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1. Black fon size 0 500i White off size 10 500i r Enter dimensions Width fo 250i Height 0 2501 Hiemeterotencie 0 Specify thickness n pixels n units of measure Pixels e ugue Init 0 075 Position marks Add space between marks and the comers of the page Lett fo Right 0 Top 0 Bottom 0 Cancel Help Specify shape of marks When the Print cut marks checkbox is selected there are five different cut mark shapes to choose from Each type is visually represented by a diagram to show what the marks will look like To select a cut mark shape click on the diagram to highlight it The appro priate options in the Cut Marks tab will become avail able depending on which shape diagram is selected For standard crop marks select the first diagram Cut Marks This will create an L shaped mark facing out from the image in each corner of the image When used with tiling the Cut mark will print at the overlap mark so that when the tiles are cut they will line up with each other without overlap The second option is Corner marks This will print an L shaped mark on the corners of the image facing into the image When Corner marks are used with 50 e Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers tiling the marks print on the perimeter of the image allowing physical overlap when trimmed The third option is Circles This setting will print circles in the corners as cut mar
2. orae tdeo Sh dete ne dub P adie UE en 55 EGU Sa piei s EROS NRW RS dag datas pul s AR Rent e s 56 Multipage Job Options 00 00 0002 cee 57 Place Multiple Pages of Job in Layout 57 Place Each Page of Job in Separate Layout 58 Page Range iu et e i Ye doer ee hide YE ee ee 58 Layout PONS iue ex suc Ex RE Ru RR Ehe RS Rebus 59 Direct to Printer sues emera p Ree tres x a ee pd c 59 Delete All Intermediate Files 0000040 60 Error if Image Too Big 0200002 61 Auto Scale to Intended Size 00005 61 Use Precise Positioning of RTLs in Layout 62 Layout File Name Template 02 0000000 62 ii Table of Contents ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Table of Contents continued Auto Position Options llis 68 Refit BUTTON oxosdascte vp pen id eub oe bd eds 70 On Size Discrepancy isse ek RR REG EXER 71 Postscript Layout Output 0 0 0 0 0 eee 73 Output Options 34 kid LP dee Ree be Re m eee HS 73 Save Print Options ee 74 Output Directory aese acit 00000000 eee 75 Temporary Directory llli 75 File Name Template 2 020020000 eee 75 TIFF Byte Order i2 e ied owe ERE RESP E 76 Use PostScript Resolution in TIFF CT Header 76 Single Strip TIFF 16s sace m eR eb Rae ee TAS 77 Prompt for Output File Name 2 000 77 PostScript Options soerat ekaa s 77 Resolution and Scaling
3. T Hide queue 138 Spooler Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers select the queue you wish to delete from the Queue to monitor drop box and select the Del button Queue Support NOTE NOTE The Queue Support group contains six editable drop boxes that are used to define the queue shown in the Queue to monitor entry box In each of these boxes except the Files to monitor box the full path of the directory must be entered The Output queue entry is where the bitmap TIFF or CT or output is placed upon completion If files are to be printed and not saved the temporary files will be created here unless a Temporary queue is named When both are named a file that will be deleted will be created in the Temporary queue If no output queue is defined the output file will be created in the Output Directory specified in the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box If a PostScript file is sent to the Spooler and Convert only no print is not selected and layouts are not in effect the options specified in the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box will be used The Done queue is where the input file is moved upon completion of the job If no done queue is entered the file in the monitored queue will be deleted and no copy of it will be retained The Done queue should be on the same disk vol ume as the Queue to monitor for a file to be able to be moved into that Done queue Otherwise the file
4. 1 Choose a Printer Setup file From the Printer Setup menu in ColorBurst choose Select Printer Setup In the ENV folder open the folder for your printer and select the setup file named SETUP printername ENV for the printer model you are using This will set the ColorBurst options neces sary for Linearization and ICC profile generation Open the Printer Options dialog box and make sure your Printer port TCP settings are correct Make any changes and click Save to close the dialog box 2 Create a Linearization file From the File menu select Open and choose the target linearization chart for your spectrophotometer located in the LIN folder The charts have 21 steps 596 incre ments Print out the linearization chart and let it dry completely Read the chart with your spectrophotometer to create a LIN file If you are using the DPT41 use the ColorBurst DPT41 reader software located in the LIN folder Once you have read all of the patches on the linearization chart save your file in the LIN folder and name it accordingly for example name the LIN file HP5K ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix C e C 1 media date LIN for a chart printed on the HP 5000 Make sure you have saved the file in the LIN folder The final step is to load the LIN file into ColorBurst From the Options menu open the Linearization Options dialog box Click the Find button to select the lin file you just created 3 Set Dmax values N
5. 20000 cece eee 78 Memory LINIS 24 4 44ee084 e4eue fre deungada he 79 Output Format 2 0 isses 80 RODO xiu eiu by reas EE Pee et Ub oe ee 82 Over rint Colors s cag etre sr HERE Lek 82 Advanced PostScript Options 20005 83 Initialization Elle 2 2 2 p pete bRE RR RP Pe d 84 Temporary File isses 84 JAWS Search Directories 0 0 000 00000002 eee eee 84 ICC Profile Options xxx deme EROR E aero UR 85 Enable ICC management and ColorBurst correction 87 Cancel Print if Output Profile is Missing or in Error 87 Create color corrected TIFF CT 22220005 87 Enable AutoSpot Color Matching 87 Limit Grey Options 4 4a9 4 e 035 ERR ae PH Ee 88 Enable ColorTrack liliis 88 Input and Output Profiles liliis sisse 89 Simulation Profile s iszsss sexe RR ERE Rs 91 Build PORE aai ea aeia a oa sse 93 ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Table of Contents iii Table of Contents continued Default Paths celles 94 Color Adjustments epe rd dol de Ee he Se EE us 95 IAK LINES ote omit eae eet ETTERR TRO 95 High Quality Screening Gamma Value 96 SHarpNess 2 aant dee ee pte reet ea OSE Ge ox 97 Screening Finish llle 97 Brightness Control 2 0 sese 99 PEA CUVE voeux oe need Fender od ee 99 Edit Button and Color Curve Information 101 Max Ink nc d do cd ae dtd bbe aE A ae OS kes 103 Choose a Halfto
6. ColorBurst RIP A PostScript Language Level 3 Compatible RIP User s Manual version 7 3 VUTEK Digital Printing Systems VUTEk Inc reserves the right to change the information in this document without prior notice The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement The software may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the agreement No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or information storage and retrieval systems for any purpose other than the purchaser s personal use without the express written permission of VUTEK and 2004 VUTEK Inc Additional and 2004 Compatible Systems Engineering Inc All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Artistri is a registered trademark of Dupont Company ColorBurst is a registered trademark of CSE Inc JAWS is a registered trademark of 5D Solutions Ltd PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated NOVAJET is a registered trademark of ENCAD Incorporated HP DesignJet is a registered trademark of Hewlett Packard Company Windows 3 1 Windows 95 and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Kodak Digital Sciences CMS is a registered trademark of Kodak PANTONE Colors displayed in the software application or in the user documentation may not match PANTONE iden
7. es Screen angles Choose an angle for each installed ink C 75 M is Y J0 K 45 Choose angles for installed spot inks TN 2 fis 3 p 4 TN Choose a halftone dot Halftone dots come in many different shapes such as elliptical round diamond and so on The choose a halftone dot pulldown menu allows you to select the shape of your halftone dot Use AccurateScreens The Use AccurateScreens checkbox will turn on Adobe AccurateScreens This option will create smoother transi 104 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers tions creating more shades of gray It is recommended that this checkbox always be selected Adjust ruling The Adjust ruling to position dots on whole pixels will adjust any partial dots to whole dots It is recommend ed that this checkbox always be selected partial dots may cause unwanted patterns in halftoned output Ruling dots per inch The Ruling entry box allows you to enter the dots per inch to use when halftoning The recommended value is 1 10th of your printer s dots per inch For example if you are printing on a 360 dpi printer set Ruling to 36 dots per inch Screen angles The Screen angles entry boxes contain the screen angles to use for each ink Screen angles will be used for any installed ink as set in the Spot Color Definitions dialog box The first four inks and their default screen angles are Cyan at 75 Magenta at 15 Yellow at 0 and Black at 45 degrees
8. Defined Spot Colors Installed Inks fed Er m z Delete Reset Reorder inks for output to printer Ir Enable reordering of inks i fi z Sth Lion Ez 2nd z en 5 zl ardt mageni 7n zl an 8h z Light Ink Conversions Light Ink Name Converted From Light Cyan cyan Light Magenta magenta ha Cancel Help ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 123 Current Ink Set The 6 7 and 8 color ink set buttons determine which inks sets are available in the Current Ink Set pulldown menu When the 6 color ink set button is selected only 6 color ink sets will appear in the pulldown when 7 color ink set is selected the pulldown will show only 7 color ink sets and so on Select an ink set from the pull down menu that matches your printer and your job The colors in the ink set you choose will show up in the Installed Inks menu They will also appear in the Color Adjustments dialog box s Light Inks and Spot Inks sets allowing you to adjust their curves and define their usage You may delete installed inks to add more by using the Delete button The Reset button will restore setting to their default and remove any inks added to the list as well as reset any ink reordering below Defined Spot Colors and Installed Inks The Installed Ink list represents the colors in order of the ink cartridges installed in your printer To define a Spot Color as an Installed Ink the spot color must first
9. For additional installed light inks the angles should be exactly the same as the CMYK angles light inks are used to blend with the CMYK inks so they must overlap Once all values in the Color Adjustments dialog box are set select the Save button to keep them or select the Cancel button to abort the values to their previous settings You may access ColorBurst s OnLine Help files discussing the Color Adjustments dialog box by select ing the Help button ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 105 Linearization Options General The next selection in the Options menu opens the Linearization Options dialog box Linearization will allow you to standardize your color output by equaliz ing the steps between specified ink densities or chro ma values You can use the Linearization settings to create consistent output and match output from multi ple printers of the same type same ink and media For more information on Linearization and creating ICC profiles please see Appendix E Linearization and ICC Profiling The Linearization Options dialog box opens in the General tab This tab is where you can turn lineariza tion options on and off and specify a LIN file aixi General Advanced Data points Set up linearization controls Name a file and use that file s densities or chroma for linearization IV Allow linearization V Use chroma based linearization Tum off ICC color correction for next print only Can
10. Print rows left to right top to bottom Print columns top to bottom left to right Automatically include all tiles in current layout Tile Size Set tile size from current layout area width feoi Height m lt Tile Overlap Left o 500 Right fo 500i Top D 500i Bottom fo 500i z Trim Outside Tiles 4 Left o Right o Top fo Bottom fo Minimum Tile Size 1 Width o Height o Output file template f_ u_ t Save Cancel Help The first options in the Tiling Options dialog box let you choose the order in which the tiles print Print rows prints tiles from the upper left to right then the next row of tiles from left to right and so on Print columns prints tiles from the upper left to lower left then the next column from top to bottom and so on You may have all tiles in a job automatically fit into the current layout by selecting the Automatically include all tiles in current layout checkbox Any tiles that do not 128 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Tile Size Tile Overlap fit in the layout window will produce an error mes sage Image does not fit in layout The Tile Size option lets you enter a tile Width and Height or set the tile size to the size of the current lay out by selecting Set tile size from current image area If this box is not selected you must add each tile to the layout individually The Tile O
11. The first name includes all characters up to a dot that sepa rates the file name from its extension last name This code is replaced by the first name of the last image that was added to the layout The first name includes all characters up to a dot that sepa rates the file name from its extension end name at character This code can be used more than once to specify characters in the F and L names where the output name should end Each E should be followed by one and only one additional character If the character following E is then found in the file name the name is ended at that character not including that character If more than one end ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 65 96U Dates 96D 96A code is desired each should be included in the tem plate preceded by 96E If the character following 96E is a letter that letter is case independent An example might be that you use long file names with lots of spaces in the name You could shorten the output name by truncating the name at the first space Do this by specifying the special code 96E followed by a space character Using this code a file named Sunshine over L A on a smoggy day would create the output file named Sunshine This code is only useful if you use F and or L in the template increment up This code tries to ensure unique output names by replacing the special code with a three digit number between 000 and 999
12. When neither of these option are selected checked grayscale images will be processed through ColorBurst s color correction using ICC profiles if specified and printed using all inks Enable ColorTrack ColorTrack is a method by which ColorBurst eliminates the speckled look of pure colors that is typical of color profiling software correction For example in a light green tint profiles will often add small amounts of magenta and even black These magenta and black dots give the tint an undesirable grainy or speckled look ColorTrack recognizes green as a pure color and eliminates the additional magenta and black dots that the profile adds This usually has no effect on scanned images where pure colors are unusual only drawn images such as tints and blends When you select Enable ColorTrack the other options in this group become active You may set the individ 88 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers NOTE ual ColorTrack thresholds for each ink color Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black ink Setting a Cyan threshold of 1096 for example will remove all cyan speckling from any area with up to a 1096 cyan dot value 096 is white 100 is the color at full strength The threshold is subtractive meaning that the thresh old amount is subtracted from the ink value if the threshold is 1096 then an 1196 dot would print as 196 a 1296 dot would print as 296 etc You may also choose to use ColorTrack only when spe ci
13. Write to RTL File The Write to RTL checkbox determines whether or not an RTL file is saved RTL files are files written in the internal format needed by the printer Because all color correction and pattern finish have already been resolved before the RTL file is written printing an RTL file is very fast This makes RTL files very useful when printing multiple copies When you specify that multiple copies should be printed an RTL file is always created regardless of the setting of Write to RTL File After the first copy is done the RTL file is read for all subsequent copies This should speed up printing If you have not selected Write to RTL File the RTL file created for multi ple copies is a temporary file that is deleted after all copies have been printed ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 45 RTL files are saved with the extension RTL Tiled files saved as RTL files create an RTL file for each tile each with the same name The extension for these files starts with RTL then ROO RO1 etc through R99 The Write to RTL File checkbox works with the Printer Port pulldown to determine where output is directed If Write to RTL File is selected and the printer port selected is None an RTL file is created in the Output Directory set in the PostScript Layout Output File Options dialog box If both an LPT port and the write option are selected then the file is output to the printer and written as an RTL file to disk When
14. box allows you to enter the number of tile columns and rows as well as resize each individual tile and specify which tiles to print The current number of columns and rows appears when you open the box the calculated size of the tiles resulting from these numbers appears below in the entry boxes This dialog box is also available ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Menu e 25 26 e File Menu from the Scaling Rotation amp Tiling dialog box by click ing the Tile button Change Tiles x Columns and Rows Select the number of columns and Keep columns in row rows in column the same s rows that make up the fullimage 7 Keep all columns in a row the same height Columns B Rows fi 7 Keep all rows in a column the same width Resize Individual Tiles Select a tile by its column and row position theese x dh ence d clit Column 1 Column 2 alain Width Height Width Mak Aral He widi O GE pm LII Gam l E Select tiles to print Use dash for tile range inclusive Use space or comma to separate tiles or ranges Example 1 3 5 9 11 14 18 20 22 Save Cancel Reset Undo Tilng Help There are three ways to constrain tile sizes If you select Keep columns in row rows in column the same all of the tiles within a column will be the same width and each tile in the same row will be the same height You may also choose to keep only one of these dimensions t
15. output options The temporary files are then deleted The Temporary Directory entry determines where ColorBurst saves the temporary files The default path is the TEMP folder in the ColorBurst installation folder It is recommended that the directory be a local folder rather than on a server so that the RIP time is faster File Name Template The File name template edit box here allows you to specify the name of an output file which will be creat ed when only one image is processed into an output file When there are two or more files in a layout the File name template in the Layout Options dialog box is used first and then appended by the information in the File Name Template here The File Name Template is described in detail earlier in this chapter under Layout Options ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 75 P A special code P has been added for use with this File Name Template not the File Name Template in the Layout Options dialog box P can be used for multi page documents and will add the page number to the file name TIFF Byte Order The TIFF byte order radio buttons allow you to choose between Intel and Motorola byte ordering when writing a TIFF file to disk The TIFF file format begins with flags indicating whether the file uses Intel low high or Motorola high low byte ordering when specifying val ues larger than 8 bits Although most software that reads TIFF format including ColorBurst can
16. which is 360 dpi The Use bidirectional printing checkbox turns bidirec tional printing on and off Normally the printhead prints while moving in one direction then moves back to the starting point to print the next pass Bidirectional print ing will put ink down while the printhead moves in both directions Select the Enable automatic cut after printing check box if you want the Roland to automatically cut the media after the print is finished ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 43 Mutoh Printer Setup When you choose Mutoh in the Printer pulldown and click the Setup button the Mutoh Printer Setup dialog box opens allowing you to set specific Mutoh settings Mutoh Printer Setup x 6 color printing Use bidirectional printing Use small dot for printing Save Cancel Help Select the 6 Color Printing checkbox if you want the Mutoh to print using six ink cartridges The Use bidirectional printing checkbox turns bidirec tional printing on and off Normally the printhead prints while moving in one direction then moves back to the starting point to print the next pass Bidirectional printing will put ink down while the print head moves in both directions Select the Use small dot for printing checkbox if you want the Mutoh to print at 720 dpi If it is unchecked the Mutoh will use regular dots which is 360 dpi Units of Measure The Units of Measure pulldown menu sets the default unit of m
17. ColorBurst skips the layer and adds the message ignored after the spot color name in the message window If a spot color name has been defined as some combination of inks ColorBurst processes the layer and combines it with the process colors There are no predefined spot color definitions It is the user s responsibility to define all spot colors that he she intends to use in pre separated jobs You may define an unlimited number of spot colors however a maximum of 30 spot colors may be used per file That means that a pre separated job can have up to 34 layers 4 process colors and 30 spot color layers If more than 30 defined spot colors are included in a job the 31st and greater spot color layers will be ignored ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 119 The Spot Color Definitions dialog box allows you to define an unlimited number of spot colors To add a new spot color enter the name of the spot color in the editable portion of the Defined Spot Colors dropbox If a name is already there overwrite it with the name you want to add The name is not case sensitive red RED Red etc all match the color Red found in a pre separated job Next enter the values of Cyan Magenta Yellow and blacK in the appropriate box in the Spot color CMYK values group If you are using a six color printer you may also enter values for inks 1 and 2 if you are using an eight color printer you may also enter values for inks 3 a
18. Direct to printer checkbox is not selected in the Layout Options dialog box RTL files are created by default An RTL file is smaller than its equivalent TIFF at least 8 times smaller and often especially in drawn images that can be com pressed much smaller than that Furthermore TIFF and CT files still need more processing during printing RTL files are completely ready for printing and should stay well ahead of the printer RTL files may take longer to create in the first place but will be faster once printing begins Anyone printing to more than one printer simultaneously should consider creating intermediate RTL files instead of TIFF or CT files 74 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Output Directory The Output Directory is where the intermediate file is created if a Save File option is selected This entry is by default the subdirectory TEMP of the directory spec ified for ColorBurst installation This directory has other uses in ColorBurst It is used e for the Convert command as the default directory for Convert As as the output queue in Spooling if not otherwise specified in the Spooler dialog box Temporary Directory Each time a layout is processed ColorBurst creates tem porary files All files in a layout are RlPed and saved as temporary files After all files are processed the tempo rary files are then assembled into a layout again and printed or saved as one final file depending on your
19. Each time a number is used it is automatically incremented For example the template CSE 96U creates output files named CSE 000 CSE 001 CSE 002 etc The first number to be used is the number set in the Auto increment start ing number edit box in the Layout Options dialog box The number returns to 000 after incrementing past 999 You can set Auto increment starting number to any starting number Output file names can include the current date or parts of the current date date This code is replaced by the current date in a YYMMDD format Example cb d on July 4 1997 becomes cb970704 The order is chosen to ensure that the last file created will be listed last alphabetically You can place the date in a different order by using the individual parts of the date listed below date This is replaced by a two digit code holding the date of the month The two digit code will be in the range 01 to 31 Example cb96a on July 4 1997 becomes cb04 This will usually be combined with 66 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers other date special codes to build a date in the order that you desire 96M month This is replaced by a two digit code holding the number of the current month January 01 and December 12 Example cb96m9 6a on July 4 1997 becomes cb0704 Y year This is replaced by the last two digits of the year Example cb m a y on July 4 1997 becomes cb070497 W day of the week This is replaced by
20. InkJet Printers Appendix E Port Monitor Setup The purpose of the Port Monitor is to allow network printing to a Desktop Print Queue from any application on any networked PC Mac or Unix station The Desktop Print Queue will send the file to a folder such as c cburst spooler via the Port Monitor Windows 95 98 Installation On a PC you can create a Desktop Printer It will appear in the My Computer PrinterFolder The ColorBurst CD has a folder called Print Drivers In the Print Driver folder select OS that matches your machine s OS and run the Setup program During the install it asks for a PPD In our PC PPD folder there is a ColorBurst PPD file Select this file and finish the install This creates a ColorBurst Printer on the PC located in the My Computer Printer Folder Once you have a ColorBurst Printer Desktop Printer install the new Port Monitor based on the following instructions 1 Go to Start button Settings Printers and open the ColorBurst printer 2 Select the Printer Properties Details tab 3 Click the Add Port button 4 Select Other and ColorBurst and click OK 5 Atthe Add Edit CPT Menu click Find and select the path of the ColorBurst Spooler Directory the default is c cburst spooler ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix E e E 1 6 7 Click OK and close to get back to the Properties window At the Details Tab click Port Settings Enter PS for the Forced E
21. Menu 37 The NovaJet Printer Model pulldown lets you specify how many inks your printer supports When using a four color printer select CMYK only printers in the pulldown When you select 850C and similar in the pulldown the NovaJet 850C only group becomes active to allow you to specify which cartridges will be used Selecting 4 inks will make the Ink cartridge sets pulldown menu active allowing you to choose the left right or both sets of cartridges to use for printing When you print to a NovaJet the paper will not auto matically cut after printing unless you select the Turn on automatic cut feature checkbox The Bidirectional printing checkbox turns bidirectional printing on and off Normally the printhead prints while moving in one direction then moves back to the starting point to print the next pass Bidirectional print ing will put ink down while the printhead moves in both directions This results in faster printing with a slightly lower print quality HP Printer Setup When you choose HP Series in the Printer pulldown and dick the Setup button the HP Printer Setup dialog box opens This is where you can set specific HP settings HP Printer Setup ix HP Printer Type 2000 Series Y IV Inhibit automatic cut M Double Honeontallresalution T Use Spe Number of print passes Shorten advance micro units fp f Save Cancel Help 38 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers The HP Prin
22. Off button The Rendering Intent is used to remap the color from one type of print er to another see Input Profiles above for a description of each rendering intent The Use L a b to L a b profile for device matching checkbox allows you to use Lab to Lab profiles for sim ulation Lab is absolute color When using this simula tion the total raw Lab input data is restricted to the Lab color space of the device Input data goes through the Lab simulation profile and then out to the Output device profile This is useful for devices that you cannot make an ICC profile for It also allows you to stay in Lab color which is device independent color 92 e Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Build Profile The Build Profile tab lets you create an ICC file directly in ColorBurst using a CIE file built with a spectro photometer ICC Profile Options E 2 x General Input Profiles Output Profiles Simulation Profile Build Profile Default paths Build an ICC profile from a spectral data CIE file and controls The output profile name will be in the default Output profile path and have the same name as the data file with extension ICC unless you choose to change it i Select spectral data CIE file Datafie Find Prompt for output file name Profile descriptor Enter any information you choose to describe the profile that is to be created j Ink limit and black controls Total ink
23. Procedure 1 Make sure that Windows 98 or NT is already installed and running on your computer NT users must be logged on at the administrator level to properly install ColorBurst 2 Insert the ColorBurst CD into your CD ROM drive 3 From the File menu or Start button in Program Manager select Run 4 In the Command Line box type D Setup or use the browse button to select Setup exe in the root directory on the CD 5 Select the OK button or press Enter When the instal lation starts follow the instructions on your screen It is important to never install a new version of ColorBurst over an existing version always select a new folder to install ColorBurst 6 Plug the supplied ColorBurst keycard into the LPT1 parallel port 4 Getting Started ColorBurst for InkJet Printers The ColorBurst installation program creates a program group containing the ColorBurst icon The basic ColorBurst installation process is now complete Depending on your hardware and software you may need to install some Utilities listed below ColorBurst Utilities included on the CD Sentinel Only required on Windows NT Install this driver to acti vate the KeyCard See the readme file in Sentinel fold er for installation instructions MAC PDF This is a MAC format PDF driver for QuarkXpress on the MAC This file is compressed as an HQX file for MAC Stuffit Expander It must be expanded on the MAC prior to being used PC PPD amp PDF
