You MUST have an active port created and selected for use with the XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 printer or you will not be able to print If you do not have an XES Net Port XES TCP IP Port installed you can install one using the procedure stated in Creating a Printer Port NT4 0 2000 in this User Guide Make sure that an appropriate port is selected with a check mark in the box for use with your printer Note If you have previously installed an XES TCP IP Port you can click the Add Port button at any time to create a new printer port Make sure to select XES Net
4. FULL ROLL 17 IN BONO FULL ROLL 11 IN BONO ROLL 4 STATUS SCSI BUS EM ENABLE erat ENABLE SCSI ID SERIAL ENABLE SERIAL BAUDRATE SERIAL FLOW SONTROL SERIAL PARITY PARALLEL ENABLE VPI ENABLE VPI TIMEOUT ENABLE VENDOR SCANNER USAGE SQ FT Figure 1 Typical Printer Configuration Test Print Driver Installation NT4 0 2000 Start Windows NT4 0 or Windows 2000 on your workstation Insert the CD ROM containing this driver in your lanquage into your workstation s drive and unzip your driver file typically accomplished by double clicking on the self extracting file Note If you downloaded the driver files from the Internet you can skip this step On your workstation s desktop click Start Settings and Printers to open the Printers window From the Printers window double click on the Add Printer icon If the Add Printer Wizard introduction screen displays click Next Click on the My Computer NT4 0 or the Local printer 2000 radio button unless you will be printing through a network server in which case you should select Network Printer Server NT4 0 or Network printer 2000 Deselect uncheck the Automatically detect check box in Windows 2000 Click Next Note If you selected Network Printer Server or Network printer you will have to click Browse NT4 or Next 2000 to open up the applicable network directories and sub directories to locate your printer s serv
5. When the Properties dialog displays click on the Details Tab 4 Use your mouse to select highlight a new port to attach your printer to because you cannot delete a port if it is in use Click OK 5 Click Delete Port 6 When the Delete Port dialog displays click on highlight the port to be deleted and click OK In Windows NT4 0 2000 1 From your Windows NT4 0 2000 desktop click on Start Settings Printers When the Printers window displays right mouse click on the icon representing your XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL printer and select Properties When the Properties dialog displays click on the Ports Tab Use your mouse to select place a check mark in front of another port to attach your printer to because you cannot delete a port if it is in use Click OK Click on the icon representing your printer again and select Properties Click on the Ports Tab Use your mouse to highlight but do NOT place a check mark in front of the port you wish to delete Click Delete Port In response to the Are you sure prompt select Yes XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 47 This page left intentionally blank This page left intentionally blank Prepared by Xerox Corporation Global Knowledge amp Language Services 800 Phillips Road Building 845 17S Webster New York 14580 9791 USA
6. a single sheet of media to eliminate media waste You can select either Printer default or Single job Printer Default uses the default plot nesting settings stored in the Controller previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool These pre determined settings include Exclusive nesting i e reserved to a Single Job Timeout Margins between nested plots and maximum Nesting Length Single Job creates a plot nest restricted to the contents of your current job Plots from other job sources will not be intermixed with plots from your job If you select User defined the Settings button will be enabled When you click this button a Plot Nesting Options dialog will display allowing you to adjust the margins between printed images on your nested page MEDIA MISMATCH Working with the Media Mismatch Mode parameters set up by your System Administrator using the Web Printer Manager Tool you can select one of four available options to determine how you would like to handle mismatches between your job s media type or size and media types or sizes installed in the printer Printer Default uses the default plot nesting settings stored in the Controller previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool PMT This is the default driver setting Scale To Fit will scale the size of your job to the nearest printer installed medium to your requested print size Block Printing will cause the printer to hold a media mismatched job u
7. select Not Shared NT4 0 or Do not share this printer 2000 unless the printer is directly connected to your workstation and you wish to share it with other network users Click Next If the printer is powered on and capable of communicating with your workstation when prompted to print a test page select Yes Click Finish If the message Digital Signature is Not Found displays and you are prompted as to whether you wish to continue the installation click Yes Verify that an icon representing your printer is now displayed in your desktop Printers window Note Upon installation this driver will look for Windows System registry entries created by the AutoCAD 2000i program installer If such entries are found this driver will add itself to the list of available printers plotters within the AutoCAD program XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 6 Driver Port Installation 95 98 Start Windows 95 98 on your workstation Insert the CD ROM containing this driver in your lanquage into your workstation s drive and unzip your driver file typically accomplished by double clicking on the self extracting file Note If you downloaded the driver files from the Internet you can skip this step On your workstation s desktop click Start Setting
8. Comment Model AceXES 8855 Features Color Yes Paper available Double sided Unknown Staple Unknown Speed Unknown Maximum resolution 400 dpi z Printing Preferences Print Test Page Figure 4 Typical Windows 2000 Printer Properties Dialog XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 29 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 30 Driver Configuration Printer Properties Dialog Tabs of the Windows 2000 Printer Properties Dialog General Tab The General Tab enables you to print a test page by clicking the Print Test Page button This feature is useful in verifying the ability of your workstation to successfully communicate with the printer s Controller You can also click Printing Preferences to open the Paper Job Graphics and Monochrome Tabs described later in this User Guide enabling you to modify the default driver settings for ALL print jobs Tabs of the 2000 Printer Properties Dialog continued Sharing Tab The Sharing Tab allows you to share a printer that you have ownership of with others in a network environment If applicable to your printer installation a qualified Systems Administrator can supply you with the appropriate settings for this Tab XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Pr
9. Enable bi directional support box is checked Note A check mark in the Enable bi directional support box allows bi directional communication to take place between your workstation this driver and the controller for display of features matching the version of firmware running in your Controller You can also check or uncheck Enable printer pooling which allows you to print to the first available printer in a pool of identical printers To set up a printer pool check Enable printer pooling and then select the check boxes for all the printer ports that you want to include in the pool Tabs of the 2000 Printer Properties Dialog continued Advanced Tab You can use the Advanced tab to specify times when the printer is available by selecting either Always available or Available from and choosing a range of times the printer is available You can also select the Priority of printing ranging from 1 lowest to 99 highest Higher priority documents will print before lower priority documents The current driver XES Synergix 8855 for example is displayed in the Driver box Do NOT change this setting If you change this setting your print jobs will be using the wrong driver to print to your printer As a result your job may not print correctly The Advanced tab also allows you to select a variety of spooling options so that you can control spooling and the speed of printing In general it
10. click Apply to apply your new settings to the driver Click Restore Defaults to restore factory default settings Click OK to save all settings and close the currently displayed driver dialog Click Cancel to escape from the currently displayed dialog WITHOUT saving changed settings SAVING A PC3 FILE IN AUTOCAD 20001 Within the AutoCAD 2000i program it is possible to save a PC3 file of all the settings of the Document Properties Dialog Whenever such settings are again required for printing this file can be selected from the drop down list of printers plotters on AutoCAD s Plot Screen To save a PC3 file select this driver within the AutoCAD 2000i program then access the Document Properties Dialog as stated in this Guide Make changes to all applicable settings click OK to accept the Custom Properties and click OK again to accept the Plotter Configuration Editor menu in AutoCAD Select save changes to the following file when prompted give the file a recognizable name and click OK 8855 HP GL 2 Driver Properties Paper Job Graphics Monochrome Application media size Letter 8zx11 Media Sizes Bond Automatically select gt Media type Media source r Orientation x Portrait C Landscape Copy count fi Margin amp Justification x ACCXES About Restore Defaults E N Figure 5 Typical Document Properties Dialog XES Synergix 8825 8830 885
11. in the Controller previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool This is the default driver setting e To fit This selection automatically scales your image to fit the media size that you choose from the drop down list to the right of the To fit radio button e Fixed This selection scales your image by the percentage that you specify using the up or down arrows to the right of the Fixed radio button Fixed scaling has a range of 10 to 999 in 1 increments Raster image scaling Click on the radio button of your choice to select one of two available options to be used when raster images are scaled down e Line This selection tells the Controller to use a pixel preserving algorithm to preserve fine lines for image size reductions e Photo This selection tells the Controller to use a simple pixel depleting algorithm for image size reductions This is the default driver setting Mirroring Click on the check box of your choice to place a check mark in the box for the type of mirror image printing that you desire e Mirror X This selection will mirror print your image along the horizontal access e Mirror Y This selection will mirror print your image along the vertical axis Rotation Click on the arrow to the right of the selection box to reveal a drop down list of printed image rotation options e Auto This selection lets the Controller determine printed image rotation for the most economical placement of
12. is best if the spooling settings are left at their factory defaults You can click Printing Defaults to open the Paper Job Graphics and Monochrome Tabs described later in this User Guide Accessing these Tabs and changing their parameters from the Printer Properties Dialog configures the default driver settings for ALL print jobs If you click on Print Processor you can change the default Windows output data type used only if your application does not specify a data type If the data type is RAW the Windows print processor does not modify your document Leave this setting at the factory default of RAW Click on Separator Page if you want an extra separator page to be printed with your document Note that you will have to click Browse to locate a suitable sep file XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 33 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 34 Tabs of the 2000 Printer Properties Dialog continued Color Management Tab This is a Microsoft Windows Tab that is not currently applicable to this driver Tabs of the 2000 Printer Properties Dialog continued Security Tab This Tab is used to set up printer administrator permissions printer auditing information and printer ownership for a shared printer in a network environment These are tasks that should be performed by
13. options to determine how you would like to handle mismatches between your job s media type or size and media types or sizes installed in the printer Printer Default uses the default plot nesting settings stored in the Controller previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool PMT This is the default driver setting Scale To Fit will scale the size of your job to the nearest printer installed medium to your requested print size Block Printing will cause the printer to hold a media mismatched job until the proper medium has been installed in the printer Depending upon how the System Administrator has set up the Mismatch parameters using the Web PMT the mismatched job will either halt printing or send the job toa mismatch queue for later recall and media size or type resolution Substitute Media will substitute a medium size or type on which to print the requested mismatched job in either a 1 to 1 ratio or scaled to fit currently installed media This is a print at all costs option Continued on next page XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 15 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 16 Job Tab Windows 95 98 Printer Properties continued JOB PRIORITY This option lets you select a job processing priority The range is from 1 to 10 with 1 representing a low priori
14. or User defined Printer Default uses the default label stored in the Controller if a default label was previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool If you select User defined the Settings button will be enabled When you click this button a Label dialog will display allowing you to create a label of 1048 characters in length Using this dialog label placement position font type font size and text shading attributes can be individually set Text shading has a range of 0 white text to 100 solid black text The factory default setting for the Labeling option is None meaning that no label is specified by the driver Continued on next page XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 13 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 14 Job Tab Windows 95 98 Printer Properties continued RASTER STAMP This option allows you to determine if a raster stamp will be applied to your print job You can select either Printer default or User defined Printer Default uses the default raster stamp stored in the Controller if a default stamp was previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool If you select User defined the Settings button will be enabled When you click this button a Raster Stamp dialog will display allowing you to select a known Controller resident stamp from the R
15. setting the Controller will select the smallest media roll that the job fits on Automatic rotation of the job will be performed as needed e Use the Available media sizes check boxes to determine the media families to display in the Application media size drop down list By default all boxes are checked display set to on Note If the User Defined Media button is disabled to access a working button go to Start Settings Printers right mouse click on your printer s icon and select Document Defaults NT4 0 or Printing Preferences Windows 2000 e Use the User Defined Media button to provide new media names with accompanying sizes and media mapping to the Application media size drop down list Media type Use the drop down arrow to select your default media type from the displayed list The factory default setting is Bond Media source This parameter displays the default media source Use the drop down arrow to select your default media source from the displayed list The factory default setting is Automatically Select Orientation Click on the appropriate radio button to select a default printed document orientation The factory default setting is Portrait Copy Count Enter a number from 1 to 999 as your default number of document copies to print The factory default setting is 1 Margin amp Justification button This button opens the dialog used to set the margins and justification
16. 0 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 39 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 40 Tabs of the Document Properties Dialog Paper Tab This Tab allows you to set a number of parameters to determine how your document will appear on the printed media Options include Application media size Select a media size as the default media size for the driver to display when printing your jobs Accept the default value or choose a size that matches your application s typical page layout Use the drop down arrow to the right of the selection box to reveal the full list of choices The default media size is Letter 8 5 x11 Media Sizes button Click this button to open the Media Sizes dialog enabling you to modify the sizes displayed in the Application media size drop down list Media Sizes dialog e You can use the Custom media size settings of this dialog to set up a custom page size to display in the Application media size drop down list e Use the Media mapping drop down list to specify how the custom media size will be mapped to the media rolls installed in the printer If you select Any Any ANSI Any ARCH or Any ISO the Controller will select the smallest media size in the specified media family to print your job on Automatic rotation of the job will be performed as needed If you select Any Roll the factory default
17. 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 42 Document Properties Dialog Job Tab continued FINISHING Note If you do not have a finishing device folder installed Folder bypass will be displayed in gray and any other options will be unavailable for selection If you have an attached finishing device and bi directional communications are enabled in the driver using the Spool Settings button on the Details Tab the finishing device will be automatically detected When a finishing device has been detected by the driver the drop down list will enable you to select either Printer default or User defined Printer Default uses the default finisher settings stored in the Controller previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool If you select User defined the Settings button will be enabled When you click this button a Finishing Options dialog will display allowing you to select the finishing program to use with your Finishing Device override features of the finishing program select an output bin and to let the finisher know the location of the Title block in your document if any For an explanation of the individual dialog features click the key in the upper right corner of the dialog PLOT NESTING This option allows you to determine if plot nesting will be applied to your print job The purpose of Plot Nesting is to efficiently group the printing of plots on