24. T llEitpo i o mc EEEE EEEE aed E edes 24 Scale amp Rotate liiis es 28 2 Printer Setup Menu 2 0 02 00 0 0c 33 Select Printer Setup liliis 33 Save Printer Setup occus i y ae ERR REPE 34 3 Options Menu isslslsl ee 35 Printer ODEOFIS 3 2 dure rhe bined he ERES PRSE ERU ar 35 Printer and Port sess 36 VUTEk Printer Setup lille 37 NovaJet Printer Setup llli 37 ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Table of Contents i Table of Contents continued HP Printer Setup 20 eR rn 38 Epson Printer Setup cssc edo Era E Re ER 40 Mimaki Printer Setup 2 0000 0000 eee ee eee 42 Roland Printer Setup 0000 00000 cere eee 42 Mutoh Printer Setup 00000 cece eee eee 44 Units of Measure 2 ee 44 Mirror Image 2 0 0 0 0000 c eee 45 Write to RTL File xu i rm ode teed oe ate es 45 Number of Copies 000 00000 sess 46 Layout Area and Resolution 0 0 00 eee 46 Margin Between Images 0 00000 02 ee eee 47 Offset Image in Layout liiis selle 48 TCP IP PEDE 1n 2002 ur SUR Raed ada ERLPEYS QE CES 48 Print Cut Marks 0 seinkar em anea ee 49 Specify Shape of Marks 002200000200 00 50 Enter DIMENSIONS a esser eyer sayende ee 51 Position Marks nansa ranrh areata ee 51 Print Job Titles and Title Options 52 Nested layouts oed Exe ebed e e E peewee ne 54 Space Reserved for Titles 0 ccelis 54 CODETOUIS
25. TIFF files from ColorBurst Prompt for Output File Name The final entry in this dialog box is the Prompt for out put file name check box If this entry is not checked then the file is saved with the current file name and an RTL extension If checked each file can be specifically named As the file is about to be created a Save As dialog box will appear to let you name the output file When all entries in the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box are complete select the Save but ton or press Enter Selecting the Cancel button or pressing Esc will cancel all entries you made since opening the dialog box Selecting the Help button will open ColorBurst s OnLine Help for the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box PostScript Options The next item in the Options pulldown is PostScript Options Selecting this will display the PostScript Inter preter Options dialog box The entries in this dialog setup the parameters for the JAWS PostScript Inter preter that is included with ColorBurst ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 77 PostScript Interpreter Options x JAWS PostScript Interpreter by 5D Solutions Ltd p Resolution Memory Limits Dutput Resolution onn Total Allocation 20 Mb Resolution Units PostSeriptvM 3 Mb Inches C Milimeters Initial Buffer Size 2048 Kb p Output Format Rotation CMYK CREB C Baw l l Antialias S
26. all tiles are printed Tiles can be printed in order of rows or columns as set in the Tiling Options dialog box Unless you Cancel the tiling information the image will be tiled when it is printed Tiling does not alter the origi nal file All tiling information is stored in the internal structures of the layout The tiling information remains in effect as long as the layout remains in effect The only way to save tiling information is to write a CLF file If you want to send a tiled image to the spooler you must tile the image on the screen select the Write CLF button in the File Information dialog box to write a CLF file and then send the CLF file to the spooled queue If you want to tile an image that is scaled rotated and or cropped it is a good idea to make those changes before tiling the image If the tile size is set to a specific size in the Tiling Options dialog box making the image larger by scaling or changing its crop may result in more tiles Making a file smaller may result in fewer tiles If you set a number of columns and rows in the Change Tiles dialog box making the image larger will make each tile larger which may result in tiles that are larger than the layout area Likewise making the image smaller will ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Menu 27 make each tile smaller which may result in tiles that are smaller than the minimum size If this occurs an error message will appear to inform you that tiling
27. are using a CMYKOG target file load your ICC profile in the Hexachrome field instead of CMYK ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix C e C 3 6 Save a new Printer Setup file C 4 Appendix C When you save a Printer Setup ENV file the data in the LIN file is saved as part of the ENV file From the Printer Setup menu select Save Printer Setup Include the printer name and other identifying informa tion in the file name such as media type for example HP5K glossy dye env for glossy paper and dye ink on an HP 5000 You now have created your final produc tion printer setup including linearization data You may repeat this process for other printers and media the densities will change dramatically on differ ent printers and media ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix D Printer Port Setup ColorBurst can be used for high speed output to print ers such as ENCAD s 600E and Hewlett Packard s DesignJet 2000 In order to keep up with the printer ColorBurst needs to send the information to the print er in ECP mode Windows 95 amp 98 have ECP mode built in to the parallel printer port LPT1 If you intend to use your internal LPT1 for ECP mode verify your BIOS configuration to match the following Windows 95 amp 98 have ECP mode support built in to the operating system If the internal LPT1 is configured in the BIOS for address 378 DMA 3 IRQ 7 and ECP mode the port can be configured for ECP mode in Wind
28. checks that the file is a proper file type TIFF CT EPS etc and substitutes the file in place of the APR comments Note that there is a small perfor 134 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers mance penalty encountered when searching for APR comments If you never use APR substitution or you know that a file has no APR comments it is better to turn off APR Search in effect When selected the Error if replacement not found checkbox will report an error during processing if the file named in the APR comments cannot be found in the path specified in the Search paths drop box The file named in the APR comments is assumed to have no pathing associated with it You must define all paths where the high resolution file might be found in the Search paths drop down box Search paths is a combina tion box with an edit box for entering names and a drop box for listing existing names You first enter the edit box With the keyboard use up and down arrows to list all defined search paths one at a time Using the mouse click on the arrow next to the edit box to list as many search paths as will fit in the drop box If necessary a scroll bar will display to allow you to scroll to the top or bottom of the list Up to 8 search paths can be defined There are three buttons used for changing the search paths Use Add to add new search paths Edit to change the name of an existing path and Del to delete a defined path from the list If add
29. defined by the settings in the Setup Spooler dialog box and most importantly a printer setup file PUEDE File Printer Setup Options Spooler Windows Help Printer Setup Fil Setup Spooler Start Spooler The Setup Spooler dialog box allows you to define a queue s Output queue Done queue whether layouts are on etc For example you may define one queue to print single files another queue to print layouts and another queue to convert files only Choosing Save Printer Setup from the Options menu saves the current Options settings in an printer setup file This allows you to further customize each queue For example you can set up several queues and have each go to a different printer each may have different resolu tions different color corrections different image areas another queue may save files without printing etc Setup Spooler The initial selection on this pulldown is Setup Spooler which will display the Setup Spooler dialog box Queue to Monitor The Queue to monitor drop box allows you to define up to 50 unique queues You may set the maximum number of queues that you want available in the Maximum queues edit box located near the bottom ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Spooler Menu 137 right corner of the Setup Spooler dialog box All of the other options in the Setup Spooler dialog box except the Time between checks option are tied to the Queue to monitor when you select a queue the other setti
30. effect with out restarting ColorBurst in an ENV file The Printer Setup file may then be restored at a later time and may be used by the Spooler Each spool queue can use a different Printer Setup file All files in a queue will be processed using the settings in the Printer Setup file specified For more information on Spooling see section 4 Spooling Menu 34 Printer Setup Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers 3 Options Menu The third menu item is Options All of these selections open dialog boxes that establish the working environ ment for ColorBurst File Printer Setup Options Spooler Windows Help Printer Setup Files Ep Printer Options Multipage Options Layout Options Output Options PostScript Options ICC Profile Options Color Adjustments Linearization Options Ink Balance Spot Color Definitions Tiling Options Font Maintenance Miscellaneous Printer Options The first selection in the Options pulldown is Printer Options Selecting this will display the Printer Options dialog box Before describing the contents of this dialog box a brief description of the layout feature is necessary A layout is in effect when the layout window is displayed on screen This window emulates the media that the selected printer uses The layout window is proportion al to that media the layout window title bar displays the dimensions of the media and a dashed
31. example if you enter a value of 5 the image will be repeated five times in the Layout window as long as there is enough space in the Layout window for all five images to fit ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Menu e 13 NOTE Scale Rot Refit Reposition Write CLF 14 File Menu If you enter a number of images the selected image is considered the first image and more images are added to make up the total number of images The Fill columns group lets you add images in a speci fied number of columns The Rows group lets you add images in a specified number of rows If both of these options are selected the image will be repeated in the specified number of columns and rows The Scale Rot button allows you to scale and or rotate the currently selected image through the Scaling amp Rotation dialog box This button is equivalent to the Scale amp Rotate menu item See the description of the Scale amp Rotate menu item for detailed information The Refit button repositions every illustration in the lay out according to the current best fit formula in effect You may change the best fit formula in the Layout Options dialog box The main use of Refit is to undo manual repositioning that you may have made using the mouse or Reposition button or to close a hole in the layout created after a file is deleted The Reposition button opens the Set Current Position dialog box Entering values for In and Down places the upper l
32. file should have been delivered on the installation diskette s and the name should have been entered during installation This file is for internal use It must exist and should not be changed except when specifi cally instructed The initialization file calls many other setup files also delivered on the installation diskette s If the initialization file or other files it calls are not found the following error message results Error occurred before errordict set up Check your init files The initialization file is normally named INIT PS and is placed in the LIB subdirectory under the directory you named during installation Temporary File The Temporary File entry names a file that the JAWS RIP needs for storing internal information while it is interpreting and rasterizing PostScript files The tempo rary file is used anytime JAWS needs more memory than is available to it in the Total Allocation buffer The Temporary File usually includes the full path of the temporary file The path must exist If the file cannot be created you will receive the error message Temporary file for PostScript Interpreter cannot be created The temporary file entry is usually filled dur ing installation The default name is JAWS BND in the subdirectory TEMP of the directory specified for ColorBurst installation JAWS Search Directories The directories named under the JAWS Search Directories group generally contain PostScript PS files neede
33. if output profile is missing or in error Create color corrected TIFF CT I Enable AutoSpot color matching for industry standard named vector colors Limit grey data to black channel only unless grey profile is active 7 Limit all grey data to black channel only r ColorTrack ColorTrack attempts to inhibit new CMY colors generated during correction Enable ColorTrack Thresholds C h X M f 0 yo K J0 wv Use ColorTrack only when the following pure colors are present IV Cyan V Magenta Iv Yellow I Red M I Green C Y Blue C M 86 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Enable ICC profile color management and ColorBurst correction The ICC Profile Options dialog box allows you to turn both ICC Profile correction and normal ColorBurst color correction on and off When you turn off ICC Profiles normal ColorBurst correction is used automati cally and all ICC options are disabled If both ICC Profiles and ColorBurst correction are in effect the image is corrected by the profiles first then corrected by ColorBurst You can turn normal ColorBurst color correction on and off in the Color Adjustments dialog box as well as the ICC Profile Options dialog box This saves time if correc tion is off when you enter the Color Adjustments dialog box Both dialog boxes serve the same purpose turning correction on or off in one turns it on or off in both Cancel print if output profile is missing or i
34. images have been positioned they are shifted to the top of the layout That is unless you set a vertical offset images will start from the top of the layout If an image does not fit in the layout it is not added to the layout Be aware however that even though it is not shown in the layout that image is still the cur rently selected file From the File menu you can Display and Convert the image that does not fit but if you Print the layout the image will not be included Depending on the formula used an image that does not fit is not necessarily the image that you are adding to the layout Later in this section see the explanation of the Largest First formula for more information The default formula is Order Entered because it has no side effects Once an image is positioned it is not repositioned unless you choose to refit all images or a general Refit command is issued Refit commands are issued when you turn job titles on or off or when you change the layout area while a layout is in effect If you want to manually position image with the ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 69 Refit Button mouse you should use this selection The only image that may not fit in the layout is the image that you are currently adding to the layout The Largest First formula usually provides the best fit When you add an image to the layout every image is ordered from largest to smallest largest means the larg
35. in effect when the layout was saved the positions have been altered to allow room for the titles If image positions are maintained and job titles are no longer in effect there will be extra space around the images More significantly if job titles were not in effect when the layout was saved and they are when you read the CLF images may overlap because of the additional room needed for titles If this possibil ity exists you should select the Refit button in the File Information dialog box to reposition all images after reading the CLF file Saving a layout is the only way you can send a cropped scaled rotated or tiled image to the spooler The Write CLF button displays the Save As dialog box for saving the current layout under any name and in any directory that you choose If you are adding many ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Menu e 15 NOTE Delete Clear images to a layout it is a good idea to save the layout periodically Spooler uses CLF files when layouts are in effect Files entering the queue monitored by Spooler are pointed to by a CLF file named SPOOLER CLF so you should avoid using this name for your layout See Spooler Layout Options for more information The Delete button deletes the currently selected file from the layout Before deleting you will be asked to confirm that you really want to delete the file After you confirm the deletion the layout is checked for duplicates If found you will be a
36. needed ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Menu 21 Before Cropping SEBODCEBEDDEEETIBEBEEBES 1 IE ESESESTESTIST IST II LII j Beet TTT 4 oael Close Restore ESE m Before and after cropping in the Display window and the results in the Layout window 22 e File Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Cropping Cropping is available in the Display window To frame an area within the display that you want to crop sim ply hold down the mouse button and drag the mouse to select the area Once an area has been selected you can drag the frame around to get the exact crop You may also resize the crop box As you move the cursor within range of a side or corner of the crop box on the screen you will see the cursor change to the resize cursor arrows If you click the mouse when this cursor is showing you are in resize mode The regular arrow cursor will be positioned at the side or corner and normal Windows resize functions will take place Click the Crop button the first button to reduce the original image to the selected area
37. note that the CMYK color is used in this display only it does not represent output accurately due to the limitations of the screen If you make changes without clicking Add or Edit and you close the dialog box using the Save button the current ink values will be saved under the current spot color name If you want to exit the dialog box without keeping your changes be sure to use the Cancel but ton to close the dialog box Clear all spot colors button The Clear all spot colors button will erase the entire list of spot colors This button does not give any type of warning message so make sure not to press it unless you are sure you want to delete all of your spot colors from the list Once it is pressed the colors are gone Treat all suffixes as same spot color This checkbox allows you to specify that all spot colors beginning with the same name be treated as the same color To do this select a spot color name from the pulldown click the Treat all suffixes as same spot color checkbox and the click the Edit button This must be done for each color one at a time This is useful when printing files created from several different applica tions since each supplies the same information with different names in the suffix ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 121 Import button and Allow import file to overwrite spot colors The Import button is available for users of Praxisoft s VectorPro and similar programs This progr
38. s Disk Data Exchange Format DDEF often referred to as shared SCSI disk format is also supported in all Professional versions of ColorBurst The RIP is based on the 5D Solutions Ltd JAWS RIP Supporting all Type1 and TrueType fonts ColorBurst is implemented as a 32 bit Windows application Multiple page output is supported from PostScript and PDF files Hardware Requirements CPU Disk Space RAM Pentium IV 1 6 GHz CPU or faster with built in math coprocessor 500 Mb hard disk space local storage is required Network storage can be used but that usually results in slower throughput If you want to save intermediate files created by the PostScript Interpreter for future use or if your files are very large 40 gigabytes is rec ommended 256 Mb RAM 512 is recommended The PostScript options default Total Memory in ColorBurst is 80Mb The VM memory is 3 Mb and the Initial Buffer is 8 096 These are the optimum settings Total memory can be increased to a maximum of 256Mb if needed ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Getting Started 3 Printer Port An available parallel port such as LPT1 Display A minimum of 1024x768 resolution is required a 17 or larger monitor is recommended Software Requirements Windows 98 ME NT4 2000 or XP is required If you are installing under Windows NT4 2000 or XP you must be logged on at the administrator level to prop erly install ColorBurst ColorBurst Installation
39. see Appendix E Linearization and ICC Profiling Workflow Default Paths The Default paths tab lets you specify the default paths for Input and Output profiles Use the Find button to pick a folder for the default paths ICC Profile Options 2 x General Input Profiles Output Profiles Simulation Profile Build Profile Default paths Specify the default paths where input and output profiles are assumed to reside Use the Copy button to eliminate paths in profile names If a profile is not in the default path it will be copied there Input profile path C cburst profile input Find Output profile path C cburst profile output Find Copy Cancel Help The Copy button is used to eliminate paths in the pro file names in the Input and Output Profile entry boxes If any profiles are not located in the default path click ing the Copy button will copy the profile to the default path folder This allows you to keep all of your profile files together It is recommended that your default paths are local rather than on a server 94 e Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers When all entries in the ICC Profile Options dialog box are complete select the Save button to keep them or select the Cancel button to restore the values to their previous settings You may access ColorBurst s OnLine Help files about the ICC Profile Options dialog box by selecting the Help button Color Adjustments The entries and modificat
40. the Change Tiles dialog box which allows you to enter tile size values directly You may also remove tiling from the image entirely The PostScript Only tab can be used to change the page size of a PostScript file When a PostScript job is opened its size is determined from its header Often however this size is incorrect usually because the soft ware that created the file assumed a specific paper size that was too small to fit the full image This results in showing just the lower left portion of the image or even a completely empty image where no part of the job falls inside the page window ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Menu 31 NOTE 32 File Menu Scaling Rotation and Tiling 2 x General Scale Rotate Tile PostScript Only Change the page size to override the size given in the job s header PostScript Only Set page width TE 1 833i Set page height a563i 583i Reset Size Size To change the page size enter a new page width and height The image itself does not change only the window enclosing the image changes to the new size The scaling factor is not affected The box representing the image in the layout window changes to reflect page size changes and the layout is refit Use the Reset Size button to revert back to the file s original dimensions Select the OK button to finalize your selections and close the Scaling Rotation and Tiling dialog box Whe
41. the number shown above the last dry patch for all colors To enter the Ink Limit open the Color Adjustments dialog box and click on the Ink Limits tab Select Enable ink limit ing and enter the percentage in the edit box Click Ok to save the Ink Limit information and close the dialog 5 Create an ICC Profile In ColorBurst open a profiling target file created for your spectrophotometer There are several different pro file target files included in the ColorBurst install they are located in the Testfile folder You may also use one provided with any ICC Profiling software such as Profile Maker Monaco Praxisoft Profile City Kodak etc Make sure the Allow linearization and Generate ICC profile are both turned on Print your target file and allow it to dry completely Read the patches with your spectrophotometer and save the resulting CIE file To create an ICC profile in ColorBurst open the ICC Profile Options dialog box and go to the Build Profile tab Load your CIE file using the Find button Set your Ink limit and black controls and click the Build Profile button The ICC profile is cre ated in the Output profile path defined in the Default paths tab in the ICC Profile Options dialog box To use your new profile in ColorBurst select the Output Profiles tab in the ICC Profiles Options dialog box Load your new ICC profile in the CMYK profile field using the Find button Click Save to close the dialog box Note If you
42. tile images Set Tiling Options Very important The Tiling options MUST be set first 1 Open the Tiling Options dialog box Turn the Include all Tiles in Layout button on or off as needed Set Size from Layout Area to off Set the width height and overlap margins before scaling and tiling the image If you have already scaled or tiled the image you will need to do it again after setting the Tiling Options The Layout width and height in Printer Options MUST be larger than the Tile width amp height plus overlap margins Tiling options menu For example if the panels are 48 x 96 with a 1 overlap then the Layout must be at least 51 x 99 The extra space is required for the Overlap Cut Marks and the Job Title As a rule add 5 to the Layout width and height as compared to the Tile setup width amp height If the Tile Overlap is more than 1 increase the layout width amp height by the same amount beyond the 5 extra If No Cropping and or No Visual Resizing is Required 3 Place the job that will be tiled into the Layout Open file In the File Info window click the Scale Rot button to open the Scale Rotate Tile tab of the Scaling dia log box In the Scale to Tile Size group enter the num ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix B e B 1 4 ber of Tiles and click the To Width or To Height button as needed Click the Tile button and adjust panel sizes if required If Cropping or Visual Resi
43. tile lines and numbers depends on the settings in the Tiling Options dialog box Use the Cancel button to can cel tiling without closing the Display window and click Save to save tiling without closing the Display window g demde Save Cancel SXEXESPAT um i Tiles may be adjusted three ways manually through the Change Tiles dialog box and through the Tiling Options dialog box ColorBurst will not allow you to cre ate tiles larger than the Layout Area or smaller than the Minimum Tile Size set in the Tiling Options dialog box If you stretch a row or column and an adjacent row or col umn becomes smaller than the minimum size it is elimi nated The eliminated row or tile can be recovered by making the stretched row or column smaller again When adjusting tiles manually there are several options available Placing the arrow over a red dashed line changes the arrow to the resize arrow click the mouse and move the line to stretch the column or row of tiles Click the right mouse button over a tile to move that row of tiles Click the left mouse button over a tile to move that column of tiles Change Tiles Once you are in tiling mode if you click the Tile button a second time the Change Tiles dialog box will open This
44. verify the IP number you have entered When you are finished entering a valid IP number click 48 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers OK to save your IP address The IP address will now appear in your Printer Port pulldown list as TCP IP Printer General TCP IP Cut Marks Job Titles Cut Devices Enter the IP address such as 192 100 100 1 of a printer to add to the Printer Ports list m TCPAIP printer IP Address o 10 4 o A p Instead of 9100 use port Test Cancel Help Cut Marks The Cut Marks tab in the Printer Options dialog box is used to turn cut marks on or off as well as specify the type of cut marks and their position Print Cut Marks The Print cut marks checkbox determines whether or not cut marks are printed around each image in the layout When this box is selected ColorBurst creates marks to indicate the edge of the image i e where to trim the image The rest of the options in the Cut Marks tab are only available when this checkbox is selected ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 49 Printer Options E 2 x General TCP IP Cut Marks Job Titles Cut Devices Tum on off cut marks and specify position and shape IV Print cut marks r Specify shape of marks i CutMarks Comer Marks Circles Cut amp Box Comer amp Box Draw a dashed or solid box around the outline of the image Set the white size to 0 to draw a solid box
45. will be reset to tile by the size set in the Tiling Options dialog box Any changes from scaling rotation or cropping changes will undo manual tiling You may print multiple copies of each tile by entering the number of copies in the Printer Options dialog box The first tile will print as many times as specified then the second and so on Tiles are always printed with cut marks to show where the overlap and trim is to be cut so that adjacent tiles abut exactly These marks are always 1 4 inch long by one pixel wide and are positioned according to the Tile Overlap and Trim Outside Tiles values entered in the Tiling Options dialog box Scale amp Rotate General Scale Rotate Tile 28 File Menu Clicking the fourth button from the bottom left corner of the Display window will open the Scaling Rotation and Tiling dialog box Choosing Scale amp Rotate from the File menu also opens this dialog box Scale amp Rotate will be disabled in the File menu if no files are open The Scaling Rotation and Tiling dialog box contains three tabbed windows it opens in the Scale Rotate and Tile tab The first tab from the left General shows the current ly selected file s name and information The Unit of Measure used for layout and file dimensions and in the Display window may also be changed here The Scale Rotate and Tile tab provides several options for scaling images including a scaling method specific to tiling You may al
46. Automatic cut after print checkbox if you want the Mimaki to automatically cut the paper after the print is finished Roland Printer Setup When you choose Roland in the Printer pulldown and click the Setup button the Roland Printer Setup dialog box opens allowing you to set specific Roland settings 42 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Roland Printer Setup Roland Printer Model ru 500 400 4 6 8 color printer z int Mode 720 720 fixed size dot Ink type Fie paren Number of inks used for printing 4 C amp Gg IV Use bidirectional printing T Enable automatic cut after printing T se sirallidot for piina eel ens The Roland Printer Model pulldown lets you specify which Roland printer you are using When the FJ 500 400 is selected the Model FJ 500 400 only group becomes active The Print Mode pulldown allows you to change the resolution and specify whether the printer uses a fixed size or variable size dot When the FJ 500 400 is selected in the pulldown you may choose either 4 6 or 8 inks used for printing Selecting 4 enables the Ink type buttons to choose between Dye and Pigment When Other models is selected in the pulldown you may only choose printing with 4 or 6 inks Other Models also activates the Use small dot for printing checkbox Select the Use small dot for printing checkbox if you want the Roland to print at 720 dpi If it is unchecked the Roland will use regular dots
47. C Profile This option will automatically be deselected after one print This button will disable all ICC color correction so that the print will contain raw data which can then be read by a spectrophotometer to create an ICC pro file based on the printer s raw output Cancel job on linearization error Select this checkbox to cancel your current print job when there is an error processing the linearization data A message will appear indicating that there was a lin earization error and the current layout will not print If this box is not checked and there is an error with the LIN file printing will continue without linearization Linearization file and path The Linearization file and path group contains fields for the linearization file name and default path for LIN files The data in the Linearization file LIN file is used to linearize your output In order to linearize your input a LIN file must be specified When a LIN file is loaded the Dmax or peak chroma values in the LIN file will be displayed in the Original and desired Dmax Chroma settings group directly above the Linearization file and path ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 107 Advanced You can use a LIN file by itself or use a LIN file and Desired densities or chroma values LIN files can be cre ated on a regular basis to get a reading of your printer s current output so that it can then be adjusted according to your Dmax or peak chroma va