18. I XEROX ME ENGINEERING SYSTEMS XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 701P36885 July 2001 This page left intentionally blank Trademark Acknowledgments Windows 95 and Windows 98 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation Windows 2000 is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Word is a copyright protected program of Microsoft Corporation HP GL 2 and HP RTL are registered trademarks of Hewlett Packard Company PageMaker and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated CorelDRAW is a registered trademark of Corel Corporation WinZip is a registered trademark of Nico Mak Computing Inc AutoCAD is a registered trademark of AutoDesk Inc XEROX XES Synergix 8855 and 8855 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8850 and 8850 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8825 and 8825 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8830 and 8830 Digital Solution XES Synergix Scan System the digital box icon AccXES and the acronym XES are trademarks of XEROX CORPORATION XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide ii Table of Contents Trademark Acknowledgments eese i I
19. N WINDOWS 2000 ssssssseseseeeeeeenen nennen 38 IN AUTOCAD 2000l ssssssssseee eee nere 38 Appearance and Purpose of the Document Properties Dialog 39 SAVING A PC3 FILE IN AUTOCAD 2000l sss 39 Tabs of the Document Properties Dialog sesssss 40 Paper Tabs sustine eui i 40 JOD 12D oen inim DEDI M nU T 41 BANNER PAGE eripi rue et t ie teat d uet d Pan 41 Eliae 41 RASTERSTAMPB giten iamdiu dioit 41 FINISEIING 22h sb e tsp eara t eme nde teliigdo dicetis 42 PEOT NESTING careia reitera te re eater ta erede noe 42 MEDIA MISMATCH ssssssseseseeeneeen enne nnne nenne 42 JOB PRIORIUEY Zosimus 43 Graphics Tabz cuenca Bet ME deer 44 Monochrome Tabs iiie a iraa aaa eiad 45 Removing the Drives niri nk end HR n E E n 46 Removing the Net Port Monitor eeenn 47 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide This page left intentionally blank Introduction Purpose of this Guide The purpose of this Guide is to assist you with instructions for installing the Windows HP GL 2 AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver and Net Port Monitor if required on your workstation This Guide also includes procedures for configuring driver settings to meet yo
20. Port from the list of available port types then click the New Port button Enter the IP Address of your printer s Controller when prompted Accept the default Timeout value on the displayed Configuration dialog To delete a port see the instructions at the end of this User Guide entitled Removing the Net Port Monitor Through this tab you can also check or uncheck Enable bi directional support to allow you to have bi directional communication between your computer and your printer By default the Enable bi directional support box is checked Note A check mark in the Enable bi directional support box allows bi directional communication to take place between your workstation this driver and the controller for display of features matching the version of firmware running in your Controller You can also check or uncheck Enable printer pooling which allows you to print to the first available printer in a pool of identical printers To set up a printer pool check Enable printer pooling and then select the check boxes for all the printer ports that you want to include in the pool XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 23 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 24 Tabs of the NT4 0 Printer Properties Dialog continued Scheduling Tab You can use the Scheduli
21. a qualified Systems Administrator XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 35 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 36 Tabs of the 2000 Printer Properties Dialog continued Device Options Tab Display Units Select one of the two available radio buttons to set display units in inches or millimeters for all applicable driver displayed options The driver default setting is English inch Refresh printer configuration With bi directional communications enabled from the checkbox on the Ports Tab this checkbox and Refresh button enable the retrieval of driver feature information obtained from the Controller e Refresh on open checkbox If this option is enabled with a check mark in the box the driver will retrieve information from the Controller every time the Printer Properties dialog is opened from your desktop If you wish to disable this feature use your mouse to remove the check mark from the box e Refresh button You can refresh the driver with Controller information at any time by clicking this button Printer Accounting checkbox and Settings button Note This feature is meant to work with the Job Accounting parameters set up by your System Administrator DEPENDING UPON THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE VERSION detected by refreshing this driver as described above the printer acc
22. aster stamp name drop down list If a list of Controller resident stamps is not displayed you can enter a known stamp name of up to 32 alphanumeric characters in the Raster stamp name text box Using this dialog raster stamp placement position stamp rotation and scaling attributes can be individually set Scaling has a range of 1096 to 999 in your choice of two options Select the Relative to drawing radio button if you wish to have your stamp scaled in size to the plot image that it is being applied to Select Absolute if you wish to have the scaling factor literally applied to the stamp file itself The factory default setting for the Raster Stamp option is None meaning that no stamp is specified by the driver FINISHING Note If you do not have a finishing device folder installed Folder bypass will be displayed in gray and any other options will be unavailable for selection If you have an attached finishing device and bi directional communications are enabled in the driver using the Spool Settings button on the Details Tab the finishing device will be automatically detected When a finishing device has been detected by the driver the drop down list will enable you to select either Printer default or User defined Printer Default uses the default finisher settings stored in the Controller previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool If you select User defined the Settings button will be enabled When y
23. available for selection You may choose whether or not to participate in accounting If you choose to participate click on the Settings button and enter in your account number of 1 to 999999 and sub account number of 1 to 9999 Firmware 6 1 or older or a User ID and Account ID of 1 to 32 alphanumeric characters Firmware 7 0 or newer to charge media use to These must be the same numbers or User and Account identifications that were assigned to you by your System Administrator If you choose not to participate there is no penalty for non participation You job will print normally If Accounting is disabled at the Controller as shown on the Account Modes Page of the Web Printer Manager Tool the checkbox and Settings button will be disabled and unavailable for selection XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 19 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 20 Device Options Tab Windows 95 98 Printer Properties continued Firmware revision This selection box shows you the version of Controller firmware that is supplying the driver with feature information to display With bi directional communication enabled from the Spool Settings button of the Details Tab the drop down arrow will be unavailable for selection With bi directional communication disabled you will have to use the dro
24. ch medium will be displayed as unknown Appearance and Purpose of the NT4 0 Printer Properties Dialog The Tabs of the NT4 0 Printer Properties dialog appear as shown in Figure 3 The purpose of the Printer Properties Dialog in NT4 0 is to display and enable the configuration of general Windows functions for the driver To modify the default driver settings for ALL print jobs in NT4 0 from the Printers Window right mouse click on your printer s icon then select Document Defaults Continued on next page AccXES 8825 Properties r2 xl General Ports Scheduling Sharing Security Device Options g ACES 8825 Comment l Location CT Driver accxEs 8825 New Driver Separator Page Print Processor Print Test Page Cancel Figure 3 Typical Windows NT 4 0 Printer Properties Dialog XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 21 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 22 Driver Configuration Printer Properties Dialog Tabs of the NT4 0 Printer Properties Dialog General Tab The General Tab enables you to print a test page by clicking the Print Test Page button This feature is useful in verifying the ability of your workstation to successfully communicate with the printer s Controller The current driver is displayed in the Driver box
25. document pages on available media This is the default driver setting e 0 90 180 270 Any one of these selections produces printed image rotation to the degree specified Enable RTL native mode resolution This box is checked enabled by factory default to have the Controller optimize resolution for your printed job If you remove the check mark from this box your image will be placed on the media using a 300 dpi coordinate system Tabs of the Document Properties Dialog continued Monochrome Tab Resolution This selection box displays the driver s current resolution setting for jobs being sent to the printer The factory default setting is 400 dpi You can click on the arrow to the right of the selection box to reveal a drop down list including 200 dpi 300 dpi and 400 dpi If you select a lower resolution than the factory default the size of your print file will be smaller and the speed of printing will be faster The quality of printing will be lower however with less image sharpness and detail Make all color black If this option is enabled with a check mark in the box the driver will force all colors in your job to be printed in black instead of being represented by grayscales If this is desirable use your mouse to place a check mark in the box This option is disabled by factory default XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 45 XES Syne
26. em Administrator If you choose not to participate there is no penalty for non participation You job will print normally If Accounting is disabled at the Controller as shown on the Account Modes Page of the Web Printer Manager Tool the checkbox and Settings button will be disabled and unavailable for selection Continued on next page Device Options Tab 2000 Printer Properties continued Firmware revision This selection box shows you the version of Controller firmware that is supplying the driver with feature information to display With bi directional communication enabled from the checkbox on the Ports Tab the drop down arrow will be unavailable for selection With bi directional communication disabled you will have to use the drop down arrow to select the firmware version matching the version that is installed in your Controller to display the correct driver features Finisher type With bi directional communication enabled from the checkbox on the Ports Tab this selection box shows you the finisher device currently attached to your printer With bi directional communication disabled you can select lt add finisher gt to add a new finisher to the drop down list using a Finisher Description File fin Notes When you add a new finisher to this list then select the finisher name and click OK on the Device Options dialog the Finishing drop down list of the Job Tab described later in this User Guide w
27. er When the Available Ports window NT4 0 or Select the Printer Port window 2000 displays do one of the following e Select an XES TCP IP port from the displayed list and click Next If you do not have an available XES TCP IP port cancel this installation and refer to Creating a Printer Port in this Guide e f you selected Network Printer Server or Network Printer in step 6 above you do NOT have to perform this port selection step Click Next When the Manufacturers and Printers window displays click Have Disk and enter the path to the driver files on your workstation for 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 example the drive letter for your CD ROM drive or c temp for downloaded internet files Click OK Note You can also use the Browse button to locate and select the required inf file From the displayed list of printers select XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 and click Next When prompted accept the default printer name shown or use your keyboard to give your printer a more descriptive name Do NOT enter a dash in your printer s name without placing a character space before and after the dash Windows will interpret a dash without spaces as a command and malfunction Select either Yes or No to make this printer your default windows printer Choose Yes if you will be printing primarily to this printer from your windows applications Click Next When the Printer Sharing window displays
28. er and the printer s Controller Note Unless you are a qualified Systems Administrator it is recommended that you leave the Spool Settings at their factory default values The Port Settings button enables you to change settings for the displayed port Note Unless you are a qualified Systems Administrator it is recommended that you leave the Port Settings at their factory default values Tabs of the Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog continued Sharing Tab The Sharing Tab allows you to share your workstation connected printer with others in a peer to peer network environment If applicable to your printer installation a qualified Systems Administrator can supply you with the appropriate settings for this Tab XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 11 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 12 Tabs of the Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog continued Paper Tab This Tab allows you to set a number of parameters to determine how your document will appear on the printed media Options include Application media size Select a media size as the default media size for the driver to display when printing your jobs Accept the default value or choose a size that matches your application s typical page layout Use the drop down arrow to the right of the selection bo
29. er in a network environment These are tasks that should be performed by a qualified Systems Administrator Tabs of the NT4 0 Printer Properties Dialog continued Device Options Tab Display Units Select one of the two available radio buttons to set display units in inches or millimeters for all applicable driver displayed options The driver default setting is English inch Refresh printer configuration With bi directional communications enabled from the checkbox on the Ports Tab this checkbox and Refresh button enable the retrieval of driver feature information obtained from the Controller e Refresh on open checkbox If this option is enabled with a check mark in the box the driver will retrieve information from the Controller every time the Printer Properties dialog is opened from your desktop If you wish to disable this feature use your mouse to remove the check mark from the box e Refresh button You can refresh the driver with Controller information at any time by clicking this button Printer Accounting checkbox and Settings button Note This feature is meant to work with the Job Accounting parameters set up by your System Administrator DEPENDING UPON THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE VERSION detected by refreshing this driver as described above the printer accounting feature will require EITHER the entry of numbers OR the entry of alphanumeric characters e f Accounting is enabled at the Controller as sh
30. ext e f you do NOT already have an XES Net Port installed click Add Port to display the Net Port dialog Enter the IP Address of your printer in the entry box and click OK When the Transmission Retry dialog displays accept the default value of 30 seconds and click OK Click Next When prompted accept the default printer name shown or use your keyboard to give your printer a more descriptive name Select either Yes or No to make this printer your default windows printer Choose Yes if you will be printing primarily to this printer from your windows applications Click Next If the printer is powered on and capable of communicating with your workstation select Yes when prompted to print a test page Click Finish Verify that an icon representing your printer is now displayed in your desktop Printers window Note Upon installation this driver will look for Windows System registry entries created by the AutoCAD 2000i program installer If such entries are found this driver will add itself to the list of available printers plotters within the AutoCAD program Driver Configuration Accessing the Printer Properties Dialog From your Desktop click Start Settings and Printers to open the Printers Window revealing a representative icon for your XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL printer driver From this window if you right mouse click on the printer icon then left mouse click o
31. fying the ability of your workstation to successfully communicate with the printer s Controller The Separator Page feature is not supported XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 10 Tabs of the Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog continued Details Tab The Details Tab allows you to select the currently active port for the displayed printer or to add delete or capture ports as required You MUST have an active port created and selected for use with the printer or you will not be able to print As the XES Net Port i e XES TCP IP Port is usually installed at the time that you install the driver this port would typically be displayed in the Print to the following port box The current driver e g XES Synergix 8825 is displayed in the Print using the following driver box Do NOT change this setting If you change this setting your print jobs will be using the wrong driver to print to the printer As a result your job may not print correctly The Spool Settings button allows you to change the settings for the Windows spooler which directs print jobs to your workstation s memory freeing your software application from its printing task so that you can continue working Printing communications then occur in the background between the Spool