48. CLF file and then send the CLF file to the spooled queue The second button at the lower left corner of the Display window is the Crop to Size button Clicking this button once will open the Crop Box Size dialog box This dialog box allows you to enter the exact dimen sions of your cropped area You may also enter the exact coordinates of the top left corner of the crop box CropBoxSize Specify the size of a crop box and optionally position its upper left comer If no crop box exists one will be created Size of crop box mandatory Width 10i Height 2i Position of crop box optional In 1 142i Down 0 578i Save Cancel If you have already cropped your image and then click Crop to Size the dimensions and placement values of your current crop will be shown and may be changed If the image is not cropped the full size of the image is entered in the size width and height Images may be tiled through the Display window When you display an image you will see a Tile button the third button from the bottom left corner of the Display win dow after the two cropping buttons Crop and Crop to Size Clicking the Tile button once changes the display to tiling mode The buttons in the bottom center of the win dow change from Close and Restore to Save and Cancel ColorBurst for InkJet Printers red dashed lines divide the image into tiles and red tile numbers appear in each tile The initial placement of the
49. CSE CMYK TG3 icc Fmd Ovat RGB vector JRGBicc C lt aC i i Coloimetic z CSE RGB B11 1CC Find vati RGB image RGBicc Perceptual z CSE RGB B11 ICC Find d Grey vector EE Pea Grey image Perceptual Find On Off Cancel Help The Find button allows you to browse for the proper profile Each profile name entered is checked to see if it is a proper profile and if it has the correct options for the entry you chose That is a profile for CMYK data will be improper if entered as an RGB profile name If a pro file is not found or improper the previous name in that field will be re established A description of the profile will be displayed under the profile filename The Rendering Intent pulldown menu is used to define how the profile will remap the input colorspace to the output colorspace Perceptual rendering will remap the input data evenly in the output data space Colorimetric rendering will remap all out of gamut data to the clos est possible value in the output colorspace and all other data will remain the same Saturation rendering tries to retain the same level of saturation as the original data but at the expense of color hue Absolute Colorimetric rendering is similar to Colorimetric but uses an absolute white point as a reference In general use Perceptual rendering for photographic images and Colorimetric for vector graphics 90 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Print
50. ColorBurst for InkJet Printers 1 File Menu The first menu item is File When selected there are five pulldown items available including Exit if no files are currently open The File Info and Scale amp Rotate items are not available until a file is opened PME ColorBurst File Printer Setup Options Spooler Windows Open Al Q Restore Last Job Convert Convert As L Print Alt P Display Alt D Exit Alt F4 Open Clicking on Open will display the Open dialog box This dialog box allows you to open a file CT CLF EPS TIFF etc from any available local or network drive and direc tory and add it to the current layout If no layout was previously in effect and displayed on screen then a lay out window is created representing the size of the media If you are running on a LAN Local Area Network or WAN Wide Area Network your network rights to your login will determine the drives and directories to which you have access When the file you wish to open is displayed in the File Name box double click on the file to open it or click on the file once to select it then click on Open to open the file Of course the file name may always be entered manually in the File Name entry box ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Menu e 9 NOTE 10 File Menu Lookin C3 chu amp A es afmfiles C link L testfile z CC profile C resource If a layout is already in effect when a file is selecte
51. File Menu 11 Change Layout Add 12 File Menu this dialog box to be sure that the file you want to process is currently selected File Information File CALIBRAT EPS Path c Ncbvutek 71a testfile File Type PostScript Original dimensions 21 833i x 4 583i Print size 21 833i x 4 583 File size in bytes 4430 Change Layout Add SteptRepeat Scale Fot Refit Reposition Write CLF Delete Clear r Select a File Option C Convert to TIFF c pnt C Convert to CT C Convert As TIFF C Display C Convert As CT Start Cancel Help The top portion of the dialog box gives general infor mation about the selected file This information includes the file name drive directory path file type and file size The middle part of the dialog box is the Change Layout group Layout refers to ColorBurst s ability to position and print multiple files The command buttons here can be executed with a single mouse click The Add button allows you to add an illustration to the current layout It is equivalent to closing the File Information dialog box and issuing an Open command under the File menu on the menu bar The Open dialog box displays allowing you to add an illustration from any available path If the illustration that you select is already in the layout displayed on the screen you will be asked to confirm that you want to add a duplicate ColorBurst for InkJet Printers If the fil
52. Layout windows in their default positions A checkmark next to this item in the menu indicates that the windows are already in their default positions If any window is moved or changed the item is no longer selected The window positions and Sizes can then be reset by selecting Set Default Positions ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Windows Menu 153 154 Windows Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers 6 Help Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers OnLine documentation is available for ColorBurst through the Help menu selection pulldown Simply select Contents or the specific topic of your choice from the list on the menu pulldown File Printer Setup Options Spooler Windows Help Printer Setup File Contents Layouts Printer Options Output Options PostScript Options ICC Profile Options Color Adjustments Linearization Ink Balance Tiling Options Font Maintenance Miscellaneous Spooling Windows About Help buttons are also available in every dialog box These buttons open the OnLine Help file about the dialog box that you are working in Help Menu e 155 156 Help Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers 7 Message Window ColorBurst features a Message Window that displays error and information messages generated during ColorBurst processing The processes that are specific to ColorBurst such as the PostScript RIP creating an RTL TIFF or CT and sending to a printer will produce messages with the following fo
53. PC Printer Description file and PC QuarkXPress PDF file Other Utilities Adobe has Printer Driver applications that can load the ColorBurst PPD file for assigning Custom Paper sizes Please see the Adobe web site www adobe com to download the required Printer Driver for the type of workstation that you are using Starting ColorBurst To run ColorBurst after installation dou iat I ble click the ColorBurst icon shown right fee The Initial Vutek Printer Setup dialog box opens first The first pulldown menu lets you select the VUTEk Printer you are using Select from the 2360 Series 3360 Series X300 Series PressView and 5330 Series printers ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Getting Started 5 Initial VUTEK Printer Setup J xj Welcome to ColorBurst by VUTEk Select Printer and Resolution Select the VLITEk printer series and the printer resolution that you wish to use VUTEK Printer Series Resolution 2360 Series s 360x360 v Printer Setup Select a printer setup that is optimized for your selections Printer Setup To change these selections click Setup under Printer The print resolutions available for the selected printer will appear in the Resolution pulldown To set the rest of ColorBurst s options to match the printer you ve selected click the Printer Setup button Any Printer Setup files whose name begins with the printer series number 2000 3000 X300 etc will appear in a pulldown menu Se
54. Temporary Directory Je cburst temp Find File Name Template rp TIFF byte order Intel C Motorola JV Use PostScript resolution in TIFF CT header T Single strip TIFF T Prompt for output file name Save Cancel Help Output Options The Output Options group allows you to create an RTL TIFF or Scitex CT with the Print command under the File ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 73 menu The first option is to have the PostScript RIP bitmap Output directly to printer in which case the Save Print Options are not applicable The other options use the Save Print Options to determine output Save Print Options When printing a file that is processed by the PostScript interpreter PostScript files or any image that is scaled rotated etc you can print directly from the bitmap created by the RIP This can be accomplished by creat ing an intermediate RTL file so that the printer is never waiting on the RIP The intermediate files can be saved for future use by selecting either the Save File and Print or Save File Only No Print options If you want the intermediate file automatically deleted following printing select the Print Only No Save File option Output directly to Printer will save time if you do not need to create intermediate files Intermediate files for layouts as opposed to single files can also be created All of the options in this dia log box take effect for layouts whenever the
55. The layout window will automatically reflect the new image size outlined in dashed lines If you are not satisfied with your cropped area you can drag or resize the cropped area to reposition the crop You may also select the Restore button to undo the crop The original image will dis play and you may crop the image again Selecting the Close button will close the Display window and finalize your crop If you decide not to crop the image Restore the image and Close the window You may crop a file with multiple pages You may choose to crop each page separately or you may crop each page in the same way To crop all pages in a file at once select the first page of the file and then Crop You will be asked Make same change to all pages in job If you dlick Yes all pages will be cropped If you click No only the currently selected page will be affected Unless you restore the full image the image will be cropped when it is printed Cropping does not alter the original file All cropping information is stored in the internal structures of the layout The crop remains in ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Menu 23 Crop to Size Tiling 24 e File Menu effect as long as the layout remains in effect The only way to save cropping information is to write a CLF file If you want to send a cropped image to the spooler you must crop the image on the screen select the Write CLF button in the File Information dialog box to write a
56. ages window is scrollable current ly it has a 4K buffer As messages accumulate and the buffer is exceeded the oldest ones will no longer be available 158 e Message Window ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix A Fonts Delivered with ColorBurst The following is the complete list of fonts included as part of the standard ColorBurst installation the demo version does not include all of these fonts only the substitute resource files All fonts will reside in the FONT subdirectory under the directory specified during installation Substitute Resource fonts are fonts that are actually set when the PostScript Font Name is called File Name PostScript Font Name Substitute Resource ARI PS Po y ARIAB PS Bold po ARIBI PS Bolditalic Po ARII PS Italic pamm ARIN PS ialNarrow Po ARINB PS Narrow Bold b ARINBI PS Narrow Boldltalic Po ARINI PS Narrow ltalic PO CentuyGothic C AvantGarde Book i AvantGarde BookOblique AvantGarde Demi AvantGarde DemiOblique CenturyGothic BookAntiqua Eu BookAntiqua Bold n BookAntiqua Boldltalic BookAntiqua Italic BookmanOldStyle Bold BKD PS Bookman Demi BookmanOldStyle Bold BKDI PS Bookman Demiltalic BookmanOldStyle Boldltalic Bookman Light Bookman Lightltalic Bookmanoldstyle un BookmanOldstyle Bold BookmanOldStyle Bolditalic EEE BookmanOldStyle Italic PO ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix A A 1 EEMETEELE SBis s m File Nam
57. alog box When creating a file from a layout the filename will be created from the information in this template and will then be appended by the information in the PostScript Layout Output File Options template Previous to the template the output name was always LAYOUT That is the RTL of a layout was always LAY OUT RTL To avoid constantly overwriting the same file name the name changed to a unique name LAYOUT ROO LAYOUT RO1 etc There were two prob lems with this file name selection the file names were not descriptive and the ROO RO1 etc files would not automatically show up in the list of illustration files to process The template now allows you to specify your own name of layouts If you choose not to specify a tem plate the old name LAYOUT is still the default selection The template can be an exact name of the output file such as XYZ The problem with an exact name like this is that like LAYOUT all output file names will be the same Furthermore unless the name is exactly LAY OUT extensions ROO RO1 etc will not be automatical ly created That means that each new output file will overwrite the old one To allow you to specify different names using the same template you can place one or more special codes in the template Each special code consists of a percent sign 96 followed by a character Any character in the template name which is not preceded by a percent ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Men
58. am can export a text file with a list of spot color names and their CMYK values based on ICC profiles that can be built to match your ink and paper The Import button will read this list of color names and values and will add each spot color to ColorBurst s Defined Spot Colors list The Allow import file to overwrite spot color checkbox will rewrite any existing spot colors that have the same name as a spot color named in the text file that is being imported Import from PS button The Import from PS button will read spot color names and values from a PostScript file When you click the Import from PS button a standard Open window appears allowing you to select a PostScript file PS EPS PDF or DCS When the selected file is opened it is ripped and each spot color found in the file will be added to ColorBurst s Defined Spot Colors list The Message window shows the number of spot colors found and added to the list This button should be used before opening files in a layout When the Allow import file to overwrite spot color checkbox is selected the spot colors in the PostScript file will overwrite any existing spot colors that have the same name Select and Save Spot File buttons The Select Spot File and Save Spot File buttons let you save and retrieve different sets of Spot Colors Clicking the Save Spot File button opens a standard Save dialog box and the Select Spot File button opens a standard Open dialog box Spot colo
59. ampes eo mE verprint Colors I CMYK v Black Text amp Graphics Black Text Only Save Cancel Advanced Help Resolution and Scaling The Output Resolution for the RIP can be set to any value in Resolution Units of either dots per inch dpi or millimeters mm One way scaling can be accomplished is by modifying the Output Resolution Some large format inkjet print ers print at a fixed resolution of 300 dpi For example to double the size of the image you could change the Output Resolution to 600 dpi twice the original size To scale the image to 1 times its original size the res olution value would be 450 dpi Changing the Output Resolution will scale all images in the layout If you want to scale an images individually set the Output Resolution to 300 dpi and scale the images through the Scaling amp Rotation dialog box If the unit of measure selected in the Printer Options dialog box is Pixels the resolution entered here will be used to convert pixels to from absolute units of mea sure such as printers point or inches Job titles appear ing above each printed image are rasterized using this resolution regardless of the resolution of the illustra tion that it describes 78 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Memory Limits CAUTION NOTE Memory Limits specifies how much memory will be allocated to the RIP for processing It takes that memo ry when it is first initializ
60. an NT print queue is selected an RTL file is written to the queue and then sent to the printer An RTL file can be copied directly to the printer at a later time for faster throughput Number of Copies To print more than one copy of a layout specify the number of prints you want in the Number of Copies edit box A value of 0 the default value is equiva lent to 1 which gives you one print The maximum number of prints allowed is 50 If you enter a negative number in the edit box an error message displays and O is substituted for the invalid value If you enter a value greater than 50 an error message is displayed and 50 is substituted for the invalid value Layout Area and Resolution The Layout Area and resolution group defines the lay out area for the current printer The size of the layout area is represented in the layout window and is used in all best fit formulas for positioning images in a layout Whenever you change the size of the current layout 46 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers area and save the changes the layout window is auto matically updated If there are images in the layout when the layout area size changes all images are refit within the new layout area which may cause images to no longer fit It is recommended that you change the layout area when the layout is empty You can set the width and height of the Layout area in the Width and Height edit boxes using the currently def
61. and later pick up exactly where you left off Save layouts The Save layouts no print checkbox is designed to stockpile layouts for printing at a later time Save lay outs no print builds layouts exactly as if printing were to occur but when the layout is flushed SPOOLER CLF is saved as SPOOLER COO SPOOLER CO SPOOL ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Spooler Menu e 145 ER C99 called spooled layout files in the monitored queue Printing is inhibited and intermediate files are not deleted When the printer is ready you can turn off spooling Open a spooled layout file and print it Spooled layout files are designed to be printed only once Temporary intermediate files pointed to in a spooled layout file are deleted after printing and other files have been moved from the monitored queue Trying to print a spooled layout file a second time will cause a series of Not Found messages Spooled layout files are normal CLFs which are not automatically delet ed It is your responsibility to delete them after printing An alternative to spooled layout files might be to cre ate a single RTL file which is the exact image of what would be printed That is do not select Save layouts no print but rather choose print options that create an output file and inhibit printing If you want to transmit the output it is easier to work with a single file rather than many files Also a single file may print faster Spooler creates such files i
62. be created in the Spot Color Definitions tab click the arrow button between the Defined Spot Colors and Installed Inks pulldown menus Your spot color will now be listed in the Installed Inks pulldown ColorBurst now recognizes your extra ink cartridge as the color you entered in the spot color The new Installed Ink can be adjusted in the Color Adjustments dialog box by selecting the appropriate Spot Inks curve in the Select Curves pulldown Reorder inks for output to printer The Enable reordering of inks checkbox is available for use with very customized printer ink sets this setting will not be necessary for most printers There is a separate setting on off for each ink set 6 7 or 8 colors 124 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers When creating custom ink sets the order of the inks is critical the order of inks defined in ColorBurst must match the order of the ink cartridges in your printer When Enable reordering of inks is selected you have the ability to define the order of the installed inks in relation to the printer This will define a new order for the data file sent to the printer Light Ink Conversions The Light Ink Conversions group allows you to define which ink is used when creating light ink data This set ting is particularly helpful when using both medium and light inks If light inks are installed in the printer you must make sure that the correct ink is selected For example if Light Magen
63. boxes are set individual files will be converted and layouts will be ignored If the file to process is a layout file CLF containing point ers to more than one file and layouts are not in effect the CLF is printed as if the layout had been built from individual files and the Print command issued If a CLF is processed when layouts are in effect individual files pointed to by the CLF are added to the current layout If layouts are in effect a file in the queue is added to the current layout If a file does not fit in the layout processing continues as if the queue is empty That is On Empty Queue determines whether to flush the lay out If the layout is flushed the file oversetting the lay out is added to the new layout created after flushing is complete If the layout is not flushed the file causing the overset is ignored until that layout is flushed Spooler always converts PostScript files to intermediate RTL TIFF or CT files and adds the intermediate files to the layout By adding only raster formatted illustrations to the layout printing can start as soon as the media is full and size discrepancy errors are eliminated A CLF named SPOOLER CLF in the monitored queue saves the layout each time an illustration is added Spooler deletes SPOOLER CLF when the layout is flushed If you stop Spooler and later restart SPOOL ER CLF automatically builds the layout that was in effect if any This allows you to interrupt Spooler
64. by print rows columns In all other file name templates t will add the time the file was created The default setting is the filename 96f incremental numbers 96u and tile number 96t this ensures that no files are overwritten Font Maintenance The next selection on the Options pulldown is Font Maintenance Making this selection will display the Font Maintenance dialog box This selection enables the JAWS RIP that is used by ColorBurst to update its list of known fonts which is necessary for interpreting PostScript text commands when fonts are not included in the PostScript file ColorBurst recognizes three categories of fonts ATM which have a PFB extension True Type which have a TTF extension usually found in the Windows directory Non ATM fonts which have various extensions These fonts may exist in three separate directories or they may all be in the same directory Either way ColorBurst must know where they are enter the direc tory path in the selection boxes marked ATM Fonts True Type Fonts and Non ATM Fonts 130 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Font Maintenance x r Update Font Directory Font Path Jo windows fonts Search string Allocated buffer size 132 Kb Automatic Overwrite Update ATM Fonts Default extension pfb Path c cburst afmfiles r TrueType Fonts Default extension ttf Path c windows fonts r Non 4TM Fonts Default extensi
65. can then be made to create more tonal range and keep paper drier Chroma values will typically be in the range of 60 80 for CMK and 85 110 for Y and will vary based on the ink set ixi General Advanced Data points Display the data read from the current linearization file 76 96 HQ 1440v PhoSemiGloss PK Lin C M Y K St S2 S3 S4 C M Y K S01 S2 3 S4 0 ooo 000 O00 0 00 55 48 37 43 11 96 65 4569 5 883 712 1112 10 93 60 5508 51 86 9923 51 19 10 1326 1051 2360 1472 65 60 88 60 80 101 15 57 12 15 1770 1402 36 20 1867 70 6246 64 25 10226 61 89 20 2196 1741 4791 2223 75 66 67 7126 103 43 67 84 255 2591 2066 5873 2573 80 6775 7535 10438 7227 30 2927 2338 67 46 2871 85 5840 78 09 105 70 76 59 35 3262 2620 7680 31 94 30 68 43 78 86 106 48 79 38 40 3506 2828 81 07 3469 95 5826 77 71 107 59 81 49 45 3850 31 00 8329 37 68 100 6734 7667 108048510 50 4202 3403 9315 4042 Desired 67 7457 78 0714 107 9496 83 3980 tees Heb To reduce the maximum value make a note of what percentage the data is leveling out at Close the Linearization Options dialog box and open the Color Adjustments dialog box In the Max Ink field for the ink you want to adjust enter the percentage of ink where the data levels out Once you have set your maximum ink percentages go back into the Linearization Options dialog box and turn Linearization off Make a new Lin file see Appendix E for more info and load the new Lin file in the General tab of
66. cel job on linearization error Original and desired Dmax Chroma settings Cyan Magenta Yelow Black Spot 1 Spot 2 Spot 3 Spot 4 Diiginal 684300 78 8600 1090400 85 1000 Dested 67 7457 78 0714 107 9496 83 3980 Linearization file and path Linearization fle 76 36 HQ 140v PhoSemiGloss PK Lin Find Default path C ColorBurst lin Find Copy Set Baseline Values Clear Baseines Coreei He Allow linearization Select the Allow Linearization checkbox to linearize your input data using a specified LIN file When creat ing a LIN file do not select this box The input data will not be linearized when this box is not checked Use chroma based linearization The Use chroma based linearization checkbox is avail able when a LIN file that contains both ink density and L a b data is loaded When this checkbox is selected 106 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers the L a b data in the LIN file will be used to perform chroma based linearization the ink density data in the LIN file will be ignored When this checkbox is not selected the ink density data will be used for lineariza tion and any L a b data is ignored If the a LIN file containing L a b data has not been loaded this checkbox will be disabled dimmed and linearization will be based on ink density Turn off ICC color correction Select the Turn off ICC color correction checkbox only when creating a linearization file or a new IC
67. cing allows you better control of the RGB to CMYK process Why would you use black generation and undercolor removal during the ink balancing process In theory black is black so the addition of CMY has no affect In reality the additional CMY makes for a deeper black and according to how your inks interact CMY might even change black to a dark brown Dark areas in CMYK images often have both black and CMY Eliminating some or all of the additional CMY then is an ink adjustment to allow better detail in dark areas ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 113 When you specify black generation and UCR for both RGB conversion and ink balancing these corrections take place twice when printing an RGB image The same holds true for ink balancing Because it is difficult to calibrate when both corrections take place we rec ommend that you separate the processes as we have described in the calibration procedures Black Generation The Black Generation group in the Ink Balance and RGB to CMYK dialog box allows you to turn black generation on and off When black generation is on the items in this group set up the variables used in the calculation of the added black The first item in the Black Generation group is the Enable Black Generation check box When an x appears in the check box black generation is active CMY is subtractive meaning that as more color is added light is subtracted Saturated CMY is black RGB is addi
68. d it is added to the existing layout Error messages will inform you if the file is invalid wrong file type If it cannot fit in the current layout the message Image will not fit in layout Add it anyway appears If you choose to Add the file it is placed in the layout if any part can fit If there is no room to place even the small est part of the image in the layout the same message is displayed until No or Cancel is selected When a file is opened and added to the layout it will appear either as an outline with the file name or as a bitmapped preview of the file When a file is ripped in ColorBurst a preview is saved for the file and will be automatically used when it is opened again the preview file is saved in the Bitmaps folder Otherwise an outline with the file name inside is shown until the file is dis played and a bitmap preview is created Bitmap preview files are created for screen display only and are not antialiased The bitmap image size may be set to Low Medium or High in the Window Options dialog box If a file is modified saved after being ripped in ColorBurst the preview bitmap is no longer valid The file will appear as an outline in the Layout window until it is ripped again in ColorBurst ColorBurst for InkJet Printers To delete a bitmap preview file through ColorBurst select the image in the layout While holding the Control key click the image A dialog will appear ask ing if you want to dele
69. d by the JAWS RIP Files in these directory paths should not be altered except when specifically instructed 84 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers The entry boxes are usually filled during installation The default name of the Lib Directory is LIB and the default name of the Resource Directory is RESOURCE Both directories and further subdirectories are created under the directory that you name during installation Currently the OS Directory edit box intended for spe cific operating system setup is not used Its default name is the directory you name during installation Once all values in the Advanced PostScript Interpreter Options and PostScript Interpreter Options dialog boxes are set select the Save buttons to keep them or select the Cancel buttons to restore the values to their previous settings You may access ColorBurst s OnLine Help files discussing the PostScript Interpreter Options dialog boxes by selecting the Help button CAUTION If the PostScript interpreter has already been ini tialized the following message will result Restart ColorBurst to have changes take effect All changes except Resolution will not take effect until ColorBurst has been re launched Resolution changes will take effect with the next job ICC Profile Options Kodak Digital Sciences ICC Engine referred to as KCMS is integrated into ColorBurst KCMS is an industry accepted color correction system which can enhance the current c
70. d in the printed output When black especially text is placed over other colors it normally knocks out the colors below it which may result in a white halo around the black By turning on black overprint the black is combined with the colors below it and the white halo disappears Some black inks when combined with other inks may change hue If this is the case overprinting may be undesir able You can specify black overprint for all generated black by selecting Black Text amp Graphics Setting Black Text Only turns on black overprint for text but not for other black in the page such as rules Setting either turns the other off automatically Advanced PostScript Options The Advanced button at the bottom of the PostScript Interpreter Options dialog box opens the Advanced PostScript Options dialog box The information in this box is used by the PostScript interpreter and usually does not need changed If the information here is not correct the PostScript interpreter will fail Advanced PostScript Options xj Initialization File marinn cburst lib init ps Temporary File c cNebusMempNaws Lib Directory cburst lib Resource Directory c DS Directory Save Cancel EHE Help r Search Directories ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 83 Initialization File The file named in the Initialization File entry is needed by the JAWS RIP to set up its environment The