32. ill be enabled allowing you to configure settings for your User defined Finishing device If you add a Finisher Description File for a finisher already in the drop down list the new information will overwrite the current finisher information Roll Configuration button With bi directional communication enabled from the checkbox on the Ports Tab when you click this button you will see a display of printer installed media and the status of each medium none full empty low With bi directional communication disabled you will have to use the drop down arrows to select your printer installed media for the driver to correctly report installed media Without bi directional communication support the status of each medium will be displayed as unknown XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 37 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 38 Driver Configuration continued From the Print Command of your Application Accessing the Document Properties Dialog IN WINDOWS 95 98 NT 4 0 Select File Print within a desktop application such as Microsoft Word or PageMaker for example to display the Print Screen which typically lets you select your printer number of copies to be printed and range of pages to be printed From your application s Print Screen click the appropriate b
33. ing drop down list of the Job Tab described later in this User Guide will be enabled allowing you to configure settings for your User defined Finishing device If you add a Finisher Description File for a finisher already in the drop down list the new information will overwrite the current finisher information Roll Configuration button With bi directional communication enabled from the checkbox on the Ports Tab when you click this button you will see a display of printer installed media and the status of each medium none full empty low With bi directional communication disabled you will have to use the drop down arrows to select your printer installed media for the driver to correctly report installed media Without bi directional communication support the status of each medium will be displayed as unknown Appearance and Purpose of the Windows 2000 Printer Properties Dialog The Tabs of the Windows 2000 Printer Properties dialog appear as shown in Lanes PE EE Figure 4 The purpose of the Printer Properties Dialog in Windows 2000 is to ETE Sharing Potts Adenced display and enable the configuration of general Windows functions for the driver AND to enable you to modify the default driver settings for ALL print PS jobs by clicking the available Printing Preferences button on the General i AccxES 8355 HRGL 2 Tab or the Printing Defaults button on the Advanced Tab Location
34. int Driver User Guide 31 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 32 Tabs of the 2000 Printer Properties Dialog continued Ports Tab The Ports Tab allows you to select the currently active port for the displayed printer or allows you to add delete or configure ports as required You MUST have an active port created and selected for use with the XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 printer or you will not be able to print If you do not have an XES Net Port XES TCP IP Port installed you can install one using the procedure stated in Creating a Printer Port NT4 0 2000 in this User Guide Make sure that an appropriate port is selected with a check mark in the box for use with your printer Note If you have previously installed an XES TCP IP Port you can click the Add Port button at any time to create a new printer port Make sure to select XES Net Port from the list of available port types then click the New Port button Enter the IP Address of your printer s Controller when prompted Accept the default Timeout value on the displayed Configuration dialog To delete a port see the instructions at the end of this User Guide entitled Removing the Net Port Monitor Through this tab you can also check or uncheck Enable bi directional support to allow you to have bi directional communication between your computer and your printer By default the
35. k on the driver file to unzip all component files to the default location of c temp on your hard drive XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide How to Use this Guide 1 Read Before You Start for valuable information on checking the status of your communication protocol and printer port 2 Install the driver and Net Port Monitor if needed on your workstation as stated in the Driver Installation section of this Guide 3 Configure the driver settings to meet your needs as stated in the Driver Configuration section of this Guide 4 Click OK on the Print Screen Windows applications or the Plot Screen AutoCAD 2000i to print your job 5 f you no longer need the driver remove the driver as stated in the Removing the Driver section of this Guide 6 If you no longer need the Net Port Monitor remove it as stated in the Removing the Net Port Monitor section of this Guide Before You Start Check your protocol Before installing this Driver consider the following You will need the TCP IP protocol installed at BOTH your workstation and the printer s Controller to facilitate communications Check the protocols that are currently enabled at your workstation For Windows 95 98 right mouse click on Network Neighborhood then select Pr
36. n Properties you will open the Printer Properties dialog set of tabbed screens XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide Appearance and Purpose of the Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog The Printer Properties dialog Figure 2 contains numerous printer parameters that can be chosen as the default driver settings for ALL print jobs by left mouse clicking on the appropriate tab and making the available selections After making your selections on each Tab click Apply to apply your new settings to the driver Click Restore Defaults to restore factory default settings Click OK to save all settings and close the currently displayed driver dialog Click Cancel to escape from the currently displayed dialog WITHOUT saving changed settings AccXES 8855 Properties 24x Graphics Monochrome Device Options General Details Sharing Paper Job G AccXES 8855 Comment Separator page none m Browse Print Test Page ppl Cancel Figure 2 Typical Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog Driver Configuration Printer Properties Dialog Tabs of the Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog General Tab The General Tab enables you to print a test page by clicking the Print Test Page button This feature is useful in veri
37. ng option is None meaning that no label is specified by the driver RASTER STAMP This option allows you to determine if a raster stamp will be applied to your print job You can select either Printer default or User defined Printer Default uses the default raster stamp stored in the Controller if a default stamp was previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool If you select User defined the Settings button will be enabled When you click this button a Raster Stamp dialog will display allowing you to select a known Controller resident stamp from the Raster stamp name drop down list If a list of Controller resident stamps is not displayed you can enter a known stamp name of up to 32 alphanumeric characters in the Raster stamp name text box Using this dialog raster stamp placement position stamp rotation and scaling attributes can be individually set Scaling has a range of 1096 to 999 in your choice of two options Select the Relative to drawing radio button if you wish to have your stamp scaled in size to the plot image that it is being applied to Select Absolute if you wish to have the scaling factor literally applied to the stamp file itself The factory default setting for the Raster Stamp option is None meaning that no stamp is specified by the driver Continued on next page XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 41 XES Synergix 8825
38. ng tab to specify times when the printer is available by selecting either Always available or Available from and choosing a range of times the printer is available You can also select the Priority of printing ranging from 1 lowest to 99 highest Higher priority documents will print before lower priority documents in the print queue The Scheduling tab also allows you to select a variety of spooling options so that you can control the spooling of print jobs to your workstation s memory quickly freeing your software application from its printing task Unless you are having windows spooler problems it is best if these settings are left at their factory default values Tabs of the NT4 0 Printer Properties Dialog continued Sharing Tab The Sharing Tab allows you to share a printer that you have ownership of with others in a network environment If applicable to your printer installation a qualified Systems Administrator can supply you with the appropriate settings for this Tab XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 25 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 26 Tabs of the NT4 0 Printer Properties Dialog continued Security Tab This Tab is used to set up printer administrator permissions printer auditing information and printer ownership for a shared print