71. e PostScript Font Name Substitute Resource TWEM PS CenturyGothic Cd TWEB PS CentuyGothicBold Cd TWEBI PS CenturyGothic Bolditalic Cd TWEMI PS CentuyGothicitaljiog Cd CPSPS CenturySchoolbook CPSB PS_ CenturySchoolbook Bold Cd CPSBI PS CenturySchoolbook Boldltalic CPSLPS CentupSchoolbookdtalic COPSPS Cowie COPSBPS CourierBold f COPSBLPS CourerBoldtalic Cd COPSBO PS CourierBoldOblique CourierBolditaic COPSLPS Courierttalic f Cid Aria Bold Helvetica elvetica BoldOblique Helvetica Narrow Oblique ArialNarrow Italic Helvetica Oblique Arial Italic MZCPS MMonoypeCosiva VZDPS MonotypeSorts NCBI PS NewCenturySchlbk CenturySchoolbook Boldltalic Boldltalic SYPSPS Symbol A 2 Appendix A ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Name PostScript Font Name Substitute Resource TIB PS Times Bold TimesNewRoman Bold T imes Boldltalic TimesNewRoman Bolditalic Times Italic TimesNewRoman Italic Times Roman TimesNewRoman TIBI PS TIMPS TimesNewRoman TimesNewRoman Bold TIMBLPS TimesNewRoman Bolditalic TIMLPS TimesNewRomandtalic i ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix A A 3 A 4 Appendix A ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix B Tiling Workflow Use the following procedure to properly
72. e margin increases fewer images will fit in the layout Offset Image in Layout TCP IP TCP IP Printer You may enter offset values through the Offset Image in Layout group Offset image refers to a physical shift on the print media The point of origin is estab lished as the top left corner Therefore positive values will move all images in the current layout to the right and down while negative values will move all images in the current layout left and up Negative values can be entered to move part of the image off the media This is important for centering large images moving tick marks out of view or eliminating built in white space in the image Current Offsets is a temporary shift for the current job only After entering these values if you decide you would like to make them permanent simply click the Set button The current offset values will be transferred to the permanent offset values Permanent Offsets is a permanent shift for all jobs today tomorrow next week If you want to enter val ues that are different than the Current Offsets simply enter them directly into the designated Permanent Offsets boxes To reset these values to zero default simply select the Clear button The TCP IP tab in the Printer Options dialog box is used to set an IP address when printing over Ethernet The TCP IP Printer group lets you enter an IP address for your printer to allow for Ethernet printing The Test button will
73. e layout with a CUT extension layout names are determined by the File Name Template in the Layout Options dialog box It is recommended to print layout titles in the Job Titles tab when creating CUT files This will make it easier for you to match your prints with CUT files since the layout title name and CUT file name are the same The Include contour cut commands in Cut scripts box determines the shape of the cut If it is not selected cuts are limited to rectangular shapes If it is selected any contour data found during processing will be included in the CUT file If searching for contours is not turned on in the Contours group the Search PostScript files for named colors that describe contours box is not selected any contour data in the files will be ignored even if the Include contour cut commands in I Cut scripts box is selected In other words both boxes must be selected to include contours in I Cut scripts Multipage Job Options The Multipage Job Options dialog box lets you specify how to handle files that contain more than one page Place multiple pages of job in layout When this option is checked each page is placed in one layout If the layout is filled new layouts will be created until all pages are placed in a layout The Layout window will display the first layout and thumb nails will appear at the bottom to indicate subsequent layouts Click on any thumbnail to view the layout or scroll through layouts u
74. e selected is valid it will become the currently selected file Information about the file will be dis played in the top portion of the File Information dialog box and a blue outline representing its size and posi tion will be added to the layout window Step amp Repeat The Step amp Repeat button opens the Step and Repeat Options dialog box This dialog box lets you specify how to duplicate the selected image in the Layout window Step and Repeat Options x C Li alto 2 images re Ie Fill width of layout C Limit images to fi column s R if ows Fill height of layout C Limit images to fowls Note All limits include the image that is to be repeated Cancel Help There are three default selections when the dialog box opens Fill layout Fill width of layout and Fill height of layout These three options work together When these three options are selected multiple copies of the selected image are added to the layout as many times as it will fit If the selected image is the only image in the layout Step amp Repeat performs the expected task of filling the layout with only this image Other images may be in the layout when you select the Step amp Repeat button The space remaining on the media is used to try to fit the selected image using the current best fit formula in effect You may specify a number of images to add to the lay out by entering a value in the Limit total to entry box For
75. easurement used in ColorBurst Printers points Picas and Points p Inches i Feet ft Millimeters mm Centimeters c Meters m or Pixels x There are two methods in which these values may be entered The first is to select the type of units you are using in the Units of Measure dropbox then enter your offset values The second method is to enter the value then follow it with the letter s designating your unit type After a value has been entered it will be convert 44 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers ed to the unit of measurement currently selected in the Units of Measure option box Unlike all other units pixels is not an absolute unit An offset of 200 pixels when printing at 200 dots per inch dpi is a one inch offset but an offset of 200 pixels at 300 dpi is only 2 3 inches Internally offsets are saved as printers points Whenever you enter an offset in pix els it is converted to printers points using the current Output Resolution specified in the PostScript Interpreter Options dialog box As long as you do not change resolutions you should have no side effects when offsetting in pixels Mirror Image The Mirror Image check box in the Printer Options dia log box allows you to print an image reversed That is the printed image would be correct only if you look at its reflection in a mirror You should use this option when printing on transparent material that is to be backlit when displayed
76. ed the first time a PostScript file is interpreted and does not return it until you exit ColorBurst The Total Allocation value refers to the amount of ran dom access memory or RAM given to JAWS for inter preting the PostScript file It is recommended that this value be 80 MB The maximum value is 256 MB The minimum value should be 20 Mb but 80 Mb is recommended If an error occurs reduce the Total Allocation in 1 Mb increments until the RIP runs with out error Try to ensure that the memory allocated is only real memory rather than virtual memory because virtual memory will include disk space If virtual memory is used the time needed to access the disk can seriously impact the performance of the interpreter Therefore reducing the Total Allocation to eliminate virtual memory can actually enhance performance To test this scenario turn off virtual memory If the PostScript Interpreter can not run with that setting reduce the Total Allocation The PostScript VM value is a portion of the Total Allocation described above This is the portion of memory where the actual interpretation occurs This memory is used by the interpreter internally for creat ing the displays and reading lists from the source file The recommended value is 3 Mb Fonts take up a lot of VM memory If many fonts are called in a job you may need to increase VM If you get a font not found error which seems ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Me
77. ed with the mes sage Empty queue Flush immediate Only the speci fied queue is flushed Time Between Checks After a file has been processed or if no files were found in the queue ColorBurst waits the amount entered in the Time between checks entry box before it checks the queue again or checks the next queue The default interval is five 5 seconds This value is not saved for each queue it applies to all defined queues Maximum queues You may set the maximum number of queues that you will need in the Maximum queues entry box The maxi mum number of possible queues is 50 This value is read as ColorBurst is opened and memory is set aside for the number of queues specified If you try to define a new queue when the maximum number of queues have been defined the error message Too many Spooler queues defined will appear You must restart ColorBurst before any changes to this value will take effect 148 Spooler Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Spool To activate the spooling process simply select Spool under the Spooler menu A check mark will indicate that spooling is in effect and the message Spooler started is reported in the Message Window When spooling is turned off the message Spooler stopped will appear in the Message Window ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Spooler Menu e 149 150 Spooler Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers 5 Windows Menu The Windows menu contains the Window Options dia l
78. efinitions the name and output values for each spot color Spot Color CMYK Values and Defined Spot Colors ColorBurst has the ability to stitch together and print pre separated PostScript files generated by page makeup applications Each pre separated layer is named accord ing to the process color or spot color used to print the layer As ColorBurst encounters a separate layer it dis plays the name of the layer in its message window 118 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Spot Color Definitions Ink Sets and 2 x Spot Color Definitions Ink Sets Separations Default Paths Define spot colors as CMYK RGB or L a b colors Spot Color Name CSE blue X Spot color values in CMYK and extra installed inks CMYK 0 00 100 002 cho xmo sxv x K o x Extra installed inks 0 00 100 0077 1 fo x 2 o x 3 o 4 o Lay r RGB spot color values 0 255 R 0 amp 0 B 0 L a b values to create CMYK and RGB Lp mio Bo om ee of CMYK RGB Clear all spot colors I Treat all suffixes as same spot color IV Allow import file to overwrite spot colors Import Import from PS Select Spot Fie Save Spot File Last spot file Clear Last Spot File RENI The process colors CMYK need no special setup When a spot color name is encountered however ColorBurst needs a CMYK or RGB definition to represent that colored ink If no spot color by that name has been defined
79. eft corner of the selected image at those exact coordinates in the layout The default unit of measure used here is set in the Printer Options dialog box Set Current Position xj Position image at an exact location in In o Down o Save Cancel You can save a layout at any time by selecting the Write CLF button Color Layout Format CLF files contain point ers to one or more illustrations that make up a layout ColorBurst for InkJet Printers You open CLF files like any other type of image file and the extension CLF is a defined search extension in the Open dialog box All files pointed to within the CLF file are added to the current layout as if you had issued an Open command or selected add in the File Information dialog box for each image individually The last image found in the CLF file becomes the currently selected file and its information is displayed in the File Information dialog box The CLF contains the positions of all files in the saved layout An attempt is made to put the files in the same positions that they were saved in if there are no files in the current layout If there are files in the current layout when the CLF is read each file from the CLF is reposi tioned as it is added to the layout If you use a best fit formula that repositions all files whenever a new file is added the positions of the files in the CLF may change even if there are no files in the current layout If job titles were
80. elect Best 2000 series or Photo 3000 series on the front panel of the HP prints 18 square feet hour ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 39 6 pass select Normal 2000 series or Productivity 3000 series on the front panel of the HP prints 28 square feet hour 4 pass 42 square feet per hour recommended for photo gloss and semi gloss must use a Pentium Il 233 w 64 Mb of RAM or higher 2 pass 2 square feet per hour designed for heavy bond must use a Pentium Il 400 w 64 Mb RAM or higher The Shorten advance micro units box allows you to physically shorten the printhead advance This is useful when you are getting banding in your output and you are sure all of your jets are firing To test your print head go to the front panel of your HP and press the Enter button Scroll to Utilities select Service tests then select Image quality print The HP will print a test pattern that will show you if all of your jets are firing properly If they are and you are getting banding enter a positive number in the Shorten Advance box to shorten the advance or a negative number to enlarge the advance The recommended number is 3 requiring a value over 5 indicates a printer problem Epson Printer Setup Epson Printer Type When you choose Epson in the Printer pulldown and click the Setup button the Epson Printer Setup dialog box opens allowing you to set specific Epson settings The Epson Printer Type pulldown tells Colo
81. ers Output Profiles Simulation Profile The Output Profiles are set in the same manner as the Input profiles ICC Profile Options 2 x General Input Profiles Output Profiles Simulation Profile Build Profile Default paths Define each output profile according to the printer type that it is intended to manage Color type Profile name CMYK Encad GO 22140 Inks icm Find On Off Encad GO Inks 220 100 400 RGB Fud Onzo Hexachrome On Off Dspaymonto 6v awatt Stand alone output profiles Define the rendering intent to use with stand alone output profiles Stand alone profiles are used with non standard e g L a b input colors Perceptual Choose a Profile to manage and activate it with the On Off button Use the Find button to find the profile you want to use The file is checked to make sure it is valid and the description will appear below the file name You may set profiles for output to a CMYK printer an RGB printer such as a film recorder a Hexachrome printer CMYK plus orange and green ink and to the display monitor Any of these can be disabled using the On Off button The Stand alone output profiles group lets you assign a rendering intent for input that is not included in the Input Profiles tab This is helpful when processing L a b files L a b files do not go through an input profile so the rendering intent can be set here The rendering in
82. ers to color CMYK refers to the inks used to reproduce the colors BXW refers to grayscale CMYK is the default and is most commonly used Select RGB if you are outputting to an RGB file If you select BXW when processing color files an 8 bit file is created printed 80 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Whenever you choose the RGB color model to create a TIFF file the output is an RGB TIFF CT files are usually in a CMYK format so when you create a CT file the RGB is converted to CMYK before outputting Printing of course uses CMYK inks so RGB colors are converted before printing Any conversion of RGB to CMYK uses the setup that you define in the RGB to CMYK dialog box or by the profiles in the ICC Profile Options dialog box This should allow you better control than letting the PostScript RIP convert an RGB image to CMYK for you The default RGB to CMYK conversion used by a PostScript interpreter is to convert 10096 of the neutral gray of the RGB colors to black and remove 10096 of the generated black from the CMY colors Antialiasing Antialiasing is a method by which sharp color transitions also known as jaggies are smoothed Antialiasing is especially useful in smoothing the staircasing effect in large text characters by blending gray into the black to white transitions Be aware however that antialiasing involves a considerable performance penalty You turn on antialiasing by clicking the Antialias check bo
83. est area i e width times height The layout is cleared and each image largest to smallest is re added This does have some side effects that you may find unpleasant Be aware that an image that does not fit in the layout is not necessarily the most recently added image An error message informs you of the name of the file that will not fit If you select Cancel the layout will return to its previous positions and the current image will not be added to the layout More than one previous image may not fit when an image is added Each image that does not fit will produce an error message You can Cancel at any time to restore previous positions but be aware that once you have accepted an image for dele tion it will not be restored by a later cancellation That is if you select OK for the first image to be deleted but then Cancel the second the first image will be lost and a hole appears where it used to be Another side effect is that because all images are repositioned from scratch any manual repositioning that you might have made with the mouse is lost each time a new file is added The Smallest First formula is exactly like Largest First but in reverse All illustrations are ordered from smallest to largest This has the same side effects as Largest First The Refit button repositions all image in the layout according to the best fit formula currently defined in the Auto Position Options group The formula selected is not necessari
84. f and off if it is on A log file lists messages for one 24 hour period Its name is generated by ColorBurst in the form CBYYM MDD LOG where YY is the last two digits of the year MM is the month and DD is the date For example a file named CB950130 LOG lists all mes sages that were displayed in the message window while logging was in effect on January 30 1995 The naming convention was chosen so that a directory list sorted alphabetically will show all log files in order from latest to earliest Automatic Picture Replacement Automatic Picture Replacement APR is a process creat ed by Scitex Corp for substituting high resolution images needed for printing for low resolution images used during page makeup APR is similar to OPI and is made up of a series of comments in a PostScript file which defines the name of the high resolution file You turn searching for APR comments on an off and you define search paths where ColorBurst looks for replace ment files in the Miscellaneous Options dialog box The APR Search in effect check box turns searching on and off If an x appears inside the check box APR searching is in effect When searching is on ColorBurst looks for APR comments in the PostScript file as it is being read If comments are found ColorBurst checks that all required information has been found Once found all defined paths are searched looking for the file named in the APR comments When found ColorBurst
85. fic pure colors are being printed Cyan Magenta Yellow Red Green or Blue Sometimes the speckles change the hue in a subtle way and it is not desirable to remove them For example this option allows you to decide to allow speckles to appear in a red tint but not in a pure yellow tint Yellow has no visible dot and mixes with other inks to change the hue so it is strongly recommended that the Yellow threshold is set to 096 Input and Output Profiles Input Profiles The Profiles in effect are specified in the Input Profiles and Output Profiles tabs You may specify any or all of them ColorBurst will use only the ones needed for each print job There are six different Input profiles listed in the Input Profiles tab There are separate profiles for CMYK RGB and Grayscale data in both vector graphic and photo graphic image formats To set a profile use the On Off button to activate it When disabled the name of the profile and its Find button will be grayed so that keystrokes and mouse clicks are ignored ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 89 ICC Profile Options E 21x General Input Profiles Output Profiles Simulation Profile Build Profile Default paths Define each input profile according to the color type that it is intended to manage Color type Profile name Rendering Intent CMYK vector MYKiee o Coloimetic z CSE CMYK TG3 icc Find owon CMYK image MYKic o Perceptual zl
86. fine one point on the curve to convert a 50 input dot value to a 45 out put dot value This would remap every input dot between 0 and 50 along a straight line from 0 to 45 Every input dot between 50 and 100 would be remapped along a straight line from 45 to 100 This curve would convert a 25 input dot value to 22 5 on output and convert a 75 input dot to a 72 5 output dot You might also choose to lighten the midtones by defining a curve as a mathematical formula In this case you would set the Use Curve check box and set Curve Value to 1 15 Now each point is mapped 102 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers according to the formula A 5096 dot is converted to 45 06 25 is converted to 20 3196 and 75 is converted to 71 8396 If you are using a mathematically defined curve but want to make manual adjustments to it you can select the Edit Points button to convert calculated points from the mathematical curve to actual points on the curve as if you had entered each point manually You can then edit these points as you wish You can manually adjust defined points on the curve either by entering precise values in the Curve Data table or by moving points with the mouse and watch ing the results Use Curve Curve Value Edit Points 0 N 50 100 The Color Curve Information dialog box can be used not only to change an existing curve but to view precisely how the curve remaps points The Show Hide butto
87. for error diffusion but the higher the quality of the image the more calculations and thus the slower the print ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 97 NOTE Halftoning simulates output from a printing press ColorBurst allows you to match your quality and speed requirements by selecting one of five screening formu las in the Patterned Finish group box The five formulas are High Quality Draft Smooth Blends Fast Images and Halftoning When image quality is of utmost importance select High Quality This screening formula provides the finest print of all of the screening options but is also the slowest When High Quality is selected and the print reso lution is at 720 dpi it is required to set the gamma to 1 0 in the Ink Limits tab in the High Quality Screening group The fastest pattern is Draft It uses a dithering pattern with no error diffusion Smooth Blends and Fast Images are very high quality error diffusion patterns Both eliminate any pattern in the output and give very similar printed results Smooth Blends should only be used when printing blends gradi ents from vector data because this option is slower than Fast Images An alternative way to print vector data would be to rasterize your vector images in your drawing program such as Illustrator or Freehand and then print using Fast Images The Fast Images pattern prints much faster than Smooth Blends and should be used when printing image ra
88. for your printer You will see LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 and None in the pulldown list as well as any defined NT print queues Choose the port that 36 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers your printer is physically attached to You may select None if you are saving files only and do not intend to send data to a printer See Write to RTL file for more information on saving RTL files using the None port VUTEk Printer Setup When you choose VUTEK in the Printer pulldown and click on the Setup button the VUTEk Printer Setup dia log box opens Use this dialog box to change the VUTEk printer and its resolution instead of entering it in DPI under Layout Area DPI will be disabled dimmed when VUTEK is selected in the Printer pulldown VUTEk Printer Setup x VUTEk Printer Series 2360 Series zl Resolution 360 360 F Number of installed inks 7 o Select the 4 6 or 8 radio button to indicate how many inks are installed in your printer NovaJet Printer Setup To set NovaJet specific options choose Novajet in the Printer pulldown and click the Setup button The Novajet Printer Setup dialog box will open NovaJet Printer Setup x Novalet Printer Model 850C and similar T Tum on automatic cut feature v Bidirectional printing r Novalet 850C only Number of inks used for printing CA CB Ca Ink cartridge sets Left cartridges Save Cancel Help ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options
89. formation is displayed accordingly The black and UCR calculations use the currently dis played items in the dialog box not the permanent val ues in effect This allows you to change any or all of the settings in the Black Generation and Undercolor Removal UCR groups run tests to see the effects that ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 117 these settings have on black generation and UCR and then select the Cancel button to leave all current set tings unchanged The display of the colored circle is only as good as the display hardware on your computer Some display sys tems can only dither solid colors to give you the effect of the RGB colors Other display systems should match the RGB colors quite closely Once all values in the Ink Balance and RGB to CMYK dialog box are set select the Save button to keep them or select the Cancel button to abort the values to their previous settings You may access ColorBurst s OnLine Help files discussing the Ink Balance and RGB to CMYK dialog box by selecting the Help button For information on calibration procedures please refer to the OnLine Help Spot Color Definitions The Spot Color Definitions dialog box is handles all files that have spot color data including separated input such as DCS or pre separated PostScript The dia log box contains four tabbed windows it opens in the Spot Color Definitions tab Spot Color The Spot Color Definitions tab allows you to enter D
90. ght Ink curves and 8 Color Light Inks curves are all used together to process the image data The 8 Color Spot Inks selection works in the same way as the 6 Color Spot Inks The colors for each curve are named in the Spot Colors Definitions dialog box All four curves are available under this setting Edit Button and Color Curve Information Selecting any of the Edit buttons in the Color Adjustments dialog box in each of the Ink Control and Brightness Control groups opens a Color Curve Information dialog box for that control You will see the name of the curve at the top left corner of the Color Curve Information dialog box above a graphical representation of the curve A curve converts input dot values that are read from the file being printed to output dot values that actually print The curve can be edited in two ways It can be treated as ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 101 a mathematically smooth curve defined by one value or it can be manually defined at various points Yellow Curve Iv Use Curve Curve Value 1 20 Edit Points Curve Data 65 100 ur Di Reset Curve Show Hide Save Cancel Help Suppose for example you want to lighten the mid tones of your black ink slightly while leaving the high lights and shadows basically unchanged In the Color Adjustments dialog box select the Edit button in the Black Ink Control group The Color Curve Information dialog box appears You might de
91. handle either byte order some can only handle one type This button allows you to specify the byte order used to write TIFFs so that ColorBurst TIFF files can be universally understood Use PostScript Resolution in TIFF CT Header When a TIFF or CT file is created from either a PostScript file or a layout of multiple files the resolu tion lines per inch or lines per millimeter placed in the file header is normally the resolution of the intended printer When the Use PostScript resolution in TIFF CT header box is checked the resolution is set to the res olution that is specified in the Resolution edit box in the PostScript Interpreter Options dialog box This set ting can be used when the TIFF or CT is intended for a device like a high resolution film recorder which sup ports and scales to any resolution Only layouts and files running through the PostScript interpreter includ ing scaled TIFFs and CTs are affected 76 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Single Strip TIFF TIFF images can be made up of a series of strips or bands to allow smaller memory allocations when read ing a TIFF image When ColorBurst writes a TIFF file it usually sets up strips to be the size of a band that is created by the PostScript interpreter It has been found that some software packages do not read TIFFs that contain multiple strips Selecting this checkbox forces the TIFF to be written as a single strip so such software can process
92. he same allowing you to create staggered tiles of different sizes within each row or column The Select Tiles to print group allows you to print specific tiles Each tile is numbered according to the Print Rows or Print columns setting in the Tiling Options dialog box Each tile that will print is numbered in the Display win dow The default is to print all tiles so all tiles will display with a number when a file is tiled When any other range is entered only the selected tiles will display with tile numbers and only those tiles will print Clicking the Reset button will restore the Tile Size set in the Tiling Options dialog box Click the Undo Tiling and then Save to remove all tiling from the image Clicking Save will close the Change Tiles dialog box and divide the image into equal tiles according to the numbers ColorBurst for InkJet Printers entered in the Columns and Rows boxes Clicking Cancel closes the Change Tiles dialog box without making any tiling changes Once the Change Tiles dialog box is closed to save your tiling information select the Save button The buttons at the center will change back to Close and Restore click the Close button to close the tiled image When tiling is saved and the Display window is closed the box in the layout window representing the image will change to represent only the first tile of the image If you print the first tile the printer will advance and print each succeeding tile until
93. he designated path as printing begins They have the extension CUT v Generate Cut scripts Include contour cut commands in l Cut scripts Path for CUT files EXColorBursttemp Find Cancel Help Contours The Contours group is used to find contour cutting data in image files using spot color names to describe the contour A contour is a vector outline of the shape to be cut Contour shapes can be created in any program with vector illustration capabilities that allow you to specify a custom spot color as the stroke color such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW The contour shape should be an outline with no fill color stroke color only transpar ent fill The stroke color is not actually printed but it must be a named spot color ColorBurst uses this spot color name to find the contour data You may name your spot color anything you like such as contour or ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 55 I Cut cut path it is only important that the name in your file matches the name in ColorBurst s contour list The contour names are not case sensitive i e cut path will match Cut Path and CUT PATH When a con tour is found the contour is cut on the center of the stroke line so you may set the contour path to any weight or thickness in your vector illustration program The Search Postscript files for named colors that describe contours checkbox determines whether files should be
94. iasing turned on inadvertently Antialiasing is never in effect when you display an image on the screen Rotation The Rotation box allows you to rotate all PostScript images in a layout 90 180 or 270 from each images5 original orientation The T shape in the 4 boxes indicates the top of the image By default the upper left symbol will be highlighted which means the image has not been rotated from its original orienta tion You may rotate all types of images individually through the Scaling amp Rotation dialog box OverPrint Colors The OverPrint Colors group allows color to over print or combine as opposed to knock out colors below it The CMYK checkbox is separate from the two black overprint boxes Overprinting can be very helpful for showing trapping and other effects but it can also change the look of the images especially those that are intended for Level 1 PostScript inter preters The file OVERPRT EPS included with ColorBurst in the TESTFILE directory shows how CMYK 82 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers overprint works Display this file on the screen with CMYK overprint on and off and notice the difference Selecting CMYK overprint tells the PostScript inter preter to honor overprint commands in the job CMYK overprint only works when CMYK is set in the Output Format group RGB and BxW ignore overprinting Black overprinting is different than CMYK overprinting It might only be notice
95. ined units of measure or special characters to define the units desired For most printers you can set the res olution of your printer in the Across edit box see Note below The Across box shows the horizontal resolution The Down box displays the vertical resolution and is for display purposes only this field can not be edited direct ly When a value is entered in the Across box the Down box is changed to match the Across value To set a reso lution in which the horizontal and vertical resolutions do not match use the Setup button to select a resolution in the Printer Setup window NOTE For several Printer Types such as Epson and Roland the resolution should not be set using the Across box To set the resolution for these print ers you must click the Setup button to open the Printer Setup window for the printer These print ers have preset resolutions in a pulldown menu in their Setup window The pulldown menu settings in the Setup window will override any value entered in the Across box Margin Between Images The Margin Between Images group allows you to speci fy how much white space should be reserved around each image in a layout There are two edit boxes In and Down for specifying different amounts of space to the left and right of an image and the remaining space above and below an image Margins are part of the ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 47 calculation for positioning images in the layout As th
96. ing a new path overwrite any name in the edit box with the name of a path that you want to add When the name is correct select the Add button You can then look at the defined paths in the drop box to see that the new path has been added to the bottom of the list To change an existing path name select the path that you want to change so that it appears in the edit box Change the name and select Edit When you look at the list in the dropbox you will see that the name of the search path has been changed To delete an existing ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 135 path select the path so that its name appears in the edit box Select Del to delete the name from the list The name of the high resolution file may have a long file name from a Macintosh workstation Currently ColorBurst can only search for long file names using AFP AppleTalk Filing Protocol services on a Novell Netware LAN Before searching for a file ColorBurst opens AFP WARE DLL which is delivered with ColorBurst This checks for a Novell LAN and if available uses AFP services to find the file name If a Novell LAN is not available the short name of the file is searched for which is usually the first eight characters of the name 136 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers 4 Spooler Menu The fourth menu item is Spooler This setup will auto mate the printing process by monitoring up to fifty specified directories or queues Each queue is
97. ions made in the Color Adjustments dialog box control settings such as the screening brightness and ink density Ink Limits The Ink Limits tab in the Color Adjustment Options dia log box gives you access to the Ink Limits High Quality Screening gamma setting and Sharpness controls Color Adjustments i 21 xl Ink Limits Adjustments Halftones Ink Limits Limit the total ink that can be printed v Enable ink limiting Total ink limit 50 400 400 Iv Do not limit black beyond a percent of its original value Black limit percent 50 100 x E e e General controls that may affect output color High Quality Screening High quality screening uses a default gamma value of 1 8 You may override this value Iv Override default gamma value Use gamma value 0 5 to 3 0 0 Sharpness Sharpness primarily affects blends Larger values decrease sharpness but smooth blends Sharpness factor D 50 0 Ink Limits The Ink Limits group works with the Ink Limit test file Media Ink Limit eps located in the Testfile folder to control the maximum amount of ink printed and avoid prints that are too wet To determine the ink limit ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 95 print Media Ink Limit eps and look for the last dry patch for all colors On glossy media the wet patches may show ink running while on matte media the paper may buckle Another sign that the patch is too wet
98. is copied to the Done queue If the file is very large a copy instead of a move will seriously affect performance ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Spooler Menu 139 The Temporary queue is reserved for temporary inter mediate files and job title files created during spooling When images that are sent to the spooler are processed by the PostScript interpreter PostScript files and any scaled rotated or cropped file they may be converted into bitmap files before they are printed These files are saved in the Output queue If they are to be deleted after printing and you specify a Temporary queue the files will be created there instead of in the Output queue and will then be delet ed after printing If the output queue is not on a local disk it is a good idea to create a Temporary queue to relieve network traffic Any files that create an error during spooling are moved to the Error queue If an Error queue is not defined the files are moved to the Done queue The Printer Setup file is the most important part of multi queue It tells the queue how to handle the files during spooling It contains settings for all dialog box options that take effect without restarting ColorBurst This feature allows you to customize each queue When setting up a queue to monitor you should already have an idea of what you want that queue to do which printer to send the monitored files to image area size what type of color corrections etc T
99. is rounded edges on an acceptable patch the cor ners will be sharply defined The number above the last dry patches percentage of ink is the number that is entered in the Total ink limit box When the Enable Ink Limiting box is selected and a number less than 400 is entered in the box the total amount of ink printed will be reduced to the percentage entered The Black limit box works with Enable Ink Limiting if Enable Ink Limiting is selected Black limit becomes avail able Selecting this box will keep black at the percent age entered when ink is limited using Enable Ink Limiting For example when Ink Limiting is not used or it is set to 40096 each ink is allowed to print at 10096 If Ink Limiting is set to 20096 each ink is limited to 50 When each color is limited to 50 it is difficult to get a rich black If the Black limit percent is set to 8096 the other inks will be held back to 4096 and black will print at 8096 producing a deeper black The default and minimum recommended setting is 8096 a setting of 10096 can create banding problems when printed High Quality Screening gamma value The High Quality Screening option can be used to change the gamma value when using the High Quality screening method in the Adjustments tab under Screening The default gamma is 1 8 which can be used with a resolution of 1440 When printing with High Quality screening at 720 dpi it is required to select the Override default gamma val
100. ization file An additional option Set desired Dmax Chroma from next read of linearzation file minus 96 is available in the Dmax Chroma controls group When this option is selected the Dmax or peak chroma value is read from the linearization file and a threshold of 96 is allowed For example if you enter 596 here the Dmax or peak chroma value will be read from the lineariza tion file and reduced by 596 of that value This allows ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 109 built in headroom from the possible maximum value to the working maximum value This becomes very useful if an inkjet is clogged or another media is used and the maximum density or chroma reading is not as high in your LIN file as it is in the original LIN file Entering a value here will make the lower reading acceptable It is recommended to enter values in the range of 596 to 1096 The Warn user when linearizations Dmax Chroma is less than desired option will alert you if the readings in your linearization file have shifted dramatically from your 10096 Desired density Chroma value For example a shift of 0 05 in density is a natural occurrence but a shift of 0 1 would be a visible difference If you do not want to print with a visible shift you should enter a value of 0 1 in this box It is not recommended to enter anything higher than a value of 0 2 here When the Dmax or peak chroma value is out of range ColorBurst will alert you so that yo
101. ks instead of L shaped marks Circles should be selected when using cutters requiring circular cut marks such as the I Cut In addition you can use the settings in the Cut Devices tab to create I Cut script files the Cut Devices tab is also in the Printer Options dialog box When Circles is selected make sure to set the Diameter of circle to 0 25 in the Enter dimensions group when using the I Cut The last two cut mark shapes create cut or corner marks as well as a dashed or solid box drawn around each image These shapes can be selected when using an automatic cutting device such as the Fotoba The two entry boxes below the diagrams Black on size and White off size determine whether the line is solid or dashed To draw a solid black box set the Black on size to 1 or any number other than zero and set the White off size to zero 0 To draw a solid white box set the Black on size to zero and set the White off size to any number other than zero To draw a dashed line give both boxes values other than zero A value of zero in both edit boxes indicates that no cut box will be drawn Enter Dimensions The Enter dimensions group lets you enter the Width and Height of the cut marks if applicable When Circles is chosen as the cut mark shape the dimen sions settings change to Diameter of circle The default value for the cut mark Width and Height and for Diameter of circle is a quarter of an inch 0 2501 The thicknes
102. l number of tiles across and down is shown below the To Height button To undo scaling and return to the original image size select the Reset Scaling button ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Rotation Tiling PostScript Only Rotation E14 You can rotate a file by selecting one of the four file orientation symbols in the Rotation group shown right An image may be rotated in 90 increments The T shape in the 4 boxes indicates the top of the file By default the upper left symbol will be highlighted which means the top of the file is up and the image has not been rotated from its original orientation The upper right symbol will rotate the image 180 from its original orientation making it appear upside down The lower left symbol when selected will rotate the image 90 to the left and the lower right symbol will rotate the image 90 to the right of the original orientation You may scale and or rotate a file with multiple pages You may choose to alter each page separately or you may alter each page in the same way To scale or rotate all pages in a file at once select the first page of the file and then scale or rotate You will be asked Make same change to all pages in job If you click Yes all pages will be changed If you click No only the currently selected page will be affected You can change the size of tiles without having to dis play an image by clicking the Tile button This button will open
103. l pages click the Delete All button 58 e Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Layout Options The next item in the Options menu is Layout Options Choosing it will display the Layout Options dialog box These settings will change the layout environment Among other options you can choose the best fit for mula to use and specify the procedure to use on size discrepancy errors Layout Options x Iv Direct to printer I Delete all intermediate files T Error if image too big IV Auto scale to intended size IV Use precise positioning of RTLs in layout Templates 1 File name template ETE Auto increment starting number o Auto Position Options Top ToBottom Order Entered C BottomToTop Largest First Refit Smallest First n Size Discrepancy Refit images Delete Save Cancel Help Direct to Printer The Direct to printer checkbox allows you to specify whether layouts containing more than one file should be sent directly to the printer or whether intermediate RTL TIFF or CT files should be created This checkbox is ignored when a layout contains only a single file This is similar to choosing to create intermediate files from PostScript There is a major difference between PostScript files and layouts however With PostScript files there is no way to determine in advance how long the interpretation will take Intermediate files are rec ommended to eliminate that variable For
104. layouts all files included in the layout are in a raster form before printing begins It is recommended that Direct to print er be selected so that intermediate files are not created ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 59 When Direct to printer is not selected output for the layout uses the settings established in the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box For example turning off Direct to printer and setting Create Scitex CT file and Save File Only No Print in the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box will create a permanent CT file that is not immediately printed If job titles are in effect they will be seen when the CT file is printed Delete All Intermediate Files The Delete all intermediate files checkbox specifies that all PostScript files that are rasterized before printing should be created as temporary intermediate RTL files When this checkbox is not set options in the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box deter mine how PostScript files should be handled This checkbox is only considered when there is more than one file in the layout being printed When a single PostScript file is printed the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box always determines whether intermediate files are created and if so whether they should be temporary or permanent This checkbox is very important when the Direct to printer checkbox above it is not selected In this case output optio
105. ld not change but its scaling should change to reflect the new resolu tion This change can be very helpful when changing printers which have different resolutions but where the output should print identically Use Precise Positioning of RTLs in Layout This option is helpful when using Step amp Repeat with RTL files If it is not selected there may be some white space between the RTL files in the layout When select ed ColorBurst will pack the pixels next to each other for perfect placement In doing so the layout will take a little longer to begin printing so it is recommended to only use this option when the layout contains multi ple RTL files and perfect placement is a concern Layout File Name Template The File name template edit box in the Layout Options dialog box allows you to specify the name of an out put file which will be created when more than one image is processed into an output file An example of a layout output file is the RTL file that is created when Write to RTL File in the Printer Options dialog box is chosen When you select a spooled printer as your 62 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers printer port the spooled document name is built from this template The file name template is also used to name TIFFs and CTs from layouts layout Job Titles and CUT files The File name template edit box here works along with the File name template edit box in the PostScript Layout Output File Options di
106. lecting a Printer Setup file will restore ColorBurst s settings the Initial VUTEk Printer Setup window will close and the ColorBurst main window will open If no matching printer setup files are found a message will appear No printer setup files have been found and a Browse button is available to search for Printer Setup files manually For more infor mation on Printer Setup files see Chapter 2 Save and Restore Printer Setup Toolbar Name of currently selected Printer Setup file Message Window Status bar Lnearization Of Ink Liming OF ICCConedionOn inkBalacingOn CutMarksOff Novalet 4 color 500600 6 Getting Started ColorBurst for InkJet Printers After the Initial Setup window closes the main ColorBurst window consisting of a toolbar work area and message window is displayed as shown below When Auto Set Default Positions is selected in the Windows menu the windows will be positioned to fit the main ColorBurst screen exactly when the Layout File Info and Message windows are all displayed Each of the menu items on the toolbar File Options Spooler Windows and Help is described in the following sections of this manual To select a menu item and view its selections click on it once with the mouse or use the underscored letter in each item in combination with the Alt key ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Getting Started 7 8 Getting Started
107. les set Create TIFF file and Save File Only No Print To create CT files set Create Scitex CT file and Save File Only No Print Then turn the Spooler on by selecting Spool in the Spooler menu TIFF files will have the names LAYOUT TIF LAY OUT TOO T01 T99 and CT files have the name LAYOUT CT LAYOUT COO C01 C99 Layout Options Layout files The Layout Options group allows you to have layouts in effect when Spooler is on Rather than having each file printed or converted as it enters the queue you can specify that files should be added to a layout When the layout is full it is either automatically printed or saved as a layout file to let you print the layout when you are ready You specify what to do when the monitored queue is empty before the layout is full You can have the layout automatically printed saved have the layout printed saved once some specified percent of the media is full or wait until a defined timeout has been reached The Layout queue files checkbox in this group deter mines whether files are printed individually or added to a layout for printing If the checkbox is set i e an x appears in the box all files will be added to layouts as they are processed If the checkbox is not set individual files will be printed as they are processed The Convert only no print checkbox overrides the Layout queue files 144 Spooler Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers checkbox That is if both check
108. les Only iliis 142 Convert Only Options ss sbziedebeERRYRDARRR RE 143 Layout ODUOLS esee iratni td RE REOR Eton 144 On Empty Queue iua sso et eee E Roh eee eras 146 Flush BULLION 25s RESP bb pp eed dde kbd whe nite de 148 Time Between Checks 22200000 esee 148 Maximum Queues 00000 es 148 Seem CILE 149 5 Windows Menu 0 0000 cee ee eee 151 Window OPTIONS 2 222 4546e5h24e4se4nbbeewdeeed a pt 151 Show Status Bar gon cca cou sae eR ERAS EY a Gea eee ease 153 Auto Set Default Positions 0 00002 eee 153 Set Default Positions liliis sls 153 6s Help Men sesser danig pne eu Pie eh Res 3A Gad eg 155 7 Message Window 0000 eee 157 Appendix A Fonts Delivered with ColorBurst A 1 Appendix B Tiling Workflow ills B 1 Appendix C Linearization and ICC Profiling Workflow C 1 Appendix D Printer Port Setup 0 0000000002 ee eee D 1 Appendix E Port Monitor Setup 0 0000 0000002 E 1 vi Table of Contents ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Getting Started ColorBurst is a Windows PostScript amp Language Level 3 Compatible Raster Image Processor RIP that produces a CMYK color composite for printing to a large format inkjet printer Color correction is per formed on the fly during output to the printer ColorBurst supports Scitex CT CMYK and RGB TIFF PDF and PostScript file formats In addition Crosfield
109. limit 200 400 np Total black ink 0 100 S0 Black starting point 0 100 Ho x Black intensity 0 100 E x Neutral GCR 0 100 Bo g Color GCR 0 100 0 x Cancel Help To build an ICC profile use the Find button to load a CIE file in the Data File entry box The name of the file entered here will be used when naming the profile the CIE extension will be changed to ICC when the profile is created Select the Prompt for output file name checkbox if you would like to specify a unique filename for the profile instead of the default name In the Profile descriptor field enter any important information or notes about the profile data such as ink settings etc This information will be displayed when the profile is loaded in the Input or Output Profiles tabs below the profile file name box Set the Ink limit and black controls The default set tings are as follows Total ink limit 300 Total black ink 100 Black starting point 40 Black intensity 60 ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 93 Neutral GCR 096 Color GCR 096 After entering the Ink limit and black controls settings click the Build profile button An ICC profile based on the CIE file and your settings will be created in the default Output profile path This path is defined in the Default paths tab in the ICC Profile Options dialog box For more information on creating ICC profiles and color management procedures
110. line shows the printable image within that media The dimensions displayed in the title bar are in the units selected in the Units of Measure group ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 35 General General TCP IP Cut Marks Job Titles Cut Devices Specify the printer output port and general print environment gt Printer and port Units of measure Printer Inches z Epson X Setup Miror Image Printer Port F write to RTL file LPT1 Number of copies 0 r Layout area and resolution z Width 23 500i Height 100i Across 1440 dpi Down 72l dpi r Margin between images In 0 500 Down 0 500i i Offset image 5 layout Current offsets In o Down 0 Permanent offsets In cq Down gs Set Clear Cancel Help The Printer Options dialog box opens in the General tab This tab contains important settings for your printer including printer type layout size and resolution Printer and Port Printer Port The Printer and Port group allows you to select your printer model and choose the printer port that your printer is attached to When you choose NovaJet HP Series Epson Mimaki Roland or Mutoh in the Printer pulldown you can click the Setup button to open a Printer Setup dialog box The other printers do not have special setups Each Printer Setup is described in detail below The Printer Port pulldown menu allows you to select an output port
111. lues for consistent output Dmax or peak chroma values should be set when an ICC profile is created When Dmax or peak chroma val ues are specified the Linearization file s 10096 values and the Dmax Chroma values are compared The infor mation in the current LIN file will be adjusted accord ing to the Dmax Chroma values Using Dmax or peak chroma values can help you match output for multiple printers of the same type using the same ink and media and ensure consistent output on the same printer from day to day The Set Baseline button can be used as a shortcut to setting your desired Dmax Chroma values This button will set the desired Dmax Chroma values to 596 below the Dmax or peak chroma of the LIN file This is the same as to going to the Advanced tab selecting Set desired Dmax Chroma from next read of linearization minus and entering 596 as the value The settings in the Advanced tab will override densities or chroma values set from the LIN file 21x General Advanced Data points Enter density chroma values that override original linearization file values Desired density chroma values M Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Spot 1 Spot 2 Spot 3 Spot 4 75 100 67 7457 78 0714 1079495 83 3980 Dmax Chroma controls Use original Dmax Chroma settings Ignore desired values Use Dmax Chroma from desired densities C Set desired Dmax Ch
112. ly the current formula however Until you save your selections the current best fit formula 70 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers does not change You can use the Refit button to see how other formulas affect the layout without making that formula permanent On Size Discrepancy The On Size Discrepancy dropbox determines how size discrepancy errors will be handled First a definition of size discrepancy errors When a TIFF CT or other raster format is added to the layout its size is absolutely known When a PostScript file is added however the size is calculated from infor mation in its header This may be incorrect because PostScript commands may force different sizes Examples are commands that select a particular paper size and commands that set up a different orientation The only way for ColorBurst to know that actual size would be to send it to the PostScript interpreter When adding an image to the layout that would be too time consuming If a layout contains more than one image its PostScript files are rasterized into intermediate files before print ing The actual size of the intermediate file is com pared to the size calculated from the header If the actual size is larger than the calculated size by the val ues in the Margin Between Images group the image might potentially overlap another illustration in the lay out This is called a Size discrepancy error and the procedure for handling the err
113. me as 1 For more than one print enter the number of prints you want in the edit box Selecting the Hide queue checkbox will ignore that queue during spooling You will notice that any hidden queues are disabled under the Queue to Monitor drop box Deselecting the Hide queue checkbox will make the queue active again Include subdirectory images NOTE The Include subdirectory images checkbox allows you to specify whether or not the queue s subdirectories should be monitored during spooling If the Include subdirectory images checkbox is selected all subdirectories will be monitored If you choose to monitor subdirectories make sure your Output Done and Error queues are not set up as subdirectories of the monitored queue Move Copy files only When the Move Copy files only box is checked files in the monitored queue are not placed in layouts or con verted they are simply copied to the Output queue 142 Spooler Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers and moved to the Done queue When the Done queue is not defined files are moved to the Output queue If no Output queue is defined the files in the monitored queue are copied to the Output Directory defined in the PostScript Layout Output File Options dialog box The Message Window will display information for each file copied or moved This option can allow ColorBurst queues to be used in a more general purpose manner to be used as part of other spoolers on a system or t
114. n Miscellaneous code Date of the month Dates code Date Dates code End name at character File Names code First file File Names code Hour Time code Minutes Time code Last file File Names code Month Dates code Seconds Time code Time Time code Auto incrementing number File Names code Day of the week Dates code Year Dates code Auto Position Options The Auto Position Options group allows you to select the best fit formula to use when positioning images in a layout The Refit button allows you to refit all images according to one of the best fit formulas without establishing that formula permanently There are three best fit formulas to choose from Only one can be chosen at a time They are Order Entered Largest First Smallest First 68 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Each formula is further defined by whether images should be placed using a top to bottom or bottom to top arrangement Select one of the following Top To Bottom Bottom To Top Images are placed in the smallest unused area in the layout where they will fit As long as there is space images are placed to the right of previous images When there is no more space to the right new images are positioned below previous images when using a top to bottom arrangement and above previous images using a bottom to top arrangement Even though the bottom to top arrangement places images at the bottom of the media once all
115. n toggles between showing only defined points on the curve in the Curve Data table and showing all calculated points between the defined points Calculated points are shown in gray and cannot be edited Max Ink The Max Ink controls may be used when Enable Ink Limiting in not selected in the Ink Limits tab In almost every case ink densities for large format inkjet printers must be reduced to eliminate pooling of ink on the media The maximum printed ink that can be indepen dently controlled in the Color Adjustments dialog box by the Max Ink 10 125 edit box in each ink control group ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 103 Halftones The four Max Ink 10 125 edit boxes should be the first controls adjusted when doing initial color calibra tion For example let s assume you enter a value of 50 for the Cyan Max Ink This means that when a 100 cyan dot is to be printed only a 50 dot is actually selected All other dot values are adjusted accordingly When a 50 dot is specified only a 25 dot is selected etc The Halftones tab is only available if Halftones is selected in the Screening Finish group This tab con tains halftone dot and screen settings Color Adjustments n Ad xl Ink Limits Adjustments Halftones Set up halftone controls and select a halftone dot Choose a halftone dot CosineDot Y v Use AccurateScreens v Adjust ruling to position dots on whole pixels Ruling dots per inch
116. n error When this option is selected and the output profile can not be found or is incorrect the Print command will be canceled This allows you to save media if the output profile is not found instead of wasting it on a bad print Create color corrected TIFF CT This option is disabled in this version of ColorBurst output to TIFF and CT files is not available Enable AutoSpot color matching When this option is selected ColorBurst will automati cally use its internal spot color tables to match any industry standard spot colors found in a file ColorBurst looks for specific names in a file to match output colors with near perfect accuracy to standard swatch books ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 87 Limit grey options These options control how black and white images print using either CMYK inks or black ink only The first option Limit grey data to black channel only unless grey profile is active is dependent on the Grey vector and Grey image Input Profiles in the Input Profiles tab If these profiles are turned on they are used and grayscale images are printed using all inks If they are not on no grey correction will take place and grayscale images will be printed using only black ink The bottom option Limit all grey data to black channel only overrides the first option When this is selected all grayscale images are printed using black ink only regardless of whether or not grey profiles are active