39. ntil the proper medium has been installed in the printer Depending upon how the System Administrator has set up the Mismatch parameters using the Web PMT the mismatched job will either halt printing or send the job to a mismatch queue for later recall and media size or type resolution Substitute Media will substitute a medium size or type on which to print the requested mismatched job in either a 1 to 1 ratio or scaled to fit currently installed media This is a print at all costs option Continued on next page Document Properties Dialog Job Tab continued JOB PRIORITY This option lets you select a job processing priority The range is from 1 to 10 with 1 representing a low priority job and 10 representing a high priority job Higher priority jobs generally print faster in a print queue than lower priority jobs Click on the up or down arrows to set your priority XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 43 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 44 Tabs of the Document Properties Dialog continued Graphics Tab This Tab allows you to modify the driver settings for Scaling Mirroring and Rotation Scaling Click on the radio button of your choice to select one of three available scaling options e Printer default This selection uses the default scaling parameter stored
40. ntroduction ee iren erreur rrr nenne aeaaaee kaaran I naeia inaona 1 Purpose of this Guide sssssssessseeeeemem 1 Basic Requirements eesssssessssssseeeeeeenenee nnne 1 Downloading this Driver from the Internet sssssss 1 How to Use this Guide ert teint rn tati sin Es 2 Before YOU Stait iore re e tree ste petes te preces cete ten 3 Check your protocol turni er ETUXX ERR RA SRER RAE ERR R OR RR REOS 3 Check your DOME 2 ae merece rtu sie ct ybi 3 Creating a Printer Port NT4 0 2000 sse 3 Print a PRINTER CONFIGURATION Test Print 4 Driver Installation NT4 0 2000 eese 5 Driver Port Installation 95 98 sees 6 Driver Configuration uc cieiese ipi vx pepe RETRERAKIE LE ARETERERRKIQU EA ITA EEER 7 Accessing the Printer Properties Dialog ssssss 7 Appearance and Purpose of the Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog sra M S 8 Tabs of the Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog 9 General Tab eate deed edente di Lae dea unde d ee dd ecd d ed 9 Details Tab om 10 Sharing Tab nete tee DRE UE MD 11 Paper Tab et cuo tee qa eem e 12 JOD TaD an EE 13 BANNER PAGE ere ette e nti dered 13 EABELIN G i eterni ean tenim RD E 13 RASTER STAMB denied fee 14 FINISHING ii nce
41. o disable this feature use your mouse to remove the check mark from the box e Refresh button You can refresh the driver with Controller information at any time by clicking this button Printer Accounting checkbox and Settings button Note This feature is meant to work with the Job Accounting parameters set up by your System Administrator DEPENDING UPON THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE VERSION detected by refreshing this driver as described above the printer accounting feature will require EITHER the entry of numbers OR the entry of alphanumeric characters e f Accounting is enabled at the Controller as shown on the Account Modes Page of the Web Printer Manager Tool the checkbox will be enabled checked by default and the Settings button will be available for selection Click on the Settings button to enter in an account number of 1 to 999999 and a sub account number of 1 to 9999 Firmware 6 1 or older or a User ID and Account ID of 1 to 32 alphanumeric characters Firmware 7 0 or newer to charge media use to These must be the same numbers or User and Account identifications that were assigned to you by your System Administrator Failure to enter in a valid number ID will result in the printing of an error page If Accounting is Optionally enabled at the Controller as shown on the Account Modes Page of the Web Printer Manager Tool the checkbox will be enabled checked by default and the Settings button will be
42. on the arrow to the right of the selection box to reveal a drop down list including 200 dpi 300 dpi and 400 dpi If you select a lower resolution than the factory default the size of your print file will be smaller and the speed of printing will be faster The quality of printing will be lower however with less image sharpness and detail Make all color black If this option is enabled with a check mark in the box the driver will force all colors in your job to be printed in black instead of being represented by grayscales If this is desirable use your mouse to place a check mark in the box This option is disabled by factory default Tabs of the Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog continued Device Options Tab Display Units Select one of the two available radio buttons to set display units in inches or millimeters for all applicable driver displayed options The driver default setting is English inch Refresh printer configuration With bi directional communications enabled from the Spool Settings button of the Details Tab this checkbox and Refresh button enable the retrieval of driver feature information obtained from the Controller e Refresh on open checkbox If this option is enabled with a check mark in the box the driver will retrieve information from the Controller every time the Printer Properties dialog is opened from your desktop The box is checked enabled by factory default If you wish t
43. operties and check for TCP IP in the list of installed components For Windows NT 4 0 right mouse click on Network Neighborhood select Properties then left mouse click on the Protocols Tab For Windows 2000 right mouse click on My Network Places select Properties right mouse click on Local Area Connection and select Properties Check the protocols that are currently enabled at the printer by printing a PRINTER CONFIGURATION Test Print as stated in this Guide If you will be changing protocols from an existing working setup or setting up a new protocol you should refer to the step by step setup instructions provided in the XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 Network Administrator s Guide available on the Internet at http www xes com The Network Administrator s Guide is in Adobe Acrobat format with the name of admine pdf To read this document you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader software 3 0 or higher installed on your workstation Check your port For Windows NT 4 0 and 2000 make sure that you have a printer port available on your workstation before starting the driver installation Click Start Settings Printers File Server Properties and the Ports tab to view the list of available ports For Windows 95 and 98 you will be given an opportunity to check available ports as well as to add an XES TCP IP Port during driver installation Creating a Printer Por
44. or down arrows to the right of the Fixed radio button Fixed scaling has a range of 10 to 999 in 1 increments Raster image scaling Click on the radio button of your choice to select one of two available options to be used when raster images are scaled down e Line This selection tells the Controller to use a pixel preserving algorithm to preserve fine lines for image size reductions e Photo This selection tells the Controller to use a simple pixel depleting algorithm for image size reductions This is the default driver setting Mirroring Click on the check box of your choice to place a check mark in the box for the type of mirror image printing that you desire e Mirror X This selection will mirror print your image along the horizontal access e Mirror Y This selection will mirror print your image along the vertical axis If you remove the check mark from this box your image will be placed on the media using a 300 dpi coordinate system XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 17 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 18 Tabs of the Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog continued Monochrome Tab Resolution This selection box displays the driver s current resolution setting for jobs being sent to the printer The factory default setting is 400 dpi You can click
45. ou click this button a Finishing Options dialog will display allowing you to select the finishing program to use with your Finishing Device For an explanation of the individual dialog features click the key in the upper right corner of the dialog Continued on next page Job Tab Windows 95 98 Printer Properties continued PLOT NESTING This option allows you to determine if plot nesting will be applied to your print job The purpose of Plot Nesting is to efficiently group the printing of plots on a single sheet of media to eliminate media waste You can select either Printer default or Single job Printer Default uses the default plot nesting settings stored in the Controller previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool These pre determined settings include Exclusive nesting i e reserved to a Single Job Timeout Margins between nested plots and maximum Nesting Length Single Job creates a plot nest restricted to the contents of your current job Plots from other job sources will not be intermixed with plots from your job If you select User defined the Settings button will be enabled When you click this button a Plot Nesting Options dialog will display allowing you to adjust the margins between printed images on your nested page MEDIA MISMATCH Working with the Media Mismatch Mode parameters set up by your System Administrator using the Web Printer Manager Tool you can select one of four available