117. n the window is closed the layout will reflect any changes you made A scaled image will appear at its new size with its name in red type A rotated image will appear at its new orientation the name of the file is rotated as well to indi cate the angle of rotation If you display a rotated image the display will show the image rotated You may select a scaled and or rotated image and scale and or rotate the image again If you restore a scaled image back to its original size 10096 and select the OK button the layout will show the image at its original size and the name will go back to blue type When an image is scaled or rotated a general refit takes place Refit repositions all images using the current best fit formula Any reposition ing using the mouse will be lost ColorBurst for InkJet Printers 2 Printer Setup Menu The second menu item is Printer Setup This menu is used to save and restore ColorBurst settings an envi ronment using a Printer Setup file The Menu bar dis plays the name of the Printer Setup file currently in use PERTH File Printer Setup ptions Spooler Windows Help Printer Set Select Printer Setup Save Printer Setup A Printer Setup file contains ColorBurst settings from all of the Options menu dialog boxes that take effect without restarting ColorBurst When ColorBurst is installed a folder named ENV short for environ ment is created in the ColorBurst folder that con
118. n the Output queue RTL files have the names LAYOUT RTL LAYOUT ROO R01 R99 Note that these names are given even if there is only one image in a layout This is accomplished by not selecting the Direct to Printer checkbox in the Layout Options dialog box Output for the layout will then use settings established in the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box To create RTL files set Create RTL file and Save File Only No Print On Empty Queue An important issue to resolve when spooling with lay outs in effect is what action to take when the queue is empty If a file oversets a layout it is treated exactly as if the queue is empty For example if there are only 146 Spooler Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers two small images in the layout and no files or a file too large to fit in the layout in the monitored queue you might want to print immediately or wait for more files If a file is too large and the queue is not printed immediately the large file is ignored and all other files are processed normally The On Empty Queue dropbox allows you to specify one of the following procedures Flush immediately Flush on depth timeout Flush on area timeout Flush on timeout only For example if there is at least one file in the layout and the queue is empty selecting Flush immediately will cause the layout to be flushed A message Empty queue Flush immediate is reported in the message window Selecting Fl
119. n to extend past the right edge of the image it is always clipped at the right edge If the point size or spacing values are adjusted the Layout window will be updated to reflect the changes after the Printer Options dialog box is closed You may change the size of the title using the Point size of type in job value entry box The minimum size for titles is 4 points the maximum size is 144 points The Additional vertical space between job title and job entry box allows you to adjust the amount of space between the title and job This can allow space to cut the title away from the image You may add up to 4 inches of extra space between the title and job 54 e Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Cut Devices The Cut Devices tab in the Printer Options dialog box has settings that can be used when you are using a printer with a built in cutter or a cutting device such as an I Cut General TCP IP Cut Marks Job Titles Cut Devices Contours Contours are shapes that describe cuts to cutting devices A contour shape is a named color separation in a PostScript file v Search PostScript files for named colors that describe contours I Allow ar innards nteur d ptior Specify named colors that describe contours contour Add Edt _ Det r Density Describe contours using fewer coarse or more fine line arcs Coarse 7 Medium f Fine j FEut Cut scripts are generated in t
120. n to open the Brightness Curve s Color Curve Information dialog box The Select Curves pulldown menu gives you different settings for the four curves shown below the menu To change an ink s curve click the Edit button to open the Color Curve Information dialog box described below To adjust the percentage of maximum ink out put enter a value in the ink s Max Ink entry box also described below ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 99 Process Colors Light Ink Select Curves Light Ink Conversion B Color Spot Inks 8 Color Light Inks 8 Color Spot Inks The first setting Process Colors CMYK lets you control the amount of Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black ink these are the standard inks on every printer If you are using the Pre press version of ColorBurst the Installed Ink Sets selection in the Spot Color Definitions dialog box will affect these curves The description of the Color Curve Information dialog box has more information on changing the Process Color curves The next setting Light Ink Conversion is used to support six color printers that have Light Cyan and Light Magenta ink These curves function differently from the Process Colors CMYK curves they are used together to distribute the files data among the regular and light inks The Cyan and Magenta curves in the Process Colors pulldown control the overall Cyan or Magenta ink and then these curves control how the Cyan and Magenta color da
121. nd 4 to make the defined color a com bination of up to all eight inks However if your 8 color printer uses light inks do not set values for the light ink cartridges these values are determined through color correction by ColorBurst Each value can be between 096 and 10096 in hundredths of a percent Once you have the name and ink values showing in the proper fields click the Add button below the drop box The new name will be added to the list in the dropbox with the values entered To edit the ink values associated with this name select the name in the dropbox change any values and click the Edit button To delete the name and its values entirely select it in the dropbox and click Del You may define a spot color using RGB or L a b values as well as or instead of ink percentages The RGB val ues will be used when outputting to an RGB film recorder and are entered in the same manner as the CMYK values When trying to match a color that has already been printed L a b values can be used instead of CMYK val ues to recreate the ink color A densitometer can be used on any printed swatch to find the L a b values for that 120 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers color When the L a b values are entered here they will be interpreted through the current output profile to pro duce a print that matches your original swatch The CMYK and RGB color circles display the difference between the CMYK and RGB values Please
122. nd your template builds the file name ABC XXX the name of the RTL file will become ABC RTL One exception to this is the name of the document displayed when your output file is sent to a spooled printer That name has no predefined extension so any extension that you enter will be passed along as the document name list ed in the printer s window 64 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Default name Special codes File names 9oF 9oL E If the File name template is left empty the default template will be LAYOUT This is the name given to all output files prior to templates This is the only tem plate name that will automatically create different extensions to try to create unique file names That is RTL ROO RO1 TIF TOO TO1 etc will only be created when the template name is LAYOUT Special codes begin with a percent sign and are followed by a single character Letters are case inde pendent that is f and F are identical All defined spe cial codes are replaced by other known information Any character that follows a percent sign but is not defined below is ignored Special codes are grouped into types below An alphabetical list is included after the types The following section lists special codes which are replaced by file names or effect file names in order to try to make them unique first name This code is replaced by the first name of the first image that was added to the layout
123. ndently checkbox is selected You may enter the width or height in printers points picas and points p inches i feet f millimeters mm centime ters c meters m or pixels x The default unit type can be selected in the Units of Measure drop box locat ed in the General tab The Scale width and height independently checkbox allows for anamorphic scaling When this box is selected you may scale the width and height without affecting the other dimension When this box is unchecked after scaling a file the original ratio is used based on the value in the Width box The third method of scaling is by the width or height of the layout size Selecting either the To Width or To Height button in the Scale to Layout Size group changes the width or height of the selected image to the width or height of the layout size Once one of these buttons is selected the dimension and percent age values in the dialog box will change automatically The Scale to Tile Size group makes tiling a scaled image easy Set the tile size in the Tiling Options dialog box Enter the number of tiles you want to print in the Number of tiles box Select the To Width button to scale the image so that there are that number of tiles at the set width across or the To Height button to scale the image so that there are that number of tiles at the set height down The dimensions will automati cally change in the Scale to width and Scale to height boxes The tota
124. ne Dot 0 00 00 cee 104 Use AccurateScreens 2 0 020 000 22 eee 104 AGJUSERUINO 2 ded ace wi eI e de oe S 105 Ruling dots per inch 0 0 0 0 cece eee 105 Screen Angles onana uaaa eee 105 Linearization Options a s sir s sarpu 00000 ee 106 Allow Linearization llle 106 Use Chroma Based Linearization n on naaa aaaea aaa 106 Turn Off ICC Color Correction 000 107 Cancel Job On Linearization Error lisse 107 Linearization File and Path liliis 107 Desired Density Chroma Values iliis sess 109 Dmax Chroma Controls 0 0 0 0 000 ee 109 Set Dmax Chroma Button 0 0000 eee eee 110 Ink Balance and RGB to CMYK 00 00 20 0020 000 112 Black Generation 0 0 ee 114 Undercolor Removal UCR 000 0000 cee 115 Ink Balance Adjustment 0220200004 116 Test CoriverslOnS xad ce TE EG ue boa RE P wu EC gs 117 Spot Color Definitions lisi 118 Spot Color CMYK Values and Defined Spot Colors 118 Clear All Spot Colors Button 0 000002 0000 121 Treat All Suffixes as Same Spot Color 121 iv e Table of Contents ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Table of Contents continued Import Button and Allow Import File to Overwrite Spot Colors 122 Import from PS BUttOn sep RE vex 4 AIRES 122 Select and Save Spot File Buttons 122 Current INK Set ass m Reed SG E E RERERRESEGG 124 Defined Sp
125. ngs define that queue Setup Spooler x Queue to monitor c cburstspooler Find p Queue Support Dutput queue fe cburst spooler save x Find Done queue fc cburst spooler done z Find Temporary queue Error queue Printer setup file Files to monitor bB Add Edit _bel Special Convert only options Convert only no print T Include subdirectory images e its Rb I Move Copy files only Layout Options T Layout queue files On Empty Queue Save layouts no print Fiush immediately x Depth area 0 s i Flush Time out fo min Time between checks sec Maximum queues 5 Save Cancel Help To define a queue enter the full path of the directory that you want ColorBurst to monitor in the Queue to monitor entry box The Find button to the right of the entry box makes it easy for you select a folder to mon itor If the folder does not exist yet you may enter a name and ColorBurst will create the folder for you Next enter the Queue Support information either manually or using the find buttons and choose any other options in the Setup Spooler dialog box that you wish to define for that queue see below for more details Once you have defined the queue select the Add button to add the queue to the drop box list To edit an existing queue select the queue from the Queue to monitor drop box list make any changes and select the Edit button To delete an existing queue
126. ns Cancel Help If Fast Separations is selected you must set Patterned Finish in the Color Adjustments dialog box to Quality Fast and ICC profiles for Grayscale data must be turned off If Fast Separations is not selected you have the option to use the Low res separations instead Use Low Resolution Separations This option can be used to speed the processing of large separated files When a pre separated file is processed by ColorBurst a grayscale intermediate file is created from each separation and then they are stitched back together to print the final image The number entered in the Use Low Resolution Separations box is the percentage of the Layout DPI that you wish to process the separations at You may enter a value of 2596 up to 10096 For example if your layout is set to 600 DPI and you enter a value of 5096 here the inter mediate grayscale files will be created at 300 DPI Creating smaller intermediate files can speed the pro cessing up significantly The file is then printed at the original resolution or 600 DPI in this example 126 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Search All PostScript Files For Separations Default paths Spot file path When selected ColorBurst will search the beginning of every PostScript file processed to determine if the file is separated or not This is useful when processing files cre ated in programs that do not include separation com ments in the beginning
127. ns for the layout are determined from the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box The Delete all intermediate files checkbox allows you to spec ify different procedures for processing the layout from processing the PostScript files included in the layout The Delete all intermediate files checkbox overrides options set in the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box Even if you do not set this checkbox if Output directly to printer is selected in the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box tem porary intermediate RTL files are created from 60 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers PostScript files If Save File Only No Print is selected permanent intermediate files are created but printing of the layout is not inhibited Error if Image Too Big Selecting the Error if image too big checkbox will make sure that any image that will not fit in the image area is not added to the layout The error message Image will not fit on media followed by the file name will appear and the file will not be added to the layout This option is most helpful in Spooler mode when lay outs are in effect If selected any file found in the moni tored queue that oversets the layout will not be printed instead it will be moved to the Error queue This ensures that none of your spooled images will be truncated If this box is not selected files that are too large to fit in the image area will be added to the layou
128. nu 79 incorrect it may be that the font could not fit in VM Increase VM size and try again The Initial Buffer Size entry is where you specify the size that the program reserves for the initial buffer The value you enter in the box will be interpreted as thou sands of bytes or Kb The minimum size of the initial buffer is 32Kb but more than that will usually result in better performance The default size is 8096Kb It is recommended that the size not exceed 12000 As a file is about to be printed or displayed the initial buffer is divided into smaller chunks used for specific purposes according to the type of file that is being read Whatever is left over is used for reading the file If the initial buffer is not large enough to handle the demand the following error message will be displayed Initial buffer too small Increase size and restart Because the initial buffer is allocated when the program begins changes to its size can only be accomplished by setting the new size exiting and restarting the program Output Format The Output Format group allows you to specify whether a PostScript file should be rasterized using CMYK cyan magenta yellow black or RGB red green blue colors or 256 shades of gray Furthermore you can Antialias the output using either color model Antialiasing is explained in more detail below Color Model Click either the CMYK RGB or BxW radio button to select the color model RGB ref
129. o add better flow con trol You can restrict which files will be processed by setting up acceptable file names in Files to monitor Files that are processed however do not have to be image files that ColorBurst can print Convert Only Options All files processed by the Spooler will be printed unless the Convert only no print checkbox is selected Selecting this checkbox will enable the Convert to TIFF file and Convert to Scitex CT file option buttons Convert only options I Convert only no print la Convert to TIFF file C Convert to Scitex CT file For example to convert a PostScript image to a Scitex CT through the Spooler 1 select the Convert only no print box 2 pick the Convert to Scitex CT file option 3 enter the PostScript image file type such as EPS PS in the Files to monitor entry field 4 start the Spooler Each file opened by the Spooler will be saved as an individual file The Layout queue files checkbox is dis abled when Convert only no print is selected If a CLF ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Spooler Menu 143 is processed when Convert only no print is in effect each file pointed to by the CLF is converted to the desired file type You may create one TIFF or CT file of your entire layout as opposed to creating many individual files This may be accomplished using the Output Options and Save Print Options in the PostScript Layout Output File Options dialog box To create TIFF fi
130. o give your queue the appropriate characteristics you need to create an Printer Setup file for your queue In each of the Options menu dialog boxes make the selections that you want to define your queue Then select Save Printer Setup from the Options menu The entire name drive path and file name entered when saving the printer setup file should be entered in the Printer Setup file edit box in the Setup Spooler dialog box When the queue is monitored it will use the printer setup file s settings to process the files 140 Spooler Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers A file named CURRENT ENV is created when spooling begins holding the current printer setup file It is used as the printer setup file whenever a printer setup file is not named CURRENT ENV is deleted when spooling is turned off For these reasons you should avoid nam ing a printer setup file CURRENT ENV The type of file to monitor may be specified in the Files to monitor entry The file type may be a specific extension such as TIF a key letter or numeric sequence such as PG12 EPS or all files using the argument You may specify to monitor more than one type of file by separating entries with semicolons TIF EPS If no file type is entered all files will be monitored Special button and Special Queue Setup The Special button in the Spooler dialog box opens the Special Queue Setup dialog box This dialog box is used to automa
131. o set the Bitmap resolution below to Low or Medium quality The Bitmap resolution setting controls the quality and file size of the preview bitmap files used to display images The quality can be set to Low Medium or High As the quality increases from Low to High the file size increases as well Medium the default setting is recommended to give a decent display while keeping the file size manage able Please note that bitmap preview images in the Layout Window are set to of the Display resolution to keep file sizes and processing times at a minimum The Layout window group contains settings that affect the Layout window The Layout window Rulers setting is independent of the Display window Rulers setting above turning this setting on will make only the rulers in the Layout window visible When Inhibit display of images in layout is selected images in the layout appear as boxes with the file name instead images even when a bitmap preview file exists When an image is displayed a BMP preview is still created so that the image doesn t have to re rip when it is displayed again The Position dialog boxes on the screen is used to specify where on the screen to open dialog boxes The default is centered when a dialog box is opened it will open in the center of the screen If a dialog box with tabs such as ICC Options is open and the Layout window is open and clicked on the ICC dialog box will go behind the Layout The Layout
132. of the PostScript file If you are certain that a file is separated but ColorBurst is not out putting the separations turn this checkbox on so that ColorBurst can recognize the separations Otherwise this box should be left unchecked since searching each PostScript file will make processing slower The default paths tab tells ColorBurst where to look for spot color files Spot Color Definitions Ink Sets and Sep 3 xl Spot Color Definitions Ink Sets Separations Default Paths Enter default paths for finding spot color SPT and import files Spot file path C cburst spat Find Import file path CAcburst Find Cancel Help The Spot file path entry is where ColorBurst will look when the Select Spot File button is used in the Spot Color Definitions tab The default entry here is the Spot folder located in the ColorBurst install folder ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 127 Import file path The Import file path is used with the Import button in the Spot Color Definitions tab When the Import but ton is clicked ColorBurst will open an Open dialog box using the path entered here as the default path The default entry here is the ColorBurst install folder you should change it to wherever your Praxisoft files or files from a similar program are located Tiling Options The Tiling Options dialog box can be opened by select ing Tiling Options under the Options menu Tiling Options x
133. og box as well as three on off settings for window and status placement in ColorBurst ColorBurst File Printer Setup Options Spooler Windows Help Printer Setup File E Options v Show Status Bar v Auto Set Default Positions v Set Default Positions Window Options The Window Options dialog box allows you to customize the Display and Layout windows Window Options x p Display window Rulers C Olt On Rotate BMP files C ReRIP fie Rotate BMP Bitmap resolution C Low Medium High i Layout window Rulers C Off COn I Inhibit display of images in layout r Position dialog boxes on the screen Centered C Upper left C Lower left C Upper ight C Lower tight Save Cancel Help The options in the Display window group affect the Display window only The first setting Rulers can be set Off or On The default setting is On so that rulers are visi ble in the Display window The Rotate BMP files option is used to determine how to handle displaying rotated files when a non rotated preview bitmap file already exists If Re RIP file is select ed the rotated file is ripped when displayed If the file is very large this may take a few moments To save time the Rotate BMP option will simply rotate the pre view bitmap file the original file is not ripped over again To save processing time when rotating a BMP it ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Windows Menu e 151 is recommended t
134. olor correction within ColorBurst or completely replace it KCMS works from pre built ICC Profiles allowing you to print CMYK RGB and grayscale files with both vector graphics and photo graphic images in the same layout and get good out put for each type of image You can choose different profiles for different types of output such as RGB CMYK or Hexachrome ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 85 General KCMS is embedded in the ColorBurst RIP Any job run ning through the PostScript interpreter has its colors corrected while being interpreted When a file is print ed that does not go through the PostScript interpreter ColorBurst uses the KCMS ICC Profiles to correct the image on a pixel by pixel basis The ICC Profile Options dialog box allows you to set ICC Profile options Profiles can be turned on or off without restarting ColorBurst to have changes take effect In addition you may inhibit specific ICC Profiles by using the On Off buttons The dialog box is separat ed into tabs it opens in the Input Profiles tab The General tab in the ICC Profile Options dialog box gives you control over which color management tools to use in ColorBurst ICC Profile Options 2 xl General Input Profiles Output Profiles Simulation Profiles Build Profile Default Paths Define color management controls I Enable ICC profile color management Turm off ICC color correction for next print only I Cancel print
135. on ps Path c cburst font m Choose Layout Window Font Select Font Cancel job if fonts are missing Save Cancel Help Font Path and Search String To update the ColorBurst font list first specify the Font Path including drive letter and Search string this is usually just the extension separate multiple types with a semi colon Then click the Update button If any files in these directories are not fonts screen messages will inform you of these errors Also a com pletion message will signal the end of the update Automatic Overwrite CAUTION ColorBurst will not automatically overwrite an existing font with a new one without your permission either by responding Yes to the overwrite verification or by pre selecting the Automatic Overwrite check box The Save button only saves changes made to Path names in this dialog box The Update button ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 131 updates the Font List and does not need to use this function Choose Layout Window Font The Select Font button opens a Font window that lets you select the screen font used by ColorBurst You may choose any True Type font installed on your com puter using any mode bold italic etc and any point size This is only used for ColorBurst screen display such as file names in the layout window it has no effect on files Cancel job if fonts are missing Select the Cancel job if fon
136. or is defined in On Size Discrepancy The five defined procedures are Refit images Delete Refit No Delete Delete image Stop print Do nothing Mm BWN ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 71 First the message Size discrepancy error is added to the message window Then the image causing the error is checked to see if it really overlaps another image If it does not the message No Action taken is added to the message window and processing continues If the size discrepancy does cause an overlap one of the five procedures will be executed The default action is Refit images Delete This issues a general refit command to reposition all images If the refit success fully repositions all images the message No Action taken is added to the message window If any image in the layout does not fit the image causing the error is deleted from the layout and all other images are repositioned again The message is Deleting image from layout If Refit No Delete is the defined action a general refit command is issued but if an image does not fit no action is taken Any overlap is printed The message is No action taken If Delete image is the defined action the image caus ing the error is automatically deleted without refitting leaving a hole where the image was supposed to be The message is Deleting image from layout If Stop print is the defined action printing never begins and processing is s
137. ot Colors and Installed Inks 124 Reorder Inks for Output to Printer 124 Light Ink Conversions 000002 eee 125 Use Fast Separations 0 00 125 Use Low Resolution Separations 126 Search all Postscript Files for Separations 127 Spot File Pati 2s ac aaeuageecdanetesbieaeeuug os 127 Import File Path a aissi ee 128 TINI ODtIODS 239r ULL ee te eee e 128 HG a seasea tana kaa a ia iae ia a e a na aE a 129 Tile Overlap sre RE tag e ex 129 Trim Outside Tiles llli 129 Minimum Tile Size lisse 129 Output File Template e ceci porer aset yri opitat 129 Font Maintenance 2i 26 dpe ae Air Redd Ea 130 Font Path and Search String 22 22200054 131 Automatic Overwrite llle 131 Choose Layout Window Font 05 132 Cancel Job if Fonts are Missing 05 132 Miscellaneous sax due ee oe ptr RE E ug s 132 LOG RIG scc etus MEE t ee ees Sei ge 133 Automatic Picture Replacement 134 4 Spooler Menu segas enppnns daue daa sees 137 Setup Spooler 2 2 0 ee 137 Queue to MONIO 640 65 porou aioe eben aay 4 137 Queue Support 6 2 eee 139 Special Button and Special Queue Setup 141 Hide Quelle x esi ee kde eee tone nee eReader m aoe 142 Include Subdirectory Images liliis 142 ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Table of Contents v Table of Contents continued Move Copy Fi
138. ote If you are not creating a profile and are only relinearizing to an existing profile do not set the Dmax values To do so will invalidate your current ICC profile There are two ways to set your Dmax values Both are set in the Advanced tab in the Linearization Options dialog box Choose one of the following To use the 10096 Dmax values from your LIN file make sure Use Dmax from linearization file is selected in the Dmax controls group Then click the Set Dmax button to read the 10096 values from the LIN file The values will be read and placed in the Dmax value fields If you already know what you want your Dmax values set as you may manually enter them in the 10096 Dmax Desired densities fields one value for each of the 6 colors or four if you are not using Orange and Green inks In the Dmax controls group make sure the Use Dmax from desired densities radial button is selected Then type in the values in each 10096 Dmax Desired densities field 4 Set the media Ink Limit Open the ink limit test strip file named Media Ink Limit eps located in the Testfile folder Print the file and immediately look for the last dry patch of each color On glossy media the wet patches may show ink C 2 Appendix C ColorBurst for InkJet Printers running while on matte media the paper may buckle Another sign that the patch is too wet is rounded edges on an acceptable patch the corners will be sharply defined The Ink Limit will be
139. oup UCR is active when an x appears in the check box The Maximum UCR edit box lets you specify what per cent of the black generation value is to be removed from CMY If for example Maximum UCR is set to 2096 and 3096 black is generated then cyan magen ta and yellow is each decreased by 696 2096 of 3096 Setting Maximum UCR to 10096 subtracts all of the generated black value from CMY Ink Balance Adjustment The Ink Balance Adjustment group in the Ink Balance and RGB to CMYK dialog box can be edited for adjust ing ink percentages for printing CMYK images as well as to control color conversion of RGB images to CMYK You specify either of these sets of controls through the initial dropbox in the dialog box When enabled the controls allow you to specify red to be some percent of magenta and yellow inks green to be some percent of cyan and yellow blue some percent of cyan and magenta and gray some percent of cyan magenta and yellow In the RGB to CMYK controls these percentages are used in converting RGB to CMYK For example if red is specified to be 10096 magenta and 5096 yellow when a 209 red dot is converted to CMYK it becomes 2096 magenta and 1096 yellow After a line of data has been color corrected but before it is halftoned and printed the cyan magenta and yel low are adjusted according to the Ink Balance Adjustment specifications for the Ink Balance controls 116 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Prin
140. ows 95 amp 98 Just because the BIOS is set up it does not guarantee that Windows 95 is properly con figured In addition Windows 95 amp 98 can not proper ly be configured unless the BIOS is configure for ECP mode as describe above The BIOS settings only affect the internal LPT1 device Configuring Windows 95 and 98 for ECP mode 1 Go to Start menu Settings Control Panel and open System then click on the Device Manager tab Open the Ports list to see the available LPT ports Double click the desired LPT port and click the Driver tab Verify that the driver is the ECP Printer Port driver If not see the section below Updating your LPT Driver Click the Resources tab ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix D D 1 6 The Resources menu offers multiple configuration options for the LPT port Select a configuration that provides access to the Input Output Range I O the Interrupt Request IRQ and the Direct Memory Access DMA 7 Once you have a configuration that supports all three entries you can modify the elements of the LPT port by double clicking on any element in the Resource Type list Valid entries in the Resource Type list are LPT1 I O 378 DMA 3 and IRQ 7 LPT2 I O 278 DMA 1 and IRQ 5 VO 3BC can not support ECP when assigned to a LPT port 8 Be sure that the Conflicting device list has no conflicts for the LPT port that is being configured for ECP mode D 2 Appendix D ColorBurst for
141. r files are saved with an extension of spt and contain a list of spot color names 122 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Ink Sets and their ink values No other settings in the Spot Color Definitions dialog box are saved in a spt file The default location for spt files is in the spot folder in the ColorBurst install folder When you save a spot color file and then save a printer setup file the printer setup knows which spot color file to use so all color names and values are saved with that printer setup file The name of the Last spot file in effect will be displayed at the bottom of the Spot Color Definitions window You can clear or remove the last spot file using the Clear Last Spot File button This will remove the associ ation with the last spot file but the spot names and definitions will still appear in the list You can remove all of the spot files from the list using the Clear all spot colors button The next tab in the Spot Color Definitions dialog box Ink Sets lets you specify the color of each ink cartridge installed in your printer This is useful when using Hexachrome inks or custom ink colors Spot Color Definitions Ink Sets and Sepat 3 xl Spot Color Definitions Ink Sets Separations Default Paths Specify current ink set and installed inks Current Ink Set 6 color ink set 7 color ink set 8 color ink set Light inks CMYK plus 2 ightinks zl
142. r will generate 1596 black when Maximum Black is set to 5096 The Curve allows you to enter a value from 3 to 4 0 to specify how fast black generation proceeds Black generation starts when the shared gray reaches Minimum Gray and ends at 10096 black which gener ates Maximum Black The value input is represented graphically below the entry box The value represents an exponential curve similar to a gamma curve Entering 1 is a straight line Entering a value less than 1 gives a curve above the straight line which rep resents more black generation than the gray that it replaces A value above 1 shows a curve below the straight line which represents slower black generation As the curve value becomes larger a steeper curve results toward the black ink This would represent very little black generation at the minimum gray end and very fast black generation at the maximum black end A value between 1 and 2 5 will probably give you the best result The default is 1 Undercolor Removal UCR The Undercolor Removal UCR group in the Ink Balance and RGB to CMYK dialog box lets you turn undercolor removal on and off and lets you specify the percent of generated black that is removed When ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 115 UCR is off any black that is generated is added to CMY When UCR is on some part of the black that is generated is removed from CMY Enable UCR is the first item in the Undercolor Removal UCR gr
143. rBurst which type of Epson printer you are using so it can communi cate with the printer correctly The printer selected in this pulldown determines which choices are available in the rest of this dialog box 40 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Printer Resolution Printer Dot Size Microweave Number of Installed Inks x Epson Printer Type Epson 7600 9600 m Printer Resolution 1440 x 720 variable dot z Printer Dot Size Variable dot small Microweave 4 Pass b Number of Installed Inks color x Use bidirectional printing Cut media The Printer Resolution menu shows the available printer resolutions for the printer type you have selected For printers that allow variable dot printing you will see variable dot resolutions listed as well as single dot reso lutions standard When a variable dot resolution is cho sen the printer will use ink droplets of different sizes Variable dot increases print quality The Printer Dot Size pulldown menu shows all dot size options available for the printer and resolution you have chosen The dot size will affect print quality the smaller the dot the finer the print If Epson s Microweave is available for the selected printer you will see the valid choices listed in the Microweave pulldown menu If Microweave is not available you will have only one option Off Depending on the printer you have selected in the Epson Printer Type menu yo
144. rmat nn separates jobs CACBNOVANCALIBRAT EPS filename in bold Wed 01 26 94 02 26 28PM time date stamp Sending to Printer task Elapsed Time 00 01 45 6 elapsed time am xl ColorBurst Rev 6 1 JAWS PostScript Interpreter Rev 2002 3 Initialized C CBURSTATESTFILE CALIBRAT EPS Mon 25 Jun 01 17 19 44 Interpreting PostScript code Elapsed Time 00 00 07 5 Building screen display Elapsed Time 00 00 00 2 Messages will continue to accumulate in the window which may be sized within the ColorBurst main win dow It may also be closed through the pulldown on the control box but will return to the screen upon starting another task or restarting ColorBurst Other error and information messages that may occur during the RIP and printing processes will also display in the message window These messages will be dis played line for line in the window This type of error is ultimately written to the message window after first reporting via a standard Windows error dialog box on which you must select the Yes button to continue ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Message Window 157 umo ColorBurst Rev 6 1 JAWS PostScript Interpreter Rev 2002 3 Initialized C CBURSTATESTFILE CALIBRAT EPS Mon 25 Jun 01 17 19 44 Interpreting PostScript code eel Error interrupt OffendingCommand interrupt 744 AHI Flushing rest of job to end of file will be ignored J14 Elapsed Time 00 00 02 4 zi The ColorBurst Mess
145. roma from next read of linearization minus Warn user when linearization s Dmax Chroma is less than desired by 0 1000 Conci Hep 108 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Desired density chroma values You may enter Desired density chroma values which are the ink densities or chroma values that you will use to standardize your output In order for these values to be used you must make sure the Use original Dmax Chroma settings checkbox is not selected Different Desired values may be entered for each of the ink colors Cyan Magenta Yellow Black and up to 4 spot color inks Values of 2596 5096 7596 and 10096 the Dmax peak chroma value can be entered ColorBurst will map the LIN file values to the target values entered here This is helpful if you already know the densities at which your inks should print or chro ma values if you are using chroma based lineariztion If any values are left blank they will be calculated from the values that were entered to create uniform values If all fields are blank the LIN file will be used to deter mine the values Dmax Chroma controls The Dmax controls allow you to determine how the Dmax values are set If you specify Use Dmax Chroma from desired densities the values entered in the Desired densities fields will be used 100 is the Dmax value If you select Use original Dmax Chroma settings the 10096 value will be read from the current Linear
146. s of cut marks can be changed in the Enter dimensions group Click on the Specify Thickness In ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 51 Pixels button to choose a width of 1 2 3 or 4 pixels If you want a different measure you may enter it manual ly by selecting the Specify Thickness In Units of Measure button and entering the value in the Units entry box It can be helpful to have wider marks when printing at high resolutions where one pixel wide marks may not be visible Position marks The Position marks group lets you add space between the marks and the corners of the image You can enter a positive number to add space around the image which is useful for pole wraps The maximum space allowed is 72 wide A negative number will place the mark inside the image for trimming bleed Job Titles The Job Titles tab in the Printer Options dialog box is used to specify job title options for individual images or entire layouts A job title is printed information describing an image or layout that is not intended to be part of the final printed product When titles are turned on a gray bar representing each title will appear in the Layout window Print Job Titles and Title Options The Print job titles checkbox determines whether job titles are printed If selected job titles are created and printed and the rest of the options in the Job Titles tab become available The file name or layout name for layout titles is al
147. searched for contour data If this checkbox is selected the contour name pulldown menu becomes active Only names that appear in the pulldown menu will be searched for If your contour path stroke color is not a spot color named in the pulldown menu it will not be found You may add up to 20 contour spot color names To add a contour spot name type the contour name in the Specify named colors that describe contours box then dick the Add button The name you entered will be added to the pulldown list You may change a name by selecting it in the list typing in your changes and click ing the Edit button To remove a name from the list select the name in the pulldown menu and click the Del button Please note that changes to the list take effect immediately if you click Cancel to close the Printer Options dialog box the names in the contour name list will not revert back to the original list The Density group allows you to choose how the con tour line is interpreted You may choose from Coarse Medium or Fine Fine is recommended to give the smoothest contour The I Cut group is used to create I Cut scripts during printing If the Generate I Cut scripts box is selected a 56 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers CUT file used by the I Cut cutter will be created in the path named in the Path for CUT files box You can use the Find button to locate a path to save CUT files in CUT files are given the same name as th
148. sing the arrow buttons ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 57 Place multiple pages of job in layout C Place each page of job in separate layout Page Range C All pages Delete All Pages 25 Use dash for page range inclusive Use space or comma to separate pages or ranges Example 1 3 5 9 11 Save Cancel Help The File Information box will indicate which page of the document is currently selected The first page of a lay out is selected by default For example when you open a document that has 5 pages the File Information box will read Page 1 of 5 You may select any page by clicking on it in the Layout window Note that when you scroll through the layouts the first page in the lay out is selected Place each page of job in separate layout This option tells ColorBurst to put each page in a mul tipage document in its own layout New layouts will be created for each page in the file The Layout window will display the first layout and thumbnails will appear at the bottom to indicate subsequent layouts Click on any thumbnail to view the layout or scroll through lay outs using the arrow buttons Page Range This group is active only when a multipage document is open When you change the page range the lay out s will be updated immediately You can change the page range as many times as you wish including excluding pages and then adding them into the range again To delete the entire file al
149. sked whether all copies of the file should be deleted Answering Yes deletes all copies and answering No deletes only the selected block from the layout The Clear button clears every file in the layout leaving an empty layout window This inhibits printing since there must be at least one file in the layout for the Print command to work Select a File Option 16 File Menu The lower portion of the File Information dialog box is the Select a File Option group This group allows you to start processing the selected file Selecting one of these options and choosing the Start button is exactly like selecting one of the options under the File menu The Print radio button the default selection is equiva lent to the Print menu item the Display radio button is equivalent to the Display menu item The Convert to and Convert As buttons are enabled in the Pro Pre press and ProLab versions of ColorBurst only If you are ready for processing select the File Option and click the Start button or press Enter on the key ColorBurst for InkJet Printers board The File Information dialog box disappears and printing displaying etc begins immediately Select a File Option jon C Convert to TIFF i Print C Convert to CT C Convert As TIFF C Display C Convert As CT It is not necessary to start processing immediately If for example you need to set up Printer or PostScript Options or if the file selected is not the file yo
150. so rotate files and access the Change Tiles dialog box ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Scaling Rotation and Tiling x General Scale Rotate Tile PostScript Only File CALIBRAT EPS Directory c cburst testfile Dimensions 21 833i x 4 583 Units of Measure Scaling Rotation and Tiling El x General Scale Rotate Tile PostScript Ony Width Height Scale by percentage fi oo 100 Reset Scaling Scale to width Ja 833i Scale to Tile Size Scale to height a583 Number of tiles hoc I Scale width and height independently To Width Rotation Scale to Layout Size LEA e ae The first way to scale an image is Scale by percentage A number entered here changes the image size to a percentage of the original size Therefore numbers less than 100 make the image smaller while numbers greater than 100 enlarge the image The default is 100 the original size of the image The Height box is enabled when the Scale width and height indepen dently checkbox is selected this allows for each dimension to be scaled to a different percentage The second way to scale an image is by a user defined width or height When a number is entered in either the Scale to width or Scale to height entry box the other dimension will automatically change to keep the propor tions of the original file unless the Scale width and ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Menu e 29 30 File Menu height indepe
151. splayed on the screen Print acts exactly like Open to allow you to add a file to the current layout When one or more files have already been added to the layout and Print is selected a Print progress window appears This screen similar to the Convert screen gauges the progress of the RIP and the printer File CALIBRAT EPS Directory c cburst testfile File Type PostScript Sending to printer Dimensions 21 83in x 4 58in Pixels 6550 x 1375 Pixel offsets to origin 0 x 0 Resolution 300ppi x 300ppi Press Esc or click CANCEL to stop CANCEL The progress of the printer is graphically enhanced to better show the actual printing The progress bar is a thumbnail of the current layout on the media Any Offsets in effect are shown in the thumbnail As a por tion of the layout is printed it turns gray The actual percent of the entire layout that has been sent to the printer displays to the right of the thumbnail You may abort printing at any time by selecting the Cancel but ton or pressing Esc on the keyboard ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Menu e 19 Display 20 File Menu The position of images on the print media the number of copies to print etc are controlled by the Printer Options dialog box The Display command is used to display crop and tile an image on the screen and has a shortcut to scaling and rotation You can also double click an image preview in the Layout window to open the Displa
152. ster data and vector data without blends It is recommended that Fast Images be used on machines with a minimum of 64Mb of RAM preferably 128Mb You should leave 40Mb for your system software and you can then set your Memory Limits in the PostScript Interpreter Options dialog box as follows 98 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Total Allocation 20 for 64Mb machines to 80 for machines with at least 128Mb PostScript VM 3to6 Initial Buffer 1024 to 2048 Because Fast Images is always done within the RIP files that are not normally run through the RIP e g unscaled unrotated TIFFs CTs or Targa files now must be encapsulated and run through the RIP This extra time especially for very large files may offset any time savings that you get from the faster screening If much of your work does not go through the PostScript RIP now you should run timing tests before deciding to use the Fast Images finish The Halftones Screening option will activate the Halftones tab in the Color Adjustments dialog box This tab is where you can select what type of halftone dot to use Round Cosine dot etc as well as the halftone screen angles Brightness Control Select Curves The Brightness Control is independent of the other curves in the Color Adjustments dialog box and should be modified after setting the other curves as it will make the entire image lighter or darker To edit the Brightness curve click on the Edit butto
153. t if one of the following conditions is met the image is the only image in layout the image touches the left margin and oversets the width only or the image touches the top margin and oversets the height only Auto Scale to Intended Size When Auto scale to intended size is checked the size of any raster format file TIFF CT etc has its resolu tion checked to calculate the intended size of the image If the resolution is different than the printer res olution the image is automatically scaled so that it will print at its intended size For example suppose a TIFF is 600 pixels wide and its internal resolution is 200 dots per inch Its intended size then is 3 inches wide On a 300 dpi printer this would print as 2 inches ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 61 wide If Auto scale to intended size is checked it will be scaled to 150 as it is added to the layout and it will print as 3 inches wide The scaling will be shown in the Scaling and Rotation dialog box as if the scaling had been changed manually and the scaling can be changed to any other size This option does not affect PostScript images nor raster images that have no internal resolution such as Targa As you turn this checkbox on and off the size of raster images affected by this command will change in the layout window If this checkbox is in effect and you change the resolution of the image area the size of the image in the layout window shou
154. ta and Medium Magenta inks are installed in the printer make sure that Magenta is selected next to both Light Magenta and Medium Magenta This ensures that any magenta data in the file is correctly converted from magenta to light and medium magenta Separations The separations tab tells ColorBurst how to handle pre separated files Use Fast Separations This checkbox tells ColorBurst to make the intermediate grayscale file smaller for faster processing It should be used with 4 or 6 color pre separated files that do not contain spot colors Normally separated data is 8 bit data which is merged to a final composite job for print ing When Use Fast Separations is selected ColorBurst RIPs directly to 1 bit This means that ColorBurst cannot merge custom colors so spot colors are ignored If you don t want spot colors ignored de select the Print fast Separations with spot colors checkbox this will cancel the print job if a custom color is found ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 125 Spot Color Definitions Ink Sets and Sepai x Spot Color Definitions Ink Sets Separations Default Paths Fast separations allow faster printing of separated files but cannot integrate spot colors into installed inks Fast separations cannot be used with low resolution separations Fast Separations Use fast separations IF P pot colors by J Use low resolution separations of 50 E Search all PostScript files for separatio
155. ta is separated into the light and regular ink For example the Light Cyan Curve Data may be set as follows 09620 40962100 1009620 Cyan would then be set to 096 0 4096 0 100962100 These settings indicate that from 096 to 4096 data the Light Cyan ink should be used and the Cyan ink should be used for data over 4096 When using Light Ink Conversion it is recommended to set Cyan and Magenta Process Curves to 1 and Max Ink to 10096 100 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers 6 Color Spot Inks 8 Color Light Inks 8 Color Spot Inks The next setting in the pulldown 6 Color Spot Inks is used in conjunction with the Spot Color Definitions dialog box If you add a Defined Spot Color to your Installed Inks list in the Spot Color Definitions dialog box a curve will be available for that spot color in the Color Adjustments dialog box The curve can be set for each spot color ink using the Edit button The spot color named should correspond to an ink installed in your printer as well as a defined color name in your file The bottom two curves are disabled because there are only two definable spot colors using a 6 color printer The 8 Color Light Inks selection works in the same way as the 6 Color Light Inks The color curves work together to distribute the data between the yellow and light yellow and black and light black inks When you use an eight color printer with all four light inks the Process Colors curves Li
156. tains printer setup files named env for different printers inks and media Printer Setup files not only make using ColorBurst extremely convenient they are the most important part of multi queue spooling They tell the spooler how to handle the files in a particular queue during spooling Select Printer Setup Select Printer Setup opens a standard Open dialog box with the default path as the ColorBurst ENV folder After choosing a file a message will appear asking you if you are sure you want to restore the ColorBurst envi ronment Restoring a Printer Setup file restores the options saved in the Printer Setup file and you will lose the current settings The name of the newly restored printer setup file appears in the menu bar The Message window also states that the file was restored ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Printer Setup Menu e 33 Look in a ink amp Al e la Epson 3000 1440DPl env ie HP DJ Canvas env a Epson 5000 720 dpi InkJetPaper Glossy env 38 HP DJ Glossy env lan Epson 5000 720 dpi Photo Proofing env i HP DJ Heavy Bond env lae Epson 9000 720 dpi Photo Proofing env lee HP DJ SemiGloss env lae Epson 9000 720 dpi env ja HP DJ UV Backlitenv a HP DJ Backlit env is HP DJ UV Canvas env fige Help A Save Printer Setup Selecting Save Printer Setup opens the common Save As dialog box Saving a printer setup file saves all current settings in all Options dialog boxes that take
157. te the bitmap for this file click Yes to delete the preview The file will now appear as an outline in the Layout window and must be displayed again to create a new preview It is helpful to delete a bitmap preview file when changing display resolutions or ICC display profiles deleting and re displaying the file will update the bitmap preview with the new set tings in effect Restore Last Job File Info The Restore Last Job item will open the last layout that was printed If you close a layout before it is printed the layout information is lost The File Information dialog box serves two purposes First it lets you verify that the selected file is indeed the file you want to process Second it is a shortcut to start processing i e printing displaying or modifying the layout or images This dialog box appears automat ically after you select a valid file TIFF CT CLF EPS etc in the Open dialog box You can also display this dialog box by choosing the File Info menu item under the File menu on the menu bar or by clicking on a file in the Layout window Once a valid file is selected in the Open dialog box it remains selected until you open another file add another file to the layout or select another file in the Layout win dow The Step amp Repeat Scale Rot and Delete buttons as well as the commands to Display and Convert process the selected file At any time you may want to display ColorBurst for InkJet Printers
158. tent is used the same way as described above in the Input Profiles tab Simulation or proofing profiles are used to simulate output to one type of printer on another type of printer For example you can simulate the output of a Mimaki printer on an Epson The simulation is extremely accu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 91 rate as long as the output device has a larger ink color gamut than the simulation device If you simulate a printer with a wider color gamut on a printer with a smaller gamut some color clipping will occur ICC Profile Options E 2 xl General Input Profiles Output Profiles Simulation Profile Build Profile Default paths Simulation or proofing profiles are used to simulate output to one printer on another printer Select a printer profile to simulate output to that printer V Simulate output to another printer Profile name Rendering Intent Epson 5500 7 10 Bice Absolute Colorimetric v Epson 5500 8 20656455 Satin rod T Use L a b to L a b profile for device matching Profile name Rendering Intent Perceptual v Find The Simulate output to another printer button activates the Profile name entry box The Simulation Profile is set in the same manner as the Input and Output profiles Use the Find button to find the profile you want to use The file is checked to make sure it is valid and the description will appear below the filename The profile can be disabled using the On
159. ter Type pulldown is important if you select Use special print method which enables the Special Print Only group ColorBurst needs to know which HP printer you are using so it can properly communicate with the printer when using the options in the Special Print Only group When you print to the HP the paper will automatically cut after printing unless you select the Inhibit automatic cut checkbox Selecting the Double Horizontal Resolution checkbox will double the ColorBurst print resolution The maxi mum resolution you may enter in the DPI box in the Printer Options dialog box is 720 dpi Use the Double Horizontal Resolution checkbox to print at 1440x720 enhanced resolution Special Print Selecting Use Special Print Method gives you access to the Special Print Only group The Use bidirectional printing checkbox turns bidirectional printing on and off Normally the printhead prints while moving in one direction then moves back to the starting point to print the next pass Bidirectional printing will put ink down while the printhead moves in both directions Selecting UV inks will decrease print speed which is necessary for UV inks you must select this option when using UV inks to maintain print quality The Number of print passes box allows you to set the number of passes through ColorBurst However if you plan on using 8 pass or 6 pass it is recommended to use the front panel on the HP to set your number of passes 8 pass s
160. ters If you enable Ink Balance Adjustment controls for both RGB to CMYK and Ink Balancing an RGB image will be corrected twice before it is printed once for each set of controls Test Conversions The Test Conversions group in the Ink Balance and RGB to CMYK dialog box displays the black genera tion UCR and converted CMYK dot values that are calculated from any RGB or CMY percentages that you specify In addition the actual RGB color is displayed as a circle below the RGB edit boxes When the dialog box first appears the Test Conversions group displays a brief explanation plus the Red Cyan Green Magenta and Blue Yellow edit boxes When the RGB to CMYK option is selected in the dropbox the values entered are displayed in a colored circle as percentages of RGB and two messages appear below the colored circle The top message informs you of the black generation value that has been calculated from the RGB percentages and the bottom message informs you of the UCR value that has been calculat ed Each message displays both the percent and dot value Dots are in the range 0 255 so 40 for example is equivalent to dot 102 Below this informa tion you will see Converts to with the percentages of C M Y and K that will be generated from the values entered These percentages include ink balance calcu lations if they are in effect When Ink Balance is select ed in the dropbox the values entered are assumed to be CMY and the in
161. the ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 111 Linearization Options dialog box The data for the new Lin file will be displayed in the Data points tab Ink Balance and RGB to CMYK The Ink Balance and RGB to CMYK dialog box allows you to control Ink Balancing and RGB to CMYK color conversion This dialog box is activated by selecting the Ink Balance item under the Options menu Ink Balance and RGB to CMYK x ink Balance z E foede eU Black Generation I uro MUS 2 V Enable Black Generation Ei vui y e Mirum EN Green 100 C f 00 2Y M imum Black foo Blue 100 40 60 ZM Curve 3 4 0 ILE 100 Me 1100 ES Enter cyan magenta yellow values Ink Balance or red green blue values RGB to CMYK to show the color the calculated black generation the calculated UCR and the converted CMYK dot value Undercolor Removal UCR cg foo x IV Enable UCR WG Masimum uca 70 X p un Bleck 0 00 Dot 0 UCR 34 90 Dot 89 Converts to 65 51 45 0 Save Cancel Help The Ink Balance and RGB to CMYK dialog box main tains two separate sets of controls Ink Balancing is used as a final ink adjustment after all other color cor rection has taken place RGB to CMYK is only used when RGB Output is selected in the PostScript Options dialog box and you are printing to a CMYK printer ColorBurst has to convert from RGB output to CMYK outp
162. the first two letters of the day of the week Sunday su Monday mo etc Example cb w on a Wednesday becomes cbwe Time Output file names can include the current time that is the time when writing the output file begins T time This is replaced by a six digit code holding the current time as HHMMSS using a 24 hour clock Example cb t at 4 32 23 PM becomes cb163223 H hour This is replaced by a two digit code holding the current hour using a 24 hour clock The replacement will be in the range 00 midnight to 23 11 PM Example cb h at 5 21 PM becomes cb17 96l minutes This is replaced by a two digit code holding the minutes past the hour of the current time All val ues will be between 00 and 59 Example cb h i at 5 21 PM becomes cb1721 96S seconds This is replaced by a two digit code holding the seconds past the minute of the current time All values will be between 00 and 59 Example ch h i s at 5 21 34 PM becomes cb172134 Miscellaneous Other codes not fitting the types listed above ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 67 9696 Alphabetical list 96 96 96A D E F H l L M S T U W Y This specifies that the percent sign is needed as part of the output file name That is the percent sign starting a special code should be ignored and the character fol lowing is needed Example xyz becomes xyz All special codes are listed alphabetically Percent sig