46. ounting feature will require EITHER the entry of numbers OR the entry of alphanumeric characters e f Accounting is enabled at the Controller as shown on the Account Modes Page of the Web Printer Manager Tool the checkbox will be enabled checked by default and the Settings button will be available for selection Click on the Settings button to enter in an account number of 1 to 999999 and a sub account number of 1 to 9999 Firmware 6 1 or older or a User ID and Account ID of 1 to 32 alphanumeric characters Firmware 7 0 or newer to charge media use to These must be the same numbers or User and Account identifications that were assigned to you by your System Administrator Failure to enter in a valid number ID will result in the printing of an error page If Accounting is Optionally enabled at the Controller as shown on the Account Modes Page of the Web Printer Manager Tool the checkbox will be enabled checked by default and the Settings button will be available for selection You may choose whether or not to participate in accounting If you choose to participate click on the Settings button and enter in your account number of 1 to 999999 and sub account number of 1 to 9999 Firmware 6 1 or older or a User ID and Account ID of 1 to 32 alphanumeric characters Firmware 7 0 or newer to charge media use to These must be the same numbers or User and Account identifications that were assigned to you by your Syst
47. own on the Account Modes Page of the Web Printer Manager Tool the checkbox will be enabled checked by default and the Settings button will be available for selection Click on the Settings button to enter in an account number of 1 to 999999 and a sub account number of 1 to 9999 Firmware 6 1 or older or a User ID and Account ID of 1 to 32 alphanumeric characters Firmware 7 0 or newer to charge media use to These must be the same numbers or User and Account identifications that were assigned to you by your System Administrator Failure to enter in a valid number ID will result in the printing of an error page If Accounting is Optionally enabled at the Controller as shown on the Account Modes Page of the Web Printer Manager Tool the checkbox will be enabled checked by default and the Settings button will be available for selection You may choose whether or not to participate in accounting If you choose to participate click on the Settings button and enter in your account number of 1 to 999999 and sub account number of 1 to 9999 Firmware 6 1 or older or a User ID and Account ID of 1 to 32 alphanumeric characters Firmware 7 0 or newer to charge media use to These must be the same numbers or User and Account identifications that were assigned to you by your System Administrator If you choose not to participate there is no penalty for non participation Your job will print normally If Accounting is disabled a
48. p down arrow to select the firmware version matching the version that is installed in your Controller to display the correct driver features Finisher type With bi directional communication enabled from the Spool Settings button of the Details Tab this selection box shows you the finisher device currently attached to your printer With bi directional communication disabled you can select lt add finisher gt to add a new finisher to the drop down list using a Finisher Description File fin Notes When you add a new finisher to this list then select the finisher name and click OK on the Device Options dialog the Finishing drop down list of the Job Tab will be enabled allowing you to configure settings for your User defined Finishing device If you add a Finisher Description File for a finisher already in the drop down list the new information will overwrite the current finisher information Roll Configuration button With bi directional communication enabled from the Spool Settings button of the Details Tab when you click this button you will see a display of printer installed media and the status of each medium none full empty low With bi directional communication disabled you will have to use the drop down arrows to select your printer installed media for the driver to correctly report installed media under the Media Source list of the Paper Tab Without bi directional communication support the status of ea
49. rameter displays the default media source Use the drop down arrow to select your default media source from the displayed list The factory default setting is Automatically Select Orientation Click on the appropriate radio button to select a default printed document orientation The factory default setting is Portrait Copy Count Enter a number from 1 to 999 as your default number of document copies to print The factory default setting is 1 Margin amp Justification button This button opens the dialog used to set the margins and justification that the Controller uses to place your printed job on the media The margins set here are used as the device margins by your software application Margins can be set to zero to make the whole application media size the printable area or left at their default of 0 20 which are the printer s recommended tolerances Tabs of the Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog continued Job Tab BANNER PAGE This option allows you to determine whether a banner page is printed before or after your job You can also select Printer Defaults to let banner page printing be determined by the parameters stored in the printer s Controller as set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool The default driver setting is None meaning that no banner page is specified LABELING This option allows you to determine if a plot label will be applied to your print job You can select either Printer default
50. rgix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 46 Removing the Driver Note If you are planning to remove the Net Port Monitor as described on the next page it is recommended that you remove the Net Port Monitor BEFORE removing the print driver as described below 1 To remove the HP GL 2 HP RTL Print Driver from your Windows 95 98 NT4 0 2000 desktop click on Start Settings Printers 2 Right mouse click on the icon representing your XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL printer Select Delete from the drop down menu 4 Click Yes when prompted This will remove the driver from your Windows operating system 5 Refer to the Release Notes that accompanied the driver executable file for any additional files that you might wish to remove Removing the Net Port Monitor Note If you remove the print driver before removing the Net Port Monitor the print driver icon will not appear in the Printers window when you select Start Settings and Printers from your desktop To work around this problem select any other printer icon as a substitute in step 2 below In Windows 95 98 1 From your Windows 95 98 desktop click on Start Settings Printers 2 When the Printers window displays right mouse click on the icon representing your XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL printer and select Properties
51. s and Printers to open the Printers window From the Printers window double click on the Add Printer icon When the Add Printer Wizard displays click Next Click on the Local printer radio button unless you will be printing through a network server in which case you should select Network printer Note If you select Network Printer you will have to click Browse to open up the applicable network directories and sub directories to locate your printer s server When the Manufacturers and Printers windows display click Have Disk and enter the path to the driver files on your workstation for example the drive letter for your CD ROM drive or C temp for downloaded internet files Click OK When the Printers window displays select XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 and click Next Note If an older HP GL 2 HP RTL driver was installed on your workstation a screen will be displayed asking you if you wish to Keep existing driver or Replace existing driver Choose Replace existing driver unless you have a reason to keep an older version of the driver on your system 9 10 11 12 13 14 When the Available Ports window displays depending upon your situation do the following e f you selected Network Printer in step 6 above you do NOT have to perform this port selection step Click Next e f you already have an XES Net Port installed select the port from the displayed list and click N
52. settings of the printer printa PRINTER pep no BPc740 200 CONFIGURATION Test Print as follows e While the Printer is NOT printing from the Web Printer Manager Tool FAX MODEM e es accessed through a web browser installed on your workstation select NETWORK CARD REVISION NONE x PRINTER DEFAULTS TEST PRINT ADVANCED NETWORK HW ADDRESS 00 00 AA 59 17 A4 e Select the Minimal button to get a Configuration test print PATNT ENGINE CONFIGURATION IRMWARE 00 00 00 00 e Select the Back arrow to return to the Test Print choices screen PENEN Saves UE TION DPI 400 MAXIMUM PLOT LENGTH CM 1597 66 MEDIA MODE ANSI e You can now exit the Web PMT by closing your web browser INSTALLED MEDIA Note You can also print a test print from the UTILITIES menu of the XP Size P 8825 8830 8850 Printer Control Panel as explained in the XES Synergix Bae STATUS 8825 8830 8850 8855 System Introduction or the XES Synergix 8825 8830 Controller Setup Manual for Firmware 7 0 COMMUNICATION PARAMETERS TCP IP ENABLE TCP IP ADVANCED 13 142 199 3 255 255 252 0 255 255 255 255 OFF DHCP ENABLE OFF SCANNER CONFIGURATION TYPE XES 7356 PRODUCT 7356 FIRMWARE 0059 CONF IGURATION OPTIONAL LICENSES POSTSC NOT PRESENT STANDARD STANDARD ENABLE OFF JOB ACCOUNTING ENABLE ON SCAN TO NET ENABLE ON ERROR LOG 3834512 00000000 t 9 21070600 0 21070600 MEDIA USAGE LINEAR AREA ROLL 2 Sn ROLL 36 IN BOND