163. tically scale every image in a queue and to print multiple copies of spooled files Special Queue Setup x Seale Files in Queue v Scale all images in queue Scale all files to width of layout area C Scale all files to height of layout area C Scale by percentage of ji C Scale to width of fo I Scale to height of r Multiple Copies Bi eea T _Save Corci Heb The Scale all images in queue checkbox enables scaling of all images in a queue When selected five scaling options are available The first Scale all files to width of layout area will scale each file in a queue to the width of the layout area set in the Printer Options dia log box The second option Scale all files to height of layout area scales all images in the queue to the ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Spooler Menu 141 Hide queue height of the layout area The third option is to Scale by percentage 100 is the original size of the image Any number less than 100 will make the image small er and any number greater than 100 will enlarge the image The fourth and fifth options allow you to scale all images in the queue to a specified width or height by entering that number in the edit box The Number of copies to print checkbox allows you to specify how many copies of each file to print If you have layouts turned on in spooler each layout will print the specified number of times The default value is O which is the sa
164. tified standards Consult current PANTONE Color Publications for accurate color PANTONE and other Pantone Inc trademarks are the property of Pantone Inc O Pantone Inc 2001 Pantone Inc is the copyright owner of color data and or software which are licensed to Compatible Systems Engineering Inc to distribute for use only in combination with ColorBurst PANTONE Color Data and or Software shall not be copied onto another disk or into memory unless as part of the execution of ColorBurst All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners VUTEK Inc 189 Waukewan Street Meredith NH 03253 USA Tel 603 279 4635 Fax 603 279 6411 Contents Getting Started es 3 Hardware Requirements 000000 3 Software Requirements 00 0020 esses 4 ColorBurst Installation Procedure liliis 4 ColorBurst Utilities included on the CD 2 2222 225 5 Other Utilities lise m 5 Starting ColorBurst liliis 5 1 File Menu ssssssls rr 9 OPEN pac qp dede oe P XP HER TR e e e Yd 9 Restore Last Job x i ust ente Se eC NR UC neds 11 FUCIAIO M M UTI 11 Change Layout 4 224 24 Ree aeaii meti e ae VR 12 Select a File Option 00 00 00 2c 16 Convert Convert AS eiea sues e o Ren 17 PRIN Ace eet and Ee oh eee ee As Paden est eh 19 PI d MADDEN 20 Image Zoom BUTTONS sisse e cep o 21 CIODDID sese iumecenipbrawseswie pkd eaog Ana h 23 COD TO SIZE eich se ai t a RE EE aa 24
165. tive adding color adds light Saturated RGB is white Equal amounts of RGB or CMY colors are gray but in reverse order of each other A CMY ele ment made up of 2096 cyan 3096 magenta and 4096 yellow shares 2096 gray because it has at least 2096 of all three colors An RGB element made up of 20 red 3096 green and 4096 blue shares 6096 gray That is 2096 red is still 8096 black 3096 green is still 7096 black and 4096 blue is still 6096 black The RGB ele ment shares at least 6096 gray in all three colors Black generation works on this shared gray Minimum Gray specifies a threshold where black genera tion begins Black generation is effective in shadow areas of an image Adding black to light grays often results in an unacceptably dark image The Minimum Gray edit box allows you to specify what percent the gray shared 114 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers by all colors has to reach before black generation begins Remember that smaller percentages of RGB are darker so all three colors must be less than 60 to share 40 gray The higher you set Minimum Gray the darker the color has to be before black generation begins Maximum Black lets you specify the maximum amount of black that can be generated Setting this to 8096 for example will generate only 8096 black from solid black Black is generated in proportion to this value That is if a color generates 3096 black when Maximum Black is set to 10096 that same colo
166. topped The message is Stop print on size discrepancy This has the same effect as if printing completed its task The layout window is closed If Do nothing is selected any overlap is allowed to print Images are not repositioned The message is No action taken You will probably be able to predict size discrepancy errors according to the software package that created 72 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers the PostScript file There are ways of eliminating size discrepancy errors leave extra room in the layout print only one illustration e select Convert from the File menu to build TIFF or CT files from the PostScript before adding them to the layout When all entries in the Layout Options dialog box are complete select the Save button or press Enter Selecting the Cancel button or pressing Esc will can cel all entries you made Selecting the Help button will open ColorBurst s OnLine Help file on the Layout Options dialog box Postscript Layout Output The next Options item is Output Options Selecting it will display the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box These selections are used to establish defaults for other commands such as Convert and Print r Output Options Save Print Options Dutput directly to printer Save Fle and Part C Create RTL file C Create TIFF file ELD C Create Scitex CT file Pinviny Nos Gave FE Output Directory Je cburst temp Find
167. ts are missing checkbox if you want to cancel printing when ColorBurst can t find a font specified in a file If this box is not checked the font will be substituted and the file will print with the substituted font For more detailed information regarding fonts font maintenance and how to manually substitute fonts for those named in the PostScript input files please refer to the OnLine ColorBurst Help files by selecting the Help button Miscellaneous The Miscellaneous Options dialog box is used to set up miscellaneous items that are not covered in other dia log boxes Currently two general categories are cov ered in Miscellaneous Options turning on and off log file generation and specifying APR Automatic Picture Replacement settings Log files are files which contain all messages generated by ColorBurst for one 24 hour period The name of 132 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers the log file is generated by ColorBurst but you specify whether log files should be created and if so where Miscellaneous Options x p Log File Automatic Picture Replacement x iad Be un the ak APR search in effect ci log where YY year i MM month and DD dale Eror if replacement not found Search paths I Write messages to lag file x Logfile path fe cburst Ads Edt Dal m Cancel e APR is a method by which high resolution images needed for printing are automaticall
168. u 63 Paths Extension sign is passed along as part of the output name Special codes are replaced by information associated with the code A common special code is 96F which is replaced by the name of the first file that was entered in the layout For example suppose there are three images in a layout ABC EPS DEF TIF and GHI CT entered in that order Using the template 96F with no other characters will create the output file named ABC Using the template CSE 96F X creates the out put name CSE ABC X Likewise L chooses the name of the last image that was added to the layout as its output name In the previous example the out put name would be CSE GHI X You can also have the output name include the time of day the date and three unique numbers 000 through 999 to better describe the file while also ensuring that one file does not overwrite the next Path names in the template are ignored In most cases the output path is that specified in Output Directory in the PostScript Layout Output File Options dialog box The template is searched for path separators colon backslash and forward slash and if found all charac ters up to the last separator are ignored An extension can be specified in the template includ ing names with special codes in them In most cases however the output file type has a defined extension which will overwrite any extension that you specify For example if the output file is to be an RTL a
169. u want simply click the Cancel button or press lt Esc gt on the keyboard The File Information dialog box will disap pear but the file is still selected and the layout is still in effect The next time you select Display for instance the currently selected file will display on the screen Selecting Print will print the layout Convert Convert As ColorBurst allows you to create TIFF and Scitex CT files through the File menu and the File Information dialog box as well as the Spooler File Printer Setup Options Spooler Windov File PrinterSetup Options Spooler windov Open Ala Open Al Restore Last Job Bestore Last Job File Info Alt File Info Alt l To TFF Conve Convert As gt TotT To TIFF t Print AltsP Print AltsP ect Display Al D Display Al D Scale amp Rotate Alt S Scale amp Rotate Alt S Exit Alt F4 Exit Altera The Convert command is only available after a file has been selected The conversion taking place is from any image format such as an EPS or a TIFF to a TIFF or a Scitex CT as selected in the sub menus of the Convert and Convert As menus The file is saved with the cur rent file name and a TIF or CT extension depending ColorBurst for InkJet Printers File Menu 17 18 File Menu on which file type is selected to the path specified in Output Directory of the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box When a file is converted the progress of file conversion is sho
170. u will know there is something wrong with your printer Set Dmax Chroma button The Set Dmax Chroma button should be used to vali date LIN files and can also be used to replace Dmax Chroma values When the Use original Dmax Chroma settings radial button is selected and the Set Dmax button is clicked the Desired density Dmax value is replaced by the 10096 value from the LIN file To revert back to your previous values hit the Cancel button When the radial button is not selected the Set Dmax button will simply check header data and tags to verify that the LIN file is valid A warning will appear if the file is not valid 110 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Data points The Data points tab displays the individual ink density or chroma values from the most recent Lin file reading for Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Spot color 1 Spot 2 Spot 3 and Spot 4 The data here will be listed as ink density values unless the Use chroma based linearization button in the General tab is selected if chroma based linearization is selected chroma values are listed here This data can be used to determine if ink density or chroma values level out in the 9096 10096 range If the amount of gain for any ink is not at least 03 04 and the C M and K densities are at least 1 6 and the Y density is at least 0 9 then you can reduce the maxi mum value to the point where it declines or levels out without losing data A new Lin file
171. u will see a list of available color modes Choose the number of inks that you want your printer to use When 6 color or higher is chosen in the Number of Installed Inks menu the Light Ink Curves in the Color Adjustments dialog box will be activated The Use bidirectional printing checkbox turns bidirec tional printing on and off Normally the printhead prints while moving in one direction then moves back to the starting point to print the next pass Bidirectional print ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 41 ing will put ink down while the printhead moves in both directions The Cut Media checkbox tells the printer to cut after printing is completed This setting overrides any set tings on the control panel of the Epson printer Mimaki Printer Setup When you choose Mimaki in the Printer pulldown and click the Setup button the Mimaki Printer Setup dialog box opens allowing you to set specific Mimaki settings Mimaki Printer Setup xj IV 6 color printing IV Use bidirectional printing T Automatic cut after print Select the 6 Color Printing checkbox if you want the Mimaki to print using six ink cartridges The Use bidirectional printing checkbox turns bidirec tional printing on and off Normally the printhead prints while moving in one direction then moves back to the starting point to print the next pass Bidirectional print ing will put ink down while the printhead moves in both directions Select the
172. ue checkbox and enter a gamma value of 1 0 This setting only affects High Quality screening if any other screening method is selected any gamma value set here is ignored 96 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Sharpness The Sharpness factor will add electronic noise to vector blends such as gradients created in Adobe Illustrator The added noise will create a smoother blend and reduce the appearance of any banding that occurs The Sharpness factor can be set to any value from 0 no noise to 50 The recommended range is from 1 to 6 Adjustments The Color Adjustment Options dialog box opens in the Adjustments tab This is where the majority of the color settings are made Color Adjustments h Ad xl Ink Limits Adiustments Halftones r Screening Finish Brightness Control G High Quality Smooth blends C Draft C Fast images Halftones Edit PEE Curves Process Colors Process Colors CMYK r cyan r magenta at A Mar Ink 10 125 100 Max Ink 10 125 85 yellow black Mas Ink 10 1252z eo Max Ink 10 125 90 Screening Finish Color data that is sent to a large format inkjet printer has to be patterned in some manner to give accept able print quality The three main formulas for pattern ing an image are dithering error diffusion and halftoning Dithering is by far the fastest method but its quality is lacking There are many formulas
173. ush on depth timeout or area timeout allows you to specify either a minimum depth or area depth x width or a timeout that must be reached before the layout is flushed When the queue is empty the deepest image in the layout is calculated as a per cent of the full depth of the media If that percent is equal to or greater than the percent entered in the Min Depth area edit box the layout is flushed Reported in the message window is Empty queue Flush by depth area If the minimum depth or area is not reached Spooler calculates the number of minutes that have elapsed since the last file was added to the layout If the number of minutes is equal to or greater than the value in the Time out edit box the layout is flushed The message reported is Empty queue Flush on time out If neither minimum depth area nor timeout is reached Spooler does not flush the layout ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Spooler Menu e 147 Selecting Flush on timeout only is exactly like Flush on depth timeout and area timeout except that only a timeout value is checked The number of minutes in Time out can range from zero minutes the same as Flush immediately to 480 minutes 8 hours Flush Button At any time you can force a specified queues layout to be flushed by selecting the queue in the Queue to moni tor edit box and then selecting the Flush button The next time that queue is monitored and found to be empty the specified layout will be flush
174. ut You choose which set of controls to edit by selecting either Ink Balance or RGB to CMYK in the first drop box in the dialog box In each set of controls you may enable and edit Black Generation Undercolor Removal and Ink Balance Adjustment We recommend that you use black gener 112 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers ation and UCR only when converting RGB to CMYK and use Ink Balancing for all images as part of a final correction process You can however set up Ink Balancing when converting RGB to CMYK and you can specify Black Generation and UCR in the final cor rection process This section covers why you might want to use these additional capabilities Why would you use ink balancing when converting RGB to CMYK RGB describes color CMYK describes ink Most CMYK images have already been balanced for ink mixtures through whatever process converted them to CMYK in the first place SWOP ink standards are commonly used This ink balance may not be right for your printer but if it is you will not need to use ink balancing provided in ColorBurst An RGB image is converted to CMYK before any other correction takes place The purpose of RGB to CMYK conversion then is to create as exact a duplicate as possible of the same image in its CMYK form If you print both RGB and CMYK images the more closely the conversion recreates your CMYK images the more precise your other color corrections can be Describing ink balan
175. verlap option lets you enter how much over lap should be printed on each tile The overlap area prints on all interior sides of each tile and 1 4 long crop marks are printed outside of the overlap area for trimming Overlap and crop marks are added to the tile size when you enter a tile Width and Height Overlap and crop marks are included in the tile size when you select Set tile size from current image area Trim Outside Tiles The Trim Outside Tiles group lets you define the amount of image to trim around the perimeter of the entire tiled image This is an independent measurement from the Tile Overlap so that your perimeter trim amount can be a different size than your overlap between tiles A positive value entered here will place trim marks inside the image Minimum Tile Size The Minimum Tile Size settings are optional entering val ues here force tiles to be at least as large as the values Output file template The Output file template edit box allows you to specify the name of an output file which will be created when ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 129 saving a tiled image Each tile is a separate file unless there is more than one tile in the layout a file will be created for the layout of tiles in that case The File Name Template is described in detail earlier in this chapter under Layout Options In the Tile Output file template 96t adds the number of the tile the number of the tile is affected
176. ways part of a job title information When layout titles are printed the layout name is determined by the File Name Template in the Layout Options dialog box If no other title options are selected the name is the only information printed 52 Options Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers General TCP IP Cut Marks Job Titles Cut Devices Turn on off job titles and specify the content and size IV Print job titles I Include full path of job name IV Include current time and date Include printer setup file name Include additional comment Enter comment below Iv Print using only uppercase characters Comment to be included in titles max 255 characters r Nested layouts Print layout title Inhibit job titles Print job titles Inhibit layout title Print both layout title and job titles p Space reserved for titles Point size of type in job title 014 pts Additional vertical space between job title and job 0 Cancel Help Selecting the Include full path of job name checkbox will enable the inclusion of the full path used to open the file If Include full path is not selected the file name without any path is included in the job title If you select the Include current time and date check box the current time day of the week and date will be included The time and date are determined at the time the title is created If you select the Include printer setup file name check bo
177. window must be minimized to get back to the ICC Options If Upper left is selected the ICC dialog will be in the upper left corner Even if the Layout window is clicked part of the ICC Options dialog will accessible without the need of minimizing the Layout window 152 Windows Menu ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Show Status Bar The first on off selection in the Windows menu Show Status Bar is used to control the visibility of the ColorBurst status bar at the bottom of the main win dow The status bar shows a real time status of set tings in ColorBurst whether Linearization Ink Limiting ICC Correction Ink Balancing and Cut Marks are on or off and the selected printer number of inks and printer resolution The options listed in the status bar are placed in order of their usage in the profiling process These options are turned on or off in the cor responding dialog box in the Options menu Auto Set Default Positions Selecting Auto Set Default Positions in the Windows menu will automatically place the File Info Messages and Layout windows in their default locations when ColorBurst is opened The default positions allow for maximum use of the ColorBurst work area A checkmark will appear in the menu next to this item when it is selected in effect Set Default Positions The Set Default Positions selection can be activated at any time while working in ColorBurst to automatically place the File Info Messages and
178. wn in a progress window A gauge at the center of the window shows the percentage completed This process may be stopped at any time by selecting the Cancel button or pressing Esc File CALIBRAT EPS Directory c cburst testfile File Type PostScript 9 100 rare ronal Fore Creating TIFF file c cburst temp calibrat tif Dimensions 21 83in x 4 58in Pixels 6550 x 1375 Pixel offsets to origin 0 x 0 Resolution 300ppi x 300ppi Press Esc or click CANCEL to stop CANCEL Convert As allows you to name the output file The file type may also be selected by choosing either To TIFF CMYK TIFF or To CT as a sub menu selection from Convert and Convert As The naming convention TIF or CT used for Convert is also the default name for Convert As Note that the default directory for this dialog box was specified as the Output Directory in the Postscript Layout Output File Options dialog box Also note that like files cannot be converted a file that is already a CMYK TIFF will not convert to a CMYK TIFF nor will a CT file convert to a CT an RGB TIFF can be converted to a CMYK TIFF ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Print The Print command starts the printing process which always includes all images in the current layout rather than single files A single file is printed when it is the only image in the layout If no file has been selected or if there is no current lay out i e the layout window is not di
179. x an x appears in the box You must then specify the number of samples and the formula to use for antialiasing The number you enter in the Samples edit box sets the internal resolution of the PostScript RIP Using four samples at 300 dpi for examples actually rasterizes the images at 1200 dpi Before outputting the raster image however the extra data is res d down to 300 dpi The Box and Pyramid radio buttons select the formula chosen to convert from the high resolution image back to the resolution of choice The Box formula sometimes referred to as unweighted is considerably faster often about 4 times faster than the Pyramid or weighted formula but Pyramid gives better quality Note that at sufficiently high reso lutions jaggies are not nearly as problematic as at ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 81 low resolutions The Box formula may be a very good compromise between speed and quality When a band a memory buffer about the size of Total Allocation minus PostScript VM of raster informa tion is ready the appropriate antialias formula converts the entire band back to the resolution needed for out put An obvious effect of antialiasing is to notice very long pauses at regular intervals The more Samples that you choose the fewer the lines per band so pauses come more frequently Be aware that if at any time your RIP seems to be running much more slowly than you think it should you may have antial
180. x the name of the Printer Setup file will be included in the job title The Printer Setup file in effect is shown in the main menu bar after the Help menu The Include additional comment box allows you to add a comment to the job title Simply type your comment in the comment entry box below You may enter a maximum of 255 characters Any comment entered here will print in all image and layout job titles ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu e 53 If you select the Uppercase checkbox the entire title will print using uppercase letters Otherwise all charac ters except the first letter of the day and month name will be printed in lowercase letters Nested Layouts The Nested Layouts group contains settings that deter mine the type of job titles that are printed There are three choices print a layout title only print job titles only or print both layout and job titles Job titles appear above each individual image a layout title appears at the top of a layout above two or more nested images Space Reserved for Titles The Space reserved for titles group allows you to set the size and spacing for titles When job titles are included the height of the title is added to the height of the image This means that the job title affects verti cal positioning and the height of the block in the layout window Horizontal positioning is not affected by whether titles are included because while the title may have enough informatio
181. xtension at End of Name option Select the Sharing tab and Enable Shared As Make the Share Name ColorBurst Use the Port Monitor with the Shared ColorBurst Printer When you print your job to the ColorBurst Printer it will be sent to our Rip hot folder cburst spooler for processing Windows NT Installation Before you install Port Monitor you should have a ColorBurst printer installed in your Start Settings Printers list If it is not installed install the adobe print er driver for your system it is included on the ColorBurst CD Set it up as a local printer and use CBURST PPD To install Port Monitor 1 E 2 Appendix E Go to Start Settings Printers and open the ColorBurst printer Select Printer Properties Ports tab Click the Add Port button Double click ColorBurst Port Click the Find button and select the path of the ColorBurst Spooler directory the default is c cburst spooler Click the Select button Click OK then close to get back to the Properties window ColorBurst for InkJet Printers 7 Atthe Ports tab click Configure Port Enter PS in the Force this extension at the end of name entry box and click OK 8 Select the Sharing tab and select Shared Give the shared printer a name and click OK Port Monitor installation is now complete ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix E e E 3
182. y not always fill one of the dimensions of the display window Only one image can be displayed on the screen at a time Image Zoom buttons The four zoom buttons and the pulldown menu at the bottom of the Display window allow you to zoom in and out of an image These tools are the same as the ones located in the Layout window you can zoom in both the Layout and Display windows The maximum zoom per centage is 160096 and the minimum size is 2596 aee ax vrl To use the Zoom to Marquee button click it once to select it Then click and drag over the image to select the area to zoom in on The Zoom Up and Zoom Down buttons are clicked once to make the image zoom in or out The Best Fit zoom tool is clicked once to return the image to fit in the window Best fit is not 100 of the image file size it is 100 of either the width or height for the current display window size The zoom pulldown menu is used to set the zoom to a certain percentage of the original size You may select any of the preset percentages or type a number into the box for a custom zoom The Best Fit options will resize the image to fill one dimension of the Display window either the width Best Fit Horiz or the height Best Fit Vert When an image is zoomed up and exceeds one dimen sion of the Display window a scroll bar will appear this allows you to scroll to see the rest of the image The scroll bar will disappear if you zoom down and it is no longer
183. y substituted for low resolution images used during page makeup APR was created by Scitex Corp A different but similar process is OPI Open prepress interface At the current time ColorBurst only supports APR Log File You can save every message that is written to ColorBurst s message window by turning on log file generation Log file can be very helpful in listing activities Showing files that were printed and pinpointing problems You turn on log files in one of two ways The primary method of turning logging on and off is through the Miscellaneous Options dialog box The group named Log File has two items The first is the Write messages to log file check box If this is checked logging is in effect Selecting this item will turn logging on if it is off and off if itis on The second item in the group is the Log file path edit box You should specify the full path of where you want the log file to be created in this edit box There is also a short cut in the message window itself for checking and activating deactivating logging At the upper left corner of the message window a small rectangle can be selected to drop down the window s control menu One of the control menu items is Write ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Options Menu 133 Log File If this menu item has a check mark next to it logging is in effect If there is no check mark shown logging is not on You can click on this menu item to turn logging on if it is of
184. y window When an image is displayed it appears in a scalable moveable window initially centered in the main ColorBurst win dow If rulers are turned On in the Window Options dia log box found under the Windows menu they will appear at the top and left side of the Display window The file name is shown at the top of the window Four image modification buttons Crop Crop to Size Tile and Scale Rotate appear at the bottom left corner of the window Close and Restore buttons appear in the center bottom Four zoom buttons Zoom to Marquee Zoom Up Zoom Down and Best Fit and a zoom pulldown menu are located to the right 7 CALIBRAT EPS 215 x 5 When you Display a multipage PostScript file each page is displayed individually The page displayed is the page that is currently selected in the layout The size of the display window is proportional to the size of ColorBurst s main window ColorBurst tries to fit one dimension of the display window to the size of the main window All images TIFF CT etc are run through the PostScript RIP and scaled to fit the display window Standard Windows moving and sizing of ColorBurst for InkJet Printers boxes with the mouse or keyboard is supported If the image is resized it is always kept proportional so the image ma
185. zing is Required Application Note 3a Place the file in the layout Display amp crop the file if 4a needed Once the file is cropped click the Scale button in the Display window far right icon In the Scaling menu enter the number of tiles in the Scale to Tile Size box and click the To Width or To Height button as needed Click OK to go back to the Preview window In the Display window click the Tile icon 3rd from left to view the Tile breaks Click and Drag the Tile breaks as needed Click the Tile icon again to open the Change Tiles dialog box to view or enter the exact sizes per panel To finish dick Save then Save amp Close in the Display window If you define the Tile Overlap to be zero and tile your image and then set a tiling overlap other than zero the overlap will move into the image giving the image a windowpane effect The Overlap allows space for framing between windowpanes The Overlap and Trim values should be set to 72 of the width of your desired window frame B 2 Appendix B ColorBurst for InkJet Printers Appendix C Linearization and ICC Profiling Workflow Use the following procedure to create your an LIN file and ICC Profile You will need a spectrophotometer such as the Gretag Spectroscan the Spectro Star SpectroCam or the X Rite DPT41 You will also need ICC profiling software to run your spectrophotometer such as Profile Maker Monaco Praxisoft or Profile City

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