53. t NT4 0 2000 If you do not have an XES TCP IP Port to use with this driver it is recommended that you create a new printer port on your desktop Note You must have administrator privileges to install or add this port 1 Begin by clicking Start Settings Printers File Server Properties Ports tab Click the Add Port button 2 Click on New Monitor NT4 0 or New Port Type 2000 to display the Installing Print Monitor dialog Provide the path to your driver files specifically the file named Monitor inf and click Open 3 When the Installing Print Monitor screen displays again indicating the path to the print monitor click OK 4 When the Printer Ports screen displays indicating the available XES Net Port click New Port and when prompted click OK 5 When the XES Net Port dialog displays enter the TCP IP address of your printer s Controller in the entry field and click OK 6 Accept the default Timeout value on the displayed Configuration dialog and click OK 7 Close the Printer Ports window Close the Server Properties dialog XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide Before You Start Print a PRINTER CONFIGURATION Test Print XES 8855 PRINTER CONTROLLER CONFIGURATION To check the communication
54. t the Controller as shown on the Account Modes Page of the Web Printer Manager Tool the checkbox and Settings button will be disabled and unavailable for selection Continued on next page XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 27 XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 HP GL 2 amp HP RTL AutoCAD 2000i Optimized Print Driver User Guide 28 Device Options Tab NT4 0 Printer Properties continued Firmware revision This selection box shows you the version of Controller firmware that is supplying the driver with feature information to display With bi directional communication enabled from the checkbox on the Ports Tab the drop down arrow will be unavailable for selection With bi directional communication disabled you will have to use the drop down arrow to select the firmware version matching the version that is installed in your Controller to display the correct driver features Finisher type With bi directional communication enabled from the checkbox on the Ports Tab this selection box shows you the finisher device currently attached to your printer With bi directional communication disabled you can select lt add finisher gt to add a new finisher to the drop down list using a Finisher Description File fin Notes When you add a new finisher to this list then select the finisher name and click OK on the Device Options dialog the Finish
55. that the Controller uses to place your printed job on the media The margins set here are used as the device margins by your software application Margins can be set to zero to make the whole application media size the printable area or left at their default of 0 20 which are the printer s recommended tolerances Tabs of the Document Properties Dialog continued Job Tab BANNER PAGE This option allows you to determine whether a banner page is printed before or after your job You can also select Printer Defaults to let banner page printing be determined by the parameters stored in the printer s Controller as set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool The default driver setting is None meaning that no banner page is specified LABELING This option allows you to determine if a plot label will be applied to your print job You can select either Printer default or User defined Printer Default uses the default label stored in the Controller if a default label was previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool If you select User defined the Settings button will be enabled When you click this button a Label dialog will display allowing you to create a label of 1048 characters in length Using this dialog label placement position font type font size and text shading attributes can be individually set Text shading has a range of 0 white text to 100 solid black text The factory default setting for the Labeli
56. ty job and 10 representing a high priority job Higher priority jobs generally print faster in a print queue than lower priority jobs Click on the up or down arrows to set your priority Tabs of the Windows 95 98 Printer Properties Dialog Rotation Click on the arrow to the right of the selection box to reveal a drop down list of printed image rotation options continued e Auto This selection lets the Controller determine printed image rotation for the most economical placement of document pages on available Graphics Tab media This is the default driver setting This Tab allows you to modify the driver settings for Scaling Mirroring and e 0 90 180 270 Any one of these selections produces printed image Rotation rotation to the degree specified Scaling Click on the radio button of your choice to select one of three Enable RTL native mode resolution This box is checked enabled by available scaling options factory default to have the Controller optimize resolution for your printed job e Printer default This selection uses the default scaling parameter stored in the Controller previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool This is the default driver setting e To fit This selection automatically scales your image to fit the media size that you choose from the drop down list to the right of the To fit radio button e Fixed This selection scales your image by the percentage that you specify using the up
57. ur printing needs and removing the driver or Net Port Monitor when desired An electronic copy of this guide is available on the internet at http www xes com Basic Requirements A 90 MHz Pentium compatible workstation with 32MB of RAM if running Windows 95 98 NT4 0 with AutoCAD R14 or LT A 133 MHz or faster Pentium compatible workstation with 32MB of RAM if running Windows 95 98 NT4 2000 with AutoCAD 2000 A 133 MHz or faster Pentium compatible workstation with 256MB RAM if running Windows 2000 Server with AutoCAD 2000 233 MHz minimum for AutoCAD 2000i A 233 MHz or faster Pentium compatible workstation with 64MB of RAM if running Windows 95 98 NT4 2000 with AutoCAD 2000i A working knowledge of your workstation s operating system Windows NT 4 0 build 1381 with Service Pack 3 or newer Click on Start Programs Windows NT Explorer Help About to verify this Appropriate cabling connecting your workstation to the network or directly to the 8825 8830 8850 8855 printer s AccXES Controller Appropriate protocols and ports enabled on both the printer and workstation with a connection established through the network or directly between the printer and your workstation Downloading this Driver from the Internet To download this driver from the Internet if required go to http www xes com The driver is downloaded as a self extracting WinZip file After downloading to your workstation double clic
58. utton Properties in Microsoft Word or Setup in CorelDRAW 5 0 for example to display the Document Properties dialog IN WINDOWS 2000 Select File Print within a desktop application such as Microsoft Word or PageMaker for example to display the Print screen which lets you select your print driver and set numerous print processing parameters for the current job only Select the Layout Tab to change the orientation of the document to Portrait or Landscape Select the Paper Quality Tab to change the Paper Source and Media type From either of these tabs click Advanced to display the Document Properties dialog IN AUTOCAD 20001 Select File and Plot or Page Setup to display the Plot Screen Select this driver from the drop down list of plotters Wait a moment for the driver s Document Properties Dialog to load Click the Properties button select the Device and Document Settings Tab choose Custom Properties and click the Custom Properties button The 4 tabbed Document Properties dialog will now be displayed see Figure 5 Driver Configuration Document Properties Dialog Appearance and Purpose of the Document Properties Dialog As shown in Figure 5 the Document Properties dialog contains numerous print processing parameters that can be set for the current print job only by left mouse clicking on the appropriate tab and making the available selections After making your selections on each Tab
59. x to reveal the full list of choices The default media size is Letter 8 5x11 Media Sizes button Click this button to open the Media Sizes dialog enabling you to modify the sizes displayed in the Application media size drop down list Media Sizes dialog e You can use the Custom media size settings of this dialog to set up a custom page size to display in the Application media size drop down list e Use the Media mapping drop down list to specify how the custom media size will be mapped to the media rolls installed in the printer If you select Any Any ANSI Any ARCH or Any ISO the Controller will select the smallest media size in the specified media family to print your job on Automatic rotation of the job will be performed as needed If you select Any Roll the factory default setting the Controller will select the smallest media roll that the job fits on Automatic rotation of the job will be performed as needed e Use the Available media sizes check boxes to determine the media families to display in the Application media size drop down list By default all boxes are checked display set to on e Use the User Defined Media button to provide new media names with accompanying sizes and media mapping to the Application media size drop down list Media type Use the drop down arrow to select your default media type from the displayed list The factory default setting is Bond Media source This pa

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